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Chapter 4

Solders escort me and Coda inside he justice building. I'm still sobbing. Coda puts his arms around me as soon as we're alone. "You idiot." I shout and push him away, turning my body in the opposite direction.

"Excuse me?" asks Coda
"YOU IDITOT!" I shout louder, making sure he hears me this time. He needs to hear me.
"Why?" he shouts back. Oblivious to his mistake.
"We can never ever be together now. You know that don't you?" I say, quieter than before "One of us will die. If you'd have kept your mouth shut then I could've won and we could both be together. Once I'd come out the arena." I explain
"I didn't think of it like that." he muffles, embarrassed
"No Coda. You wouldn't, would you?" I shout. But the shouting rapidly turns into crying. Coda hugs me tightly and whispers "I'm so sorry Rue"
"Just stay alive. For me." I reply
"I'd do anything for you". The door opens but we don't move. It's Gale and Delly.
"You two ok?" asks Gale. We both nod, but it's obvious were not so the try to comfort us as much as possible.
"Come here" announces Delly, opening her arms wide for a hug, meant for both of us. Coda walks towards his mum and embraces his mother and father. A couple of seconds pass and the drop to the floor, knowing that this may be the last time they get to see each other. Delly looks up to see me starring at them contently. She opens her arms and inviting me to join them but I pass as I'd probably start crying, again. The soldiers announce that time for Gale and Delly to leave. Coda gets one last hug and they leave. 15 minutes pass with no one else coming to see us anytime soon so we assume that my mother and farther will be mentoring us during the games.
After 30 minutes of silence and hugging, me and Coda are escorted to the train that will be transferring us to the Capitol. We sit in silence for about an hour. I heard stories off my mother and father about the luxurious fabrics and how stroking the velvet helped my mother to calm herself and work out her situations. Suddenly the train door slides open and in walks Effie and Haymitch.
"What are you two doing here?" I ask
"Yeah, where's Peeta and Katniss?" asks Coda
"I thought my mother and father were mentoring us?" I say, down heartedly.
"Sorry, they can't because their parents of a tribute. So and Effie and I will be your mentors." I stand up and storm out. I can't hear if Coda's following me. I don't really care if he is.
I sit in my room too angry to cry. Too angry to care, but I do care. I really do. Why didn't my parents come to see me off? Why? Do they not love me? Or couldn't they be bothered? I'll never know!
The sun is rising as I wake. I know we are only a few hours away from the Capitol. People who secretly hate me will line the streets and cheer and wave hoping to get a glimpse of this year's tributes. I don't want to get up but I have to. I jump into the shower; I make sure the heat is freezing cold. Nothing like cold ice to wake you up, as Coda would say. I scream and scream as the cold water runs down my back. I hear the door swing open and someone rush in, panting.

''Rue?!'' someone yells, I can't tell who it is with the noise of the ice-cold water running down my spine ''Rue?!'' it's Coda.

I hold my breath for a second, hoping he'll go away. 5 minutes pass and I've finished my shower. I dry myself and put a towel round me.
"Coda get out of here I'm half naked." I shout, I didn't realise he was still here. He must've been truly worried about be.
"Sorry I heard screaming, I was ."
"Coda, this is my room why do you think you can come in here without me saying?" I shout
"Wow! What's going on in here, now? Jesus! Rue, would you care to put some clothes on? Coda what are you doing in here?" shouts Haymitch, giving us suspicious looks. Haymitch gets Coda drags Coda out the door and is met by Effie who comes in and lays some clothes on my bed and turns to exit.
"They were your mother's. From the victory tour. I thought you might like a little reminder of home." she says softly.
"Thank you" I reply, trying to sound grateful but honestly I hate them. Effie exits the room leaving me to think about the arena. I get dressed and go to the dining cart. Haymitch, Effie and Coda are already eating. I sit down next to Coda. He smiles at me, I smile back.
"I think it's best to forget earlier" he says
"I agree!" I reply. I hug him tightly and settle down for my small breakfast of buttered toast.
"Listen, you two. I'm going to try to get you both out of the arena alive. They changed the rules for your parents, Rue. They might do the same for you two." announces Haymitch. "Effie and I have a meeting later to decide with the game makers. But that's all we can do."
''What do you mean?'' I ask looking confused.

''What I mean is, me and Effie will do as much as we can but you two need to pitch in and make it seem like you are 'love-struck'. Rue, your parents did a perfect job and your father even convinced the Capitol that your other was pregnant!''

''We can do that. Easy. Right Rue?'' jokes Coda. I scowl at him. Haymitch doesn't understand and takes it as a yes.

