Well here is a more comedic chapter for you guys. Go to my new poll and vote please! I am trying to decide whether or not I should extend Graceland (while, in the past that wasn't probable, it is now probably going to happen) Please vote! We finally got to the Les Miserables chapters! Yay! We also reach 400 reviews and exceeded it! Wow guys! Are y'all aware this is the number 9 Finnick and Annie category fanfic (in order of reviews) That is way more than I ever expected! Keep it up!
TributeAndProud: I'm glad you liked it! I'm very happy with the court outcome as well :)
Mikey Jacquez: Yay! I'm glad you like it! Court was not a happy place, but after court was great :)
MiaBelles: Yay Graceland! Yeah, I was thinkning back and I realized no one knew about Peeta and Katniss so I thought it was time to reveal the relationship :)
TheWomanWhoCodesAndWrites: It probably isn't, but I need ideas for what he can do next... I'm excited to write it! It'll be in upcoming chapters. Honestly, the temper tantrum was my reaction to the show and deciding to write what I did for Annie, because I'm normally very relaxed but that episode...
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Buttons301: I would agree, but what does emancipated mean...?
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axes tridents and snares: I'm glad! And I will think about it. If it happens, it probably will be because of tragedy or rape or something because I support abstinence and try to put that in my writing, but I am considering this idea a lot :) Thanks for it!
Fighting The Inevitable: Alrighty! Thanks for telling me the name switch :) I'm really very glad you enjoyed it :D
TARDISRose: Les Miserables starts this chapter! We will see what happens to Finnick and Annie soon :) I'm very glad you liked it :)
ExplodingAaron: Well, your review helped inspire me to extend this fanfic, so thank you :) and I'm glad I could help develop a love of something. That brings a huge smile to my face :D
Alexandra Jackson rocks Hades: I am very glad you like it! It is fun to write :)
Catching Fireflies: Well, there is even more Finnick and Annie this chapter... That wasn't the end of the story, so no worries but I will have an epilogue come the end. I already know what is going to happen in it :) I really am glad you liked the dancing
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Sarah7821: Is it weird I am not freaked out by that statement and am actually flattered...?
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HP-LotR-SW-HG: Why was there doubt? I like happy endings :) I am excited for Finnick's plan and I try to tell her that, but my parents yell at me for calling her Slytherin.
MewWinx96: Oh well... I am glad they were innocent too :) It'll be fun to see what happens
RunnergirlI: They are as cute as Romeo and Juliet to me! Like wayyyyyy up there :)
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Chapter 23- Finnick and Gale are Gay?
Peeta
On a day like this, it was impossible to not feel your heart beating in your chest. We woke up an entire hour earlier than we usually did, getting ready to head up to the high school at seven in the morning. We were in charge of getting the kids who were involved in the show on the other floors out of bed as well. Meaning, since I was the only nice one at five in the morning, I was in charge of waking Prim, Rory, Vick and Thea up. I walked down the stairs and woke the four up in about ten minutes, only receiving a pillow in my face from Rory.
I walked back upstairs only to be greeted by the sight of Katniss, Johanna and Annie lounging on the couch in their tank tops and flannel pajama pants. Johanna was the luckiest out of the three girls. She just had to put a wig cap on and change wigs. Katniss had to wear a wig so she could be blonde like Glimmer and Prim, but she had more hair than Johanna, causing her to have her brown hair in pin curls. Still, Annie looked the most miserable, having green, blue and pink sponge rollers in her hair since school the day before. Gigi had forced all the girls to go to school in curlers to make sure their hair set properly. Only Johanna, Katniss and anyone not in high school was excused from this, so during school yesterday, girls in the show were sporting candy colored curlers and bright colored bandanas.
The boys were putting more effort into their looks than the girls were this morning though. While the girls lounged around, Finnick and Gale helped one another with hair and basic theater makeup. They were being forced to wear mascara and eyeliner, as well as the foundations and powders girls normally used. I have to wear the make up too, but Gigi said we didn't have to arrive in hair and make-up. These two idiots were messing around while she was talking. No one tried to correct them. When they were finally satisfied with their makeup, they look at the four of us, just watching. "Well, are you four going to get ready?" Finnick asked.
Johanna, Katniss and Annie exchanged looks before cracking up. "If you had listened to Gigi yesterday, you would've known we didn't have to arrive in makeup. Besides, you two are certainly going to have to get more done." Johanna said.
