The Hunger Games - Second Quarter

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I was wearing a strapless black high low dress that was lace on the top and silk on the bottom. I was wearing black shoes, my hair was curled with one peice twisted and pinned behind my ear. My lipstick was red as per usual and my eye make up was a smokey eye.

"You look gorgeous. " Candy says.

"Stunning." Leena adds.

My prep team takes turn giving me compliments.

"Now we have Gale." Cinna says leaving the room, he comes back minutes later with Gale, his prep team shortly following.

Gale was wearing a black suit. The top part of the suit had a tail like thing that went to just above the back of his knees.

"Oh you both look great!" A girl on his prep team exclaims.

"Yes Cinna you out did yourself, I cannot wait to see Katniss and Peeta." Tyline cheers clapping her hands together.

"Well you'll see them in a few minutes, now come the tribute parade is starting in less then 15 minutes." Cinna says helping me down from the platform.

Cinna then leaves to get Katniss and Peeta, leaving us with our prep teams to take us to the tribute parade.

After a 5 minute dispute over who was going to lead, it was decided that Tyline would lead us.

Gale and I follow her into a familiar building where we wait until the tribute parade begins.

There I saw her. Phoebe Willows, looking gorgeous. Her and Brandon were wearing a black leather, hers being a black leather dress that was asymmetrical, it went to just above her knees and made her look skinny but strong. Brandon had black leather pants and coat but he had no shirt on under it, exposing his abs. (A/N this is so awkward to write ) He looked very strong, in fact they both did, confident also. Probably unlike me, I feel like a lamb in slaughter house, that's probably what I am. "I'm gonna go feed the horses." I tell Tyline and head towards the horses, first stopping to grab some sugar cubes.

"Hey there." I smile at the black horse that stood infront of a chariot with the number 12 on it. This year all the horses were black, other than district 1 and 2's they had white horses. Typical.

"Oh my god! You're Elsa Everdeen. Your even prettier in person" A girl with light blue hair asks, she was in a black dress that had blue lines in places that made it look kinda techy, the end of the dress had pink, orange and yellow patterns.

"Thats me." I reply with a smile.

"I was rooting for you the whole game, I even cried when you almost died." She says.

"So a lot? " I ask.

The girl laughs, "I guess yeah. I'm Samantha from District 3. "

"Hi." I reply shaking her hand.

"I'm kinda scared, I mean I'm just a newbie against all experienced killers. " She says looking down, her once perky smile turned into a frown.

"It's okay to be scared, just for the record i'm scared to for the exact reason as you." I tell her.

"You are?" She asks.

"Yeah."

"But you won last year, you know what to do. I can't even kill a fly, all I do is study the games thats it, i'm no good. " She says.

We stood in silence for a bit, I didn't no what to say. I can't tell her she'll be alright because she probably won't be and I can't tell her to suck it up and stop being a wuss because she could potentially kill me.

"I dont know what to say. " I tell her.

"It's fine, only one comes out your just looking out for yourself. I should go now, bye." Samantha says giving me a big hug.

"Bye, you look pretty by the way." I call.

"Thank you." She replies.

I continue petting the horses until I feel someone tap my shoulder. Quickly I turn around to see a man with blonde hair and sea green eyes.

"Want a sugar cube?" He asks, throwing one in the air and catching it with his other hand.

"I have some. " I reply feeding one to the horse.

"Not for the horses," The man chuckles, "You eat it yourself, as a treat."

"That was my last one." I say with a shrug.

"My name's Finnick Odair, district 4 victor." He says.

"Elsa Everdeen, district 12." I reply.

"Oh, I know everything about you. Just not your secrets." Finnick says.

"I'm an open book." I say.

"Yeah, thats why I know your strategy. " He says.

"And that is?" I ask

"Thats classified." He says simply.

"Is it now? " I ask.

"Obviously you aren't that open if I don't know your secrets, care to tell me?"

"What do you want to know? "

"How did you win your games?"

"Other people risked their lives for me." I say looking down.

"Thats not all, we all know you killed people in order to win." He says.

"They tried to kill me!" I burst, then slammed my hands over my mouth.

Finnick looked taken aback, but then he grinned.

"Pleasure doing business with you." He says taking my hand, he then makes my hand into a fist and then leaves.

I open my fist to see a sugar cube, placed in my palm.