Chapter 3:

I wake up to Tami's knock on the door. Today we arrive to the Capitol. I shower, taking my time because I don't really feel like talking to someone and I know that I will have to talk when I leave my room. I dry myself, find jeans and a shirt to wear, and tie my hair into a knot and leave.
When I sit down to eat I hear Brutus, Cato and Enobaria speaking. It looks like they're talking about the games because of the grin on Brutus's face and the seriousness in Enobaria's voice.

"…first thing you need to do is to get to the part of the Cornucopia that has the weapons," I hear Brutus saying to Cato. Enobaria nods.

"When you have what you need there you go and find supplies; food, clothes, waterbottles, just everything you can find," Enobaria adds while Cato shoves bread in his mouth and nods. Then they look up and notice me standing there. Before any uncomfortable conversations can start, Tami walks in.

"We will be arriving to the Capitol in an hour," she says. Then she looks at me. "You might want to dress up, Clove. This is the Capitol after all," she says with a big fake smile on her face as she walks away. I grit my teeth and go to my room to change my clothes and comb my hair. I let it fall down my shoulders and don't bother thinking about it anymore.

When we arrive, and I look out the window, I see the people standing outside the train, waiting for our arrival. In the reflection of the window, I see that Cato stands behind me. Oh great. I turn around and wait for him to say whatever he wants to say.

"I'm sorry," he says.

"For what?" I ask.

"You know what," he says. "Last night. When I kissed you." Heat rushes to my cheeks when he mentions it. Stupid. "I shouldn't have done it," he continues. "I just didn't know. Don't know."

"Know what?" I ask. And I mean it. What on earth is he talking about?

"I barely even know what I don't know," he says with a light laugh and smiles a little. The smile doens't reach to his eyes, though.

I turn around and look at the people. They're all smiling and talking exitedly to each other. I find a little smile itching across my face. Soon they will celebrate my victory. I hear Cato walk away and my smile's gone. I remember what my victory will cost, what I will have to do. Let's just hope someone else will get to Cato before I get to him.

I lie on a blue table or whatever it's caled. My prep team takes care of my body. I doubt that they will have much work to do because in district 2, we're in a good shape. As I suspected they just pluck my eyebrows and wash my body and hair and then they're done. That was quick.

Now I'm sitting on a blue table while waiting for my stylist. Totally naked. That's really uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure my stylist will be as weird as the rest of the people in the Capitol.

Someone opens the door and comes into the room. It's a woman around 25 and 30. She looks bizarre. She has weird green hair, her skin is colored by green and her hands are covered in tattoos.

"I'm Elvia. Your stylist." she sais with a harsh voice.

"Clove." I say. She doesn't look human. She's too weird. Oh and I am naked in front of her.

"Today is chariot rides. You are from District 2 and that district , as you know, provides us with Masonry. I and Vamos decided to dress you and your district partner like Gladiators." Gladiators? Really? Is she really crazy? We will look like complete idiots.

Elvia starts to measure my whole body. Then she leaves and after two or three hours she's back with my costume for the chariot ride. It's a golden armor dress. Then there were golden sandals and a golden helmet. That's a lot of golden. I kinda like it even though it's weird.

I, Cato, our mentors and our prep team are on that Chariot ride. When I look around I see some weird costumes. Even weirder than mine. District 8 looks like jesters in their costumes. The tributes in District 1 wear pink, fluffy costumes. It looks really stupid on the boy. All the costumes look weird or just plain stupid. And then I see the kids from District 12. They're normally just some miners but there's something different about them now. I and Cato stand on our chariot. As always District 1 will come first and District 12 will be last.

Then it starts. The chariot for District 1 starts to move and in few seconds ours does as well. It's almost incredible. There are about hundred thousand people. I ignore the crowd and stare ahead of me. I see shouts and the attention of the crowd leaves us and they all look at a chariot behind us. I don't look back to see which.

Our chariot stops. We are in front of the most important people in the Capitol including President Snow. The other chariots come and then we all form a half circle in front of Snow. That's when I notice the kids from District 12. Their costumes are on fire. Fire. The crowd is still looking at them. They look fierce but that's only because of their costumes. There are never good fighters from District 12. I just sigh and look back at that people in front of me.

"Welcome. Welcome to the 74th annual Hunger Games!" shouts President Snow and the crowd cheers. He doesn't looks like all the other people in the Capitol.

"We salute your courage and your sacrifice and we wish you happy Hunger Games!" He keeps on rambling but I stop listening after a few seconds. Then we all go back and meet our stylists an mentors. After we've talked a little we all go inside. We stand in front of an elevator which takes us back to our "apartment". I stare at Cato who's talking to Brutus about something. He stared at that girl from District 12 when the ride was going on. It was his I-will-kill-this-person look. I grin a little and walk over to him.

"It's rude to stare at people, Cato." I say to him.

"What?" he asks, confused.

"The girl. The one from District 12. Who was on fire," I say and roll my eyes when I think about the fire. It looked so real.

"I don't like her. I think she could be stronger than the usual kids from district 12. Which means I have to kill her."

"Yes me too. And one of us will."

"Oh are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure about it." I say.

I walk away and go into my room. I rip off that costume and leave it on the floor. I find a shirt and lie down on the bed.

"Tomorrow will be interesting." I say to myself and then I fall asleep.

Hi guys. So this is chapter 3. Yes we know, We finally post it! We wanted to posted it sooner but we had no time for it because of school and other stuff. We hope you liked this!

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