I will always stay with you

Chapter 3

Katniss POV

The first blow comes to my stomach, the second to my jaw (and I swear I hear something crack), the third to the side of my head and things start to get fuzzy. I head laughing and then a male voice calling my name. One more blow comes just below my eye and then I head shouting. What sounds like arguing, at this point I cant see anything which is what terrifies me the most. 

Strong arms wrap around me and pick me up off of the ground. 

"Im right here" someone says "Im going to help you" I recognize that voice. Wait that's Peeta, I though he was in class, why is he here and where is he taking me? I can tell he is running because I am shaking against his hard chest. I hear more talking and Peeta tries to put me down onto something but I cling to him. He is the only familiar thing right now. 

"Katniss, you have to let go" he says. I mumble something which is inaudible even to me. I still can't see anything so I kind of start to freak out. 

"Shhhhh clam down, its going to be ok. Katniss look at me, its going to be ok. "

"I cant!! I cant fucking see Peeta! Help me!"

"what do you mean you cant see?"

"I mean I literally cant see anything, everything is black"

"We need to get her to the hospital right now" A female voice says, so Im at the nurses office that makes sense. "Do you have her parents number?"

"No"Peeta says

"Ill take her in my car car" Peeta says. He picks me up again and carries me through the hallways. I feel the wind in my face as we make our way outside. 

When we get to the hospital Peeta picks me up again and carries me inside. 

"Are not getting tired?" I ask, trying to lighten up the situation. 

He just chuckles and keeps lugging me through the hospital then lays me down on the bed. 

Three hours later I am sitting in my living room with Peeta Mellark holding an ice pack to my head. I still cant see anything but that may be temporary. The doctor said that when Delly was punching me she damaged my optic nerve. The blindness could be temporary or it could be permanent. We wont know until it fades away (or doesn't). Until then I just have to stay in bed and hope for the best. 

To be strait forward, I hate this, I feel so helpless and it makes me mad, which doesn't mean good things for Peeta. I can;t stop snapping at him and I do feel kind bad because he missed his whole day of school for me and refuses to leave me alone until my mom gets home. She has a nursing job with really bad hours, that is part of the reason we moved here. 

"Why are you still here" I snap and then immediately feel bad. "sorry"i murmur under my breath. Wow I am a mean person

"I want to make sure you are OK and I cant leave you here alone and blind" I can here the smile in his voice and I cant help but smile too. He moves the ice pack to another one of my bruises then grabs my hand and sets it on the ice pack so that I am holding it. 

"Where are you going" I say feeling helpless again. 

"I'm just going to get you some Tylenol"He says

"Oh ok" I sit there for a couple of minuets and just when I think he may have left the house I hear footsteps next to me. "Hi" I say. He doesn't say anything just sits down next to me. 

We sit like that for a couple of minuets and then something very unexpected comes out of my mouth. 

"So, I figure we have pretty much all of our classes together and we are both new here so what do you say, when im not you know blind anymore we can hangout sometime" This seems to surprise him as well as me, mostly because I have been so mean to him. 

"I would love that" he scoots closer to me and the cold I felt goes right away. 

"Some introduction right" I say. "I mean like you barely know me and now your in my living room next to me wiping sweat off of my face and tending to my wounds" 

He gives a small laugh and says "I don't mind, its actually kind of fun spending time with you"

"How?" I exclaim "I'm so mean"

"Well you have a pretty good reason to be right now and anyways i'm kind of used to it." 

"What is that supposed to mean"I ask

"well...my mother...kind of hits me" he mutters 

"She what!?" I cry. "What do you mean she hits you?" 

"I mean she hits me. And she always has, she just hates me for some reason"

"Oh Peeta, that's awful" I say. I reach out and search for his hand with mine. When I find it I give it a good squeeze and try to give him a sympathetic look. The only problem is I cant tell exactly where his face is and apparently I don't look in the right direction because he lets out a laugh and says

"Im over here" We both fall onto the ground laughing and somehow I end up on top of him which makes us both laugh even harder. Then I hear the door open. I hear a squeel from Prim which makes me let out a cry. 

"Prim, Wait!" I say still laughing. "Im sorry, this is peeta, I got hurt at school and he was helping me." 

"Why aren't you looking at me?" she asks. 

"Well, Im kind of temporarily blind" I say, leaving out the fact that it may not be temporary. 

"WHAT?!" She screams "what do you mean blind?"

"I mean I cant see right now but it will come back, someone beat me up at school"

"Katniss!" She exclaims, she runs over and we have a nice long hug. 

"Um I'm just gonna go home" Peeta says awkwardly

"OK bye Peeta bread" I say laughing. he gives a small laugh and I hear the door knob shaking. "Peeta wait!" I call. 

"Friends?" I ask 

"Friends" he answers.