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*~KelsNicole~*

I am woken up by Abigail walking into my room, now she's used to finding Alwin in my room. She tells us that we have about forty-five minutes until training begins and that we better start getting ready. Alwin and I only separate for twenty minutes for showers and to get dressed. Once we are both done we walk into the dinning room together, hand in hand.

"Well, well is that the two love birds? It has to be them or they have a death wish." Odysseus says and I roll my eyes. Does he really think that I'm capable of hurting Alwin? Right now I am just trying to keep my sanity and by the time that we are in the Games I will have figured out what I want. "Have a seat both of you. Would you two like to share a chair?"

"No." I say sitting down. "A bed will do so that we can both be comfortable and close at the same time."

"Really cute. Now, are you two ready to start training?" Odysseus asks and stares at both of us. He is tense right now, more tense then usual. "Remember try to get the other tributes to an agreement, that way you two will have a better chance of catching up at the cornucopia. If it comes down to it you must decide if you'd rather kill or be killed, because some of them won't think twice about it."

"Do you think we're ready?" Alwin asks in a calm voice. "Can we kill people just to live?"

"I think you two can. Just remember one thing, it does take a part of you away when you kill." Odysseus takes a bite out of his pancake. We watch him for a moment, he looks up at us and shrugs. "You have to get into that mind frame, to survive you have to do things that you wouldn't normally do. If you can't, well…then you might as well put a spear through your own heart."

The idea of putting a spear through my heart-or anyone's heart is unimaginable for me. I sit here as pancakes, fruit, orange juice, coffee and a muffin are put in front of me. Slowly I eat and I begin to think about everything. The games that I must play to survive, the thought about losing Alwin. If Alwin dies, I might as well be dead along with him. My eyes glance a look at Odysseus and I see that he is watching me, trying to see what I'm thinking. His eyebrows are raised, he obviously knows a part of what I'm thinking. Alwin squeezes my hand and I look at him.

"Everything will be okay." Alwin whispers to me, with a small smile. "You'll see, Ace. You'll see."

Abigail walks us to the elevator ten minutes before we have to be to training. She is talking quickly and telling us what she thinks we should do. I laugh a little when she says that she personally thinks that our love for each other will help us win the Hunger Games. Am I really in love with him? How am I supposed to know? I've never felt this way before and all that I know is that he is more important to me then Ethan…did I just really say that?

"Okay here you two are, remember stay close!" Abigail shocks me and gives both of us a hug. "I have been doing this for a few years now and…you two are my favorite tributes."

She walks away and I just stare after her, I never thought the people of the Capital had feelings or good thoughts. Alwin takes my hand and leads me into the training room. We are the first ones there, a tall man is standing in the center of the room waiting for everyone to show up. He smiles politely at us and we stand in front of him.

After a few minutes everyone is standing on either side of us and staring at each other, sizing everyone up. I stare at the girl from District One and she sneers at me, now this girl could be a problem…

"Welcome all of you! You are the wonderful tributes for the 90th Hunger Games!" He looks more thrilled then most of the Game Makers. "I am Hector Zoole and I am here to assist you in any way during your training period. Please remember to be cautious and not attempt to harm any of the other tributes. We don't want a repeat of last year…"

What happened last year was horrible and ended in the death of the female tribute from District Fiver. Last year a girl named Zula Morgenstern was killed during training, she was the tribute from District Five. The girl who killed her was from District One, Megan Longston. Most of the other tributes feared Megan because of how quickly she killed Zula with a knife, they couldn't get it out of Zula's back. Another female tribute was chosen for District Five, someone related to Zula…..Megan killed the second female tribute from District Five, Zula's younger sister Melody. One of the District One tributes won, Megan.

I look at Alwin who is staring at the edible plants table, taking his hand I lead him over to the table. He smiles at me as the instructor watches us take a quiz to see how much we know about the plants. Turns out that I know more then I thought I did, my mom is a healer so I know most of the plants. We stay at the table until both of us reach the maximum that we can for the plants.

"What would you like to do now?" He asks as we walk away from the table. "That was my choice, now you get to choose."

"You know I remember something that you told me…." I smile at him, a mischievous smile. "Didn't you promise to teach me how to throw a knife?"

Alwin smiles at me, his smile mirrors mine. "Yes, yes I did. How could I have forgotten? Right this way, Ace…"

We walk over to the table focusing on knife using. The instructor tries to tell Alwin a few things about using a knife, he was extremely arrogant and Alwin just picked up a knife and threw it at a dummy a few feet away and lodged it right in the dummy's throat. That shut the instructor up.

"Want me to teach you?" Alwin turns to me and holds a knife out to me. I nod, anxiously. "Come here. Okay, take the knife."

Alwin puts one hand around my waist, holding me to him and the other is on the wrist of my hand that is holding the knife. He moves my hand and shows me where to release it. Then he takes the knife and shows me what to do. I smile and say slyly that I don't remember where he told me to release it and he gladly takes me into his arms again. He keeps his hands on me as I throw the knife for the first time, I hit the dummy in the stomach. I jump up and down and hug Alwin. Before I know it we kissed and now I know that I'm screwed, I love him….and love is one thing that you shouldn't mix with a game as deadly as this.

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*~KelsNicole~*