I woke up to the sound of Mags voice, "rise and shine," she said. I yawned and got up, "what time is it?" Mags answered, "9:30, get dressed and I will be in here eating breakfast." I got dressed and went to eat breakfast.

Link, Mags, and Rose had already ate. I sat down and started to eat, there was more food than yesterday. "Today you will be arriving at The Capitol," Rose said, "I will take you both to meet with your Prep Team and then they will take you to your stylist."

"I think District 4 always has the best outfits," Link said, "I bet mine will be the best."

"I am glad you think dressing in a fishing net is fun," I reply to her. Mags interrupts the conversation before it can get out of hand. "Today is all about first impressions," she says, "try and be outgoing and cheerful, just be yourself."

Try and flirt with the audience.

I continue to eat my breakfast when Link yells, "there it is!" I turn and look out the window and see The Capitol. There were lots of tall buildings and you could see the mountains in the distance.

I stand up by the window and Link joins me and we wave to the crowd of people by the train station. Mags, Rose, Link, and I are escorted off the train. "Link and Finnick, come with me," Rose says. We follow behind her and we are taken to our Prep Team.

My Prep Team consists of one guy and one girl. The guy has orange hair and the girl has pink hair and bright blue eyeshadow.

"My word, look at you," the girl says, "did someone prep you before you came?"

"Nope," I try and say flirtingly, "this is my natural look."

The two stare at each other shocked. "Well, we will just clean you off and fix your hair."

They rinse me off and start putting this odd gel in my hair. "There the worst part is over, let's take you to your stylist," the guy says.

They take me to a different room and wearing a bathrobe. A girl walks in the room, she looks normal! She has blonde hair with pink tips. "Hello, my name is Cassidy and I will be your stylist."

"What is the costume this year?"

"I want it to be a surprise," she says. Great, another fishing net.

When she finishes with me I look in the mirror at the costume. I have no shirt and am wearing a blue colored skirt, why a skirt?

Cassidy puts a fishing net over my left shoulder and wraps seaweed around my head to look like a crowd.

"Let's go up to your chariot," Cassidy says. We walk up to the chariots and I get a look at everyone's costumes.

District 7 looks like trees, District 12 is wearing all black with splashes of coal dust in their face, District 1 is dressed with multi-colored furs and has jewels all over their outfits.

Link and her stylist walk up to the chariot. Link is wearing the same thing I am, except more covered. Mags walks over to our chariot. "Remember to smile and wave, first impressions are important."

I get into my chariot and Link stands beside me. "Remember to smile and wave," I tell her. "I am not smiling and waving," she says, "that is not how to get sponsors, so I suggest you do the same."

The chariots start to move and I ignore everything Link said. I start waving to the audience and everyone cheers. Link kicks me in the foot and mumbles, "stop waving." I continue to wave and smile.

All the chariots come to a halt in front of President Snow. "Tributes we welcome and salute you," I stopped listening after that. I looked over at the audience and gave a small wave to a section of girls with really bad haircuts.

After that I hear Link yell something at me. "Hey Finnick, how do you think we did out there tonight," she asks. "I thinkI did great." Just then she slaps me in the face, I did not see that coming. "Wrong! We did terrible and it was all your damn fault."

Mags came over there, "Link it was no one's fault, you both did amazing." Link went over to talk to the District 2 tributes. "Remember arrogant, Finnick," Mags said.

Link, Mags, and I headed up to our room. I immediately went and changed out of that costume. When I had changed I went back into the living room to hear if Mags had any new updates.

I sat down on the couch and Link sat down on the couch too. "Tomorrow you start training," Mags said, "try and do some survival skills things too and not just weapons."

"Your stylist will be here in the morning to get you ready," Rose said.

I wasn't looking forward to training, there won't be any tridents and I know that for a fact. Link on the other hand will be doing everything she can to make sure she is in an alliance with the careers.

"Did anyone mention sponsoring us or did Finnick ruin our chances," Link asked.

"No one talked to me about you two, I'm sorry," Mags said.

Link got up and walked to her room and slammed the door shut. I honestly think she wants to kill me.

"I am not going to let her get to me, she just wants attention and to be in the spotlight because in reality she knows she can't," I say to Mags.

"Sadly, that is probably true," Mags says, "I remember someone in my games had that same attitude as she does." "What happened to them," I ask.

"It was the District 5 male, he always boasted during training and told his district partner straight to her face that he would kill her," she said, "in the end he ended up getting killed by someone else, Finnick don't become arrogant like her, you could end up with your picture in the sky."

"I won't, I promise."

"Good," she said giving me a hug, "get some sleep you have a big day tomorrow."

I went to my room and went to bed. All night I thought about what Mags had said and my flirt strategy. I thought about how well it worked today. I knew tomorrow that I would have to prove myself with weapons and make allies.

The problem was finding them.