The Twisted Tale of Clove

Welcome to the Capitol

I go to sleep after everyone else inside decides it's time for bed because I'm also pretty tired.

I dream about the games, but this time I win. I end up being the 'Florida' that I saw in my dreams yesterday. I raided the cornicopia, I killed everyone, and I slowly and surely killed some girl I didn't know, that looked like Florida, and I don't know, it might even be her.

I woke up smiling, and jumped out of bed. I took some breakfast and met everyone at the table. "Morning," I chirped.

"Morning," everyone replied back, groaning.

"I saw you guys were watching the games last night," I commented, waiting for a response.

"Yeah, but I think Cato got lots of knowledge from it because we talked and explained the positive and negative things that the tributes were doing while he watched. It'll be your turn later," Lana replied.

I was not expecting that. "Can we watch games 12 and later?" I ask. "That was what I was up to." And they nod.

I bit into some toast and continues conversation. After breakfast, we began watching the games. Number 12.

Lana and Tyler pointed things out like "don't do that, do this, she should have, that was smart, and so on," just like they said they would. I took in their information and it was really helping. We had just finished the 15th games when I got tapped on the shoulder. I turned around and saw three women I didn't know.

"I'm Glisten," the girl with pink skin and purple eyes told me. She had cat whiskers and a green tongue. I hated her style. Especially the neon green dress with polka dotted hearts on it (like polka dots in the heart) This was quite scary but the girl next to her was a lot worse.

"This is Maria," she continued pointing to a girl that looked perfectly ordinary in the Capitol with brown hair, and blue eyes. But... She was short and plump, she had cat whiskers, leopard print on her skin, a tail on her butt, and some dog ears on her head that actually looked real. She was sporting a dress that was striped. Her style wasn't bad, just her... Everything else.

"And this is Tara," she said pointing to a lady with long, beautiful, white hair and green eyes and an amazing figure. She was normal other than her colored hair, but it honestly made her more attractive. She had a navy blue and white striped tee shirt and wore short shorts.

"We are your prep team! And we are going to prep you up for the costume parade!" She cheered.

I got up from the couch and followed them to a room with lots of beds, but only my female allies and a few other girls are in there.

We went behind a curtain and I laid down. They checked my legs for hair. I shaved regularly because, most girls in 2 do. So I didn't have any hair there. But they still taped off my arms and a few other hairy places.

I clenched my teeth together in pain until it was over. I held one of my hands in the other and squeezed them together. It was over in only like 10-15 minutes thanks to my regularly shaving (thank god) and we moved on. Nails.

Maria painted my finger nails gold and Glisten painted my toe nails the same color.

Tara was running back and forth, from here and other rooms, doing errands such as my giving back things they didn't use, getting things we did use, and she took a phonecall from her mom who Glisten and Maria told us who had a rare kind of illness that hadn't yet been cured.

She came in crying after that call, and when Glisten, Maria and myself asked what was wrong, she coughed up softly, "my mom is dead."

We all tried to comfort her, as she cried. We patted her back, listened to her cries, showed emotional support. We gave her a giant group hug and she began sniffling and stopped crying so hard.