Wishing I Stayed Here

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"Sweetheart he's engaged to Delly Cartwright. I know he's doing it out of pity because he doesn't have a dreamy look in his eyes when he sees her.

You know he always had that look with you sweetheart."

I change the subject by saying, "Ok, so why do you have a sneaking suspicion of Delly?"

"Sweetheart, I found out she really hates you aaaannnnddddd..." he drawls out the and.

"What the hell is it Haymitch?" I say impatiently. He takes a deep breath and says in a quiet voice, "She is related to Snow. Coriolanus Snow is her great, great, great, great..." he trails off.

"Great WHAT?" I say pissed off because he can't just spit it out. "He's her great, great, great uncle."

"She has a fake sweetness you know," he says," she has a fuckin temper no one can control. She almost stabbed me with a knife. If Peeta wasn't there I would've died. I swear we NEED to stop this wedding."

After that there's a silence. I'm speechless because I couldn't believe what I heard.

Haymitch breaks the silence by saying,"I'll pick you up and we'll talk later." He hung up and I put the phone back in the pay phone.

I sat down on a bench fiddling with my fingers in my lap. I heard footsteps and got a strong whiff of aftershave.

Surprised I saw a very clean and sober Haymitch. He smiled that smile he saved for me. I got up and hugged him because he was basically my father figure.

We pulled out of our embrace and I smiled my most heartfelt smile.

"I missed you Haymitch." I said. "Missed you too sweetheart." he said with a sincere look in his eyes. He looked a my cut and bruise and said,"You know you should've stayed here. Baker boy was heartbroken. You know we wish you stayed here."

I look down because tears start running down my cheeks." I love Peeta and I was too fuckin stubborn to admit. I made a bunch of mistakes but I still am wishing I stayed here every second of the day, you know."

I look up at Haymitch and he has a pity look on his face. I don't get bothered because dealing with Gale makes me want pity because I had to deal with him.

" You know sweetheart the wedding is in like a half a year so you have plenty of time."

I smile weakly because he at least attempted to make me smile. "Sweetheart let's go and get you to your house."

I have a look of dread on my face because I have to see Prim's belongings in her bedroom after what happened with the war and everything.

He chuckles at my dread while I scowl at him. "Now there's the sweetheart I know." he says with true sincerity.

I smile at him and we start walking to Victor's Village dreading the moment I get there to see Prim's bedroom and belongings and the man with blonde hair and blue eyes that stole my heart.

I really hope you like this chapter! I'm going think of ideas for Cruise Of Love: Shipwrecked and hopefully post tomorrow. I made a suggestion to the title **wink,wink**

-Sassy**