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Chapter 21
Well, the day has come that Peeta and I must go back to the dreaded Capitol. I hate to leave Annie and my mother with the kids, but they say they love spending time with them, so I guess it's fine. Besides, I could use a vacation from Willow and Rye. Of course I love them, but I just need a little break once in a while.
"Katniss!" Peeta calls from downstairs. "Katniss, we have to go now!"
"Coming!" I yell back. I have all my things packed, so I start heading downstairs.
"Are you ready?" Peeta asks me.
"Yeah." I say. I go over to Willow to say goodbye.
"I don't want you to go mommy. Why can't you and daddy stay here?" She pouts.
"Because, Willow. We talked about this, me and daddy have some work we have to do."
"But why can't work be here?" She asks.
"That's not how it works, honey." I tell her. "I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too." Willow says back. Then Peeta comes over to us.
"Hey, sweetheart." Peeta says. "I'll miss you."
"I miss you too daddy!" Her eyes start filling with tears.
"We'll be home before you know it." Peeta tells her. "You have Fin, grandma, and Aunt Annie here with you, so it will feel like time is just flying by." I smile at Peeta's choice of words. He can always make Willow smiling, and that's what she is doing.
"Okay." She says. "But I will still miss you and mommy, tons!" She says.
"We'll miss you too." Peeta says.
"I'll think about you every second, Little duck." I say, to cheer her up.
"I'll think of you too!" She beams. I laugh at how she can be upset one minute and happy the next.
We say goodbye to everyone else, and then leave to the train station. I think of Haymitch's words, before the second games. "You never get off this train!" Haymitch had said that day. He was right, even after the games and the war, we are still stuck on this train, even though flying hovercraft's exist.
We get our tickets and then enter the train. We find out the room they gave us is the same one I had in the first games. We're not sure who has Peeta's old room, but it doesn't really matter.
When we get on the train, it's already pretty late, so we start getting ready for bed. I get in the shower, and stand under the hot water.
I already miss Willow. I wish I could have brought her, but I still don't trust the Capitol, so I wouldn't want her to be around those Capitol people. Also I don't want her asking "Mommy, why do these people sound so funny?" that would be so humiliating.
It takes 2 days to get to the Capitol, and basically the whole time Peeta and I stay in our room, we only leave to eat in the dining hall. As we're exiting the train, we see color everywhere. Blue, pink, purple, green, yellow, and tons more. It's all over the place, clothes, hair, makeup, even buildings. It seems they've added more color to their lifestyle than from the last time I was here.
"It's a wonder they've manage to get more color into one world." I mumble to Peeta.
"Don't worry, we'll be out of here soon." He replies. I hear people shouting in our direction.
"OH MY GODDNESS! IT'S KATNISS EVERDEEN AND PEETA MELLARK!" Oh no, we've been here 2 minutes and people already notice the lack of color coming from us.
More people are screaming. "CAN I GET YOUR PICTURE?" Someone would yell, while another yelled, "CAN I ASK YOU A FEW QUESTIONS FOR THE CAPITOL NEWS?" God, these people are already getting on my nerves. They're so self-absorbed in their own lives. Ugh.
I wave, instead of answer all the questions being thrown at me.
"MRS. MELLARK! IS IT TRUE THAT YOU AND MR. MELLARK HAVE TWO KIDS?" Oh God, they just keep coming!
We try to get through the crowds to our hotel room, but have little success, and we keep getting questions shot at us.
"ARE YOU TWO MARRIED?"
"WILL YOU BE COMING TO THE PARTY TONIGHT?"
Stop with the questions!
We finally get to our hotel, which took three times longer than it should have, but we made it.
"Hello." The hotel receptionist says, without looking up from some papers.
"We're here to check out our room." Peeta says.
"Names?" She asks, still looking down.
"Peeta and Katniss Mellark." Peeta answers. As she hears our names, she looks up with wide eyes. I get a better look at her as she looks up. She isn't like the rest of the Capitol people. She has long blonde hair, green eyes, and doesn't where a lot of makeup. She looks a little bit like Delly Cartwright, but still has a little bit of a Capitol look to her.
"OMG!" She squeals. "Um... sorry... your room is number 302." She says. I don't like the way she's looking at Peeta.
"Um... thank you." I say, as Peeta takes the key. She doesn't stop looking at Peeta.
We walk off to the elevator and I look back at the girl, who is still staring at Peeta. She doesn't stop looking until the elevator is just about to close.
When we open our room door we see a large bed, a dresser, a TV, and a door leading into the bathroom. The window is huge and has a beautiful view of the city.
"Do you like it?" Peeta asks.
"Yeah, I love it."
"It's the presidential suite. I thought this could be more like a vacation." He smiles.
"Thank you, Peeta! It's amazing!" I thank him.
"Anything for you." Peeta says. I smile at him.
Tomorrow we have to go to the asylum to see why they want us there. I'm kind of nervous to go, just because of all those crazy people there, but I'm sure it will be fine. It might have to do with Gale, but who knows. I wouldn't have thought they would put him in a mental asylum here, he is probably in District 2, like he is supposed to be.
I can't stop thinking about the way that girl was looking at Peeta. She was so much prettier than me, she could sweep Peeta off his feet in a heart beat. But I know Peeta truly loves me, he wouldn't let any Capitol girl get in the way. I think. Ugh, why does love have to be so complicated!
Receptionist Girl POV (A/N: I didn't think I would do someone other than Katniss or Peeta's POV. Let's see how this turns out...)
Oh my goodness! I can't not believe the man I fell in love with is in the Capitol. Peeta Mellark. I've loved him since I saw him in his first interview with Caesar before the 74th Hunger Games. I knew he would win! I've wanted to meet him, and have him fall in love with me, but Katniss Everdeen got in the way. But now that Peeta is here, I can make him fall in love with me. I've made every man I've ever met fall in love with me, even if they were married. How is Peeta any different? He'll be in love when he finds out how much better I am than Katniss! I will marry him! I will, and I know exactly how to do it.
A/N: What did you think of the 'crazy in love with Peeta' lady? Do you like the sudden POV change? I thought this story needed a small change, so that's why I added it.
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Can you figure out what the receptionist is going to do to get Peeta to fall in love with her? Review and tell me how you think she will do it.
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