When I walk into the training center to take part in the second day of training hand in hand with Arbor, everyone looks at me. Very pitifully. And the Careers smirk. What the heck is going on right now? I go up to someone, Arbor walking behind me, and I ask her what’s going on. “Three. What’s going on?” I say to her in a low and inquisitive voice. She must’ve been the girl from 3 because her token is some small micro computer whiz machine as a necklace. “Oh. Uhm. You haven’t heard? The girl from One, I think her name was… Amelia Beauport or something? She’s targeting you. And Arbor, but mostly you. She said that you were like, rude to her in training day 1 or something and that we should all target you first. But don’t worry. Only the Careers and district 10 are concerned for their wellbeing and feel threatened by you. I think One invited the tributes from 10 into the Careers. She’s saying she’ll protect anyone who sides against me. But no one believes it. We all know she’d stab us in the back, figuratively and literally,” she says. I remember telling Arbor the backstabber joke earlier and it reminds me of him, so I look around trying to find him. Evidently he left his spot beside me while I was chatting with Three. I spot him being jeered at by the Careers and I rush over there, fuming. I can tell he’s giving them heII, but nevertheless I don’t want anyone to target him over me. “Come on, Arbor,” I mutter and pull him over to the bow and arrow station where he hits a series of arrows right in the dead center of the training dummy, where the essential organs would be on a person. I resolve to get him a bow as soon as possible in the arena, for our survival’s sake. If I have to go into the Cornucopia to get an axe and a bow and arrow, so be it. But I will get us weapons. With our luck, we’ll need it. After all, the Careers are already targeting us. I don’t want to have to kill them, but if worst comes to worst, what can I say? It’s the Hunger Games, and I’m here to win. I decide I’m going to put all of my effort into training and show Aurelia Beauport exactly what happens when you mess with me or Arbor.
