*School has been busy! Sorry I haven't typed in a while! I haven't done a disclaimer yet so here it is: Suzanne Collins owns the Hunger Games; it will not belong to me until she gives it to someone for their birthday. Oh don't worry about Project8; she's meh friend from school and we had a sleepover that night. (She was going hyper…) And may the odds be ever in Celestine's favor.*
-Hunger Games-
We arrived at the training arena in about an hour. Northrop stared at his feet and ignored me the most of the time. I didn't mind since he had torn my feelings apart earlier. I stepped out of the train and calmly walked into the building. Signs hung on the walls saying where each Capitol tribute was to go. Then in golden bold the sign said, "Celestine Safire. May the odds be ever in your favor, Mom. Room 23." Tears blotted everything out as I walked towards my room. My mom had melted down her earrings for this; I was sure.
When I was four, my dad died with his last gift being a pair of golden earrings for my mom. She cried and promised never to sell them for anything. She had kept that promise until now. She used her earrings as a last gift for her eldest daughter who was now doomed to die.
-Hunger Games-
My room was furnished with velvet walls so we couldn't kill ourselves before entering the arena. The floor was made of mockingjay down. It felt soft and light on my feet. I curled up on my bed and an outfit materialized on the door. I was guessing it was an image of what I was wearing to the Interview. A shimmering light blue dress with its skirt like rippling waves danced before my eyes. I think Katniss was trying to pull a "girl who was made of water," to oppose her "girl on fire" position. I sighed and stared at the ceiling.
I don't know when, but Katniss had walked in and was sitting on my bed looking at me affectionately. She looked at me again and said, "I lied to you on the train; your eyes don't remind me of Rue… they remind me of Prim. You yourself remind me of Prim. Prim did the exact same thing with me that you did with Northrop."
I nodded in remembrance.
"Could you have once been my Prim?" She sobbed and ran out of the room.
-Hunger Games-
A picture of a letter on the ceiling told me it was time to eat. There were terresa rolls and some chicken that I ate. My stomach was a stone. Northrop wasn't here so I assumed that he had already eaten. I got up from my seat and Katniss led me to be prepared for the parade. I saw a blue dress similar to the one I had seen before dangle in Katniss's hands.
I put on the dress and it began to sparkle like water. As I guessed earlier, they put a light layer of blue make-up on my arms, legs, and face. Our chariot had small emeralds and the cart itself was made for marble. Then it hit me. Katniss wasn't doing "a girl made of water". She wanted to immortalize me so I would live in the Capitol and District's minds forever.
The Districts mocked the first eleven carts, but when they reached us, cheers rushed the open sky and it was very warmly welcomed. Northrop was dressed in a white robe instead of blue, and had golden leaves on his head. We stopped in the Main Plaza, and two of the Capitol tributes started crying.
-Hunger Games-
We entered the training area and most of the tributes ran for the javelins. I walked to archery, remembering what Katniss had told me about her arena. I had actually learned how to shoot a bow at the age of five and was really good at it. But for my strategy I decided to play weak. After I finished the archery lesson, I walked over to the poison-plant section and learned that the Districts and Capitol had made Nightlock an official poison-plant.
-Hunger Games-
It was minutes before the Games were scheduled to start. Katniss walked up to me with tears welling in her eyes. My score had been a three, but Katniss knew my strategy. She handed me a notebook and a pencil. "I want you to use these. Write in it every day during the Games. After the Games are over we will read it to the people of the Capitol and Districts and reveal how horrible the Hunger Games really is. May the odds be ever in your favor Celestine." She started to cry, but she fastened the charm I brought with me into the aqua-blue shirt that she insisted that I wear.
I stepped onto the platform and it lifted me up into the world where I must survive. A world of death.
