Second Chapter is here... It will take me some time to write more, I hope you will enjoy this one. :)
Chapter 2: Baker Boy
We spent the first summer afternoon outside with Prim and Rosie, we go to a park and for an ice- cream and just enjoy the first day of summer break. However in the evening I'm supposed to go to Madge's for a sleepover with the girls. Annie and Madge calls it "Girls Night", me and Johanna call it "Eat and Gossip". Don't get me wrong it's not that I don't like our sleepovers, I usually enjoy them. But tonight is gonna be different.
At six o'clock, we're all in Madge's house. Her parents are out, so we're on our own. Madge bought a huge bag of McDonald's food and she also ordered pizza for us. We're watching a movie as usual. This time it is good old Pride And Prejudice and both Annie and Madge just keep sighing over Mr. Darcy.
"I can't see what's so amazing about him. He would be absolutely useless in this modern time." I comment.
"Katniss! You just don't have any romantic soul do you?!" Annie exclaims and her face gets a soft expression again as she looks at the TV.
"Yeah Katniss, look at him, he's just so hot in that shirt and such a gentleman." Madge says not taking her eyes of him.
"Don't you two have a happy relationships with your boyfriends?" I ask smirking at them.
"Ohh that doesn't mean we can't admire Mr. Darcy." Annie says.
"Yeah." Madge agrees. " I just wish Gale would be such a gentleman." she says dreamily. I burst out laughing as I imagine Gale in Mr. Darcy's clothes, riding a horse and acting like a gentleman. Johanna laughed with me. We usually have very similar thinking. We are right opposites of Annie and Madge. We are not romantic souls.
"Laugh as much as you want Katniss, but one day, you will feel it too." she says in a serious tone and looks at me.
"One day, you will meet a boy, your eyes will meet and you will feel that spark of love." she says. "There will be knots in your stomach, your heart will start beating like crazy and you won't be able to breathe." she finishes and that's the moment when I realize I have felt this already. Quite recently. "Yes and then you will know how does it feel to be in love." adds Annie and gives me a pointed look. I'm too self-conscious after my realization and I feel my cheeks warming so I look down.
Please don't notice the blush. Please don't notice the blush. I wish in my mind. No such luck.
"She's blushing!" Madge exclaims. She stops the tape and turns on the light. Then she and Annie sit across from me and examine my face.
"Oh my God, you met him!" Annie exclaims and my blush gets even worse. I can't understand how it can get any worse when even now every tomato could envy me.
"Katniss Everdeen is there something we don't know?!" Madge accuses me with reproachful voice.
"No!" I spit at her and cross my arms. Johanna suddenly breaks her silence as it clicks in her head.
"Oh my God, I know who it is!" she exclaims giving me a devilish grin.
"Shout. Your. Mouth. Johanna." I threaten her and give her my most killing glare.
"Is it him Kitty?" she asks mocking.
"No!" I say angrily "Don't you dare to say that name!" I threaten her with my fist.
"Tell us! Tell us, Johanna!" Annie and Madge plead in unison.
"Please." I whisper to Johanna with pleading look. She just smirks.
"Sorry Kitty, it's one for all and all for one in our pack, they need to know." she says and then turns to Annie and Madge. They are looking up at her like she has some holy words for them.
"Peeta Mellark" Johanna states. They just stay in awe.
"YOU! DAMN! BLOODY! TRAITOR! I! HATE! YOU!" I shout angrily and with every word I hit her with a pillow hard. She just laughs which makes me even angrier.
"Oh my God!" Annie and Madge squeal in unison as they finally find their voices.
"Wow, Katniss, Peeta Mellark that's a high goal." Madge considers.
"Oh man, could you stop talking like this?" I plead. "There's nothing between us, leave it be!" I say and desperately dive my head into a pillow to hide from their stares. I know what's coming. It always comes when one of us has a crush on someone. Luckily I have avoided that in past. Until now.
"Ohh, you would not blush like crazy if there would be nothing." Annie says
"Come on tell us what happened." Madge persuades me.
"No!" I say stubbornly.
"You know they will not leave you alone until you tell them, Brainless." Johanna says. I know she's right, but I remain hidden in my pillow.
"He sang her a song and they danced." Johanna sates with excited voice.
"WHAT?!" Those two squeal again in unison. I can't see how they can be so precise in it.
"A love sooong." Johanna sings out loud and I can hear her typing on the computer. And in a few seconds that song starts playing.
"God, what have I done that you're punishing me like this." I groan, when I finally look up and see Annie and Madge in awe as they listen to the song, which title is "Marry you". Just great.
"Ohh Katniss this is a proposal song and he sang it to you?!" Madge looks at me.
"Okay, I'll tell you." I give in and they squeal happily.
