The Archer and the Lumberjack

Chapter two

District one party after the tour

Katniss POV:

I hate the way these people are looking at me...At least Cinna knows how to make an eye catching dress, not that I mind. Everyone here wears such outrageous clothing. I don't see why I stand out so much at this event. Maybe it's because Peeta and I were the first two winners of the same district in the games...I wonder why they let us win so easily.

"Katniss," A voice snaps me from my thoughts and I look over to see Peeta in his formal attire, a purple drink in hand. "Everything alright? You were staring pretty harshly at the buffet table, almost looked like you wanted to attack it," he laughed slightly, making me smile a little.

"Yeah. I'm fine," I reply frankly, making him tense up a little as if he had been intimidated. He cleared his throat and replied with a sheepish, yet relaxed tone, "Well if you end up attacking that buffet you might want to drink some of this afterwards," he holds up the glass and I stare at it with a noticeable grimace.

"And what is that exactly?" I ask while taking the glass carefully and twirl it around with a squint, checking if it's poison. "It makes you sick, so you can eat more," says the woman next to Peeta, smiling at me. She looks almost plastic, her smile seemingly cryptic. I smile back a little and excuse myself from the group, pouring the concoction out of the glass and throwing it into a elegantly swan shaped bush.

I accidentally bump into a few district one citizens but I make it into the restroom. I look at the makeup on my face and stare at the detailed design of my dress. Cinna named it after the mockingjay pin I received before the previous games.

I'm sure he had his reasons for basing it off of the pin. Maybe he has a thing for birds. I hear a muffled voice over the intercom and recognize it as president snow. I begin to walk briskly out of the restroom and see Peeta with Effie and Haymitch. "Congrats kiddo," says Haymitch, smiling snidely at me when the president announces that the wedding will be held in the capital.

I hear gasps and look over to see everyone smiling and congratulating me and Peeta. But one person just stared over at the scene with a bitter scowl.

I notice her face over a sea of partygoers but she seems too discontent to have come here on her own. She glares at me with the intensity of a thousand daggers, but I stare her down just as she passes me by, earning a smirk from the girl.

"Who was that?" I ask as I watch the girl walk away and I turn to Haymitch to see him smirking at me again"who was that?" I ask again, he sighs "the grumpy one over there is Johanna, she is from district 7" he tells me as I nod my head, new thoughts emerging.

"So, I saw you staring at that girl pretty hard" I hear Peeta say to me. "What about it?" I ask, almost snapping at him. He stands up to me and smiles when Haymitch intercepts him. "That didn't look like a staring contest to me," I glare at them but don't say a word. I try to keep them from knowing my thoughts, but apparently I'm as readable as an open book.