Chapter 3
A/N- in case any of y'all wondered what a bohemian crown hairstyle is, I am putting a link to the hairstyle: https://www.pinterest.es/pin/110338259596480258/
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After I had gotten all my makeup removed and I gave Cinna back the dress, I was escorted to the place where I would be staying until I go into the games. I would be sharing the district 12 section with the district 12 tributes, and their mentor would also mentor me. "They must really want me to lose" I thought. It's not that the tributes themselves are just bad in general, but maybe because their mentor, whose name I learned is Haymitch, is always drunk. If he wasn't always so drunk the tributes from 12 could actually be pretty decent.
I went to my bedroom, which was the spare bedroom. Kinda felt like my bedroom at home but this one was bigger. When it was time for supper, I sat at the table and met Effie, who drew the names out of the bowls, picking the tributes to go to the games. When the food came to the table i notice that the tributes from 12 completely disregarded table manners. I don't blame them they never had enough to eat, meanwhile Effie had a a very disgusted look on her face. "Where are your manners?!" Effie exclaimed. "You can't blame them! They never had enough to eat!" I snapped at Effie. "But they could still at least have table manners!" Effie yelled back at me. "Back in 12, they were starving! Just now do they have enough to eat, they can finally fill their stomachs!" I got slightly fed up with Effie and began to start eating like the tributes were, just to annoy her.
When I had finished I sat and waited for everyone to be done before getting up to go to my room. Before I entered I was stopped by the boy and girl from 12. "We just wanted to say thank you, for what you said at dinner." Said the boy "oh and I'm Wilbur by the way, and this is Rosemary" he added. I shook hands with Wilbur and Rosemary and then said "I'm Florence. Florence Leäugn"
"Wait, your the one who wrote all those letters to the districts aren't you. No wonder they put you into the games." Said Rosemary. I nodded. "Oh, I'm so sorry that this all happened" said Wilbur. "No need to apologize Wilbur. It's not your fault." I said. "You can call me Wil y'know." He said. "Nah Wilbur has a nice ring to it. Anyways get a good night's rest, see ya in the morning"I replied. "Goodnight" Wilbur and Rosemary said in unison while walking away to their rooms.
I put on some pajamas, I was pretty tired so as soon as I was in my bed and closed my eyes, i immediately fell asleep.
The next morning I hoped to be back home, and also hoped it was all just a really bad dream. I opened my eyes sat up in my bed and knew it wasn't at all a bad dream and it was all very well real. I sighed getting out of my bed and noticed an outfit sitting on my bed. It was the first day of training. The shirt was red grey and black and on the back it read capitol. It was quite clear that the capitol had discovered my letter pretty early on if they had enough time to prepare a training shirt with the word capitol on it. I put on the shirt and the leggings that came with it and went outside and was greeted by Wilbur, Rosemary, and Haymitch. Wilbur and Rosemary wore the same outfit as me but had the number 12 on the back of their shirts. "G'morning!" Said Rosemary. "Morning!" I replied, sitting down at the table. As the avox brought us our breakfast Haymitch told us what was happening for the day. "Today is the first day of training. Try out everything you can, and find something or two to get good at." Surprisingly, Haymitch wasn't drunk. I wasn't sure which I preferred though; drunk Haymitch or sober Haymitch.
Once we had all finished our breakfast, we were sent to the training room. We all stood around an instructor, who told us about each station. Once we were released, I decided to start with a spear, which was not too bad but the majority of the time I would miss. Next archery, I was horrible at it no matter how many times I tried, adjusting my form, raising the bow a little higher, a little lower, It didn't matter what I did it never seemed to hit. I had decided to take a break from the weapons and go to fire making and camouflage, which weren't any easier but I got the hang of it. Last thing I did before training ended was try out the throwing knives and close-up combat with a knife. This was probably my best weapon so far I did this the rest of my time in training. Once training was over I grouped back up with Wilbur and Rosemary and we were led back to our rooms. Training had lasted about two hours so we had a ton of free time so we all met up in the living room and played an extremely old game called "uno" from when Panem used to be called the "United States", and how I know this is because I love to learn about what Panem used to be. I taught Wilbur and Rosemary how to play uno with the little uno cards I just made. Doing so helped us pass the time while we had a ton of fun. It definitely made spending time in the holding place before we go kill each other less boring and depressing.
-small time skip (not me about to speed run the chapter)-
After dinner of course it was time to go to bed, tomorrow being the second of the three days of training that we get. I put on my pajamas and closed my eyes, and fell asleep.
A/N: WOOO ANOTHER CHAPTER IS OUTT! Hope you all are doing well, sorry it took a little bit longer to update, and I hope you are enjoying the story as much I am enjoying writing!
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