The Hunger Games- Madge

Chapter 6

"I'm gonna be on fire?" I ask as my mouth drops probably 30 yards down. "Not real fire," Cinna says as he takes another cookie. I watch as he bites into it. Crumbs falling to the floor. I pick them up and eat them. He raises his eyebrows then shakes his head. "Fake fire." he says with a mouth full of cookie. "Oh," I say disappointed. I kinda wanted it to be real so I could start singing Girl on Fire. "It'll look real." Cinna says. He must see my sadness. A spark of excitement runs into my system. Now I can sing Girl On Fire!

I grin as Cinna waits for me to say something back. When I don't he silently sips his coffee. "So, Portia and I were thinking you and Peeta should have similar outfits." "Who's Portia?" I ask. "It kinda sounds like porta-potty!" I say laughing at the name. "Peeta's stylist." Cinna says. I nod my head. "Back to the topic." I nod my head. "Okay, so I'm gonna be on fire?" I ask. "That's it? Not naked?" I raise my eyebrows. The way Flavious was looking at me I wasn't so sure. "Nope," Cinna replies while setting down his coffee. "You will be dressed in a black dress. It will have coal along the bottom of it, and well, you'll see." I look at his perfectly straight teeth. Another Capitol perfection. I reach out and touch them. "How are they so straight?" I ask, touching his teeth. Cinna looks uncomfortable so I bring my hand back to my lap. He slightly shakes his head and gets back to the point. "The bottom part will be on fire." He takes a cupcake and eats the icing then, throws the cupcake away. Reminds me of the strawberries. I take a sip of my juice. I have a feeling I'll be drinking a lot of apple juice. "It will look like you're burning up,: he looks me in the eye. "You'll look great." I look into his brown eyes. They match his skin. I smile. A question pops up into my head like kernel of popcorn. Yum...I think I want popcorn now. "Will the fabric burn off? I ask and Cinna nods his head. "To a certain point."

Cinna gets up and leaves the room for a second. He comes back with a person. I gasp. "Did you kill a person and put poles in her to make her stand up straight?!?" Cinna sticks his palm up to his face. "FACEPALM!" I yell as I do the same. Cinna just shakes his head. "Ots a mannaquin." he says. "Oh," I say feeling stupid. "Hi Manny! Nice to meet you. I'm Madge." I stick my hand out and try to shake her hand but it won't move. Cinna slightly shakes his head and I put my hand down. I remove my robe as he removes the dress from the lady. "Manny," I say leaning in and whispering to the lady. "It's okay." Cinna looks over at me. "You won't be naked for long, I promise." I take my robe and put it on her covering her swinga-lings. "There," I whisper and Cinna comes walking up to me dress in hand.

It looks kinda natural. Not "out there". He smiles. "You like?" he asks. I lie and say yes. It's pretty. But, I don't think it will win the Capitol's attention. "Hold on. Let me turn it on." Cinna says. It turns on? I gasp as he turns it on. The top has lights in the fabric. It flickers so it looks like its actually burning on top. On the hem it flows down to a little after the knee. "it's beautiful," I say. "You'll look stunning." he says. "Here, try it on," He holds out the dress 

and helps me step into it. As soon as its on me I twirl. I feel normal. This is the first time I've ever felt normal. I stop twirling and Cinna steps forward putting a headband into my hair. "this glows too." he says and I look into the mirror. He helps me into some heels. I look down at the hem and sure enough there's black coal at the end going up to mid thigh. "Is that where it's going to stop burning?" I ask. He nods. "You are brilliant!" I say. I just can't get over it. He puts a necklace of coal on me. The coal doesn't stain my chest though. "The Capitol will love you." I smile slightly as I quietly say "I sure hope so." I give a small smile to the mirror and shake my head. Cinna must not of heard me which is a good thing.

I get over my sadness quickly as I start to sing Girl on Fire. "Hey," Cinna says placing a hand on my shoulder. "Don't get too excited." I give him a look and glance at his hand on my shoulder. "I'm not the excited one, you are." "What?" Cinna asks. His hand still on my shoulder. "90% of rape starts with a hand on the shoulder," I smirk as Cinna quickly removes his hand. "Okay then," he says glaring at me. I giggle and sit back down on the couch.

Time goes by as Cinna and I talk. I say my hobbies. I have a lot. I tell him my background while he tells me his. Soon enough it's time to get to our chariot. Cinna takes me to find Portia, Haymitch, Peeta, and Effie near our chariot. The time then comes to sit in our chariot and thats exactly what Peeta and I do.

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Sorry its short! :( and there may be some typos. I wrote some of this on my iPod and well, you know, AUTOCORRECT. Baah! :( anyways I know. Its short. Woops! :l sorry again. But yeah...ENJOY! :)

Also the picture is kinda what I was thinking. But the dress is black...haha :) I got the pic from google. Also imagine orangish flickering lights and coal running up to mid-thigh...buuut yeah...thats basically it. Also the song is Girl On Fire. It was mentioned several times in here so there it is..