Hey, I´m back from Spain, so the next chapter will come. The second day of training and the Interview. Hope you´ll enjoy it.

HungerGamesOwl

The Interview

Today is the second day of training and also the last. My plan is to do the stations I haven´t done yesterday. Because of this I first head to the camouflage station where I learn how to hide my body. I have to admit that that´s some of the things I´m really bad at. But it doesn´t consider me that much because I can hide at trees and I don´t think camouflaging is very useful.

Then I learn how to make a fire with all different kind of things. It´s interesting and I think I´ll need it so I listen carefully what the trainer is saying. Luckily the others don´t watch me because I´m very good at this and it shows that I´m not so clumsy how I seem. At the end I can make fire with wet grass and I think that´s a good thing. When it´s very cold in the arena I have to warm me up some way. I notice that the carreers don´t leave the weapon stations the whole time. Silly. Yes sure they will have a lot of sponsors but it´ll come the time when the sponsors will see how dangerous I am and then they won´t have anything.

At the bow station I completely failure and the girl of 2 laughs at me gleefully. Then she shows me how good she is. She´s really silly. She shows her biggest opponent her strengths. I notice that she´s not so good like it seems at first. It takes her a while to shoot her first arrow. Yes she scores perfectly but she has to be fast in the arena. She also notices this and the next shoot is very fast but doesn´t land in the middle of the target, only in the third ring. Ok, I have thought she would be better but of course I doesn´t show that. She looks confident with herself and I stare at her with admiration. Now her nose is still higher than at was before. She walks away and I also leave the station. There´s no sense in trying something I really aren´t good at.

The rest of the day I mostly stay at the knot station and watch the other tributes. My biggest problem will be the guy of 2 but also there´s the girl of 6 who tries to hide her strengths. She´s not strong but I have seen her throwing a spear when she thought nobody was watching her. Also she´s intelligent. I shouldn´t underestimate her. The tributes of 3,5,8,9,10,11 and 12 are weak. I think nobody of them will get a higher score than a 6 of the Gamemakers.

After the training Atlanta tells us they will call us when we have to show the Gamemakers what we can do. I´m waiting a while and think about what I´ll do. After a little time I have decided I´ll through a knife with a false aim and not very wide. When I´m called Benjamin said "Good luck" to me. I nod and response the sentences. Then I go in through some knifes until they tell me I can go.

I go into my room and train my muscles until Tara tells me to come out and watch the scores we have got.

The boy of 1 has got an 8, the girl a 7 which isn´t really good for carreers. The girl of 2 got also an 8 and the boy a 10. No surprises until now. The tributes of 3 and 4 got something low and also the tributes of 5. Then there´s the girl of 6. I watch the TV curiously: then Cäsar announces a score of 8. I´m not surprised. That only confirms my guesses.

Then there´s the score of Benjamin who got an 8. I stare at him surprised and he reddens a little bit.

"That´s so wonderful!" exclaims Pira. All of them celebrate but now I have a big opponent. I don´t know what he´s good at so I ask: "Wow. How did you get so many points? What have you done?"

I smile at him in admiration and he tells me: "I have hunted deers in the wood with my bow and arrow" he says proudly. Good to know.

Cäsar announces my score: a 3. Dammit that´s better than I thought. But luckily it´s the lowest score anyway. Blight and Tara say nothing but I see that they think I´m dead in the bloodbath anyway and they have to watch at Benjamin.

8, 9, 10 and 11 are lame but I´m really surprised by the boy of 12 who got a 9. He´s better than 3 of the carreers and he´s the only one I really don´t know what he´s good at.

So my biggest opponents are both of 1 but they aren´t that problem, both of 2, the girl of 6, Benjamin and the boy of 12. I really should avoid bows and swords...

The next day my prep team wakes me up and dresses me in a dress which is very terrible and has the colour... surprise! : green. Also they make make up everywhere on my face.

Quak looks at me and says the whole time how beautiful I am and that the audience will be so excited to see me. Of course I have to destroy that imagine of him but not now, later.

