Chapter 7

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It had been many days since Anna had arrived at the training center awaiting the other districts and today was the day she would meet the rest of the people who she would compete against to keep her life. She felt her stomach begin to stir and flutter with anticipation as she sat up groggily, rubbing the sleepy heads out of her droopy morning cursed eyes.

All of a sudden the covers we're being viciously ripped off of the bed and she knew just who had come to harass her at this early hour of the day when she heard the clacking of heels against the marble floor of the suite in the capitol. Flabia had chosen a rather shiny outfit that day. She appeared the imitating a disco fish (if that was even a thing?) The metallic panels appeared the catch light wherever she turned and were bright greens and blues so it appeared like a shiny underwater scheme. Honestly it was one of the least eye assaulting outfits the Flabia insisted on wearing.

Dragging herself up from bed so as to not be viciously attacked by Flabia's razor sharp green nails, Anna began to walk towards her enormous closet only to be shrilly shrieked at "Please. I've picked your outfit out for you already!". Flabia was now constantly insisting on selecting Anna's outfits after she had come out in a t-shirt and jeans one day because apparently that was not posh enough for her. Anna merely sighed and grabbed the outfit the Flabia was sassily holding by the tips of the long bony fingers.

Anna stepped behind the pretty lace and ocean ornamented changing station that was set up for her in her room (mostly due to many of Flabia's impromptu entrances). For once Anna actually was okay with the outfit. It was a deep royal blue jumpsuit with a zipper the ran down towards the upper part of her chest. It hugged her small waist very well and was very flexible. It almost felt like a full body leotard. Suddenly Anna was homesick and craved the simple days of her life when her biggest worry was doing well in school and nailing her turns in ballet class.

Wiping a tear Anna had not realized had escaped, she stepped out from the dressing area and did a small 360 for Flabia as she always requested when Anna presented her an outfit. Flabia lit up and clapped franticly and did a small jump to show how delighted she was by Anna's appearance.

Normally it was not so scary to see Flabia get excited. However, with her disco suit it was more like a whale jumping on heels who had swam by a glitter ship (which apparently is a thing in the capitol). Anna could only muster a terrified smile. Which in turn earned her a small smack in her head from Flabby (as she loved to call her - and today it was fitting). Anna was then ushered out from her room and into the living room. All that Anna could think was how can I stomach breakfast when today is the day I meet the people I will face in the arena, sure she had stared at them shakily or sometimes too happily walk across that stage the decided you would die and contemplated weaknesses and how to kill them, but at that moment all of her anxiety come rushing towards her mouth and she had to make a run for the bathroom before she literally spilled her guts.

Upon hearing the small wretches that escaped the bathroom walls, Finnick came running in and gave Anna a concerned look as she got up and wiped her mouth with a tissue. I'm all good Anna said as she gave him a weak smile.

"You sure?" Finnick asked looking doubtful as Anna simply replied "of course".

Over the past few days she had felt herself begin the welcome Finnick back into her heart, maybe not like that, but she certainly loved him as a friend again. It felt good to spill everything out about your life right before you're about to die. Sure he was her mentor, but he also was a great friend. They'd already began their old antics. Always making fun of Effie and Flabia's frenemy situation. Plus they'd had an incident in which Flabia had found them tickling each other and had been so angry and jealous she'd stomped away and green wig had tumbled to the ground, dragged along with her heels as her bald cap head trembled with anger. Now that was a good one.

Finnick looked at Anna and jerked his head towards the door and Anna nodded knowing he meant they better head for breakfast. They arrived at the table of expecting people, Mags gave Anna a worried look and wrapped her arms around her in a loving hug, Anna reciprocated and sat down next to her and Finnick.

"So are you ready to prepare for the games?" Flabia trilled happily as she dug into her crepes and nutella. Anna just gave a sigh and shoved her oatmeal down her throat. Shane merely grunted at Flabia. "Savage" was what Flabia had nicknamed Shane because he always felt the need to grunt instead of talking and eating with his hand, just to piss off Flabia and earn Anna's laughs.

Anna today would not smile. Everyone knew reality was beginning to sink in and they all ate silently together for the next hour. Promptly at 9:00 Flabia jumped up from out of her seat and announced that it was time for our first training session. Shane grunted yet again, the only other sound he had made since earlier. Mags placed her hand on his and walked him to the elevator and Anna watched as they disappeared, only then noticing that they were wearing matching suits. All of a sudden all the small details came into view and Anna noticed how the chandelier caught the sunlight and how to golden table they were sitting at had tiny emeralds encrusted in it randomly, and also how her pulse quickened when Finnick placed his hand on hers.

Okay maybe her heart wasn't a 100% with her head…

Finnick looked at her endearingly, calling her attention away from space and completely focusing it on his beautiful emerald green eyes that twinkled a 1000 times brighter than any chandelier. It was nice to see that his eyes had began to sparkle again, they're friendship tended to do that for him.

Yeah, her heart was most definitely not in-sync with her head.

Finnick sighed knowing she had no desire to go down and face her enemies, but being her mentor he also had to bring her.

"Ready to go?" Finnick mumbled, "yeah" Anna replied, which was seemingly one of her most said words these days. Anna looked down noticing that Finnick's hand had not moved once and looked between him and his hand, Finnick gulped awkwardly and removed his golden tanned hand. He stood up abruptly and regained his regular composure that he was beginning to take away around Anna, but she knew it was his new default so she just smiled up at his fake facade and rose from her chair grabbing his arm whilst they walked towards the elevator.

They whistled down to the training floor in the fancy elevator that went up and down, side to side. It was basically a roller coaster without the seatbelts. As she watched the floors and rooms tick away on the small screen the elevator presented. Finnick grabbed her shoulders smiled and told how to act and gave her another rundown of the rest of the competitors, all distant and expected mentor talk. And just as the elevator dinged she got the most genuine hug, and as soon as Finnick pulled away he whispered to her "be safe" and with a flash of a smile added "and try and have fun".He winked and Anna could feel the blush rise on her face.

With that the doors opened abruptly and Anna and Finnick were greeted with a whistling arrow that impaled itself in the diamond encrusted wall behind them. Shocked Anna scanned the room to find a grinning boy that she recognized as District one flashing her a flirty smile while dangling the bow and arrow on his arm.

"Hey gorgeous" he said as he winked.

Oh yeah, this is sure gonna be soooo fun Fin…

**************Author's Note***************

Okay, I know I know. I'm the world's most terrible updater, but I hope you enjoyed my worst chapter yet! I'm very sorry for such bad writing, but I hope you really enjoy this story and stick with it! If you do I promise cookies, milk and not so crappy following writing! I promise better chapters as soon as I get back into the swing of writing. School starts soon so ughh and on a happier note, I hope you love this story as much as I do! I will update as soon as I can and I hope you all have a great school year!

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