My Story
Ivy: so were doing a time skip like 2 months, sorry I just got good news from Annie and I have to go and visit her in the weekend :) oh and this story will be short like 15 chapter but hopefully 25 chapters.
Chapter 4
"No Jo-Jo I will not sing!" I yell at Jo.
There was news of a talent show today at lunch and she wanted me to sign up for it. The thing is its not really a talent show more like a masquerade. You have to wear dresses. Count me out.
"Kat, your fucking amazing! How come you don't want to sing!?" She yells back.
"Because I have to wear a fucking dress!" I yell.
"So wear jeans under it" she yell.
"Have you forgotten I have to take care of little Fa that night!" I yell. It's the night of June 17.(AN: my birthday :D) Today's the 12 of June. So that gives me what five days to find a dress. Annie, Jo, and Fox -Finch- said they would help me. See that's what I like about them, they help and they don't judge me. Unlike other people. Anyways.
"Jo-Jo, think about it if I'm amazing as you say I am, they're going to make me take off the mask, then when I do they're going to make fun of me" I say.
"Katniss, listen to me, That. Won't. Happen." She says grabbing my shoulders.
1 Day later
"I'm so tired" I groan. We just came back from shopping. Jo said were going to CBS considered the golden girls since we all have gold on our dresses, of course its not actual gold.
"Did you see Glimmers face, when Fox and Annie put the smoothie on her hair? Hilarious!" Clove says cracking up.
Glimmer came up to our table saying I wa damaged goods, of course Cato said I wasn't after that and well he asked me to the masquerade were having tomorrow, I said yes but he'll have to find me, then I winked.
"Cato asked me to be his date for tomorrow night" I say out of the blue.
"What!?" Clove screams. I laugh.
"You heard me" I say.
"Oh my god! That is so cute!" She says clapping her hands.
"Your acting like Annie" I say.
"Sorry" she says.
"I'm sleeping over by the way, so is everyone else" she says.
"Fine" Little Fa starts to cry. I groan.
"Shh little Fa, Sh, it's okay" I say. She doesn't become quiet.
"Sh mommy's here" I soothe.
Still nothing.
"I can't believe I'm about to do this" I groan.
"I remember tears streaming down your face
When I said, "I'll never let you go"
When all those shadows almost killed your light
I remember you said, "Don't leave me here alone"
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound
Don't you dare look out your window, darling,
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold on to this lullaby
Even when music's gone
Gone
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
La La (La La)
La La (La La)
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh
La La (La La)
Just close your eyes
You'll be alright
Come morning light,
You and I'll be safe and sound...
Oooh, oooh, oooh, oooh oh oh." I finish and see Little Fa sound asleep.
"Katniss! That was AMAZING!" Clove whisper shouts. I turn red.
"No it wasn't!" I hiss.
"I beg to differ" We hear. We both turn and see my dad there.
"Dad!" I say quietly.
"How are my girls doing?" He asks.
"We're ok dad" I smile.
"What about you Clove? Need anything?" He asks
"Well I need a car, a house, food, a phone, money for a lost textbook-" I cut her off.
"Clove!" I say smiling.
"What it's true" She says.
"I can give food an money for the lost textbook but I can't buy you a house and you'll have to wait for your birthday to get a car and a phone" My dad says.
"Awesome" Clove says.
"Dad?!" I say.
"Katniss?!" He mimics.
I make a palm face. He just smiles.
"I came here to say that food is ready, Clove are you going to stay?" Dad asks her.
"Sure" Clove says shrugging. I just laugh. Oh Clove always hungry.
"Let's go Clover" I say.
We make our way down the stairs, but hen I remember about Little Fa and tell them that I'll be downstairs in a second.
"Bad mother!" Clove scolds. I laugh.
I make my way up to my room and pick Little Fa up. Then the door slams. I snap my head in that direction. Nothing's there. Must have been the wind. Oh well.
I open the cabinet where I put Little Fa's blankets. I grab a light green one and wrap it around her.
