Katniss' POV

"Katniss, would you stop shaking your leg?", Venia asks, while she is trying to pull of a piece of wax off my leg while it is vibrating.

"Oh, right. Sorry", I say, stopping. I am extremely nervous about the interview at the Capitol. If I don't pull this off right, President Snow will have Gale's head. Along with my other loved ones.

To calm down my mood, I watch Madge next to me. "How are you holding up?", I ask her, as another wax is pulled off her arm.

"Alright", she says, gritting her teeth.

After they finish me off with make-up, they say that I am ready for Cinna to give me my dress. He walks in and shows me the most beautiful dress I've ever seen.

The material feels like rose petals between my fingers, that sparkles like a sparkler. The whole dress gives the impression of flames and fire. It is stunning. It goes along with high heels, decorated with warm coloured jewels that looks like fire as well.

"It's beautiful", I say, admiring myself in the mirror.

"Turn for me", he says. I obey and once I turn flames engulf me with the synthetic fire that I wore for the opening ceremonies. My mouth is agape, but I keep turning. "Now raise your arms", he says. I do so, and now it seems as if sparklers and fireworks are blooming around my dress.

"How did you do this?", I asked amazed. I stop spinning and look at him. The tips of his mouth curve up.

"A little bit of magic for my favourite Girl On Fire", he says. I laugh and ask if I can go visit Gale. He nods and I wave bye to Madge as I trot out the door.

Just as I get to Gale's door, I hear a yell. I rush to open it, hoping that Gale didn't hit one of them for putting make-up on him.

Once I get in, I see one of the member of the prep team trying to calm him down as he thrashes around.

"Gale!", I yell at him. He instantly calms down to my voice and looks at me. "What are you doing?"

"They are ripping out my hair on my legs!", he says and glares at them.

"Gale, don't resist! They have to do that!", I say to him. "Just listen to me, Gale"

He looks like he is going to protest, but nods and mummers an apology to them. They nod and continue to tortue him with waxing, plucking, and make-up.

I notice that Peeta isn't in the room. "Where is Peeta?", I ask.

"Oh, he is talking with Haymitch. They made us hurry on his prepping! Then once he slipped into his outfit they went to the main living room area", one of the members of the prep team informs me. I smile.

"Thanks", I say as I slip out the door. I work my way to the living room area where Peeta and Haymitch are supposed to be. I know I shouldn't be eavesdropping, but I'm too curious so I listen to their conversation without them seeing me.

"-doesn't want to. She loves Gale, not me", Peeta argues and is obviously talking about me.

"It doesn't matter if she wants to marry you or not! You are going to propose today, if you or her like it or now!", he yells back. Ah Haymitch, the loudest of us all.

"I won't do it, they already controlled me in the games and ruined my life! They can't do it again and take the rest of my dignity! I won't do it, and you can't make me!"
"Remember, if you don't do it, then Gale will die. Katniss will go crazy if her true love dies, what will happen then? Will that benefit any of you in any way?"

"I don't know! I just can't do it! I don't want Katniss to be miserable with a life married to me, when she truly wants to be with Gale! I'm tired of pretending! Pretending that Katniss loves me, pretending that the smile on my life is real, I'm sick of everything!", Peeta concludes. I hear his heavy stomps coming towards the hallway, so I dash under a random table as I see his leather loffers pass by.

Before I know it I dash after him. "Peeta!", I call out. He turns around to face me, his angry face begins to loosen.

"Katniss...", he says, knowing that I heard what he said.

"What are you trying to do, Peeta? Do you want Gale killed?", I exclaim harshly.

"No!", he exclaims back. "You don't understand Katniss, none of you do", he says sounding almost pleading.

"This is all I need to understand, if you don't propose to me today, Gale is going to die!", I yell, tears threatening to spill out. "How could you be so selfish", I hiss at him.

His expression is hurt, tears starting to fill in his ocean blue eyes. "I'm not doing this for me, Katniss. I'm doing this for you. You know that you can't live a life marrying me, when you truly don't love me. If I was doing something for myself, I would have married you!". Just like that, he walks of, head help high and stomps that must be heard over Gale's waxing screams.

Flopping to the ground, I know that he won't change his mind. Peeta isn't going to propose to me, uprisings will start. And in a matter of days, my true love Gale will be dead.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I was workiing on my other story When Life Won't Give You A Break, if you haven't tried it, you should, it's intense stuff! ;D
This chapter is pretty short, and everything is pretty boring at the moment... but I promise you that soon things will get better! And I don't breaky my promises!
My other story When Life Won't Give You A Break, is more popular than this story, so I was focusing on that one more, (yes, I sound pretty lame advertising ym story, huh?)
Please bear with me, and things will get better. Please review! And I know you won't care but I just want to say this, my girl's basketball team (that I am on), won our basketball game today, yay! We dominated them by 34-13 ! Anyways, REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!