I'd finally finished watching Oh that Rosaline, she'd won the games of course, she'd killed every single person from the lower districts and won by brutally killing a thirteen year old girl from eleven. I cried when I found out that the kids weren't actors, and that their bodies were used for the capitol's amusement. Seeder had found me balled under my bed, with the room around me a hot mess. I was so devastated I'd missed a day of training, they'd forced me to go the next day, but I was still puffy eyed and too weak to train. I'd tried my best to learn something, but it was pretty hard thinking about all of the dead people who had died for amusement, and it scared me to become one of them, I hadn't really spoken to thresh, it wasn't that we weren't angry at each other, it just seemed to be him… as if he was angry at me for something I had nothing to do with. I braid my hair back into nice pig tails, happy that my hair is falling in the curvy curls it usually did at home instead of the tight ringlets I'd been forced into wearing. I walk towards breakfast holding my breath so that I can't possibly think of anything dead. I know it's too late when I see all of the meat around the table. Birds, cows, pigs, goats, they even had some type of horse they called Zebra. I slowly sit down keeping my face on my plate. Everyone is silent, I think I hear Chaff mumble something in his drunk language but other than that the room is silent. Seeder takes my hand. "Look you two, this is your last day to train before the private sessions, I want you to learn something new before you have to go up in front of all f those game makers, Rue especially." She says forking at some sausage. I nod silently singing the safe and sound song under my breath. We sit like this, with me humming and whispering calming songs, Seeder starring at us, Thresh sitting with his face hard and down cast and Chaff with his face in a bowl of some thick soup. I lean back feeling sad our strong district eleven bond has faded away. I slowly stand up, moving towards the elevator. I am one of the first down stairs so I take a seat and wait until I find the people from twelve, I work on the sling shot station shooting arrowhead perfectly into the hearts of the human molds. One of the career tributes snickers at me, the girl who was well fed but under trained, I lock eyes with her. "How about you try?" I challenge her tossing the sling shot across the floor not wanting any contact with her. "As if you're worth talking to." She says sticking up her nose. I back up as the other three for a semi-circle around me. "Glimmer, are you talking to your shadow?" the girl asks. I hold my breath holping one of the boys well end this. "She's too small to be anyone's shadow, and her face is way to repulsing to be mentioned as any part of Glimmer." The skinny ginger haired boy chuckles. I stare into his eyes and see murder written all over him, he's sizing me up, which I didn't know anyone would think of doing to someone as small as me. "Admit it Marv, she's way better looking than glim, she's way too adorable to be here." The blonde boy says. "So when we get in the games…" her takes one of my curls in between his thick mushy fingers making me tinier than ever. His deep eyes stare into mines and his stank breath cascades down into my nostrils. "I'll be sure she suffers in the best way possible, she'll be the finally." He smirks. Just then he is plucked from the ground and moved aside, Thresh's golden eyes meet mines before her turns to the boy. "If you ever touch Sam again, I will have you in the games, and not the way you want you fruit case." He growls tossing him towards one of the human dummies. As he takes my hand and leans to ask me if I'm ok I speak. "Sam?" I say snatching my hand away." Thresh's face widens as if I've just speared him in the abdomen. I stare at him waiting for an answer. "I'm sorry." He whispers leaving me. By now everyone has crowded around expecting a fight but the trainers and peacekeepers are keeping a close eyes on us. I turn to get back on my rope course where i will most likely spend the rest of the day.
