I have an official Josh Hutcherson obsession. XD I got a twitter the other day JUST so I could follow his real twitter account 333. Also on my Ipod I gots a whole album filled with just pics of him, so far I've got 50, newly updated I found a new facebook josh fan page, I now have 84 saved pics. My phone background is him, my Ipod lock screen is him, and my Ipod home screen is him. Oh and my computer background is him. I saw a trailer for a movie he's in and he was crying and I started to cry too. :,(
So anyways enjoy this chapter!
-Rachel:
Finnick pulls away from me but holds me close to him. He's still in jeans and a t-shirt, I'm still in my opening ceremonies costume, but they're now our wedding garments too.
"Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Odair" the man who conducted the ceremony nods to us, a smile on his face. We both thank him. Than Seeder comes over and engulfs me in a hug.
"I'm so proud of you! Oh Haymitch will be so happy!" She laughs.
Fucking shit asses, my father. He doesn't know. Whoops, well, I did think of telling him, but I figured Finnick didn't want to be beaten up right now. I turn to Finnick.
"Haymitch doesn't know does he?" I ask.
"Ugh, no. How about we keep it that way until after the Games?" he suggests.
"What! You two didn't ask her father!" Seeder interrupts.
"no" Finnick and I say in unison.
"Well, I won't tell, that'll be my marriage gift to you both, but you do have to tell him eventually." She sighs
"We will, I can't hide this forever." I smile as I show off my ring again; Finnick tilts my head up so he can kiss me.
"No you can't." he laughs.
"Well come on, you little lady have training in the morning." Seeder takes on role of our mother as she ushers us out of the building and back to the training tower.
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I walk down to breakfast before training the next morning with Finnick; he holds my left hand, so no one can see the ring.
"Really, I wouldn't have minded if you took it off just for now so Haymitch doesn't see." He whispers in my ear, I smile up at him.
"I'm never taking it off." He grins and shrugs.
"You're lucky he's not here yet," he glances around the room. "Oh but Chaff is." I follow his gaze and see Chaff waving us over. We go over and sit next to him.
"Morning children!" he greets us, I roll my eyes at him. "Its serve yourself today." He informs us, I nod and lets my hand slip through Finn's as I go to get my food. I instantly shove my left hand in my pocket, just so Chaff doesn't notice. I hear Finnick laugh and I look back and give him a warning glance, he shuts up instantly. I go over to the table and start to fill my plate, I'm very happy to see they have my favorite out, tomatoes, we don't get them in Twelve very often. But sadly, I'll need two hands to get them. Great, should I risk someone seeing the ring, or get my delicious tomatoes. My stomach wins out.
I take out my hand and go to grab a fork to get my tomatoes. Shit. That's what I think instantly as a big dark hand grasps my wrist. It's Chaff's hand. I look up to his face and smile at him. His eyes are fixed on the ring. His mouth is open, his eyes confused.
"Chaff?" I ask him softly, he's cutting off circulation in my hand. He doesn't respond to my words, just keeps staring. "Chaffy?" still no response. "Chaffster?" This isn't good. "Chaff, I'd prefer it if I don't lose a hand like you did." This gets to him and his grip loosens.
"Rachel Abernathy your fath-" he starts but I cut him off, may as well tell Chaff.
"Correction, Rachel Odair." I giggle a little at him.
Chaff doesn't say a word, but ends up glancing between Finnick, me, and the ring on my finger. Once Finnick notices this he comes over and puts his arm around me. "Don't you want to congratulate us?" Finnick has the biggest smile on his face I've ever seen.
"If this is some joke then I think you've taken it a bit too far" Chaff finally tells us.
"No joke, ask Seeder, she was witness." I smile and kiss Finnick, he manages to get in another three kisses before we turn back to Chaff.
"Well….I'm guessing that since your still alive Finnick that Haymitch doesn't know."
"Affirmative and we're not going to let him know, at least until after the Games."
"Well, have fun with telling him about this when you do." Chaff laughs, he turns and goes off to Seeder, we watch them for a minute before Seeder breaks out laughing and nods.
