Well, this is the second chapter, I am quite upset, because this story is not receiving as much support as my last one, so please if you liked it, review, follow and tell your friends about it, I would appreciate it, if we get to 5 followers I´ll make a longer chapter featuring some action, and who knows? I could add some romance too.
Chapter 2: This Girl Is On Fire
Peeta and I waited for almost an hour for our mentor to come, Effie told us he was probably at the bar, and it scared me to think that my mentor would be an alcoholic. Finally Haymitch arrived, drunk as hell. Well, my survival depends on a drunken old man, great! I thought, he was just too drunk to talk and we were just too tired to hear, so we both headed to our rooms. Mine was really pretty, bigger than the room I shared with Katniss, I tried hard not to think about her, it made me sad to think that I´ll never see her again, so I just went to sleep, I don´t know how many hours I slept that night, but when I woke up dinner was almost ready, I got dressed up and went to eat, besides me, only Peeta was in that room, watching TV. "Hey, come here I want to show you something" he said, he told me to sit with him and watch the news, we saw all the reaping from this year, the tributes from 1,2 and 4 looked like strong opponents, after all they were career tributes, trained since kids to survive. They didn´t showed their names on TV, I guess I´ll learn them as soon as we get there. "We are almost there Primrose" said Peeta, I just nodded, and I wondered if his friendliness will only last as soon as we are inside the arena.
"Looks like we are finally there" said Effie, her appearance scared me at first, she had a blue, fluffy wig and a pink dress covered with bubbles, she wore so much makeup, she looked like a clown. Peeta stood up and looked through the window, I did that too. I saw all the capitol people waiving at us, some of them where pointing at us, which felt quite awkward, at home I never received so much attention, so this was new for me. After a couple of minutes more we arrived at the place where they kept all tributes before the games. We got out of the train and a young lady guided us to our floor, each district had their own floor, since we were District 12 our floor was the last one. "It´s nice that you are finally here, I hope you enjoy the simple pleasures of the capitol" said Effie, enjoy our stay? Um…no, we came here to violently die, not to "enjoy the simple pleasures of the capitol" I thought. "I suggest you to eat, while I bring your stylist´s assistants. None of us where really hungry, we ate on the train, and we were not used to eating this much. I went to my room and turned my TV on, I saw the reaping from all districts again, that was pretty much the only interesting thing I could do, somebody knocked my door so I turned off the TV to see who was knocking, I almost shouted when I opened the door, three weirdoes where standing in front of me, they looked pretty much like Effie, with tons of makeup on their face. They rushed inside my room, "Hello Primrose Everdeen! We are your stylists, we´ll get you ready before we take you to Cinna, my name is Octavia, he is Flavius and she is Venia" said one of them. "Um…hi" I said shyly.
They examined me, and then they began to work, they cut my hair, shaved my legs and arms (which really hurt me) and brushed my hair. "Oh my God, Prim! You look Fantastic!" said Flavius, I looked at myself through a mirror and saw no difference… "Um, yeah, thanks" I said. Then a tall man appeared at my door, he told the others to leave, so they did, leaving just the two of us. Well this is awkward… I thought, "Hello, my name is Cinna, what´s your name?" he said, "Prim, my name is Prim" I replied shyly; I was always a shy person, back at district 12 I had few friends. "Well…Prim right? Tonight the tribute parade will take place, and I will make the greatest costume for you and your tribute partner, I just want you to be brave ok?" he said, I nodded. He guided me to another room, where the preparation for the parade will take place, Peeta and his stylist where already there waiting for me, Cinna gave me a box, which I supposed contained my costume, I went to the dressing room and changed. I was amazed by Cinna´s work, my costume was a long black dress and set on wings on my back, I felt like a bird, it was fantastic! I got out and went back to Cinna, I took a glance of Peeta, he was wearing a black costume like mine, but with a pair of wings a little more masculine, and to be honest he looked pretty handsome too. The parade was about to start so we took our places, I thought we were ready but Cinna went near us and said, "Just one more thing, Prim, your costume will catch fire, don´t worry the flames are fake and Peeta, yours will produce smoke, like coal, got it? Because you are Coalminer´s district… Don´t panic, these are fake too, relax" I felt slightly terrified by the new modification to my costume, but I didn´t wanted to look like a scared little puppy to other tributes, so I took a deep breath and tried to relax and enjoy.
Seconds later we were moving, all the capitol people cheering and throwing roses at us, I was so concentrated on the public that I didn´t notice that my costume was already on fire, I looked at Peeta in awe, he smiled back at me, I bet our costumes where the best by the way that all cameras where focused on us, I waved and smiled, I was kind of enjoying this, Peeta was enjoying this too by the look on his face. This was such an amazing feeling.
After the parade was over we were back at the dressing rooms, I changed back to my white skirt and shirt and went to thank Cinna for the incredible costume, then Peeta and I went back to our rooms, "Pretty amazing huh?" he said "Yeah, I was just worried that at the end of it, I would be nothing but ashes" I said, we both laughed for a while, then I went to sleep after saying goodnight to Peeta. We were really getting along; I wondered why he was always so gentle with me…
Chapter 2 is up, hope you enjoy it, I would appreciate if you could follow my story, it is very important for me, I want you to know the reason I created my profile was to prove my parents I can be a good writer, so if you could follow I would really appreciate it, thanks in advance, see you next time.
