Here we have chapter three. Hope you like it.
Chapter 3 – Preparations
Before we stepped out of the train James told us to smile and wave all the way to the prep-center. We tried but both Alec and I thought it was hopeless since we hated the capitol and its people.
A big, black car took us from the train station where it felt like every single capitol citizen was cheering and watching us. They looked awful every single one of them. Way too skinny and with weird looking colors all over. The car took us to a big blue building with the label: preparations center. We barely had time to say good bye to James before a woman with pink and purple hair and her body colored turquoise came and asked us which district we came from. After we told her that we were from five she took us away from James and led us to two prep rooms. She send me into one and Alec into the other.
Once I was in there I waited for my prep team.
The first thing I thought when they entered was that they all looked like birds. They smiled at me when they saw me and then they got started.
"Alright" said the only man in the trio. "Strip!" He had dark skin, light green hair and beard which was formed like sea waves. If I would have seen him randomly I would have thought that he rooted for district four because of his beard.
"Oh don't mind Chester, sweetie" said one of the two women with a strange chipmunk like voice. "He's been weird ever since he changed his hair color." They all laughed mechanically. "For the love of president Snow! We haven't introduced us yet. I'm Dee Dee. This is Chester…" she pointed at the man "…and this is Sonna." Sonna had purple hair and lips and her entire body was colored light blue.
Dee Dee had neon yellow and orange curls for hair golden tattoos in her face.
"You are quite the beautiful one aren't you?" asked Sonna when I had taken off all of my clothes and I guessed that it was a rhetorical question.
"Let's start by washing her up quickly before we wax" said Chester and started to take down different kinds of soaps from a shelf.
After they washed me with five different kinds of soaps which made the room hard to breathe in. They started to wax me. I had never experienced something like that before and pain almost killed me. I tried really hard to not complain because I knew that in their own stupid way they were actually trying to help me. They got rid of my hair all over my legs, arms, most of my eyebrows and pretty much everywhere else. Except on my head of course.
"Time for scrubbing!" exclaimed Dee Dee. "Get the cream!" I couldn't understand why Dee Dee seemed so happy about the scrubbing. Not only did it remove all the dirt from my skin it felt like ripping it off me and left me all reddish-pink and paining.
"We should use the moisturizing cream on her skin before we start with the hair" said Chester with a look of thinking that only made him look scarier then he already looked in my eyes.
The cream they used first burned but then it healed my paining skin made it feel like soft baby butt.
Apparently it was time for my hair they immediately seated me in a chair in front of a sink. They washed it with many different kinds of shampoos and soaps. The result was that it felt soft and shiny like silk.
"Don't you think we should use our latest miracle on her?" asked Sonna Chester.
"Sonna darling, you truly are a genius" answered Chester smiling. "Dee Dee! Get our latest miracle!"
"Brilliant!" said Dee Dee. She took a giant tube with some kind of paste that matched my hair color.
Chester poured it on my head and massaged it in my scalp.
"Now, sweetie you need to stay still in an hour so this paste can do its job" said Chester.
"What does it do?" I asked.
"You'll see" answered Chester as he placed me in front of a mirror. "Sit still sweetie while we wait."
The wait was killing me. And I didn't even know what I was waiting for, but the worst thing was that the paste gave me a really scratchy feeling in my scalp and every time I tried to scratch myself Chester shrieked and slapped my hand away.
"Don't touch, you'll mess up the work!" he shrieked.
A half an hour after Chester first massaged it in, I saw the difference in my hair. Before my eyes out of nowhere my hair started to grow. Not fast at all, but fast enough to see the difference.
"Chester!" called Dee Dee with her wired chipmunk voice. "Chester! It's working! Come look!"
"Marvelous!" said Chester proudly. "I knew it would work."
"Very well too" said Sonna. "It looks perfect and will go just right with everything Jessna planned."
"Who's Jessna" I asked suddenly scared.
"Don't worry about Jessna, Ginny" said Sonna and gave me a tab on the cheek. "Just don't make any sudden movements when you're around her. That could trigger her."
"What do you mean with 'trigger her'?" I asked. What the heck could that mean?
"Her cannibalism of course" said Dee Dee as if that was the most obvious thing in the world. "She has a habit of eating tributes alive if they disappoint her."
"W…What" I stammered. That couldn't be true, could it? I mean I knew that the capitol people were crazy but cannibalism? That should at least be breaking the law right? Right?
Sonna, Chester and Dee Dee all laughed loudly.
"We are just messing with you" said Dee Dee smiling. "Of course she doesn't eat tributes. She's the nicest woman in the world." Okay, not funny. Not funny at all.
After reassuring me enough that the Jessna person didn't eat tributes Chester washed the paste out of my hair that had now gone from just-above-shoulder length to waist length. Then Dee Dee worked on my nails, cutting them even and painting them in a yellow color. Why yellow? I wondered but Dee Dee just answered "You'll see…" Why did they always have to say that? Why couldn't they just give a straight answer?
When they were done with everything, three and a half hour after I got there They called for that Jessna person and by now I guessed that she was going to be my stylist.
They left me while I waited. Soon she appeared. She looked quite normal for being a capitol citizen. Her hair was black, but her bangs and part of her hair around was colored turquoise and her eyes were in about the same color. She was very tall and thin.
"Hello, Ginny" she said. "I'm Jessna. Your stylist. Come with me so we can talk a little."
I followed her into a room where the walls were entirely made of glass and the floor of marble. Every furniture was white. The couches, the tables, a big wing, even the plants. We sat down in one couch each, so that we sat across each other.
"So" started Jessna. "I assume that you know district 5's main industry?"
"Yes, power and electricity" I answered immediately.
"Exactly" said Jessna and studied me. "We have an idea of your outfit for the tribute parade. "I see that Dee Dee has painted your nails in yellow. That's a good thing."
I looked down on my bright yellow nails and got confused. How could yellow make you think electricity? "Why" I asked.
"You'll see…"
I hope you liked this chapter and don't forget to review ;). Now I've done some planning and decided that this story will contain 23 chapters. So three down, twenty to go…
