chapter five
CAPITOLS PRINCESS
FLASHBACK:
september 12th, 2103
TW: MENTION OF NEGLECTION
The Gray siblings were in bed, they were dazed. They had just found out that their parents passed, part of the girl was sad and then the other part was happy. She was equally disgusted by both. How could she be happy that her parents had died? That her and her brothers had no one besides each other, and their grams of course. But then again why was she sad about the parents that neglected her, that abused her and sometimes even starved her? They may have been gone but the damage had already been done, she had been drilled not to slouch as it made her look fat. She had been taught not to eat because she didn't need it, she was fat enough already they said. She was taught to never be to independent, men don't like that it lowers their self esteem. She was taught to always be ladylike, they don't like it any other way.
She never understood what they meant by that, she was nine. Who was she planning on impressing with her ladylike manners and a slim body that showed her ribs? She knew her body wasn't attractive but she didn't eat much anymore, she never had an appetite anyway. The girl knew her parents were planning on marrying her off once she turned sixteen, they wanted her to marry Viktor Conch. A wealthy business man who was more than triple her age at the time. It made her feel sick, they wanted to not only marry them but also sell her to him.
"We're going to have to get up soon"Cygnus breathed
"I think I'm going to be sick" Lyra answered
They thought it was because of their parents passing, somehow having an affect on her physical well-being. In reality it was because of the wretched memories that she had buried deep in her head somehow clawed their way up. The dug up from the darkest pit of her mind. And the box she had locked them away in,
PRESENT DAY:
june 5th, 2310
The girl woke up with a yawn and rubbed her eyes slightly giving them a red tint before she got up and stretched slightly before running her fingers through her untamed curly hair, she didn't even want to look in the mirror knowing that the sight of herself would make her want to cry.
She worried for her grams, she cried herself to sleep last night. If Snow would blatantly put it on her door she wondered what else he would do because that seemed rather tame for him she sensed something coming soon, she wished she could give her grandmother a warning but alas she had no way of contacting her before the hunger games and Panem knows she wasn't making it out of that.
Lyra began brushing her teeth and carried on with the rest of her morning routine although she mentally scolded herself only now realising that she had breakfast to eat but all she had in her mouth was a minty residue.
The Gray girl walked out and sat down with Finnick by her side, they exchanged a small greeting before she decided to skip breakfast and eat after the parade. Worried that eating might make her bloated and annoy her stylists and make a bad first impression which sounds utterly insane but not to her because that's what her parents always told her ( me too hun )
"Why aren't you having breakfast?" Finnick asked with concern lacing her voice
"Not hungry..." she trailed off
"Not even for some fruit?" He questioned
"No, I don't want to be bloated" the girl murmured
"What a bunch of nonsense please have anything to eat, just to put my mind at ease?" Finnick said with a sad smile
"Fine" she huffed, grabbing a croissant and ripping a piece off the end before shoving it in her mouth and mumbling "happy?"
"Very" he smiled widely before throwing a grape into his mouth
"That was so cool!" Canopus practically yelled
"Inside voices!" The escort exclaimed
"Your just as loud as him and it's too early, I want my bed that is way to comfy for me to sleep in!" Lyra cried while hiding her head in her arms and leaning on the table
"Me too Ly, me too." Finnick agreed
"Right enough chitchat! We have to move people, the tribute parade starts in about 12 hours because now it's 5:45 giving us five minutes to get to your stylists!" Serafina concluded
"That's the fastest I've ever seen you do maths" Finnick joked
"And that's the funniest joke you've made this trip" the escort replied with a sarcastic smile as Lyra tried to hide her growing smile with her hand.
"Cmon!" Serafina exclaimed, gesturing for the duo to follow her into the elevator which they both comply too. Surprisingly the two are scared to disobey their escort.. she's rather terrifying when she's angry about stuff like this.
Once the trio made it down to the stylists Lyra and Canopus got spilt up into different rooms, the sign on Lyra's door saying "district 4 female tribute". She got led inside my a man with brightly coloured blue hair and pink skin ( tv girl reference? ) inside the room stood three other people, a woman with her hair, skin and outfit split in two colours, the right side being a mint green and the left being a regular chocolatey colour, Lyra could only imagine how hard it was to do that to the woman's Afro which was split perfectly down the middle.
there was another woman inside the room, this woman looked unnaturally pale as if she was ill although her skin tone looked intentional, she had navy blue / green hair and matching coloured lips with a matching coloured dress, seemed like they all had a sort of themed colour.
Lastly there was a second man, instead of being blue and pink this man had a nice coffee coloured skin tone and yellow coloured dreadlocks with a matching yellow beard, while this man had a friendlier vibe and feeling to him than the others his eyes were strangely unsettling as they were fully black with no sign of the normally white sclera.
Lyra stood there awkwardly for a second, wondering what to say before deciding to introduce herself even though her stylists most definitely knew who she was so it felt like a dumb idea. All she wanted was to fill the silence that was lingering uncomfortably with no sign of the other four filling the gap.
"Hi I'm Lyra" she said with a small smile and a wave
The yellow man stepped up first, introducing himself "im Irati but you can call me ira! Can I just say you are absolutely breathtaking, I'm your stylist by the way darling"
"Kade" the pink and blue man introduced himself, short and sweet. Not a talker got it.
"Hello.My name is Ludovica! Call me Vee and I'm your makeup artist!" The half green woman greeted, giving Lyra a hug
"My name is Sukie I'm just here to bathe you and shave you and all that, oh and Kade is your hairstylist by the way. He's not very talkative so I wouldn't try" the last woman finished
"Well great to meet you all!" Lyra smiled widely trying to stay optimistic.
LEXI!
hi my loves! i just wanted to get this chapter out! the proper parade will be next chapter i just hadn't updated in awhile so I thought I'll try finish this quickly and get this out. I watched the SNC x sturniolo triplets collab and I'm now obsessed with both even more than I already was 😝😝 ALSO TYSM FOR OVER 2K READS WTF
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