Its not over until the Mockingjay sings - F. Odair

Chapter 18

"Okay the hard part is over, Now the only thing that you have to do is walk in, meet the victors who are currently at the Capitol, and then we will go through the banquet, where you will have to thank your major sponsors, you just have to make them feel like without them, you would have never survived the games cause next year you are probably going to have to come to mentor the Tributes of Four and If they like you, you can more easily talk with them next year, to convince them to sponsor our tributes," Tyler said. 

"Won't all the victors hate me?" Lea asked. "After all I am the reason why some of their tributes are death," Lea said anxiously. 

"No of course not, Victors have a strict no grudges policy here. Everybody understands as they have all been through the same thing, Don't worry about that," Tyler said as he shook his head. 

"Just take a deep breath in and out, You can do this," Finnick said. 

"Okay I can do this," Lea said. 

"That's my girl!" Finnick said. 

"Will you be with me?" Lea asked to Finnick

"I'm sorry baby but I can't, I can't make the Capitol women think that we are together. You might have won the games, but President Snow will always find other ways to hurt us," Finnick said. 

"Of course, Don't worry, I understand," Lea said but she hated this, the whole situation. Finnick was suffering because of it and that means it was affecting her as well. She needed to find a way to end this whole situation. 

"You ready to go in?" Tyler asked with his hand on the doorknob. 

"As ready as I can be," Lea said as she was putting on her best fake smile. 

As she walked in, she saw all the victors waiting for her. The first face she saw was a familiar one. It was the woman she had met yesterday at the elevator, Cashmere was her name and the person standing next to her was probably her brother Gloss. He was a very muscular blond man, at least 6"3 tall. "Congratulations again," Cashmere said as she shook Lea's head. "Yeah congrats," Gloss said. She then made her way down the line, shaking everybody's hands from District 1, all the way to District 12. 

"Come on, you have to meet some of your sponsors now," Tyler said leading her away. While she was walking away she saw Finnick talking to some Capitol woman and she couldn't help but feel Jealous. It was always going to be hard for her to see Finnick flirt with other women. 

"Lea I want to you meet Mr. Taylor, one of your most generous sponsors," Tyler said. 

"It is very nice to meet you Mr. Taylor, Thank you for your generosity," Lea said

"My pleasure Miss Miller, I was willing to go to great lengths to make you win so I'm glad I succeeded," Mr. Taylor said. 

After a few minutes of talking with Mr. Taylor, she ended the conversation cause she still had many more people to talk to. 

"Another great sponsor was the Crane Family, one of Mr. Cran's sons is about the same age as you and immediately took an interest in you," Tyler said. 

"Mr. Crane, thank you for all your generosity during my games, I am very thankful to you," Lea said. 

"You can thank my son for that, he was the one who persuaded me to sponsor you," Mr. Crane said. 

"Hello, I'm Seneca, It's nice to meet you," Seneca said as he kissed her on her hand.  

"Lea," She answered. "Very nice to meet you too," 

"This is my brother, Nathan," Seneca said as Lea shook Nathan's hand. 

"How are you enjoying your party?" Nathan asked. "It's alright, very busy here and very bright," she laughed.