"Any plan on what you are doing this year? We really need something good." I ask our new stylist, Livy. The fact that a new stylist already has one of the higher districts means she must be good.
"Don't worry! I've got tons of plans, all of which include your tributes looking absolutely show stopping!" She gushes, blinking way too much. It brings attention to her blue eyeshadow with little dolphins jumping off the edge of her eye. I guess she really is taking in the District 4 theme.
I leave to let her work her magic with our other stylist, Fauna. I head to make up a game plan in our apartment. I don't want to go hang out with the other mentors today. I need them to be amazing. People know I bring home victors because I make people fall in love with them, bringing out their victories so much that no one can even recognize their weaknesses. The job of a mentor is to make people fall in love with the tributes so that when they get in the arena, if they get hurt, people will want to cry and give everything to help them. If you think the people will do that, you know that is when a tribute is prepared.
Katniss already is one step ahead of everyone else. She connected with the people when she volunteered to save her little sister. She already has a story and connections with the people. She may not realize it, but she already has gazillions of people that would save her. By volunteering for her sister, she has already started gaining supporters from the moment she was screaming for her sister.
I really don't know what I can do with the boy, so I decide to leave him for later. I decide to start work on Kanani. She has the form to kill people, which shouldn't be an issue. I just need for people to like her. She isn't pretty, so I can't go with that angle. She isn't overly confident. She doesn't have an amazing back story. You don't look at her and be afraid. You don't look at her and feel sorry for her. I guess we are going to play the worst possible option: the girl next door.
I really can't help her other than that right now. I will eventually have to start with how to answer questions. I have to wait until training to get a feel for what she is good at with weapons. I can't stand the quiet in the apartment and I don't want to turn on the television. All that will be on will be Katniss. The quiet brings hauntings of the past, so I turn off the lights and leave.
I run into Johanna in the hallway, going the same way I am.
"How's everything going with you?" I ask. She smirks.
"Terribly. With that stupid 12 girl, we all know that no one has a chance. Please feel free to take offense." She says. I laugh because it is so true.
"She sure has caused a lot of trouble. The best way to get her out is to kill her early. Once she gets past day one, everyone is done for." I explain.
"Who do we get to kill her?" She asks, ready to make alliances with anybody. I don't think Katniss is all that bad, but Johanna obviously does.
"You seriously want to kill her first?" She nods like I am stupid for even asking the question.
"Tell me. You know something!" She demands. I give in.
"Really you have four options. Cato and Clove would love to kill her. Thresh could, but I don't know if he will, being from the outer districts. Or…" I trail off. If she could kill me right now, she would.
"Tell me! I am not talking to Enobaria! Do you remember what happened last time?" She asks. I certainly do remember. Let's just say that afterwards we had to relocate rooms.
"Peeta."
"Peeta? Have you seen that kid? He looks at people and charms them. He might just replace you!"
"That's the point. Katniss probably trusts him, or will trust him anyway. She will never see it coming. Except for the obvious fact that Peeta is in love with Katniss, so he isn't going to kill her."
"Wait, Peeta is in love with Katniss? How do you know?" She asks.
"Don't you see the way he looks at her? It's all over his face." I explain to her. We are now at the room we are supposed to be in, but we don't walk in yet.
"Any other options? Glimmer, maybe? Or, um, that girl with the fox face?" She asks, desperate to get her dead.
"We could just get Enobaria to help us. If we want to kill her." I tell her, trying to convince her that we need to get Enobaria on our side. With my social skills and Enobaria's strong tributes, we could get her dead. But, I don't really know if I want her dead.
"Fine. I will talk to her and yes, we are going to kill her. But if anything happens, promise me, you will not call the peacekeepers? I do not need them angry at me again." I promise her and she walks in, not immediately heading over toward Enobaria.
"Go." I whisper to her and she gets up and walks over. Nothing happens for a while, then you can see Johanna biting her tongue, and then they shake hands and she comes back over.
"Guess who is going to die? And guess who is going to help us?" She says, quite cheery for being in the Capitol.
"Katniss and me, because you brought me into it." I say, hoping that isn't the answer.
"Only way she would say yes." She replies and I can't believe she got me into this.
"Are we telling the tributes about our alliance?" I ask her.
"No way! We tell Clove and Cato, the most confident people ever, that they are partnering with a couple of tributes from 7? Not gonna work." She explains. I'm still lost on what this about.
"So what exactly are we doing?" I ask.
"We keep them alive. You don't have any problem with helping others right?" She makes sure.
"Yeah, yeah, sure. We are just helping our tributes once she dies, right?"
"Exactly."
We are called out for the tribute parade. I leave last, worried about what I just committed to. The entire time while watching the parade, I worry the entire time, especially when they come out in their costumes which are on fire! The crowd is cheering really loud for them, even more when they lock hands and hold them up in the air. People are throwing roses and cheering their name. When they pull up in front of the president, you can tell they are the favorites, ones people will give everything for.
Why did I say I would kill the Girl on Fire? This is going to be impossible.
Finnick has gotten himself in quite some trouble! How are they going to kill the Girl on Fire? If this was confusing, pretty much Johanna told Enobaria that they were going to help Cato and Clove stay alive in order to get the Girl on Fire dead in the first seconds, but Finnick isn't sure about how they are going to kill her, or if he even wants to. Sorry for the long wait! If you want the next chapter to be up sooner, make sure you review.