Here comes the next chapter, the second day of the training. I hope you´ll enjoy it.

Training – Day 2

The next morning I wake up on my own. I don´t know what to do but I don´t want to lay around without doing anything, so I stand up and get dressed.

When I´m ready I walk to the dining room and sit down. I just stare at the table and think about my family.

While thinking Mags comes in, she sees me and smiles.

"Why already up?" she asks me.

"I don´t know, I couldn´t sleep anymore", I reply.

"Nightmare?"

"No." I response.

"Well, today training, find out strenghts boy from 6." she comments.

I nod. Mags already told me that yesterday.

"Climbing, spears and repeat things you learned." Mags says.

"Okay."

After this Mags and I talk about District 4. She tells me how she bakes cake almost every Sunday and then give the pieces to children who she meets at the street or beach.

"That´s really sweet of you." , I response, "I think I got one, too. When I was around 9 years old."

"Really?" she asks.

I smile at her. "Yes."

Our talk is interrupted by Twiksi who comes in at this very moment.

"Oh, you´re already up", she notices and beams at me. In return I give her a charming smile and greet her:"Good morning."

"Oh, I´m sorry, I´m so unpolite. Good morning." Twiksi says.

"No problem.", I response.

Soon Leanne and Byron arrive and we eat breakfast together. Afterwards we dress in our training clothes and get to the elevator. Arriving at the Training Centre we separate I join Robert while she meets with the other Careers.

"Hey, so what do we want to do today?" I ask Robert.

"I don´t know, something different from yesterday, what about climbing?" he suggests.

"Sounds good to me." I answer and we go to the station.

Robert aces at climbing but I have to say I´m not surprised, I mean he´s from District 7.

I´m not very good but not very bad either. Robert shows me some tricks so that I´ll be faster. We train a while there.

While I´m high up at the climbing wall I can see every tribute in the room and so I can finally watch the boy from 6. He´s pretty good at hiding. As well I notice that he´s very good at archery and seems to be clever.

I climb the wall down and then again up, this time Robert says I was pretty fast, I smile at him.

Then I decide it´s best to move else where.

"Where do you want to go now?", I ask him.

"I don´t know", he answers, "Where do you want to go?"

"Maybe training with a spear. What do you think?", I response looking at him.

"Ok, let´s go", Robert says.

We head to the Spear Station, the problem is that the girl from 2, Trinity, watches us. I take a spear and make sure to hit the dummy at the arm, so that she doesn´t get suspicious. She smirks, shakes her head and then moves and doesn´t watch me anymore.

Robert doesn´t look very impressed but nevertheless smiles at me.

"Not really your best weapon, is it?" he mentions.

"I just didn´t want Trinity to know what I´m capable of" I reply.

I grab the next spear and throw it. Bingo, bulleye.

Now Robert is stunned. I smirk slightly at him. Then I show him how to held the spear and throw it.

Then lunch begins. I chat with Robert and tell him about some funny things that happened in 4. We laugh together and he tells some funny stories about 7. One time he put a mouse in the bed of his older sister and she shrieked the whole morning. I laugh along with him. Probably we should be serious and think about death and life but it´s too hard.

The second half of the training we use to repeat all of the things we learned or we think weren´t very good at. So we don´t stay at a station very long. While we´re at the Camouflage Station again, Robert asks me about the private sessions that will take place soon.

"What will you do? Do you already know that?" he asks me.

"I´ll do what I´m good at. Probably it´s the best to show that you´re not only good at one thing.", I answer.

"Yeah, I think so, too.", he replies, "I´ll probably work with the axe and climb a little bit."

"Sounds good to me", I say, "Are you already nervous?"

"A little bit", he admits.

"Attention, tributes!" , Tretara shouts, "Now the private sessions will begin, please follow me."

So we do just that and arrive at a room with 24 seats in it where we have to wait until it´s our turn.

Then she leaves and a mechanical voice says: "Onyx Drukens, District 1".

Onyx stands up and leaves the room.

I wait until the voice calls: "Finnick Odair, District 4". I go through the silver door and enter the room where the private sessions take place. Confident, look confident, Finnick.

I turn to the Gamemakers and give them a charming smile. Then I say my name and district and head to the Knotting Station where I make a trap that would catch a human which I demonstrate with a dummy. As well I wave a net. Then I take some knives, I score 8 out of 10 straight into the bulleye and the other 2 just slightly next to it.

I see that the Gamemakers look interested but not impressed, so I grab a trident, look at the Gamemakers to make sure they watch and give them a charming smile. Then I turn and throw the trident right into the heart of the dummy. I did it with so much force that the dummy falls down.

Now the Gamemakers begin to whisper, nod their heads and smile. I throw some more tridents to show that that was no coincidence.

In the end I show that I can use a trident as well to kill without throwing it, like you do with a sword.

Then I´m finished and dismissed. I think that went pretty well.

When I arrive in the dining room Leanne tells everyone who wants to know and everyone who doesn´t want to know how good she was and that she surely will get a good score.

"I did really great", she exclaims, "I bet I´m even better than Onyx. What about you, Finnick, how did it go?" she asks with a smirk.

I´m about to reply when Twiksi says: "We´ll see that soon. Now come and eat dinner."

Mags asks me: "How go?"

I shrug and response: "It went pretty well." Leanne snorts and I give her an angry look.

Mags just smiles at me and pats my back.

After the dinner Byron leads us to the TV room and we´re going to see our scores. Before they start Twiksi says: "Don´t be too disappointed if the score isn´t very high, that has nothing to say" then she looks at me and gives me a reassuring smile. She doesn´t know I´m not concerned about my score so I think that´s really nice of her.

But Leanne just says arrogantly: "As if I´m going to get a low score."

God, I really can´t stand her.

Then the scores are shown.

"District 1, Gillian Krimju, with a score of 8", so that´s the name of the girl. 8 is normal for a Career but most of them get a 9.

"Onyx Drukens, 10." This doesn´t surprise me, I knew he was good.

Trinity gets a 9 and John a 7. 7 is a pretty low score for a Career but he didn´t volunteer so that doesn´t surprise me either.

The tributes from 3 get both a 5 and then it´s our turn.

"District 4, Leanne Marybold, with a score of 9". Byron and Leanne cheer and she shots me a look that says: See, I´m better than you. I just smirk at her which confuses her.

Byron pats her on the back: "Pretty good".

Then:

"District 4, Finnick Odair, with a score of... 11!" I´m relieved. Mags smiles and pulls me in a hug while the others look shocked. "What the hell...?!" Leanne asks.

"Well, seems like the Gamemakers like me", I response smirking.

"Finnick, that´s great!", Twiksi exclaims, "You´ll get soo many sponsors." Even Byron congratulates me.

The most tributes get a score between 3 and 5, the boy from 6 receives a 8 and the girl from 9 a 7.

Afterwards Mags walks me to my room and sits down on my bed.

"Very proud", she says smiling at me. I laugh. "Thanks"

"Now, bed, tomorrow long day"

I nod and hug her one last time. Then she leaves and I fall asleep.