I smiled as I remembered Clove getting assigned to do Finnick's Thenardier makeup. It was hectic during rehearsals trying to get him and Jo set up because as soon as Lovely Ladies ended, they had until Fantine's death to prepare the two in their hilarious wardrobe. Finnick and Johanna both had to be given wigs, but Jo could handle hair and makeup with grace. Finnick flinched when he saw a comb and the job of Finnick's makeup artist had to be Annie instead of Clove.
Gale gives the four of us a look between utter annihilation and extreme embarrassment. Finnick looks up and shrugs, thinking he looks sexy. Admittedly, if I saw him and Gale together in public, I would think they were dating. Johanna seems to reach this conclusion at the same time I do. "Let's get doughnuts."
Gale and Finnick shrug as they walk out the door but Johanna keeps talking, winking at the four of us, who all seem to know her diabolical plan. "Gale, Finnick, you're show dare is to take all of us, and I mean, all of us to the doughnut shop, but leave all of us in the car, except for Thea. You guys have to pretend to be an item while Thea is your daughter."
Thea is small enough to where she can look like she is eight, instead of eleven, so this might actually be a convincing prank. Gale looks at Jo with his jaw dropped while Finnick just jumps onto Gale's back. "Fine then." He then whispers in Gale's ear seductively, "I'm the man in the relationship."
This time it is Katniss who snorts. "Come one, Finn! You are making Gale give you a piggy back ride, and you had to show him the proper technique for self applying eyeliner and mascara. If anyone is the man in your relationship, it is Gale. You are the woman."
"A dang sexy one, too!" He responds with a wink.
As we walk to the car, Gale leans over to me. "What the heck is a show dare?"
I shrug. "It's a tradition the theater department has. At some point during the course of the show, everyone has to do a dare. Consider yourself lucky you're getting off early."
Gale looks slightly annoyed and gets into the car. As we pull out of the driveway, Annie speaks up. "How will we prove to everyone they did the dare?" She asks this after we explain to Thea what is happening. The girl is just laughing.
Johanna smirks again. "Peeta, you and I are going in two minutes before the guys, getting doughnuts and filming the exchange while we pretend we're texting. Katniss, you stay in the van with Annie, Prim and Rory. Annie's curlers will look out of place, as will your pin curls."
Katniss smiles and shrugs while everyone in the car starts to laugh about what is to come. We finally pull into the parking lot and Jo and I get out, money and cell phones in hand. Jo looks back at the boys one more time. "Remember to act as flamboyant as possible. So flamboyant, that is flamboyancy was buoyancy, the Titanic wouldn't have sunk." She then winks and places a kiss on Gale's lips. I am laughing and shaking my head as I go in with Jo and order two chocolate doughnuts, one for each of us, and early morning soda.
As we go to sit down, Gale and Finnick start to walk in, Finnick holding Thea on his hip, while his free hand is grasping Gale's. I turn on my phone video camera, as does Johanna. "Hey-y." Finnick says, his voice completely natural sounding flamboyant. "Well, it's like our tenth wedding anniversy today and the celebration of the eight year we have had our daughter, Lily Rose and we were wondering if we could, like, have some doughnuts. We have money, don't we babe?" Finnick smacks Gale on the butt and, in response, Gale winks and blows a kiss to Finnick. The poor guy behind the counter looks stunned and doesn't know what to do. "What do you want, babe?"
Without breaking a beat, Gale continues to talk, in a voice even more flamboyant than Finnicks. It's hilarious. "We would totally like some, like, chocolate doughnuts, six to be exact, and then," he pauses, "What do you want, baby?" He asks Thea, who is looking like she is staying in character very well. I'm impressed by her acting skills.
"I want a pink one with sprinkles!" I start to lowly chuckle and exchange glances with Johanna. She is not regretting this one bit.
Gale puts his lips into a duck face, snaps his fingers, and bobs his head. "Mmhmm. Girl, that sounds tasty. Get two of those. What do you want, babe?"
Finnick purses his lips. "You know, girl, you better get four glazed for the rest. You know how the folks like it after a night like last night." He licks his lips sexually at Gale.
The guy at the counter does their request and checks them out as fast as possible. Johanna and I start cracking up and follow them out, high fiving them. Gale then looks Johanna straight in the eye. "I'm leaving you. I found a better love." He winks at Finnick, who licks his lips in response. Johanna kicks him lightly on the shin. "I'm just joking." He then kisses Johanna and I cannot wait to see what dare he comes up with in retaliation for her.
