Hey guys so here is chapter number ten.
In this chapter you guys will see Annie and Finnick relationship grow even more. And you guys will finally see Annie at the Capitol for the first time
And just so you guys know I will be going back to my other chapters and fixing some of my mistakes. I know I have a lot of them but I couldn't go back a cheek them because I really never had the time.
And I'm so sorry for taking so long to update I promise I won't take as long for the next one.
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games or the song I won't give up.
Annie Belle (Annie) Point of view:
(The Next Day)
I woke up, not to the sound of Sophia yelling for me to get up but to the sound of birds chirping outside of my window. I smile as I hear the sound; they sound so happy and so full of life something that I used to have. I look over all around my room to find that Finnick had left.
I feel a little disappointment to see he wasn't in the room with me and it wasn't because I wanted him to stay in my room overnight. It was just that I like the idea of him watching over me while I sleep. It made me feel safe because I knew he would never let anything hurt me.
I get up from my bed and look down at myself to see that I still had on the same clothes on from last night. Last night these clothes look like one of the prettiest clothes I ever seen but after going to sleep with them on, they look like a mess of clothes.
I walk into my bathroom and go straight to my shower. I take my time in the shower but after my fingers start to look like raisins I finally get out of the shower and walk over to my closet.
There were so many clothes in my closet that it made me sick to even looking at them. In District Four there are a billion of people who barely have a single blouse that isn't ripped, and it makes me sick to see how many of the Captol didn't even have one ripped blouse.
I know I live at Victors Village with Mags and never had to worry about if I would have food on the table but that doesn't mean that I never gave back or helped other people. Every Sunday I would go down to the children shelter and help out as much as I could. Mags had showed me that it doesn't matter how much money you have or where you live, we are all the same and we should all be treated the same.
I can't stand to look at the clothes anymore so I just pick the first thing my hands grab. I put on red dress that has two big white stripes at the bottom. I also pick out flat white shoes and let my hair down.
I look in the mirror and see that I never token off my locket. I smile as I look at it. It had all the pictures of my family and friend in it. About three months ago I changed one of pictures in my locket into a picture of Mags, my Father, Jason, Taylor, Eva, Mason and me all together smiling at the beach, where we distended to spend the day at. I left the picture where my whole family is in it. I could never take that picture out. It was one of the last pictures that my family toke before all hell broke loose.
I walk out of my room and walk down the hall to the dining room when a large piano catches my eye. I walk into the room to see that it was a library and that it was full of book. In the middle of the room the piano laid, I walk over to it and sit on the bench and run my hand over the keys of the piano. As I sat there I feel at home. Music always made me feel at home no matter where I was. It was like my safe zoon. I was the only thing that the Captol could never take away from me.
I keep on running my hand over the keys of the piano that I didn't even hear the footsteps behind me. I look up from the piano as I feel someone sit next to me. As I look up I saw Finnick smiling at me.
"I figured you would be in here." Finnick says to me.
I smile at him then go back to running my hand over the keys of the piano I do it for a while but then Finnick finally says "Aren't you going to play me a song, that's the whole reason I'm here."
"What makes you think that I would play you a song? You know you're not as special you may think." I say to him still not looking at him.
"You know many people would disagree with you on that. And it's not because I think I'm special. It's because I'm your mentor and if you don't play me a song….well let just say the next couple of days are going to be hell for you." Finnick says.
I stop running my hand over the keys of the piano and look at him and say "Are you blackmailing me?"
He smiles a little bit and says "What you call blackmailing, I call encouragement."
"I'll take that as a yes." I take a deep breath then say "What do you want me to sing."
He's smile grows even more as he says to me "That song that our mothers used to listen to all the time when we were kids."
I smile at him the turn back to the piano and start playing the song.
(I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz)
When I look into your eyes
It's like watching the night sky
Or a beautiful sunrise
Well there's so much they hold
And just like them old stars
I see that you've come so far
To be right where you are
How old is your soul?
I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
And when you're needing your space
To do some navigating
I'll be here patiently waiting
To see what you find
'Cause even the stars they burn
Some even fall to the earth
We've got a lot to learn
God knows we're worth it
No, I won't give up
Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts
We got yeah we got a lot at stake
And in the end, you're still my friend at least we didn't tend
For us to work we didn't break, we didn't burn
We had to learn, how to bend without the world caving in
I had to learn what I got, and what I'm not
And who I am
I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
I'm still looking up
I won't give up on us
God knows I'm tough, he knows
We got a lot to learn
God knows we're worth it
I won't give up on us
Even if the skies get rough
I'm giving you all my love
I'm still looking up
Once I finish, I hear Finnick clap for me. I smile as I look at him, he opens his mouth to tell me something but Sophia comes into the room yelling that were missing breakfast.
