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Here's the first chapter that I will upload today as promised yesterday. I hope that you all enjoy! Please leave a review and tell me what you think, it will help me fix it if something is confusing or just not good =D. Thank you to everyone for reading and reviewing!

*~KelsNicole~*

We are sitting in the lunch room, a small break from training. Everyone saw it, the Game Makers, the tributes, EVERYONE. I sit next to Alwin, who is as quiet as I am. Neither of us know what to do or say. I know now that if we win the Games that we will have to be together forever. Odysseus was right and I'm sure that he will hear about this. All of this will be my fault though, I know that in his eyes that it will be.

"Are you okay?" Alwin's voice is low and I know that no one can hear us. "Ace? Is there something that I can do-or get you?"

"No, nothing. Yeah…I'm fine." I say and look over at him. A part of me knows that I love him, but is it enough? Will my love for him help me some how win the Games? "All of this is just…hard to process. Now everyone knows and that won't allow us to set our plan into motion."

"We can think of a new plan, one that Odysseus knows nothing about. Both of us can still live and see our families again." As I stare at him I know that I want to live, just to be with him. My family would be better off without me, I've just been putting them in danger. "Don't worry, we will think of something. I won't let you die, I promise you that Ace. You are not going to die."

I look at him and smile a small sad smile. "You can't promise me that. Once we are in the Games everything will be too unpredictable. Maybe we should try to make an agreement between all of the tributes about getting to the cornucopia alive. Do you think….do you think that we could turn them against one another?"

"What? You want to play a game before the Games have even started?" He raises his eyebrows, but I see that he is thinking about what I've just suggested. Under the table he squeezes my hand. "I think that we could, but we'd have to be careful. We don't want it to backfire on us."

"I know…" That is all that I say, because I know that this plan could kill us both.

We go back into training and I learn how to make a snare, to use a bow and arrow (which I'm kind of good at, but still need a lot of practice), a sword and so on. Training comes to an end and we all walk out of the room. Alwin and I are the only two who are walking with the other tribute from our District, everyone else is walking far apart from everyone. It seems that Alwin and I are the only two who are trying to keep both of us alive. This could be more tricky then I thought…

Abigail is waiting at the elevator and stares at us with an excited expression on her face. Once in the elevator we shoot up to the thirteenth floor and she leads us to the sitting room where Odysseus is waiting. He glares at me and I know that he must have heard about what happened in training. Does he only hate me because I remind him of Aphrodite?

"Okay, have a seat. We need to talk about strategy, since I am obviously out of the loop." He watches as we sit down on a couch together, his eyes are hard and I see that he is giving up all hope that he will ever break us apart. "I give up, you two can do the happy couple from District Thirteen if you want to. But listen to me, you two have to have a good plan and have to convince the audience that you two are worth saving."

"Odysseus?" I say his name and feel my stomach twirling, right now I can't think. "Can we talk about a plan later?"He narrows his eyes at me. "Why? Are you not feeling good?"

"No, I just need to lay down for a little while." I stand up and Alwin is up beside me. Wordlessly I shake my head. "You stay and talk to him about a plan."

Before either of them can stop me I walk into my room and close the door. I lay down on my bed and as soon as my eyes are shut I feel better. Everything will be okay, everything will be okay, is all that I can think of telling myself. My body starts to relax as I drift off to sleep.

It is chilly outside, I am walking with my father. He looks down at me smiling and I smile up at him as we carry the pumpkins home. We just had enough money to buy three pumpkins, none of us care about sharing just us having pumpkins is good enough for us. My dad stops and stares at a figure, he pushes me behind him and puts the two pumpkins he was carrying down.

"Dad?" I ask not really knowing what's going on. "What's going on? Who's that person?"

"Acia, just stay behind me. Don't move or say a thing." My dad stands tall in front of me and I worry about him, what happens if they hurt him? "What do you want? Just get on with this so we can get home."

"As you know the Hunger Games are starting up again, well we need a few children to have try the Games before they start. We are trying different age groups." A husky male voice grunts and I don't understand what he's saying at all. "You should be proud! Acacia Lily Yarrow is one of the children chosen to do the trial version of the new and improved Hunger Games!"

"No, you will not take her." My dad's voice is full of anger. I can see him shaking and it scares me. "Go away now, if you know what's good for you.""I have instructions to leave with the girl." The guy says in a demanding voice. "Give me the girl or you will pay."

My dad just stands in front of me for a moment and for some reason I am afraid. I have no idea what's going on, but I don't like it. "Have it your way then…."

I wake up screaming and my bedroom door shoots open, its Alwin. Odysseus and Abigail walk in behind him, all of them are staring at me. Tears are rushing down my face as I think about the nightmare I've just had. My dad stood up against the Capital, he wouldn't let them take me and they took him a few days later. He did pay for not giving them what they wanted and now I will pay with my life for not going in the first time. This is my Hunger Games, it will end in my death.

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