Mia
I sigh as one of the trainers looks at me like I'm a trained pro athlete. So what if I can shoot a perfect bow and arrow? So what if I can throw an axe into a small target? So what if I can make a perfect knot? Yeah, I'm lying about the knotting part. I have no idea what the different types of a knot are. I didn't even know there were different types.
I was a vampire and even though I'm human, I still have my enhanced senses and coordination. Also, being able to read minds is a plus. I was afraid that I may not have that power, but Edward told me our powers were still with us. Even small, little Alice can still see the future. The trainer interrupts my thoughts and asks me if I can try the bow and arrow again, only this time with a different kind of bow.
I wonder if she can hit the target's heart again! Such amazing coordination. I sigh at his thoughts. Just as I pull back my bow and arrow, the elevator doors open. I ponder whether I should do this in front of another person. They could be a tribute. I decide to do it anyway. I realize the arrow, aiming for the heart of the target that looks like a person. I turn towards my trainer to see him clapping with glee. I roll my eyes and set the bow and arrow down. I was about to head towards the camouflage area, when I bump into someone. Of course I don't fall down but I see the girl on the floor. Great. I'm probably going to get my ass kicked for hurting a tribute.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" I exclaim to her. She brushes her pants and reaches for my helping hand.
"It was nothing. I should have been looking where I was going. I'm such a klutz!" She throws her hands in the air in annoyance.
"Don't worry about that, I usually don't bump into people on accident. And besides, I have a close friend of mine back at home who is a total klutz. I'm surprised she hasn't killed herself, yet." I laugh at Bella's coordination and soon, the stranger laughs with me.
"So, are you a tribute?" She asks me.
"Because your aim is so amazingly cool!" She looks at the bow-and-arrow trainer, who is now trying to dislodge the arrow from the dummy's heart. I must've released the bow too fast.
"Yeah, I'm a tribute. I suppose you are one, too?" I don't bother reading her mind; I might say something about her that she hasn't told me yet.
"Yeah. Are you from this weird, freaky place? Because you don't look like you are." She looks up at me.
"No, I'm not. I'm from a different world and I plan to go back home as soon as this thing is done." I look to see that no one is watching us.
"Go back home? That will be tough. Only the winner gets to go home." She informs me.
"No, the winner get glorious prizes and gets to go home. The losers just go home." She looks at me, confused.
"Look, you may not know this, but…we can't die. Something in our blood streams," I cringe, "allow us to live. Sure if we are killed it'll hurt, but you get sent home. The people only say that us outsiders of Panem can get killed because they want the people watching us to be entertained. They said the same thing to the people of Panem. The winner is supposedly getting triple the prize amounts, so no one is going to want to lose on purpose just to get out. No one can die, but they can experience the pain of dying, which I already know. It's excoriating." I tell her matter-of-factly. She looks at me with huge brown eyes, but they go back to normal as she thinks it all through.
"So, I can't die?" She asks. I shake my head.
"Once your back to your world, you can." I add. She nods, knowing this already. I wave her to come to the camouflage station. She sits down next to me.
"Would you two like any assistance?" A trainer asks. I shake my head while the girls says
"No thanks. We're good." The trainer smiles and walks two stations down to chat with another trainer. They don't look our way. Just as I'm about to ask her what her name is, the elevator doors open and out steps someone who really needs to calm down, according to his thoughts. I sigh, as he looks my way.
Michaela
I see the strange girl turn towards the elevator door, expecting someone. The girl has weird aqua eyes that shouldn't go well with her jet-black hair, but it does. She is very very pretty. I envy her a little bit. Barely two seconds after she turns towards the elevator doors, a young man steps out. Since I estimated this girl to be my age, seventeen, I would suppose that he's older then her. The guy has reddish-brown hair and green eyes. He looks at the girl with a weird look as if to say I hope you know what you're doing. I turn to see her smirk back at him practically saying, I always know. I know these faces well because they always appear on Fred and George's faces before they pull a prank. The girl turns her attention back to me while the guy goes over to axe throwing section.
