Justice building district 5 -

They are all gone now. I have had to say goodbye to everyone I know and love in half an hour and now my time was up. I am still clutching the charm Faith gave to me in my hand; I have a rope tied around my neck with a long and skinny stone tied to it. Finch had gave it to me and told me it was perfect to pick locks with and to always keep it on me. I loop the charm around it. I was sitting on the couch waiting for the peacekeepers to take me to the train station. I knew there would be cameras there so I couldn't cry. I realize that my hair is down and I had it in a bun at reaping, I quickly tie it back up, I think that maybe that small detail could mix them up with me and another tribute, I wanted them to remember me.

There is a knock on the door. I am confused who else could it be. I had already said goodbye to my siblings, to my parents, to my friends, even one of my aunts and three of my cousins had come in to say goodbye. The door opens and in the door way stands a girl, a beautiful girl , a girl in a light yellow dress, the girl I love more than anyone else in the world. A girl that is now dead. My sister Finch. I gasp.

"Faye I don't have long so you have to listen to me." She says sternly walking over to me and sitting on the couch opposite me.

"Wha…" Is the only sound I am able to make.

"Okay listen." She says and out of nowhere begins to cry. "Faye I am so sorry this happened to you and I wish I could have tacken your place but I couldn't so you have to win on your own."

"What's happening?" I ask.

"Let me finish." She tells me with tears still running down her cheeks. "Make the capital like I mean make them LOVE you, runaway form the blood bath but if they are anything a few feet away from you grab it, show of your skills to the game makers they are nothing they love more than a vicious kid and get an ally that's one of the things I regret not doing in the games."

I sigh and look at the ceiling."You are going insane." I whisper to myself over and over again.

She grapes my arm. I think my heart may have stopped beating for a few seconds. I could feel her cold hand grabbing my arm, I could actually feel it. Was she real?

"Please try." She begs and then reaches for the stone on my necklace and puts and small dent in it. "This is how you will know this was real." She tells me before hugging me. I wish that hug would never end, I also wished she was real. She gets up smiles at me and walks out the building.

I snap back to reality when a peacekeeper grabs my arm and forces me out of the room. I stand in front of two doors that lead out to the train station. I fix my posture and regain my sly grin. The boy comes out of his room, I try remembering his name. Evan Daily. Oh no. How did I not notice this before? He is my brother Franks best friend, as if this wasn't awkward enough. I didn't really know him but he sometimes ate dinner in my house and he was good friends with Finch who was Franks twin before she died. Now I feel a bit guilty on how I humiliated him by not shaking his hand, but he was eighteen and frankly I need every advantage that I can get against him. He smiles at me. I smile back nervously and then I turn back to the door.

You are not scared I tell myself. You are a girl that being picked for the hunger games slightly amuses her rather than terrifies her. My body takes over this role I lick my lips. The doors fly open and I walk towards the train. They are dozens of cameras surrounding me, people are asking me questions and taking pictures of me. I have never gotten this much attention before. I don't like it but the girl I am pretending to be dose.

A woman with a microphone and a man with a camera stands in front of me. The camera mans signals to her and she begins to talk. "Hello, I am Cliare-a-bella Ivory from Panem news. I am here in district five train station with the hunger games newest tribute and younger sister of past tribute Finch Crossley, Faye crossley! So Faye how did you feel when you were selected for the games." She asks holding the microphone so close to my mouth that I could lick it.

"Okay, I guess." I say trying to look bored.

"Faye what will be your tactic for the games?" She asks flicking her hair off her shoulder. Bingo! That's the question I wanted her to ask me.

I change my expression and grin and stare right into the camera. "I guess we will have to see won't we."

I walk away towards the train with news reporters showering me with questions as soon as I step on the door bangs shut. I fall onto the seat near the door and hold my head in my hands, it took so much effort pretending to be someone you're not. I look up and see Evan let out a sigh of relief and sits in a chair his face drained from colour. I guess it is scary being picked for the games no matter how old you are.

"Finally two tributes that is able to hold it together." Says Tallie walking into the room, she is one of the mentors for district five. She is in her early thirties, she wears simple jeans and a light blue top she is very pretty and I know from seeing recaps of her hunger games that she is very vicious. I make a mental note not to get on her bad side but not to kiss up to her either she seems like she is very straight to the point and that is what you need in a mentor, I am lucky district five has a few victors.

"Last year they both ended up crying on the stage." Jelaime remarks. He is the other mentor for the games, he is ten years older than Tallie but they both get along very well. I have also watched the highlights of his games in school because he is one of are only victors. He terrifies me because in his games he lit a twelve year old boy on fire to kill him instead of just stabbing him with a knife, he also drowned a fourteen year old girl by holding her under water she said in the interview that her worst fear was drowning even when he had a knife he still did that to her.

Tallie looks at me and her face drains from all colour, her eyes stare at me with disbelief and her hands began to shake. After five seconds she realises something and lets out a sigh of relief and colour floods her face again. She smiles a big fake smile, I can tell it is fake because I spent a lot of my life watching people to try and learn how to be better at acting and although this woman is doing well in hiding the fact that, that smile is fake I can see right through her.

"Sorry, I thought you where your sister." She says more than herself then to me.

"Anyway." Jelaime says putting a arm around Tallies shoulder. "You kids should go to your rooms take a shower and get changed, the rooms are just trough the living area The recaps will be on in half an hour and we will be arriving at the capital in three and a half hours so try look persentable." He points at a door at the end of are corridor.

Me and Evan silently nod and then walk through the door he was pointing to. We walk through the most l have ever seen. I look at a small ordainment on the coffee table, I wonder if I sold that lamp how much lives I could save from starvation with the money I made form it. The capital disgust me, but i can't let them know that or else I won't be getting any sponsors. I walk towards the rooms. Evan walks in his and closes the door behind him. I pretend to go into mine but as soon as he is in his I run across the living room and stand at the door out to the corridor. I know i would get in trouble if I got caught but I wanted to know what Tallie and Jelaime where talking about that required for me and Evan to leave. I press my ear up to the door and listen to their slightly muffled voices.

"Jelaime I don't think i can do this!" It was Tallie talking and she was crying, I wondered why she had been mentoring tributes for years what made this time any different?
"I know Tal but you know you have to." He replied softly.

"But she looks so much like her." She says trough tears. " I know when I started mentoring I told myself that I would never get to know or like the tribute but I did. I got to know her and I really started to like her and I actually thought she could win." It takes me a moment to realise that she is talking about my sister. I hadn't actually thought about that she could have got to know Finch. I had always thought of her as the vicious tribute form five. I never considered how hard it must be for her to mentor tributes every year and watch them die.

I want to walk away from the door because I don't want to hear any more of it but I have to listen to see if she mentions me or Finch again.

I hear a massive sob which surprises and startles me. I hear her scream. "I couldn't save her! I couldn't stop her from dying!" I hear a loud bang and I presume she had punched some thing her tone lowers to a whisper. "Why did she have to die?" She wails. Her outburst must have worn her out because I hear her sitting down of the ground.

I feel a single tear fall down my cheek. I can't cry because there will be cameras at the capital as well. All I can think about is Tallie she must have really liked Finch because in her time she had killed over five children and had not shed a single tear but now she is having a full outburst and not even trying to stop herself. I walk away from the door and back to my room, I don't want to hear any more of this.