In point three miles, turn right, said the robotic voice of the GPS.
"Mom," the brunette in the passenger seat groaned, "how much longer?"
"Patience, Katniss," Mrs. Everdeen said. "I'm driving."
In the backseat, Primrose flipped through Tiger Beat. "Ehmagod!" she squealed in her annoying-middle-schooler accent, which made the end of every sentence go up like a question. "They're, like, splitting the last book in the Treaty of Treason series into TWO MOVIES!" Her cat, buttercup, snored.
"That's great, Prim," their mom said wearily.
"And Claudius Templesmith is getting the role of that one guy."
"The announcer?" Katniss asked.
"Yeah, thanks Kat," Prim squealed, flipping the page.
Just then, Katniss' phone vibrated. She scanned the screen. "Gale can't wait to see us, and Hazelle insists on having us for dinner, so that's one less thing to worry about."
Mrs. Everdeen patted Katniss' shoulder. "I bet you're excited to see him. It's been… what? Six years?"
Katniss nodded. "Hands on the wheel mom," she joked. "And yeah, I was ten when we moved, and now I'm sixteen."
Mrs. Everdeen seemed to go off into her own thoughts for a moment. "Hazelle and I have so much catching up to do," she murmured. "Six years…"
"I can't wait to see Gale again!" Katniss exclaimed, thinking of her best friend and neighbor back in District Twelve.
Only Prim isn't excited. She hardly remembers District Twelve, and everything was such a blur to her after her father died.
"I'm gonna miss Rayne and Ashen," she said, thinking of her best friends in District Seven.
Katniss nodded and stared out the window, and they rode in silence.