Chapter 4
"Wake up. Haymitch wake up." I hear my mother saying. She is shaking my shoulders ever so slightly as to wake me, but not startle me. I am slowly waking up. "Time for breakfast." she says again. I start stretching my arms. "Wake up." the voice says again. But when I open my eyes, it's not my mother. It's a capital servant. From the Capital. And I'm not in my room at home, I'm in some strange bed on a train. That's when I fully realize and remember where I am. That I will never see my mother, or my room ever again.
I get up. When I walk into the bathroom, I want to take a shower, but I have no idea how to work it. There is no single knob, but a wall of levers and buttons. Someone shows me how it works. It turns out there is a bunch of setting so you can make it perfect the way you want it. I choose a gentle spray and try it out. When I'm done, a button sends a blast of air through the whole shower. It must be a some kind of air dryer because once it stops, there are no drops of water left on my body or my hair.
When I come out of the bathroom, there have been cloths laid on my bed that I slip into. It's just a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt. There is also a blue zippered jacket that i throw on over the white T-shirt. I slip into some black tennis shoes and walk out to the dinning car. Sitting there waiting , is Maysilee, Annabell, and a man and a woman i have never seen before.
"Haymitch, this is you stylist. Babylon." Annabell says pointing to the man. "This is Maysilees stylist Kyla." she says pointing to the woman. The woman has long black hair, and is wearing a big fluffy dress. She has purple tattoos everywhere. Almost all the people in the capital look freakish like this. Babylon has amber skin, brown short hair and each eye is light green. He is wearing black lipstick actually, and is wearing a purple suit and tie. But his eyebrows look as if they have been stretched in every direction.
'Nice to meet you." says Babylon, in that silly capital accent. I just ignore him.
"Well.After breakfast you and Maysilee will meet your prep team. After that, you will ride in on the chariots to the opening ceremony." says Annabell.We eat breakfast. After we eat, Maysilee and I go to some sitting area in one of the cars. But the sights outside draw us to the window. We are stunned as we ride into the capital. It's so, artificial. Tall buildings with the sun glistening of the tops of them. Everything looks so colorful! Pink,blue,purple, and so many others that color houses and other buildings.
When we step off the train, we are guided to a medium sized building in front of the city circle. This is where we will get into our costumes. District 12 costumes are always horrible. Since each district has to wear a costume to represent their district, we will be wearing something that has to do with coal. We usually have to wear these awful coal miners outfits. We will wear our costume down the city circle in a chariot, waving to adoring capital crowds. At the end of the circle we will be taken into the training building. That is where we will stay until the actual games begin.
I go with my stylist Babylon into the building. I am taken to a small room with a chair, make up stuff on a table, and a mirror in front. Now my prep team walks in. "Hello!" they all pipe. "I'm Isabella." says one of them. She is short, purple skinned, and her hair is in one of those beehive hairdoos. "This is opalius, and this is crystal." she says. Opalius is a tall man. He has long, red, curly hair, and has on way way way too much blush. Crystal has blue short hair, and has tattoos all over her face. But overall, I've seen much more scary looking capital people than them.
They start right away. The whole time they work they just babble non-stop about things I have no interest in what so ever. i eventually just tune them out. They cut my hair,nails,pluck my eyebrows, even pluck my nose hairs, and worst of all - wax. "Sorry!You are just so hairy!" one of them says. There are no secrets between me and my prep team. They literally give me baths and scrub me down. In the end, I am practically raw.
Now my stylist comes in and my prep team goes out. Babylon looks at me in approval and says "Are you ready for your costume?" Oh no. What will it be. I don't want to have to know. But instead I say "I guess."
"How about I show you." he says opening a zippered case. "TADAAAAA!" he says. Ugh. A coal miner outfit. But i was expecting it. It's even more horribly ugly because they even made it look real by covering it in a layer of coal dust. And worst of all, they made it smell like a coal mine too. It even comes with my own little lantern to hold. "Beautiful." I say sarcastically. "Ah yes!" he says. "This is what all of you will wear in your chariot. A united district 12!" he says. All I'm thinking of is seeing maysilee in that outfit along with the other district 12 tributes. "Time to shine!" says Babylon.
The other district 12 tributes, Maysilee and I are loaded into a chariot looking terrible. The Other districts are already off rolling through the city circle in front of the crowd. No, in front of the whole country actually since everybody is supposed to watch us through the cameras. "OK." says Babylon. "I want you guys to look like you are mining coal in front of the crowd. Move your arms like you are digging. Act like a coal miner. Now go! I'll meet you at the training center." Now we roll through the streets. We look terrible. We even get horrible looks from other tributes witch tells me how horrible we look. But I'm not going to dig like a miner. I just stand with a smug look on my face. I don't have to listen to My stylist. It is ridiculous. The others from 12 are though.
Eventually we get to the training center. when we get to the elevator our stylists are already waiting.The buttons on the elevator are numbered 1 to 12. i press the number 12 and we are taken to the top floor. Maysilee and I are taken to the hallway on the right, and the other district 12 tributes are taken to the left. When we're finally alone, Maysilee says "Whooo!What a ride!" and we laugh. "Well, I'm glad it's over." I say. That's when I drop my smile and turn my back on her, going to my new room. I did this because I realized why she is being so nice. To gain my trust. Maysilee is trying hard to kill me.
End of chapter4.Hope you liked it!KEEP UPDATING!!!
