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-Love, Buttercup
Kind girl's little sis POV:)
I really miss my sister. I kind of understand why she goes into the woods everyday now. She needs to collect food so we don't starve. Even now, although my sister has been hiding a secret from me, I respect her even more than ever.
Katniss, you're the best. I love you more than anyone else.
"Prim, you ready for school?" I forgot about it! Tiara and Rue are picking me up for school this morning!
"I'm coming!" I grabbed my old, kind of ripped school bag and ran towards the Undersees' Mercedes-Benz.
Shadow boy POV:)
We got to our hotel, just like what I said to my girlfriend/cousin, the kind girl I met in the woods that morning.
The room is even grander than the one on the train since the train has a space limit. Or does it?
"Katniss loves her room, doesn't she?" Cato laughed at Katniss's reaction when she walks into her room. Technically, the room in their suite shared with Clove, Foxface, and Madge.
"Yeah she loves it. Living with a poor family for too long, she needs new experience," I told Cato and laughed with him. You can hear 'oohs' and 'ahs' from Katniss all the time when she's in her room discovering secrets.
Cato and I walked up to the other three girls, and Gale, sitting and chatting away in the living room. Cato sat down beside Clove, arms wrapped her around her shoulder and asked,
"Clove, you ready for the date?"
"Yeah I am, and shut up." Clove hissed. She appreciated the fact Cato asked her out but, according to Katniss, she's kind of nervous.
"Gonna go spend time with Kat. Meet you guys in that meeting room on floor 75!" Yeah... I never mentioned this building is a ginormous skyscraper…
"Kat?" I walked into her room.
"Isn't this place amazing? It's so big! This room's fit for a queen! Oh my goodness I'm so amazed by this architect! Oh look at this marvelous stone sculpture in that square! It's so high I can even see it from this high floor! Floor 60 isn't it?" She squealed, looking down at the sculptured fountain in the small town square.
"Kat, calm down." I sighed.
"I can't! This is an amazing place! What did they use to call that town square a few hundred years ago? Oh right! New York City or something!"
"You know your history well enough. Anyways, I told them we'll be meeting up in the meeting room with the rest of the district 12 peeps. Hurry up and c'mon!"
"Ok, ok, I'm coming!"
Sigh. Taking care of a girl isn't as easy as I thought.
Kind girl POV:) (Sorry if I've been changing POVs too much :P)
"From now on, you're free to go wherever in the Capitol you'd like for these two weeks! But, you must stay with someone that knows the mapping of the Capitol, or has at least been to the Capitol once." Effie's great warning. She said that at least ten times during this five minute meeting in this meeting room.
Apparently, the hotel we're staying at is one called the Empire State Building that has 104 floors. (Um, I'm not really sure the EXACT position the Capitol is, but I thought it would be fine if it stayed in North America XD Apologies if you guys have different ideas) Peeta whispered in a low voice,
"Will that Effie Trinket ever be finished talking?"
"I think it's done now. Really, this meeting isn't necessary." I told him. This meeting actually isn't important at all, and it's kind of boring. No. Very boring.
"Effie! Meeting's over yet?" I raised my hand and yelled.
"Yes, yes, it's over." Effie sighs and mutters something I didn't even hear.
So most people left the room, leaving Clove, Cato, and Peeta with me. Foxface left with Alicia, probably promised something to Effie that she would take care of her in the Capitol since Effie and Haymitch are still with Paylor and Portia discussing something.
"Hmm… When do the fireworks start?" Cato asked.
"Fireworks start at 11:00. I guess we could go shopping around first." Peeta answered first. Pfft, of course Peeta knows everything about the Capitol, how often does he come here? Like a hundred times a year or something!
"Hey, aren't you getting Katniss a surprise?" Cato nudged him. What surprise?
"Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder Cato. Getting her the surprise. Hey Clove, why don't you hang out with Katniss for a few hours and I'll meet you two in the top garden in this hotel?"
"Sounds good to me! Let's say 7:00. Top garden?" Clove asked.
"Seven sounds good. See you!" Peeta confirmed and went down the elevator with Cato. What surprise is he getting me?
"So… You know what your boyfriend's going to get you?" Clove smirked.
"No idea, and don't say he's my boyfriend." I hissed.
"Yeah fine. Your friend boy."
"No. My cousin." I rolled my eyes.
"In public I'll say that. I'm too used to calling him Peeta now." Clove, you better not mess up.
"I won't mess up. Have faith in your friend."
I rolled my eyes again. Can she read my mind, or am I too easy to read?
"You're too easy to read."
What? Did Clove learn to read minds from a vampire or Professor Trelawney or something? But seriously! Or am I just reading too much?
