~ I'm Sorry

Chapter 4

The next day I woke up ready and pumped for our first day of training. Our training suits were already laid out. I slipped into mine and grabbed myself some breakfast. Finnick and Eve joined me a little while later. "Remember, go hard, but don't hurt yourself. The worst thing you could do is get an injury before the games ok?" We agreed and headed down to the training centre.

A brief talk about the rules of training was given then me and the other 23 kids were free to go. Me and Eve shared our strengths and weaknesses. Something i was wary of seeing how we were still technically enemies. We decided we'd stick together seeing as we had picked up most of the same skills being from the same district. She's quick, Eve, quick and cunning. She explained how she'd picked up the skill from her mother forcing her to steal from street stalls. Me, I'm more of a slogger, slow and powerful. We headed over to the weapons station. They had everything from swords to slingshots. I picked up a sword and thrust it across a practice dummy, taking its head right off in one swift slice. I looked back expecting to see Eve praising my swordsmanship but instead find her holding two daggers panting in front of a dummy, limbs clean sliced off. I couldn't believe my eyes. "Where'd you learn to do that!" I say. "Well. When you don't go to school and are constantly being harassed and abused by your mother's clients, you learn to protect yourself." She replied with a smile. Her life sounded shit. Born to be a slave for a selfish woman she was ashamed to call her mother. I could only imagine how horrible it must have been. My mother always supported and helped me, well, when she could properly function. We stayed at the weapons station for a while experimenting with all the different deadly tools. Other than hitting things hard I wasn't much good. Eve was great with the small weapons, daggers and slingshots but couldn't even lift a sword. She was precise but weak, she knew vital points on a person's body and could use that to her advantage when trying to silently take someone out. An hour remained when we decided to head to a different station. Food, the food station helped with finding, catching and cooking food, something I knew a bit about. I fished for fun in district 4, it was one of the only things I had that made me happy. Hearing the crash of the waves, smelling the salty air and seeing the crystal clear blue water was bliss. Although the arenas landscape was unknown knowing how to fish couldn't have hurt, right? Me and Eve had our go at setting traps for rodents, neither of us succeeded. I grasped a spear and moved to a deep looking pool with fish just begging to be caught. I raised my spear and locked my eyes on a large black fish. I thrust the spear into the fish piercing its scaly skin. I flipped the spear upside down and grinned at Eve. "Now that's how you catch a fish! Your turn" i said. Eve took the spear cautiously and slowly started stepping towards the water. She raised the spear. Before she had a chance to thrust it her foot slipped and sent her into the water. I laughed hysterically and held my hand out waiting for her to grab it. My smile turned into worry when she didn't rise from the water. "Quit joking around Eve you're not funny." I said. The bubbles stopped forming on top indicating she had no breath left. I dived in grabbing a hold of her hand. I pulled her up to my level and kicked my way back up to the top. I pushed Eve from the water and onto the concrete surrounding the pool, pulled myself up and immediately began to do CPR. She wasn't responding her lifeless body lay completely limp despite my attempts to bring her back. I breathed into her mouth holding her nose hoping she would respond. Nothing. I was pushed aside by a capitol medic holding an unusual device. It looked like a large syringe with a curved edge only mechanical. He lightly pushed it into Eves neck and pressed a few buttons. A few brief Moments of silence passed as I held my breath in anticipation. Eves body jerked up and expelled a few litres of water from her mouth. Her eyes fluttered randomly but she soon gained control. Her eyes locked with mine and for a moment I got lost in her eyes. Everything was quiet, only me and Eve existed. Eve threw up and the moment was lost. She gave me a struggled laugh and I joined her. She slowly regained her strength and balance but I held her just in case. We were done.