Everyone was wearing different clothes, it was as if there was a moving rainbow in the room. I searched for Lola, only she wasn't there, so I assumed she was still getting ready with her stylists. I managed to catch a glimpse of the three brats, Angelina, Aphrodite and Glitterbomb. Though they were all wearing different colours, each one was tight and short. It was so tight, it made them look very skinny. They were hot all the way. I gagged while looking at them. Angelina's was red, Aphrodite's was blue, but Glitterbomb's was shimmering gold glitter. She had bothered to wear fake eyelashes too, which were also gold. Her leotard even had a tail trailing behind it.

I was so busy taking in my surroundings, that I didn't even see Colin coming towards me. He looked very cool, his outfit was a deep azure blue shaped to be a bit like a bird.

"Hi." he said.

"Hi. I hope you were proud of yourself for the nine you got! You did amazing!"

"That's ironic for you to say, considering you got a twelve! I am curious as to what you did, you must have amazed them!"

I suddenly hesitated a bit before replying. "Um, I wrote down Angelina and Aphrodite's names on the mannequins and shot them."

"You did what?!"

I went into a frenzy of panic. "No, no, not like that! I mean, I just wanted to impress them and..."

But to my surprise, he started laughing. "I suppose they called it upon themselves. They need to learn the lesson to not mess with my Kayla!"

My Kayla? Did he just say my?

"Are you okay, Kayla? You're shaking hard."

Was I? I blushed scarlet in embarrassment. "Um, I'm fine."

"Are you... just nervous about the interview?"

"Yes!" I lied. "Just so... nervous!"

He let out a deep sigh, "Phew, nothing too serious. You weren't sick!"

Did he care about whether I was sick or not?

"You won't even need to try, you've already amazed them so much. They'll be naturally attracted to you!"

"That's kind of you." I blushed even harder.

"Ugh, why did her stylists put so much blush on her?" Angelina fake whispered loudly to Glitterbomb.

"It's not blush, the poor thing is threatened by us, look at her scared little face. Shame she could be killed simply by shoving her over and killing her with her own knife." she fake coughed. "I'm getting germs just standing here, only these two seem more well adapted to it, bless them. But this is clearly not the place for us." she swivelled so her back was turned to me and her high heels clattered as she left us.

Angelina and Aphrodite quickly scurried wherever she went. I then realised how they were being used, Glitterbomb was the main villain, whereas those two were her henchmen. It was a bad idea for them to agree to allying with her, she was too manipulative, cocky and convincing for her not to be the leader of the group. Even both of them put together seemed liked a lesser version of Glitterbomb. When they left, I went back to scanning the room.

While I was, I noticed a little girl standing in the corner of the room, playing with a ball of yarn. She only looked twelve, with her little pigtails and freckles. She wore a little colourful sweater and a tiny skirt, the stylist clearly wanted her to be portrayed as innocent. And it was working, she was so little and frail, she did not belong in an arena. She looked up at me and melted into the corner slightly, hugging her yarn tight, bless her.

"No wonder why she loves that little ball of yarn so much." he saw me staring at her. "Yarn Hug, her name is. The poor thing was supposed to take over her Mom's pillow shop when she was nineteen, only she was reaped."

"And no one volunteered for the little thing?"

He shook his head sadly, "I think she's from your district, Kayla. When Freya came, she didn't even ask for anyone to volunteer for her, she was so focused on keeping you and Lola in her control."

I was there, then! How could I have been so oblivious to her? If I hadn't been reaped beforehand, I would have definitely volunteered for her! I guess I was just so nervous and frightened that I wasn't aware of my surroundings.

I didn't have time to respond to him, soon we were told to stand in our districts, and wait for our turn to be interviewed. Lola quickly ran to meet me, in a black, tight jumpsuit with flashes of red in the shape of thorns. She looked really cool, I wished I could have told her that, only we weren't even allowed to speak.

Glitterbomb went first, as she was female and from District 1, the luxury district. She didn't bother to respond carefully to anything, she just answered with a yes or no, but not in a solemn way, in a way to get more into her. While she was responding, she was filing her nails or fiddling with her long hair, forcing us to stare at her. When the buzzer went off for the next person, she looked as though she didn't care whether she failed or not and walked off. She had won the audience in her own way.

Angelina went on next, she looked very pretty, however Glitterbomb had clearly stolen the angle she wanted to appear to for the audience, leaving her to make up a different strategy on the spot. She did something quite appalling, she began to publicly flirt with the interviewer. The audience was stunned by her behaviour, and so when the buzzer went off, her audience was wide-eyed and hardly able to look at her. Then Aphrodite came on with a different angle entirely, completely cocky and oblivious to the fact that these were Hunger Games.

