Hi everyone! Now we are actually in the capitol! Yay! Um I think I will have Thresh do the disclaimer, for what reason you ask, well read and find out! Mwahahahaha
Thresh: You know you don't own the hunger games right?
Sarah: I know, Rue told me last time, but I still do wish I did.
I watch as my sister jumps, what is she jumping off of. Is there lands wait, Clematis! I yell, but she is gone. Then Lily my best friend jumps. I want to help them but I am glued to the floor.
This is what it will be like when I don't come home this is what the rest of their lives will be, running away from me.
Now I am drowning? Wait what is that light?
"Rue wake up!" Shouts Xander
Suddenly I am soaking wet! Gross!
"What do you want?" I say trying to pull the covers over my head.
"For you to wake up! I have been trying to get you to wake up for the past 20 minutes. I have turned the light on and off and I shook you, so I poured ice water on you and shined a flashlight near your eyes, which work. Oh we will be in the capitol soon." He smiles and looks at me.
"Get out!" I scream
He turns and leaves and I get out of my soaking wet bed.
Why did he have to pour ice water on me?
I go to the bathroom. I shower, brush my teeth, and get dressed and walk over to the dinning cart. Everyone except Chaff is there which makes sense because I swear the drank two bottles of wine last night
"How did you two sleep last night?" ask Seeder.
"Oh I slept great until I was woken up by a freezing waterfall and a bright yellow sun in my eyes" and with that I give Xander the evilest glare a 12 year old can possibly give.
"It is your fault for being a heavy sleeper" says Xander cheerfully
Ugh why are all of these capitol people so happy?
"and Thresh, how did you sleep?" inquires Seeder.
"Okay" responds Thresh. I am not surprised with his one word answer.
Thresh is very hostile except to him 12 year old sister Celia who loves him to death and he loves her to death too. They are very cute together.
Chaff walks in and asked the attendant when we are reaching the Capitol.
" two minutes" says the waiter
I hadn't even realized that we have been going through tunnels for the past twenty minutes
Seeder looks at us quickly and says
"When we get to the Capitol you guys are going to be put into the hands of your stylists and prep team. Do whatever they say and don't complain got it.
"got it" we both reply in sync
We see the lights of the Capitol and Thresh and I immediately run to the window.
We see a lot of very strange looking people. People with whiskers, dyed blue, and who have cat eyes. Wait is that a tail?
I look to my left where Thresh was standing and he has taken a good ten steps back
"Why did you move back?" I question
"I don't want to see the weird capitol people, the don't deserve to do this to kid"
"One of them might sponsor you" I add
Thresh hurries over to the window and waves
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I see my long hair beings cut to just bellow my shoulders
Gunther said they had to cut it off because it was "dead"
Gunther is one of three of my prep team. He has a light purple shade to his skin. While the other people on my prep team, the twins, Valious (who I decide to call Val) and Damious who both have tattoos all up there arm and they are a light shade of yellow (why do people in the capitol look so weird?).
Gunther says pointless things to me like "Ugh your split ends are terrible"
I look at him with sad eyes and say " Sir, I am not even sure what split ends are. We don't really need to cut our hair in district 11"
"Oh honey we are going to make you look fabulous"
The rest of the morning goes something like this: I have now been waxed all over my body so the only hair left on me is my "a little under shoulder length hair" (they cut off 13 inches). I have been in different tubs of various liquids and my nails have been painted a light shade of pink, very girlie.
"I thinks she is done" says Val
"Lets call Annic" (N/A Cinna spelled backwards)
They leave the room while I stand there naked. Surprisingly I don't feel uncomfortable being naked in front of these people because I could not tell the boys from the girls in my prep team.
A woman walks in in a short black dress. I assume she is Annic. Her hair is in a neat ponytail on the top of her head and she has something Val called a smoky eye, is that a makeup technic?
She walks around me and I suddenly feel very uncomfortable.
"Hi Rue, my name is Annic."
"your new" is all I can respond
"I mean, I have never seen you on the games before" I fix myself before she can answer.
"yes, my brother Cinna is the district 12 stylist "
she gestures me to follow her after I put my rope on.
We enter a room with a long table. Annic presses a button and the table opens up and the table elevator moves up and presents the food in front of us.
There is Chicken, potatos, and a million of different sauces. There is also soup that taste like spring and beef that melts in my mouth.
