Capitol Girl (A Hunger Games fanfic)

Eliot

"Happy 65th Hunger Games, my dear Eliot!" my mother yells in her annoying Capitol accent as she comes into my room.

I pull my sheets over my face and sarcastically say, "Yay."

"Oh get up, get dressed and let's watch the reapings," my mother says in an overly exited voice. I groan in responce.

Once the door closes behind her I roll out of bed onto the floor. I walk over to the mirror on my wall and look at my chest. I've always wanted to grow hair but thats just not how it is in the Capitol, I can't even grow facial hair.

I rub my blonde hair through my fingers and sigh looking at my face. Then I see her. I see Lily. I can only see her the way she looked on her 13th birthday. In a big dress and with her hair flying everywhere. I want to pull her to me, because she looks so scared. But I cant, she's dead and I have to move on.

Her image fades and I pull on a bright yellow shirt and dark green pants. I look at myself again and see a Capitol boy. I look at my green eyes and promise myself to never put makeup around them.

I think back to Lily, how we would go against the Capitol in ways like the way we dress and the games. I grimace, that's what got her killed, going against them. I pick up something on my dresser and throw it at the wall and it shatters. I can't tell what it is anymore but I'm sure I hated it.

I storm out of my room and into my parent's worried faces. I look at them for two seconds before I run past them and jump onto the couch.

I missed all the districts except for 12. I watch the crowd on the screen and I think I see Lily. I squirm and inch forward but she disappears.

"Honey is there something wrong?" questions my mother.

"Um-um yeah everything is great," I quickly say.

My mother and father sit on both sides of me. My mother goes on and on about Splindra's dress and my father takes note on how poor district 12 looks.

I turn to yell at them to be quiet but Splindra calls the girls name,"Lily Fairbain!"

My head jerks to the screen. All I heard was Lily and now I'm staring at the screen. I know it can't be her but I can't help but hope. That's not her last name though, so I can't know for sure.

The girl walks up the stairs but I can only see her back. She's wearing a flowery dress with her dark brown hair in a bun. Her skin is very pale but it has a glow to it.

She reaches the top and it shows her face. I loose all feeling. This girl is so beautiful that I almost fall off the couch. She has dark green eyes that glow like emeralds and her dark hair glows a slight maroon.

I just have to tell someone,anyone that she is beautiful. "She is so familiar," comes out my mouth. Woah, I did not expect to say that.

I look at my parents and they both look at me funny. "I meant to say that her, um, dress looks familiar, doesn't it?"

They both look at the screen and start an argument about her dress. I sigh and look back at the screen. The necklace she's wearing catches my attention. It looks gold with a golden flower hanging from the middle and golden vines wrapping up and around the chains. It's so...familiar.

Lily! How could I forget?! It's Lily! But she looks so different. She's so beautiful now. Don't get me wrong, she's always been beautiful, but not this beautiful!

How is she in district 12? I was told she was dead. Seeing

her there, in district 12 lifted all the weight that I have been carrying for a year now, and now I have a chance to get her out alive.

I jump to my feet and point straight at her, "Her! I'm going to sponsor her."

"B-but Eliot," my father starts but I cut him off.

"I'm sponsoring HER!," and with that I walk out of the room leaving my parents confused faces.