Hey everyone! I'M SUCH A BAD PERSON FOR NOT UPDATING SOONER! But, anyways I just finished writing Stay Strong! So there are eighteen chapters all together...i think...there are two more chapters until the games start. This one and the one after. So there are a few things that stay the same and some different things...i know I probably left you hanging with my last little talk about Peeta...so hope you enjoy this chapter!


Stay strong Chapter Seven

The next day Peeta and I got four hours with Effie and Haymitch. I was with Haymitch for the first four hours. He stared at me for twenty minutes, not saying anything. Finally my nerves got the best of me and I snapped. "What?"

"I'm trying to figure out what to do with you." He mumbled. I sighed angrily.

"Isn't it easy? I'm a spoiled career girl!" He shook his head.

"No, no, no…that isn't enough. You're the girl who volunteered for a girl you don't even know-"

"I do know her she's my friend's sister." I cut it. He just waved me off.

"Yeah whatever, you're the girl from District Twelve who is a career and the girl who got a twelve in training. They're all dying to get to know the real you." I gave him a puzzled look. "Here, I'll pretend to interview you and try to be cocky." We soon learned that I couldn't pull off cocky, sexy, humble, or fierce. I was hopeless.

"Ok, just try not to screw up to bad up there." After that I worked with Effie for four hours, which was pretty fun. She showed me how to walk in high heels, sit like a lady, and be polite.

"Oh Madge, you're a natural! This is the best session I've had, well, ever!" I smiled at her and hugged her.

"Thank you Effie."

After that Peeta and I are property of our prep teams. My prep team rushed in and gushed about me getting a twelve and how everyone in the Capital is buzzing about me. I just smiled and waited until Cinna came in. He told them what kind of make-up to do and how to do my hair. "Ok Madge, close your eyes." I did as I was told and felt as he slid a dress over me.

It felt like silk and went down to me knees. "Ok, you can open them now." I opened my eyes and looked into the mirror and was breath taken. My make-up was dark red that molded in with brown and I had deep red lipstick on. My hair had small red streaks in it with black tips. My dress looked like lava was flowing down my body.

"Wow." I whispered. He smiled and nodded looking like me.

"Well, I decided we should be powerful, but I wanted to keep the fire so…"

"Lava." I mumbled in amazement. He nodded. "Its amazing Cinna, to bad I'm going to suck in the interviews." He told the prep team to go and sat down with me.

"Why do you think you're going to suck?"

"Because I have no angle! Everyone who wins has an angle!" He nodded and looked at me.

"Why not just being yourself?" I started laughing. I think I went insane. "I'm serious! You're a delightful young lady and I think the people would love knowing you, the real you."

"But if I act like myself they'll know I was lying." I argued.

"Here, do it half in half. Still act cocky but show your sensitive side to. Like how you volunteered for that little girl."

"Prim, her name is Prim." I cut in. He smiled.

"Ok, like how you volunteered for Prim. Why did you do that?"

"It was more for my mother. Her twin sister was in the games and died. Ever sense then, she's had these episodes and I don't think she'll get better until I was gone for awhile." He nodded.

"How did your father feel about this?"

"He dis-owned me." I muttered.

"I'm so sorry." He said I smiled and hugged him.

"Thanks Cinna, I think I'm ready now." Cinna lead me to the stage for the interviews.

"Good luck lava girl." I smiled at him and walked up. We were lead to seats to sit in until we were called up to talk to Caesar Flickerman, the interviewer. I sat in the chair, just like Effie had taught me, and looked at my fellow tributes. Glimmer was wearing a see-through gown, no surprise there. Clove was wearing a black dress with gaged edges and Cato was wearing a tux. He smiled at me and I smiled back.

Maria was wearing a orange jumpsuit that gave her the allusion of being a fox. Rue was wearing a purple dress with wings coming out from it. When I looked over at Peeta I nearly fell out of my chair. He was wearing a suit with a dark red tie. He looked like a god with his hair styled perfectly. I could see some of the girls drooling over him and I instinctively felt jealous, which was crazy. The interviews started and I sat there very lady-like.

