The House - An Everlark Fanfiction {Completed}

Chapter Eleven - Toxic

1 week later
Katniss POV

There's only 8 of us left. Haymitch walked, because he couldn't stand being in here any more, Cinna got sick so he had to leave and Glimmer got evicted at the live evictions.

We've been told by Big Brother that someone's going to come in to 'Fix the House' today and I have no clue what that means.

But I soon found out because as I was sitting on the couch talking to Peeta and Finnick, a man walked in with bright purple hair, who later told us, his name is Caesar.

He said he had been sent in here because this house was 'toxic' and it was not only smelly, he said that they're three housemates in particular that make this house an unhappy place and that is me, Peeta and Johanna.

I can understand me and Johanna because me being close to Peeta is causing people to have mixed opinions, which usually ends in arguments and well Johanna is just crazy.

Peeta though, I don't know why Caesar's put him in with us. The only thing he's guilty of is being led on. By me.

Even though everyone thinks I'm going it on purpose I'm really not. I feel a tie to Peeta and every time I try to stay away from him, there he is, right there, sitting next to me, making sure I'm okay. He also makes my nightmares go away which is something even Gale cannot do.

We took Cinnas advice and moved beds but that only lasted for about two days until I had a bad nightmare and I woke up crying and as usual Peeta was there to comfort me with his kisses.

That brings us to now. We've been moved away from the other 5 housemates and have been shoved into this tiny room with three single beds and have been forced to dress up in white clothing which reads 'TOXIC' on the front.

I feel the anxiety build up inside me as I think about the situation I'm in. I'm locked in a room with Peeta, Johanna and a purple haired man who I've never met before, wearing what looks like jail clothes.

Johanna has already tried to leave but finally Caesar managed to convince her to stay.

"Katniss, why do you think I've picked you to be in here?" Caesar asks me as I sit in a row with Peeta and Johanna on either side of me, as Caesar sits right opposite me.

"Because it's usually my actions that cause arguments" I mumble back.

"I see, and Peeta why do you think I've picked you to be in here?"

"Because I always go back to Katniss after everyone tells me to stay away from her"

"And why is that? Why do you go back to her every time?"

I feel Peeta tense up beside me before letting out a deep breath, "Because I love her"

Now it's my turn to tense up. He what? It's not possible, he's only known me for 2 and a half weeks, there's no way he loves me and there's no way I love him. Right?

I don't dare look up and the guilt is eating me up inside. I just can't look up, if I look up I'll see Peeta's scared, hopeful blue eyes and I don't know what I'll do.

I guess I'm scared, I'm scared what will happen if I let myself fall in love with Peeta and I'm scared of what will happen to Gale, not to mention I'm terrified at the fact that Gale might be watching all my confessions, something that I regularly forget about.

"But Peeta, Katniss has a boyfriend" Caesar states.

"Yes I know, I don't expect her to feel the same way about me, I think sometimes she just gets lonely and needs some comfort and she turns to me but along the way she's made me fall in love with her." Peeta replies.

I close my eyes and try to blink the tears back, no ones ever said anything like that about me before. Gale first told me he 'loved' me when he was drunk and honestly I don't know if it's even true. I don't think he loves me anymore, I don't even know if he ever did.

"Okay, we'll talk more about this later, Johanna, why do you think I've picked you to be here?" Caesar asks Johanna.

"Because I shout a lot and smash a lot of things" she laughs.

"Yes I think that you might need to get some classes for that when you leave the house" he states whilst rolling his eyes slightly.

He then tells us it's night, so he'll be back tomorrow morning to talk to us again.

Then it's just the three of us. I get into my bed not even bothering to talk to them, I really just want to be alone with my thoughts.

And when they're both asleep I let myself cry the most amount of tears ive cried in a while, until I can't cry anymore.

I'm up for hours thinking about everything, multiple thoughts come in and out of my mind but by the time I feel my eyes shut, as I fall into a peaceful dreamland I do know one thing is for absolute certain;

I don't love Gale anymore.

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I'm so sorry for not updating in such a long time!

I couldn't find the episodes that I'm basing this off, of for ages but today I just really wanted to continue the story.

So I've just sat for ages writing down loads of ideas for this story!

I hope you like this chapter and I'll see you for another one soon!