By the end of breakfast, almost every victor knows about Finnick and me, and since everyone enjoys seeing Haymitch in a total father phase, and when he finds out this will defiantly be the biggest, everyone agrees not to tell him. Even the Careers agree to this. After everyone congratulates us they talk me into just keeping the ring in my pocket for breakfast. Just so Haymitch doesn't see.
The rest of breakfast goes smoothly, except for when Haymitch first came in and yelled at Finnick for kissing me too much at the table. He only kissed me twice.
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Training goes very well for the rest of the day, we don't train at all. We are dismissed to go to the stations, and then all the victors just gather in a group and talk the whole day. Once in a while someone will start to argue over who has the better skills and then they will go show off, but other than that, we do absolutely nothing.
"I mean really, there's no point to training this year, it's not like we're going to learn anything new in two days, we already know everything." Johanna points out to Pren, who asked if we should at least train a little bit. Pren grins.
"Let's play a game then, truth or dare!" he announces to the group.
Ten minutes later we're all sitting in a circle and know how to play. Pren starts us off.
"District Twelve, truth or dare?" he asks.
"Truth" I groan, I really don't want to play, but it's either play or standalone like a pariah.
"You slept with your hubby, like slept slept." He hints, obviously meaning if I've had sex with Finnick.
"Isn't that a personal thing" I point out.
"That's why he's asking dumbass." Gloss mutters under her breath.
"Fine, yes I have. Ugh, Johanna truth or dare?"
"Dare me sucker." She grins.
"hmm, go kiss that peacekeeper over there." I point to a peacekeeper who's standing by himself by the exit door. Johanna shrugs and goes up to him, she grabs his face and kisses him smack on the lips. The peacekeeper looks like he's just been shot while we all can't stop laughing as Johanna comes back and joins the circle.
So for the rest of training that day, and the next, we busy ourselves with doing nothing but playing pointless games. And hiding from Haymitch the fact that Finnick is his son-in-law now. So now I wait as Blight leaves to go do his private training session with the gamemakers. I have no idea what I'm going to do, I guess I'll just do flips or something, I've been practicing those.
So that's what I do when I get in, I run and do flips and other aerobatic moves through the air. Then I leave, without getting dismissed.
"I'm done now, so I'll be going" I call to the gamemakers when I've had enough of myself. They just stare at me as I leave.
I easily find Cinna waiting for me as I exit. He wraps me into a tight hug. "Someone told me your married now." He whispers into my ear, I smile at him and show him my ring, which I've had on ever since breakfast ended. "Oh, it will go nicely with your dress for tonight." He puts his arm over my shoulders and escorts me down to the prep room. Tonight is the interviews, and tonight I plan to tell everyone, including Haymitch, about how Finnick and I are married. Haymitch's reaction on live television will be priceless.
All too soon I'm overtaken by my prep team who make my skin as flawless as they can, they can't get rid of the scars still on my body. That's another good thing; I haven't been called away to the hotel. That doesn't mean I haven't been doing what I do there anyways, Finnick and I don't waste one night together since they may be our last.
Two hours later I stand, eyes closed, while Cinna puts the dress on me.
"Okay, now you can open." I can hear the smile in his voice.
I open my eyes and gasp. The dress is beautiful, no, it's breathtaking. It's a strapless dress, which runs down to the floor and has an opening so I can easily walk. The top of the dress is coal black, but as you look down it turns to a fiery red, and then snow white. Very faint streaks of gold are mixed with the black; tears fill my eyes as I remember the dress I wore right after I won the games. My first dress I wore while mourning over Peeta, it looked like this.
"I wanted them to see how you're a fighter, you started weak, then progressed into something beautiful. And even though you haven't moved on so to speak, you've followed your heart, and now you're married." Cinna whispers into my ear. "Oh! We need this now don't we?" he slips my wedding ring onto my finger and I turn and give him a hug again.
"Thank you, for everything."
"My pleasure" he laughs. "Now come on, Finnick wants to meet up with you so he can wait with you until District Ten goes up." I nod and Cinna takes me to Finnick, who immediately kisses me over and over again. He stares deep into my eyes.
"You ready to find out if Haymitch will kill me?" he laughs
"He can try, but I won't let him." I promise Finnick. But who knows, Haymitch is pretty hard to predict sometimes.
Duh duh, duh duh, duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duhhhhh Haymitch finds out next chapter!