"BUT!" I say "You must swear you will not tell Gale, Finnick or Thresh. You will not tell anyone!" I threaten them. They seem disappointed, but they nod their heads. I sigh.
"He came to music class. To see how it goes, because he wants to attend it next year." I start. Then I briefly tell them how he sang and danced and how he pulled me into the dance. They listen with wide eyes.
"How did you feel?" Annie asks when I finish.
"What do you mean?" I ask even though I know very well what she means.
"Oh you know, Everdeen!" she snaps "When you were standing there and he was singing the last verse and looking into your eyes. How did you feel?"
"Well..." I hesitate. Do I want them to know? "I felt weird. I've never felt like that before." I admit.
"Describe it." Madge says.
"It was like there were butterflies flying around in my belly." I say "My heart was beating fast and I think I forgot to breathe for a moment. It was a strange and intense feeling and he would not get his eyes away from mine." I finish. When I look up I see Annie and Madge with open mouths and then a flash of light which gets them out of it. Johanna is laughing with a camera in her hands.
"This needed to be saved for future. Their expressions were just perfect." she laughs like crazy "I'll save it for your wedding Katniss." she teases me and I give her a glare.
"Oh my." Annie whispers as she takes Madge's hand and they look at each other. "She has a crush on Peeta Mellark." they both exclaim and they hug me.
"Come on you crazy girls it's nothing." I say annoyed. "It was just a momentary weakness." I say.
"I will not see him all summer so it'll go away soon." I say.
"Whatever you think Everdeen." Madge smiles at me "But next year, you'll spend one hour of music together every week. Let's see what you'll say then." she laughs. Luckily for me, we go back to watching Mr. Darcy.
The summer break is my favorite time in the year. Not that I would hate school, I quite like it, but I'm glad I can spend all day with my little girl. When it's not raining, we go on walks, we go to the playground which is just few blocks from our house and we are together all day. Prim goes with us often, when she's not with her friends. Sometimes my friends come to spend time with us too. It's mostly Johanna, because Annie and Madge are spending most of their time with Finn and Gale. But we still have our Friday sleepovers every week.
This Friday though, there is no sleepover, because Annie and Madge are going away for their weekends with Gale and Finn. And Johanna is on vacation with her parents. Prim is going for a sleepover with her best friend Rue and my Mum has a night shift. So I remain home alone with Rosie. I just sung her a lullaby and she's soundly asleep now. I have nothing to do so I sit at my bed with laptop on my lap and I just surf on the internet, playing some music on YouTube quietly so it would not wake Rosie and looking through my Facebook. And that's when my Skype beeps. I have no idea, how this beep will change my life.
You have to understand, that I don't use Skype much. I use it only because Annie, Madge and Johanna. Usually no one else than these three writes me in there, because I don't have any other friends added. And because they are all away, I'm surprised that someone is sending me a message. When I open it, it says that the message is from Baker Boy. Who the hell is that?!
B: Hi Katniss!
K: Who are you?
B: That's a secret ;)
K: I don't talk to strangers.
B: I'm not a stranger. You know me.
K: ?
B: We meet each other at school often.
What the heck is he trying to do? Just say your name!
K: Tell me your name.
B: No.
K: Why not?!
B: Because I'm afraid.
K: Afraid of what?
B: You would not talk to me if you know who I am.
Okay, this is weird.
K: Okay, this is weird. I think I'm going to bed.
B: No! Wait!
K: ?
B: I want to be friends with you.
K: Well usually when you want to make a friend, you come to him/her and say something like: "Hi! I'm Katniss. Can we be friends?"
B: Hi Katniss! Can we be friends? :)
K: I think I have still missed your name.
B: No you haven't.
K: So you really want to be my friend and you're not telling me your name?!
B: Bingo!
K: Have anyone ever told you that you're a weirdo?
B: So many times. :)
This conversation is really strange, but I have nothing else to do. Since he doesn't want to meet somewhere in the middle of the night it can't harm anyone.
K: Okay, we can try to be friends. Tell me something about you since you obviously know a lot about me. Do I know you well from school?
B: No. You don't know me much. I don't think you have ever noticed me much.
K: So? Tell me more about you. How do you look or what do you like to do.
B: Hmm let's see. Since I don't want you to figure out who I am, I'm not telling you how I look. I can tell you just one thing about my looks. Everyone says that my blue eyes are amazing.
K: Hmm at least I finally have some nickname for you blue-eyes :D
B: :P
K: So how much do you know about me?
B: I know you're seventeen. You live with your mum and little sister Prim and your dad died when you were eleven. You are not very sharing and friendly person. You have your few friends and you're content like that. I also know you sing and play the piano beautifully. And I don't know how exactly it happened, but you have a cute little girl, her name is Rosemary. You are not very girlish and if your glares could kill, we would all be dead. :D
I'm taken back by how much he knows about me. Well if I consider it, all of those things are well known, but you would have to have interest in me to put that all together. That's strange. Does this boy watch me?
