Heartbeats (update date: 01/07/2015)
Chapter 2: Annie's arriving
It was nearly 11:00AM when they finally reached the airport.
Between Marvel's whining about how he had been woken up "at the sunrise" (8:30AM), Finnick's "Heya know whaaat ? We're gonna see Annie !", and the seven times Peeta and Clove didn't tell Glimmer precisely enough where and when to turn, they had spent more than one hour in the traffic than they had planned.
Fortunately, Annie's plane landed about 30 minutes before they were there, so she had had just enough time to pick her bags and to freshen up a little in the airport's bathroom before they found her.
After one long year apart from his other half, he finally got to express his love for her (and not via Skype or Facetime or whatever). Finnick ran towards her, and hugged her, kissed her and told her how bad he missed her, for at least five minutes. Feeling a bit uncomfortable (as not used to Finnick's PDA), Cato, Peeta, Marvel and Glimmer stood awkwardly, not really knowing what to do.
When they stopped hugging, Finnick came back to his group of friends, grinning wider than the Cheshire Cat: "Guys... For those who don't know her, this is Annie, the love of my life, my wife-to-be, my..." Annie cut him off, chuckling: "Hi. I'm Annie Cresta, Finnick's girlfriend. Nice to meet you guys; by what he told me, I think we're gonna be great friends. And-aww, I missed you girls !".
After she introduced to everyone "new" to their group, they headed back to Cato's van, in the parking lot.
Once again, Marvel was complaining about how hungry he was, and after they got lost several times, they were back to their neighborhood.
Katniss took some of Annie's bags and headed to their apartment: "I'm gonna help her to unpack. See you later, people !"
They were almost done when they heard somebody was ringing the doorbell of their apartment (A/N: I don't exactly know how to call it, but the person who's ringing is outside in the street, and the people inside the building answer and open the door for him, from their stair). Katniss answered and the two roomates could hear Annie's lover's voice: "Hey girls it's Finnick, wanna go to that new restaurant we talked about ? We're gonna meet Peeta there, Kitty." "Of course ! Wait a minute we're getting ready".
They were downstairs five minutes later -they both agreed, while laughing like crazy at some childhood memory, that dressing up for your boyfriend in less that 10 minutes was a performance nobody ever managed to make in the whole world. Katniss first opened the door, still laughing lightly, walked outside, then, with with a now VERY angry look, cursed: "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING ?!
Annie followed her friend, then froze.
A red-headed girl was kissing Finnick.
[A/N: Hi ! I'm (not) sorry for the cliffhanger, but I think the chapter totally needed that. BTW, I would like to thank my very first reader/follower/reviewer: DivergentLover123 !
You are so kind, and your review really helped me, so... thank you !
To all the others: Ethylen Ipiu, MysticDexios and Ivyvian, thank you, too ! I also appreciated your reviews very much. Tell me what you thought wasn't good in the new hapter please :)
TO ANY AUTHOR WHO READS MY STORY: do you think it would be possible to talk (even just the title; I'm easy-going ;) about Heartbeats in one of your stories' A/N, so more people would know it ? Thanks a lot !]
Thanks for reading that microscopic chapter !
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