I am so sorry! It's been WAY too long since I last updated! Either way, Chapter 3 of Switched Places!
So, here I am….. Titus isn't helping me trying to forget him, and today we have the tribute parade. Great. After his little outburst yesterday, things have been…tense. Very tense. Giffi refuses to talk to anybody, Cordo is still drunk, and nobody has heard from Titus in a while, and I am just standing around glaring at anybody who chances to look at me. So, yeah, everything is just peachy. Anyway, Giffi comes into my room, gestures for me to come with her, and I am led into a sterile white room, and three exotic birds come bustling in…and then I get a closer look, and I realize they aren't birds, but oddly colored people. Apparently feathers are the style, because as they run around me, removing every hair and dead skin cell from my body, all I see is feathers, lots and lots of feathers. Talking to them, I find out that their names are Whytt, Persei, and Pleione, the last two sisters. Then, in comes the most normal-looking Capitol person I have ever seen. The only thing Capitol about him is he has blue flames going through his black hair.
"Hello Summer, I am your stylist, Spens Rollo. I am here to help you look great and get Sponsers" He said, matter-of-factly.
"Otherwise known as prettying me up to be murdered infront of all Panem" I shot back, VERY annoyed with this man, even though I had no reason to. I mean what had he ever done to me? He was just doing what he has always known.
"Well, if I do my job right, I won't be prettying you up for death. So, Titus' stylist and I were thinking, that, being from District 10, you deal with butchering, right?" He asked, disregarding my further statement.
"Yeah…" I started, wondering where he was going with this.
"And butchering involves blood, right?"
"Right….." Where was he going with this, exactly?
"So, and I came up with this costume" Holding up a steely-gray jumpsuit, that hugs all my curves (which I was not happy about) and had blood-red splatters on it, and a belt with at least 5 (plastic) butcher knives, and a rolled up cow pelt cape, with gray boots that ended just below the knee, and a cow-pelt headband to match the cape.
"It's….different….." I said, still staring at the dress. This man is sick, completely sick. Because in less than a week, all this blood will probably be real. Whether it will be mine or not, it will be real. And I want to push that day as far away as I can, for as long as I can. But of course the Capitol couldn't have that, I had to live with the fact that I am going to die in a week, and that's that. Nothing I can possibly do about it. So after I was dressed, my make-up was done, and I was ready to go, Titus and I were walked out to the chariots, and as we were waiting to head out, I walked up to the horses, and admired them. They were black and white paints, Very beautiful, and our chariot was cow-patched. And it started. At first I tried to stay as far away from Titus as possible, but then the rocking and jumping was too great, and for fear I was going to fall out, I moved a bit closer so I could grab him of I fell out. So far the Capitol people were ignoring us; they were still focusing on District 1, who was covered from head-to-toe in jewels. So many jewels. Then, we went over a pothole, and the rest happened so fast, I couldn't have stopped it if I tried. Ok, maybe I could have. When we hit the pothole, I was thrown off balance, and I started to fall, but Titus caught me, and when I looked into his emerald green eyes, I was like all the other girls back in district 10. I grabbed the front of his jumpsuit, and pulled him into a kiss. But instead of pulling back, he just deepened it. I pulled back when I heard the cries of delight, and gasps of surprise, and suddenly got red in the face. I wanted to die. But instead, I straightened myself up, and ignored everybody, that is, until Titus, grinning like an idiot, grabbed my hand, yanked it into the air, and was smiling and waving. And so was I, after a few seconds. So there we were, the bloody romantics of District 10.
So what did Ya'll think or Summer and Titus? REVIEW! I need help with the interview costumes, and other tributes!