Katniss comes into her house quietly, not wanting to disturb her little sister, Prim. Once the door is shut Katniss hears a small cough from the living room. She curses silently and goes in.
"Prim, you should really be asleep. You have your first day of school tomorrow," Katniss says setting her stuff down. She looks around and notices Prim had cried.
"Katniss... Tate broke up with me... I just can't fall asleep, Can I sleep with you tonight?" She asks. Even though Prim was 16 already she did have her strange bursts of being a sweet child again.
"Of course. You still have to go to school tomorrow though, no boy is worth missing out on a good education."
She nods and heads to my room in the small two bedroom apartment. I go to the bathroom and shower trying to wash off the smell of cigarettes from me. I hate my job.
In the morning, Prim's phone goes off as the signal for them both to wake up. Katniss offers Prim help to get ready and she accepts smiling despite her broken heart. Katniss does a soft touch of makeup on Prim's delicate face. Next, Katniss gathers Prim's golden hair in her hands and begins to section off the pieces to curl the naturally straight hair.
"When Tate sees you today, don't let him get to you. Let him see how well you are without him," Katniss says when she notices Prim's nervousness.
"Okay. Katniss?" She asks looking at Katniss in the mirror.
"Yeah?"
"Thank you for everything."
Katniss smiles and says, "You are very welcome, now go and get dressed in what I picked out while I get ready."
Katniss braids her hair as Prim goes to her own room. Katniss gets dressed in her traditional clothes, Dark skinny jeans and a dark green V neck that was just baggy enough to hide her small frame. She puts on socks and her hunting boots, she pulls on her dad's old hunting jacket and goes to wait for Prim.
When she does, Katniss looks at her perfect sister. Prim wears form fitting-light jeans with a few pre-ripped holes in them, She wore a light blue blouse that brought out her dull blue eyes.
"You look amazing. Trust me, When Tate sees you his heart will stop," Katniss says smiling.
She smiles and Katniss drives her to school. Katniss goes to a coffee shop and sits at a table reading from a magazine and sipping her tea she had ordered. She gets the strange feeling that someone was looking at her so she glances around and her eyes land on a guy with blonde hair. He was sitting with two other guys and when she looked he looked away embarrassed. There were two other girls with them, both sitting on either side of the boy.
She gets up and goes to throw away her cup as she leaves. Outside, she shoots one more glance inside to see the man that had been looking at her, looking a little sad. Katniss rolls her eyes and walks down to car.
Once she is home she goes on her laptop and turns on her favorite show. She continues to watch it until 3:30 when she needs to leave to go pick up Prim. Katniss waits in the parking lot bored for 30 minutes before the kids start coming outside in groups, She looks to the car next to her's and sees the same guy from the coffee shop.
He glances over and gives a small smile. Katniss nods but doesn't smile. She see's a girl around 18 climb into the man's car, Katniss shakes her head and continues to wait for Prim.
Once they get home Prim is on her phone texting and laughing. Katniss already knows that the little girl is gone again and Katniss has to go back to being a mother figure to her younger sister.
Katniss goes to walk down the hall and isn't looking where she is going and bumps into the same guy from earlier. Katniss bends down to pick up her quarters that had fell out of her hands. He helps.
"Hey," he says smiling, "I'm Peeta."