When Clove went up I got a feeling of dread in my stomach. "So Clove," Caesar asked, "I heard that you and Madge don't get along to well, what do you have to say about that." Clove smiled evilly.

"Well, I'll be straight with you Caesar, I don't like her. She irritates me and I'm angry Cato let her into our alliance. And I don't know how in the world she got a twelve. Probably flashed the judges or something." It took all of my strength not get up and choke her. I just smiled at her and waved at the crowd. I looked over at Haymitch who was nodding in approval at my reaction. After that nothing interesting happened until Rue went up.

"So Rue, what is your strategy for the games?" Caesar asked her. With no hesitation she answered proudly.

"Well, if they can't catch me, they can't hurt me and I'm very hard to catch. So…don't count me out."

"I wouldn't in a million years." Caesar assured her. Finally it was my turn to go up and I strode up confidently. I shook hands with Caesar and took a seat. "Hello Madge." He greeted me.

"Hello Caesar, and may I say I love your outfit today!" He was wearing a dark blue suit with tiny little stars twinkling on it. He thanked me and got onto business.

"So Madge, what's your favorite thing here in the Capital?" I looked over at Cinna who gave me a reassuring nod and I blurted out.

"The roof." He gave me a puzzled look. "The roof on top of the training center with all of the flowers on it." He smiled, now knowing what I was talking about. "I think it's amazing at night seeing the beautiful Capital an flowers surrounding me.

"I've been up there a few times and even sometimes I take my beauty sleep up there. It works right?" He asked the crowd who started giving him reassuring words.

"And Cinna's clothing." Caesar smiled.

"Yes, how did you feel about you opening ceremony outfit?"

"I was thinking damn, Cinna is either a genius or a madman." The crowd burst into laughter at that.

"Which one is he?" Caesar asked, I think he seriously wanted to know.

"I'd say…both." This got the crowd they laughed so loudly I started laughing to. Once the crowd dies down Caesar smirked.

"What do you have to say about Clove's harsh words about you?"

"I'll get back to you when I finish her off in the arena." The crowd were shocked at my harshness. I smiled and they all started laughing. It's like they were my puppets.

"Well, let's talk about your training score. A twelve! No one has ever gotten a twelve before! What did you do in there to get that?"

"Well, lets just say I got a bulls-eye." I winked at the game makers who were dying of laughter. Caesar looked sick with not knowing what I did but moved on.

"So, lets talk about you volunteering. Why did you do that?" I told Caesar what I had told Cinna.

"But when I was about to volunteer I hesitated until I saw my friend Katniss' sister was picked and I knew I had to volunteer." Someone in the audience declared their love for me and I blushed.

"Well, well, well Madge it seems you have an admirer." I blew a kiss to the man who did that and he pretended to catch it. The buzzer rang and that was the end of my interview. I walked off and sat down. Peeta went up and I was impressed. He was extremely likeable and even made jokes that me laugh. Caesar asked Peeta why he volunteered and Peeta told them about Josh being my best friend and I smiled at the camera.

"So Peeta, you're a handsome young man, is there a lady at home?" He blushed.

"Well there was this one girl I liked…" I was surprised that he used past tense. "But the drawings brought her closer to another boy." I wondered if Katniss would figure out that he was talking about her. "But then I met someone else." Oh no. "She's kind, smart, and funny. But I don't think we're going to work out." He wouldn't.

"Why not?" Caesar inquired.

"Because…" Please Peeta, don't. "She came here with me."


Ohhh...similar eh? Did you like the lava thing? I do...

Ok, so I'll try to get the next chapter out soon because I want to get to the games!

OMG did you guys see the new HG trailer? I wish Madge was in the movie but I think they are handling it without her pretty well.

Also, if Madge had been in the movie who would you picture her as?

Ok, so PLEASE REVIEW! I know people are reading this because it's on they're alerts...so just PLEASE DROP IN A REVIEW!

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I LUV PEETA