Sorry for the late update guys!!! Happy Halloween!!!

Anyways as promised here's the new chapter!

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  Today is the day when the pre-games action officially begins here in the Capitol. The outer districts such as District 12, will arrive sometime today because they're a lot farther from the Capitol than we are.

  I roll over in my bed to look at the clock. It's 12:36! I can't remember the last time I slept in this late.

  I quickly get out of bed and throw on a grey loose shirt and black yoga pants. I practically dash out my door and see that everyone else is having lunch already.

"Morning princess." Says Brutus, clearly amused that I messed up and slept in.

"Thanks for waking me up." I say, already pissed off.

"The kids are about to go down for prep, do you wanna go stake out the other kids getting off the train while they're there?" He asks, completely ignoring my last comment.

"Yeah sure why not." I say loudly.

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   After staking out the other tributes a couple hours as they entered the building with Brutus, which was completely boring by the way, being here at the tribute parade will be the most exciting thing I've done today by far.

Currently Brutus and I are waiting down at the parade launch for Percy and Magenta to show up in their costumes. From the far corner of the chariot holding area I can see two figures, dressed in the long drapes of a roman God and goddess with golden olive branch crowns, make their way towards Brutus and I.

"You look great!" I say, mostly directing the comment towards Percy and not Magenta.

"Thanks." He says, clearly still not sure about his choice in outfit.

"It's fine," I say, moving towards him so only he can hear. "they love this sort of stuff."

"They have a strange taste in clothing that's for sure." He chuckles. I put both my hands on his shoulders and look up into his big blue eyes.

"You're going to do great." I say. "Just remember to smile, smugly might I add, and wave. Oh and try to make it look like this is all a waste of your time, like you have something better to be doing."

"I actually have something better to be doing." He comments.

"Then show it." I say, and with that our little group chat is over. He begins to walk over to his chariot to mount it. I pat him on the back as he walks away. "Go get'm tiger!" I say.

He looks back at me giving me a embarrassed glare.

"C'mon keep your character!" I whisper harshly. He turns forewords and then back to face me again, this time he has a flirty look on his face and he's biting his lip. I burst out laughing. I honestly can't remember the last time I laughed this hard with anyone other than Finnick.

I look up and Percy's still laughing on his chariot. My loud cackles have also drawn the attention of every mentor and tribute alike. I straighten up and immediately stop laughing, and so does Percy.

The chariots begin to pull out of the launch area, and as soon as the District 2 chariot has pulled out, I begin to laugh once again.

"What's so funny?" Asks Brutus, who I can tell by his face is not getting why I'm laughing.

"This kid has so much personality he has to win." I say stretching out the the has to.

"Whatever." He says folding his arms and walking away. That's odd. I thought we were both going to try to help Percy, I mean he's Magentas mentor but he said he didn't like her either right? I'll have to talk to him about that later.

I'm still standing in the same spot and blondie approaches me.

"Sup bro?"I say trying to sound cool.

"Okay, first of all please never say that again." He says making me laugh again but not nearly as hard or loud as I was before. "Secondly, what was so funny?"

"Percy my tribute," I say as he nods in remembrance. "Could actually win this thing. He has a great personality, if he can bring it out at the interviews-"

"Tavia, you're playing a dangerous game here." He whispers. "You can't have a crush on your tribute-"

"I don't have a crush on my tribute!" I whisper furiously. "Percy is just my friend!"

"Does he know that!" Finnick throws back, almost yelling. I'm silent. "Because he doesn't act like it. I can see him flirting with you from a mile away."

"I can't believe you don't trust me with him!" I say. "Percy is just my friend and I'm going to get him through this." I glance over my shoulder and I see the chariots coming back into the launch area.

"Look we'll finish this later, 9 p.m. on the roof. Got it?" He says, but he can see that I don't want to. "Come on, I don't want to end the conversation on a bad note." The blonde boy begins to slowly jog back to his tributes chariot. "9." He says, I only nod back.

"What did Finnick want?" Asks Percy, as he dismounts his chariot.

"Oh nothing really." I say rolling it off. "How was it?" I ask.

"Really good I think, they went absolutely nuts when we came out." He says excitedly.

"That's great!" I say matching his tone of excitement, but I still feel bad after my sort of fight with Finnick.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He asks clearly seeing through my excitement.

"Yeah, just got into a small fight with a friend." I say, trying to roll this one off too.

"Does that friend happen to be Finnick Odair?" He asks.

"Maybe." I say. "Yes."

"He's the one you meet on the roof? Is he also the one who helped you with figuring out my angle?" He asks.

"Yeah so what?" I snap back, too harshly might I add.

"No it's nothing just that I didn't know that you two were a thing." He says looking a bit embarrassed.

"Oh no, we're definitely not! We're just best friends!" I exclaim and he looks a bit relived.

"Oh I just thought because you two were meeting on the roof alone that-"

I cut off his rambling. "No, nope just friends, we're just friends." I look around the room to try to hide my embarrassment and see that everyone is filing out of the room.

"Let's go." I say. God this was going to be an awkward elevator ride.

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   It's currently 10 p.m. and no Finnick Odair. I've been waiting here on the roof for the better part of an hour and he still hasn't shown up.

   I hear the elevator ding, signifying that it's reached the top floor.

   To my surprise it's not Finnick, it's Percy.

"What are you doing up here?" I ask.

"I could ask you the same thing." He says shoving his hands into his dark jean pockets. "But I thought I would come check on my mentor." Percy takes   a seat next to me.

"Aren't I supposed to be doing the checking up on here?" I ask sarcastically.

"Hey I didn't want to point it out before but I am older than you." He says.

"Good idea." I reply.

"So I wanted to apologize for before." He says.

"What for?" I ask. I mean I know that he's referring to but he didn't have to apologize for it.

"I didn't mean to get up in your business about Finnick, I guess I was just a bit jealous." He admits.

My mind begins to turn, Finnick didn't apologize for what he said yet Percy did, and I wasn't even angry about what he said. And since when does Percy like me?

"It's alright." I say calmly. "Thank you for apologizing, that's really sweet of you." I say.

"So why do you like sit on the roof?" Percy asks.

"I dunno." I reply. "The view I guess."

"Is it true that there're no cameras on the roof?" He asks. Where is he going with this?

"Yeah." I say confused.

"So then no one would be watching if I did this?" He says leaning in to kiss me.

To my own surprise I let him. Our kiss is brief, and we both break away.

"Well I'm going to go back to the room now." He says smirking because of the kiss. He stands up and heads towards the elevator.

"Well if you're going back wipe that look off your face. Now's not the time to be acting smug."

"I'm not acting." He replies. The elevator doors close before I can say anything back.

  That darn kid. Did he really just kiss me? Did I really just kiss him?

  Even though we do have a connection I can't deny, I can't help but feel like this isn't the kind of love Mags was talking about.

I mean sure this guy is smart, funny and attractive but it still feels like something is missing. But I won't tell him that now. I mean how am I supposed to tell him something that could shake up his performance in the games?

  This is going to be an interesting week of training.
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