Everybody Talks (Hunger Game Fanfiction) #Watty's2014

Chapter Thirteen: The Fall Out

Katniss' POV:

4 days later. (Saturday.)

I'm sat in my room. I haven't left it since I got back from visiting Peeta at the hospital, I can't face seeing anyone, especially not my friends. They don't know that Peeta was at my house before the crash and that it's my fault that he got into the accident. That's what they think it was, just an accident with nobody to blame but that's not true. I'm to blame. It's my fault that Peeta is still sat in that hospital bed.

Mr Mellark has knocked on the door and shouted for me every morning but I don't answer it and my mother doesn't get out of bed, every day he waits for around 20 minutes, just shouting my name and banging on the door. If I was him I would've given up by now but he obviously doesn't realise how stubborn I am. He thinks that eventually I'll give in but I won't.

I feel bad for Peeta. Of course I do. He thought we were getting close again and to be fair we were but then I went and destroyed things just like last time.

****FLASHBACK****

Peeta is waiting for me in our usual place, the bench beside the park and he's smiling but I have no idea why, from what I've been hearing he's been saying all kinds of crap behind my back. It hurts so much when I hear of what he's been saying after we've been friends for so many years. We were both 4 when we both became friends and now we're 14, that's 10 years of friendship and he's thrown it all away instead of just telling me everything to my face. I can't believe I've stood by him for 10 years and this is how he repays me! The years since I've been his friend have been filled with so much happiness and joy and now it all means nothing. When we were younger he told me that we'd always be best friends and that nothing would change. I did say that we'd always be best friends first but I meant it from my heart, he clearly didn't and I can't stay his best friend after this. It just not possible and he knows that I'm not at all a forgiving person so he doesn't get a second chance.

I thought I knew him too but that's evidently not true. The Peeta I thought I knew would never do anything like this.

I don't hit him or anything. Even I'm not that heartless especially with what his more does to him and I can't just forget about the 10 years that we were best friends. Note the fact that I said were.

I just sit beside him and don't return his smile, why should I?

"What's up Kat?"

"Don't call me that anymore. Not ever."

"I don't understand what I've done for you to be acting like this."

I get really mad and I stand up and start to walk away, Peeta follows after me and grabs my arm, turning me around.

He has hurt spread all across his face and I feel so bad but I can't just say all is forgiven and just leave it at that. That's not how things work. He can't do what he did and have me hug him and say it's fine. I over reacted. "Seriously Katniss, I have no idea what's going on."

I snort and reply in a cold, hard voice that sounds so unlike the usual me when I'm speaking to Peeta, my voice is normally full of such joy and warmth. "Well how about we start with the rumours you've been spreading about me?! You know like, 'Katniss has to sleep with the perverted head police officer to get enough money to support her family because the officer is known to pay girls for their bodies?' We both know that that is not in the slightest bit true because I always say how disgusting he is. You know I'd rather starve than stoop that low and let him do that to me. Or what about, 'Katniss' father can barely provide for her family to he has to illegally hunt to get enough money for them to survive?' What about those things Peeta?! I trusted you. I thought we could trust each other but clearly I couldn't have been more wrong and please, just so that what little respect I have for you is still intact for both of our sakes, don't deny any of this. If you ever did care for me at all them just don't deny it.There are only two people who know about my fathers hunting and the other is Gale and he has to do such things to provide for his family. My father always accepted you as my friend, he even said that you were a nice young man and that he approved of you!" I don't add when my father said these things because it all seems pretty stupid and pointless now. I can't believe anything Peeta has ever said to me in the same way that I used to. Was any of it ever true?!

I look at Peeta one last time and it looks as though he's having an inner battle. As ought he can't decide whether to deny what I've just said or just leave it. Whether he's going to break down in tears and beg for forgiveness of just walk away.

He continues to have this inner battle with himself until I can't bare looking at him and waiting for him to make his decision any longer.

I turn around and walk away. I know what I said but a part of me was longing for Peeta to deny the accusations. I walk a few metres away and then Peeta shouts, "Katniss." I turn around and see him stood still, he runs his hands through his hair in stress and frustration, I say nothing just look at him, waiting for something, anything. Some sign that I was wrong, that I'll have to swallow my pride and forgive him but instead he just puts his head in his hands and shakes his head.

What is that supposed to mean?! Is that him admitting to it? His way of apologising? Or is he shaking his head in denial that I could even believe and accuse him of such a thing?!

I have absolutely no idea but I can't take it. I can't stand not knowing so I turn around I run away from him. I don't run home though. I don't know where I'm running to, my legs are leading the way rather than my head but they take me to just the right place. The little hut near the lake my father took me to but he only took me there one. I ran further than I realised. The lake isn't particularly near to my house. My dad keeps promising to bring me back here but with Prim as well this time. He said that he'll take us in the summer and I can't wait until then because we pass it when we go the long way to school in the car but that's only when my father isn't in work and that's not often. The next time he's off is in just over a month I think. It seems like a long way away but after that argument it's one of he few things I have to look forward to. I long for that day so much.

***END OF FLASHBACK***

When the flashback ends Mr Mellark starts to knock on the door and shout for me but that sound is soon drowned out by my sobbing and I begin to shake. I was looking forward to that stupid day when we would just drive past the lake house but it never happened, fate had other plans. I never got to go back to the lake house either. I don't want to. I can't face it..... I just can't.

I wish me and Peeta never argued. I never found out if it was actually him saying the things. I still don't know what he meant when he had his head in his hands and he shook his head. I still don't know how I feel about him.

Imagine how different things would have been if we hadn't have argued. Or I would have given him a chance to explain. But things always happen for a reason, right?

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