The Dangers of Love

Chapter 6

ok i know its been a while but my internet was getting fixed and we just got it back

i know that its a short chapter but ive been in a bit of a slump latly and havent been able to write

“There it is!” exclaimed Peeta, his voice edged with excitement and nerves, he jumped out of his seat and ran to the window behind Haymitch, white futuristic buildings where scattered on little islands surrounded by glistening blue water “it’s huge” he breathed admiringly, Katniss watched him from her seat seeing him so awestruck was something that reminded her of the real rason she decided to protect him from the ugly world that was following her around everywhere she went

~Flashback~

Prim walked up to her house with buttercup tightly snuggled into her chest and froze at the door, she could hear her mother screaming at Katniss but she couldn’t quite make out the words “they’ve been at it for a week now, mum won’t tell me why” she told the cat sadly, gingerly Prim edged open the door and snuck inside hoping to figure out what was happening unfortunately just as she entered the kitchen, within earshot of her squabbling family, Buttercup shot into the room jolting Katniss and her mother out of the trance, Katniss was the first to notice Prim cowering in the corner

“Prim, hey I didn’t hear you come in; I was just about to go to the bakery with Gale you wanna come?” Katniss asked walking over to join her

“And why would you want to go there you can buy anything, or are you going to tell the bakers son about your ‘bun’?” her mother bitched, she sounded like a bickering teenage girl

“Did he trade you a bad bun Katniss?” Prim asked sweetly staring up at her sister, there mother scoffed

“NO!” snapped Katniss, Prim shrunk back from her scared and confused “oh I’m sorry Prim I shouldn’t have yelled, its Posey’s birthday soon and Mr Mellark offered to bake a cake in return for some manual labour-”

“that’s not the only labour you will be going through thanks to a Mellark” their mother whispered venomously luckily Prim was too excited about the idea of a cake that she didn’t take any noticed but Katniss heard it, she heard the whole thing,

“Listen, I told you it wasn’t him I don’t care what you think I know the truth and you are way off” Katniss spat, she grabbed Prim by the wrist and dragged her out of the house away from their mothers poisonous attitude.

~End of Flashback~

Katniss snapped out of her daze and noticed that the room was suddenly dark ‘we must be in a tunnel’ she thought. Peeta noticed her zone out and couldn’t help but wonder what she was thinking about there was a time when he wanted to be the last she thought about before going to sleep and the first thing she thought about in the morning, and the reason she got a goofy grin on her face, but that was never going to happen she hated him for an unknown reason and he was just going to have to deal with it, no matter how much it hurt.