The crowd of the Capitol makes district 7 look like nothing. People are standing everywhere . Clapping, screaming, throwing flowers at us. I quickly pick up a rose from the ground, and hold it up for everyone to see. I forget that I am mad at Jeramy and take his hand and hold it up as well. Two Capitol people walk up to us.
"Hello." A women takes my hand and shakes it.
"You look so pretty." The other man says and studies me. I look at them both. I thought Claudia had taken very thing there was to take of makeup in the Capitol, but I was wrong. The man wears a green wig. It is so big that it makes her even taller then Claudia. His face is almost white from all the makeup. To match his hair he has green lipstick, and green nail polish. The woman has a Purple wig on, and purple sparkly cheeks, an lips and nails. To top it off she has purple contact lenses.
"We are going to be your stylists." The woman says and shakes Jeramy's hand.
"We are so excited to work with you too." The man says and takes my hand. They begin to drag us away from the crowd, and toward a big building in the distance.
"This is Cinnamon." The woman points at the mans green wig
"And I'm Carly." She points at herself.
After a 10 minute walk through the Capitol we finally reach our destination. It is easily the greatest thing we have seen yet, even though it is just a small part of the Capitol. The building is so big that you have to stare up at the sky to see the top. Shining decorations of gold covers the building from top to toe. At the entrance is a big flower decorations. I recognise them at once and sprint to them. My parents made these flowers. Purple roses with a hint of sparkle. They know that president Snow is found of roses. I look at the leaves, and at the edges I can spot out a few words. Words written everywhere on the flowers
"Love you Rose." I gently press my fingers against the words, and swallow a sob. So this would be my parents final goodbye. Words written everywhere in the Capitol. A love letter to me.
"It's the wrong way!" Carly screams at me
"We have to use the back entrance." Cinnamon tells me when I reach him. With instinct I reach out and take Jeramy's hand. I'm scared. Not scared of our stylists, but scared of the Capitol.
"This is it." Carly turns and looks at our joined hands
"You two lovebirds let go if each other now." Cinnamon reaches out and takes my hand.
"We are going to have so much fun together." He smiles at me. I turn to look at my best friend one more time, but it is already too late. Carly has already dragged him with her to another room.
I stand in my underwear in front of Cinnamon. He studies me and constantly mumbles "lumber, lumber lumber." He holds up stripes of fabric, and tries to match them to my skin tone . Blue, purple, red, green. Finally he holds up a Yellow stripe of fabric, ad he gasps.
"This is it!" He says
"I know exactly what to do now."
"Ok." I mumble
He combs my hair, and waxes my legs, and paints my nails. I just stand still, and let him do his work.
After a long time, maybe an hour he places me in front of the mirror. He told me to close my eyes, and I'm glad I did.
"Open." He tells me. I peek with one eye first. All I can see is a beautiful shadow in the mirror, then I open my eyes. People have always told me that I look beautiful, but looking at myself now I do see the beauty.