K: How do you know all of this?
B: I have my sources ;)
K: Are you stalking me?
B: Maybe a little :D Since kindergarten.
K: What?!
B: I don't know, you were always so different, I couldn't stop watching you. I always wanted to be your friend, but you were so intimidating... And I am a coward so I didn't have enough courage to talk to you.
K: Hmm... So tell me blue-eyes... How do you think our friendship will work? Are we having a skype friendship?
B: I think that's enough for now. When we know each other well enough, maybe I will have courage to talk to you in person.
K: Whatever... I don't have anything else to do tonight anyway.
B: Okay, let's start :D We're gonna ask different questions and we will answer them honestly deal?
K: Deal.
B: Okay. Let's start with something easy. What's your favorite color?
K: Green. Yours?
B: Orange. Specifically sunset orange. Soft and warm. If you wanna see it, look at sunset, just before the sun disappears behind the mountains. Yeah, that's it... I'm kind of talkative person. :D
K: Yeah I can see that. I'm not sure I want to meet you if you're able to babble even about your favorite color :D
B: Okay, moving on... Your favorite food?
K: Hmm.. Hard one. I'm not very picky person, I can eat almost everything, but my favorite would be cheese buns. And cheese pizza.
B: Ohh, I see... You like cheese. :D Mine is apple pie.
K: Weird choice for a boy. I would guess hamburger or steak...
B: I would not turn those down too :)
B: Who's your least favorite schoolmate?
K: Definitely Peeta Mellark.
B: Really?! He's like superhero for most of the girls :D
K: Well I'm not like most of the girls.
B: Right. That's what I like about you. Why do you hate him so much?
K: He's an annoying show-off, thinks he can have everything he wants and I just don't like arrogant people. And he's a player with girls.
B: Fair enough.
K: Who's your least favorite schoolmate?
B: Glimmer.
K: Why?
B: Because everybody admires her and I have no idea why. Maybe she's nice, but only because of tons of make-up. And she is so damn silly, that I wonder how it is even possible to be so dumb.
K: Right. When I'm reading this, I reconsidered my decision. She is my least favorite schoolmate too. Peeta at least doesn't call me a slut with little bastard.
B: Don't listen to that, it's not true. I personally prefer naturally beautiful girls like you over make-up queens like Glimmer.
K: Stop talking like that, it makes me blush.
B: You look cute when you blush :)
K: Hey! Stop that!
B: Okay. What do you like to do in your free time?
K: Well, when I'm done with school and homework, I have a two year old girl to take care about. That's pretty time consuming. :D I can tell you that I like music. Singing and playing piano. But before I had Rosie, I liked camping a lot. We went camping with my dad, spent weekends in the forests, fishing and hunting with bow. I liked that so much. I really miss it.
B: You can hunt with bow?!
K: Yeah, it's not that hard. I always enjoyed archery.
B: That explains why you picked it as an optional subject at school...
K: What do you do with your free time?
B: I like to draw and paint. And I like to bake.
K: Bake?! That explains your weird nickname, baker boy :D How did that happen?
B: Well my father's family owned a bakery. He was running it until he got married and after some time he had to close the bakery. My mum kept saying that baking is not work for a man and after some time she made him to close it.
K: Wow, your mother must be a strict one...
B: Yeah, she kind of is...
K: Do you like music?
B: Positive.
K: What are your favorite singers/bands?
B: Hmm let's see... My most favorite band would probably be Coldplay.
K: Same here! I love them!
B: Yeah I especially like how they put piano in their songs, I just like the sound of piano in songs.
K: Any other favorites?
B: Then I like U2 and from single singers... You must promise you will not laugh at me!
K: I won't :)
B: Well I quite like Avril Lavigne. I don't like her newer CD's though. My most favorite one is her first one. Then I also like some songs by Taylor Swift.
K: :D
B: You promised!
K: Sorry I couldn't help :D
B: }:(
K: For some reason, I think you are not able to scare me with your glare :D
B: :)
K: I agree with you about Avil Lavigne. Her first CD is the best. But I quite like her song with Chad Kroeger – Let me go. It is one of my „mind bugs" :D That's how I call songs, which I grow fond of, I listen to them all over and over again until it gets annoying and then I start to hate them because I hear them in my mind all the time :D
B: I do the same thing when I'm fond of some song :D
This conversation goes on and on and I don't realize how long we've been talking until I look at the clock and see 2:30.
K: God, it's 2:30!
B: I know :D
K: We really should go to bed.
