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Chapter 8: Train

By the time I get there only about a quarter of the tributes are ready. At ten still only half have arrived and a woman who introduces herself as Dianne starts telling us what we'll be doing, apparently unfazed by the lack of tributes. After she frees us I head to the knife throwing section and just throw knife after knife until the trainer tells me I need to move on. Looking around I see that everyone else seems to have arrived and I missed it in my concentration. I decide to head over to knot tying next, acknowledging the need to sit down. I'm stuck on a quite hard knot when I feel arms wrap around me and see nimble fingers finishing the knot for me. It's Owen.

"Go away." I tell him

"That's nice."

"Good." I tell him, walking off. He follows me.

"What do you have against me?" He asks

"I don't trust you." I tell him

"You don't trust anyone."

"Yeah well maybe that's the best place to be." I stalk off and this time he doesn't follow. I look around and see that pretty much all the stations have occupiers. Oh great, I have to socialise. At the wrestling corner I see May wrestling with a guy twice her size who I'm pretty sure is Bruce. I'm shocked to see her win by tripping him over and flipping him onto the ground and quickly move onto the next. Kitty is at archery, figuring out how to use a bow and arrow and I debate going over there, quickly deciding not to. I scan over all the stands and see that the most bearable one seems to be the camouflage station which is occupied by Bex and Leon, they won the Hunger Games in consecutive years and are now married with kids. The odds just aren't there for them and I feel their pain. They look to be in their late thirties, Bex has blonde hair, cropped into a bob with bright, intelligent green eyes. Her husband is a dark contrast, with very dark skin, hair and eyes and an eerie air about him. Bex was in the celibacy club and he was a basketball player. I go and sit down and eventually they start talking to me

"Hello Santana" Leon says as I paint leaves on my leg using some sort of dye

"Hey" I tell him

"Do your kids know?" Bex asks. Wow, straight with the personal stuff

"Bex!" Leon says, shocked

"I'm just curious. I mean, her kids are really young." She says sadly "I mean, how old?"

"My son's eight and the twins are four" I answer quietly, hoping they'll stop talking about it

"See!" Bex tells him before turning to me "Do they know?"

"No" I whisper "And they're not going to find out till they're older."

"Oh." Bex says sadly "Sorry I asked."

"It's fine." I sniff

"It's not." She apologises "I'm sorry, I ask too many questions."

"Yeah and we heard you don't trust that easily" Leon tells me

"Of course you did." I sigh; Owen is such a blabber mouth.

"We get it though" Bex continues "I mean everyone knows about your past." It's true, I'm famous now and I have to suffer the consequences. That included having the press looking up my past and finding out about my dad.

"I try not to let that effect me." I tell her honestly "I just never really trusted people. They tend to let you down."

"Not always" Bex tells me

"Well if I trust people here it's still going to end with them killing me so what's the point?"

"So they can save you." Leon tells me, god he sounds like Quinn

"Well I prefer to work alone" I sigh, getting up and walking off. I look around and see that Kitty has moved again. I really want to talk to her but maybe it should wait a bit. I see Owen beckoning me over to the edible insects station but ignore him and see if I can get back to the knives. I can't. I already decided I wanted to show a new talent every day but I never thought that it would have time limits. This thing is scarily organised. A lot less like McKinley than you'd think.

Luckily that's when the session finishes so I go back up to the hotel room. When I walk in I see the majority of them on the sofa, Brittany isn't there though.

"How was it?" Quinn asks

"Boring as hell" I lie "Where's Britt?"

"She said she felt sick so she went to lie down" Rachel tells me

"Thanks" I walk to our room and knock on the door

"Come in!" Brittany calls. I walk in to find the room empty but the bathroom door closed

"Can I come in?" I ask

"Yeah" Her voice sounds tearful. I open the door and see her curled up on the floor with tears running down her face

"Baby what's wrong?" I ask, rushing over and wrapping my arms around her. She starts sobbing and I place a kiss on her forehead "Hey." I whisper "What happened" She shakes her head "Britt this isn't like you. What's wrong?" She looks up at me with misty blue eyes and reaches over to pick up something, handing it over to me. I stare at it in shock.

"I-I'm pregnant."

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And there's the drama.

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