Melting Snow // Coriolanus Snow

thirteen: Tigris

Alara eyes roamed around the dirty, dingy walls of the stairs which Coriolanus was climbing. It wasn't that she was used to lavish lifestyle and felt as if the place was below her. She was more of a nervous, and confused.

Why the hell Capitol even has such a poor structure building which looked as if it would fall any second now. The stairs had layers of dirt on it, the walls were yellow colored and had random red, brown, black marks on it.

It looked as if someone smeared shit, and blood, and god knows what on the wall. But she hoped that it was all rust due to the aging of the poor material which was used to construct the building. Coriolanus was no longer holding her hand, and was slowly climbing the stairs while Alara followed her.

She wasn't religious, however she still muttered a small prayer in her heart, knowing full well that she was going to be murdered in this sketchy building, and never to be found again. She was about to kick Coriolanus where the sun don't shine, and ran away. before he came to a stop infront of a door.

THe building was not very high. it was max 7 floors tall, but still walking up all this stairs left her a little breathless. Coriolanus stood in front of the door, and turned around to see Alara standing a little away from him.

"THis is it" he muttered and Alara gave back an awkward smile, not knowing how to act. She thought that his next move would be him knocking upon the door, to alert whoever lives there so they can let them enter.

However, Coriolanus pulled out a key from his pocket and very efficiently used it to unlock the door as if he had done so for years. Taking a step inside, he turned around and look at Alara, who stood their with her brows raised up and a small, almost undetectable frown on her face.

"Come in" He motioned to her, and not having any other option, Alara walked forward and slowly took a step inside the house. Once she had step in, Coriolanus immediately closed the door behind her and locked it.

Then he turned to look at her and tilted his head in another direction, asking her to follow him. She noticed how he was being quiet, and silent as if he didn't wanted to bother someone sleeping, so Alara did the same and quietly followed him.

Walking through the hallway that was quiet narrow, Alara couldn't help but notice that the house look broken, and sad, and well poor. They emerged into a living room, which had an open kitchen on the left side, a dining table in the middle and a couch was aligned by the wall; with dim yellow lighting giving the house ambience.

"You sit here, i will get her" Coriolanus muttered to Alara, and motioned toward the 4 chaired dining table, and raised his hands to carefully open the top button of his jacket and took it off rather slowly.

Alara who silently took the seat on one of the table's chair, and crossed her legs out of anxiety; couldn't help but notice the way his arm flexed, his chest muscles went taut and his shirtrised a little showing off his stomach muscles which she couldn't keep her eyes off, and dare to follow the muscles V-line and the direction in went to.

Coriolanus who was unaware of the way the girl in front of him who looking at him, took a step forward in her direction while throwing his thick jacket on the couch, and was about to say something; something that Alara wasn't ready to hear since her eyes were stuck on somewhere else.

"Coryo! where were you all day" came a extremely worried high pitched voice of a woman, while Coriolanus was standing infront of Alara, but his body now facing the other woman who sound quite young.

A young girl, it could be Coriolanus girlfriend; with that thought Alara couldn't help but shrink where she was sitting in her own chair.  Her heart deflated like a old balloon and fall into the pits, while the girl converse with Coriolanus.