(Felicity's POV)

I went over to the archery area and grabbed the bow. I notched an arrow onto the string on pulled it back slowly. I closed one eye to try and line up the arrow with the heart of the fake human target. Then I let the arrow soar into the air.

It hit straight on, exactly where I was aiming. I smirked. Then I realized there was another person next to me. She had curly, dark brown hair, and rose colored lips. Also, she had these deep moss colored eyes and large eyelashes that made them stick out more. Overall she was very pretty.

"Hi, my name is Felicity Drealer." I said politely. She turned toward me.

"Hello, I'm Grace Manez." She smiled and stuck her hand out for me to shake.

"Nice to finally meet an actual person who's nice here." I shook her hand.

"Yea, talk about it. Though, that boy's face was funny when you showed him up at the spear area." I blushed a little.

"You saw that?"

"Yea, I think everyone did. You have amazing aim." She said as she let the arrow fly. She hit the target in the head.

"Ha! Well, it seems you do too!"

"Thanks. So are you worried about the games?" She asked me.

"No. Well, yes. I mean, if I don't win this my family might starve and my best friend Melody…I can't leave her alone. Sure my brother is there but with feeding my mom, Melody and himself might cause him to go into overdrive."

"Wow. That's bad. Hm…What do you think about an alliance?"

"I'm not sure….I was warned about those. All it takes is for you to turn your back for one second and let your guard down then the next second you will have a sword through your chest." I said.

"Yea I guess you are right…But, you kinda remind me of my little brother. You see…I had to raise him myself." We walked over to where the bows were supposed to be and put them back.

"Really? My brother had to basically raise me until I turned 10. Our mom has been sick for years now. But then I met Melody and I became her parent kinda because her mom and dad died."

"Wow. So you are from District 11?"

"Yes! And proud of it. What District are you from?"

"I am from District 7."

"Cool. Who's the other tribute from your District?"

She raised her hand and pointed to a tall male that had somewhat long, dirty blonde hair that went about an inch past his ear. He also had navy, blue eyes. Girls were all around him just like they were around Asher.

"His name is Dylan Ross."

"Oh. He seems….cool. In a way I guess."

"Yea, but he's a giant flirt. He kept hitting on me on the way here."

"Hahahaha. Really? That's classic."

"Yea I guess. Is he from your district?" She pointed to the boy from before that watched me.

"No. Leon, the one over there, is from my district." I pointed to him.

"Oh…no offence but he doesn't seem like much…"

"Yea, but he is very sweet. I hope he makes it though…"

She leaned against the wall and I sat in front of her. My hands started playing with the rose necklace that I was still wearing.

"So about that alliance….I think I could make one with you." I said after a few minutes of thought.

"Ok! Then I will see you in the games."

"Ok…"

"Well, it looks like we have some unwanted company." She sneered and looked at something behind me. I saw all the careers walking my way and looking straight at me. I stood up and turned toward them.

"Why don't you come with us for a while." Asher said as the two girls grabbed my arms and dragged me away. I looked back at Grace with a scared look.

They dragged me over to the spear throwing section. I yanked my arms out of the two girl's hold.

"Why did you want me?" I glared at them. They all looked at each other and smirked.

"Remember what you did before? Do it again." They handed me a spear. I tossed at their feet.

"No." They all looked shocked that I didn't listen to them.

"Do. It. Now." The boy from District one said as he stepped forward to try and intimidate me.

"Hm, let me think about it….No." I sneered at him. He leaned down to get in my face.

"Don't disobey me, idiot. I said do it now. I mean, do it NOW!"

"Do you not know what the word no means? Oh yea that's right, you were all born and raised into the two districts that everything is given to you the second that you ask for it. Well, I have news for you; sometimes you DON'T get what you want. So DEAL WITH IT!" I yelled. Everything became quiet.

He started to bring his hand back as if he was getting ready to slap me. I just waited. I wasn't going to give in just because he thinks he's better than me. Just as he was bringing his hand down at my face, someone grabbed it and twisted it around.

"Just because she said no doesn't mean that you can hit her." A strong, young sounding voice said. I realized that the person in front of me was the boy from before. The careers just looked at him.

"Yea, whatever. Liam lets go somewhere else." The blonde career said. Liam ripped his hand out of the boy's grip and walked away with an annoyed face.

"Why did you do that?" I asked the brunette boy.

"Because what he was about to do isn't right." He said and turned toward me.

"Well, thank you."

"You're welcome." He started walking away.

"Hey wait." He turned back around.

"What?"

"I never did get your name."

"Fallstreak. The name's Fallstreak Redpath." Then he walked away. Grace ran over to me.

"Hey! Are you ok?"

"Yea I'm fine…" I looked at her.

"Well, that's good."

"Yea, I'm going to head to the ropes course."

"Ok. I'm going to go to the Gauntlet."

"Ok, see you later then." Then we walked off in opposite directions.

Ok. That's the next chapter. X