Woo! I'm back and here is the next chapter
I sit there, dumbfounded, whilst everybody congratulates me. I snap my head to the side to see Isaac slinking away into the corridor.
"Isaac." I say, but he doesn't listen and he carries on walking. I sigh, and look back at the screen. They have added a new bit which I've never seen before. A sign saying 'Tributes/Mentors/Stylists only' pops on to the screen.
"Now we have finished the scores, we are going to zoom in on each district to see the reactions." Caesar spins his chair round and District 1 comes on. Everybody is clapping, cheering and whooping, as well as 2. Then our district comes on, and everybody is dancing and cheering. It's the happiest I've ever seen my mother, as she's at the front, in the special reserved place for friends and family, clinging onto Freya and her other friend Marge, waving her arms around. I choke back the tears, as I see Freya and my mother again. Piper looks… different. Pale skin and bags around her eyes. I look to Freya, to see she's normal, just skinnier. Oh how I wish I could sent buckets of cheesy chips, beef, rolls and cheese strings to her, she'd adore them. That just makes me realize.
I'm craving cheese.
"What?" Jenna asks me. I look back puzzled.
"What?"
"You said I'm craving cheese."
"I said that out loud?" I ask. I receive nods. Yawning, I stretch. "Excuse me, I'm going to bed."
"Oh, before you go." Beetee says and I stop. "Tomorrow you'll be spending the morning with Yazmin, and the afternoon with Jenna, and then in the evening, Renesmee, Herb, Cherish and Nigella will transform you for your interview."
I nod, praying for no serious alterations, like having magenta colour dyed onto my skin or jewels implanted on me. Maybe stick-on ones will be okay.
"Night." I muffle.
I wake up in the morning, at 9. I flip the covers off, but lie back down as I realize I haven't got training today. I was about to snuggle back down but Yazmin decides to fling open the door, screeching. "Hannalise!"
"What." I moan into my pillow.
"Up, Up, Up!"
Puffing, I get up and get some clothes from the closet, and look over to Yazmin.
"Some privacy please?" I sarcastically say. She rolls her eyes and walks over to the door, closing it behind her.
I strip off, having a quick shower. I avoid pressing any buttons, and change into the outfit I picked out. It was a yellow long-sleeved dress coming to just above my knees, with a sunflower pinned to the left corner. I twirl in the mirror, pinning my hair up into a top-knot.
Yazmin impatiently bangs on the door. "Are you done yet?"
"Uh-huh." I say, placing a final grip in place. I go to open the door, where I find Yazmin filing her nails.
"Thank lord, let's go." She says, placing her nail filer in her pockets and drags me off to her room.
"SIT UP STRAIGHT!" Yazmin barks at me. "DON'T LIFT YOUR DRESS UP TOO HIGH!" She complains. "WALK WITHOUT WOBBLING!" she shouts, obviously losing her temper.
I slump onto the sofa, kick off the 6 inch heels she put me into, and hoist my gown to above my feet.
"I'm very ladylike, see?"
I strike a pose. She clutches her shirt.
"You remind me of Finnick Odair."
"Oh, the heart-throb from district 4. Isn't he like, 50 now?"
Yazmin gasps. "No, he's 49."
I laugh as she balls her hands into fists.
"Right, our dreadful session is over. Go and meet Jenna in her room, and if you see Isaac, call him in for me please."
I sit up, take off the dress and place my shoes back on. I had to rush back for them after Yazmin dragged me off. They are white with frills on them. Slipping them on, I look to see her filing her nails again.
"Your gonna have none left." I say, walking to the door.
"What do you know about fashion?" Yazmin shoots back.
I don't pass Isaac in the hall. I hadn't seen him since last night, I wonder if he's still in the alliance.
Jenna was waiting on her bed, and her face lights up when she sees me.
"You survived."
"Barely." I laugh.
"So, what angle are we going for?" Jenna shifts herself so she's facing me.
"I don't know." I shrug
"Right, I was maybe thinking go for cute?"
"Yeah sure, but can I also act like myself?"
"Without all of the sarcastic comments, yeah." Jenna rolls her eyes.
I chuckle. "Okay."
"Right, I'm going to be Caesar Flickerman, and I'm just going to ask you some simple questions, so just answer them like how you would if Caesar actually asked you them."
So she does, and I do answer them like I would, and she seemed pretty happy.
