Reading: Catching Fire

Here's a new summary up through page 265 ending Part II: "The Quell"

Katniss can't stand the idea of training around any of these tributes because she's actually starting to like some of them and she knows that in order to save Peeta they'll have to die. Being the typical Katniss, she leaves her private session with a bang. She finds a target dummy, hangs it (practicing her knot tying skills), then paints the name Seneca Crane on the body in bloodred berry juice. Will this turn the Gamemakers completely against her during the games? Peeta and Kantiss decide that they'd rather play the game without allies which doesn't seem like a smart move now. They've both scored twelves in training therefore making them the biggest targets in the game. The two have come to the assumption that President Snow has given direct orders to the Gamemakers to kill them in the arena. Of course throughout this section Peeta's being the sweet guy he is and Katniss feels guilty having to listen to him dropping hints about his love for her.
The atmosphere between the team is changing. Effie is letting Peeta and Katniss take care of things on their own, the stylists are acting strange, Haymitch isn't coaching them for their interviews, and they all seem to have an "I don't care" vibe around them. President Snow required Katniss to wear her wedding dress to the interview. When Katniss is twirling and showing off her dress she notices smoke rising from somewhere. Courtesy of Cinna, Katniss's beautiful white dress goes up into flames and she is left wearing an exact replica design of her wedding dress, only now it's the color of coal and has added feathers. He's planned it so she now resembles a mockingjay....DUN DUN DUN!
Katniss remembers Cinna's words "Don't worry. I always channel my emotions into my work. That way I don't hurt anyone but myself." Katniss is so worried now because Cinna design could easily be considered an act of rebellion.
During Peeta's interview Caesar brings up the point that there will never be a wedding after the games because he and Katniss will be dead. Peeta reveals that the two are already married, well not offically, but they claim to have done a District 12 wedding ritual and told no one of it. The crowd in shocked and as they're recovering Peeta drops another bomb. He says that they would've waited until after the games if it wasn't for the baby! The question is now, is this true or did he make it up? I mean the two have been sleeping together a lot lately...
At the announcement of this everyone goes crazy and Peeta's interview is over. When the national anthem plays all of the tributes have joined hands, symbolizing unity between the districts, but little do they know they've staged their own uprising.
Anyway, it turns out Peeta's made up the pregnant thing. The two run into Haymitch after the interview and he tells them that the Capitol has sent everyone home and has cancelled the recap of the interviews on T.V. They begin to question whether or not the Capitol will stop the games. If they'd have to stop the games then Katniss and Peeta would have to make this rumor true, don't you think?
Realistically, the Capitol would never cancel the games, and they all know that. Since tomorrow begins the games they know they'll never see Effie again so they leave a verbal thank you and goodbye message with Haymitch, and they leave one for him as well. His last bit of advice for the couple is, of course, to stay alive.
The next morning it's the same situation as before: Katniss wakes up, gets sent to the hovercraft, has a tracking device in her arm, and takes off for the arena. Cinna leaves her with the reminder that he's still betting on her to win it again. The two part but before Katniss leaves the hovercraft she notices three Peacekeepers enter the room. They pin Cinna and hit him in the head causing him to fall to his knees and they continue to beat him.
In the arena Katniss notices the blue waves that seem to wash up over her boots and take over the area in every direction. She now realizes that "this is no place for a girl on fire." Ah best line yet, and who knows what the future holds?!