"I'm sorry, but I need to talk to a friend of mine." She looks at me worriedly. It's a classic Fred Weasley look. The look of worry when he's not sure he's lying well enough. I nod for her to go and head towards the knot-tying station, wondering if they're dating. It's either dating or they're real closely related which is impossible because they don't look the same at all. It's obvious, though, that these two are from the same world.
I sit down and tie a simple knot, trying to resist the urge to turn around and spy on them. I peek a few glances at them. They're both showing off to the stunned trainer of their amazing axe throwing skills. It's like they're having a conversation through their heads because at several times, the girl looks like she's pissed at the boy and other times, the boy is smiling at her. I peek to see her lightly punch him and he rolls his eyes back at her.
"Excuse me miss, but the Training Center is closing. You are welcome to roam upstairs and feel free to eat some lunch." I didn't notice the trainer behind me. I get up and head towards the elevator. I'm about to close it, completely forgetting about the couple, until they run in.
"Sorry, I forgot that everyone was leaving." I say to them.
"It's okay." The kind girl says to me. I wonder if we're close enough now for me to ask for her name. Just then, the elevator doors open.
"C'mon Mia, Alice is waiting for us. She's gonna be mad if we hold her up for lunch." The boy looks at the girl, a smile tugging at his lips. The girl looks confused but nods her head. They both walk out of the elevator.
"You coming?" The girl asks me. I thought she forgot about me. At least she isn't rude.
"Nah, I'm gonna go upstairs and ask my friend if she wants to come for lunch." I tell her.
"Okay, but you can eat at our table with your friend if ya want." She informs me.
"Good to know." I tell her. It's not in a rude way, but in a friendly way. Just as the doors close, she rolls her eyes and I almost faint.
Katniss
I wave good-bye to Madge as she leaves to go back home. Back to where she is going to watch me die. I feel a tear sliding down my cheek. I clutch the mockingjay pin she gave to me to use as my token. I pin it to my shirt and head down for lunch, not bothering for company. As I am walking towards the elevators, a girl who had just gotten off looks like she might pass out. My mother's nursing instincts kicks in and I rush to help her.
"Are you okay?" I ask her. She nods.
"I'm just a wee little shocked that's all." She tells me feebly. I suggest she goes down to eat something. She stalls, coming up with an excuse. It's like she doesn't want to go down.
"You need to eat. Trust me, it'll make you feel better." She mumbles something that sounds like "make it worse" but agrees to go down with me.
"I'm Katniss by the way. Katniss Everdeen." I tell her.
"I'm Michaela Tonks." She tells me. Her voice gains confidence as she tells me this. I wonder what has shaken her so badly. The elevator doors open and before we go down, she backs away.
"I need to ask my friend if she wants lunch, you go on down without me Katniss." She turns to leave.
"Okay. Feel better!" I tell her. She waves as I go into the elevator. I wave back until the doors close, happy to have made a friend. The happiness goes away when I realize I am going to have to kill her tomorrow. Hopefully someone else will do it before I need to.
Mia
I pick out a whole bunch of food from the buffet and sit down next to Alice. Edward and Emmett are on the other side of the table, sitting across from us. Emmett has his plate filled. It's like a meal for two people. I smile at him and start eating.
"I never knew this tasted so good." I say. Alice laughs. It sounds like silver bells ringing. I laugh with her after swallowing my food. Edward just looks at me. I get the impression that he's still thinking about our conversation before about being careful with who I talk to. I, of course, ignored him. Emmett interrupts me by pointing to the group behind us. It consists of seven people from a "normal" world. A world where vampires and werewolves and Panem and witches and wizards don't exist. Well, only Edward, Alice, Emmett and I know about the witches and wizards, but thank god they aren't here. To think that Mickey Tonks could be here.
The seven regular humans' names are: Mary, Samantha, Brianna, Derek, Chad, Joey, and Luke. Such normal names. Such normal humans. They have no idea what they've got themselves into. I smile as Edward reads my mind and grins. Emmett laughs and mutters,
"This should be interesting." We all laugh just as the elevator doors open and a girl steps out and goes to a table to eat by herself. She is wearing a weird pin with a bird on it and her hair is in a braid. The normal people invite her to sit with them, and hesitantly, she joins them.
