"Wake up! It's your first day of training today!" I hear a voice. I open one eyes an see Roxxy, with her big smiles and heavy makeup. Roxxy leaves the room. I sit up and wait for my eyes to adjust to the day then get out of bed. I go into the living room. It has bright colors and beautiful furnishing. I go to the table and eat breakfast. Snapper and Slate are already sitting there with their beers and cigars.
"What's your plan?" Snapper says. I shrug. I poke though my food, taking tiny bits of it. "You ever pick up a weapon?" Snapper asks. Again, I shrug. I try not to make any eye contact. I don't feel like looking or answering them.
I finish my breakfast. I get up from the table and go to my room to get changed into my training outfit. I see my outfit on my bed. It's a navy blue jumpsuit with red strips on the sides on the sleeves my district. It's says 10. I put on brown leather boots that go to my ankle and my lucky ring. I put my hair in a fishtail braid and wait for Quill. He walks in and is wearing the same thing as me.
"Hey you actually waited for me." He says.
"Yeah, there's no way I'm going in there alone." I say. Quill smiles. We leave to go to the training part of the center. We are arranged in a semi-circle around the woman who explains everything. She talks for a while then we start.
"What do you want to do first?" He asks.
"Let's do survival today and traps tomorrow. Okay?" I says. He nods and we go to the How-to-build-a-fire section. Quill goes first. He builds a fire in about 5 minutes. Then I go. I put the sticks in a pyramid form and rub the sticks together. The fire starts in about 5 minutes. I put it out and leave the station.
"Let's go to the climbing station." Quill suggests.
"Sure." I agree. We walk to the climbing station. The station had 3 climbing ropes. 1 was taken. "Who ever makes it to the top wins?" I say then smile. Quill nods, flashing a smirk himself. I grab onto the rope then pull up. I made it half way up. Then my foot slips and I fall about 10 feet to my back. I got the wind knocked out of me for a a while. I get up when Quill reaches the top. He hops down. He lands on his feet like a feline.
"You okay?." Quill asks me. He grasps my shoulder, squeezing, causing me to flinch. His forehead crosses in disbelief.
"Umm...yeah. I kinda just feel out of breath. Like when you're on a rollercoaster. But I guess that was a little more painful." I say. He should out his infectious laughter. "Let's go to the poisonous plant mixing section." I say, hoping to divert the attention from my injury. Quill and I walk to it. We mix things and I studied them. In the middle of me mixing a boy came up to me.
"Hey." He says. "Need a little help?" He says. I stare at him. Then I go back to mixing. He goes on top of me and whispers in my ear. "Playing hard to get?" I quickly step on his toe which made him back away.
"Leave. Me. ALONE." I growl at a deadly calmness. I look at his sleeve and see 1. He's from district 1. I turn to Quill and grab his hand and went to the hand-to-hand combat station. I need to blow off some steam. I go first. I grab the trainers arm and flips him. Then I stop realizing what I did. I stare in amazement. I never did that before! I leave and wait for Quill. He punches a few times and slips right between the trainers legs when he tried to grab him. Quill kicks the trainer in the back and he falls. He walks to me and I high five him. By the time he finishes it time to go.
We leave to eat dinner. I change my clothes to a pair of leggings and a sweatshirt. When I walk into the living room I hear a gasp from Roxxy.
"What are you wearing?!" She says.
"My pjs." I lied. She shrugs. I sit at the table. Everyone was there. There was also a lot of food. I ate chicken soup. I wasn't that hungry. It was really good, but I burned my tongue. I go into my room. I lay in my bed. My mind replays that moment in the training center with district 1 boy. I stare at my ceiling for hours thinking. Eventually I fell asleep.