After The Games

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven:

"three, two, one! Go!" Effie flips my hair back one more time and literally pushes me out the door. I walk down the three steps of my

house and put on a small smile with no teeth. When I see Peeta walk out of his house looking as handsome as ever my smile stretches

out across my whole face and I quickly edit my features remembering our plan, and walk towards him slowly. We stop a good foot away

from each other and wave at the cameras. We say a quick hello and Effie is pulling us toward the car that will take us to the train

station. We are ushered into the car and we sit in the car for the ten minute drive, fighting the urge to hold Peeta's hand the whole way.

We are greeted at the station with even more cameras and reporters. Yay! Not. I quickly make my way onto the train with Peeta, Effie,

Haymitch, Cinna, Portia, and both Peeta and I's prep teams. The same train that took us to the games is the one we are all on, how

considerate of them, they wanna give us as many reminders as possible. We head to the dining cart for lunch and sit. Peeta sits in

between Portia and Cinna and I sit on the other side of Cinna. The adults talk through the whole lunch but Peeta and I stay silent, we

want them to think that we are avoiding each other.

"So Katniss, how are you and Peeta?" Effie asks with a wink a strike of pain shoots through my heart and tears brim my eyes. Peeta

notices cause he looks like he is in pain. I force the tears to spill and Haymitch and the others look at each other confused.

"Will you excuse me" I murmur but they all here me. I run through the halls towards my room.

"Katniss wait!" I hear Peeta get up and run after me. I run through the door to my room and hold it open for Peeta.

"Nice acting" he takes my face in his hands and presses my lips to his.

"You to, I'm sorry, I love you" I say kissing him again.

"And I love you" he says but then we here multiple footsteps echoing through the hall.

"God Katniss, why can't you just understand?!? It wasn't my fault" Peeta yells at me backing away from me. The tears begin to fall

again. I here the footsteps stop, eavesdroppers.

"How am I supposed to trust you? I know how close you are! Don't think I don't see the guilt in your eyes!"

"Of course I feel guilty! How can I not, I hate seeing you in pain"

"Oh yeah sure! Get the hell out of here!"

"Katniss will you just let me explain?!?" He angrily asks.

"No, I have had enough!" I yell then whisper "just go" I let out a sob.

"Fine!" he replies bitterly. 'See you tonight?' he quickly mouths and I nod. He angrily turns and pushes his way through the crowd that

has formed at the door. I pretend not to notice them and let my sobs out. They are real because even if it is fake I hate when Peeta yells

at me. I look up to see the adults just staring at me. Peeta and i had come up with a excuse as to why we were fighting. We are going to

say, if they ask which they will, that some girl who wanted us broken up so she could have him kissed him and I saw and I didn't let

him explain. Apparently I am very angry because I think he kissed her back, so on and so forth. I know that the real Peeta would never

do anything like that ans I would believe him if some girl kissed him and he promised me that he didn't kiss her back. I get up off the

bed I had taken a seat on and stand up.

"Haymitch!" I yell/sob and fly into his arms. He hesitantly holds his arms out but then wraps them around me.

"Shh... It's okay sweetheart" we stay in the embrace for a while until Effie tells us it's time for dinner. I will be right there I say and walk

back into my room and find a stationary pad. Grabbing a pen from the desk in the corner I sit down with a piece of paper.

Peeta,

I am so sorry, can you ever forgive me? I love you with all my heart and soul. Don't EVER forget it!

Love,

Katniss.

I grab the page, fold it in half, shove it in my bra and head to the dinning cart. I sit directly across from Peeta in between Effie and

Haymitch. Once the main course is served I 'accidentally' drop my fork and bend down under the table. Reaching into my bra, I pull out

the note and quietly place it in the hand that Peeta has kept on his thigh. I crawl back to my seat and sit back down. Peeta looks up at

me and then looks down, probably reading my note. When he looks back up he looks touched. He nods and mouths 'of course'. I breath

a sigh of relief, the feeling of guilt and heart break lifted off my shoulders. I eat quietly but quickly eager to be with Peeta again. Eager

to kiss him. Eager to hug him. Eager to sleep with his arms wrapped around me. There are so many things I wish I could say to him, but

I would never have enough courage to tell him.

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