Hi guys!

Sorry for not updating in a while, but you probably figured I`m kinda slow at this already.
To make things worse, I won`t be able to update again before Sunday:( I`m spending my holidays at my cabin, someplace there is NO internett.

So enjoy this chapeter, and I will update first thing wen I get home.


District 4 boy Tanner Fisc Jones II (18)

I watch as my district slowly dissapeares in the distance. The train is very fast, so after a few seconds, there is nothing but sea in the horrizont.

Goodbye district 4.

Goodbye all my lauzy friends.

Prepare to say hello to the new victor!

OH YEAH!

Yes! Life after winning the games will be so great! Not only for me, but my little brother to. Nothing can stop me from winning. I just wish we would get there soon, because I just want to get to the arena as soon a possible.

Time flows by slowly,and all I can do is to stare outside my window and do nothing. Blah! I tough the Capitols were like super smart and stuff! Why haven`t they made a faster train?

I look around to see if there is something else to do. In another seat a bit further back in the train sits Jade, my district parner. A pretty, tall girl with brown wavy hair. Unlike my blond, scruffy hair which is uncommon in our district. When I think of it, my angular face and grey eyes make me stand out pretty much. Oh well, the girls adore me!

Jade`s silently smiling to herself while fidging with a small ring in her hand. She`s only forteen, but I`ve seen her with a sword, fierce and fast. She, like me, can also swim but not as fast! She could make a good ally.

I jump as our escort and mentors storms trough a door in the back of our cupe. Our escort, Lace, is long and muscular with dark long hair and blue eyes. Compared to other escorts I have seen trough the years he is not over styled. His suit is black with an open chest, and there are some few white stripes in is hair. Very nonchelant. Except for his big, puffy lips that look like bees ave been stinging them. He doesn`t say much, but I know he has a voice that gives the girls sivers down their spines. Insted he makes an elegant movement with his hand as introducing our mentors.

"Yes, here we are again Kevin! And as always, you are the one who looks old and tired. Ha ha!"

Our youngest mentor, Lulla, laughs of her own joke. I don`t understand it, so I just avoid changing my facial expression. Lulla is very young, only nineteen. She won three years ago in the hunger games. The most bloody thing I have ever seen. She killed people with her bare hands, and she used her own teets to cut their pulse.

Jeesh! At least I can keep a cool facade trough pressure.

She is small and muscular. Her skin is tanned like most of those in district four are. And her eyes are freaking me out, because they are pitch black. Like some sort of monster.

Kevin is older, about forty something. But he doesn`t have the same tan. He is actually very pale, as if he keeps staying inside instead of going outside.

Ok?

"Let`s get you some food and we can discuss our stratergy after watching the recap"

Kevin claps twice and a boy, not older than fourteen, with brown curly hair steps inside with a big plate filled with food. Clams, oyster, octopuss and whale. But no Lobster.

Crap!

Jade comes to sit beside me and says thank you to the boy with her regular polite smile. The boy only smiles back, but says noting. I don`t realy bother so I dig in on the food. Our escort seems discussed by my eating abits, and follow the young boy to the kitchen.

Our escorts sit down across the table to excaminate us both. Lulla seems to be staring at me, so I put on my regular cocky smile. She sends me a teasing smile back. Tough she is super creepy I might just give her a sot at mentoring me, perhaps she has an advice or two she could teach me. As long as it doesn`t involve swollowing blood...

Eating goes quickly. The fish tastes good, and the gravy is delitious. But it`s not like I haven`t tasted something similar before. As soon as the last piece of clam has reached my stomackh I ask in my "I want to do it now" voice:

"Is the recap starting soon? I`d like to see my compedators."

Jade looks up from her golden, still full plate with an intessted look. She propably also wants to check out which ones could be good allies.

"Let Jade finnish her meal first! The recap doesn`t start until twenty minutes anyway"

Kevin tells me. So for the next twenty minutes I glare at Jade while she`s eating. Childish, I know, but who cares?

