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Ch 9
Today's the day. I will go to the arena, the day that I could quite possibly die. I swallow the lump in my throat ant grab a hold of the latter that the hovercraft drops down for me. Portia and I are on the roof of the training center getting on the hovercraft that will take us to the catacombs of the arena. The latter pulls me up into the craft freezing me to it with some sort of electric current. A stout little capital woman with pink skin and orange hair put my tracker in. this is what will help the gamemakers keep track of me in the arena. The hover craft is filled with food for me to eat. I am hungry so I eat. I purposely stuff myself, because who knows when the next time I will eat is. The ride to the arena is about an hour. That hour is filled with nervous pacing eating and crying on Portia's part. A few times she has to leave the room because her sobs become so uncontrollably. When we finally do reach our destination the latter's lower us into our rooms. Portia is given my outfit and I dress in seconds. We have a few minutes to go until I am to get on the metal plate that will raise me to my inevitable death.
"Peeta you are an amazing person, you can win this, I know you can. She's just a girl Peeta; she's not worth dying over." Portia says breaking the silence.
"Portia, I can't live without her." I say. She gives a sad smile.
"I was afraid you might say that. Well then here is what you need to do. Team up with the careers and keep them away from her keep them distracted and don't give them any information about her. If you can do that if you can keep them away from her. Then she will make it." When Portia finishes there is an announcement made that I am to get ready for launch. I stand on my plate and my and Portia hold hands until thick plate of glass slides between us. I rise up and everything is silent. We are to stay on our plates for sixty seconds before we can run to the treasures of the cornucopia or the safety of the surrounding forest. The forest! I think excitedly with a sigh of relief. Though I have never been very far outside of the fence sometimes when the apples in the meadow are ready to harvest me and a few friends from town sneak out to pick some. I turn to see Katniss a few people to my right. I also see her eyeing the cornucopia. She glances at me and I shake my head telling her not to go for the bloodbath that's bound to happen there. In the few seconds that we interacted the gong has rang and we all bolt off our plates I run and grab the only cluster of spears I see. There are about five in the cluster and as far as I can see they are the only spears in the cornucopia. I take them and run into the forest. I don't even know how to throw a spear, but Cato does. Cato is the leader of the careers and without these spears he is going to be killed in the arena and he knows it. I see him bolting after me but I am still faster. I stop and turn to face him.
"If I can join the careers you can have these." I say holding out the spears." I say. I can tell Cato is contemplating this and finally he nods and shakes my hand.
"Welcome to the careers." He says in a gruff voice. And I can just by the look he gives me that one bad move and he will end my life.