Hunger games. Clove's POV.

Chapter 2 - Training before Reaping

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I storm back to Sarah and she rises immediately, looking really excited about this. I glance over my shoulder to see Blondie (thats what I call him now since I dont know his name) suck up all the information he can find about me. I snort loudly, thats rude! 

"Give me every piece of information you know about that BOY!" I almost scream but Sarah just grins at me.

"Sure, well, his name is Cato and he's 16, obviously. Every girl has a crush on him because, you know, he's pretty hot. Anyways, he's brilliant with swords and pretty good with spears. His weakness is archery. He's very strong, as you can see, but he's arrogant and that could give you an advantage. Yeah thats pretty much all I know about him." Sarah informs me. I chuckle a bit, hahaha this is going to be soooo easy! Arrogant boys is the easiest, sure I'm arrogant too but I use it for the good.

"Good, what are we going to compete in and how?" I ask and pick up my knives and put some in my belt and some in my boots. 

"I dont know, I guess you'll see that later." Sarah says and I tighten my pony tail. Suddenly I feel a knock on my right shoulder, I turn around quickly and my pony tail dashes Sarah in her face. The hand who knocked me on my shoulder belongs to Blondie...I mean Cato. 

"You ready, queen?" he says and do a elegant bow in front of me. I snort when he reaches for my hand to lead me to our first competition event. 

"You can bet on it." I say and start walking around Cato, ignoring his offering hand. When I reach the first station I turn around to see Cato a bit embarrassed by my action since he's used to having every girl crawling by his feet. He meets my gaze and I grin at him. He frowns and starts making his way over to me. A trainer comes and tells us that we're only allowed to have this competition because all the trainers was so tired of hearing all the fight by the 18 year old group. The trainer explains that there will be 5 events: knife throwing, spear throwing, sword fight, archery and hand to hand combat. 

Cato and I nod and the trainer says that the first event is spear throwing. Damn, I'm not good at it, or I dont know but I've never tried it so I guess I suck. Cato grins at me and I try to look cool but I almost panic, I hate loosing so I'm gonna do everything I can to beat Cato. I won't let him win over me! 

We're lead over to the spear throwing station and I pick up a spear for the first time in my life. The spear feels surprisingly good in my hand, I grin slightly and do a spear throw move in the air. I grin even bigger now. Cato notice and gives me a weird look but I just ignore him. A trainer who is an expert in spear throws steps forward and tells us that we're going to have 2 throws each and that Cato is the one to start. He nods and turn his head to me to do one of his cocky  grins, I just stare at him without blinking. He rolls his eyes at me and picks up a spear. He holds it professional and I'm starting to sweat. Cato throws his spear and it hits the dummy 5 inches from the heart. I gasp for air, I'm lucky if I even get my spear all the way to the dummy. But then I realize Cato isn't the best spear thrower, since he didn't hit it right in the heart. Cato takes up his next and final spear. When he throws, he somehow manage to twist his hand so the spear hits the dummy in the arm. 

Cato curse loudly and I grin at him. He glares at me hateful and I step forward to throw my spear. I'm starting to panic again because even if Cato missed the heart he still hit the dummy, which I'm not going to do. Suddenly I feel anger, this isn't how a Career thinks!? I force my self to have confidence in my self and then I picture the dummy as Cato, it works and I feel more anger, but this time to Cato/the dummy. I lift up my arm and throw the spear with all my power, without aiming. To my big suprise, the spear hits the dummy in the head. I gasp and my eyes widden. It's not in the heart but a spear in the head can kill as easily as in the heart, right? 

"You just had luck!" Cato snorts behind me. I tie my fist and try to control my self so I don't jump on him. "Oh yeah?" I say turning around to Cato. He nods cocky and my anger comes back. 

I pick up another spear and this time I try to aim and throws it hard. Really hard. The spear hits the Cato-dummy in the heart. Well not exactly in the heart, just a few inches from the heart but still. I'm actually really suprised spear-throwing went so well, I guess it's kind of like knife-throwing. I turn to Cato and see him stare at my spear. He's really angry. I smile happily at him.

"Was that luck too?" I say to him and grin. He snorts and turns around and starts walking to our next event, swords. DAMN. This time I know I won't stand a change at him, he's absolutely too good. I probably won't even be able to lift the sword. Oh here it is again, this bullshit talk I'm saying to my self. SHUT UP Clove! You can do this, think confident and everything will be fine. Like, you're a Career for gods sake!?

"This time you're gonna fight each other, there's only one rule, try not to kill each other." the trainer says and grins at us. I frown at him. Cato and I grab a sword and put ourself in position. Cato swings his sword confidently while I'm fighting to keep my sword from not falling to the ground. I realize I'm gonna lose.

"Ready? 3...2...1...Go!" The trainer shouts.

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 okay here's another chapter. I realized that the "HEELLOOOO" text was going to be BEFORE the first chapter....oh well. anyways! hope you liked this chapter and if you diiiiid, comment, vote and do all the things hehe :) BYE :D