Katniss runs back to her room and starts crying uncontrollably. She feels the gamemakers will punish her. Katniss decides the Gamemakers will probably give her a low score so that she'll get no sponsors. She feels defeated, and goes down to dinner. Everyone is there. Eventually Haymitch asks Katniss and Peeta just how bad they were today. Peeta says he got ignored, and Katniss tells the company she shot an arrow at the Gamemakers. Katniss asks what will happen to her. Haymitch tells her that it wouldn't make sense to arrest her or punish her family. This cheers Katniss up a bit, and they all laugh and joke a bit at Katniss's description of the shocked Gamemakers. After this it is time to watch the announcement of the scores from training. The Career tributes are in the eight-to-ten range, little Rue pulls a seven, and Peeta gets an eight. All of these are very good scores. However, Katniss gets an ELEVEN! This score is very high and everyone is excited for her. Haymitch thinks they must have liked her temper. The next day Katniss wakes up thinking of her friend Gale (her hunting partner from back home). She has a flashback of their first meeting in the forest. She was collecting tubers in the forest when she saw rabbits strung up in snares, and traps to catch more animals. She never had much luck with snares so she moved closer to have a better look. That is when Gale appeared. He warned her that touching his snares would be dangerous, and that stealing is punishable by law. The talk back and forth for a while, and then Katniss shows him her bow. They began talking about hunting, and eventually they started teaching each other and trading knowledge, and over time they became hunting partners, friends, and more. In her mind she compares her friendship with Gale to what she has with Peeta. Her daydream is broken by Effie calling her to breakfast. Katniss goes to the dining room and fills her plate with the delicious food and questions when they will start prepping for interviews. That is when Haymitch tells her that Peeta would like to be coached seperately from her.
Katniss feels betrayed by Peeta's decision, but feels that the sooner they start acknowledging that they are enemies, the better. Katniss has here interview session with Effie. She puts her in a gown and heels, and teaches her how to walk in them. She teaches her about eye contact, gesture, smiling, and so on. Katniss struggles with all of this, and Effie emphasizes that Katniss needs the audience to like her which is hard if Katniss is not pleasant. She has to pretend, and sell herself to the audience. In her session with Haymitch, Katniss is coached on her interview skills, and has a rough time. Katniss is very angry and has trouble talking about herself or her family. Haymitch says she has about as much charm "as a dead slug." Haymitch tries to teach her the humble, witty, sexy, etc. approaches and all of these she fails at. Katniss eats dinner alone in her room and is very angry. When the redheaded Avox girl comes to clear them away, Katniss yells at her to leave them. Instead of leaving like Katniss says she gets a damp cloth and washes off Katniss's face and bloody hand. She apologizes to the Avox girl for the time in the forest that she didn't save her. The girl taps her lips to tell her pretty much that it is okay. That they would have cut her tongue out too. The next day, Cinna, the stylist, makes Katniss beautiful. They put her in a heavy, yet totally gorgeous dress. It sparkles with jeweled cloth, giving the impression that Katniss is engulfed in flames. Katniss is thankful to Cinna for making her beautiful. Katniss expresses that she will be hated. Cinna tells her to be herself that she is only irritable around Haymitch. Cinna feels that the audience will admire her spirit. The interviews proceed in order each of the tributes playing up a character or trait. One has the sex appeal, another a ruthless killer, and Peeta plays the humor card. Katniss decides to be honest in her interview as her and Cinna discussed. She is asked about her sister, and what it took for her to take her place in the games. Katniss smiled said something along the lines of her telling Prim that she would win, and her interview was over. Cinna gave her two thumbs up. After this it is Peeta's turn. He plays on the fact that he is a baker's son and uses humor in his interview. He drops a bombshell that he has a crush on a girl, but that it will never work out because she came to the games with him! Yep, he has a crush on Katniss. I saw that coming, but it makes things interesting.
Reading log: Mon: 45 min Wed: 45 Sat: 30 min
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