Meet your team

She takes me to the elevator, I rehearse what she said, smirk don't smile. Look lethal. As we descended it got even cooler, goosebumps appear on my skin.

When the doors open it was all cement, several bright lights were on the ceiling. Stylists were running all around, putting final touches on. Tributes stood disinterested, swatting the hands of the stylists away.

The door dinged signaling our arrival.

I swear everyone looked over to the elevator as soon as it opens, all staring at me.

Look lethal.

I put on my face, stone cold making eye contact with anyone who was still staring, making them look away just as fast, looking nervous.

I smirked, this was easy. I liked the feeling of people fearing me.

I scan the crowd looking for anyone from 2. I see Cato's large frame looking annoyed at Neffy as she rambles on about something.

I see her look my direction, her whole expression lighting up. She literally screams with excitement. Screamed.

" Look at you! Beautiful!" She says.

Everyone looks my direction as well. Enobaria smiles, while the boys look where the slit was on my top and the bottom.

I made me feel even more confident.

Aspen looked good, he was wearing a tight white long sleeve button up and dress pants.

Cato looked better then just good, without even trying. He had on almost the same thing but his shirt was black instead of black, half the buttons were undone. His hair was also kinda messy but it looked decent..I guess.

They never looked directly at me yet..still at my body.

" You guys can stop drooling now." I announced. Aspen seems to snap out of a trance getting a little flush, Cato was still occupied looking at other things.

" My eyes are up here Hadley." I state a bit annoyed.

His eyes lazily come up to mine, " I will admit, you don't look as horrific in this dress."

I shot him a sarcastic smile, " I already know that."

" So then you shouldn't mind if I stare."

" I guess I should take that as a compliment hmm?"

" Yea, I guess you can. You almost have me convinced your a fighter by the looks of your body."

I just smile, I can't wait to see the expression on his face ounce he does find out.

" I'm full of surprises." I tease.

" What kind?" He asks looking all over my body again.

I felt my cheeks turn flush, I look up at him even in heels, this guy really is a freak of nature. I never really notice but he had really pretty eyes. They were like a blue gray color no wonder girls swarm he's alright looking , he has a strong face structure and his blonde hair just falls effortlessly, he's muscular you can see his abs and biceps in his tight shirt.

Now I was checking him out, " Eyes up here." Cato says now having his stupid grin plastered on his face even more.

I look away just shaking my head totally embarrassed. Good one Kaylaya.

" If you wanna see me all you got to do is ask." He says.

Keep composure...

" Yea.. no thanks." I quickly say.

" Why's that?" He says cocking his head, not breaking eye contact.

" I'm not into man whores."

He looks at me a little annoyed, " I'd watch what you say Musak."

I smile, " I technically didn't say anything, I'm just stating some well known facts about you."

" How do you know they're facts if you've never experienced it first hand?" He asked taking a step forward. I take one back, mentally slapping myself for that.

Aspens breaks the tension between us, " Sorry to interrupt..this. 1 wants to talk to you Kay."

I look at Cato one more time before walking towards one with Aspen, " Why are you so red?" I look at him and sighed Cato definently heard that.

" I just see all the eyes on me, just flustered." He nodded and dragged me to where the 1 tributes are. "Here she is." Aspen pretty much pushed me into them.

" Nice to finally meet you Kaylaya we heard so much about you." The boy said. Brutus.

I smile, "All good things I hope."

" You could say that." I turned to the girl she has a cocky grin on her face as she looks at her nails then at me.

" Do you care to imply what you mean?'' I already don't like her I might 'accidentally' cut her throat.

" I mean you weren't supposed to be here." She says.

" Mel.." Brutus says warning her.

To late.

I scoff. " Who else was then? I'm pretty sure the girl that was supposed to didn't volenteer and the one that did get picked would have no chance."

The girl smiles viciously " It would have been fun to play around with her though."

Yea. Not being allies.

I look over to Aspen, my face says it all. He gives me a look warning me but I ignore it looking back at the girl.

" Ok Mel, I'll tell you what, learn your place or I'll show you how much I belong here. And I'll make sure I take my time, you'll be begging me to kill you, so much so your district will look like a joke. I'm not the one to be enemies with." I purposely push past her going back to my chariot.

I was irate, " How did that go?" Enobaria asked. I gave her a look, " Ok." She says knowing to leave the subject alone. Someone calls for all the tributes to board their chariots. Aspen comes over, purposely nudging me as he gets up.

He's mad, I'm mad. Great start to the Games.

I stumbled back, almost falling until someone catches me. Of course it needed to be Cato. "Thanks." I mumbled.

He gave Aspen a look, he so saw that. " Careful Ferg."

Aspen gives himmma look before looking forward again.

The chariot was quite high up, so much sI'm not sure if I could get up there myself in this dress.

" Need a hand?" Cato asks.

Though I really don't want the help, I need the help. " Please." I ask.

He hoists me up like it was nothing. " Thanks." I mumble.

" I need to talk to you after." He says lowly as the chariot starts moving.

Here we go.

It was bright lights were blinding, I needed a couple seconds to adjust to actually see what I was looking at.

