ONE DAY LATER
Finnick's POV.
Today is the day of the Tribute parade. All twenty-four tributes gather in the backstage area for a briefing on the event. Once we know what we have to do, we go even more backstage to get dressed and for the girls to put on their makeup. My stylist's name is Anelleta, which is pronounced 'an-a-let-a.' she has a costume in the back room waiting for me. I take is out of the costume bag and look at it. Are you serious? I am literally being dressed as a fish! It looks like a cardigan with pants, but the colors make it look like a fish. District 4, Fishing! Who thought of that?
I dress in the stupid costume because I don't have a choice and I look at myself in the mirror. The sleeves of the 'fish' are bright green and yellow. And the pants look like something straight out of a Lady Gaga music video. I look at myself one more time before I head out the door. I am very tempted to rip this thing off and go in my singlet underneath. I find Ivy at our chariot. She is dressed almost the same as myself but, in a dress, and she has a headpiece. "You look nice!" I say as I walk past her and go to the horses at the front.
She chuckles and says, "Thank you!" then goes over to talk to her stylist, Jalo.
"Tributes, please mount your chariot!" Seneca Crane says over the loudspeaker coming from the game maker's headquarters. I walk to the base of the chariot and mount it. Holding my hand down to help Ivy up onto the chariot. To my surprise, she does take it and I lift her off the floor and onto the vehicle.
Seneca Crane's voice booms out once again. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Tributes hold on!" He says, and I grip the handle at the front of the chariot and wait to be zooming through the crowds of people who want me dead...
Annie's POV.
I've been watching the television all day waiting for the tribute parade. I can't miss it. Finnick knows that I will be watching, I've been waiting to his face all day.
The Television light flashes brightly and the sound of the Capitol anthem booms through our houses weak sound system. I see President Snow then I see the first chariot roll out of the back room and into the streets of the crowds. District 1 'Luxury.' Are dressed in bright gold and turquoise, the girl is in a long, elegant dress with gold framing the shoulders, neck, waist and the bottom of the dress. The rest of the dress is a beautiful turquoise. The boy is dress in a suit, he also has gold framing the neck, shoulders, and waist, but he is wearing black pants and a headpiece made of gold and turquoise flowers. I will be honest they do look lovely, but I don't focus on them completely.
District 2 'Masonry.' Are wearing a material that looks like bricks, the girl wearing a dress and the boy wearing pants and a shirt. The material is very weird, ill be honest. They honestly look like bricks.
District 3 'Technology.' This one is always a wildcard every year. I think the stylists struggle to find a costume that the tributes can wear to represent technology. They come out wearing a black jumpsuit, both of them wearing the same jumpsuit. It has little wire-like chords sticking out everywhere and they and both wearing a wiry headpiece and boots. I think that the stylists did pretty well this year, last year District came out, the girl wearing nothing, but a black tube top and shorts and the boy came out in nothing but black knee length pants. It was rather funny.
District 4 'Fishing.' And there he is...
Finnick's POV.
I smack a wide grin across my face as I am jolted into the swarms of people that are waiting for me to come out from the backstage area. I know Annie will be watching so I plaster on my nicest smile and wave to the crowd. When the camera comes down to focus on my face I smile sweetly and blow a kiss to the crowd, hoping that Annie will know it's meant for her and her only.
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Finnick's Story - By Aaliyah McLean
RomanceA few days before reaping day, Finnick Odair meets Annie Cresta. But when Finnick is chosen to fight to the death in the 65th Hunger Games, Annie loses her mind... This is the story of Finnick Odair before, during and after the Hunger Games. In the...