Chapter 3: The Capitol
The next morning I woke up with a racing heart. I had a dream that I outlived Fir and had to stand back and watch him be brutally stabbed multiple times. I went to the bathroom and splashed water on my face several times. When I had finally calmed down I headed out to the food cart where Breakfast was being served. Before I entered I saw Fir and Finnick laughing about something. I figured it had something to do with fishing since they both had worked on the boats at one point. I walked into the room and sat down next to Spikelet who was immersed in an article about District 4, about me.
"It seems that you two are getting popular already!" she told me excitedly. I feigned equal enthusiasm. I really didn't want people to know about me or like me even though I knew how important it was.
"Good morning!" I said trying to get the boys' attention. Fir looked up and smiled at me while Finnick just looked up.
"Good morning beautiful," Fir said to me. Despite the situation, I still got butterflies in my stomach.
"Did you sleep well?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"Nightmares?" I asked. He nodded. "Me too,"
"Better get used to them," Finnick said picking up an apple.
"We should be very close to the Capitol now," Spikelet said interrupting us. I think she didn't like the idea of me arguing with my mentor.
"What should we do when we get there?" Fir asked Finnick.
"You two already have most of the population's attention with the career district and the suspected love thing so I would flaunt it. The Games are a television show and anything that will gain a good public opinion will help you in the future," Finnick told us.
"So show a lot of PDA?" I asked to clarify.
"Exactly."
"We can do that," Fir said smiling. We were pretty open about our relationship back home so I didn't see what the issue would be going ahead.
I ate a rushed breakfast because Spikelet wanted us to get ourselves ready for the Capitol's eyes before they saw us. I honestly had no clue what people from the Capitol really liked so I assumed that meant to dress up. I had just finished putting on my earrings when Fir came bursting into my room.
"We are here!" he exclaimed tugging me out into the room with the biggest windows. Even I was excited, the Capitol was supposedly gorgeous and wealthy and Fir's happiness usually rubbed off onto me. We stood by the window eagerly peering out to see our first glimpses. Finnick was sitting as far away as possible and Spikelet was trying to conceal her excitement. We pulled into the station and there were thousands of Capitol citizens who were cheering and waving. Fir put his arm around me and we waved back. I went up to kiss him on the cheek but he moved his face and we ended up kissing each other on the mouth. The crowd erupted into an even louder applause and nuzzled my face into his strong chest until we were out of view. I smiled up at him.
"That wasn't bad at all," I told him.
"Yeah I didn't mind," he replied.
"Well neither did the Capitol. You guys were a hit," Finnick complimented us.
"You two are just the cutest thing I have ever seen!" Spikelet told us. "You are a real life tragedy!" I had never heard someone so enthusiastic about tragedy in my life.
We were split up when the time came to go meet our stylists and prep team. Our stylist's name was Spens Cronin. After I got all the hair ripped from my body and I was cleaned and deemed ready to meet Spens I was put into a room. Apparently Fir got to meet with him first before I got to. When Spens walked in I immediately had to take in what he looked like. He was tall and lean, but that wasn't what stood out. He was dressed in all sea blue, even his skin and his hair looked like the ocean.
"I'm Spens," he said to me as I shook his hand. "I will be your stylist for the rest of the Games,"
"Nice to meet you," I replied. Then he got into what he had planned for the parade that evening.
"You do know that the parade is tonight right?" he asked.
"Yeah," I replied. "And the tributes usually wear something to represent their District's industry,"
"Exactly,"
"We fish," I told him.
"I know. Now you could do the more traditional kind of stuff mermaids, jazzed up fisherman outfits but this year, given the circumstances, I decided to change it up,"
"How?" I asked. There was only so much you could do with the sea.
"I want him to be the jazzed up fisherman like usual. But this year because you guys are in love, you are going to be the fish that he reeled in." he told me getting excited.
"That's not a bad idea," I told him.
"Thanks. Fir will have a big fishing rod and every time he reels you in you have to kiss him," he continued. I blushed.
"Okay," I agreed.
"Now for the dress…" he said continuing and bringing in other stylists to help get me ready.