I couldn't sleep all night and when I wake up in the morning, I feel sick to my stomach. I walk over to the bathroom, shakily getting ready. I pull on the outfit I would be wearing in the arena, which was a red shirt with a tight red jacket and tight red pants with combat boots.

I push the hair brush button and I feel my hair fall around me. My bangs are still in perfect condition and I put some Skyliner and mascara on. I can't help but notice how pretty I am, even when I'm nervous.

I shakily open the door to my bedroom and cross the room to the door leading into the hallway. In the door way, I look back at the room that I will never see again. The room that has never been used and never will be again. The room where Cato was found on my bed.

I try to shake off the fact that Cato had seen me naked last night, but it's not easy. I reach in my pocket and pull out the necklace Cato returned to me last night. I admire the picture and I put it around my neck as I enter the kitchen. The smell of food enters my nostrils and even though I didn't eat dinner last night, I am not hungry at all.

I sit down at the table and Barrio is elegantly eating his food and conversing with Enobaria. Cato and Brutus are sitting on the couch and I see the seriousness in their eyes and I find myself wondering what they were talking about again.

I look at the plate of food one of the Avoxes has set before me. I look back up at her and she immediately retreats to her corner in the room, avoiding my eye contact. I return my attention to the plate and I feel my mouth water. Am I going to throw up?

I put my hand over my mouth and look at Cato. His face is grave and he looks unnerved. I realize that looking at him will not calm my nerves as it usually does and I turn back toward the plate of food and accept that I need to eat or else I'll be starving in the Games.

I take a tentative first bite and feel my appetite slowly come back. I start to eat faster and soon I am done with my breakfast, feeling better. Then I hear a bell ring and I look at Enobaria. She stands up and so does everyone else, including me.

I look around at them and Barrio clears his throat and says, "This way." We follow him to the elevator and we go to the lobby, where other tributes are there. And to my surprise, District 12 is already there.

I hope I don't look as nervous as I feel as we leave our "home". We go in order, so I am behind Marvel. He is following Glimmer and she goes to the car that has a 1 painted on it. We got to the one with the 2 on it.

As we get in the car, I end up getting stuck in between Enobaria and Barrio, Cato and Brutus talking in the background in low voices I can't here.

Our car lurches forward and we are following District 1's car to the hovercraft. My nerves start to mount again and I start to grab at my fingers. I look out the window at the buildings we are passing. Some were bright pink, some yellow, some blue, some green. All had that glossy look to them though.

Finally, our car gets to an airport looking place that I had learned about in school, except for there being those old fashioned air planes and jets, there are hovercrafts. Everybody gets in and we sit in a chair that is screwed into the wall.

Capitol nurses are bustling around and injecting the tributes with trackers. I take a deep breath as the lady comes in front of me, holding the long needle like injector. I watch as she takes my arm and pushes the end of the injector and watch as a blinking thing enters my vein.

When we arrive at another station, we get in another car that takes us to the building where we will have 30 minutes to think over strategy and talk to our mentors. We also get to eat.

We get out of the car and Barrio leads the way to the building. We enter the building and I notice the nasty walls, seeming very out of place for the Capitol. Then we turn a corner and are met with two doors. Just as Cato is about to enter his room and I'm about to enter mine, Barrio starts to speak, "It's quite possible that I may never see you two again, well both of you that is. Anyway, I want you to know you two aren't the worst tributes I've ever had," Barrio says. Even though this was a terribly said goodbye, I can't help but feel a bit of my heart being broken as I see Barrio round the corner and leave, and with the thought and high possibility there is of me never seeing him again, I feel extremely saddened.

I turn around and look at Enobaria. She just nods and leads me to a chair with a small table on it. It has the same device on it that I saw in my room: a piece of technology where you would say what you wanted to eat through a mouth piece and it would arrive before you, hot and fresh.

I look at Enobaria and a silence falls between both of us. Starting with Barrio, I realize I might never see Enobaria again. She seems to be thinking the same thing as she sits down on the floor next to me, bringing her legs up to her chest. I have never seen her act like a child and I have to admit, it was a little scary.

I get up and walk the length of the room for god knows how long and then I hear a bell and a tube of glass slides down over me. I begin to panic, but Enobaria comes up to me and says, "Don't worry, their just getting you ready. There'll be the countdown and you'll go up in that tunnel. It'll be pitch black, but don't worry. Good luck, Katana."

