3 days after the events of the last chapter.

"Wait up!" Riki yelled out when he saw Gloria on the opposite side of the hall way.

Gloria turned around in surprise and broke into a big smile. "RIKI! Wait, we go to the same school?"

"Yeah, I guess we never saw each other before the games." Riki confirmed, having to suppress the urge to shiver when he thought of the games.

"Any way, its good to see you." Gloria leaned forward and the two hugged. A crowd of students had formed around them and were making the. AWWWW sound. Both because they were famous for surviving the games and because it was a cute scene in general.

"Hey, the capitals showing the highlights of this years game tonight, wanna come over to my house so we can watch it together?" He said with almost blinding enthusiasm, making his dark hair and pale skin (it had gotten slightly more tan during the games) look strange on some one so up beat.

"Its a date." Gloria smiled as Riki leaned forward and whispered in her ear in a much more serious tone. "There's something I have to tell you about the games, why we got pulled out."

"What is it?" Gloria asked with concern.

"Not now, people listening, at my house."

As if on cue, the bell rang for the end of lunch and the two went separate ways.

One of Gloria's friends rushed up behind her just as Riki was leaving. "Are you two still going out? Even with the stuff that happened with Annubis?" The friend asked with little tact.

Just like that, Gloria's blood ran cold as the realized that she and Riki were about to watch the highlights of the hunger games.

"Wait, didn't you tell him what happened with Annubis?" The friend asked, clearly loving the drama.

"I was hoping i wouldn't have to tell him." Gloria said fearfully.

"Well, you better hope they don't show the part where you and Annubis kiss."

(Incase your wondering, none of the chapters actually show them kissing, but it goes 3-4 days without mentioning them, so a lot happened in that time.) (Another thing you may be wondering, the capital edited out anything that had to do with the peace keepers. The public knows nothing about the ultimate hunger games and nobody knows that Riki killed all those peace keepers. The hunger games aren't live people.)

Meanwhile

Croy sat alone at lunch, not because he was unpopular, but because people were stupid. Every one loved him and Teak, and the fact that they would shower him and her in pointless love made him angry, she was mentally unstable and would beat up any one who got on her bad side, but people would still follow her around and try to be her best friend simply because she went through a life destroying ordeal.

People followed Croy around as well, but he found ways to escape the hordes. Now that the games were over, there was nothing he liked more then silence. But people are stupid and won't seem to shut up.

So now he was alone, the group of 7-8 people who thought they were his friends were still searching for him after he seemed to go into the toilets and never came out. At one point in time, they were his friends, but he was different now. "No one understands me." Was all Croy could think when some one would smile at him and say they thought he was awesome.

"Hey Croy, what are you doing down here?" A voice said from only a few meters away.

"Enjoying life." Croy didn't even look at the person who was speaking but he knew it was a girl.

"I thought you were great in the games by the way." The girl said, clearly trying to make Croy feel better.

"Thanks, now please leave me alone." Croy said, still not looking at the girl.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

Croy stood up and walked past the girl, seeing sadness etched all over her face.

As Croy walked through the school, every one looked at him at least once.

Lately, it had become very easy to find out where Teak was. She was still taking her nightmare around with her, so a cloud of fog followed her where ever she went.

As he felt more eyes gather on him, and heard the faint whisper of his name always on the air, he felt like he would never be invisible again.

That's when he saw it. A small boy getting pushed around by three 16-17 year olds. The one kid being bullied looked like Tain and a new wave of sadness rushed over him.

He had hardly known Tain, but he was gone forever and it was his all his fault.

Before he even knew what was happening, Croy pulled his hood over his head and walked over to the scene of bullying.

"What are you looking at." The bully said as Croy approached with his head down so his eyes couldn't be seen.

The three kids let go off the kid and faced Croy.

"You going to do anything or just stand there like an idiot?" Said one of the bullies.

Before they knew it, Croy launched his fist forward and broke the nose of the first bully. The other two lurched forward and grabbed Croy and held him in place.

"We've got him, now beat him up." Said one of the boys holding him.

The third bully with the broken nose didn't stir from his feeble position.

Croy noticed that one of the people holding him had loosened his grip slightly. With no mercy, he flicked his leg up and hit the bully in the place that shouldn't be hit.

The last bully let go and jumped back, half expecting to be sack wacked himself.

Croy didn't speak, he just pointed away and watched the bully back away slowly.

A crowd had gathered around Croy and watched him as he flicked off his hood.

"If i see any one hurt any one. I'm going to hurt them."

All the kids clapped and cheered for him.

But deep down, Croy was lonelier then he had ever been before.

Meanwhile

Veron, Tylon and Kiylee all walked into school together.

At once the entire school erupted into a chorus of claps at the sight of their champions.

Tylon started fist pumping into the air, Veron took an elaborate bow and began to cheer himself.

Kiylee simply stood there and blushed.

The last three days had been stressful on Kiylee, apart from the whole mental aspect of surviving the hunger games, she couldn't cope with the sudden attention, a thousand hand shakes and hugs from people she had only ever said hi to.

It was lucky Veron and Tylon were here as they gained confidence from the crowd and Kiylee drew her strength from them.

The teachers were settling down the kids from the clapping and chanting.

"I can't believe they are still clapping when we come in." Veron lifted his hand and Tylon high fived it without looking.

"You're a bit red, Kiylee..." Tylon said with a mischievous grin.

Kiylee could feel her face grow even redder. "Shut up." Kiylee slapped both boys of the head and pulled her jacket over her nose.

Kiylee marched off from the two boys as they tried to restart the chants and clapping.

After a few minutes of walking she found her usually spot and waited. Her usual spot was a section in her school where all the lockers were empty. (I have no idea how your school system works where ever you are, I'm inAustraliaand I might have some inaccuracies on how American schools work.)

Kiylee leaned against the wall with her head down.

"Kiylee!" Said a voice.

"Steevan!" Kiylee said back as she spinned around to face the boy.

Steevan was only 12, but he was still Kiylee's best friend even though she was 15.

For that moment, everything felt normal in the world to Kiylee, it could never last.

Back at the capital

"When do we send the girl in to regroup the tributes?"

"Give it a week or so, life needs to get back to normal"

"Why don't we just kill the tributes?"

"Because that doesn't make for an interesting hunger games."

"I'm sure we could jazz it up a bit."

"How do you suppose we kill them and record it now that they are home in their districts?"

"I'm glad you asked, I have an idea about that."

The game makers leaned forward and listened.