Chapter Two: The Capitol

The ride on the train is amazing. The colors of the capitol practically blind me. Many people look like they jumped into a rainbow.

We are led into the justice building, which is less fancy than the tribute train. The glass elevator ride makes me kind of nauseous though. Clayton is there next to me, whimpering and crying at the same time.

We both have our own 'rooms', and they are pretty big. The walls are red and velvety, and the bed has silk sheets. The bathroom has many gadgets that I'll check out later.

"Feel free to do what ever you like, but dinner's in an hour." Corona calls out.

I take off my dress, and go to the drawers that are filled with a large variety of clothes. The clothes have a good selection of fabrics that are soft and feel good on my skin. After a while of trying on about eight different outfits, I finally pick out a sundress that has yellow and black flowers, and a pair of black sandals. I wonder how they know my clothing size. I look in a long full view mirror and decide to check out the bathroom. I put my hand flat on a box and a current goes to my scalp, and my strait brown hair now has no knots, and looks beautiful. I check a digital clock, and it reads 7:08 pm. I hurry to the dinner table, even though I'm ten minutes early.

My mentor won a few years ago, so she is only twenty-two. I think she was seventeen when she entered the games. Her name is Sil Heffman. Clayton's mentor is named Jerome Berwick. He won maybe… twenty years ago? I don't know, but he is middle aged know.

"Hello,

I'm Sil, as you probably know." she says. "Would you and Clayton like to be trained together or separately?"

"Uhh together is fine." I stutter out.

"Okay," she says as a server comes in with a tray of food.

Dinner comes in many courses. First, we have creamy chicken and rice soup. Than we are given turkey on top of corn bread with gravy on top. I thought that was all of it, but than a tray of various types of cheese and fruit come next. Next to me, Clayton is practically stuffing the food in his mouth. I am sure that he has never had anything this amazing in his life. I haven't really either. For dessert, there is a cold and sweet thing that the capitol calls ice cream, and it has hot melted fudge on top, along with crushed peanuts. I have never been this full. I feel extremely bloated by the time we are all done eating.

We go to another room with a leather wrap around couch and a large television to watch the other districts reapings. In district one there is a girl named Star and a boy who is skinny and scrawny, and surprisingly, no one volunteered for him. District two has a girl with a black and dark bluish bob cut that looks silky. The boy is eighteen, and has blonde hair and is tan. He looks like he is really incompetent. I don't really notice anyone else who could be a threat. Surprisingly, there were thirteen twelve year olds, including Clayton.

The anthem plays, and the program ends. Corona is talking about how it would be nice if at least one of us had a small chance of winning. But I know I do. One day, in physical education, we were learning archery, spear throwing, and knife throwing. I turned out to be really bad at spear throwing, but really good at knife throwing. I wasn't good and I wasn't bad at archery though. But, since my parent own a candy shop, they have to cut up the hard candy in some way, so I used to have a lot of fun cutting the candy up in many ways.

I decided to go to my room to take a shower and then go to sleep. The shower had a large panel with many different options. I choose a low water pressure, warm water, vanilla scented soap, vanilla scented shampoo that makes my hair shiny, and more vanilla scents. The smell reminds me of home at the candy shop were we make yummy vanilla cream candies.

After my shower, I choose to wear a light blue tank top and some fuzzy striped pants. I try to fall asleep, but it doesn't come for a few hours…

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