Chapter VII - Chariot Rides
Ace and I walked back into the main room without saying a word. After everything, I find it best not to say anything. We slithered down the hall to find Amelie and Slade arguing with each other. I wonder what they are arguing about. Something stupid I imagine. It took a few minutes until they acknowledged us.
"Where were you two! We are going to be so late!" Amelie shrieked. Over Dramatic much?
"I'm sorry." I quietly responded.
It was obvious that Amelie was panicking. Her hands shook whenever she spoke. "Calm your tits Amelie." Slade snarled. Amelie looked at Slade with pure shock, her expression was amazing. "And for you two, what were you doing?"
I looked at Ace trying to think of something to say. "Nothing." Ace spat out a little too harshly.
"Well you were doing damn something!" Slade yelled back at us.
"Slade! Manners!" Amelie hissed. By now everyone was having a mini competition to see who's voice can counter each others.
"I'm sorry I needed a breather!" I yelled.
"It's not like you are going to die!" I heard Ace's voice crack.
"I can get the peacekeepers here if you want!" Amelie shouted.
"Everyone.. SHUT UP!" Slade finally said. That one word made the room go dead silence. "If we keep up this we will be late for the parade!"
"Sorry." Me and Ace mumbled. Why am I even saying sorry?They should be the ones apologizing for putting us in this game.
I glared at Slade and Amelie. Amelie had her hands on her hips and had a smirk painted on her lips. It looked like she just proved a point but in reality she proved nothing.
I followed Ace and Amelie and Slade out the door to get ready for the Chariot Ride.
We walked into the remake center and met up with our team. They all gave us warm smiles and pulled us into individual rooms. In my prep team there was two females and two males. One of the woman walked up. She was quite short compared to the rest but her face was powdered with white and her skin a tint of purple. Her hair reminded me of a galaxy, it was purple with white stars placed about.
"Hello, I'm Lily, That's Clark, Colin and Kathrynne." Lily said pointing at the rest. "We are your prep team. Now, Clark is going to do your hair, Colin is going to be in charge of your waxing and eyebrows-" Lilly said then cut off by me.
"Waxing?" I raised a eyebrow.
"Honey, it will take two seconds! You will hardly feel it!" Colin smiled. Colin was the most natural looking despite his crazy swirling eyebrows. His skin was almost as white as paper and he shaved off most of his hair from the looks of it. He also had lots of piercings on his ear.
Clark on the other hand had spiky green hair with a ombre of yellow at the ends. He had piercings all over his body. His eyebrows where even shaved off and replaced with piercings.
Kathrynne looks a little more natural. She had dark skin and lots of black and gold make-up. Her eyes were an unnatural color as well. They striked golden and her pupils were thin like a snakes. But she also resembled a quiet cat.
I nodded my head looking at all of them. Just looking at their unnatural body made me question what they will do with mine.
Kathrynne looked at me then grabbed my face with her hands. "She's a little to tan." She started saying then the rest started to chatter.
"We need to clear out those pimples." One of them commented. "Her hands and nails are cracked! How tragic." Another sighed. "This hair has split-ends. What will we do with these?" "Her eyebrows are two bushy- ew! Along with her legs!" Another said and pulled up robe to get a better look. "She has eczema. No wonder her skin is cracked." One of them noticed. I do have eczema. It's pretty common upon District 6. "Oh look at her eyes! No color at all! Contacts?" One of them said peeling my eyelids back to get a better look at my face.
(A/N: Eczema is a medical condition in which patches of skin become rough and inflamed, with blisters that cause itching and bleeding, sometimes resulting from a reaction to irritation (eczematous dermatitis) but more typically having no obvious external cause. In other words it's just very itchy and dry skin.)
"Do I really have to work with these toenails? They are disgusting." "Look at her body! So skinny! No curves! It's like a walking noodle!" "Her lips are too thin, might want to puff them up a little." By then I wanted to cry. They kept pointing out the worst in my skin, face and body. The truly disgusting ones are them, the people who judges people by how they look. "Her eyelashes are alright and her teeth are perfect."
That's all what's perfect about me? My teeth and eyelashes. The rest is hideous? That's unfair. Ace is probably perfect. Kathrynne on the other hand stood in one spot examining me from a fair.
"Back off." She ordered and the three split off and chatted among themselves. "Now what do we have to work with." She asked herself. "Take off the robe."
I slid off the robe until it dropped the grown. Out of instinct I wanted to cover up my body but there is no privacy here. Kathrynne took some tape and started to messer my body.
When she was done she walked out of the room saying "Keep her mostly natural."