"Okay, so were going for natural and cute. Your dismissed."
I say bye and was about to walk out but my prep team and Renesmee burst through the door.
"It's time!" Cherish pipes in her silly accent as they drag me off.
I arrive in a golden room below the stage, and I see Isaac through the window walking to his room.
"Isaac!" I leap through the door and engulf him in a hug.
"Hey." He says bluntly.
"Look I'm sorry-"I begin, but he cuts me off
"Doesn't matter, were still allies okay."
I nod as he walks away. I'm dragged in by Nigella and Herb pulls the curtains over the window.
"Go and sit in that chair." Herb says as he collects his things. I do so, and Nigella pulls a black thing over my head.
"It's to stop make up falling." She explains. They begin on me, adding silver, black and white here and there, and spraying silver glitter in my hair.
"Done!" Nigella pipes. I look in the mirror and gasp. I have silver eyes outlined in black and white lips outlined in black, with my hair falling down by my shoulders with glitter.
"Now for your outfit!" Renesmee steps out of the closet and shoos the prep team away as she gives me a dress. It's a long sparkly white dress, with gaps at either sides of my hips, and a short split coming up between my legs.
"It's gorgeous." I twirl with it.
"Go and get dressed, your interview is in 45 minutes." She gently pushes me into a cubicle as I get dressed into it. Just as I'm about to finish, Caesar Flickerman's voice booms through the speakers.
"Will all tributes go backstage please."
"Quick!" Renesmee does the final alterations and kisses me on the cheek. "Go on girl!"
I arrive at backstage to find nearly everyone here, just except my allies. I sit in the district 3 reservation places to see everyone staring at me. Either in admiration or hatred, but to be honest, this is my interview dress, so I can wear it. Caesar comes onto our screens which are hung above everybody's heads.
"Welcome! This is the tributes interviews, so you can get a final look at them before they go into the arena tomorrow!"
I freeze. I thought it was in 2 days. Caesar continues.
"So, let's welcome up District 1's, Carlos!" he booms and does the interview.
"District 1's Petite!" He introduces, shaking Petite's hand.
"District 2's Baxter!" He shouts, sitting down with him
"District 2's Kiki!" He laughs with Kiki.
Then he comes up to us. "District 3's Isaac!" and Isaac appears up in the stage as I'm called by the director. I watch his interview, he's gone for charming. His interview goes without a hitch, and then I'm called up.
"District 3's Hannalise!" I walk on, plastering a gleaming smile on my face, shaking Caesar's hand gently and sitting down carefully.
"Wow, you look amazing!" Caesar states.
"Well thank you, my dedicated stylist and prep team did have to work very hard for this masterpiece to happen!" I smile.
"I bet!" Caesar laughs with me. "So, your score of 7, how did you do that?"
I chuckle, not sure how to say it, but a voice from the crowd shouts out. "She's not allowed to tell!" and it came from the Head-Game maker, who smiles at me.
"Exactly." I clasp my hands.
"Well that's disappointing, but anyways, let's go to the reaping."
My heart sinks. I don't really want to talk about my mother and Freya.
"So, when you got called, your friend-"
"Freya." I interrupt. "Sorry."
" No, no it's fine. She clung to you like dear life didn't she."
"Yes, I guess. She squeezed me for dear life too in the justice building."
"Awwh. Let's move on to your mother, Piper."
"She wasn't at the reaping, but came after to see me, and she claimed that she knew something bad was going to happen. I told her she couldn't do anything about it. I wasn't really that close to my mother, but I finally said 'I love you' after." I babble quickly.
"Well that is beautiful." He says, and the timer beeps. "Well we've run out of time, thank you very much. Hannalise Jones from District 3!" he stands up and lifts my hand up in the air.
I run down the stage and fly into Renesmee arms. "Good job girl!" she hugs me.
I laugh and whip around to see my allies here. "Hey!" I say
"You were great!" Auburn says. John nods. Auburn takes a deep breath and tells me something astonishing.
"After your interview, Isaac came up to us and said-" she begins but is cut off by John
"Isaac has quit the alliance, because he thinks' you're a threat."
"What? He said he was still in it before!" I protest.
Auburn shakes her head. "He said 'she's just another person in my way of victory'"
Oooh. Hope you had a spooktacular halloween! Spent mine on the motorway :$ Keep reading and reviewing- CloveandtheMockingjay
