The Little Things Give You Away [North]

The only thing Christian felt right now was embarrassed. He Christian Coffey the rich calm art lover did not have a girl for his friends party! This had never happened; he always was with a friend when he did not have a girl. A pretty girl friend that volunteered to help him and strangely, none of them were around. The Hunger Games was going to be starting soon and he needed someone to be with when he attended the parties for the games. He had to stoop so low as to get an.... Escort.

The word ringed through his head. Never had he bought an escort or even thought about getting one. Many times he knew that many of his friends bought some to his parties but never had thought he would have to get one. But he kept his head strong and went and asked his best friend where he got his escorts and was told to go to a business man.

Christian had requested the best. He wanted an escort with class, the looks and the brains. He wanted one that did not look like a simple escort. Christian, the gentle man he was, had even brought a dress for her, just to get her on his side and not to make him look like a simple man wanting to have fun.

Today he was dressed in his one of his best outfits. Very tight red pants that shaped his curvy leg, a very thick belt that almost came down to his knees. The belt came up to his stomach and puffed up the loose red shirt he was wearing. Sparkles showed straight from it, bringing out the bright white color of his fluffy jacket made from fur. His hair was dyed red in the honor of the games, so was his brilliant mustache.

Christian glanced down at his piece of paper, then glancing back up to the street. They were supposed to meet around here. He spun around slowly, eyeing every area before the girl on the picture caught his eye. He happily sauntered towards her, trying not to draw attention to himself. He got up to her and lightly tapped her on the shoulder. He waited for her to spin around to face him before he spoke.

“So you must Cadence? Great, I’m Christian Coffey,” He paused for a moment before giving the dress to her. “Here wear this, we are going to a party.” Christian smiled as he put out his arm to let her grab hold.

Her hand on his arm made Christian smile after nodding to the reply that she can call him Christian. He never usually let girls hang onto his arms but in this case it would be better. Just remember Christian, she’s an escort and whatever emotion she displays or anything like that, it’s for the money.

Christian had been stricken by many heartbreak over the years. When he wanted to sit at home and sip his drink, his girlfriends wanted to do something else. Someone them just wanted him for his money, the sad truth of being rich.

"Oh course, where shall I change?" Oh stupid me. He thought and silently and lightly pinched himself. Just bring her into a nearby store, he decided and used his arm to guide her towards a shop that was not so full as lots of others were. It was the in the early afternoon and some people were still asleep, Christian hated to wake up late.

"Well the host is a good friend of mines, we are just going to be talking about the reaping and such, quite fun. Don’t we all love a good Hunger Games party?" He gave a friendly smiled and just hoped she would accept it. Like a knight leading his lady to the castle, he escorted her right to the door.

They made it to the door of the shop and Christian knocked steadily on the door, opening it up after a few moments. A hand of Capitolites waved towards him, and like good manners, he waved back towards them. Motioning to the change room, he pointed at a thin door placed on the end of the shop.

"Just go right there and change. I will be standing out here waiting for you right here dear." He whispered to her as a man he had seen a couple times came up to him and started to chat.

Small talk was very easy for Christian Coffey. If you are as social as he is, you have to be. It’s a rule for social people. He smiled and nodded at each of the peoples answer to his question and replied for theirs. It was fun for most, especially Christian, but he felt nervous as he waited for Cadence to be done with her dress. I hope she likes it, he fumbled with his fingers.

The waiting was getting to him, Christian fingered the small sparkles on his shirt as he patiently waited for her. The flow of people who came to talk to him as he had entered has returned to looking over clothes, and so did Christian. He glanced at a shelf with an adorable yellow jacket.

He was brought out of his thoughts as his lovely escort strided out from the room. Clapping his hands together, she found her way to him. But nothing he did not expect, she turned around with her zipper un-zipped.

"Zip me up?" The manner of it confused Christian, surely she could have just zipped it up by herself. Gently, he nodded and lightly grasped the zipper and pulled it up quickly. Slowly, he turned her around and beamed at what he saw. She looked beautiful.

Her full lips and beautiful hair made her stand out from the normal Capitolite woman. Her dress looked stunning on her, fitting in all the right places. Christian shook his head, the trance of this woman could for sure hold him but again he had to remind himself, shes just an escort. Trained in the art of seduction.

"Now we better hurry along so we don’t be late," He warned and gestured for her to follow him out the door. A quick wave to the other shoppers before he and her departed from the shop. It was summer and that meant sun for all, the sun beamed down onto Christian as he stepped out.

"This will be a very nice party, there will be many important people there. I am thinking of betting on the tribute who had the highest scores. Well I do that every year but I think this year the victor might surprise us. It sure did a couple years ago with that district 10 winning, but last year with Julian. Ah, a good young career boy," He rambled on as he lead her down the busy street. Hoping she would continue the conversation because when faced with such a beautiful girl like this, he sometime did not know how to do small talk.