"You're just too easy to read, I say. C'mon, let's go down the elevator!" Clove pulls me into the elevator and we go down to the main lobby in less than five seconds.
Hmm… Rocket speed elevator? Capitol's so fake… Unreal… Different and strange…
~Page break~
"So welcome to the great mall in the Capitol! Let's fill up your closet, shall we?" Clove didn't even wait for my answer and she pulled me into the great and bright building with a crystal clear roof for us to see the sky, and crystal chandeliers hanging from the roof. The capitol is all about 'rich' and 'money'. Unbelievable, but the result of the usage of money is phenomenal. (Hey you know the story of unbelievable and the usage of phenomenal? The combination was interesting when I used it in an interesting event… XD) I took a few quick steps just to get back on track with Clove's speed, and to get rid of my astonishment. I'm probably actually just that country chic that doesn't know anything. (So I'm very depressed right now because my BFF and me got into this huge fight, right now we hate each other. Anyways, sorry if there're too many depressing moments in this chapter.)
"So… What do you want to buy?"
"Clove, how would I know? I have no clue what malls are like."
"Um, well, a mall is a building filled up with stores and crowds. Like right now!"
So I looked around seeing people everywhere.
"And that's why you need to speed up your walking pace so you won't block anyone who's trying to walk right now!"
And she grabbed me and ran into this store filled up with unreal chemical smell…
"Katniss, this is what you call a huge store filled with make-up."
She introduces me with these chemical smell. Yeah, of course I know what make-up is, but the problem is I've never been to a proper store insanely filled with make-up.
"What? Are you scared?" Clove teased and pulled me over to other areas in the store. She grabbed a bottle from an area labeled 'perfume', and she pressed something that made the bottle spray something that smells chemical-ish.
"Hmm… What does this smell like?" She asked.
"Smells like chemical." I answered proudly.
"Does it smell good though? It's supposed to smell like roses."
"How does that thing smell like roses? I can't even smell properly!"
So she tried a few more bottles with me disapproving every single bottle with the same answers every time.
"So you hate chemical smells don't you?" She asked as we move on to a next section labeled 'eye shadow'. Ooh, I know what eye shadow is! It's stuff that you put on your eyelids that makes them colorful or something! (Do not think that I'm a 13-year-old girl that actually has no idea what eye shadow is, ok? I'm just writing in Katniss's POV right now.) Clove grabs a paintbrush kind of thing, but a lot more smaller and started coloring her eyelids.
"How do I look?" Clove asked as I judged her with some not exactly nice comments.
"You look like an artificial doll. The colors are too bright…"
"Oh," She frowns disappointingly and turned back to a smile, "let's go to some other stores now! Maybe your taste will change a little more!"
"You haven't give up on teaching me shopping yet? I'm surprised."
"Katniss, Katniss, Katniss. We've only just started! How can I give up on such a thing? It's part of being a normal girl!"
"Are you saying I'm not a normal girl?"
"No. But you need to learn about shopping."
"That's great. Now you lead the way!" I followed her outside this make-up store, listening to Clove blabbing about what we should get.
"Hey. I thought of something you might be interested in." Clove suddenly stops walking. I asked her curiously, "What is it?"
"Want to check out the weapons store? They have bow and arrows."
"What!?" I shrieked with surprise. I thought the Capitol doesn't sell weapons.
"Yeah they sell weapons. Capitol awesomely made weapons."
"Where's that store?"
"The weapon store? They have a few hundreds of them. Depends on the price…"
"I'll have to chose the cheapest one then."
"Katniss, no one ever said you need to pay everything for yourself."
"But that's not fair for you guys."
"We didn't say we're going to pay for it either."
"Then who's going to pay for it?"
"You can win money by showing-off your talents."
"What do you mean by that?"
"There're open competitions everywhere in the Capitol. You can enter them and win scholarships. I used to do the competitions every year with Cato. They're pretty fun, and it's free to signup. You can probably enter those archery ones…"
"So you're saying I should enter the competition?"
"Yeah! You're fit for archery!"
"Ok. Let's do it!"
"Turned out we're not doing any shopping for the rest of the night aye? Lucky you."
"Lucky me? I don't actually mind shopping."
"Well we're signing up for the competitions first. We want prizes don't we?"
"Yes."
"Then let's go! Follow me!" Clove dashed off again. Good thing I'm a pretty fast runner or else I'd get lost in this mall with Clove's speed…
She dashed to the escalator and zoomed down quickly as I followed behind.
"So we're signing you up for archery, and I'm signing myself up for throwing knives. If Fox's going to enter it too, we'll put her name down on poison recognition."
"What? Foxface knows what things are poisonous?" I gagged.