B: I'm afraid you will never talk to me again :(
K: Why would that happen? :) I think that after our six hours of conversation, I can call you my friend. We can talk again tomorrow or the day after that.
B: Okay. :)
K: Good night, Blue-eyes :)
B: Good, night Katniss.
And that's how it starts. It lasts through most of the summer break. Almost every evening, when Rosie is asleep I climb into my bed with my laptop and we talk about everything possible. We tell each other how was our day, we talk about news in the town, anything. I find it strange, that I talk so much to him. Usually I'm not very sharing person, but I'm not afraid to talk openly and honestly with this baker boy. Somehow I really trust him.
I don't tell anything of this to Annie, Madge or even Johanna. I know they would make a big deal of it and I don't want that. But I know they will discover it one day. And that day comes in the beginning of August during one of our Girls Nights. Annie and Madge decided that we did not have enough of Mr. Darcy and they are watching some BBC series about Pride and Prejudice which has six episodes! The only thing I can say is, that Colin Firth is striking in the role of Mr. Darcy. He's my favorite actor.
As the girls are focused on the TV, I lean my back against the wall, I take out my HTC smartphone and I turn on Skype. To my delight Beaker Boy is marked with green dot. I click on his name and start writing.
K: Hey!
B: Hey hunter girl, how come you're here? Aren't you supposed to have girls night with Annie, Madge and Jo?
K: I do :) But Mr. Darcy is too boring.
B: I see. :D How come he's boring? He's number one for more than half of all woman. How come you don't like him?
K: He would be useless in our world.
B: Right you are :D Are your girlfriends not angry with you, chatting with me like this?
K: They don't know. Mr. Darcy has their full attention.
B: :D How was your day?
K:Quite normal :) We went to do some shopping with Prim and Rosie in the morning and then in the afternoon, we went to the park near our house. Rosie enjoys playgrounds so much... Especially swings. Mum had a day shift so she came home around 7. I had to cook the lunch :D Prim was making fun of me, but in the end, it was edible.
B: What did you cook?
K: Mac and cheese.
B: LOL :D There's nothing you could spoil on that :D
K: Yeah only because you are best cook in the world, you don't have to make fun of people who struggle to make even mac and cheese. And just for the record, there is many things you can mess up during cooking mac and cheese.
B: Sorry :)
K: Never mind. How was your day?
B: Normal too. I'm glad my brother is back from collage for summer. There's at least one normal person in here :) We went to the swimming pool, he bought like ten ice-creams to ten different girls because he wanted to get them.
K: How many of them he got?
B: He got seven phone numbers I think :D He's kind of player when it comes to girls.
K: I have a question.
B: Yes? :)
K: Have you ever had a girlfriend?
B: Yes.
K: Who was she?
B: I'm not telling you.
K: Why? Because you don't want me to figure out who you are or because there was so many it would be hard to write them all down? :P
B: Both. ]:D
I have been so distracted by our conversation, that I haven't noticed that the episode have ended and Annie is talking to me.
„Katniss!" she calls at me loudly. „Earth is calling Katniss! What the hell! Are you texting with someone during our girls night?" she scowls at me as she notices the phone in my hands.
„No." I say innocently. Well I haven't mentioned to you, that I'm a terrible liar.
„Don't lie Everdeen, you know you suck in lying!" Johanna snaps and she grabs my phone.
„Hey!" I yell at her and I run after her. I get my phone back as soon as I can, but she already saw.
„Baker Boy? Who is that, Kitty?!" she raises her eyebrows at me. I just sight. Damn it, now I will have to tell them and they will get all snoopy. Especially Madge and Annie.
„Are you texting with a boy, Everdeen?" Madge says in surprised voice. „Who is it?"
I write my last sentence to him, before I log out of Skype. Just to be sure they don't read anything.
K: They caught me texting. I'm in trouble. I have to go, good night Blue-eyes! :)
B: Sorry for the trouble :D Night Night, Katniss.
„I have no idea." I sigh as I sit down on the carpet. They sit around me and wait for me to tell them. I know I have no other choice so I tell them what happened that Friday when I was home alone and how we're chatting almost every evening. They seem surprised.
„Do you have a crush on him?" Annie asks. I give her an unbelieving look.
„How could I?! I don't even know who he is or how he looks. Except the blue eyes." I say.
„Well it seems that you are unusually sharing with him." Madge says „which means, you must really like him."
„Okay, enough about me, let's talk about something else." I say annoyed. Luckily they leave me alone, but I know it won't last long.
Well I know, that you all surely guessed who the baker boy is :D But the fun is that Katniss doesn't know. It will take her some time to figure it out. I hope you like my story so far. Please leave me reviews, I really appreciate feedback. Thanks for favorites and follows. :)