"Hello there," our escort said, "my name is Luke and it is a pleasure to meet you. Now I'm in charge of making sure you get to where you go when you need to. Since this is the 1st year of the Hunger Games and you can't have a mentor the Capitol has provided a trainer to help you."

"Okay that's great," I say; "I can die knowing in the comfort that someone from the Capitol trained my skills and the person who killed me." With that I spin on my heels and turn to the direction of my quarters. As I storm off into my room I can hear Luke whisper, "What is wrong with her?"

"She can be a little moody. Besides cut her some slack she just volunteered for her friend and I'm pretty sure that note I gave her was really bad," Alec says.

"I thought you two didn't know each other," Luke says obviously curious with this whole thing with Alec knowing about my anger issues.

"Don't worry about it. It's nothing," he replied. Now that I heard enough I slam my door shut and in a few minutes hear Alec do the same. Once his door is closed I can't help but think how does he know so much about me?

After I finish taking a quick shower I lie down and think about my day. I got put into a game where my chances of dying are extremely high, I lost my best friend and I found out that my fellow tribute might be a complete stalker on me. Well now its time for dinner so lets see what else is going to come on this terrible day.

I willingly pull myself out the bed I've been laying on and grab Sofia's note. I throw the note across the room to notice that there's something written on the back of it. I dash over and read the back. It went:

P.S. As our last gift of friendship I would like to give you this bracelet. I noticed how much you loved it right before the reaping. I was going to give it to you after the reaping but we both know that's never going to happen now. So please wear it and cherish it. The last gift before our friendship ends.

I stare at the bracelet that my former friend gave to me knowing it is the last thing I have left of her. I put it on and stare at it. I notice a locket on it shaped as a heart. I pop it open only to find that there's a picture of Sofia and me laughing on one side and my family on the other. I pull my hand close to my heart and the bracelet follows it.

Now I feel more confident then ever. I stand up wash my face one more time and head out to the dinning room. I'm ready to face everyone because now my family is with me. They all have faith in me. With their support I might be able to win these games and get home.

Everyone is already eating by the time I arrive. I look at the food and start to pile up my plate. I was about to think no one was going to talk to me until Alec says, " So, did you get out all the anger of loosing you friend?"

When all I do is give him an evil look I notice that he generally wants to know if I'm okay. I still don't respond though. He doesn't need to know anything about me. He doesn't need to know about the problems in my life. The longer I don't reply to him the more upset he seems. It's like he really wants to know me better so I finally answer him. "Yes. I looked through the card again it really helped me clear things up in my brain" I tell him and just as I do his face seems happy.

I don't know what it is but there is something that he wants to know about me. There's something that's so familiar about him. Something that has the key I need. The key I need to survive in the arena. The thought of this gives me hope. Hope, that if I find out what this thing is, I can come back home. "Alec, how would you feel about being my ally in the arena? I know it would be a small disadvantage because we'll know basically all the same things but I really do want you."

Just before Alec can answer, Luke asks us if we wanted to be trained alone or together.

Alec replied, "I would love to be your ally but if you don't mind I'd like to be trained alone."

I try to hide my disappointment, which I'm very good at since I'm the best actress at my school, and reply, "Sure. That's completely fine with me."

For a moment our eyes look straight at each other. Then suddenly I get this look of me and another boy a year or two older laughing. I pull away from Alec's eyes and he does the same with mine. So I have my game plan, find out Alec's secret, when we get all the week down or when I find out his secret (which ever happens later) I run him into another group of allies that I have so they can kill him, kill that group of allies in their sleep, and then get home to District 4. The only change is to find out what that vision meant. If only I could have found out that things would go nothing as planned.