Chapter 4

The week goes by the same. I go to school, see all my friends, go to all my classes, hang out with Peeta and go home. The week has gone so fast that I forget what day it is until I get woken up by an excited Madge. She opens my curtains and then starts jumping around waiting for me to get up. I groan and roll over to have a look at my clock. It's 8 o'clock. 'Why the hell is she here. There is nothing special going on.' Then I remember that today is Saturday and today is the day I have my date with Peeta. At this I jump out of bed and run towards my bathroom and hop into my shower and start to wash my hair. I faintly hear Madge grumble 'It's about time' but I don't care because I'm so happy at the moment.

When I hop out of the shower I see that Madge has laid out some of my good clothes to go to the mall in. I see that she has left the room to let me change. After I get into my denim shorts and light blue tank top and start to walk to the mirror to braid my hair. I then walk outside of my room and am grab around the wrist by Madge and she tugs me down the stairs towards the kitchen. When we get there I am given two slices of toast and am pulled out the door with a simple good-bye from Dad and Prim. Madge drags me to her car and pushes me into the passenger side. When she gets onto the driver's seat she starts the engine and we are on our way to the mall.

When we pull into a parking spot at the mall I spot all the girls standing outside of the door. Glimmer is on her phone as well as Clove, Johanna, Annie and Foxface. I see Glimmer's face light up and then my phone goes off. I look at it and see that I have been tagged in something on Facebook. When I look at it I see that Glimmer has posted a status up saying we are going shopping for my date and she tagged all my friends and Peeta. Oh god kill me now.

When I get out of the car all the girls looked up and their faces lit up when they see me. 'This is going to be a lonnnggg day.' I groan as I make my way over to the girls. As soon as I get there I am being dragged through the doors towards one of the best dress stores in town. I am seated in one of the seats provided and the girls get to work on trying to find me a dress. Once they have all find one or two dresses for me Delly shoves me into one of the change rooms. When I put on the first dress I walk out and onto a runway to see the girls at the end of it. When I would walk down it the girls would either nod in approval or shake their head.

When I put on a certain dress I know it's the right one. It is a black and white dress that looks like zebra print with a pink silk belt that goes around my upper stomach. The dress goes to around mid-thigh and has shoe straps. It looks really pretty but now I need the girls' opinion on it because I absolutely love it. When I walk down the runway it flows out a bit but that's fine because it feels really comfortable. When the girls see me their eyes pop open and they are gawking at me. When I get closer to them they start to nod their heads furiously at me and telling me to take the dress. So I get out of the dress and head to the counter to pay for it.

Next we head to a shoe shop and when I get in there, it is mostly high-heels. 'I can't walk in those! Where the hell are the flats around here?' I see that Delly and Foxface are over here in this section to help me pick out a pair of shoes. We find a nice pair of white ballet flats and go to the checkout to find Madge, Glimmer and Annie with their own high-heeled shoes.

We then go and get some accessories for me. I pick out a nice head-band and a new pair of earring and a matching bracelet. When we are finished I look at my phone to see I have a few Facebook messages and that's it. Then I look at the time and am surprised to see that it's 1:30. No wonder I'm so hungry. We stop at Subway and after a few minutes we leave to go back to my house where the torture is going to begin.

When we pull up in the drive way I reluctantly get out of the car and head towards the front door of my house. Once I reach the door I slowly turn the knob and open the door. Everyone then rushes up to my room waiting for and I slowly make my way up the stairs to my room. When I reach it I am taken by my wrists and taken over to a seat where Glimmer tells me to get into the shower and to wash my hair. I do what she says not wanting to get on her bad side. So after I have finished my shower and am dried off Clove gets my dress and puts it over my head so I am now wearing it again.

Then I am attacked. I am taken to a seat and am sat down. This is where the torture begins. My eyebrows are plucked, my legs are waxed with leaves them raw and tingly. When that is finished the start to work on my hair and make-up. Glimmer, Delly and Johanna do my hair whilst Annie, Madge, Foxface and Clove do my make-up. The girls doing my hair blow-dry it and then decide to straighten it. Whilst they are doing that the other girls have a specific part of my face to apply make-up to it.

Finally after what seemed like a life time when it was only about 4 hours they are done. They do finishing touches on it and then they let me look at myself in the mirror. There is this girl staring back at me. She looks like an angel, but when I move my hand up to touch my face this girl does the same and then I realize that this girl standing in front of me IS ME. I'm in shock that I'm speechless. I see Johanna and Clove smirk proudly and the rest of the girls giggle at my reaction.

I don't realize what the tie is until Prim walks in gasps at the sight of me. Her eyes instantly light up and she is obviously happy that I actually let someone do something for me.

"Kat, you look beautiful. I can't believe you would let your friends make you pretty and not me. I'm hurt" Prim says putting her hand over her head in mock hurt. I just walk over to her and kiss her forehead.

"I'm sorry Little Duck. Maybe next time," I say trying to cheer her up. It seems to work because she kisses my cheek. I finally get a glance at my clock on my nightstand and see that it is 5 minutes till Peeta is supposed to get here. Start to get nervous and hyperventilate. The girls see this and try to calm me down. Then Prim tries and she succeeds in calming me down. After this outburst Foxface puts on some music and I start to hum along with it. After about the third song I find myself singing along with it.

After a bit the doorbell rings and I start to hyperventilate again. 'He's here. OMG. What if I stuff up? What if he thinks I'm boring?' All these thoughts are rushing through my mind as Prim starts to calm me down again.

I turn to look at the girls and see that they are not the room. Then I look at my door and see that is wide open. That's when my breath hitches. I then realize that the girls have gone to answer the door. I'm now scared because I know that Dad will want to talk to Peeta. So all I can do is put my head in my hands. Then I hear footsteps and look up to see Annie and Clove have come to get me.

As I slowly get off my bed and straighten out my dress my mind is still racing. Annie has her hand on my lower back reassuring me that everything is okay. I then look at Clove whom offers her hand to me and I take and squeeze tightly to try and take out all my nervousness in this one movement. Then they are in front of me and I see Prim looking up at me. I can see that she knows that I'm not okay because she comes over to me and gives me a tight hug. I give it back and then I am shoed out of my room and towards the stairs to go downstairs towards Peeta.

It's now or never I guess.