Everybody Talks (Hunger Game Fanfiction) #Watty's2014

Chapter Fifteen: The Truth

***Katniss' POV***

I get up and head straight towards the door, I don't care that I'm being told to sit back down, Gale grabs my arm and spins me around but I shake my arm and loosen his grip, I continue to walk but Gale walks by my side, I'm more pissed off with him than I am with Rory!
I attempt to push him away from me but it does nothing,
"Listen Katniss, he said he only did it to protect me. He thought you and bread boy were getting too close and he didn't want me to get hurt."
"What do you mean, 'Didn't want you to get hurt'."
"He knows how much I like you."
I sigh,
"Gale we have had this conversation before, we're friends, best friends, but that's it. I don't feel any other way about you and don't worry about your brother, sure I'm mad with him but I'm even more mad with you! How long have you known?!"He says nothing so I ask again, "How long have you known that it wasn't Peeta spreading the rumours without saying anything to defend him?! What you did was even worse than not defending him! You let him take the blame for something you knew that he didn't do!"
"Not that long, I told Rory about when you hurt him in that art lesson and got sent out and he kind of reacted how I reacted just now, he said he couldn't take him getting the blame anymore."
Now I get really mad, I stopped walking a while ago and now I'm just stood on the front garden of my house.
My anger takes over all of my other emotions and before I realise what I'm doing my fist makes contact with Gale's nose. He staggers backwards a little and my fist begins to throb. I don't think I've ever punched anything so hard in my life. His nose starts to bleed a little but he does nothing back to me, he just puts his hand over his nose. Finnick rushes outside and gets hold of me and I do nothing, I don't fight back and I don't show any emotion, I don't really feel any emotion either. I'm not upset that I hit him and I don't feel any regret. Not now anyway.
Annie and Delly are fussing around Gale but I don't even care. Johanna is just stood in the doorway, looking amused. That doesn't surprise me.
Finnick pulls me back inside and sits me down on the couch, he sits on the floor in front of me,
"What the hell what that for Katniss!?" I shrug my shoulder but say nothing.
Finnick gets hold of my shoulders and shakes them,
"What is going on with you! What has gotten into you lately?!"
I shrug again and I see Finnick getting frustrated but upset at the same time and I suddenly feel the real Katniss returning, I feel guilty for punching Gale and for shutting everyone else out, especially Finnick, who's like a brother to me,I feel my eyes filling with tears which quickly begin to spill and I stand up and stretch my arms out to him, he accepts them and pulls me into a tight hug,
"I'm so sorry Finnick."
He rubs my back, trying to comfort me, "Shhh. It's okay. I understand that it's been tough for you recently. We shouldn't have been so hard on you." After a minute he holds my shoulders at arms length and looks at me, "What made you punch Gale just now?"
"I was just so mad Finnick, I would never punch him if I was in my normal state of mind but he's known that Peeta never started any of the rumours for a month and he said nothing. He just let Peeta take all the blame when he knew the truth."
"I understand why you punched him now, it's obvious that you care about Peeta a lot and if Gale let someone I cared about take the blame for something they never did and I was in your situation I'm pretty sure I would have punched him too."
"I don't doubt that for a second Finnick. Do you think that I should go and talk to Rory, that's where I was heading until Gale got in the way."
He nods,
"I think that you should but instead of you walking there I'm going to drive you there and I'll wait outside."
"Thankyou."
I follow Finnick outside and to his car and then we drive to Gale's. Thankfully Gale won't be there, he was sat outside on the grass, milking that stupid punch for all it's worth. He can be such a drama queen sometimes.
I didn't apologise. I will apologise when the time is right. It didn't feel right to just yell it at him, especially when I need to sit down and have a proper talk with him.
We arrive at Gale's in less than five minutes. Finnick parks outside and stays in the car but I get out and knock on the door and his youngest, and only, sister Posy answers,
"Hi Posy, is Rory in?'
She nods and walks inside and I follow after her. Rory is sat in the front room watching TV. He's 15 now, that's how old Prim would be if she was still here, so it's hard for me to sit here and watch him going on with his normal life when Prim should be too, him and Prim were pretty close friends, everyone thought they'd end up together, even me.
I take a seat next to him,
"Rory?"
"Yes Katniss."
"Gale told me the truth."
"What truth?, What do you mean?" At first he looks confused but then the confusion leaves him and he looks really guilty, he scratches the back of his head, "Oh, yeah... that."
"Why did you do it?"
"I didn't want Gale to get hurt, you and Peeta were getting closer and it seemed as though you would get together and you were pushing Gale away, keeping him out."
"I was not pushing Gale away, I spent more time with him when we were in middle school than I do now! He just over exaggerates. You should have figured that out by then Rory. I fell out with Peeta because of those rumours and I didn't even give him an opportunity to deny anything. I haven't spoken to him properly in more than 2 years and we used to be so close. I can't believe you never said anything! I understand you had reasons the first time but why still continue with it now?"
"I honestly don't know Katniss."
"Well you should. I lost my best friend because of you and you haven't even apologized. You and Prim were thought to be so alike but now I can't help but think of how different you are from her."
"I'm sorry Katniss."
I stand up, "Sometimes sorry isn't enough, especially when it's all too late. I don't know what to say, I'm just going to go before I do or say something rash," I mutter, "again" on my way out of the room.
I run out to the car and get in the front with Finnick,
"How did it go?"
"I don't want to talk about it yet, I will do later just not now."
"So what should we do now?"
"Just drive."
"And may I ask where to?"
"The hospital, to see Peeta. I owe him an explanation at the least.".......

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