As soon as the crowd saw us their screams intensified, they were throwing roses, shirts and I'm pretty sure I saw some panties get thrown at Aspen. I smirked and waved blowing kisses every so often. The people got loud for the favorites like both from one, us, four and seven.

We all pull in a line when President Snow comes from his house, he gave me eerie vibes as he skimmed through all the tributes as he talked. I didn't really pay attention to what he was saying all I heard was " May the odds br ever in your favor." And then some white fireworks exploded pulling me back to reality.

The chariots all broke into a run, I think all the tributes almost fall out of the men from the sudden surge of speed. Thank goodness there were handle bars.

We get back and demount, of course Cato was there to help me to get down, it was a high step so he just grabbed my waist, I felt myself fall forward so I wrap my arms around his neck for support. " Oh sorry." I can feel myself blush, he smells so good.

" Your good." he says winking at me. Elsie comes storming over yelling about how the Capitol is lucky she put short spandex under my dress otherwise I would have gave Panem another show.

Cato looks at her then at me " I wouldn't have mind." I shoot a nasty glare at him and start walking away, he's lucky he's my mentor otherwise I would have totally punched him.

I go back to our room tired from all the attention I got today. These people love to scream, how could they be so excited all of the time?

Though the dress was stunning, I needed it off. My bed was calling to me, I wanted the makeup off and a warm shower.

So I did just that.

The hot water felt nice on my skin, making me relax. I wash makeup off feeing refreshed as I got dressed.

I threw on spandex and a sweatshirt on making my way back out to my room.

When I get out to my room Cato was on my bed waiting.

" Oh my- Cato!" He nearly scared me half to death. He was just sitting there no shirt on and gray sweat pants, his hair still wet from his shower. Keep your eyes on his face Kaylaya,I swear...

" You take forever to shower." He says bored.

" Your lucky I had clothes on, ever heard of knocking?"

He shakes his head and scoffs. " I'd be luckier if you didn't" he now looks at me looking me up and down and licks his lips.

Being subtle definently is not his strong suit.

" Why are you here." I say trying to change the subject. I want this conversation to be over.

" I told you I wanted to talk to you after the parade."

Oh yea. I guess I wasn't paying attention.

" Ok, what do you want I'm tired." I say clearly annoyed.

He rolls his eyes, " I don't need the attitude. You and lover boy were good when you walked away, when you came back you weren't what happened?"

" He's not my lover boy."

" Your not answering my question."

" He's mad at me."

Cato slightly laughs, " Obviously, why?"

" Because... I may or have not have threatened to kill the girl from 1."

Cato just looks at me in disbelief. " Your joking right?"

" I don't joke."

He scoffs in disbelief " Are you really that stupid? Those two are supposed to be your allies the careers stick together! Everyone knows that." He says talking to me like I'm stupid.

" Yea, and she should also know I'm not going to let her disrespect our district like she was doing. You said we need to be lethal. Standing up to her represented we're not going to get pushed around."

Cato gets up coming towards me, " You just killed yourselves Kaylaya! You need allies for the Hunger Games, and you sure a hell need them for quell!"

" Well we don't need allies that have no respect for us either! They could easily kill us in our sleep, what would stop them from doing that huh?"

He narrows his eyes taking a step forward," So your plan is what, go on your own? What happens then? As soon as the timer goes off everyone is coming for you. You two are already the highest bets to win, without allies yoour as good as dead. 1 will ally with someone else."

" We can ally with 4, or 7. They won't say no to 2."

" You think 4 is going to just go with you, they're  also a career group to they will want to stick together!"

By this time Cato was right in my face yelling at me, I'm not dealing with that.

" Cato back up." I say tiredly.

" No!"" Cato, back up." Still he stays.

" Cato back up!" I yell pushing Cato back, he stumbles back a little , he grits his teeth and lunges to me, he had me pinned by my neck.

" Don't try that shit again."

I keep a scowl at him, " I can do whatever I want. If Aspen wants to side with them let him." Cato's grip only get's tighter.

" Your a real big talker for a techy. I don't know what you think your going to do in there, but without some care you'll be dead."

" Well I can ensure you I will be just fine."

His grip still get tighter, and tighter.

" Cato, Cato your hurting me.. Cato!" I can feel my air getting closed off. I try prying his hands off but he takes his other hand twisting mine.

" Cat-" I choke. I feel tears brimming my eyes from the pain in my hands and the lack of oxygen.

The door swings open, Aspen comes rushing in looking wide eyed. " Kay!"

He rushes over pushing Cato. He barely stumbles glaring at Aspen.

I fall gasping for air. I cough violently, wincing at the pain from my hands, he sprained my wrists.

Cato looks at the two of us before blinking a couple times rapidly before walking out.

" Asp- It hurts." I grimace trying not to cry.

" Your ok... " The door opens again, he spins around looking to see who it is this time.

This time it's Enobaria.

" What is-" She stops looking at us wide eyed. " What happened?!"

" Kaylaya and Cato got in a fight, he was hurting her." Aspens rambles.

Everything was burning, I couldn't talk or even breathe properly. I look at my wrists all swollen.

How am I supposed to throw knives like this?!