An hour and a whole lot of pain later, I gritted my teeth.

"Okay Kay, this is the last one. Ready?" Rosalie asked.

I nodded reluctantly. "Owww…." I winced as they pulled out the last of my leg hair with a loud RIP.

"Finally done," Clover smiled at me. "Except…."

And they took tweezers, looked at over my body to remove any last pieces of hair, and I felt….a little awkward, as I should.

But then they were done and they looked me over. My arm and leg hair had all been ripped out, my hair had some glop in it that made it soft, and my fingernails were coated in a clear polish.

"I think you're ready for Leif!" Violetta smiled.

I tried to smile. "Okay."

They shrieked with joy. "We'll send her right in," smiled Rosalie.

I sighed as soon as they left and wrapped my towel around me. I had a bad feeling about my stylist. The ones you saw on TV were so genetically altered it was gruesome, and I had a feeling Leif would not be different.

After a few minutes, a lady walked in. She was only about 32, and, though her skin color was light green and she had golden tattoos of leaves all over her body, she actually was very pretty. Her hair was a natural shade of dirty blonde and her eyes were green and piercing, matching her skin.

She smiled at me. "Hello Kay. My name is Leif. I am your stylist." Her voice was quiet, and her Capitol accent was not as strong as the prep team's and Kilee's.

"Hello," I ventured cautiously.

"Would you mind removing your robe for a moment?" She asked me quietly.

Of course. I removed it for a moment, feeling awkward. At least my prep team and stylist were all girls. If one of them was a guy…. That would be awkward.

She studied me for a moment, then nodded. "You may put your robe back on."

And I did.

"Follow me," she invited, starting to walk down the hall.

We sat in some comfy chairs, and Leif pushed a button, immediately bringing food.

I looked at it carefully. I could make out duck, and an orange sauce, but besides that I didn't recognize the ingredients. I picked up my utensil, which was known as a fork. I put some of it on the fork, and placed it in my mouth. Delicious.

Leif smiled a little at me. Then she started speaking.

"So when you go out in these chariots….. you wear something that represents your district," Leif said. I nodded. Common knowledge.

"And every year we dress as coal miners. Unattractive, extremely unattractive," Leif shook her head in disgust. "So we're going to try something a little different."

"Since you and Jenik are both very attractive," she smiled at me, looking over my body. I felt like covering myself more, but all I had was a robe. "We were thinking we would do something that not represents the coal miner, but something that represents the coal."

….

Oh. My. God.

We were naked. Naked in front of who knows how many people were watching this. How many people lived in the Capitol and the Districts.

Jenik and I were naked, covered in coal dust. Over my, umm…. Top part was a black band that stretched around it, a common thing to wear on the arm of a coal miner. On my…. Bottom part was a light, that umm….. oh god.

And I was completely black. How racist was that?

Nervously, I looked at Jenik. He flashed me an uneasy smile, he looked the same as me except that he did not have a band on the top part of him.

We were the worse district. It was awful, I'd rather be dressed as a stupid coal miner than like this! They had already started calling the Districts to go out on their chariots, and reluctantly Jenik and I stepped on ours.

Kilee flashed us a thumbs up but Summer just rolled her eyes.

"I'm so sorry," she mouthed at us.

Not like that meant anything.

Oh... crap. Poor Kay! Port Nik!

So in the books, they said that one year the tributes were naked and covered in coal dust. Here it is! I didn't want her to be in a stupid miner costume, and I can't use the flame idea, because that comes 44 years in the future from Cinna, not our stylist Leif.

So any other suggestions? Still thinking about allies, it would be nice to review and help me out... :D

And once I get at least ONE more review(i want 15 reviews! :D), I will update ASAP.

Kate