It makes her unfocused, and she seems unable to chew right. Every time she takes a sip from her glass of water I send her my flirting/teasing/funny look, and she almost spits it out again. in the end she looks exhausted from only holding the laughter back, and he politely asks with a flushed face if we can go watch.

On our way into the tv-cupe, I bump her shoulder teasingly. She starts laughing, but suddenly her expression changes into serious. Her green eyes stare intensly into mine, and I giver her a nod.

I think we just made an alliance.

We sit down in a big, blue couch with golden patherns. Its soft, I could fall asleep right here. But then I`d miss the reaping.

It starts normally, with the Capitols crest and the hunger games anthem plying on the tv. BORING! One of the gamemakers introduce, and begins with district 1. As salways, they have a small amount of backround information about the district.

We pay the most attention to district 1 and 2. We are suprised to see that there are three volunteers from district 3, 7 and 10. The district three boy looks like he didn`t actually know what he was doing, but the others... I liked them.

Kevin scribles down tings on a papaer. I supose I should be doing so too, but oh well. Now that he has, what`s the point?

"There are three twelve year olds this year. That will make it easier to get rid of a lot of people during the blood bath. And a lot of these tibutes look underfeed and weak, so I think you all have a pretty good chance"

Kevin says casually.

"Ah, twelve year olds. Such soft skin and weak arms"

Lulla says. And then giggles like crazy. That`s the most creepy thing I\ve ever hears. So I just choose to turn away.

"I am going to take a shower. I`ll see you later"

I tell them, and walk out the door to another part of the train.

I need some time to think.

Jade Smali (14)

Tanner struts out of the room with his confident look. Gosh, he is so pretty. With his blond hair and blue eyes. Not like the other district four boys, and those muscles. He`s pretty, and my mother allways told me I was pretty. With my tall figue, small nose and high cheekbones. Something that makes me look way older than a fourteenyearold. We could make a good couple him and I...

I have to stop myself from giggling like a schoolgirl, and instead I follow him outside. When we are far away enough from the others I tap his shoulder and wait for him to turn to me. Still with his cocky look and raised eyebrows.

"Did you see the other tributes. Which ones do uou think we should ally with? Because I have been looking at those who volunteered, and not all of them seem steady"

"Yeah, I saw that. We should with no doubt forgett about the district 2 boy. Seriously, no one volunteered? And even tough the district three boy volunteered, i think we should forgett about him!"

"Yes. As soon as training starts we ally up with them. Aproach them carefully. But I think we should keep an eye on the other volunteers from the other districts before we ally with them. We don`t even know their skills"

We both nod at the same time. Before we separate and go to each of our wagon. Before Tanner closes the door he blows me kiss and says.

"Good night little mermaid"

And then he slams the door.

I am left in my own doorway stunned. Little mermeaid? Was that what he called me?

I go into my wagon, and take of my clothes. The red dress I wore at the reaping is starting to itch, and I throw it away. I take a shower, and cover myself with mineral salt and different lotions. I have never touched such expencive things before.

I walk out of the shower dripping wet, and another machine that looks like a giant fan dries me. A satin nightgown is ling in a chair in the bedroom, and I slip into it. Without hessetating I jump into the bed, but I jump out of it almost as quickly, as if it gave me an eletrical shock. Something was very wierd about this bed.

I touched it, and noticed the funny way it bounced where my finger had been. It made a silent, slurry sound.

"It`s filled with water!"

Hooray! This was one of the things I was concerned about with going to the games, leaving the ocean behind. But at least I have a small piece here, in this big squared madrass. An I jump back into it, feeling the wavy movement it made.

Before I close my eyes I think about this day. It seems like a whole week, so many things have happened. I can`t ealy belive I`m doing this! It hasn`t realy sunk in. i suppose that is why I`m not that very concerned yet.

All the adrenalin from today has worn out my body, and I fall asleep the moment I close my eyes.


Ok. Te last part was quite short, and it didn`t happend that very much. But just wait til the next one.

I tried to make Tanner seem cocky, did I do it? Or did I just use the word cocky once to many?

JDEJM