Disclaimer: I will own the Hunger Games on the day when Effie is late to the Reaping :)
Hold my place, don't you give up on me. Hold on. Hold on...
The River by Imagine Dragons
"Up, up, up! It's time for another big, big day!"
I groan and put my pillow over my head. Effie is hard to handle even on normal days. And today is definitely NOT a normal day.
Tonight is interview night, and Effie's job is to make us presentable. I'm not looking forward to spending an entire day with Effie, but it's better than spending the day with my prep team, who's favorite activity is ripping all the hair off my body.
"Primrose Everdeen!" she yells, and bursts through the door, literally dragging me out of bed.
"Okay, okay. I'm up." To reinforce this, I grab a shirt and pants out of the closet and head for the showers.
I'm worried about the interview. I got a seven in training last night for my climbing and knife throwing, which I'm not too bad at actually if I don't have to throw from far away. As Effie puts it, ' everyone wants to hear about the Girl on Fire's little sister with a seven in training.
What kind of questions will they ask? Will they figure out about Gale and me? And most importantly, how do I stay under the Capitol's radar?
"No, no, NO!" Effie scolds me. "Your skirt should never be above the ankles. NEVER above the ankles!"
With a superhuman effort, I manage not to roll my eyes. We've been at it for over an hour, and I'm ready to take off these stupid high heels and throw them like knives, right at Effie's head.
Gale's too, if he keeps snickering like that.
"It's not funny." I give him a death glare.
"I never said it was."
Forget kissing him. I want to kill him.
Like a little kid, I stick my tongue out at Gale. And this time he can't help it. He laughs, and eventually I start to laugh, too. Even Effie is suppressing a smile.
"Now, now, children. We don't have time for this."
I'm about to say that we're not children, never really have been, but Effie doesn't give me a chance.
"Now we'll work on smiling..."
Sorry, this was kind of a filler, but the next one will be longer, I promise.
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