This small love (EVERLARK FANFIC*)

Chapter 14

Lying on my bed with a stack of used tissues surrounding me and a cheesy romance movie of Netflix playing in the background was defiantly not what I was hoping to achieve for the weekend.

My eyes were swollen and red from crying. My skin was starting to crease from lack of sleep. My clothes stank. And most of all, my heart was broken. I was a mess. I really was. There was too much on my mind. Me and Prim were still fighting. She hates me. She won't talk to me, let alone even look at me! She's always up in her room. The loud music thumping from above.

Mum isn't any better. I don't blame her. She's a 30 year old widow with two daughters that don't speak. I feel bad for her. Over these past years she's been acting like she's mute. She's started to talk again but when she does it's very soft and croaky. She's taken in the habit of cleaning the house again which is good. So I don't have to be stuck with a case of heartbreak and a case of house cleaning.

If only dad was here. Things would be normal again. Dad was the star of the house. He adored every one of us girls. He spoiled us. He loved us. I guess that was before Ava went missing. He couldn't cope with the loss of his daughter. So he moved out. He moved to California. Probably re-starting his perfect life again.

This shattered all of us. We were all hurting and depressed for months. Mum was hurt the most. She locked herself in her room for days. She wouldn't eat. She only came out of her room to use the bathroom. Me and Prim had to practically force food down her throat. We were both scared she wasn't gonna make it. I was scared that one day I was gonna come back from school to find my mothers dead corpse in the bath tub with a container of pills lying next to her!

I had Prim to comfort me. She had me to comfort her. Gale started to see what was happening and his family started to help my family out. Things changed. Mum started eating normally again. She started to work regularly. But she didn't talk as much as she used to.

That's when me and Gale started to date. We had grown so close to each other so past years that I grew to love him. We were only eight graders so it wasn't a real relationship. But it made me happy. He made put a smile on my face after a rough day at home and that's what I needed.

After a few years I found out mum wanted to move to Panem. So we did. I had to leave Gale behind. I was so torn having to leave my home.

That's when I met my friends I have now.

That's basically what happened to my family. We went from a happy family in Texas to a torn apart family in Panem. Sometimes I wish that I could move to California with my dad. Start a new life. Live on the beach. Have a sweet tan. A new best friend. . . .

That's when an idea pops into my head. Anger washes in and the fiery me takes over control. I'm not a kid any more. I can do whatever my sweet heart desires. Prim obviously doesn't need or doesn't want me, in her life anymore. Mum doesn't need me. My friends wouldn't care less if I ran away. Peeta hates me. Peeta loves Glimmer. Peeta is my love. Peeta. . . Peeta. . . Peeta. . .

. . . Sorry Peeta. I'm already gone and I'm not coming back. That's right.

I'm moving to California.