After I load up my plate with food Annic looks at me and says
"What do you think describes you best"
"um.. Well when I am up in the trees in district 11, I jump from tree to tree
"so you are like a bird, a fairy"
"Um I guess"
"ok" Annic says and we eat the rest of our meal in silence.
After we finish eating we go back to my prep room. Annic says that I am going to be a harvester.
What is she talking about we harvest in every day clothing.
I find out that what she meant is that people in the capitol thinks that when we harvest fruit and vegetables in the orchard we wear something like jeans with suspenders, totally untrue (N/A Overalls). But my outfit is made of jean and it has jean suspenders attached to the dress. So basically it is an overall dress (that is what Annic called it). But my favorite part is that under the skirt there is something called tulle that is what dancers used to wear before the dark days. On my feet are three-inch heels that look kind of like a boot but are cut off right under my ankle. The boots have laces to look like out worker boots. My prep team curled my hair and pinned it up so it looks like a messy bun, but very neat. They also applied very little makeup simply because I am only 12 years old and the boots I am wearing make me as tall as a 14 year old. I still need to look innocent.
We leave the prep center and Annic leads me down to the horse stables (upstairs is the tribute stables) and to our chariot.
Thresh is already there in black jeans and a dark gray button up shirt with a lighter gray coming out of the sleeve. He looks really handsome. (N/A pictures of outfits are on my profile)
Our horses are all brown with white "socks" over the hoof and with a fruit in white on their forehead. Our chariot is decked out in fruit, except for the floor.
I see the district twelve girl come in with her stylist that looks just like Anni, but a male, oh he must be Cinna.
That girl is the one who volunteered for her 12-year-old sister. I wish someone would have done that for me but no one did.
Actually I would rather die than have to watch one of my friends die.
The girl, I think her name is Katniss is wearing a black jump suit with a cape and headpiece, interesting.
Thresh come to stand next to me on the chariot.
"You look very pretty Rue" he says
"Thank you, you look very handsome" I respond
We both look forward because the gate opens and district one's chariot goes out.
I look behind me because, I like Katniss, OMG she is on fire, WHOA!
If I am mesmerized by the fire, than the capitol people will be gaga over them. Oh well, no sponsors for Rue.
Thresh and I's chariot lurches forward and I start to smile and wave and blow kisses. Thresh just stand there and looks solemn and above all of the people. I am sure he will get sponsors for doing that but I actually need to try hard.
We go around the circle and stop. We hear a speech made by the president, the anthem plays and we go into the training center.
Xander shows us the elevator and we press 11 because we are from district 11, easy enough. We reach the 11th floor. That was the first elevator I have ever been in. I really want to go onto it again but I don't want to seem childish in front of Thresh.
Xander hands me a room key (which I now know how to use) and points to a room
"Dinner is in 10 minutes"
I enter my room, and it is bigger that my entire house at home, and the room in the train put together! WOW! And this one also has it's own bathroom, but also bigger. There are more buttons on the shower to. I press the lilac soap and wash off the little makeup I had on and the curls out of my hair. I step out of the shower onto a mat and it completely dries me, cool. I step forward, not looking forward to having to get the knots out of my hair, and I feel a little zing I touch my hair and it is silky smooth, really cool. I go to the closet and put on a pink dress with spaghetti straps and walk down to dinner.
Dinner is full of "you did great" or "amazing job guys." To tell the truth I completely forgot what I ate.
I am about to enter my room when I feel a mist and see that there is a garden outside to my left. Curiously, I walk out and see Thresh standing there. I walk over to him cautiously and he looks to see who it is.
"Rue" he says, and some how I know he is crying
"ya"
"How do you do it, stay so strong in front of everyone, always having a good mood. Right now in district 11 I would be reading to my little sister Celia. She would probably make a comment how I pronounced a word wrong, and I would say 'shut up and listen'"
" I don't really know Thresh. But I put it into my mind that I am not going to live but I don't want the people around me to suffer with me and my fears"
"Thanks kid, you are really smart for someone as old as my kid sister"
"You're welcome Thresh" and with that he leave. I start to wander around the garden because the moon is reflecting off all of the hundreds of flowers.
There are flowers like clematises, lilies, poppy, lavenders, Irises, and Dahlias. Then it hits me. All the names of those flowers are the names of my best friends and my siblings.
That is when I sit down and finally begin to cry.
N/A Sorry this chapter was so long =I
Well next chapter is Training, and maybe training scores.
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