Unexpected Happiness- Hunger Games Fic

Chapter 11: New Information...

A/N: Another update just cause I love you guys! And also because I didn't update for a month oopsies.

Hope you don't hate me too much after last time... and hopefully not this time too! <3 xx

I went to meet Grace 30 minutes later at the local café. I order my usual, a half strength mocha, and try to find where she is. She isn't here yet so I sit down and wait for her. My mind is reeling with the millions of possible things she could say. I stop thinking about it cause she's finally arrived.

"Hey!" She says, "Nice to see your little bump's growing out with that feral's child in you" she gestures to my tummy before starting to browse through the menu. She's ignoring my disgusted looks.

"Uhm, excuse me?!" I exclaim, "What did you just say??"

"Oh sorry," she looks up from the menu as she says, "I didn't mean to sound rude it's just the kids at school have noticed you've not been attending school lately. Rumours started to go crazy. Some say you were dead, some said you were screwed in the head and got sent away," she leant forward and whispered in my ear, "some even say you were kidnapped by one of the Peacekeepers and were taken away to become their sex slave". I stared at her, mortified; but she just sat back in her chair- as pleased with herself as ever.

"Just to be clear," she started, "I started that last one," she winked at me then started laughing.

"Wait, you think this is funny?!" Okay, I was starting to really get angry now.

"Wow, don't be so serious. And shut up, I haven't finished my story yet!" She out the menu down before she called for a waitress and ordered. I waited five minutes before she started to tell me again,

"So, Gale was starting to get sick of these rumours, so he put everyone's mind at ease..."

"Oh no..." my pulse quickened, my heart was in my throat. I knew people were going to find out sometime, but, I wasn't ready. Not yet anyway...

"He said that you were pregnant with his child and then told everyone to shut up about it otherwise he'll punch everyone's teeth in." The waitress came back and put Grace's food in front of her, she started tucking in. As I was looking at the food, all I wanted to do was throw up. I started to gather my things before she told me to sit down again, "The stories not over, that was only the first part." I decided to sit down, obviously, whatever she wanted to tell me was important cause she stopped eating her food and looked me dead in the eye. "That was several days ago, I also wanted to tell you that Gale fucked me in the Janitor's closet that day..."

For not the first time that day, I was started at her mortified, a couple of days ago, we were still together. But she wasn't finished,

"It also looks like your child will have a step-sibling cause that dick ended up getting me pregnant as well." My heart stopped, I felt faint, and I was surprised I didn't pass out. How dare he, I trusted him and he stomped on my heart, even if he's not here to do it physically. I'm such an idiot, why, why me?! Grace was finished her meal and stood up. She was about to leave before turning back around to tell me, "But, you don't need to worry about that baby, I'm off to get an abortion. See ya! And good luck with the baby!" She clicked her tongue and walked out of the room. Leaving me to sit there and try to process what had just happened.