"Every tribute is just so mean to me, I mean, it's not my fault I am so pretty." she complained. "And it's not like I wasn't called Aphrodite for a reason. They're just so jealous when they look at me!"

The interviewer looked very relieved when the buzzer went off for her.

Then came a curly red haired girl on stage, named Blossom Whyte, who played the role of being very vengeful and as fiery as her flame red hair.

"My parents disowned me, all because I was just some stupid girl!"

"You don't seem stupid, with that great seven in training! You seem really smart!" he saw that she was getting angry, and was trying to change the subject.

"I am smart, smarter than at least half of these stupid tributes. However, because I was a girl I was put in a stupid foster home, and even spent a year living in the streets! My stupid parents were fools!"

As the buzzer went off for her, Lola was nodding her head in agreement, clearly she could relate to her.

Next was a girl who I had never really seen before, her name was Tilly Sears. In the interview, she was pretty, however unlike the other three girls, didn't use it for her advantage. She played the role of someone who just wanted to protect her sister.

"Alice, my younger sister, was picked." a tear somersaulted down her cheek. "It wasn't... fair. She didn't deserve it, if she died I would be a dead person on Earth, usless and broken."

The interviewer was actually trying hard not to cry. He had to get someone backstage to pass him tissues, and to be honest, I struggled to keep calm myself. When the buzzer went off, she got a roar of applause from the audience.

Then came itty bitty Yarn, looking as adorable as ever. She played the role of innocent, a role which perfectly suited her. She brought her ball of yarn on stage as a little fiddle toy for her to play with during it.

"I may be little, but at least I won't have any cold nights! I can make a blanket out of anything!"

"You can?" he looked very surprised.

"Oh yes! A very common death in the Hunger Games is to freeze to death, so I got that covered. So, at least I shouldn't be counted out of it."

"I wouldn't in a million years." he said assuringly.

Then came Colin Mainstone, playing the role of a charming, likeable boy. He was very kind to the interviewer, not letting him get put under pressure. He described the deadly tributes as being the mean girls in school, getting a lot of laughs. He also got a roar of applause from the audience, while I stared at him in awe.

Then, it was my turn, right after him. I walked up on stage gracefully, and immediately got applauded as I went on stage. I guess they liked my opening ceremony dress and my training score enough to expect a good result in the interview.

"Hello, Kayla. Fancy seeing you here." he won some laughs immediately."You're only fourteen, however you have been so remarkable, especially that twelve in training! How did you feel when you figured out?"

I thought I should get some laughs while I was at it. "Well, it was a first."

Everyone starting laughing and applauding me at the same time.

"Your dress, too, it looks splendid. You clearly are a wonderful flower."

"A rose. It has many different petals and many different types, no one is just one-dimensional." I quoted Cinna.

"Wow, you are very smart, aren't you? Luckily, that will come in your favour for the arena."

"I am sure it will, intelligence always triumphs over strength."

"I am sure you are strong too, after that twelve!"

"Guess it's just another one of my petals."

This I got applauded for too, before the buzzer went off, and then I was greeted with a sudden rocket of applause. I had done it, I had won them over entirely! As I strutted off stage, I felt rather pleased with myself, especially when I high-fived Colin afterwards.

Then it was Lola. Lola had decided to be a bit more ruthless as she spoke. She compared the different tributes to different knives.

"Glitterbomb... well she's the curvy knife." there was a roar of laughter after that.

Even the interviewer clearly struggled to not laugh. "That's a very... good way of putting it. What about Kayla?"

Now this I was curious about. I really hoped she would describe me as a good knife.

"She's a knife with a cover on it. A good one indeed, when she takes it out." she got a round of applause for this.

I rather liked the way she portrayed me as a knife and decided to applaud too. I also knew that she didn't really have a choice, now that the audience was practically on my side, if she had portrayed me as something else, they would have voted her off stage.

"Even people like me have got to watch out for her, even though they aren't very visible, she does have thorns."

"Yes. However, you are the thorn! Your ten was very impressive, how did you feel when you got it?"

"I thought that's what I deserved, it wasn't my best go."

"Wasn't your best? A ten is very hard to get, and you achieved it without even trying?"

"Yes." she got a lot of laughs from this.

She also got a roar of applause from the audience when the buzzer went off.

So Lola and I both managed to get the audience's attention, we may even have gotten some sponsors.

However it was bittersweet.

Because it meant we were getting closer and closer to the arena.