Hey Guys! I hope that you enjoy this chapter! I'm sorry to the creator of Jersey that I didn't put as much spotlight on her this chapter, but I will make up for it later on! Make sure to review and answer the questions! Thank you too TitanMaddix for Jersey Henderson, and Mon Devou for West Alabaster respectively.

West's POV

This is the morning. The morning I volunteer. The morning I volunteer, so that I can bring home the money for my family. The morning that concludes that I might never see Madeline again.

My whole life my family hasn't been invited to many social events. We've kind of just stayed in our little house on the outskirts of town.

We run our own ranch as a family. I started working when I was nine, not that I didn't have plenty of chores around the ranch before that.

Like I said, my family doesn't go to too many social events, so I've only got one really strong friendship.

Her name is Madeline and I've been in love with her for as long as I can imagine. I've never had the guts to tell her though, because I've always been afraid that for her it doesn't go any farther than a friendship relationship. But this morning I'm going to tell her before I volunteer. Because if I do die I want her to know how deep my feelings were for her.

Usually I am seen wearing overalls with cowboy boots, and a cowboy hat, but today is a special day. I'm wearing A white button down shirt with chaps, but I'm still not abandoning my cowboy hat and boots.

I give my family members all a hug and a kiss before I set out to the reapings. I have to take a 2 mile walk to get into town before I can meet up with Madeline.

When I arrive at her house she walks out the door and she looks fabulous with her green ruffled dress, and her hair done up all nice.

"Well don't you look fine." I say complimenting her. she giggles before responding.

"Thanks. And you too." She declares.

"Thank you." I say. After this their is a long awkward silence. We are both nervous but for different reasons. She's nervous about the reaping and I'm nervous about what I am going to say.

"Um, Madeline?" I finally say.

"Yes." she responds

"Their's something that I wanted to tell you." I say anxiously.

"What is it?" She asks.

"Well... You mean a lot too me." I say.

"You mean a lot too me too." She answers.

"Well... In more than just a friendship kind of way..." I say cautiously.

"Then in what kind of way?" She asks.

I let it all pour out.

"I think about you all the time, like night and day. You just, you mean the world to me. And I- I love you." I say. It feels good to finally get it out. It's hard to read her face but then I see a smile come across it.

"Well why didn't you tell me this before. Why are you just now telling me?" She asks.

"It's because... I'm volunteering today and before I go just in case I don't come back, I want you to know how much you mean too me." I say.

"But you can't volunteer!" She insists.

"I have to." I say firmly. She just stands there for the longest time staring at the ground. When she looks up there is tears in her eyes.

"Well if their is one thing that I've learned from our friendship is that their is no reasoning with West Alabaster." She smiles through her tears and gives me a peck on the cheek before she walks away.

Jersey's POV

I stand in the 15 year old section at the reaping. Everyone has friends to talk too except me. Everyone hates me.

My father owns the largest meat processing plant in district 10 so we are naturally very rich. All the other kids are jealous of my family's wealth, so they take their anger out on the only person they can- ME.

I was an accident child my parents say. They never wanted any kids because that meant that they would have to share their money with a child.

But still, I was born and alive and kicking. I was a very sweet child when I was young. My parents actually adored me. But as I grew older my dad started to say that I was a spoiled brat. My mother would try to get along with me but kind of gave up. Then all my peers started making fun of me.

Ever since I have just hung out with myself in my room. I had plenty of time on my hands and read a vast variety of books picking up quite a bit of knowledge.

At last our escort walks out onto the stage and gets things rolling.

"The female tribute is Jersey Henderson!" Exclaims the escort.

I can't believe it's me.

I gasp and just stare at the stage with wide eyes before composing myself and heading to the stage.

I've been hated for so long and now the capitol wants to kill me. Shocker.

West's POV

I feel bad for the reaped girl standing up on stage. Maybe I can help her in the games.

"The male tribute is-" Declares the escort before I cut her off.

"I volunteer as tribute!" I proclaim.

As I leave my section and head for the stage I hear a couple of oohs and ahhs. Probably because I volunteered but also probably because of my good looks.

I have lots of muscle, stand at 6 feet and 3 inches, and have golden colored hair.

As I take the stage I tip my hat to the escort.

"And who would this fine gentlemen be?" Asks the escort obviously taken aback by my good looks and manners.

"My name is West Alabaster, and I would like to say thank you for the opportunity to be a part of these games." I say graciously.

My family is screaming and crying in the crowd and Madeline tries to run to the stage but she is cutoff by peacekeepers.

My district partner and I shake hands before we are led into the justice building.

I hope that you enjoyed that chapter! Here are the questions for this chapter-

Who do you like better and why?

Do you think that they will work together in the games?

Should they work together in the games?