(Katniss POV)
I decide to give myself a little treat and go out to look in shops which is a very rare thing for me to do. I'm enjoying the south, specifically the weather the people are a bit odd as I can recall from my last encounter with a southerner. Apparently I have an accent although I'm American and never have captured an accent from any of the country's I have inhabited.
As I walk around the crowded outlet mall I notice Johanna and her friends are hanging around here. We make eye contact but she ignores my silent pleads for her to come ask me to join her. I bump into someone awakening me from oblivion. "Watch it bitch" I hear a girl say. I look up and see a cliché looking girl with bleach blonde hair, big boobs, very very high heels and a squad of 4 girls who look quite similar to her just with different hair colors, all staring me down.
"Sorry" I murmur and start to walk away before she stops me. "Did I say you could walk away from me?" I decide to use the small bit of confidence I have in me and stand up for myself, "Last I heard this is a free country so why don't you just stop talking to me and walk away" I say as anger builds up inside me.
"Who do you think you are?" she spits angrily at me and I grin to myself "Katniss Everdeen" my ansewr is actually a logical answer so she has no reason to get mad at me but that's not the case, she screams out in frustration I guess of getting nowhere with me and pushes me down on the ground angilry then throws my belongings into a puddle. My belongings consisted of my wallet with $7o dollars and my dads credit card in it and my copy of The Fault in our Stars.
She storms off and I pick myself up. Some people have gathered to watch the whole thing go down. I walk over to the puddle with about 10 pairs of eyes watching my every move and get my stuff. I just throw my book away and grab my dad's credit card and the $70 dollars then walk away feeling defeated.
I walk into a book store and grab a new and dry version of The Fault in our Stars then start towards the cash register. On my way there I find 3 other books that interested me and buy them. I then go into a store and buy a new wallet and a bag to hold my stuff. I walk home with no money left, just my dads credit card and 4 books and a new bag.
On my way home I hear a car slow down to keep pace with me. "Hey bitch" I look over to see the blonde haired, big boobed girl sitting in the drivers seat with her little posse. My confidence doesn't come back to me so I just put my head down and keep walking. "Excuse me? the polite thing to do would say hi back bitch." Anger surges through my body but I keep it contained while she throws insults my way, in the next 30 seconds I learned to ignore her and just keep walking. In the next 10 seconds I feel a cold liquid hit the side of my body as they drive off.
I look down to see smoothie all over the right side of my body. I am glad I had my bag on the left side of my body. One day I will get revenge on her, it may not be now or even in 4 months but I will get revenge on her.
When I walk throught he door to our house Buttercup comes up to me and starts licking my shoes ridding them of the smoothie. My dad walks toward me and when he sees my current state he rushes up to me. "What the hell happened?" He asks and I pull his credit card out of my bag.
"I'm sorry dad this girl started bullying me and I tried standing up for myself but that went no where so she threw my stuff in a puddle and your card doesn't work anymore" I take my shoes off feeling like shit since I probably let my dad down and he's probably disappointed in me.
I walk away without another word leaving my dad standing in the middle of the entrance hall and go upstairs to take a shower. My sister comes out of her room and her mouth drops at the sight of me. "uh sis you have a little something over there" she points at my arm and I sigh and kneel down to her level.
"Prim?" I ask and she doesn't pay attention to me, she's distracted at Buttercup liking my leg. "Prim please look at me" her attention focuses back on on me. "promise me that while we are here you will make tons of friends" I don't want her to end up like me. "I promise" She hugs the side of me that is not covered in pink smoothie then walks down the stairs.
I get into the shower ridding myself of all the sticky smoothie. When I get out I hear my dad talking to someone in sort of a hushed tone, I decide to eavesdrop and I hear my name so I get closer. "Do you know who it was?" I hear my dad say.
"It was probably Delly Cartwright she is a, pardon my language but she is a total bitch" I hear a young voice say that belongs to a boy probably about my age. "Thanks Peeta I'll be sure to ask oh and could you try to talk to Katniss if you ever see her around? she has a little bit of trouble making friends" I walk into my room not caring to hear the rest, my dad asking whoever this Peeta kid is to try and be firends with me made me madder than I already am.
I can't believe he would do that. I know he is just trying to help but I don't want him to try to help my socail skills by getting some boy to talk to me first. Hell, this guy could be a total player and Delly be his girlfriend and he could be dreading the fact of having to talk to me, I know if I was him I would dread it.
I storm down the stairs furious at my dad. "How could you!" I scream at him and he looks confused. "Katniss what are you talking about?" He says like the conversation between him the the Peeta guy didn't just happen. "I heard the damn conversation between you and that guy and you know I hate it when you try to get me friends! LET ME DO IT MYSELF" I scream and his face contorts in anger.
"katniss I want you to have friends! I don't want you to be all alone and bullied this year! it hurt me enough last year and I don't want it again so just let me help!" He screams his face grows red by the second but mine is just a shade redder.
"YOU WANT TO HELP?! GET MOM AND GALE BACK THEN WE'LL TALK" I scream then run out of the house with him screaming after me to come back. I run to the beach and just sit there with my head in my hands and cry.
"Hey are you okay?" I hear that voice from earlier and look up to see who owns that voice. "Get away from me and never talk to me" He looks confused.
"Calm down I just wanted to see what was wrong" he says holding his hands up in surrender.
"Do you think it was your business?" although it did involve him it's still not his business.
He looks mad at me "Uh no I know it's not my business but the polite thing to do when a person is sitting all alone on a beach with her head in her hands crying is to see what's wrong so, sorry for trying to help. Maybe you should work on being polite it might make you some friends" He says with anger in his voice. He walks away and I am left there feeling so guilty.
I'm such a horrible person and I don't want to be here anymore I just want to die. Everyone I ever meet hates me or doesn't want anything to do with me anyway so why not? I shake the thought out of my head and just sit there as tears continue to stream down my face hoping my dad comes out and tells me he's sorry and he loves me.
"Katniss?" I look behind me to see my dad standing there. "I"m sorry Kat I just couldn't stand it anymore. I get up and give him a hug "Don't apologize it's my fault, I had so much anger in me and I took it out on you and I shouldn't have" I let go of him and he holds me close to him "You take that after your mom" he says with a slight smile on his face. "I take what after mom?" the thought of mom makes me sad but I have learned to hide my emotions very well. "How you let off steam" I chuckle at him. "Lets go home." We get home and I sit in bed just wanting this day to be over with.
I realize that I probably have no chance at getting that Peeta kid to be my friend after the way I acted aorund him. I decide not to bring it up with my dad because we'll probably just fight again. Peeta probably is spreading the word that I'm a complete bitch to everyone in this town, great just great.
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after a few wrong clicks I found an infinity sign on my keyboard 😂 anyway it's a short chapter but my brain is done today so it's better than nothing (:
I just wrote a 4 page essay and now I'm writing you a chapter... you are welcome.
syd
