Day after Day

Chapter 11: Safe and Alone

A/N: Sorry for makinh you wait so long. :(

I hear voices. A familiar voice is calling my name softly.

It's too far. I can't reach it.

Then it feels like someone drugging me away of the painless paradise.

I am not lost in paradise.

I open my eyes forcefully and a bright light blind me. I try to move my hand to cover my eyes but a very bad pain was all over my chest and arm making me groan in annoyance and pain.

All I feels is this cruel feeling.

I feel my mind full of worries again.

Where is Peeta?

Is he alright?

I need to see him!NOW!

I try to call his name but I start choking hard. I cough again and again trying to make his name come out but nothing.

"Calm down Katniss!" The same familiar voice says. It's Blye. "You don't need to talk, you are still weak. You lost a lot of blood you know!" she adds and walk close to me holding a notebook.

"...Peeta...?" I ask weakly with a husky voice. My lungs hurt.

She didn't heard me –probably- because she keeps talking.

"I will inform you for your current situation. You are hurt really badly on your sides, back, legs and chest" she starts reading things on her notebook aloud.

"I kept you drugged for two days so you will regain some energy." She finishes and then looks at me. She can see that I am finding it hard to form words so she stops me.

"Peeta has told me everything that happened. You don't need to explain anything. You just need to rest!" She says and walks to her desk. She leaves her notebook carefully inside a drawer and closed it with her foot.

She grabs something and walks next to me again.

"I found this a day after you were brought here. I think it fell of your finger!" Blye says and shows me a ring.

My engagement ring.

My thump trailed on my palm and then to my finger that the ring was supposed to be. It was missing.

Apparently, Blye was holding the right ring.

"I thought you would want it!" she adds and slides the ring on my ring finger.

I weakly turn to see the ring. The pearl is glowing on the morning sun.

This is what I last see before drifting to sleep.

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When I wake up again, I see Blye sitting on her desk. She is focusing on something and for a moment she doesn't look like the sixteen year old girl that moved to twelve from thirteen. She takes of her glasses and looks at me.

"Morning!" Blye says and smiles.

"Peeta?" I ask after clearing my throat.

"He just left. He said he will be right back. Something about telling Thom in the bakery" She explains and I nod. I need to see him.

She walks close to me and pinches my leg. I wince in pain.

"Can you feel that?" she asks and I nod while grinding my teeth.

"This?" she asks again and presses my sided.

"God yes!" I say and let out a breath. It hurts. Very much.