Hello and welcome to the chapter where CUPCAKES!

HERE'S THE CHAPTER!

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The ceiling looms closer and closer and soon, my head is brushing against it. I crouch down and try to be as small as possible. It wasn't just my claustrophobia, the room was actually moving. It was exactly like in my dreams, except I knew the ceiling wouldn't open. It was pure rock. Why had Max spent all that time getting those tributes and making this arena ready if all he was going to do was squash me in here?

It gets closer and closer and I take a large breath of the thick air before my head touches it. It slowly moves up and I crouch, my body starting to crush against the rock. I take a few more breaths but it doesn't help. The last thing I see before it all goes black is the locket dangling around my neck, hanging open with Katniss's face visible.

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I see pictures flip through my head, just as they had before the dream. My life story. Me looking into my mother and fathers eyes, my first day of school when I see Percy sitting alone, then a sea of rubble, Katniss screaming with tears down her face, my mother falling apart, in her own white, emotionless world. Then the pictures flick through the endless years after that then stop on me staring up at Effie Trinket on stage, calling out my name. I feel the same pain as I did then as Katniss volunteers and strides up to the stage. I then watch the never ending nights as I watch Katniss in the games, then it skips all my happiness after that and gets all the way up to me watching the TV in the entertainment space and seeing Katniss on the screen. I feel the helplessness again as the force field hums up and Katniss kills Coin. Then it's just a blank blackness, filled with all the agonizing sound in my life. I hear the boom of my fathers death and then the screams of my sister and then my mother, Bonnie, Twill, Percy and the wails of buttercup. The cat had left my mind since the bombs went off, but come to think of it, I hadn't seen him since then either.

The blackness drags on and then suddenly I realize its no longer black. It's red and the wails and screams have disappeared, replaced by an eery buzz, slightly different to the forcefield. I open my heavy eyelids then close then immediately against the light. I slowly open them again and blink a few times. I'm in a bright white room containing a tube and a set of clothes. I stand up. What was going on?

"Why, primrose is awake!" Says maxes voice out of nowhere. I turn and look around but he's not in the room.

"Please get dressed and I will answer any questions you have."

I stand up and pick up the clothes, then nervously look around. If he knew I was awake, then could he see me getting changed. He seems to read my mind.

"Do not worry. I will look away." Says his voice. I hear a scramble as he looks away and I carefully change into the clothes. There is a set of warm, black track suit pants with orange lining and two big baggy pockets, a black shirt and a matching jacket to the pants. There is a pair of runners that I change in to but there is no hair ties for me to do my hair that is buzzing messily around my face.

"I'm done." I say, to nowhere in particular. Another scramble and Max's voice comes back on.

"Good. Now for questions."

"Where am I, what just happened, why aren't I dead, what's going on, why did you nearly squash me, that enough?"

He clears his throat.

"I didn't try to nearly squash you. There was a leak that caused the roof of the elevator not to work. You aren't dead because I managed to stop it and bring you back down where I had people see to you and fix you up. What's going on? You're going into the hunger games. Where are you? Lets see whether you can figure that out."

The buzz is getting slightly louder. Attached to the tube is a timer that's ticking down and is currently at 2 minutes. I figure it out.

"But I didn't get to train!" I shout.

"Well, don't worry, the rest of the tributes did. You were just out of it because of the special gas the doctors put you on to clear your head. I left it on a little longer so that you didn't have to worry about all that. They took it off when they put you in the room. You know, it was quite difficult getting two other tubes, rooms and platforms for you and Bonnie. Luckily there was a small glitch in the capitols blueprints. They had already made the two rooms so all I had to do was get the tubes, which was easy enough."

A beep goes off from behind me and I turn to see the clock at 30 seconds an the tube opening.

"Oh, look at the time. Time for you to go!"

I look around for him once more then, feeling deflated, I step into the tube. It closes behind me. My claustrophobia starts to kick in again but I manage to push it down. The timer reaches 0 and starts beeping and the tube starts rising. I look up into the light above me.

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Ok so I know that was all confusing and all but I really wanted to get to these games. Plus it gives the other tributes an edge on prim which is exactly what max wanted, right?

Anyway, I hope I will slow down a bit now I'm in the games and all. Also, please let me know if you REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY, don't want someone to die as I'm gonna have to kill some one. If you didn't get the vibe, I am SO EXCITED FOR THESE GAMES TO BEGIN! IT'S THE FIRST I'VE EVER WRITTEN AND I'D WRITE ONE IN MY OTHER FANFIC, LAYLA, BUT I CAN'T GET PAST THE TRAINING.

Sincerely

Xela732