I get up to leave but Finnick catches my arm and pulls me back. He was about to say something again but then Sophia yells at us again, so he closes he's mouth and shakes his head and walks away.
I stare at him as he walks away from me. I wonder what he was going to say to me as I follow him and Sophia into the dining room.
Once we enter, I notice that Mags and Mason have already started eating. I walk over to Mags and give her a kiss on the cheek as I sit down next to her. She smiles at me and I smile back at her.
"Hey, why don't I get a kiss on the cheek?" Mason asks me.
I laugh as I say "Do you really want a kiss on the cheek?"
"I did, but after seeing how you forgot about me, forget it." Once Mason says this everyone in the room starts to laugh.
We all sat and eat in silence after that. After were all done Finnick and Mags look at each other and then Finnick look at Mason and me with a little look of pity in his eyes.
"We will be pulling up at the station in a few minutes and there are a few things you should know first." Finnick says.
"Like what?" Mason asks him.
"Like the first thing you do when we get there. You both will be put in the arms of your stylists. And to be honest you're going to hate what they are going to do to you but you can't resist, no matter how bad it gets." Finnick says.
"Do you both understand?" Mags asks us.
I look over to Mason, he nods his head and I do the same.
"Good" Both Mags and Finnick say at the same time.
(A Few Minutes Later)
Mason and I are stand in front of the train door with Mags, Finnick and Sophia by our sides; we had finally made it to the Captol or what I like to call it, the land of the fake. The train was finally slowing down and as it does, I see all the bright lights of the Captol. It all was so bright and so full of colors.
I never imagined that I would see the Captol anywhere but my T.V screen but as I stand here watching the Captol I can't help but wish I was right. I don't want to be in a place where death was celebrated or in a place where everything had to be so luxurious. I wanted to be at home with Mags, watching her cook our dinner while being on the phone with Mason and Eva talking about the newest gossip in school or on the beach with my guitar on my lap while I singing as loudly as I could while Garrett sits beside me smiling at me.
I wanted to be anywhere, just not here.
I feel a hand on my shoulder and as I look up to see who it is I see Finnick. He was trying to comfort me. He knew I was hurting and he wanted to be there for me. I give him a small smile just as I felt the train stop. Finnick takes his hand off my shoulder just as the doors of the train open up.
After what felt like hours of standing in front of the train, letting everyone get pictures of us. We are leaded by Peacekeepers into a tall building. After entering an elevator and reaching floor four we are all separated. I was lead into a room where I found three strange looking people waiting for me.
They all introduce themselves but after they tell me their names they make me strip my dress off and get on a table. I do everything they ask me to do without saying a word.
The women with pink hair and blue skin color who name is Harper tells me at one point I had the prettiest eyes and that they look just like Finnick's eyes.
After Harper's comment everyone stays silent. The only thing I could hear was the sound of everyone's heartbeats. I look to my right to see the other women who name was Teacup looking at me weirdly but I ignore it and close my eyes and wait till their done.
After their all done, they look at me from my head to toes then they smile at their work.
"You look amazing." Harper tells me.
"I guess it time to call Lighting." Teacup says.
"I'll go get him as you two make sure she just right." The man with the blue hair says as he walks out of the room.
After the girls make sure I'm just right they start to leave but Teacup stops by the door and turns around and ask me "You remind me of someone but I just can't remember who?"
"I most remind you of my older sister, we look almost like twins. She was a tribute." I say.
"Who was your sister?"Teacup and Harper ask at the same time.
"Pia Cresta" After I say Pia's name both women's eyes fill with fear and shock. They both look at each other but don't say a word.
"Did you know…."I was cut off by Teacup saying "We have to go, we're sorry."
After she says this, they both run out of the room as fast as they can. After the door closes after them I stare at it, wondering what the hell just happen.
It doesn't take long till the door of the room opens up again and a tall man walked in. He had blue color skin and his hair was long and green. Right away I know this must be Lighting, my stylist.
"Hello Annie Belle. I'm Lighting, your stylist." Lighting said in a shockingly sad voice.
"Hi" I say with no emotion.
He looks at me from toes to head then walks around me. Once he's done walking around me he gives me a robe to put on and makes me follow him into a sitting room.
He sits down on a white beautiful big couch and I follow him. He gives me a cup with water in it from the table in front of us. We sit in silence as I drink the water and even after I finish the water.
I think he was waiting for me to ask him something or to even start a conversation but the thing is that I wasn't going to talk to one of these Captol people unless I was asked a question or saying hello. No matter how nice they are to me, I will never forget that because they thought kids killing each other and kid's starving on live T.V was exciting; a millions kids have died and in less than a week I would be one of those millions.
