Hi guys, I know it's been a while and I am sooo sorry. It just seems like the world hates me right now. First, my brother went off to Afghanistan and some extremely dumb guy shot him and now he's dead. Then my Dad goes to Italy for two weeks for business, and completely falls off the face of the earth. Even off of like Facebook, his account was deleted. Then my mom and I were right in the line of fire for Hurricane Sandy or whatever you want to call it. Now, were in the Nor'Easter, but I am currently at my grandma's house. Oh! Yeah and I'm sick. So yeah. OMG I AM SOOO SORRY THOUGH!

I don't own any of the stuff you recognize, all of the credit goes to Suzanne Collins.

Cloves P.O.V

Whack! That was the sound of my knife hitting the painting. Knowing I was going to die was not the most comforting thought in the world. Whack! There went another one. I kept throwing my knives until I heard the door to my room open.

"Hey"

I whip around with a knife ready to throw when I saw that it was Cato. I slowly lowered my arm.

"Hi. What are you doing here?"

"Well, I heard you throwing knives and thought maybe you should stop. Save it for the training center."

At that moment I just couldn't take it anymore and I ran straight into his arms and started sobbing. After my breakdown, Cato silently left for his room. I went straight to the shower and thought about how people are so cruel. Why couldn't Cato and I just have lived a life without the Hunger Games? Then I saw it, the Capital.

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The next day:

I woke up to my stylists pushing their way into my room. They all looked like fancied up peacocks!

"Today is the opening ceremony, and you. are. going. to. look. FANTTAASSTIICC!" One of them said in a very sing songy voice. I grunted and let them guide me to the chair where they started fooling with my hair.

"Well, the costume we have picked for you is going to look fantastic with your dark hair!"

I honestly hoped that it wouldn't be too humiliating like District 12's sometimes is. They turned the chair around so I couldn't see what they were doing. After a while, when I was deprived of all of my hair except for the hair on my head and squeaky clean, I was forced into a dress, but I wasn't aloud to look just yet. They started putting on all different types of makeup and concealers and blush. Then, they turned my chair around. I took a deep breath and opened my eyes. I did not recognize the girl in the mirror. I was looked stunning with a golden dress and a helmet with wings on the side. They did my hair so I could put my two knives in it. Those were the only two they would allow me to take because I technically wasn't allowed to have them. When I stood up, I felt like I was floating on air I was so happy. I walked to the hallway and I saw Cato standing there. His outfit showed off his great muscles and he looked smexy.

"Wow, you look great! Much better than your usual gettup anyways." He said.

"What did you just say!?" My eyes shot daggers at him. All he did was stand there and chuckle as we boarded the elevator. Our elevator ride wasn't that long since we were on the second floor. When we got down there, I thought we should introduce ourselves to our allies.

"Come on Cato, lets go introduce ourselves!" I literally had to drag him to the D 1's.

The district 1 girl was blonde and kinda pretty I had to admit. The district one boy and girl looked almost like twins. The girl latches herself onto Cato which completely knocks me off balance. The boy comes over to me and offers me his hand.

"Marvel" He says.

"Clove" I say back as I graciously take his hand.

"OMG I AM LIKE TOTES GLIMMER!" She yells at Cato's face while she bounces up and down.

"Ugg I can't stand her!" Marvel said. I giggled and said

"I don't think I can either." Maybe Marvel wouldn't be so bad.

"Cato" I hear him reply as he looks at her with kind eyes. The only kind he shows to me. Thats not fair! Wait. I can't think about him like this. It's not right because he is just going to find another girl after I die for him.

"CLOVE, CATO GET OVER HERE!" Our stylists call.

"You have to go, but I'll see you around ok Clove?"

"Sure!" I wave to him. I turn to him to see Cato glaring at him and I wondered what his problem was.

"Bye Cato!" Glimmer shouts and does the twinkling finger wave. Then she winks and blows him a kiss. Marvel rolls his eyes. I finally make it back to our chariot and see Cato coming over with a glare on.

"What's your problem?" I ask him.

"I don't want you around him! Your mine!"

"Well, I don't want you around Glimmer, but you were clearly about to kiss her face off!" I responded. He grunts and gets into the chariot. I quickly follow, and easily gain my balance. We both here the capitol people yelling and screaming. Our chariot starts to move and we put on our hard core glares. I hear my name being chanted along with Cato's and we were up on the big screen. Oh yeah, I thought. We had to be rollin in the sponsors. It went on like this for a while, until two more names were thrown into the mix of shouts. I couldn't distinguish the names until our names weren't being shouted anymore and no more roses were thrown at us. I knew we were quickly losing sponsors and I could see Cato was about to explode. It was the District 12 dorks. Suddenly, our pictures were ripped off of the big screen and theirs were put up there. I started growling under my breath and I felt so mad at Glimmer and District 12. Our chariot came to a stop and after President Snow's speech, I quickly dismounted.

"OMG THAT WAS SOO GOOD!" Our stylists yelled as they ran to us. We both ignored them and glared at District 12. The girl held my glare and I was still ignoring all of my stylists. Unexpectedly, the girl waved and smiled. That was her final straw. I was tempted to pull the knives out of my hair, but I knew I would be stripped of them all if I did that. Cato seemed to know too, and he put is hand on my head so I couldn't touch my knives. Then there was Glimmer. Just all of a sudden popped out of no where and once again latched herself onto Cato. God, I hated her!

"Cato you look soooo handsome!" She squealed.

"Thanks!" He replied. I couldn't believe him! Then, I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked over to see Marvel. He brought me in for a hug and I accepted it. He was like a big brother at this point. Cato looked unhappy to see us together, but I couldn't care less. The more and more Glimmer rambled on, the more I wanted to kill her. Suddenly, she kissed him! He didn't push her away like I had hoped, but continued kissing her passionately.

"Clove! It's not what it looks like!" Cato tried shouting at me, but I just stared daggers.

"Lets get out of here before you blow a fuse." Marvel said as he pulled me away. Apparently I looked pretty intimidating because Glimmer shot me a scared look. Cato looked over once again, and glared at Marvel. We walked to the elevator and I started yelling about how much I hated her. I took a knife out and threw it at the 2 in the elevator. Surprisingly, it actually worked and Marvel hit 1.

"I'm surprised you didn't break the 2 button" He said.

"Me too." I started giggling. He said goodbye and got off. I was then left alone in the elevator. I went through my thoughts of the night. Here's how I summed it all up:

We gained a lot of sponsors.

I hate Glimmer.

We lost most of them to those District 12 dorks.

I hate Glimmer.

Marvel was the only one I could trust right now.

I hate Glimmer.

I hate District 12

I hate Glimmer.

I was mad at Cato for kissing Glimmer then denying it.

I hate Glimmer.

Did I mention I hated Glimmer? I knew I was going to stay around till the end in these games and at the last moment, tragically die so Cato is the only one left. In order to protect him, so many people were going to have to die. I started making my kill list and as the elevator doors opened, I knew who my first kill would be. Glimmer.

Thank you to everyone who reviewed and encouraged me to write. Thanks especially to izzylime and Clatoyea who favorited and reviewed.

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Love you all,

~Kat