Thanks to tvd1002, Pax Cronin, North Viking and FireBreadandSnares for reviewing. I'm sorry I couldn't update yesterday like I said I would, but still this is a super early update. I hope you like it.

Interviews:

Nova wakes me at like six o'clock and I seriously consider killing myself. How can people voluntarily wake up this early? In the district at least my shift started in the afternoon and I could sleep in. I go to the dining room and see that everyone is already there. Again, how can people wake up this early?

''Hello, Blondie!'' Blight says and I'm sure that he drank a redbull or something, because he sounds very hyperactive ''Come here, today's a big day!''

''Well listen up'' he tells me and Chloe once I sit down and eat as much as I can without dying ''Today is the interview, I think this is the most important part of the games, beside the actual games of course, so try not to screw up. If you can cause an impression and get the audience to like you, then you'll have nothing to worry about, someone will sponsor you and believe me, a sponsor can mean the difference between life and death''

''Today will be a very boring day, I'll promise you that'' he continues ''Me and Nova are going train you during the entire day so you don't make a fool out of yourselves in front of all Panem, we don't want that. Nike you'll start with me, Chloe you'll go with Nova. We'll switch after lunch, understood?''

We nod and then head with our respective teacher. I'm a little annoyed that I have to start with Blight, since I find him very annoying, but I might as well get it over with. He leads me to a small room that I hadn't really been in before, there are 2 couches like the ones there will be in the actual interview. Blight sits down in one of them and I sit in the other.

''I'm still going to play it as if I'm confident, right?'' I ask him.

''Well, that would be the best choice, but we need to see how you mange yourself in an interview. Who knows? Maybe you're a good actor and you can at least fake to be confident, still it's better if everything is more believable'' Blight says.

''I see, so you'll just ask me questions and you'll figure what angle I'll use in the actual interview?''

''Pretty much'' he says ''But don't get too cocky, if we can't find an angle for you, you'll have to improvise''

Blight starts to ask me the kind of questions Caesar might ask me. I try to answer them as confidently as I can, but I really can't do it. I don't think I'm better than others, on the contrary I almost never show off or anything. It takes Blight like 3 questions to know playing it confidently won't work for me.

''How did you manage to look confident in all your public appearances, but here you have the confidence of a plastic spoon?'' he asks me and I glare at him ''Fine kid, don't get mad. Let's try something else, act confidently and modest at the same time.''

''How on earth can someone be confident and modest at the same time?'' I ask

''I don't know'' he says ''you said that you're normally modest, so try to be yourself with a hint of confidence, like if you really think that you can win this thing. That's not that hard, is it?'' We try that and it actually works way better. Every once in a while I do a very confident anti-me comment. I can completely handle that.

''Not bad, Blondie!'' Blight says after the millionth question. My head hurts from remembering all the things I did in the district, I really doubt Caesar is going to expend so much time talking about my childhood ''You might even get some sponsors if you do it in the interviews like you're doing it here''

''Might?'' I ask suddenly feeling very nervous.

''Well it isn't a perfect plan, but it's the best we can do, so deal with it'' he says ''Now, come on, lunch is in 10 minutes.''

We head to the dining room and I start eating like crazy again. I'm sure that once I get home, if I get home, I'm going to weigh at least 20 more pounds. Nova and Chloe come after five minutes and Chloe looks very tired, I wonder what they did. Once we are done eating Blight takes Chloe to the small room I was in and Nova leads me to another room slightly bigger than the one I was before.

For the next 3 hours Nova teaches me everything, and I mean everything, about all the manners I should have during the interview. She tells me how to sit, how to speak, how to look at someone in the eye and a bunch of other things that I find pretty useless.

''Come on, Nike'' she says ''we are almost done!'' she says that once every twenty minutes and after the third time I stop believing her. Nova spends the next hour teaching me how to smile. That's actually just smiling more. I usually smile a lot, but the muscles in my face are in pain after smiling so much.

Finally times up and I can get out of there. ''Remember to smile more!'' Nova says cheerfully when I'm at the door ''You have the sexiest smile ever!'' That's not awkward at all, I think as I blush because of that.

I eat a very quick dinner and I go with my prep team so they can prepare me for the interviews. They fix my hair and paint a green streak on it. These guys are seriously obsessed with the color green. They also want to put make up on me, but I fight for a few minutes with them until I'm able to convince them not to paint my face like a coloring book.

Once they're done Perc comes in ''You look great, Nike'' he says ''Good work, guys. I love what you did with his hair. Now could you leave us alone?'' My prep team gets out of the room after praising me a lot and they leave me alone with Perc.

Perc shows me what I'm going to wear and it's very classy. The outfit consists in a black dressing shoes, pants and jacket, the shirt is the same color of the streak in my hair and so is the tie. After I put it one I think I look pretty good, most of all because the streak, the tie and the shirt all match with my green eyes.

''This looks great, Perc'' I say smiling at him.

''We tried keeping it as simple as possible'' he says ''we thought you might like that''

I thank him and he guides me to the seats the tributes will be using. Most of the other tributes are already there and they are looking pretty good. I sit down and wait for the show to start. It takes about half an hour, but I see Caesar Flickerman making his way up the stage. He's been the games host for 35 years and every year he dyed his hair a different color. This year it's a bright green.

He entertains the audience a little with a few jokes and then the interviews start. They start with the guys from 1. Clive is acting very confident and the girl's angle is obviously playing it as cute, but deadly. Then there's the guys from 2. The girl is very charismatic and Dante looks murderous and very, very scary. And so on, I kind of zoom out for some of them until I see it's James's turn. James actually it's pretty good, he makes the audience laugh, tells us some very interesting things about his family and all in all, he's one of the bests yet.

