I had already met two lovely girls here tonight and I am absolutely spent. I don't want to search for a new face again. Name introductions and 'why'd you volunteer' were getting annoying.
However when I spot to sexy glow of the male from six, I decide to walk over to him. Even though It would basically be me meeting a new person since I still don't know his name. But I hadn't spoken to him since the tribute parade, and I was getting well, Frustrated.
I walked over to the bar he stood at and sat next to him. I leaned close to his ear and whispered. "Remember me?"
Oneshot: Glow With the Flow
Event: Tribute Ball
Thoughts: I got really drunk after only three drinks and pretty much began yelling obscenities all over the place. Also I broke two drinks. North tried to help me out but I was belligerent at that point and insisted that I didn't need anyone's assistance. Woke up about an hour later with a glass of water in my hand to see that she had helped me anyway... that bitch.
Oneshot: The Vindication
Event: Five Years Earlier
Thoughts: A replay that happened while I was dreaming before the first day of the arena. It brought me back to five years before, when I watched my little brother brutally killed in an under-construction power plant before my very eyes. It still gives me nightmares occasionally, but tonight's was one of the most vivid ones I'd ever had.
The Capitol has a reputation of getting me drunk, especially with the wine cellar back home and the imported alcoholic beverages that when consumed, the night before is hardly remembered. Good, considering I don't make the best decisions when in that state of intoxication. Well, I'm having the same feeling about this ball, which will probably be nothing but a blur tomorrow. I guess that's for the best, since I'll probably be killing half of the people I talked to right now. The loud music just adds to the mindless pleasure coursing through my veins.
Who knew I would bump into another District One hottie after I was finished with the first? Shame, Elias isn't showing as much skin as Mika. "Elias," I whined, taking another chug of the drink in my hand. "You're wearing too much clothing! Strip that shirt off, will ya? Have a little fun~" I danced more to the music, grabbing a beverage from a passing Avox and passing it to him.
I wasn’t intending to talk to people during the ball.
My heart was sinking after my interview, thinking about so many things I could have done better. So many things I’d left out, forgotten to say, or remind the crowd of. By the end it felt like even Caesar couldn’t wait to get me off the stage.
They hated me.
It was such a new feeling, so weird and awful and foreign and I wanted the pit in my stomach to go away. No way was Atticus going to sponsor me now, the way I’d blubbered when trying to impress him. If I was such a fool onstage who’s to say I wouldn’t be a fool in the arena?
It was fools who made friends, therefore I needed to stay away from people tonight. Tonight was about me. I mean, it’s not like anybody asked me as a date anyway. I was just the foolish thirteen-year-old tribute who was in over her head. And I needed to prove them wrong, needed to take them out so that I could make it up to Cal, to wash my hands of what had happened five years ago.
As I entered the ballroom, the other tributes were laughing and drinking and probably kissing too, though I couldn’t tell through the darkness. A streak in my hair glowed under the blacklight with my shirt and a handprint on my leg and I took a deep breath.
Almost immediately, an Avox approached me with a mysterious glowing drink. I took it, not thinking that it could be alcoholic, and took a large gulp of it. My eyes began watering but I managed it down my throat, deciding I liked how warm in was in my stomach. I took another sip.
Nobody wanted to ally with me. That had been clear from the first day of training. Nobody was bothering to talk to me, nobody had even approached me before or after my interview to ask how it went. I was almost counting on North to do that, to act as the sister I knew she wanted to be, but apparently not. She had moved onto bigger and better things, like everyone else.
I finished the drink and grabbed another, looking at the Avox who handed it to me. “I’m jealous of you,” I stated, knowing she could never blabber to another person. “You get to live in the Capitol 24/7. You don’t get thrown in an arena to die. I bet you at least have Avox friends.”
She gave me a confused look as I downed the second glass, deciding that this one must have been less potent than the first. I took a third one.
God, the other tributes were all idiots. Enjoying themselves and dancing around like it was just another school dance. I hated them. I hated each and every one of them and I wanted them all to die and they would all perish except not me. Not me. They were all bigger and stronger but
I finished off the third drink, feeling too dizzy to reach a fourth. The Avox I was talking to gently led my hand away when I did try to grab it, and I jerked it back.
"Let go of me, you servant!" I yelled in her face. "Don’t touch me! I’m to be a victor!"
