Making an impression

The peacekeepers throw you into a room and tell you to change as they left the room. When your done changing they came back in. "Lay down" you hear come from their mouths, demandingly. When you lay down they start hosing you off. When they were done doing that you shivered.

It's so cold in here..

They start to wax your legs and eyebrows, also cutting your hair. All you can think about is Morrel knowing that you both won't survive and wanna spend as much time as possible with her.

When they finally get done with the "makeover" they continue to stay silent and leave. "Where are you going?!" You yell, half scared, half annoyed. A man comes inside. "My name's Cinna." The man said as you sit up and shake his hand. "Y/n" you tell him your name with a hint of fear in your voice. "I'm sorry this happened to you, and I'm here to help you in any way that I can." He says, apologetically. You stare at him for a second, lost in thought. "Most people just congratulate me." You say, emotionless and confused. "Well, I don't see the point in that." He says the same way as before.

There was a pause

"So, tonight they're gonna have a tribute parade, we're gonna take you out and show you off to the world." He says, breaking the silence. "So your here to make me look pretty?" You question kind of disappointedly. "I'm here to help you make an impression." He corrects you. "We usually dress people with clothes from their district." He says. "Yeah, but we're coal miners" you say, hinting to it's a bad idea. "Yeah, but I'm not gonna do it like that."  He says. "I'm gonna do something they're gonna remember. Did they explain about trying to get sponsors?." He asks. "Yea, but I'm not really good at making friends." You say, matter of factly. "We'll see" is all you could get from him.

He starts to get the four of you ready to go out into the parade. There's fake fire attached to the outfit. You look around at everyone else's outfits as you think yours is boring in a way. As your getting ready to get into the carriage, you see a boy with pure green eyes from district 1 and notice your staring so you immediately look away.

As your watching the other tributes from the districts you can't seem to take your eyes off of the boy. You want to know who he is, but don't want to get close enough to talk. That's because he's from district 1 and probably an asshole.

Your carriage starts to move and you start to lose balance but you quickly regain it and stand up straight. As you see the humongous crowd your amazed that there's enough room for all these people. You hear cheering all the way down the runway.

As you four were halfway down the runway you feel someone grab your hand and you go with it because, why not? And you all four lift your hands, connected, that's also when the fire started.

The crowd went ballistic.

You made it to the end of the runway, while the carriage was still. Then President Snow starts with a dumb speech "Tributes, we welcome you. We thank you for your honor, and sacrifice. As always, happy Hunger Games. May the odds ever be in your favor." He finished the speech and everyone clapped.

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