Hunger Games (reversed)

Chapter 5

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Peetas pov

The Training Center will be our home as well as all the other tributes until it's is time to enter the arena. Each district has it's own floor, so once you step into the elevator all you so is hit the number of your district and up you go. Since we are the higher floor, we get the penthouse.

I step into the elevator behind Katniss. Did she really just kiss me? She's just playing with me, she's probably plotting my death plan as we speak. As we shoot into the air the people below us shrink. I look over at Katniss and she seems thrilled, almost like a child. I stifle a chuckle, she does look cute like that.

Effie tells us she'll be sure she'll get Haymitch to give us important strategies and seal sponsor deals for us if it means putting him at gunpoint. I have to say I love her determination. I get directed to my living quarters for the next few weeks. I'm amazed at my room. So many gadgets and buttons, it would take a year to press all of them.

I decide to take a shower since I'm all dirty and filled with makeup. I step into the glass shower. So many options! I see a panel with probably 200 hundred different options; water temperature, pressure, soaps, shampoos, conditions, oils, sponges, scents, even massaging controls! I choose a simple one and let hot water roll over my body. I've never taken a hot shower before. Water back home is always cold. I step out of the shower after being targeted by soaps and fragrances. I hit a button and in one move I'm completely dry.

I go to my closet and hit a button that magically makes an outfit appear. I get dressed, and have some more fun. I play with the windows switching my view to whatever I want. I go to a shelf by my door and see a touch screen with different snacks and foods. I touch a picture of soft puffy bread and in seconds it arrives for me.

Effie soon calls me down for dinner, finally!

I sit down next to Katniss and a small man with red hair offers me a glass of wine. He doesn't say a word though. I take the glass, when will I ever be able to try it again? I take a sip, and it's a little bitter but I like it. Haymitch walks in late for dinner, it's already been served. But he does look like a regular person. He's groomed and clean and sober! Katniss and I share a funny look as he sits across from us. Maybe he is going to pull himself together to help us.

We get served dish after dish by the same people. They're dressed in white tunics and they don't talk. They have almost like a wrapping over their faces.

Dessert comes and one of the girl esters places a beautiful cake on the table, then lights it. It blazes up but then settles after a couple of seconds. Katniss looks amused also, but then she speaks. "What makes it burn? Is it alcohol? That's the last thing I wa- oh! I know you!" She says looking up at the girl. Is she crazy? She can't be saying these things!

She stares at the girl then back at the table where we are all giving her a look.

"Don't be ridiculous Katniss. How could you possible know an Avox?" Effie snaps. "The very thought!"

"What's an Avox?" She asks curiously. I'm also curious what an Avox is.

"Someone who commuted a crime. They cut her tongue so she can't speak," Haymitch says. "She's probably a traitor of some sort. Not likely you know her."

"And even if you did, you're not to speak to one of them unless it's to give an order," says Effie. "Of course, you don't really know her."

Katniss gives me a look. A look telling me she does know this person. But how could she? She needs to keep her mouth shut before she gets herself in trouble.

"No, I guess not, I just-" she starts but I jump in and snap my finger.

"Delly Cartwright." It hurts saying her name but it's the first one in my head. "That's who it is. I kept thinking she looked familiar as well. Then I realized she's a dead ringer for Delly."