Prim's Games Book 2

Chapter 12

I wake up to loud knocking.

"Time for training!" Effie squeals.

"Ugh. Fine." I groan. I never get enough sleep anymore.

My stomach rumbles. Probably because I didn't eat dinner last night.

"Katniss, wake up." I whisper.

Her beautiful gray eyes flutter open.

"Are we doing training today?" She asks.

I nod as I get out of bed. I take a quick shower and then get dressed in the training outfit; black yoga pants and a light blue and black tank top. Katniss puts my hair in a braid that's identical to hers and we head over to the dining cart.

"You have 10 minutes to eat!" Effie shouts after I take a seat at the table.

"That isn't fair! I never even had dinner yesterday!" I protest.

"Just eat fast!" She replies.

I sigh and look through all of the food. I decide to eat fruit and yogurt, toast, and a banana.

I've barely started on my banana when Effie tells us to go.

"I need to finish my banana!" I yell.

"Shove it in your mouth!" Haymitch laughs.

I glare at him and quickly stuff the banana into my mouth. My cheeks are big and chubby when I'm done and Katniss, Peeta, Leo, and Haymitch are laughing at me, their faces turning bright red.

"Ith noth funvvbhy!" I struggle to speak.

They just keep laughing. I glare at them and swallow my banana as I stomp into the elevator.

"This is all your fault Effie!" I screech.

She just looks at me with a shocked expression on her face. I ignore her and run out of the elevator and into the training center.

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When I walk into the training center almost everyone is there. Katniss, Peeta, and Leo are still not here. Not that I care.

The trainer, Atala, starts talking.

"Let's go over the instructions for the training center-" Blah, blah, blah. I remember everything from last year.

"Did I miss anything?" Katniss whispers as she appears next to me.

I ignore her. It wasn't very nice of her to laugh at me this morning.

"Now, go do your own thing!" Atala says as she dismisses us.

I immediately head over to the knife throwing station. I hit the center of every target.

"I see that you're good with knifes." I immediately recognize the voice. Finnick.

"What do you want?" I hiss in his face.

"It would be a good idea to have me as an ally, you know. I was a career."

I roll my eyes. "I'll think about it."

He smiles and walks away.

Why does he want me as an ally? Is it so he can kill me? I try to shake my thoughts away as I walk over to the bow and arrow station.

The trainer show me how to hold the bow and I almost hit the center of the target. Katniss is better at it, though.

After I practice with the bow and arrow I head over to the edible plants section. I know every single edible plant, since at home we have a plant book that my father made. The trainer is impressed at my knowledge.

"Lunch!" Atala yells.

I take a seat next to Katniss, even though I'm still not talking to her. As I'm eating a bowl of soup and some fresh bread, she tries to apologize.

"Prim, please talk to me. I'm sorry." She pleads.

"That wasn't nice." I say.

"I know. But it was funny. And I couldn't help but laugh. You looked so cute!"

I can't help but giggle. "Okay, you're forgiven."

She smiles.

"Lunch is over! Get back to work!" Atala yells.

"Let's go to the hand-to-hand combat station!" I tell Katniss. (A/N: is that what it's called? Or is it just combat station?)

"Okay." Katniss replies.

Sadly, once we get there, I'm teamed up with Finnick.

"Ha. It's the little girl. Prim." He teases.

Everyone that's surrounding us starts to laugh, except Katniss.

My face turns bright red. And then Finnick tries to make his move. But I'm fast. When he comes charging towards me, I move out of the way and he crashes into the wall.

I laugh. "Not so little now, am I?"

While he's still weak, I grab his hand and flip him over. He moans. The trainer says that I won. As I shake Finnick's hand, he winks at me. I glare at him as he walks away.

"You did good Prim!" Katniss pats my back as we walk into the elevator.

"He was acting! He winked at me when we were done!" I shout.

"That was nice of him." She says.

"Do you think that we should be allies with him?"

"Yeah. He was a career, after all. And if he turns against us, we'll kill him."

"Good idea. I'll tell him tomorrow."

We step out of the elevator to find Leo and Peeta already there.

"Sorry about this morning, Prim." Peeta says.

"It's fine." I reply. "Oh, and we're adding Finnick Odair to our alliance."

"Don't you hate him?" Leo asks.

"Yes, but he might be useful." I say.

"That makes sense." Peeta says.

"Dinner!" Effie yells.

I eat chicken, fresh bread, rice, and vegetables. For dessert, we eat fruit salad and ice cream.

"You should get some sleep." Haymitch says after we finish eating.

We all head to our rooms.

"Prim, I think that I should just permanently stay in your room. " Katniss says.

"Yeah, you do sleep here all the time." I laugh.

She smiles at me and changes into a nightgown. I do the same. Then I undo my braid and leave my wavy hair down. Katniss does the same. We could be twins if not for our eye and hair color.

"Goodnight, Katniss." I say as I hop into bed.

"Goodnight, Little Duck." She replies.

After half an hour, I'm not sleeping yet. Katniss isn't either; she's standing by the mirror, brushing her hair, and singing. I watch her as she sings. She probably thinks that I'm fast asleep.

As she continues to sing, my eyes start to feel heavy and I fall asleep listening to the sound of Katniss's beautiful voice.

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