The Hunger Games: Fallen Heart

Stylists

I awoke to an avox whom I seemed to recognize cleaning up my room. An avox that must have got caught trying to escape and got her toung cut out. Just the thought made me shiver. I tried to speak to her but as soon as I did, she hurried out the door. I slowly pulled myself up into a sitting position and looked at the door for a while. I was straining my mind to remember how a I knew her.

A half hour passed so I pushed the thought to the back of my head. I decided to get my lazy butt out of bed instead and get ready for my stylists in a few hours.

I wanted to get into the shower so I could wake up more. I pressed the semi-hot water button and the button for strawberry soap. When I stepped in, the water and the sent of strawberries relaxed me so much that I almost fell asleep. I finally stepped out of the shower 45 minutes later.

I grabbed the dress that I had picked out and started to put it on. It was a light blue with some lace and a flower print at the bottom. It was beautiful! As I was admiring myself in the mirror and applying my style of makeup, there was a knock on my door. "Just hold on one minute, Damien ill be out to meet my stylists in a little," I say a little too lowly.

"Its not Damien. Can I talk to you? I dont think ill have any other time to," Catos deep voice sent a chill down my spine. "Uh... Cato? Sure, its open. Just come in," I said in my sweetest voice. I was just finishing my makeup when I saw him standing behind me in the mirror. I turned and our eyes met once again. His amazing grey-blue eyes sparkling in the light as they looked deeply into my brown eyes.

"Oh... wow! you look... uh... how do I say this. You look, Amazing! Uh... Beautiful," Cato said and clasped his hands over his mouth. "Uh... thanks." I say turning away and acting as if I didnt care. I looked in the mirror and I saw his gaze drop to his feet, and his cheeks get really red. He was embarressed. Or very nervous. Maybe he meant to slip, or maybe he didnt... I wouldnt know!

We both sat down on my bed and started to talk about the games and our plans. "Since we are the careers, we automatically have allies... right," I blurted out without even thinking, "I mean, district 1... 3... and 4 tributes?" I saved myself! "Well... yeah that is if they think that we are good enough," Cato replies seriously.

"Well im just going for knives and you should go for the spears" I said trying to keep the conversation going. "Well yeah, I just want to keep you safe..." He says tenderly. With that the room went silent.

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I shot up when I heard knocking on my door. That was the best dream ever. I thought to myself, but as I looked to the door I felt something move under my arm. I turned quickly and was face to face with a smiling Cato. "Morning sunshine," he said as he pushed a stray hair out of my face. All I could do was smile back at him. It wasnt a dream! It was real! Cato really said those things to me! I really fell asleep on him! This is amazing! My head was in a whirl!

*bang bang bang* "Are you up and ready!" Damiens voice broke me out of my trance.

We both bolted out of my bed and headed for the door. I reached for the handle at the same time as Cato did, and our hands met once more. He opened the door and a shocked Damien stood in front of us with a blank face. "Well, well, well... are you to getting to know each other better?" he said with a bright look. "uh, yeah... we were just talking," we both said at the same time and pushed past Damien.

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"ouch," I said as the stylist prep team, Sally and Ricardo, scrub at my skin. "We are sorry but we must make your skin perfect. Your lucky though. We dont have to work too hard on you, your pretty clean," Sally mumbles. They continue to scrub for about an hour. Then they 'tend' to my nails. They clipped, cleaned, rounded and painted all twenty of my nails! It took almost an hour and a half! It was about one-o-clock in the morning by this time, and they were still working on me... harshly. Scrubbing and pulling! They moved to my hair now... more pulling and yanking. By the time the prep team was done, it was almost 3:30 am! I still had to go to my STYLIST!!!

Just as they finished my stylist, Mia, came in smiling at me widely. "Well, hello! My prep team did a really good job on you! Now leave you two so I can talk in private with... what is your name," Mia said giving me a questioning look. "Uh... Clove... clove, thats my name." I must have sounded like a weirdo, repeating myself and everything! "Oh... ok! Leave me to work with Clove."

The prep team scurried out the door very quickly.

"Well then, we should get to work shouldnt we?" Mia asks me. "Well, it would probably help since I need to be ready in a few hours," I say jokingly to Mia. She gave me a big smile and nodded. She walked past me to a closet and started digging through it. She seemed to know what she was looking for, but couldnt find it anywhere. "Well, lets see. I think I have miss placed it, so I will be right back," she says to me with a smile. "okay" I whisper to her.

When she leaves I decide to get up and look around. There really isnt too much except white walls. I walked around until I heard the door handle jiggle. I sat down just as the door opened and Mia walked in with an outfit in her hands.

Once the outfit was on me Mia looked at me in awe. From her expression you would think that I was the most beautiful girl in the world! But my idea was different. Since we our outfit had to do something with our district, district two the Stonework district. My outfit was NOT attractive at all!!! So i just smiled and acted like I loved it as much as she did.

When she was finished putting 'finishing touches' on the outfit, she took a few steps back and gawked at how beautiful I looked in this gettup! I looked at her and gave her a really big, fake smile just to make her happy. She finished looking at me and shoved me out the door.

We met Cato and His stylist, James, by the elevator. Cato was wearing almost the same outfit that I was, and it looked a lot better on him than it did on me! I smiled at him and he returned it. "Now remember, dont do anything except look into the crowd. Make them feel like you know your going to win. Just smile and wave, thats it!" Mia says to both of us as the elevator doors close behind us.

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Ok! I hope you like my book so far! I really do! - The next chapter should be up sometime this week. The latest will be friday night!!! - ILY guys!!!

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