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*~KelsNicole~*
I look ahead of me, too afraid of what Cameron is going to do. Looking ahead I watch the District One tributes chariot start to move, I don't really see anyone else around me. Fear has frozen me, a little fire? These people are crazy! Of course I'm afraid of a little fire, fire can burn me!
"Just relax." Cameron says in a calm voice. He walks in front of the chariot. "Acacia, calm down."
"Great advice. Got anymore?" My teeth are clenched and I feel Alwin put his arm around me, around my waist. I put mine around him. Cameron stops me and puts a clear lacy fabric on both of my arms, they attach to the sleeves on my dress. Staring at my right arm I see that its got the same design of the dress, its just a little more shimmery. "Cameron, do you have to do this?"
"Trust me." He says and gets on the chariot, behind us I feel a little flame ignite. A small crackle and pop, he jumps off the back. "You too look great!"
Our chariot starts to move and we grab onto each other. My eyes are open in fear and I look over at Alwin, his eyes are on me. Now I understand all of this, we are the fusion in the bomb, that is why we are connected. Together we can make an explosion. Alwin's blue eyes are even more dazzling in the flickering light from the flame. As our chariot leaves the garage, we both look forward. All eyes turn to us as smoke of different colors flows behind us, little flashes of light surrounds us.
People are too dazzled to say anything, but all eyes are on us. We must look powerful together, something that the Capital doesn't want to see. I wonder if Odysseus doesn't like our chariot, after all we have to be….close and our arms are around each other. Silently keeping my eyes forward I take his free hand in mine and we both stay as still as possible.
I can't feel the heat by the time we get to the Training Center, where we will train and stay until the Games begin. Our chariot stops for a minute in front of the entrance for our chariot to go through, everyone just stares. Then it happens, our wick runs out on our head piece and when it does it sends smoke and colors up into the night sky. Everyone begins to clap and cheer. We start to move again and the doors close behind us, the cheering doesn't stop.
"Well done!" Cameron yells as he jumps onto our chariot. He takes off our head piece and hands it to Clove. "You two did wonderful!"
"Nice job." Odysseus says and he walks toward Haymitch who is spluttering out words at his tributes. "Haymitch!"
"You two can come down now." Clove's voice rings out, the excitement is clear in her voice. I look around us and see that we are getting many glares, we clearly outshined everyone. "Come on…"
Alwin and me lock eyes as we take our release each other, my muscles are sore and I don't want to let go of him. There is a spark in his eyes that wasn't there before, I feel as though my legs are jello and not just from standing here so long. He gets off of the chariot first and holds up his hands to help me down. Once he sets me on the ground some how we end up in each other's arms again and I don't want to be let go.
"Okay, okay." Odysseus walks over to us, he looks at us for a moment then shrugs. "Let's go eat."
"They outshined you!" Is all that we can hear from Haymitch as we leave the room. "They were a bomb! They blew you two up!"
On the elevator Alwin and I can't keep our eyes off of each other, there is something going on and I don't know what. We get off on the thirteenth floor, most places skip over thirteen, but not the Capital. Inside we follow Odysseus who keeps making comments like, "you have all day to look around, keep walking," and so on. He stops and walks over to a large table and takes a seat.
Looking around the room I am amazed. The walls are a crystal like white and the floor is a soft looking white cloud carpet. Alwin leads me over to the table and pulls a chair over to sit next to me, this does not please Odysseus. By this point I don't care anymore, if I'm going to go and die in a few days let me do what I want these last few days.
"Training starts tomorrow." Odysseus says and he looks over at Abigail. "You two should stick together, since….it seemed to work today."
"You mean that we can actually say hi to each other?" I say in a sarcastically happy voice. "Odysseus! This must be some sort of joke!"
"It's not like I can keep you two away from each other anyways, some how you two find a way to break my rules. But be careful, if your little act today didn't spark rumors with the media I'll be surprised." He sits back and folds his hands on the table. A little girl walks into the room pushing a cart, silently she puts a bowl of soup in front of each of us. "You two better learn how to fight and about survival during the training periods. Learn what is edible in plants and what is deadly. Both of you better learn how to use a knife and other weapons or you are both as good as dead."
"I know how to use a knife." Alwin says with a sly smile. "You didn't expect that did you, Odysseus?"
Odysseus sits back with a small smile on his face, a cocky smile. "Show me then, because last thing that I knew you were a good little boy."
With a smile on his face Alwin lets go of me and stands up, with a knife in hand and aims it toward the wall. Everyone watches in silence as he lets go of the knife and it lodges into the wall, right in the middle of the wall. Alwin sits back down and I stare at him in amazement and shock.
"Well, well…" Odysseus stares at Alwin looking proud and pleased. "Looks like we have ourselves a knife expert!"
"I can show you how to." Alwin offers and there is a smile on his lips. "Tomorrow during training?"
I smile back at him, liking the sound of it. "That would be great."
The promises of him showing me how to do anything means that we are going to be touching and I like the sound of it. Even though I know that I should be more careful I can't help myself but to agree with it and to be excited about it.
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