A / N:
Just so you know, I'm juggling two stories at once, so updates for each one will be every other day, if im feeling goode then I might update both. Today is one of those days hopefully! Here's chapter two of May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favour!
Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Hunger Games, if I did, my name would be Suzanne Collins, but its not, its Ruby, so whatever!
Chapter Two:
I sit in my room quietly, reading a book I found, whilst the others get ready for dinner. Katniss, Peeta and Louie knock on the door to my carriage and invite themselves in. Louie sits beside me and puts his arm around my waist, Peeta and Katniss face us in the same position, looking at us.
"Right," she says, "lets get on with it. Peeta, explain why we're here?"
"Sure," Peeta says. "We're here together today, because me and Katniss are giving you advice on getting sponsors."
"Hello to you too," I scowl. "Please feel free to invite yourselves into my room."
"Do you want to get sponsors or not?" Louie whispers in my ear and I drop the scowl.
"Anyway," says Katniss, "you two are together, right?"
"Yeah," says Louie, drawing circles on my waist with his index finger.
"Then use it against the other tributes," says Peeta. "Don't do what we did, tell everyone, I mean, I'm thinking kissing where you pretend to think you cant be seen, then Caesar will put pictures, videos and everything, on his gossip show, Tributes. That didn't exist when we were in your position."
"Right," I nod my head. "Like now?"
"No," says Katniss hastily. "We don't want to know what you do when your alone thank you very much."
I laugh lightly.
"We mean backstage before your chariots go to the ceremony, in the living room at the end of the train, in the corner of the training centre, places like that," explains Peeta.
"Oh, OK," says Louie. "Anything else?"
"Yeah, use the new rule against them, one that existed since we won the Games."
"And whats that?" I ask.
"Two tributes can win, so long as their the opposite sex and from the same district," he says as the bell rings to symbol dinner and we get off of the bed and Katniss and Peeta slide out of the room. I stand on my tiptoes and kiss Louie on the lips and then straighten my dress before heading towards the dining hall.
"Welcome, all," says Tiffany Trinket. "I'm sorry Effie cannot be with you this year. She is working with District 2, my usual district."
"That is fine," says Peeta. "Isn't it Katniss?"
"Yeah," she says through her teeth. "Its a pleasure to have you pulling names out of a bowl of people who are going down in this years Hunger Games. This is the best part of the year."
"It sure is, aren't the games exciting, Peeta?" says Tiffany Trinket.
"Um, yea?" says Peeta. I took my seat next to Louie and Tiffany turns around to face me.
"Well, don't you look spiffing, darling!" she exclaims.
I smile at her and eat my dinner silently, before I get up and drag Louie with me. As soon as we pretend to think we're out of sight and pretend not to know there is a camera trailing us from the corner of the room, he faces me and kisses me on the lips. Hard.
Then I turn around and go to the living room to continue reading my book.
Five days later, we arrive in the Capitol, and we like what we see. Its all sparkling, glittering and people with strange hair, clothes and bright purple skin walk around like its perfectly natural. We are escorted to the building we'll be staying in, and as soon as we were inside, I realized what Katniss had meant when she said it was cruel. The building looks luxurious and is full of people eating as much as they can in a room in the corner. I blink a few times, and before I know it, we're inside a completely glass block and ooming upwards.