𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 | THE HUNGER GAMES

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Fifteen

Keith📷

I knew what was going to happen. We had a few hours left for the interview and it was evident from Pixie's red rimmed eyes. Me and Kamari took seat on the empty sofa across from all the adults. Might I just add, me and Kami are also adults just not ones that are considered part of the adults yet.

We sat there as Pixie clapped her hands as Avoxs rolled out two mannequins. One with a red suit and the other with a gorgeous red dress. It hugged the mannequin's waist and breast and certainly accentuate Kamari's cleavage. Pixie knows what she does. In the capitol, me and Kamari and Matt and Finnick and so so many victors weren't just people, we were sex symbols. And what better way to attract the audience than to promote those sex symbols.

Mine was a simple red coat and pants with no shirt and a string a red ruby around the neck. I was excited to see how it would look. Kamari's dress on the other hand was a red corset with a small red frill in the front as the frill continued in a trail of feathers in the back. The necklace was what caught my eye and one look at Kami and I knew she had tears in her eyes. It was a multi layered pearl set but the first layer consisted of old pearls which had lost their shine. Nobody else would be able to tell but we knew and we could tell.

It was a set of pearls Finnick had bought her when he had come of age and all his money finally belonged to him and the payment from a client had come to him instead of his guardian. He had gone out and got a pearl set for Kamari with his initial on the clasp and Kamis on the other end. She had stained the corners of the end layers red and the broken away pearls looked like dripping blood frozen midway. Kami was on her feet in a moment and was hugging Pixie.

"Don't thank me. It was Matt's idea." Pixie said and very next moment she had jumped onto mat who was holding her up. Malcom held my hand silently pulling me towards the mannequins. He reached into his pocket pulling out a lapel. He pinned it onto the red coat and I was crying too. It was a simple golden bobby pin that had been fashioned into a pin with a ruby at the end.

The same ruby I had bought for Jake in his ring. I could even see our marriage date engraved at the bottom and the pin was the same one I had pinned her hair back with the date we got married. Joey's hands were on my shoulder as he pulled me into him and I hugged him, allowing myself to weep on his shoulder. "It was Matt's idea. He wanted you to have something of Jake and Kiara up there and in the arena." From over Joey's shoulder, I looked at Matt and his soft eyes and his arms that held up Kamari and I realised just how lucky we were to have each other.

"I think we should take them to get ready." Malcom said from next to us and Pixie nodded. Matt placed Kami down and Joey let go of me and me and Kami found each other heading to the training centre. Just as we stepped out of the elevator. Kamari pulled me back. She wrapped me in a hug and allowed herself to cry.

Most of you don't understand how important this is. Kamari never cries. Infront of any of us. She never lets herself be weak. She is the strong place for everyone but she never lets any of us be hers. And just like that, I was crying too. We held each other for what little time we had and we cried. She slipped, a pin from her hair. The little purple tic tac that she didn't need but liked to keep cause at her victory tour Matt had taken it pinning a single strand away from her face and she had kept it on her since. "I want you to have it until we see each other in the arena. Give it back to me when we get out." She said, pinning my wild hair ack and I knew I would be pinning it right beside my lapel. I slipped my wedding ring of my finger, the same gold band encrusted with our wedding date and Jake's initials. "Give it back to me when we make it out together. If we don't give it to Jake." I say and exit the elevator, into the hustle-bustle of the training centre leaving behind a stunned Kamari and I knew I would get an earful but my heart had calmed a bit seeing it on her finger on the stage and knowing that if something happened to me the ring would reach back to my home and he would keep it forever safe.