Clark gestured to come over to him. So I did without any questions. He opened a door and showed me the bathroom. Strangely I didn't feel uncomfortable around him. He had this strange sense of safety.
Clark got to work by massaging shampoo into my hair and rubbing soap over my body. You could see dead hair dropping onto the ground. It felt like 3 minutes then we were done. Clark handed me a rob and we went back into the room we were once in. I have to say, I smell better and look better.
Colin came up to me and grabbed my hair and brushed it and made it look all nice and fresh. He just put a simple pin to pull back my bangs a little and then I was done. He made me lie down and poured hot wax onto my legs. He placed cloth onto my legs and quickly ripped off all of the hair on my legs. I squealed every time he did it though- must've gotten obnoxious.
Kathrynne came in a moment later. "How is everything?" Kathrynne asked as she pushed me on my back on the stretcher. She put this thing In between my toes to spread my toes apart so they won't touch. "
It was ok." I mumbled. Kathrynne nodded.
She is very beautiful though. She got out this object started to almost shave my toes and shape them into a lovely toe-nail shape. Then she got out this very fancy black nail polish and painted my nails.
"This is to represent your morphing addiction in your district. I peered at my toes and watched her apply the polish. Then Kathrynne did my hands. As she was finishing up Lily rushed into the room.
"Are you guys almost done? We need to get ready for the parade in 35 minutes." Lilly said. "And I got the dress done!" Lilly said chimed.
Kathrynne finished the last nails. She nodded at Lilly. I went into another room where the dress was. The dress was weird. But it was nice and creative.
"Come on! Put it on!" Lilly said and glanced at the dress. I took off my clothes and I put on the colourful dress. "What do you think?" Lilly asked, I really did not want to hurt her feelings.
"Colorful!" I said as I forced a smile on.
"Good, the colors are going to attract sponsors!" Lilly said as she adjust the dress on me. "Every tribute will be in the training area, I will be there in a moment."
Me and Ace walked to the training area together. He had a similar outfit as me. We went over to our Chariot and we saw Lilly. Our chariot was fully black with our district number on the sides. The only thing different with our chariot was the wheels had rubber around them. I glanced around and eyed out the other tributes. Some of them glared at me when I looked at them and others did not notice me. It's horrible to see 12-13 year-olds going to go and kill one each another.
Most of the tributes were already in their chariots but district one was outside their chariots. When I looked at them I caught the attention of the district one boy who walked over to me.
"Hello sweetheart." he cooed in my ears.
"Why are you over here?" I asked and trying to resist the urge to punch him.
"I got bored. You got a name princess?"
"District one is so full of themselves." I muttered. "It's definitely not 'princess' or sweetheart'" I snapped back.
"Why are you so mean." He whined. "Here, I'll go first with an Introduction~. I'm Oliver."
I raised my eyebrow and bit my lip to stop the laughter rising inside of me. "Not so district one-ish." I smirked.
"No, It's a pretty name though and name means a olive tree. The biblical olive tree symbolizes fruitfulness and beauty and dignity. So my name is beautiful."
I clapped my hands together. "Applause." I said and turned around back to my chariot.
"You haven't shared your name yet sweetie~."
"Bailey." I spat out and rolled my eyes.
"Not so district six-ish isn't?" He chuckled.
"I'm sorry that not every girl can be named 'Destiny'" I say. "Oh by the way- after the games. There won't be any dignity or a pretty face left for you."
I heard him laugh a little but I didn't look back.
"OLIVER! GET OVER HERE!" I heard Oliver's stylist yell.
"Bye sweetie." He whispered in my ear and then disappeared.
"What was that all about?" I turned my head to see Ace resting his hand on the chariot. I totally forgot he was here.
"Nothing." I Shook my head.
Ace jumped into the chariot and lent his hand out to me and helped me get into the chariot. That's when we heard drums beat and the capitol anthem playing in the background. Chariots started to leave one by one. We followed district 5 soon after.
I stood there like a stiff board not knowing how to act or what to do. That's when Ace tugged onto my arm and raised it up in the air. The crowed cheered and I started to put on a fake smile and waved out to the crowed with my other hand. I blew out kisses and did what Amelie taught be briefly.
Once we got closer to President Snow we put our hands down. I looked up to see President snow with his graying hair up on the balcony. I looked over and saw a little bit of blood on a handkerchief below his neck. President snow stood up ready for his speech. He put his hand up to stop the cheers of the crowed.
"Welcome, Tributes, we welcome you. We salute your courage and your sacrifice, and we wish you Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor." The crowed cheered once again.
What they were wearing ^^
Hey guys~ I'm so tired. I was writing this chapter all day XD. Can I say, this chapter has 1744 words! Well bye!
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