"Yeah, she's pro at it. Mostly on berries though, she was bullied that way. Once her classmates gave her poisonous berries called nightlock, they tried to poison her to death. She's still here with us because she's that awesome kid who knows what stuff is poisonous."
"Interesting… Let's get signed up!" This time I grabbed her towards the sign saying 'sign up for Capitol competitions'.
We literally ran through the crowd and we probably knocked over some innocent people, but it's ok, we're in a rush.
"Katniss Jenna Everdeen from district 12," Clove told the registration lady, "Clove Bella Fuhrman from district 12, immigration from district 2; Cato Zander Ludwig from district 12, immigration from district 2; Finch Jackie Emerson from district 12, immigration from district 5…" She then turned her head towards me and asked,
"You want to sign Peeta on any competitions?"
"I don't even know if he wants to." I told her quickly, understanding the registration person is running out of patience.
"I guess our registration is done! Bye!" Clove called as she grabbed me into the near food court.
"Hungry?" She asked as she sat down by the table.
"Sure." I shrugged.
"Let's go get something. Let's see… We had ice cream in district 12. Let's go get some cupcakes!" She stood up and walked towards the nearest bakery kind of place. It's different than the district 12 bakery because it's a lot fancier, and it had a lot of different food. They look all the same, and they're all ended with the word cupcake. There're pumpkin spice cupcake, cranberry cupcake, rainbow unicorn cupcake… A lot more, more than you can ever imagine.
"Surprised, aye Kat?" Clove elbowed me and winked as she grabbed a tray and tongs. She grabbed those artificially colored cupcakes that Peeta probably could've decorated fancier. Those cheese buns made by Peeta, oh, delicious…
"I love those fancy cupcakes, so why don't we get some?" Clove walked towards those fancy pink ones. I shrugged and followed her. At the end we probably bought ten cupcakes or so? I shouldn't have judged Prim and Tiara when they were at the buffet eating that scary amount of desserts, because I'm doing it right now, too.
"Kat? We're ready to pay." Clove woke me up from my dreaming moment. Not exactly dreamy, but ok.
"Ok. Let's go pay." I told her as we stood in the line.
"So Katniss, I haven't got a chance to learn a lot about you yet. Let's start with an easy question. What's your favorite color?" Clove started.
"Forest green. What's yours?" I asked.
"Purple. Dark purple."
"Nice color… When's your birthday?"
"February 25th. And yours?"
"August 15th. And you probably know what year it is."
"I do. Hmm… What's your favorite leisure activity?"
"Don't have any. Too busy feeding my family."
"Are you sure you don't have any?"
"Maybe there is… I guess archery and swimming."
"You know what my favorite past-time is? Ahha. It's throwing knives."
"We're all dangerous figures aren't we? I like archery while you like throwing knives and Cato's just fluent in any different kind of weapons."
"We're pretty dangerous I have to admit."
"I guess we are. And Fox can easily poison someone. Is Peeta dangerous on any type of subject in weaponry?"
"Peeta's strong."
"How strong? Strong enough to kill a person?"
"Yeah sure… I guess so. But why kill?"
"You ever heard about The Hunger Games?"
"We learned about it at school once or twice. Why?"
"I'm surprised you don't know about it. Did you know at the 74th Hunger Games the winners of the game are also called Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark? And that Katniss can do amazing archery. She has friends called Gale Hawthorne and Madge Undersee. That Katniss also has a little sister named Primrose. Isn't it interesting?"
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah! And there's also a vicious girl named Clove, a violent boy named Cato, a pretty girl named Glimmer, another tribute named Marvel. Oh! And there's also a Foxface that was poisoned to death by eating nightlock by accident!"
"Say what now…"
"The kind of thing that's different is the friendship between Foxface, me, and you. The Clove in there wasn't dating Cato at all, that Clove was in an alliance with Glimmer, Marvel, and Peeta at the beginning. Everything's just awkward. You should study about them again. There're three books about the Hunger Games, written in Katniss's point of view: The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay."
"Do you own those books?"
"No. But they were best-selling books in district 2."
"Written in my point of view you mean?"
"In a person that's almost the exact same as you. And the history did happen, just saying."
"Amazing… Oh! Our turn now!"
We stopped the conversation as Clove grabs out a card-like thing and swiped it on a little machine. I whispered quietly,
"Clove, what's that card and that little machine you swipe it on?"
"It's called a credit card. When you swipe that card on this kind of machine," she knocked the machine lightly, "the machine takes out the money the card keeps when you put in the password."
"Oh. Neat stuff." I replied awkwardly.
"C'mon. Let's get going. It's getting late isn't it? Plus Peeta still has your present! Aren't you excited about it?" Clove got all jumpy and stuff and she grabbed me again and we ran outside the mall. Amazing how Clove remembered the entrance we came in from.
