Platonic Love ( A Hunger Games FanFiction)

Chapter Ten

Chapter Ten:

Peeta’s POV:

“Gale?” Katniss whispers.

“What the fuck, dude?” I ask.

Gale is standing on the sidewalk, breathing heavily. Despite being a foot away, I can smell the alcohol on him. He quickly pulls up his underwear and pants.

I stand still, frozen on the spot, trying to get Gale’s penis out of my mind and comprehending the situation. Katniss is helping Madge up, smoothing her dress over and telling her it will be okay. Gale is glaring at me, I glare back.

Katniss turns around and looks Gale straight in the eye, giving him her best death glare. “Gale, I don’t give a shit about what you want, who you want, or what you have. Just stay the hell away from me, Madge, Peeta, and any other girl who doesn’t want anything to do with you. Madge may have cared about you once, but she doesn’t care about you anymore. Neither do I. All you want is sex, I hope you have fun finding it in a girl. I would recommend Delly, Charlotte, or Glimmer. Not us. Stay away from us. Don’t ever come back.”

I get up and give Gale a good punch, pushing him against the fence. I usher Katniss and Madge to her van. Katniss pushes Madge down on a seat, and looks at me. “Comfort her, I can’t deal with emotions. I’m gonna go get Annie, she’s the best with this stuff.” I nod.

I slide down on the seat next to Madge. “Forget about that idiot. He’s just a rich, snobbish, messed up drunkard. Not worth occupying your thoughts.” I hand her a bottle of water, and she sips it tentatively.

“What happened?” I say quietly after she puts her water down. She looks up from her shaking hands. “If you don’t mind me asking,” I tell her.

“I don’t. . . I don’t know.” she says, rubbing her nose, sniffing, closing her eyes and shaking her head.

“I saw you run off the stage, towards him. Why?”

“Because. . . I really felt bad, I mean, I didn’t tell Katniss that I still kinda liked him. I knew how that felt, keeping secrets. But . . . Well, look at me! I’m a mess. I told him I still cared about him and he attacked me.”

I sit there trying to make sense of her quiet words as she started to silently cry. I sit next to her and rub her back and quieting her.

“I always thought sex would be great because you’re with the person you love. But I didn’t enjoy anything, that’s when I figured out that, One: Katniss did the right thing - not giving him anything, Two: That I don’t love him as much as I thought I did. I guess it’s one of those things that make you like someone because someone else had that person. You just wanted to experience the same thing.”

Annie bursts in the van and crawls to Madge. Katniss follows with some punch and tissues. They hug and Madge cries it out. Annie whispers into Madges ear and she nods back, they both crawl back out of the truck and climb into a tree, Katniss marked the branches to step on with chalk. They don’t climb very high so I can still hear them, I sit on the other side of the tree on the grass. I watch the sunset alone.

I hear Madge telling Annie and Katniss everything, I also hear Madge tell Katniss about how she was sorry for not listening. They comfort each other as they talk shit about Gale. I smirk remembering that I punched him, Katniss must’ve too, she makes Madge laugh by bringing up the subject.

Just as the sunset’s over, Katniss silently climbs down and sits next to me.

“It’s beautiful.” she says, leaning on my shoulder. I turn towards her, and she gives me a peck on my cheek timidly. I kiss her full on the lips because she’s just that amazing.

“Lets go to back to Finnick’s house, okay?” she suggests.

“Mhmm,” I mumble. Madge and Annie have already gone home so we drive back to Finnick’s place.

Once we arrive we walk back in to see the party still at full swing. There are still people dancing, and drinking, and making out. Everywhere.

“Hey bro, nice to see you came back for me,” Finnick says sarcastically.

“Sorry about that. Girl issues,” I say apologetically.

“I can see why you were involved,” Finnick snorts. “Anyways, you may be interested to hear that Gale and Delly drove off together after a full on make-out session. Charlotte and Glimmer hooked up. Funny thing is that Charlotte and Glimmer hooked up with each other. Who would have thought?”

“Funny how things fix themselves,” I reply, walking back to Katniss who was talking to Clove. Cato’s arms were wrapped around Clove’s waist as he stared at her hungrily.

“Hey Peeta, lets grab a drink,” Katniss says to me suddenly. “No really- just one.” She looks at me with her beautiful stormy grey eyes. Under normal circumstances I would have said no, but with the couples making out left and right and what happened with Gale earlier... What did I have to lose? Other than my virginity, that is.

“Sure.”

Katniss pulls me through the crowd, dragging me to the bar. She gives me a cup of something, placing it firmly in my hand. With a bold glare, she raises the cup to her lips and drinks.

Clearly she enjoys it because she starts to fill a third (or fourth) cup. When I’m a few cups through, she throws her cup on the ground and jumps at me. She wraps her arms around my neck and pushes her lips against mine. It takes about 20 seconds for me to react and kiss her back and when I do, the rest of the party fades away. Its just me and the girl I love. Love? Well, the girl I love platonically. Jeez Peeta, that doesn’t even make sense. And is there anything platonic about this? About her body pressed up against mine? Her hands interwoven with my hair? No. There is not. May platonic-ness be fucked.

Katniss has her legs wrapped around me, so I walk the both of us towards Finnick while she still kisses me. I mumble to Finnick and attempt to talk but Katniss is covering my mouth with her lips and her tongue. Finnick chuckles and directs us up the hallway. Katniss picks up a couple more bottles of whiskey on the way. I stop at Finnick’s room and open the door...

“Come to join us, Peeta darling?” I hear Charlotte say. I can smell the rum in the air and look around. A naked Glimmer down on her knees, her mouth making it’s kissing way down Charlotte’s naked body. I quickly walk out and shut the door, dragging Katniss with me. I walk out the back door and head towards the Meadow.