Chapter 3 - District 2
I've been here for two weeks by now. Everything it's calm, boring… My phone doesn't stop ringing, I know it my little sister using Katniss's phone, she begs me to go home. Many times I have thought about going back, but that is not the right thing to do, I can't go, so I just stop answering the phone maybe that will make it easier for her, with time she will figure out that no matter what she says I am not coming home. Sometimes I think about what I would do if it was Katniss who called, who insisted me to go home. That surely won't happen but I just can't stop thinking about it.
Paylor named me captain of a special team in District 2, she send many of the best soldiers here and in District 1, in both Districts there is a high probability of rebellion, many people around here where with the Capitol. But nothing has happened yet. My special team has only one person that I already knew, Beete. Plutarch sent him here to invent new weapons, Plutarch was controlling communication in the Capitol and they no longer needed Beete there. He has invented many new bows and arrows with special abilities just for me, I think that's his way to try to make me feel better. We are a team of 8 , Beete, Trell (a soldier from District 8,I think he is in his thirties, tall and dark skinned, in fact it appears he is from District 12, from the Seam, but he's eyes are the only thing that give him away, they are of a greenish color), Miller (She makes magic with explosives, from District 5, she reminds me Katniss's mom, she is pail and has long honey-colored hair that with the sun becomes even blonder, she looks young, around her early twenties ), Fugg (You must be very stupid to fight with him if he has around an ax, he is from District 3, I think, he is a very muscled guy, I found him kind off intimidating), Ross (A master of the sword, District 9, he is an older men, I think he is 40 or something, he is read head and has freckles), Cam (I don't know her that much but I think she is good with the knife and a bit with the bow, I guess she is from district 7, she is short and tanned, her hair is bronze-colored and her eyes are completely dark, sometimes it freaks me out, like if she was a sort of demon or something), Kyle (I like him a lot, he is good too with tramps, I think he is just one or two years older than me, but in appearance we are opposite, he is REALLY pail, blonde and spite of having muscles thanks to the training he still is much thinner than me ) and me. Every day we train and prepare ourselves to any kind of problem, but luck it's not in our favor, nothings happens.
The winter starts to show its first warnings; it's so different here, in District 2, in the Seam by this time everyone started to freak out and prepared to survive winter, Katniss and I always went almost all day hunting, making our little storage of food. I smile at the memory, it seems it was a million years ago.
I no longer know for how long I've been here, I guess 2 months or so.
Today we are having a promo shoot, Paylor wants to show Panem that District 1 and 2 are under control. I hate acting or been interviewed for a promo, that is just not who I am. I remember that with Katniss it was the same issue, she just couldn't act. Hahaha She really sucked at it. All my company is sent to make up room (Plutarch says we must look dangerous, soldiers, but still beautiful) and I honestly can't stand having make up on. Not even if I look good, I just feel I have an extra unnecessary skin. I enter to the makeup room and see a familiar face, I think her name is Octavia, she was part of the makeup team of Katniss.
"Hi Octavia, how are you?" I ask with the intention of getting some entertainment to forget about the torture I'll be passing through.
"Hi Gale? That's your name right?" She seems worried, and I think that she is worried for me.
"Yeah, that's me" I smile, I think that she doesn´t likes at all being here.
"How are you? I thought you were going to District 12 like Katniss and Peeta." She made a little pause, like deciding something " By the way…. I saw Katniss like a week ago, she had a promo too, anyway, she asked me to tell you that she misses you and that your family as well." In the eyes of the woman I could see that she knew exactly that the message could make me react badly, she waited carefully. My reaction took me by surprise, I am totally calmed.
"I'm just fine, thank you. So she's ok?" I ask like if nothing had happened.
" Yes, she is fully recovered and told me that she has went hunting again." She answers as she takes notes. Before I can add anything she quickly moves around and gives instructions to everyone. It seems that I am too pail and that my hair is a mess. At the moment two stylists take over my face and hair. I close my eyes and pretend that I don't care ( I am dying inside to push away this people off me) and force myself to think about something like training, I know that if I start to think of Katniss and in District 12 there will be no way I'm going to make a good job in the promo.
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