I hear footsteps. So I turn only to come face to face with a man in black ski mask.
"Don't say a word" he warns. He's tall. Muscular. Fit. He has dark blue eyes.
"Come with me and no one gets hurt" He says.
"Who are you?" I whisper.
"Someone" Someone. Wow. So specific.
I don't move.
"C'mon, hurry up, others are waiting, and they don't like waiting. Downstairs the doorbell rings. I hear voices then I hear footsteps coming up. Muscles doesn't notice. Luckily.
"Help! Help me! Dad! Help!" I scream loudly. Muscles covers my mouth and throws me in the floor, then he points a gun to my face.
"Katniss!" I hear.
"Look at what you did, you'll have to pay for that" Muscles says.
He lowers his hands to my pants. My eyes widen. I start to struggle.
"Katniss!" I hear
"Katniss!" I hear.
I'm shaken awake by Clove. I gasp for air.
"Guess who's here!?" She squeals. Wow. Clove squealed. This cannot be good.
"A guy with a truck load of food?" I ask.
"No, I wish, but you go downstairs and check for yourself, he might as well be counted as food" she winks at me. Ok now I'm creeped out. The fuck does she mean by "he might as well be counted as food"
I get up from my forest green bed and put on a big sweater that covers me up to my thighs, since its snowing outside, and plus I'm wearing bootie shorts.
"Nice to meet you sir, I'm Cato Hadley" I hear.
"Oh shit!" I whisper near the bottom of the stairs.
I turn around ready to bolt out of there only to see Clove smirking with her arms crossed.
"Oh crap! Clove! Don't do that!" I hiss holding my hand over my heart.
"Uh uh uh Katniss, you can't escape this time" she grins evilly while shaking her head.
I groan.
"Fine let me just change into-" I try to push past her, only for her to push me causing me to fall down.
"Ow" I groan at the bottom.
I hear Clove laughing.
"Katniss?!" I hear Prim say.
I look up.
"Hey" I say cheerfully.
Clove laughs even harder.
"Are you otay mommy?" Little Fa asks.
"Of course, but Clove isn't" I say evilly.
Clove stops laughing.
"Huh?" She says.
I throw a pillow at her only for it to hit her in the face causing her to fall down too. Little Fa giggles.
"Now don't ever do that Little Fa okay" I tell Little Fa.
"Bitch" Clove grumbles.
"You fell Aunty Cove" Little Fa giggle at Clove. She can't really pronounce Clove so she says cove.
"No the floor just wanted a hug Fa-Fa" Clove says.
"That's a silly hug" Little Fa says
"Not as silly as how Katniss did it" Clove smirks.
Little Fa just giggles. She has brown hair, grey eyes, and she's so adorable. She reminds me of Prim when she was small. I pick her up.
"Katniss, Cato here, came to ask you a question. I'm going to go to work, so I'll se you four later" My dad says pointing to me, Clove, Prim, ad Little Fa.
"By dad" Me and Prim say.
"Bye grandpa" Little Fa says waving.
"Bye Katniss, Prim, Clove, and of course Little Fa-Fa" My dad says.
"So what'd you wanna ask me?" I ask Cato.
"I'm going to go to" Clove says turning around.
"The kitchen!" She says heading over there pointing. She comes back moments later for Little Fa.
"Let's go burn mommy's pancakes!" Clove says enthusiastically.
"Clove!" I warn. They just laugh.
"You were saying?" I ask Cato.
"I was going to ask you if you were performing at the masquerade tomorrow?" He asks.
"No" I lie.
"Well then" He says getting up.
"Oh just ask her already!" I hear Clove yell.
"Ask me what?" I ask Cato.
"Katniss, I was going to ask you if to wanted to be my date to the masquerade" Cato says looking down. I stand there shocked.
"Well don't just stand there woman! Answer!" Clove yells.
"Sure" I say shaking my head.
Clove giggles uncontrollably.
"Are you high?" I ask her.