Then there's Chloe. She's still playing it humbly and she's also doing a good job. She's making everybody think that she doesn't think she's much and when Caesar asks her about her score she just says ''It was mere luck'' but she smiles at the crowd and they go nuts. Now it's my turn. I'm very nervous. Thank God I don't sweat when I'm nervous or this would've looked pretty bad. I walk up the stage and I smiled at the crowd just like Nova told me to and the cheer. I shake Caesar's hand and point at his hair ''Look at that, we match!'' I say referring to my streak and his hair and the crowd laughs, then I take a seat.

''So, Nike'' Caesar starts ''You have a very weird name''

''Don't say that!'' I say obviously acting as if he hurt my feelings, which makes the crowd laugh ''I love my name!''

''Really? How come?'' he asks.

''I don't want to bore you with a lecture'' I say ''but it actually means Victory''

It is true, some years ago I ask my dad what my name meant and he told me that a lot of years ago there was a language called greek and my name meant ''Victory'' in it. Ever since I've been really fond of my name.

''Wow'' Caesar says looking surprised ''That should get your hopes up''

''Not really'' I say ready for a very anti-me comment ''My hopes are already as high as they can get''

Caesar laughs ''Let's talk about training'' he says ''I heard a very interesting rumor that you defeated a career in a weight lifting challenge, it's that true?''

''Oh, I didn't know you were supposed to know that…'' I say ''But yeah, it is true''

''And let me ask you, does that gives you hope that you can beat the careers in the arena too?'' he asks.

I haven't really thought about that ''I don't know'' I say ''But at the top of my head, I think no, it doesn't raises my hope. In fact I think I became their number 1 target'' The crowd laughs again and I smile at them.

''Something else'' he says ''After that challenge, did anyone want to ally with you?''

''Yes'' I say ''Two people actually, but I said no''

''Why?'' he says ''are you too good for them?''

''God, no'' I say ''I don't want to ally with anyone, no matter who they are. You see I get close to people fast, I don't want to get close to someone and then having to see them die''

The crowd goes ''ahhh'' as if I just asked a girl to marry me ''That's very noble'' Caesar says ''One more thing about training, what can you tell us about your amazing score? It really surprises us all, most of all because you're one of our youngest tributes this year''

''I don't think I should tell you'' I say ''So let's just say, I got that score for doing something you wouldn't expect from someone from my district''

''So, not an ax?''

''Not an ax''

''And not a chainsaw?''

''Not a chainsaw''

''Aw, come on Nike, you're killing us'' he says and I laugh. ''Nike, you're too young to be engaged, care to tell us about that ring?''

I was playing with my mother's ring again and I didn't notice ''Oh'' I say looking at it ''This was my mom's''

''Did she gave it to you when she went to say goodbye?'' he asks.

''No, she died when I was young.'' I say ''My dad gave it to me''

''I'm sorry'' he says looking a little sad and I smile like saying 'It's okay' ''So, only your dad went to say goodbye?''

''No, a friend from work called Douglas also came'' I say ''And of course my best friend Johanna''

''Johanna!'' he says ''That's a girl's name, is she your girlfriend?''

I laugh very hard, just the thought of Johanna been my girlfriend is so funny ''I wish!'' I say and the crowd laughs. I can practically hear Johanna's voice laughing and saying 'you promise you wouldn't turn into a Capitol snob!' too late for that. ''No, I'm kidding. She has just been my best friend since I was nine''

''Why is that I don't believe you?'' he says laughing.

''What?'' I say ''No, I swear she's just my friend''

''Sure'' he says sarcastically ''just your friend'' right after he says that the bell rings signaling the interview time is over

''Aw, too bad times over.'' He says then he takes my hand and raises it in the air ''Nike Midas everybody!'' he says and the crowd cheers like crazy and I just smile and wave before going back to my seat.

To be honest I completely zoom out the rest on the interviews and I only get out of my trance during the last interview, the one from Kyle. Kyle doesn't look nervous at all and he wins the crowd in seconds, he makes jokes, he answers optimistically about everything. It's impressive how easily he won the crowd, the kid certainly has a way with words. That's it for the interviews, Caesar does a few more jokes and the he wishes us good night and closes the show.

Me, Chloe, Blight and our prep team head to our quarters. ''Good job, guys'' Blight says ''Just try to get a good night sleep, tomorrow are the games''

We both head to our quarters and I realize that Blight is right; tomorrow we are going to the arena. I might be dead by tomorrow.

''Chloe! Wait a second!'' I say running after her before she locks the door of her quarters. She stops and looks at me faking annoyance.

''What?'' she asks me.

I honestly don't know what I want to say, I guess I just want to say goodbye since tomorrow we might not see each other. Then I figure out what I want to tell her. I want to apologize. ''Chloe, ever since this thing started you've been kind of cold to me.'' I start to say ''I don't understand why, but I thought that maybe I did something to you, or I said something offensive, so I just wanted to say sorry''

Chloe looks very surprised, but I think I'm even more surprised because of what happens next. She hugs me. ''Nike, I'm so sorry'' she says ''I didn't want you to think that is just that… like you said in your interview, I didn't want to get close to anyone''

When she lets me go I can see that there are tears in her eyes. ''So, um, good night'' I say a little nervously still a little confused about what just happened.

''Good night, Nike'' she says rubbing her eyes and closing the door of her quarters. I walk back to my quarters, but even then I know that I'm not going to get any sleep. Tomorrow are the games. Tomorrow might be the last day of my life.

That chapter was incredibly long. I hope you all liked the interviews, which I found a little hard to write. Still I hope this was a good chapter and please read and review. Next week is the bloodbath! I'm very nervous about writing the actual games, so wish me luck ;).