Okay, so I know I didn't talk to you guys in the first chapter, I just wanted to make sure that you guys kept reading…either that…or I forgot to :p so anyways, I LOVE the hunger games, and sure did surprise myself when I figured out royals personality so soon… it was just like -WHAM!- got the idea! Hope you like it ! woohoo!

oh yeah abd btw: finnick odair is one of the main charecters in this, so dont get freaked out okay? NO she does NOT fall in love with him so dont get scared, i am strictly annie+finnick=3

I walked with him to the piano. It was beautiful, large and black with all its precious keys trailing down its front. I stared at it as victor set a blanket around my shoulders. The sudden touch scared me, and I jumped.

"woah! Okay…" he calmed himself down, I realized that I must have given him a heart attack, but yet so did he to me.

"you can play it if you want," and he pushed me towards the piano. I frowned a little, looking at it, it just seemed intimidating. I closed my eyes and reached forward, smiling as a small little "ting" sounded from the high keys near the right. I opened my eyes once again to see victor smiling at me.

"come on! You can do better!" he nudged, and it made me laugh a little. I sat down and set my fingers in the correct position I learned, and began to play.

A wonderful sound filled the air, and I couldn't get the smile off my face once it grew larger and larger. Soon enough I was humming, and a little while later, I was actually singing…aloud…in front of a stranger, Having the first actual moment of joy in a long, long time. I started singing some old songs I found in the library, some from a man named Elton john and from this woman named Natasha beddingfield. I found one that I loved, that was my favorite song, and I started to sing:

"I opened my eyes, last night, and saw you in the low light, walking down by the bay, on the shore, staring up at the planes that aren't there anymore, I was feeling the night grow old, and you were looking so cold, like an introvert, I drew my overshirt, around my arms and began to shiver violently before you happened to look, and see,l the tunnels all around me, running into the dark, underground, all the subways go round create a great a sound, to my motions a deep farewell, with your ear to a seashell, you can hear the waves in underwater caves as if you actually were In a saltwater room…"

And when I stopped, he was gaping, and I turned red under his gaze, standing up and hurrying to the door, grabbing my wet coat and turning to him with my head down.

"thank you victor for letting me play it…that was fun…" and I turned and ran through the door into the rain.

"wait! Royal!" I didn't slow down, I just kept running until I got home, but I noticed that he followed me all the way there. As I struggled to open our old door, he caught up to me and turned me around.

"whats wrong?" he asked, eyeing me closely. He was still panting from the long run here, and I felt bad about making him run all this way just to ask me two words that could have easily been asked in his own house. Now he was all wet and cold, we were both shivering and tiered. i would have rather it been just me, then i wouldnt feel all guilty, and even more emberassed.

"i…I…" I looked away, trying to avoid his gaze.

"what?" he forced me to look at him, and all I did was shake my head.

"I don't know you to well, and I just sang a song I wasn't supposed to know and now I'm just blabbing because I'm worried and I haven't told anyone I can play piano because I am again not supposed to be able to do it and my father is-" I stopped, looking away again, "tomorrows the reaping…victor, I don't need a friendship that's could have a break in it. we-…we're both only sixteen… we have two more years to get reaped in the hunger games, if I make a friend that ends up getting a death sentence a few days later I'm going to explode. Everything I try and grasp at, they always end up being ruined in a small amount of time anyways… so nothings really worth it at all…and my brother-…" once again I stopped talking, and felt tears well up in my eyes. he stood there, blankly staring at me, but I saw optimism in his gray eyes as he looked at me. I also saw pity and sorrow sinking into me as well.

"why do you keep stopping when you talk about your family?" it came out as a whisper, a scared one, but I knew he meant for it to sound strong, to make me try and face my fears.

"its just that- I…-i-.." I started to wring my hands together nearvously as I continued to stutter stupidly. But he leaned forward and caught my hands In his, making me stop moving them and look at him.

"speak, actual words…I'm listening…and I wont tell anyone about you and your piano or songs, okay?" I nodded, and my next sentence came out in a rush…

"my father is always working, so is my brother, my sister is dead and so is my mother," I wasn't surprised when his eyes widened quickly in surprise. I nodded, feeling the tears leak out of my eyes. I felt his hands leave mine, and I continued to cry, letting my salty tears mix with the rain that fell from the black clouds above us.

He reached forward and sweetly wiped them with his thumbs, making me cry more. Because if either of us were to have a death sentence tomorrow, I couldn't stand it, I already found comfort in him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know…" he frowned down at me, while I continued to cry in front of him, standing against my door, waiting for something to happen to either of us.

"but-" I looked up, "I would feel much better after this, if you would be my friend…" I pondered it for a moment, "you cant avoid the hunger games forever you know, we each have siblings we spend time with that are in the two bowls up there… is that how you lost your sister?" when I nodded, he gave me a hug. I felt his warmth through his freezing shirt, and I decided to trust him, he was correct after all.

"sure victor, I'll be your friend…" he stepped back and smiled widely, which made me laugh a little.

"then maybe you should go inside, and warm up you know," I nodded, and pried open the door, as he turned to leave, I yelled for him through the loud rain.

"victor! Wait!...its freezing out here, do you want to come inside?"

"…sure…just this once though," he had on a smirk that made me laugh, and for once in my life, before all the pain and sadness, betrayal and loneliness, I felt happy, secure… I saw hope for me, and couldn't help but scoff at myself for spending all these years without a friend…one I could seriously trust.

Hope…that's what I need… a serious amount of hope…

ta da! yay! so royal admits her pain, and actually found a friend! yeah, the song in here is my current favorite song "the saltwater room by owl city" the other two songs (or artists more like it -elton john and natasha beddingfield) where their songs like crocodile rock or run-run-run...i love both of them 3 yeah! thanks for reading this, and just to ket you know you are AWESOME!

reviews? -jaybayray123 :p STAY PRETTY :)