(2 Days Later, Sunday)
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"KATNISS! KATNISS!" I hear the distant voice....It's RUE!
"I'm coming ,Rue!" I yell back giving her hope.
I reach the scene. It's District One! He has Rue.........I look closer and it's PRIM.
"Prim!" I unravel her from the heavy net. My actions in slow motion. As I turn to shoot District One , my torso endures a sharp blow. A spear.
I CAN"T BREATH! AIR.....I NEED AIR!
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I wake up gasping for air. I was laying face down on my pillow. Sweaty and hyperventilating, I run down the stairs.
"Prim!" I yell frantically. I get to the kitchen, it has a new type of smell.
There sits Prim eating a well-homemade breakfast. My mom sitting next to her, smiling at me.
"Prim!" I run up to her and hug her knowing it's not a dream.
"Katniss?" Prim says in a worried tone.
"Shh, shh," I stroke her freshly done hair.
"Katniss? Honey?" my mom strokes my back.
My mother after years of leaving me to fend for Prim and her. Leaving Prim to be raised by an eleven-year-old. Never giving us attention and affection. How dare she call me honey.
"No" I respond hollowly. "What are you doing?!"
"Excuse me?"
"NOW you decided to come back?"
"Katniss, honey.....you don't understand"
"I understand for 5 years you've left your outer shell here for us to stare at but never get a response!"
"I wasn't well" I ignore her answers because they are all excuses.
"But now that you live in a house with food, you decide that it's a great time to start living with us?!" Now I'm enraged. "You left us there to die!"
"I was going through depression!"
"BUT YOU HAD KIDS TO TAKE CARE OF!" I scream, Prim jumps.
"You don't talk to me like that IN MY HOUSE!" She starts to raise her voice to compare to mine.
I start to laugh. "This house is MINE!....If you don't remember I was the one who was in the life-threatening HUNGER GAMES! or did you skip through that month I was gone?" my voice start to weaken. Prim is shaking in her chair.
"Prim go to school honey, okay?" my mom kisses Prim on her forehead.
I walk up to Prim, "Everything will be fine...see you after school" we smile and I wipe her forehead before giving her a kiss as well. I start to walk out and Prim does also.
"Katniss?" My mother says like we didn't argue 2 seconds ago.
"What?" I say aggravated.
"I want to make the old house into an infirmary.....I need help." WOW, this is what she wants....
"Then go find some."
I run upstairs and I pack. I need to leave this house for a day or maybe two.
I leave a note telling Prim the places I might be staying. Since I'm not sure myself. I can narrow it down, though.
1: With Gale. I can spend the whole day with him. (Because it's Sunday, he's day off.) But i can't stay with him and his family. Hazel, his mother, would tell my mother.
2: Haymitch's house. He wouldn't forgive the way I've treated him.
3: Peeta's place. The only actual place I could stay.
But first I want to find Gale. So I decide to head to the woods. I can't help it. I always have to start something. A spark, an argument, or trouble.
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Elastic Heart
Fanfiction**This story takes place after the book, The Hunger Games** Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark come back from the Games,... Things have changed in Katniss's life. Though feelings start to stir in the young victor. After confessing to...
