Serene's POV
I woke up to Effie coming in clapping her hands and saying "Get up! Get up! Big day today! Big day!"
I rolled over to face away from her and she walked over to my bed and grabbed the blankets and flipped me out of my bed, I sighed and got up. "Alright, well I am going to take a shower."
I walked past her and walked into the bathroom, I heard the my room door open and Effie's heels click as she walked out. I pushed several random buttons and ended up being blasted with freezing cold water and then with soap that smelt kind of like roses. After I had been nearly frozen to death I had it dry my hair and then I put it up in a nice little ponytail before throwing on the outfit that we were supposed to wear during training, I headed out into the dining room where I saw Haymitch, Effie, Katniss, Peeta and Lucy. I sat down and began to eat some breakfast.
Lucy's POV
I had left my hair down and I had just brushed it a lot and the capitol stuff had made it shiny. Today was the training for the 24 girls, I decided that today I would see if I could try to make friends with the tributes from 1,2, and 4. Since they were usually apart of the career group and if you got into the career group then you would be pretty well off. I had finished my breakfast and Effie got me and Serene and we headed to the elevator. I looked at Serene, she didn't look like she would last very long but I did know about her mother and father, her father was apart of the 74th hunger games and her mother had died from something. I didn't know if her mother had taught her anything useful but I know that my father had, he taught me how to identify plants, shoot a bow and arrow, use a knife and tie knots. My father didn't like Katniss very much because she picked Peeta over him and told me to volunteer for this hunger games when they announced that they were having more tributes go in and to have their son Daniel fall in love with me, after I did that I was to kill him off before he could think anything of it.
We were in the training center soon enough and I got a good look at all of the other tributes, Effie told us to have fun and we left the elevator, I watched as she disappeared shortly after and left Serene to go find the six girls from the career districts. I found them all standing by the bow and arrow station, I figured trying to impress them would be good so I pretended not to notice them and picked up a boy and picked an arrow. I loaded the arrow and aimed at a dummy, I saw out of the corner of my eye that they were watching. I smiled and released the arrow, it hit the bullseye. I put the bow down and a girl from district 2 came over.
"I'm Thyra, that was a good job. Do you want to be apart of the careers? We could always use someone like you."
I nodded "Sure, I think it would be fun."
The other girls came over and they introduced themselves, they were Thyra, Katrarina, Malia, Sherron, Marcia and Asha.
"I'm Lucy, nice to mee you all."
We began to walk around all of the stations and tried them out.
Serene's POV
I couldn't believe that Lucy went and joined the careers, I went to a knot tying station to learn how to tie knots, shortly afterwards I was joined by the district 11 tributes. I noticed that they were both good at tying knots. "You guys are good at this."
One of the girls nodded "Thanks, we use these types of knots to stay in the trees so we don't fall out. I'm Vallie by the way."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Serene."
The other girl spoke up "I'm Hui."
I looked at Hui, she was the twelve year old. "Nice to meet you Hui."
We began to get to know each other when we were announced for lunch, and we all headed over to the lunch area, I sat down at a table with Hui and Vallie. Maybe we could be allies but I didn't bring it up since I didn't want to let anyone else to know and I didn't want to think about if they would die in the bloodbath or not.
