Hey guys! I've based this story on a poem I wrote for school last term, hopefully the story will portray it good enough! So heres my poem:

I look into the eyes of my lover;
As he gazes upon me,
The key to my heart lies with him,
Destroying him is the only way to hurt me.

I look into the eyes of my enemy;
And see the hatred building up beyond thee.
At times my heart feels nothing,
For the man standing before me.

I look into the eyes of my lover;
And the eyes of my enemy.
They look at me with pure desire,
And emptiness as deep as the sea.

I look into the eyes of my lover;
Before they change to those of my enemy.
Constantly flicking backwards and forwards,
We give a new meaning to a love hate thing.

"Primrose Everdeen" Effie's voice carried out through the crowd of nervous children. Most of the girls sigh out of relief, surviving another year was defiantly something to celebrate. I was not one of them girls. I was the girl that was about to do something that was hardly ever known about around here. I was about to make myself the most wanted person for these games. I was going to be the first female volunteer from District 12; and probably the last one in a while.

"I volunteer!" I screamed, everyone turned around and gasped at me. I held my head high, forced myself to show no emotion and continued "I volunteer as tribute"

instantly Peacekeepers surrounded me, trapping me so that I could only walk forwards towards the stage. Prim was already running to me, screaming "NO!" at the top of her lungs. As I walked past the boys I saw Gale with a single tear streaming down his face. He knew as much as I did, I wasn't coming back.

Gale moved towards where Prim was running and scooped her up in to a tight embrace. She was sobbing on to his shoulder as I mounted the steps to the stage.

"Come dear, tell us your name" Effie's voice tries to sound comforting as she pushes me to stand in front of the microphone.

"Kat- Katniss Everdeen" my voice comes out as only a whisper, but thankfully the microphone is able to magnify the volume.

"Well I bet my buttons that that young girl was your little sister" she jokes, trying to get me to loosen up. "Now for the boys"

She walks over to the other bowl and dramatically places her hand into it, pulling up a single piece of folded paper determining one boys fate.

"Peeta Melark" she calls out.

The crowd of boys turn to the bakers son. As he get escorted to the stage I remember who he is, and exactly what he has done for me. Giving me a single loaf of bread that saved not only mine, but my families lives. And now he's my enemy, great!

Effie congratulates us both as Peeta and I shake hands. Both of us look in to each others eyes, knowing there was a big possibility that we was going to have to kill one another. Peacekeepers, Effie and Haymitch follow behind us as we walk in to the Justice Building. These next 4 minutes would be the quickest of my life. Seeing my mother and Prim for the final time, and probably Gale too.

"2 minutes" a Peacekeeper calls as Prim and mother walk in.

"Prim!" I cry as she leaps in to my arms for a hug.

"Katniss, try to win. Try to win for me, come home" she murmurs in to my ear, some of it muffled by her sobs.

"I'll try I promise" I reply. I look over to my mother, she too has tears running down her face. "Stay strong for her okay, Gale will hunt you food, you can sell the goat milk for money and other things. You can survive without me." I ramble on sounding more like a mother than she does. "And don't you dare leave her like last time. Prim's not strong enough for that. You're all she'll have"

"I love you" mother whispered in to my ear as she pulled me into a tight embrace.

"I love you mother" I said at the same time the Peacekeepers made them leave and Gale entered.

"Hey Catnip" he smiled at me, I loved having him as a best friend. He could lighten up any dark day.

"Hey Gale" I threw him a week smile back.

"You know, you've got a good chance. If you manage to get a bow" his face looked more serious now "And you can hunt. So you'll have food. You'll come back Catnip, I know you will" Gale is in front of me now, looking straight into my eyes; tears streaming down both of our faces.

"I'll miss you Gale"

"I'll miss you too Catnip" and with that, he left.

I forced myself to stop crying, knowing that I would be filmed going to the train. I defiantly didn't want the whole of Panem seeing me cry. Especially the other 23 tributes. I followed the Peacekeeper to the car that would take me to the train. I have never been in a car before. We always walk around on foot in the seam. I've only ever travelled in a horse and wagon once as well, on my way back from collecting my fathers medal. The mayor allowed me to travel with him. I reckon he only did it because I was friends with his daughter, Madge. Madge, another person I wouldn't see again.

The train looks lovely. There's really no other words to describe it inside looked just like what a posh house would. Or what I thought a posh house would look like. Wooden floors, dinning rooms, sofas, TV's, everything you could dream of. I suppose it's only fair to give the tributes a nice last few weeks, since there was only going to be one that would actually return and get to live like this. I knew for a fact that it wasn't going to be me living the dream.

Thanks for reading this, it means quite a lot that you've gotten to the bottom!;) please review it gives me such a boast for my writing, I love you all x x x