He finally breaks the silence by saying "So Kim (other District four stylist) and I have been look at new ideas for District four outfits for the chariot rides because we are sick of the same old stuff. We want something new and fresh. So we are made a green fish scales dress. Do you like that idea?"
I nod my head and say "Yes".
"That is the worst idea ever. A dress made out of scales." I think to myself.
"I can see you don't like the idea even though you said yes. Your sister used to be the same way." He says.
I look at him and say "You were Pia's stylist?"
He's eyes full with fear, when I say her name, just like Harper and Teacup. I wonder what happen to make them all act this way. He must have not meant to have brought her up, if he looks like this.
"Yes…I was Pia's stylist" He says with fear in his voice.
"Oh really…" I was cut off by him saying "I'm sorry but we have lots to do before the chariot rides tonight so if you don't mind let's get started."
"Okay but….." I say but again I get cut off by him saying with such fear in his voice "No buts, just be quite and get change."
(Hours Later)
"You look beautiful Annie." Mags says to me once she sees me in the green fish scales dress.
I smile at her and thank her because I knew she wasn't lying. I did look beautiful in this dress. The dress wasn't as bad as I thought. The dress had green scales all over it and because of color of the dress; Lighting told me it made the dress look even better on me because of my eyes. My hair was down and curly, and I had nice white heels on.
Mason was wearing a tuxedo made out of green scales just like my dress and he had white shoes on too. He's hair was cut a bit and his growing beard was now gone.
We were all ready to go but we had to wait for one more person: Finnick. He had left to go somewhere when we had arrived here and had just gotten back a few minutes ago.
I had just finish getting ready and had just walked out of the room, when he had just gotten back. For some reason he looked so a shame of something that he don't even look at me as he walked passed me. He just looked down at the ground and act as if he doesn't see me.
I felt a bit hurt when he did that, even though I knew that I had no right to feel hurt. Finnick doesn't have say hi to me every time he sees me and he doesn't to tell me his problems but a part of me wishes he would.
After a few more minutes Finnick finally comes out of the room and my mouth drops open. He looks like god that had just fallen from the heavens. He was dressed in a black tuxedo on with a green tie. He had black shoes and his hair was perfectly gelled back.
"Well looks everyone already here, so we should get going." Lighting says as he and the rest get up from their chairs and start walking to the door.
I started to walk to the door but stopped as I hear Finnick call my name.
I turn around and say "Yeah."
"I just wanted to tell you that don't be nerves, when everyone starts stare at you." Finnick says.
"Finn, when you walk out there, they won't even see me. So I don't have to worry about being nerves." I say.
"You're kidding right. You look beautiful. Only a crazy person would look at me other than you." He says.
I laugh at what he said and Finnick looks at me as if I had three eyes.
"What so funny?" He asks.
I stop laughing and say to him "You just called me beautiful, when you stand there looking like a god. The one who is beautiful in the room right now is you."
Finnick frowns then says "Annie, I may look beautiful from the outside but in the inside I am far from beautiful. You on the other hand are beautiful from inside and out."
I feel goose bumps all over my body once he tells me this because he was the last person on earth I would think to call me beautiful.
I stand there not knowing what to say to him. He was just so breathtaking. He knew all the right things to say and all the right things to do to make any girl fall to her knees. Don't get me wrong he wasn't perfect, he had floss just like everyone has but he has a way of making you forget about them.
I open my mouth but no words came out of them. It was like my mind had shut off and there was no way I knew how to turn it back on. A piece of my hair falls into my face and before I can put it back in place, Finnick walks over to me and grabs the piece of hair.
As he sets the piece of hair back in place, I can feel butterflies in my stomach, the same butterflies that I felt when I was 11 year old and Finnick give me a kiss on the cheek while dropping me off at my house after the bonfire. We were so young and so full of life back then, we had no idea how mean and cruel the world really was.
Finnick was so close to my face that I could feel his breath on my face and hear a heartbeat from his chest. And as I listen more I could hear his heartbeat fasten as he stepped closer to me. There was almost no space between us anymore and to be honest that made me nerves.
He opens his mouth to tell me something but just as he did the door of the room open up and an angry Sophia comes into the room yelling at us to get a move on.
Finnick closes his mouth and does as Sophia orders us to do. We walk down to the Remake center, where all the horses and chariots where, to see that everyone was waiting for us anxiety. I say sorry once I get there but they don't even hear me as they throw me into the chariot with Mason.