I finally managed to grab a fourth drink, but before it reached my lips my shaky hand let it slip and it went crashing to the ground, spilling mysterious glowing liquid everywhere.
"FUCK!" I screamed. The Avox pulled back but I grabbed another drink, and before I knew what I was doing I threw it against the nearest wall, shattering the glass and creating a large glowing stain on the wall. Several tributes nearby turned their heads to stare, but I turned away. Suddenly I was feeling a little nauseous and I didn’t want to be here anymore.
A hand tried to help me as I staggered out of the room, but I pushed it away. “Keep your hands off me! I don’t need anyone’s help! I’m going to win and I’m going to kill all of you! All of you for Cal!”
I turned back to see the face of a somewhat offended North pulling her hand back.
"Just… let me go away. I want to go to my room!" I yelled at her. "Let me go, North! I’m not your sister!"
I began walking to my room, stumbling every few steps. Before I knew it, I was lying in my bed with a glass of water in my hand, unsure of how I had arrived in my room. Suddenly very thirsty, I downed the glass of water and called for a new one and an Avox came in straight away, followed by a familiar figure.
A Sight for Sore Eyes || Dotev & Malia || Glow Ball
After my little encounter with the girl from Nine, I decided to keep with the theme of meeting new people. So far, some of the girls I've met were, well bitches. But I wanted to take my chances.
Before I made any new friends, or enemies, I wanted to get myself another drink. I walked over to the bar and nicked a small shot of purple liquid, with glowing green rim of, salt? I don't fucking know so I just downed it without trying to think about what It was.
I spotted a girl I hadn't met yet and walked over to her. "Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes, sweetie." I exclaimed looking at her outfit.
Not that I minded going around and partying with hardly anything on, but if the room this so called Glow Ball is in is as cold as the night of the Tribute Parade, I'm going back to my suite and wrapping myself with as much blankets as I can find. Any hot make-out session with a drunk individual I encounter won't be worth it if I was about to freeze my genitalia's off.. But I've been told it was heated, and I was promised tributes with a lot of skin, so there's no way I could resist this opportunity. We used to do similar activities back home, except not with all the glow in the dark outfits and neon colours.
My Ball Attire is pretty nice, at least my upper body is the only thing bare, if you don't count the neon paint. I wonder if Anastasia was behind the theme, since she's always crazing over half naked tributes. Speaking of which, I met right when I stepped inside, maybe I'll even get to leave with her. It's not bad to hope, is it? "My, all the stylists really out did themselves this year. Especially with you."
After my talk with Shamus, if it can even be called that considering I was thrown around for half of it. But then again I had asked him to teach me how to fight and that was what he did. And along the way we finally had that talk. I didn’t know if he actually meant what he said or not but I was trusting his better judgement because at least his breath was reeking of alcohol.
Before I could get some rest my prep-team already had their hands on me. By the time they were done with me I felt — naked. I was dressed of course but this was the shortest clothing I ever wore and that’s saying something considering who my sister was. Shifting around uncomfortably I almost didn’t want to go to the ball but I had never gone to a ball! And when I arrived I forgot all about my fears. My jaw slightly dropped as I took in the room. Everything was glowing, even the drinks! Grabbing one I examine it instead of drinking it wondering what chemicals they put in It to make it glow but at the same time make it drinkable. I was examining the drinks when I bump into someone. “I’m so sorry!” I apologize but stopped when I realize who it was. “Elias, you look really cool!”
About That Thing...|| Calin & Mika || District 1 Suite
I don't know why, but I really wasn't excited for this little jam tonight. I wasn't even dressed up for it like everyone else, I was just doing my own thing. I was just wearing a plain white t-shirt and some jeans, nothing fancy really. I could go to the glow ball like this, just splatter some of the paint on me to make my shirt and skin shine, the white would look nice in the dark too, but I really didn't have anyone down there that I wanted to see or talk to. Though there was something in the back of my mind that I wanted to get done, for a while now...and so I went down to the first floor where Mika would be, or at least I hoped she would.
The ball had already started and I wasn't too sure if she had gone down already, if she did I didn't want to ruin her time down there. Stopping, I knocked at the door, hands sunken in my pocket as I waited for someone to answer. After waiting for a while nothing came, and so I turned around beginning to walk off.