Finnick
How girls put makeup on every day, I have no idea. I pretend to be cocky and aloof after the performance Gale, Thea and I gave at the doughnut shop, but I can't. I am scared. I sigh and put my head in my hands, letting my heartbeat against my chest, widly. It will not stop, no matter how long I sit in the hall behind the stage by myself. I then feel hands come up onto my shoulders, and hug me from behind, around my neck. I don't need to see the scar from a curling iron just below the bone that stuck out on the right wrist to know who it was. I didn't need to see the small, narrow scar leading from the wrist halfway up the hand that is nearly invisible in the right light. I don't need to see the narrow wrists that look like they belong on a girl that is four foot nine instead of a girl who is five foot four. I don't need to see any of this no know these hands belong to Annie.
There are ringlets coming down, faming her beautiful face. She is covered in makeup, but just because it is slightly thicker, doesn't mean I don't recognize her. She has her hair pulled into a loose, but proper and time period looking bun on the top back of her head while her bangs are curled and bobby pinned to look lovely, but stay out of her face. "You look beautiful." I notice she is wearing the yellow dress. How could I forget that is her first costume? I look down at my costume. Since I, apparently, have and amazing body, I am being required to do my scene in just my trousers. No shirt. No one has a problem with that. The idea was actually unintentionally mine. I took my shirt off because the stage lights were getting hot, and tied the sleeves around my waist. The look stuck.
I pulled Annie around and pulled her close to my bare chest. I'm sure we looked like a Princess and a beggar in a forbidden love story that girls liked to read. I must admit, the idea of a forbidden love sounded dangerous and romantic, so for now, I was her Romeo and she was my Juliet. I feel my heart beat faster and my breath catch. I can smell her shampoo and hairspray in her hair. Her soft brown eyes looked at me. I could smell the mint she was eating. Katniss had a habit of giving everyone mints before the show started as break a leg gifts. Annie has no idea, that by just sitting here, on my lap, looking as beautiful and innocent, yet lovely as she always does, I am falling harder, deeper and faster for her. There is no doubt that I could ever dream of loving another girl after her. She rests her head against my chest and looks up suddenly. "Why is your heart beating so fast? You're never this nervous for a show."
I nod. "I'm just nervous because it could be the last show I have with you." I look down at my hands, letting them get intertwined with hers. She places a soft kiss on my lips.
"This will not be our last show together, Finnick. Even if we don't get into Addams Family right away and I get taken to Colorado, we will find a college together. I will leave my mom as soon as I turn eighteen and make my way back to you. We will audition and become stars on a show together." Annie is shaking. I pull her close and she is cold like ice. When she is nervous, she often is. I tilt her chin up and kiss her once again, not caring that people are leaving the stage and entering the hall, probably looking for one of us.
One of the kids in the ensemble walks out in his costume. We don't see him until he sees us and yells, "Eww! Finnick and Annie are kissing!" He runs back in and we, hesitantly, break apart.
I still hold her hand in mine as we wait for us to be told to get into our places. "Annie, you look beautiful. I don't know how I got so lucky, to have the most perfect girl in the world with me."
She looks down at her black heeled character shoes and blushes. "I am not the most perfect girl in the world. I am crazy and dependant. You are the most perfect boy in the world because you put up with me every day."
I smile once again. "It isn't putting up with when you know, that in your heart, the feeling you have is love. I know I love you Annie."
She lets a full on smile come to her lips. "I know I love you, Finnick."
Clove walks backstage, dressed in all black, a headset in her hair. "I know you two are the cutest couple in the world, but Finnick needs to go onstage. Once the show starts, you are father and daughter and the two of you lip locking will be wrong."
I roll my eyes and give her one more kiss. "I get to kiss her in Lovely Ladies, remember?"
Clove rolls her eyes right back at me. "Only because she is a prostitute you are about to have sex with and it is awesome choreography."
I walk to my place on stage, letting Annie watch me go with a half smile on her face and a look of happiness and sadness that came when opening night came, or in this case, opening day, because High School students who pay to leave class get to see the show first. No matter. It is time to begin. I pick up my prop and go center stage, just behind Marvel, where he starts as Jean Valjean. Gale is down here as a prisoner with me while Peeta is a police officer, like how Cato is Javert. Annie and Katniss, since they don't actually have their major parts for a while and aren't on stage in the opening scene, are in charge of giving the curtain speech. When they are done, the show starts.
So they aren't gay... Well please, if you have any dares, PM me your ideas so I can see what happens to all our lovely people!
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