kill for your love - the hunger games

(046) may i introduce!

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KILL FOR YOUR LOVE.

act three.

(chapter forty-six, may i introduce!)

training centre, 74 ADD.

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JUNIPER FELT ANGER BUBBLE up in her stomach as she watched Nadine Groves pace up and down, heels clacking against the wooden floor. The Hale girl could hear the escort grumbling underneath her breath as she kept glancing towards the door where the two tributes had disappeared behind with their prep teams. They had been in there since the morning and the interviews were to happen soon and yet, they still had not come out. 

"Nadine, sit down," Juniper snapped, picking the skin off of her thumb as she clenched her jaw. "Your heels are giving me a headache." 

"Yara is giving me a headache!" Nadine screeched as she stopped in her tracks. "Where are they? They should be out by now." 

"Maybe Yara has a brilliant design she's taking her time on." 

"Oh, don't be ridiculous, Juniper." Nadine waved her hand in the air. "When has Yara ever had a good design? Except for you, of course, but that's only because I pressured her into it!" 

Juniper left the skin of her thumb alone as she began to ball her hands into a fist. She didn't care that Yara and the other stylist were taking a long time preparing Dakota and Jeremy, but all she did care about was that the two kids weren't made fools by the costumes they were wearing. The Capitol people listed the cowboy outfits as cute during the Parade and they barely just got by.

"I'm going in there—" 

"Don't," Juniper warned as Nadine began to walk towards the door. "Don't get involved. And anyway, they aren't in there."

"What?" Nadine scoffed. "They have to be in there. They went through that door." 

"They don't get ready in that room, Nadine." Juniper shook her head. "They — you know what? Never mind." 

Nadine huffed as she resumed pacing and it caused the Hale girl to grit her teeth. However, she tried to ignore the escort as she became focused on Dakota and Jeremy. The girl had gotten a five for her personal evaluation whilst the boy got a seven. Not the highest, but not the lowest. They were good numbers and a good start. But Juniper feared for Jeremy as he complained on how his foot was becoming more painful as the days went on. The Hale girl supposed it was because of training, but she did warn the boy to not overexert himself. The Victor grumbled under her breath as she felt her heart thud and thud. 

"Oh, finally!" Nadine snapped. "What were you doing in there, Yara?" 

"Uh — styling the girl?" 

Juniper looked at the door to see Yara and the other stylist, who was an immense junkie that no-one barely saw him, with Dakota and Jeremy. And the Hale girl couldn't help but raise a brow when she saw them. The two kids looked nice, she would give them that, but whatever Yara was thinking, their outfits did not correlate with District Ten.