Sorry, this is a short one, and it took me AGES! But I hope you like it anyway! Please Read & Review! Thanks. :D
I hear a voice, calling my name, just a faint whisper. 'Aeyia! Aeyia! Wakey wakey! Get up Aeyia!' The voice starts shouting, so I open my eyes to find pink eyes and purple hair staring down at me, about 10cm away from my face. I let out a short squeal and fall out of bed and onto the floor. 'Breakfast!' Angelinetta sings, twirling around the room, grabbing a towel and chucking it at me. 'Get up, clean up, and show up!' She then leaps out of the room and slams the door shut. I drag myself up off of the floor and make my way to the bathroom. I have a long shower, and try to find out what all of the buttons do.
When I've finished playing around with the shower, I get dressed into a pair of grey tracksuit bottoms and a pink t-shirt that I find in a drawer in the dressing room in my "chambers". I slowly make my way to the dining car where I find Angelinetta sitting at the table with a plate of food in front of her.
'Well at least one of you has showed up.' She says cheerfully as she waves at a person standing in the corner, dressed all in white. He doesn't speak as he fills another plate with bacon, eggs, sausages, potatoes, and countless other foods. He then places it on the table in the seat next to Angelinetta and pulls out the chair.
'Thank you.' I say as I slide into my chair, I notice that this surprises him, but he doesn't reply. He just nods and places three drinks on the table in front of me. One is fruit juice, one is coffee, and the other, I am told, is called hot chocolate.
I am just about to take a sip from the third glass, when in comes Thriston Storm, looking angry as usual. 'Danyl still won't come out.' He whines, staring at Angelinetta in desperation. 'Can you please have a go?' Then he notices me and stares at me in an odd way for a while, which makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. So I clear my throat and wriggle in my seat. 'Umm, I suppose as you're here we can start talking about tactics,' he sits in the seat opposite me and leans on the table with his chin resting on his hand, 'what can you do?' he asks sharply before grabbing a bread roll from the middle of the table and ripping a bit off to place in his mouth.
'I'm not sure quite what you mean,' I whisper, 'could you possibly explain in more detail?'
'OK, so we have a polite one. Brilliant. But you don't seem the killing sort of type. Prove me wrong.' He tilts his head to one side and squints at me.
'Well I'm going to have to be the killing sort of type if I want to come out of that arena alive, won't I? So whatever I don't already know about survival skills, I guess I'll have to learn.' I put my elbow on the table with my head on my hand and imitate his expression.
Thriston grins and straightens up in his seat. 'I like this one! She's actually got a personality; that was a smart response. Yes! I'm happy with this one.' I think this is the happiest I've ever seen him. However, I don't quite see how what I said was clever, or how my attitude will help me, but I suppose a compliment's a compliment, so I smile and lean back in my chair, sipping at my hot chocolate.
At that moment, Danyl charges into the room and crashes into the table, knocking over a jug of water and making me fall off my chair.
'Now I'm not so sure if I like this one, but he looks reasonably strong.' Thriston says quietly. He then raises his voice to say, 'I see you decided to show up at last!'
Danyl grunts and sits down next to him and the man in white comes over with a selection of food and drinks for him. Still, the man doesn't talk. I begin to wonder why when Danyl rudely exclaims 'You don't talk much, do you?' then bursts out laughing. The man in white lets out a cough, and I can see he's been hurt by this, but he doesn't react. 'Why? What's your story?' continues Danyl and I have to hold myself back from going over and giving the man a hug after seeing his expression.
'Danyl!' Cries Angelinetta. 'Stop teasing the Avox!'
'What's an Avox?' I ask.
'An Avox, my dear, is someone who has committed a crime and has had their tongue cut out. And when you have no tongue, you cannot speak. So the Capitol kindly gives them a job to serve. Mainly tributes.'
'Oh.' I look at the Avox and see the pain in his eyes. More pain. All I see at the moment is pain. Ever since Mother died… But now it's different. Soon I shall be dead as well, and we can be reunited. But I will try to win. I promised.