"Humans everywhere! I'm glad I for once am now one of them. Imagine the thirst pain? I don't know how you deal with it, Eddy." Emmett grins playfully as Edward gives him a look of annoyance. He gives in and smiles his half-crooked smile. I roll my eyes at him and mutter "Bi-polar" in his direction. Emmett starts laughing and we all join him.
Michaela
I knock on Hermione's door.
"Come in!" She says. I open the door to see her lying on her bed, reading a weird book.
"It's all about the history here. Such an interesting history Panem has." She looks at me.
"Yeah. Did you want to go to lunch?" I ask her. She nods and puts the book down on her bed. We both head out to the danger lurking down the elevator. Because I am certain that I just met Mia Cullen. One, she cringed when she said bloodstream. Two, the boy, who is either one of her brothers, Emmett or Edward, said her name was Mia. Three, the boy mentioned Alice, whom numerous times me and Mia compared her to my sister. Four, she did the eye rolling thing when I said, "good to know" which the Mia on the chat always does. I start to freak out as I realized I just met Mia Cullen, not only a vampire but also the only friend of mine whom I never met in real life. I take a deep breath and gulp as Hermione presses the elevator button to go down.
Katniss
I smile in appreciation as one of the girls starts asking about me at the table. I was shocked that this group of happy people invited me over to sit with them. Mary asks if I want something to eat. I nod but get up to get food. Sam recommends trying this soup that she fell in love with.
"Okay! Thanks you guys, for everything!" I tell them.
"No problem." They reply. I can tell by their faces that they are not trying to pretend to be my friends to get close to me and kill me. I know that these people are actually nice, unlike the careers. I head over to the buffet area and grab as much as I can hold. The food here is a million times better than at home. I've never eaten so much in my life. I walk back to the table with a full tray in my hands and join in on the conversation.
Mia
We're all laughing as Emmett made a funny remark about the weird bird pin that one girl was wearing. Just then, the elevator doors open again and two girls step out, one is a stranger and the other is the girl I met in the Training Center. I wave for her attention, ignoring Emmett's stupid remarks about them. Alice hits him for me and I smile at her.
The girl looks my way and becomes a little terrified. I wonder what I did to scare her. She reluctantly comes to our table as the bushy haired girl drags her along. Alice does the introducing.
"Hi! My name's Alice Brandon and these are Edward Masen, Emmett McCarty and Mia Williams." Alice gestures to each of us. We decided to use our human last names, since we couldn't be siblings anymore. We didn't look alike now that we're all human. The girl looks up at me as Alice says my name. She put on a tense smile and sits down next to me. The bushy haired girl sits next to her and introduces them.
"Hi, my name is Hermione Granger and this is Michaela Tonks." She says matter-of-factly. I freeze and know that the girl next to me saw it. Michaela Tonks? As in Mickey the witch? As in my friend? No freaking way. I glance at Edward, unblocking my mind. He reads the confusion and nods to confirm that it's her. I glared at him.
YOU KNEW THE WHOLE FREAKING TIME AND DIDN'T BOTHER TO TELL ME? I nearly scream at him. You said it yourself that you wanted to find out whom this girl is without reading her mind to see if you could do it. Well, congrats because you just did. I stare at him dumbfounded but shake my head.
"Well, I'm stuffed. C'mon, Eddy. You, me upstairs. It's time for a gambling match. Nice to know you two!" Emmett says before leaving. He saw the death glares we were both giving to each other and decided to remove Edward from the picture in case this turned into a physical fight. Edward agreed to go and went upstairs.
I looked at Alice and realized that she also knew about this the whole time. I couldn't get mad at her so I just listened to her apology in her head. I nodded to accept it. I had completely forgotten about Mickey until I heard Hermione and her talking. I turned around at the same time she did and just stared at her. She mirrored my reaction.