I nod at her reassuring words and feel the platform I am on being lifted up. I panic for a fraction of a second until I see Enobaria's face. I see faith and believing in me. I smile nervously at her and she nods.

Then as I go up into that tunnel, I remember Brutus. I scream down at her just as I enter the tunnel, telling her to tell Brutus I said goodbye, but I'm not really sure she heard me as I am raised through the tunnel. The pure black tunnel was definitely scary enough.

I look around me and then realize I need to get it together. I am from District 2. I am a Career. I have been training for this my whole life. I will not be ignored. I set my face and as I emerge from the tunnel into the light, seeing all of the other tributes arrive at the same time I do.

I take in my surroundings. There is a lake in view and woods are to my right. A field of amber grain waves before me, creating the perfect place for anyone who wanted to hide. I smirk. I will not back down from this fight.

I then turn my attention to my competition. Cato is right next to me, making me nervous. I look to my left and find Wylde. Were the Districts always in order? I look around me and find that it was only our little trio that was in anyway in order.

Then I hear a booming voice counting down. I look straight ahead at the Cornucopia and spot a nice array of knives there on the ground, right next to a pack. I smirk and I know that's where I'm headed.

I look over at Wylde and Cato once more and then listen to the countdown. 10…9…8…7…6… The anticipation kills me as I wait…5…4…3…I look at Katniss, who is staring at Peeta…2…1…I hear the gong and I bolt to the Cornucopia, thankful for being so fast. I grab the knives and the pack.

Then I turn around and see a kid behind me. I realize it is the District 4 male a second too late as a knife is already headed his way. I watch it easily pierce his neck. He cries out in pain as he pulls it out, blood spewing from his punctured Jugular. Then the cannon sounds. I had gotten the first kill of the Hunger Games.

I rush up to the boy, whose blood was still flowing rapidly. I grab the knife I had used to kill him and I look at Katniss, who is running away right in front of me, but is taken down by the District 9 male.

I throw a blade his way and smirk with satisfactory as it plants itself in his spine. I see from the back that he is sputtering and coughing even as he falls to his knees. I run up to him and rip the blade out of his back, the cannon sounding instantly. Two. Two kills and the Games had just started.

I throw my knife at Katniss and it lands in her shoulder. She screams out in pain, but keeps running. I look back and notice that the Blood Bath is almost over. I look back at Katniss and decide she's not worth the chase. Instead, I return back to the Cornucopia and help out the other Careers.

Cato has just killed a boy whose District I don't know. Then I look around and am a little happy to find out that Marvel and Glimmer are still alive. Hina is too. Cato looks at me and I worry that he will kill me until he just nods and starts to make out orders, declaring himself leader of the Careers.

I accept him as leader and look around at all the supplies we've gathered, noticing we had another addition: Wylde. I smile at him as he stands there awaiting instruction from Cato. I walk over and stand next to him. He gives me an uneasy smile and then he stares ahead with a set face and I know he is trying to be brave.

I stare too, but not ahead, but at Cato. He walks over to me and says, "Katana, I need you to look around and organize all the supplies in a pile. We're going to set up at the lake and Wylde here's gonna rig up the bombs, right?" He says the last part to Wylde.

Wylde nods and scampers off to set up the bombs. Then I walk over to the food supplies and I count them and put them in an organized pile. I step back and admire my work when I hear laughing.

I turn around and see Cato and Glimmer in each other's faces, nearly kissing. I feel a fire blaze inside of me and I look at Marvel, who doesn't seem too happy himself. I angrily walk over to Cato and say, "There, I'm done."

Then I sit over where our camp is and pull my legs closer to me and I close my eyes, resting my head on my knees. I hear footsteps and I look up at Marvel, who sits down next to me.

"I take it you're mad," I say to him.

"You don't look none too happy yourself," he says. There was an awkward silence between us before he leans in and says, "We just need them to realize who they really care about."

At first, I'm not sure what say. I just sit there for a while before finally saying, "Well, I'm not even "with" Cato and how do we know they even care about each other. And even if they did, I don't care."

"Yeah, well I do," Marvel snaps. I just shut up and look at the lake. An awkward silence settles between us and he gets up and walks away. Great, I though. There's another person that hates me.