Chapter 3

After everything got sorted out we all watched the reaping's. This year looked like the four of us were the strong Careers. The District 4 volunteers looked pathetic. Actually they all looked pathetic, until District 11 and there was a huge guy. And there was a volunteer out of District 12, but still nobody we really had to look out for.

"Why don't you four sit and chat. There's nothing to do tonight, the rest of the tributes won't be here until tomorrow," Cashmere said before pushing Dark, Gloss and the District 1 escort into the elevator. "If you need us we'll be on the 2nd floor."

"She's so fucking annoying," I said.

"Trust me you should have ridden with her here. I've never wanted to kill anyone more in my life," Marvel said I chuckled.

"Exactly what are we supost to talk about?" I asked.

"Strategy Cat, even though we need to see what the pathetic other tributes can do," Cato said.

"I think you just answered the unknown question," Marvel said making us chuckle.

"Exactly, now what do you want to talk about?" Glimmer said fluttering her eyelashes at my brother.

"And at this point I'm going to look around," I smirked as my brother turn his glare towards me.

"I'll make sure none of the weak pathetic tributes breathe near you," Marvel said getting up and away from Glimmer.

Marvel and I stood and went to the elevator. We both got in and went up to the roof. When the doors opened we walked out.

"Now to officially introduce myself, I'm Marvel Conley and you are?" he said laughing.

"Cata Valentine," I said.

"It's nice to meet you Cata. I have a question though."

"And what would that be?" I asked.

"You seem so much nicer than you did before, why is that?"

"I'm usually cold and emotionless unless it's only Cato and I, but I had to take down my walls. I call it melting my walls and like that its takes a while for them to freeze back. Cato on the other hand is like a light switch, if he had to he can turn it off and on with no problem."

"Ohh ok, well I like you more like this," he said smiling at me.

"Well live it up, I'll be back to my cold self soon." I said feeling a pinch on my arm. "Fuck you Cato."

"Huh?" Marvel asked

"My brother and I feel each other's pain, so he pinched his arm telling me he was pissed," I shrugged going back to the elevator.

We went back down to the first floor. My brother was blank, while Glimmer was trying to flirt with him. I felt my walls freeze again, I glared at the girl and she moved away from Cato.

"You ready to head upstairs?" I asked him.

"Yeah," he said standing.

"See you guys tomorrow," Marvel smiled as I nodded.

Cato and I went up to floor 2. Cashmere, Gloss, Dark, Keegan and the District 1 escort were chatting in the living room area.

"You two are back early," Dark said.

"We're going to bed, you can do whatever," Cato shrugged as we walked down the hallway.

I went into my room and changed before going into Cato's room. He was sitting on his bed looking at the wall, I knew he was thinking. I walked over and sat beside him wrapping my arms around him.

"I don't know what we're going to do," he sighed.

"We'll figure that out later," I said.

"Did you want to sleep in here with me?" he asked I nodded against his shoulder.

The next day we went to the Remake Center. That honestly took 20 minutes. They did my eyebrows and trimmed the dead-ends off my hair. Living in District 2 had its advantages. Cato and I were separated to meet our stylists. A guy walked in with aqua colored hair that went with his pale complexion. His eyes were a soft brown. His outfit matched his hair with aqua, white and black.

"Hi I'm Nept and you must be the beautiful Cata," he said smiling at me as I nodded.

"Ahh I see you're just as cold as everyone said you were. You're going to have to change that for your interview," he said.

"I will, I do know how I need to act when I need to and I don't feel that this is one of those moments," I said.

"Understandable, now let's get you into your costume. You and your brother are going to be dressed as Roman warriors," he said pulling out my costume.

In the next few minutes I was dressed in the gold plated costume. Nept was doing my hair in a style you could see even with the helmet I had to wear on. He then led me to the chariots. I saw my brother and went to stand with him. His costume was the same as mine and it showed off just how muscular he was. Marvel and Glimmer were in front of us. Glimmer kept looking back and winking at my brother.

"I'll take joy in killing her," he said as she blew him a kiss, I chuckled.

"That is if I don't get to her first," I said making him chuckle.

Marvel looked and me and smiled before waving. I gave a small smile and nodded. I knew I was going to have to let my walls melt a little.

"Now don't scare everyone off you two," Dark chuckled walking to us, his eyes staying on me longer than I wanted.

"Keep your eyes to yourself," Cato glared making Dark's eyes move forward.

When it was about time we climbed on the chariot. The horses pulling us had on just as much gold plating as we did. The doors swung open as Glimmer and Marvel went out. We were next everyone cheered for us. Cato just looked around with his 'I know I'm going to win' smirk. I smirked also looking around at all the dumb Capitol people. I know our district is the Capitol's lapdogs, but I think they all act and look pathetic. We pulled around in a circle and now had to wait for the other districts. The pathetic tributes from District 4 were dressed as fish; I had to stop myself from laughing. None of the other tributes were a threat. Then we saw District 12 they were on fire. The two of them garbed hands holding them up as they rode towards all of us. I heard Cato growl beside me, they stole the spotlight from him and they were going to pay.

Once they got to the rest of us President Snow stood and gave his speech. We were pulled back to the room where we started. Keegan, Dark, Nept and Aris (My brother's stylist) were standing waiting for us.

"Well it seems like District 12 has guts this year," Keegan said.

"They'll die all the same," my brother said smirking looking over at them.

"And now you all need to meet the tributes from District 4," Dark said as Marvel and Glimmer joined us.

"Cato you look so hot," Glimmer said fluttering her eyes.

"Do you have something stuck in your eye, I mean seriously?" I asked making Marvel laugh and my brother chuckle.

Glimmer huffed crossing her arms and started pouting. Two people dressed as fish walked over joining us. They were introduced to us as Finny and Gill. And I thought Glimmer was named weird, I mean come on.

We all chatted for a bit before going to our rooms. Again I changed and went into my brother's room. We got a strategy together, since we assumed we were the leaders of the Careers. I smirked before falling asleep. Tomorrow was training day.