Rebellion is the best Medicine- Chapter One: Eve's P.O.V
District Thirteen was in chaos as our first Capitol Escorts, yes, escorts, apparently we needed two because we were an "unruly" district. I was in a desperate hurry to get ready. My mother had brushed my hair back into a high ponytail. She walked down and she grabbed my arm.
"Evie, honey, I love you,remember that, may the odds ever be in your favor," My mother said with a sad smile on her face. She pressed a hot metal object into my thigh. It was the mockingjay pin she had found within the rubble that surrounded our city above. I cringed. "For good luck," she said. I looked down and saw an imprint of the pin on my leg, it was red and seared with pain. She wrapped my leg in a bandage and tapped it. Quietly, she set my delicate white dress back over the print, and pressed a thin finger to her lips. Its our secret.
I nodded and I went to find my father, their he stood in our white kitchen, surrounded by my siblings, my older brother Jace dressed in a silky looking button down shirt and a pair of black slacks. Jace's jaw was set, his eyes looked like deep black lifeless pools of tar. He embraced me in an awkward.
"May the odds ever be in your favor," we whispered to eachother.
Next to wish me and Jace luck was our father who had the same eyes as Jace, but his were pooled with tears. After our father stood little Niecey, she was only about two feet tall and she was four. Her blonde curls swirled as she hugged me, she just looked at Jace her clear blue eyes filled with sorrow. Then she did something odd, she held three fingers on her left hand kissed them and held them out to us. I smiled bleakly. Jace and my father looked at her in fear. How did she know that she was only two when the rebellion occupied our district.
The bell rang, and we ran out of our home department. We ran up what felt like two hundred flights of stairs. Finally, reaching the rubble we stood surrounded by bones,ashes, and crumbling structures everything looked so black and dull... except our escorts.
Our escorts stumbled onto the stage in their heels, yes even the guy was in heels. Their hands were joined, they must be married. Did people even do the in the captiol?
"Hullo, I am Avalon Reni, and this is my wife Novalee Reni," He said in his affected captiol accent. Avalon was colored like a bird. His eyelids were a tropical blue as were his lips. His brows were neatly plucked and dyed a grasshopper green to match his hair that was pulled back into a short ponytail.
"Hullo, I am Novalee as my husband said, and may I say its quite an honor to be one of the first escorts to your... unusal district," Novalee said with an off balance bow and a smile, that looked more filled with stupid happiness than honor. Her face and skin was the pink of a piece of chewing gum. Her eyes were a mysterious deep purple and her hair was its natural dark blonde but on her head was a giant flower, mixed with her makeup and skin she looked like a clown except her shoes seemed to be the right size, if not smaller.
"Well, normal procedures call for Ladies first! But we would love to mix it up so Gentlemen your up!" Avalon hissed in his accent.
I saw from the Eighteen section, Jace lean forward slightly. Avalon stuck his hand into the larger glass bowls that held thousands of small white slips with boy's names printed in their handwriting, 35 of them with Jace Lukason written on them. "Beckham Ralen!"
I let out a small cry Beck was Jace's bestfriend. I felt my stomach rumbled, I felt like I was going to puke. "Beckham! Beckham! Take your place on stage!"
Beck slowly made his way up to the stage. He looked pained. His entire face cleared of emotion his hands at his sides like sticks, his feet directly in next to one another, his ankles together. Beck's dark long black hair blew in the wind. "Give a hand to our tribute!" Avalon shouted he clapped. No one joined him not even Novalee she could see the pain on our faces her smile disappeared.
She walked up to the microphone noisly, her heels clicking on the floor. "Ladies next!" She quickly snapped into her role of escort. Her well manicured pink fingers reached into the glass bowl with the girls names. She picked one up. But then set it down. She pushed her hand down to the bottom of the bowl and picked the name right under everyone else's. "Evessen Lukason!"
I froze. "Evessen! Evessen! Please take your place on stage!" I walked up a tear rode down my cheek and slid off my chin. Once I reached the stage, I saw Beck's eyes, his black eyes met my brown one, his were filled with deep and utter horror.
"Shake hands!" Avalon said, "Your tributes from district 13!"
Beck shook my hand and then with his thumb he wiped the tear from my face, and he brushed my bangs out of my face. "I will die for you Evie, I will give you my life." He gently kissed my lips, and we turned to the crowd.
Jace looked at Beck and me with a sad smile and his lips mouthed, Thank you.
Novalee's purple eyes filled with tears and Avalon's face lit up with a happy-go-lucky smile. Without our president the ceremony closed there. Beck and I taken in a long black car into the depths of our city and to our Justice building. In the ride I sat across from Novalee. Her eyes filled with horror and sadness.
"What did I do to you Eve? What did I just do?" She said to me, but her eyes were in a far away place. Maybe, there was more to Novalee than her bubble gum skin and violet eyes, unlike Avalon, I was begininng to feel sorry for her and begininng to like her.
