"Today is your chance to impress sponsors, you need them to fall in love with you and most importantly you need to make sure they remember you" Haymitch tells Peeta and Katniss, we are sat around the table eating our breakfast, tonight is the interviews with Flickerman and this will be the last time the tributes can impress the sponsors before they enter the games tomorrow. Haymitch and I have been up for days trying to figure out what angle we will take when portraying the two and we have ended up with star crossed lovers, only Peeta knows because I know that if Kat was told about the plan she would do everything in her power to stop the plan from happening. I'm not crazy at the idea of making Katniss be with Peeta and not letting her have a choice but this is the best bet to getting her out of that arena, we've told Peeta the plan and he will announce his love to Katniss at the end of his interview I just hope it's convincing.
I'm standing backstage waiting for Katniss to come out from her prep team, Johanna walks up behind me and wraps her arms around my waist. I lean my head back until it rests on her body and I feel her press a kiss to my temple, I breathe in her scent of pine and woods and it calms me down.
"You know how gullible these capitol idiots are they believe anything, it's going to be fine" she says.
"I know I'm just worried about Katniss, she's just so damn stubborn" I say, I hear Jo chuckle and she turns me around so I'm facing her.
"Sounds like someone else I know, It must run in the family" she says as she smirks, I roll my eyes and playfully push her. I hear footsteps coming towards us so I turn around to see Katniss in a beautiful red dress, in other words she looked stunning. I walk up to her and I place my hands on her shoulders, I look into her eyes and I can see the fear in them I know she hates speaking in front of large groups of people.
"You look amazing Kat, dad would be proud of you for doing this" I tell her, I can see tears line her eyes when I mention dad. She nods her head and sends me a watery smile.
"Thanks, he would be proud of you too I mean you won this thing" She responds, I nod and I can also feel tears build up in my eyes because I think of dad every day. The runner for Ceaser signals for Katniss to go up on stage so I give her shoulders on last squeeze before I let her follow the man, Haymitch, Effie and I move to the monitor that is showing the interviews. Katniss is doing a great job and the audience are eating it up, she even makes them cry when she tells everyone about her promise to prim hell even I felt teary eyed at that seeing as I wasn't present to her goodbyes with mum and prim. Her finale was spectacular Cinna really outdid himself, Katniss stood up and twirled which resulted in her dress to be consumed with the fake flames that she wore during the tribute parade. I look at Haymitch and I send him a smirk as everyone in the audience are up on their feet cheering wildly for Katniss, she walks back to us as Peeta walks up onto the stage. Effie walks over to her and gushes about how perfect she was on that stage, Kat smiles a little at the praise and she looks at me as I give her a proud smile.
"You did me proud Kat, you did everyone proud" I say quietly so only she can hear it, she smiles at me and gives me a hug. We pull apart to watch Peeta, he was so good with words and his the audience hooked on every word he was saying. I take a deep breath as it gets to the end of his interview and time for his announcement, I watch Katniss as Peeta announces his love to her and I can see a mixture of confusion, hurt but most of all anger flow through her body.
Oh god as if I ever thought this could've gone well.