"Katniss! We've got fifteen minutes left! Let's go meet them in the garden, now!"
Clove will never get her hands off me… Whatever.
We walked into the elevator and she pressed the top floor. Floor 104.
"Going back to the topic about The Hunger Games… The Katniss had a little sister named Prim, right?" I asked as we stood in this luxurious elevator. It even had chairs, too!
"The Katniss in the history does have a little sister named Prim. However, she died in Mockingjay when the districts gathered and placed a rebellion against the Capitol."
"How interesting… How about Gale? Was he in the history?"
"Yeah he was in the history. He didn't die, he went to district 2 when the books end."
"What about me at the end?"
"You actually want to know?"
"Yeah, why not?"
"Alright. You became Katniss Mellark, and you gave birth to a girl and a boy."
"I married Peeta you mean?" I questioned suspiciously and shocked.
"You married Peeta. Yes you did," Clove nodded, laughing quietly as her head bent low. My eyes narrowed so I asked,
"What happened to you then? The Clove in the story?"
"Oh. Clove died."
"That's great. How about Cato?"
"You shot him to death. You won't do that though, right?"
"Of course I won't! I like Cato as a friend very much. Why would I want to kill him? Actually, why did I have to kill that Cato in the story?"
"He was killing Peeta. You had to save Peeta so you killed Cato."
"That's great," I rolled my eyes as we reached the top door and the elevator door opened.
"Katniss!" Peeta shouted from a seat at the garden. He patted Cato on the shoulders as Clove and me walked out the elevator.
"So Mr. Mellark. Where's the present?" Clove smirked.
"Present's right here. Katniss, if you need help Clove, Cato, me and everyone else will be able to help you on it. And share it with Prim too!" Peeta smiled while Cato laughed and Clove looked at him confusingly. He handed me a small green bag.
"Open it Kat!" Clove nudged me.
"Um, Peeta has to give me clues on what it is first," I looked at Peeta.
"It's something you can silently 'talk' to your friends on that will not cost any money. It's also something that you can only use in Panem."
"I cannot get any idea out of that Peeta…"
"Well, it's something useful."
"Well what is it? Just tell me!"
"Why don't you just open it, idiot?" Clove groaned.
"Clove's right. Open it," Cato said.
It's not like I don't want to open it! I want to open it but I'm scared!
"Don't be scared, baby," Peeta whispered by my ear softly, tingly my nerves.
I opened it anyways.
Inside the bag there was a little rectangular box wrapped in green tissue paper. I groaned to complain about too much wrapping paper that would make me nervous. I unwrapped the layers of wrapping paper and there laid a heavy little white box. I opened it of course. Instruction papers came first, then there laid sponges all around the main item, I threw the sponges outside that box so I can reach in for the main item. There sat a little delicate electronic.
"Peeta…" I gasped quietly with a little bit of fury. Why did he spend so much money on me? Why would he even want to?
"Shh… Don't. Don't overwhelm yourself again."
"I won't Peeta!" I told him angrily.
"You just love that present don't you?" Cato laughed out loud.
"Of course I love it! I madly love it! It's such a useful present!" I replied.
"Katniss! Get over here!" Clove waved.
"Not before I show Peeta that I love it!" I told her as I pulled Peeta towards me and gave him a fiery passionate kiss. Peeta wrapped his arms around my waist as my fingers tangled into his hair. Oh-so long and sweet. Spine tingly and bursting feelings, my heart, my body, my imagination all fluttered everywhere…
"Whoa, whoa. Watch it love birds! There's someone else standing here!" Clove made us jump apart, but she winked, so it was on purpose… Ahha.
"Um hmm," Peeta made that coughing sound, "You guys want to know her number right?"
"Yes! Katniss, what's your number?" Clove asked enthusiastically.
"Don't even know my number. I just got this phone." I sighed despairingly.
"I'll give them the number…" Peeta shook his head as he typed in the numbers into Clove and Cato's phone. Clove grinned a 'thank you' and suddenly my phone kind of buzzed.
-I'm the first 1 that txted u! Enjoying ur iphone5? Xoxo Clove
"Clove!" I shouted. The three of them laughed when I shouted out her name.
My phone buzzed again.
-This time don't shout. Txt me back by typing on the keyboard
-Like this?
-Like this? Yes. Just like this.
"I'm so proud of you Kat! You learned it already!" Clove grinned sarcastically. No need to be really proud of anything, everyone can learn to text easily.
Cato and Peeta laughed again.
"Well girls, let's go have dinner shall we?" Peeta smiled and took my hand while Cato did the same to Clove. We walked into the elevator and headed down to a much lower floor where apparently the restaurant was located.
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