Yay! Listening to Your gonna go far kid x) But like you need to know, now. ON WITH THE ROAD TRIP!
"Let's go to the Capitol."
Katniss's POV
Well, we're going back to the Capitol, the place I hate the most. And the place where they hate me, but they're so gullible, they might've forgotten. I hope. Everybody agrees because this might be the chance to change Haymitch back to his old, drunk self.
"You are okay with that, right Haymitch?" Finnick asks, unsure. Haymitch just puts a thumb up since he is still sucking on that sugar cube Finnick gave him. I can't help but notice the picture he holds in his hands. I think it is that one he got from his old house in the Seam.
"Hey Haymitch, what's that?" I ask hoping to get an answer back. He just looks at the picture and quickly puts it behind his back.
"What's what?" He says with his cube disintegrating in his mouth. Now all eyes are trained on him. "What!" He says defensively.
"That picture you have behind your back." I say.
"Pff. I don't have a picture." He says jokingly.
"Oh yes you do." I say inching closer. Finnick catches my drift and starts to walk towards him too. "Can we see it?" I ask with a smile on my face. Peeta is just watching, grinning from ear to ear. Haymitch looks side to side and is about to get off the bed and make a break for it when Finnick dog-piles him.
"What's up with you people and jumping me!" He yells struggling against Finnick with very little success. I try to grab the picture but he just waves it in the air away from my grasp.
"Give me the damn picture Haymitch!" I yell a bit irritated.
"Be gone you nosy demons!" He yells back and I hear Peeta crack up laughing. This distracts Haymitch and Finnick grabs the picture. "Dude!" I hear Haymitch yell but he falls off the bed with a thump.
"Who's this?" Finnick asks and Peeta and I walk over to see the image. I see a younger boy, maybe thirteen, smiling and Haymitch is ruffling his hair up.
"Is this your brother?" Peeta asks holding the picture. I see Haymitch get up from off the floor and snatch the picture away from Peeta.
"What do you think Sherlock?" Haymitch says sarcastically. "Now are we going to the Capitol or not?" Oh yeah, I guess we got off subject.
"Yeah, wait, should we get Gale?" Asks Peeta. He kind of cringes at the name but he usually does. And he thinks I don't notice.
"Yeah. I mean, It's pretty obvious he want's to be involved." Finnick says.
"Wait, wait…wait. Gale is coming?" Haymitch asks from the doorway.
"And what's wrong with Gale?" I ask putting my hands on my hips. I raise an eyebrow and Haymitch just puts his hands up.
"Nothing, nothing." Is all he says and walks down stairs.
"Even sixteen and he's sarcastic." Finnick mumbles. I laugh silently and follow the trio.
We walk out the door and go find Gale to explain what we are doing. When we find him we walk somewhere where people won't be able to overhear us.
"Wait, so you guys are going to the Capitol." He asks.
"Yeah, did you… want to come?" I ask hoping he doesn't go off on how he hates the Capitol and blah, blah, blah. He looks at us for a while, thinking.
"Sure, I'll go." He says.
"Thank you Gale." I say and then I hear a scream. We all jump and look over. It's an old woman. Well not really old but she's almost there. She just stands there, pointing. I follow her finger and it points to Haymitch… who has his hood down!
"How is that possible!" She says really loud. I think she starts to attract attention because Haymitch starts to shush her.
"Shhhh, lady, calm down, oh man." Haymitch fumbles and puts his hood up quickly. We quickly follow and run to the train station.
"Nice going Haymitch!" Finnick scolds him in between breaths.
"Well sorry!" He snaps back. Usually, if he were back to his older age, he would've been out of breath by now. But right now, he's not even breaking a sweat.
We reach the station and wait for the train, panting from our run from the Seam to the train station. This time, Peeta instructs Haymitch to put his hood up but he's got that covered all ready. It's a long wait because the train doesn't arrive until two o'clock and it's only one. So we just sit on the bench, waiting.
"Oh no!" Finnick yells.
"What?" Peeta jumps from his sudden burst.
"I forgot my trident." Finnick says. I look at the clock and it's only one-thirty.
"You've got time. The Victor's Village is only five minutes away." I say and Finnick is already running.
"You don't have to run!" Gale calls but he doesn't hear.
"I think those sugar cubes got to him." Haymitch says and that makes Peeta and me laugh, but not Gale. He just has this confused look on his face.
"Long story." I laugh. We wait for a little while longer and I see Finnick come back, with his trident of course.
"I got my beauty." Finnick says jokingly. I see Haymitch cock and eyebrow and just shake his head. And again, we wait for the train to come. I look at the clock. Finally! It's two o'clock! But just my luck, I hear the intercom say that the train to the Capitol will be a couple minutes late.
"Ugh!" I wine. Everyone looks at me.
"Jeez Katniss, since when did you want to go to the Capitol?" Peeta asks me.
"I don't, I just don't want to wait." Gale rolls his eyes but he ruins it by putting a smile on his face.
"You haven't changed one bit." Gale says to me. I just smile and I see the train pull up.
"Finally!" I exclaim and we get on the train, find some seats, and wait…AGAIN! Finnick looks from seat to seat and seems to be hiding from someone.
"What's the matter Finnick, train fright." Peeta laughs.
"Laugh it up dough boy, but my last experience on trains didn't end up to well." He says.
"Oh my, I've got to hear this!" Peeta laughs.
"Yeah Finnick, share." Gale smirks.
"Fine. Long story short, I was coming to District 12 and this girl was staring at me so I told her I was married and she started crying." Finnick sums it up and Gale, Peeta, Haymitch, and me start laughing.
"Man," I say swiping a tear from my face. "The great Finnick Odiar made a girl cry." I laugh.
"Oh my, I made a girl cry." Finnick says sarcastically. We all joke around for awhile until we reach our destination. Oh great, paradise I think. I hate this place so much. Well, everyone hates the Capitol or else we wouldn't have become rebels in the first place.
"Welcome to hell." Haymitch says getting up after the train stops. I agree 100% on that one.
"Don't be fooled by their colors." I say under my breath so no one hears. We walk off the train and into the Capitol. They still stick to their 'styles' which right now, is having blue skin bedazzled with green jewels. These people are sickening to the rest of us.
"Weirdoes." I hear Haymitch whisper. We walk around, not really knowing where to go.
"Okay, Haymitch do you know where we are going." Gale asks, probably fed up with walking around. Haymitch ponders and looks in one direction, then another.
"Um, that way." He points but then stops. "No wait, that way. Wait, maybe over there."
"We're lost aren't we?" Peeta asks letting out a big sigh.
"No I know exactly where we are going." Haymitch says positively.
"So where are we?" Gale tests. Haymitch turns his body to look around. When he looks back he has a worried look on his face.
"Okay… we're lost."
Okay, I will try to update at my usual pace but with PSSA's and all tomorrow… Ugh, stupid big tests xD lol