Everybody Talks (Hunger Game Fanfiction) #Watty's2014

Chapter Fourteen: Intervention

***Katniss's POV***

    (Monday)

I sit in my room, not planning on moving. I have the house to myself, mom got called to another hospital about 3 hours away from her so she is just going to stay in a hotel there. So I will be left in this house, for a week, all alone with my thoughts. It's about 9 a.m, when the knocking starts again. Ugh! Mr. Mellark was over here all day yesterday, trying to get me to answer. I went to sleep hearing knocking in my head it was that bad. I'm so sick of it. I get out of bed, pretty much to first time since last week, and I run downstairs. My legs are stiff, and each movement brings on a new series of pain, but I have to stop the knocking. I open the front door,

"What!" I scream, expecting Mr. Mellark, but finding all of my friends. They look shock, but they start walking inside, Finnick picking me up.

"Are you supposed to be at school?" I ask them when they set me down in a chair.

"I could have you the same thing." Annie says sitting on the love seat with Finnick.

"Where have you been?" Gale asks, sitting in the rocking chair.

"Sick." Comes out of my mouth, and they all know it's a lie.

"Is this about Peeta?" Delly asks.

"Why would I be concerned about Peeta?"

"Well, since the day he was in his crash you haven't been to school. You haven't answered your phone, or read our texts. And yesterday I walked by to Mr. Mellark almost breaking your door down. So yes, I think it has something to do with Peeta." Madge says, sitting on the floor next to Delly.

"If It does, it's none of your business." I snap. Finnick opens his mouth to say something, but I am faster. "How could I care about someone who talked so much crap about me and my family?" I say quickly. I usually talk fast when I'm lying. Of course I care about Peeta's recovery, but I'm not sure how I feel about him after that. Everyone is looking at me, but Finnick is smirking.

"Oh Katniss, don't tell me you don't care. He used to be your best friend. I mean, you were even married." He wriggles his eyebrows. Annie hits his arm.

"I told you not to say anything about that!" She says, but quickly calms down. "Katniss, honey, we know you have been through a lot with Peeta, so please tell us what is bothering you." She says sweetly because that's just how Annie is. She is sweet. I want to break down, but I refuse to. Instead, I start explaining to them.

"Well, he was over the other night, the night of his crash, because we had to work on an art project. I told him he could stay the night on the couch or in a spare bedroom because I knew it was going to be a late night. But something happened after we finished the project, which I'm not going talk about right now. But it was 1:30 am, and he wanted to drive himself home. I knew his mind was going to be distracted and he had to be tired. But I didn't encourage him to stay. I just kind of let it go. So when I found out about the crash I blamed myself. Because it is my fault. And ever since then, I have been getting bad flashbacks" I haven't talked to anyone about my flashbacks before.

"What do you mean flashbacks?" Delly asks.

"Like, to the time when Peeta and I were friends, when we got "Married", or when I wash in the car accident... And the worse, was the fight we had that finally broke us apart. All the mean and hateful things he had said about me and my family when I thought we were so close."

"So you have been thinking about them a lot?" Madge pipes up.

"Not just thinking about them. It's like, when I close my eyes, I see everything again. And then I open my eyes and all I know is my throat is sore from screaming and I'll usually have tears in my eyes." I tell them. They all look at me, like they can't believe I actually go through all of this.

"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Finnick asks.

"Because I didn't want you to look at me differently."

"We would never do that." Annie gives me a hug.

"That's it! I can't take it anymore!" Gale yells, standing up. He tries to leave but Finnick grabs him. Finnick is stronger than Gale so he pulls him back to the rocking chair.

"What can't you take?"

"I don't want to tell you."

"Gale!"

"No!"

"Please?" I speak up, but in a small voice. "Please tell me." I beg.

"I just... I can't sit around here listening to you blame Peeta for those things. About the rumors. It wasn't his fault."

"Whose fault was it Gale?" I ask. It might not have been Peeta? It was someone else? It seems impossible. Everything people told me, everything I heard people said came from Peeta. It has to be him. It had to.

"It wasn't Peeta. It was Rory. He admitted it to me." Gale says and my heart drops. Rory, Gales younger brother, who knew exactly what we were going through.

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IT IS SO SHORT!! :( I'm sorry!

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~Hannah