Black Bird

19

I watched as Brandon was being helped by Richy.

"When is my turn?" I groan putting on some black lace heels that I was given.

"I'll help her with her interview." Dill says.

"Okay." Richy replies shooing us with his hand.

I follow Dill into his room stumbling with my shoes until I decide to take them off.

"Phoebe, I'll be helping you with your walk in half and hour." Richy calls.

"Kay." I call back

I sat down on Dill's bed and he sat across from me on a chair.

"Okay so don't be afraid to lie." Dill says.

"I'm not." I say.

"Okay good." Dill says, "They're also going to ask you questions about your family."

"Even my mom?" I ask.

"Both of them maybe but especially your biological one." He replies.

"Okay?" I say.

We spent half an hour answering and asking questions until Richy took me downstairs to work with him and Brandon. Dill followed to gives us pointers.

I placed my heels back on my feet. I put my hand on Brandon's shoulder to keep balance as Richy talked to us.

"Now you want to keep balance, so cup your hands around your dress and don't fall." He tells me.

"That would be bad." Brandon chuckles.

"Now let's practice." Richy says walking as if he had a dress on. "You try."

I try to walk as he did but stumble and fall to the ground, Brandon follows me in a fit of laughter. Dill chuckled a bit. Richy looked at us like children and forced us back up. Richy oh Richy.

"Again." He snapped.

"Okay okay. " I reply trying again. This time wasn't as horrid but still bad. We attempted my walk for a half an hour until finally I had been able to do it. Dill had taken Brandon up stairs to help him with his interview, leaving Richy and I.

"So.. now what?" I ask.

"How to look sexy." He says.

"Sexy? I ask crossing my arms over my chest.

"Well your naturally sexy but we could work on something to express it like a laugh or a smile." Richy points out.

"Brandon has both of those." I speak.

"You like him don't you?" He asks.

I stare at Richy for a second before closing my eyes, "I don't know. It's hard to explain."

"I asked him the same question, he said the same answer, same stare too." Richy sits down next to me.

"But it's obvious you two have something special, I saw it last night, I saw it on the train, I even saw it in the reaping. I see it every time you look at each other, everytime your even near eachother there is fireworks and don't act like you don't notice it either. You may not be as close as you used to be as children but your still best friends and best friends love each other till the end." Richy says.

"Holey shit Richy." I gasp. I hugged him, don't know why but I did.

"Now let's work on your sexy smile, which I've seen plenty of times before." He says.