The Misfit Safe House(The Hunger Games)

Chapter 23

A/N hey guys! Here is chapter 23! I am thinking of doing a contest or something like that. What do you think? Comment.

<Katniss's POV>

2 weeks later.

I wake up to a sour stomach. I jump out if the bed and run to the toilet. My dinner from last night comes pouring out into the toilet. I feel Peeta's hands run my back and hold my hair away from my face.

When I stop Peeta asks me something that makes me freeze. "Do you think you may be pregnant?" I don't answer at first.

"Well there's only one way to find out," I answer. I make Peeta leave to bathroom and then I take the early pregnancy tests out of the bathroom cabinet. I pee on the stick and then look at the results. They are negative. Sadness fills me up. Is there something wrong with me? I just want a baby!

"Kat? Can I come in?" I hear Peeta ask from outside the door. I pull up my pants and flush the toilet.

"Yes." He opens the door silently and looks at me. Hope fills his eyes. He wants a child so bad. I want to give him a child but I can't. I shake my head and burst out crying. Peeta comes to my side and holds me to his chest.

"Shh shh. It's not your fault," Peeta whispers in my ear.

"Yes it is. You want a child so bad. I want to give you one but I-"

"Stop it. It's not your fault." I cry in his strong arms.

<Cloves POV>

I just finished my morning run. While walking up my driveway I see a ring on the ground. It looks so beautiful with the morning dew sitting on it. Now I'm heading inside. When I open the door it squeaks. Hopefully it didn't wake Cato. Appearently he is already up. He is sitting on the couch.

"Hey what's that in your hand?" Cato asks me standing up. He takes the ring.

"Found it on the driveway," I tell him.

"Oh well I guess it doesn't really matter where you found it, as long as you keep it forever,"Cato says. Lowering himself to one knee. I freeze. "Clove, I have loved you ever since I laid eyes on you. I have never seen someone who is as caring and as beautiful as you. I will love you forever. Will you do me the honor of allowing me to have your hand in marriage?"

A smile stretches across my face. Tears drip down my face. "Yes. Yes yes a million times yes!" I pull him up and kiss him lightly.

<Finnick's POV>

It's 11:00pm and I am at a club. The bartender passes me my 7th drink. I gulp it down. Today is the anniversary of the day my father died. It was a long time ago. We were coming home from the movies. I was four. It was just me and my dad. They're had been a robbery. The robber was running down the side walk we were on. My dad tried to stop him. Turns out the son of a bitch had a gun. He shot the gun killing my father.

Every year when the anniversary of his death rolls around I get high so I don't have to think about him. Annie doesn't know where I am. I hear the club door open. A couple moments later I feel hands on my back and I hear someone say,"Hey there gorgeous."

I turn around to see a young girl about my age. She has long brown hair, brown eyes, and her nails are painted jet black. She is wearing a black tank top. The back of it has rips in it exposing her nude bra. She has booty shorts on that looks 2 sizes to small. They expose the lower half of her butt. She is wearing combat boots. Her lips are covered in bright red lipstick.

The alcohol takes over my mind and all my senses. "Hello they're beautiful, may I buy you a drink?"

"You may." She sits down next to me.

"What's your name?" I ask. It's odd that I'm buying a drink for someone I don't know.

"Jewel, and yours?"

"Finnick Odair." After several drinks we go to the pool table to play a game. My aim is so off from all the alcohol in my body. When I take my hit I turn around and bump into Jewel. "Sorry?"

"Don't apologize," she answers while grabbing my neck. She leans in and kisses me. I kiss her back forgetting about Annie.

We stumble outside and I press her up against the brick wall. I kiss her harder. My hands pull off her shirt. I tug on her pants. She stops. "Do you have a rubber or something?" I feels my pockets. All I have in there is Annie's necklace that she forgot on our porch when she was sitting they're. It had fallen off. Guilt courses through me. Annie. How could I forget her.

"Hello earth to Finnick?" Jewel says waving her hand in front of my face. I snap out of my daze.

"I have to go," I say and then run off leaving her in just a bra and shorts. I jump in my car and shut the door. My car engine starts and I drive clumsily back to Annie. When I get back to our house I quickly park the car in the garage and run inside. Annie is sitting on the couch reading.

"Hey Finn where we-" she stops talking for some reason. "Finnick what is that on your face?" She stands up from the couch and comes over to me. Her hands run over the skin around my lips. "Is that lipstick?!" Shit. Jewel was wearing red lipstick. It must of rubbed off on my lips.

"Annie I can explain!"

"You're cheating on me! What the fuck Finnick! I thought you loved me!"

"Annie I do! I just-"

"No you don't get to speak! Look Odair! I thought I loved you but I guess we can all be mistaken! I am going to go stay with someone who actually loves me! We are done!" Annie yells. She grabs the car keys from me and runs outside. I see her get in the car. The love of my life that I betrayed runs right out if my embrace.