Blights comes in and tells me I should answer nicely and shouldn´t cry the whole time. I know, I´m not silly. When I would cry at the whole time maybe some of the other tributes would see through my act.

Then he babbles something about district 7 but I don´t listen. After a while he gets up and probably heads to Benjamin. I follow him in the corridor and listen to what he says to Tara.

"It´s a pity she´ll die. Do you remember her brother Eric?"

"Eric was her brother?" Tara looks surprised.

"Yes. After his death her mother wasn´t the same and probably she also isn´t"

"I didn´t know" says Tara and sounds a little bit ashamed.

"I know. When she was young her father was a good friend of me. He had an "accident" in the wood..."

"Snow" murmurs Tara quietly.

"Yes. She remembers me of him. They look very familiar. Sadly she hasn´t got his guts." Oh, when he would know...

I go back to the room I have left minutes earlier and think whether I should say him I act or not. Then he comes in and smiles at me.

"Do you know what to do?" he asks.

I let the act fall "Yes sure" I answer "I´ll be nice and weak so everyone will think I´m a coward. They´ll forget about me and when the time comes I´ll kill them."

He looks at me with shock.

"What?" I say with my Johanna voice and watch him angrily. "By the way, you should close your mouth or the flies will come into it."

"Why haven´t you told me in the beginning?" he asks still stunned.

"I don´t trust people so fast" I answer and shrug my shoulders.

"And now..?" he begins

"have I heard your little sweet talk with the bitch" I complete the sentence.

"Her name is Tara" "So what?" He gives up. "I won´t make the same mistake as my brother. He has shown his strengths and of course he was the first person the carreers killed" I state.

Blight seems like he doesn´t know what to say.

I wait a while then he says "I was wrong. You have the same strength as your father."

I shrug my shoulders. "After my brother´s death my mother was traumatic. I had to come along alone."

He nods and says: "Now get up, the interview will begin in time"

Immediately I´m the weakling and ask nicely "Will it be very worse ?" to this words I flutter my eyelashes.

"I´m impressed. Play the act along. All think you are nice and weak. You have fouled them all" he says

" I know" Then he leaves the room.

Cäsar shouts my name: "And here is Johanna Mason of district 7!" I head to him and take his hand politely. "So Johanna, you´re from district 7, right" Is he really that dumb?

"Yes" I say and smile nicely.

"Do you have family there?" he asks.

"Yes" I answer quietly and act like I blink tears away "My mother, my stepfather and my lovely stepsister. I miss them so much"

Cäsar smiles at me. "You´ll see them after the Games" "Maybe" I reply quietly and look at my shoes. Of course I´ll win

"What do you like most of district 7?"

"The trees. They are so beautiful"

Cäsar smiles at me. Ugh, I can´t stand him. He´s so nice to everyone which makes him unsympathetic to me. I flutter my eyelashes and he says: "Yes they are. They are. I was there, it is really nice, isn´t it ladies and gentlemen?" The audience claps hands.

"What do you like most of the Capitol?" he asks me with a smile. Dammit.

"The people" I answer "They are all so nice"

Then the time is up. " Ladies and Gentlemen, that was Johanna Mason of district 7!" and I leave the stage.

In the room I look the interview of Benjamin. He acts mysterious and gives only vague answers. I wait in the room and all they say that Benjamin was so great. I look at Blight and he nods lightly in my direction and smiles. I go to my room where I fall asleep easily but in the night I wake up. I´m nervous. Tomorrow we will get into the Arena. I stand up and walk up the stairs to the roof and look at the Capitol. How I hate it.

"I can´t sleep" says a voice quietly. Benjamin.

"Me too" I answer. He heads to me and stands next to me.

"It´s really big, isn´t it?" he asks. I narrow my eyes but doesn´t let him see that. Does he want me to like him, so I can´t kill him in the Arena?

"Johanna?" he asks carefully.

"Yes it is" I answer his question, get up and go to my room. I´m not allowed to feel pity for him. It´s me or him. And it´ll be me.