After Carlie and Katniss' reunion, Gale started looking at Katniss like she was crazy. Well, to him she was. This girl was his best friend, he knew everything about her, yet he didn't know of Carlie.
"Katniss, why are you hugging a random girl in the middle of the forest?" he asked her, unsure.
"Gale this is my baby sister, Carlie. Carlie, this is my friend Gale." Katniss introduced.
"Katniss, are you sure? You two look nothing alike..."
"Gale, trust me. Meet my little sister, Carlie Rose Everdeen."
Gale and Carlie nod slightly at each other, before Katniss starts talking again, getting a little overexcited. She had just found her sister after 6 years of looking for her, she would obviously be pretty excited.
"Carlie, you need to come home with us! Mother and Prim would love to see you!"
"How old is Prim by now?" Carlie says, faintly remembering summers playing with her sisters and parents.
"She's 12. It's her first Reaping in a couple days. She's really worried."
"I would be too. And are you sure Mother and Prim haven't forgot about me?" Carlie asks. She was always closer to Katniss and her father than she was to Prim and her mother.
"They haven't, trust me. After you had gone, mother was very upset. She barely did anything for days, just stared into space. Then father died and she said that all she wanted if she couldn't have her husband was to have her second daughter home again." Katniss says, getting slightly choked up thinking about her deceased father.
"I guess I'll come see them then?" Carlie says, smiling uncertainly.
Katniss smiles, hugs her again then takes her hand, and pulls her the way her and Gale came. They seemed to have forgotten about Gale, so he says something to remind them he's there, and also to remind Katniss that they hadn't caught any game to sell at the Hob.
"Katniss, we haven't killed anything to trade."
"Oh yeah, I caught a few animals before we found Carlie. Squirrels etcetera. We have enough, Gale. You told me you killed a few animals too."
"Will it be enough? And where's all the animals you caught?"
"In the tree..." Katniss says vaguely, trailing off leaving Carlie confused, but she doesn't question her sister.
Gale shrugs, and they continue to walk. After a little while, they come to a tree which Gale and Katniss seem to have picked out in particular. It seems as if it's not of very much, but after Katniss moves a few leaves, Carlie suddenly realises why it's this tree. There's a little hole in it, where Katniss has moved the leaves. Katniss and Gale put their weapons in the hole, then Katniss moves a little more dirt and leaves, and they pull out a few dead animals. Ew. Katniss and Gale both seem fine with randomly pulling dead animals out of a tree. Katniss covers up the weapons with leaves again, and we turn around, heading in a particular direction, obviously. Well, for them. To Carlie this was a completely random place, but she trusts her older sister, even if she hadn't seen her for about 6 years. Finally, they come to a clearing, and a few metres ahead, Carlie sees the Dictrict 12 fence. There's only one thing running through her mind as they approach the hole in the fence.
Home...
Sorry, not very long :/
