My eyes open, my sight is fuzzy at first, but I automatically know where I am. I sit up and pull the covers off of me. How long have I been asleep? I go and open the curtains, the sun hurts my eyes but they adjust. The Capital hurries around underneath me. I'm dressed in a white sleeveless top and white pants. I go to open my door and instead of the doorknob twisting open, it clicks and I'm free of my room. I slowly enter the hallway, looking around.
The apartment is empty and quiet. I go into the connected dinning and living room and look around. No one is in sight. Suddenly a click comes from the hallway, making me jump. I turn around and Peeta comes out of his room.
"Peeta!" I run over and hug him. His arms wrap around my waste and squeezes me.
"Katniss, what did you do? No one will tell me anything. We weren't suppose to leave last night."
I pull away and lump grows in my throat.
"Peeta.."
I can't tell him. He'll be pissed. But I'm sick of lying to him, to everyone.
"Gale and I... we were trying to leave. I couldn't go back into the games- I just couldn't take it-"
He cuts me off.
"And you didn't think about bringing me? Katniss, I don't want to go back either. Did you ever think what would happen to me if you left?" His voice grew into a shout.
"I tried to go back for you! That's how I got here, Peeta, you have to believe me! I couldn't go without you. Peeta... I love you."
His reaction isn't what I had expected. Nothing is what I expect anymore, so I guess it shouldn't surprise me. Instead of bringing me into his kind arms, and letting me cry into his chest, he gave me a deadly look.
"No you don't, Katniss. You only think of yourself, you never think about how your actions will affect other people," he got in my face and said something that inflected pain more than the games ever could.
"I hate you."
Tears ran down my face as he pushed me aside and walked out of the apartment. The pain that I felt quickly turned to anger. My tears stopped and my fingers wrapped around a glass vase. I threw the case against the wall as hard as I could.
I was a fool. He saw what I really was, manipulative, deadly, selfish. How could he love me for that? He was right. I didn't love him.
I wanted to kill him.
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The Hanging Tree
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