A Secret Love - Cato x Reader

Chapter 16 - Training Day 1, Morning

Y/n's pov

*The lift doors open, and there are already 5 groups there: Districts 1, 2, 5, 10, and 11. Me and Wallace say goodbye to Johanna and Blight and walk out. We stand next to each other for a few seconds in silence.*

"What task do you think you'll do first?" Wallace asks, looking at me. *I turn to look at him.*

"Probably a survival task." I say

"Like what Blight and Johanna said." He says, smiling.

"Yeah." I say, keeping my answeres short.

"I might join you then." He says. Uh. I don't want to do tasks with anyone, you will statt to talk, and then get into personal life, and then maybe become allies where you'll learn more about their personal life, then when it comes to killing them you won't want to.

"Sure." I say, trying not to be rude. *As we are talking, more tributes had filed in. Now we are only waiting for District 12. Oh my god, now she is pissing me off more. First, she volunteers just like I did, then she sets herself alight, then she's late to training, which I'd going to draw more attention to herself. I hear the lift doors open with a ding. District 12's tributes rush out as they know they are late.*

"Attention tributes. I am Atala, head trainer for the tributes." A dark skined woman says. *Everyone turns to look at her.*

"In two weeks, twenty-three of you will be dead, one of you will be alive. Who that is depends on how well you pay attention over the next four days." The woman starts. *At first, I pay attention, but now I still listen but trying to find any information about other tributes.*

"Particularly to what I'm about to say. First, no fighting with the other tributes, you'll have plenty of time for that in the arena." Atala says. *I watch Glimmer laugh at that, knowing she will kill people. I look over at the other careers and but when I look to see the male tribute from 2, he's already looking at me. He smirks the same way he did during President Snows speech at the tribute parade, knowing I'm looking at him, but im looking at him for a different reason to what he thinks. I'm trying to sus out any information, but he probably thinks I'm checking him out again. Like I understand why someone would check him out, he's tall, handsome, muscular, and his tight shirt enhances that. But not me, I don't want to look at him in that way.*

"There are four compulsory exercises. The rest will be individual training." She says. *I look away from Cato and move onto District 11's tributes, they are both paying attention as suspected, but the little girl looks as though she's doing the same as me. Looking at other tributes to try and get any information. I'll admit it, she's smart. She's 12 and from 11, so she won't be able to go up against the stronger or more skilled tributes, but she definitely has a chance if she watches and observes.*

"My advice is don't ignore the survival skills, everybody wants to grab a sword, but most of you will die from natural causes. 10% from infection, 20% from dehydration, exposure can kill as easily as a knife." The woman says. *I now look towards her.*

"You will have an hour of individual training, and then we will do one compulsory task." She finishes. Okay, y/n, time to be sceard. *The tributes walk in directions of tasks to do. The careers and some of the stronger tributes going to weapons, some of the smaller tributes going to survival. I wait till most of the tributes have found a station before I take a look at what survival task has little people. I see knot-tying has no one there. That should be useful, being able to tie things like myself to a tree or traps maybe. I walk over to the station, the guy grabs a few ropes and sits down with them in front of me, I sit down and start the station. He just explains the number of knots I'll learn and stuff. He shows me how to do a knot and then gets me to do it on a piece of rope.*