The music begins and the massive door open reveling the crowd streets. District one ride out first looking beautiful as always and then the rest of the chariot follow out in number order. Once it reaches our turn I looked over to Mason and gave him a kiss on the cheek and whisper into his ears "Don't get nerves, they'll love you just as much as I do."
He smiles at me just as are chariot starts to move. I look over my shoulder to where Finnick is stand with Mags and see him mouthing something to me. I can't really see what he's saying but then I hear Mason say it in my ear "Finnick says you look beautiful and that you'll do amazing."
I look back at Mason and smile at him.
"Thank you Mason" I say to him.
As we enter the crowded streets and move thru the streets the crowed goes crazy. They start screaming out District four and start jumping up and down.
I put a smile on my face and wave at them all, even if every bone in my body tells me to spit in their faces and give them all the middle finger. At one point I think about doing it to this guy who came out of nowhere and started yelling out how much he loved me and wanted to marry me but I don't. I smile and blow him a kiss but once I do that I wish I can take it back because then everyone starts yelling at me to blow them kiss. I say I loved them all and once I do I knew I would have to wash my mouth with soup and water later.
I look at Mason out of the corner of my eyes to see how he is doing and as I do I see he's doing great. He's blowing kiss and smiling. He even told a women, who look like she could be his grandmother, that she was the women of his dreams. And of course the women just had to faint once he said that.
Once our chariot pulls up right up to President Snow Mansion, we come to a stop. After all the chariots have finally reaches the to President Snow Mansion, the music ends and the President Snow walks onto a balcony and starts he's boring speech like he does every year.
I have to bit my tongue while he speaks because I know if I don't I would yell out something or do something, I would regret later. I hate stand in front of the man that ruin my life and not being able to do anything to him but smile at him and act like my life was perfect, when in reality it the opposite of perfect.
After President Snow finishes his speak the music starts up again and then all the chariots start to move again to the training center.
Once we enter the training center are prep teams help us out of our chariots but as my prep team helps me out my heels get tangled with my dress and makes me fall out of the chariot.
I close my eyes as I fall to the ground but instead of falling to the ground, I fall into strong arms. I open my eyes to see that Finnick had caught me.
He smiles at me and I can't help but smile back at him.
"You okay." He whispers in my ear.
I nod my head as he puts me back on the ground.
"Thank you for catching me." I say to him.
"Anytime Annie" Finnick says.
After he says that my prep team rushes over us and drags us both to an elevator. They bring us to a floor with the number four on it. My prep team brings me to my new room and helps me get out of my dress and help me get all the makeup of my body.
As they help me clean up I feel like I should ask Teacup and Harper why they ran out the room once I told them I was Pia's sister and why they looked so scared but before I talk to them I knew I had to talk to Mags first. She always knew the answers and she was one of the only people I trust in the Captol other than Mason and Finnick.
After I'm in pajamas and all clean up, my prep team leaves and I go lay on my bed, thinking about my family and friends back home, with a million questions running thru my head.
Like if Eva misses our movie nights? Or if, Jason misses our afternoon walks on the beach and if my Father misses our Father-Daughter talks? I even wonder if Garrett missed our Sunday nights boat rides?
As I think about Garrett, I can't help but feel terrible for what I did to him. He had told me he loved me and I just told him I couldn't deal with him at that moment. If I had just said those three little words maybe his last memory with me would have been a more pleasant one but if I said those words, I would feel even worst because I would know that I lied to him.
Maybe when Mason wins and goes back home he could tell Garrett that I may have not loved him but that I still cared for him very deeply and wished thing between us had ended better.
I hear a knock on my door and before I can respond to tell the person to come in, a brown hair woman, who looks to be around her late twenties, comes into my room hold clean towels in her hands. I know once I saw her looking down at the ground and not looking at me that she is an avox. I feel pity for the poor women for having to be another victim of the Captol. She still hasn't look up as she put the towels down in the bathroom.
As she starts walking out of the room, she bumps into a table near the door and makes the things on the table fall to the ground. As she starts to pick the things off the ground, I jump off my bed and walk over to her. I bent down and start to help her clean up the mess.
She stops cleaning for a second as she notices that I'm helping her. Then she finally turns to look at me and once she does her eyes fill with shock and disbelieved. She starts to mouthing words but I can't understand what she trying to say until she mouths one word I do know.
Pia
AN:
Hey guys, I know it been a while since I last updated but I have so much going on right now with school and dance class. I'm trying so hard to update this story as fast as I can but it really hard. Just know I'm trying.
Spoilers:
In the next chapter you guys will see what happens between Annie and the Avox. And you guys will also see Annie's and Mason's first day of training. And lots more Finnick and Annie scenes.
You guys can find Annie's outfits on my profile
