We started our training.

I must say that I was doing quite good.
Too good.
I passed all the survival training very well. The fighting part also went well for me. I was very good at fighting with a spear and I end up being much more stronger than I thought I was. I'm not a muscled man so I was surprised.
At one day of training I was throwing my spear and the mannequins.
I looked around and noticed a girl from District 12 throwing knives. She was pretty good, I think her name was Erika. She was 29 years old, she had green eyes and short brown hair.
She looked at me but she immediately looked away when she saw someone behind me.
"Hey,"
I turned around and noticed the careers. Earl from 1 was the one in the middle, kind of the leader of the group.
"You are pretty good, Harvey." He said.
He was smiling just like the rest of the group. Everyone that Penelope told me about including the 11 year old girl.
They all looked like it was some sort of silly game to them. Except little Tiana who was just pretending to be brave.
"Thanks." I answered nervously.
"We thought that maybe you should join us; the careers." He said.
I quickly remembered about Penelope's words.
"No thanks."
"What?"
"Thanks but no." I said again.
I could see the anger raging in them.
"How dare you?"
"You're not above me, you're not any authority for me." I said and walked away, leaving them in shock.

I tried to process what just happened until I walked in a table with paints. A 22 year old boy looked at me, he was in a middle of painting his arm into a rock.
"I'm so sorry I-" I wanted to fix the mess I did, I don't want to be on more people's kill list.
"It's okay dude." The guy laughed.
I felt relief that he won't want to kill me. I noticed number 7 on his jacket, it was a number of his District.
"I'm Harvey." I said.
"I'm Philip, I saw you rejecting the careers." He replied.
"I don't want to join them. Sure they're strong and aggressive but they would kill me faster if I was part of their team."
"I think you made good choice but better watch your back on the arena."
"Yeah, you're right."

...

That wasn't the end of people hating me.
In the end of the day when we finished eating and were ready to go to sleep, Brutus got mad at me for rejecting the careers.
"Who do you think you are?!" He yelled and put his big hands around my neck.
"You're a fool!" He yelled.
My heart was racing, I tried to get out of his hands. I couldn't breathe, Brutus was chucking me and he knew that.
"You have to easy in this, I won't let you get away with this!"
At that point I wasn't sure what was happening around me. Because of lack of oxygen, I felt dizzy and disoriented. I knew that people around me were yelling something probably trying to get Brutus away for me.
Suddenly everything started to going dark and I slowly began to pass out. Then luckily Brutus let me go and I fell on the floor.
I could finally breathe and tell what's going on. While I was sitting on the floor I was breathing fast and it was hard to catch a breath. Mona, Penelope, Tara and couple of other people were making sure I'm okay.
"Is everything alright, Harvey?" Mona asked worried.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I managed to say something.
"What the hell was that?!" Penelope yelled at Brutus.
"He rejected the careers, he wasted such opportunity!"
"He made a good choice."
"Unacceptable!" Mona yelled.

Later Tara and Mona helped me get into my bedroom (because I was still feeling dizzy).
"Are you okay?" Tara asked when I sat on my bed.
"No, this is a disaster! The careers will definitely want to kill me and Brutus too. Do I even have any chances of surviving at this point?" I said angry as ever.
I was fucked up because I tried to have morals during a killing game.
"Yes you do." Tara said.
"Brutus doesn't, because he doesn't listen to us."
"True, those people will want to kill you but there are not the only people on the arena. They can get killed by someone else."
"I guess."
"You need to make sponsors like you, not tributes."

In the night I was thinking about what Tara said. My plan is to get many sponsors as possible, survive, go home and forget that this ever happened.

...

The final training made me stressed. After I rejected the careers they were looking at me weird. Like they wanted to kill me but doubting if they can do that.
"You're gonna do good, Hav. Don't stress." Penelope said.
"Thanks, Penelope."

The room where we presented our skills was huge. It had a mannequin and many weapons. Gamemakers were watching from behind the glass wall.
I tried to calm myself down and convince that it's not a big deal.
I took a spear and stand infront of a mannequin. The gamemakers were carefully watching my every step.
I took a big breath and threw my weapon at the mannequin with all energy I had.
The gamemakers were amazed.
The spear went through its head.
I was amazed myself because I didn't know I could do that.

...

I didn't know how Brutus did because he didn't want to tell me. When we were talking with Mona and others he said that he was throwing an axe.
The time came when we found out about our scores. Ever since Brutus tried to chuck me there have been this werid tension between us. Mona was always making sure that we don't sit next to eachother or be alone together.
"Okay, let's see how you two did!" Mona turned on the tv and the scores were shown. I only remembered some of them.

Felice District 1 - 10 points
Earl District 1 - 11 points
Tiana District 2 - 8 points
Ginger District 2 - 10 points
Harvey District 4 - 12 points
Brutus District 4 - 11 points
Philip District 7 - 9 points
Erika District 12 - 9 points

I got 12 points, it's a lot but it didn't make me happy. I should have quit giving them more reasons to kill me but now they'll want to kill me even more.
"You two did great!" Mona said happily.
"12 points, not bad!" Penelope added.
"Yeah, thanks." I wasn't that enthusiastic as everyone else. I could see that Brutus was giving me the look that was saying that he wanted to destroy me.