Once breakfast is over, I leave feeling really full -in fact a little bit sick. Effie leads me to my room and Haymitch has gone with Coda. Is it because of this morning? Whatever. He can do what he likes. I don't care. What's it to do with me? I get to my room and Effie introduces me to my prep team. Giorgio, Mellasa, Xzander and Tyleron. They soon get to work on making me presentable for the Capitol cameras.
By the time they've done I look like a new person. I look like a Barbie, with the amount of makeup I have on. I wonder what Coda looks like. I sure hope he hasn't changed much. My prep team look happy with the transformation and they all cheer and high-five.
"Come on Rue we pull into the station in five minutes! Coda's been ready for about half an hour." screeches Effie. I can see we're on a tight schedule. She drags me out of my room and we practically run to the main entrance of the train.
"Here I got a flower for you. You look great." stutters Coda; I can see Haymitch is already coaching him on how to act for the cameras. It's just like Haymitch to keep things from me. I don't really care though.
"Thanks and thanks" I reply with a smile, it's obvious Coda's much better at faking the couple thing. Coda walls up to me and holds me tightly he whispers in my ear "I'll keep you safe. I promise."
I pull away and hold his hips, he does the same. "No. I need to keep you safe. This stupid Hunger Games malarkey is in my blood, not yours. Anyway, I've picked up a few tricks along the years…" I cock and smile, proud of myself. Coda takes his hand from around my waist and looks down hearted. Great another amazing attempt at being a good best friend.
"Sorry. This is hard for you two. I understand that I'm being a real cow with you. Sorry." I plead. Coda looks at me in dis-belief.
"Come here." he smiles and steps into the hug wear we left of. He looks at me and I smile, realising he wants to kiss me, here and now we lean in and my lips faintly bush against his when the doors of the train fly open, simultaneously me and Coda fly apart in surprise to be greeted with cheers from people who hate my parents and probably me.
Haymitch is at my side and Coda's behind me as we are taken from the train to the safety of the training centre, this is where I and Coda will be staying for the next 5 days.
It's cosy inside. I like it; well I would if this place wasn't preparing me for my slow imminent death! "What do you think" I ask Coda trying to look like I like what they've done with the place.
"It's ok; I think I'd like it a little better if I was here on a vacation eater than death preparations."
"That was the exact same thing I was thinking." I mumble
Coda grabs my hands and looks deep into my soul. "I'm going to keep you a live you know."
"I know". We are taken to our preparations rooms where we will be spending the rest of the day. Here we will be washed, prepared and clothed ready for this evenings Tribute Parade.
I get to my allocated room- in which my preparations will take place- to be met by my prep team who readied me for the capitol cameras on the train.
"Darling come on we have so much to do." coo's Xzander.
"Here is what we predict you to look like at the parade." Mellasa hands me her holographaphPad that holds a picture of me in what looks like my mother's Mockingjay suit. "I'm wearing my mother's Mockingjay suit?" I say unhappily
"Yes is that ok?" asks Giorgio
"I suppose so" I sigh
"Good" chirps Tyleron
They all get to work on the impossible jobs that are my nails and hair covered legs. Pulling strand after strand of hair from my legs and plucking the tiniest things from my eyebrows.
One by one they all stand and tell me I'm finished. I look like another person once again. All I need now is my mother's Mockingjay suit. By now my stylists had been working for at least 5 hours leaving them rather tired. The only person from my team I'm left to meet is my clothes designer; I'm on my way now.
I'm taken to a room quite a way down the corridor. And Xzander sit me down on a metal table and tells to wait. So I do. A few moments pass and the door is opened. In walks a tall, skinny girl with one of those really kind looking faces.
"Hello, I'm Alziabetha you must be Rue."
"Hi" I say back politely
"So what do you think of the mini Mockingjay suit I designed" asks Alizabetha. I don't like it but I do.
"It's great" I say with a hopefully convincing smile.
"All of the other tributes are being dressed in things that symbolise their parents" says Alizabetha. I raise my eye brows to show I couldn't care less.
Alizabetha and I talk for ages about life in general back in district 12. She makes me miss home for the very first time. In my life every time I've been with coda camping the forest or sleeping at his I've never missed home.
"If you ever need someone to talk to, Rue. I'm always here ok?" I nod at Alizabetha. Then she gives me a friendly hug. I hug her back. Finally it's time to get my Baby Mockingjay suit on ready for the tributes parade. My hair and make up were done before so after I'm suited and booted in the Mockingjay suit I'm ready.