(Katniss POV)
I watch as Gale runs up to my dad and starts screaming in his face.
"Why can't you just leave us alone!!" I push Gale back as anger toward Gale becomes present on my face.
"Just stop! He is sorry about what he did and he is going to apologize to Mom and Plutarch!" He tries to go after him again but, I push him out the door and step outside with him before he can do anything to harm anyone.
"You can't just come barging into people's houses like that!" He looks at me like I have forgotten previous events.
"Not the best word choice, but the point is, people change in a mater of hours and you can't just act like that when you haven't even talked to them since something happened." I search his face for any guilt about what he did to find none.
"He hurt Mom and I will never forgive him for that." I can't deal with him and his stubbornness so I walk back inside without another word. I don't want to hear him talk like that about Dad or about anyone.
My dad is sitting at the kitchen table looking at the wall like he can't believe what just happened. I cautiously walk over to him hoping he doesn't snap.
"Dad, are you okay?" He looks up at me with a small smile on his face.
"Yeah, I'll be okay." I walk over to him and hug him.
"I wish we could start over," I mumble into his shoulder.
"I wish we could too, Katniss." I pull away from him.
"Then let's do that." He furrows his eyebrows in confusion.
"How?"
"Well, first off, you can apologize to Mom then we start over. The school year is about to begin so I'll make friends and start over and you'll find a girlfriend and start over." He sighs and sits back down.
"Katniss, it's not that easy." I roll my eyes and hand him his keys.
"Yes, it is. You make up with Mom and act like nothing happened and you move on it's going to work I promise." He thinks it over in his head before nodding.
"Then we better get a move on," he says and I smile while he grabs his car keys. I walk out to the car with him and we start off towards my mom's house.
"Do you think she'll forgive me?" He asks and I shrug my shoulders.
"Hopefully," I say, hoping he doesn't hear me.
"Well, that helps with the nerves a lot," he says sarcastically which gets him a sarcastic smile from me.
We get out of the car and I knock on the front door. My mom answers with a smile on her face, but when she sees us standing at the door the smile disappears.
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IM BACK. sorry for the long absence. I was stressed and sort of depressed but I'm all good now! Hopefully.
Sorry that I came back with a short chapter. There wasn't much that needed to happen in this chapter but next chapter should be longer.
Thank you guys for al your patience it means a whole lot.
-Syd
