Two Can Play at This Game
Fredrick Odair
I smile my trade mark smile into the cameras. I got it from my dad...My smile falters at that for a second before shaking it off and continuing to smile. I never met him, he was killed before my sister and I were born. My mother tells me I look exactly like him. I have the same blond, side swept hair, ocean-green eyes, and of course the smile. I've done my best to look like an identical, my mother is not the stabliest, and I've tried to be everything she needed. Of course, my sister had gotten a mix. With her brown, cascading hair and ocean-blue eyes. I've kept the look, for two reasons, for one; I want to be as closely connected to my dad as possible. Two; I'm single and all the girls want me. I wish I met my dad, everyone said he had a wicked humor. Funny how I miss someone I've never met, well Finnick Odair was here. He was my father, and that can not be forgotten, as many people can't get enough of the fact I look so much like him.
Elise you better get your butt in here before I'm a goner to these girls, I thought, or the guys.
"Hello brother dearest! Care to swap?" I heard her familiar voice next to my ear.
"Not for the world!" I grab her and twirl her around for the camera. We smile our smiles as we playfully act like any children should. Of course, out mother tells us that we are no longer children, I am still one at heart, just like my father. My smile keeps faltering like this, whenever I think of my father...
I was raised in the Capitol, but my heart lies where the green of the ocean color in my eyes come from, District 4. Sure, the times of the Capitol rein are over, but I want to be with the ocean I've never seen. I know my father would want it that way, I can see it in my mother that she wants to return one day.
"Elise, can we go find mother now?" I make a mock pout.
"Of course!" She yelps.
We head inside of the old mansion, the previous owner was none other then; President Snow himself. Now, it's not our house, why I wish it was to be so! It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen! As for myself, I haven't very much seen the entire Panem like my mother and father, but how I wish I could have!
"Mother, mother!" Elise and I call in glee as we ran into the huge dinning room. It was a huge rounded building with a beautiful golden hue around everything.
"When will you two learn to stop shouting for me, your almost 16 now! Please start acting like it!" Our mother, Annie, laughed. Her eyes crinkled slightly as she laughed.
"But mommy..." I pleaed in a mock pout.
"Mommy...What will be wearing today?" Elise stares at my mothers beautiful navy blue gown, it looked like the ocean. Her brown hair cascaded down her back with ocean-green streaked through it, and her hazel eyes shined bright, looking almost green.
"Go off to your guest rooms, your clothes will be set out on the bed."
I grabbed Elise's hand and went to our room which was down the hall to the left. Our room had beige walls. There we're two beds one with pink, one with blue. Of course, the blue one is mine. It helps me to feel closer and closer to the ocean. I see my outfit laid before me. It looks like the one my father worn to their wedding. Is it to be so? I sure hope so! I quickly grab up the bundle and head to the bathroom to change. I locked the door and turn around as to not see what I'll look like when I'm finished. I slip the pants and dress shirt on. Next the jacket. I cover my eyes, like a child would, and turn toward the mirror. I gasp at myself, I look like my father! Quickly I pull out a picture I have of him and put it to the mirror to check. Yeah, I surely look like him. Sadly, the only difference between the two of us, is that I am extra cautious and extremely formal. Of course, that's what makes me my own person and I'm grateful for that. As much as I wish to be like my father, I'd rather be myself.