She shakes her head.
"Fa-Fa come here" Clove tells Little Fa.
"What do you think of them?" Clove asks her.
"They're in love! Eww!" Little Fa squeals. Me and Cato blush scarlet while Clove laughs like a madwoman.
"Ignore them, it's like idiot one and idiot two" I tell Cato.
"Hey!" Clove hollers.
I smile at her.
"But sure I'll be your date, but you'll have to find me" I tell him.
Cato tells Little Fa bye and gives her a piece of candy which causes her to hug his leg saying "Don't go!" It's adorable.
I tickle which causes her to giggle and let go of Cato.
I look at Cato. He smiles at me and kisses my cheek.
When he leaves I freak.
"Oh my god!" I squeal jumping up and down, so does Clove, Little Fa just looks confused.
"This is so exciting!" Clove squeals.
Prim just laughs and takes a picture of all three of us.
"One for the books" she says then leaves.
"We have to get ready, we have to call Annie, Jo and Fox so they can come over and sleep here and then we could all get ready together" I say quickly. Wow. I'm like acting super girls right now. But it doesn't matter because Cato asked me to the masquerade! I get butterflies in my tummy. I might just pass out of excitement.
"I'm so happy!" I scream.
"Ok deep breaths" Clove says.
I do as told. I calm down and go get my dress ready.
"Prim! Help me with my dress!" I scream. I hear a squeal. I roll my eyes. Girls. Wait. Never mind I was like that a few minutes ago.
We all go to my room and get Clove's and I's dresses out.
"These are amazing Kat!" Prim says.
I have a beautiful short white dress that has embroidered gold (not real gold) on the corset, it hugs my body "perfectly" as Annie says it did.
I have a white mask with gold on it it, it has a golden colored feather. My heels are white. Annie insisted I get heels. She says it makes me look taller. (AN: it's like Glimmer's dress except less showy)
Clove's dress is the same as mine. Except in a different color. Hers is black with a red corset. Her mask is red with black an her feather is gold too. Her heels are black. She plans on wearing leggings with them so she won't get cold.
Annie's is a sea green dress, with a golden corset with gold heels, her mask is sea green with gold and a gold feather.
Jo's is a navy blue with white. White corset. White heels. Navy blue mask with white. It has a gold feather.
Fox's is salmon with grey. Grey corset. Grey heels. Salmon mask with grey. It has a gold feather.
"Why hello golden girls!" Jo says. I laugh.
She began calling us that when we bought our masks with a gold feather on it.
"Jo! Cato asked Katniss to the dance!" Clove screams.
Annie , Fox, Jo and Clove begin to squeal. Yup JOHANNA MASON SQUEALED. It's the end of the world.
"Ok Annie, Finch, I need you to help me with the dresses. Clove, Jo, and Kat, I need you to arrange the room and get snacks" Prim orders.
"Anything else queen?" Jo asks sarcastically.
"Nope" Prim says.
An hour later the dresses are hanged around the room. We have popcorn, chips, soda, candy, pizza and movies.
"What movie?" Clove asks.
"Paranormal Activity 4!" Jo yells.
"No World War Z!" I yell back.
"No Paranormal Activity 4!" She yells back.
This goes on until Prim comes in and says,
"Just watch both of them!"
We both agree and and throw popcorn at each other.
The first movie we watch is World War Z. (AN: I love that movie) It's 10:30 by time it finishes. Jo excitedly puts in Paranormal Activity 4.
She laughs the whole time. Mostly in the scary parts.
When the movie finishes, we're all sleepy and Annie and Fox are clinging to each other. Sooner or later everyone falls asleep, but not me. Not because I'm scared, because I just can't sleep.
I get up put on a pair of sweatpants over my shorts. Put on my oversized sweater, get my phone, put on my boots, a hoodie, and go check on little Fa.
I step into her light green room. I see her sound asleep on her little green bed. I kiss her forehead and go outside.
The cold snowy breeze hits my face. I put my hoodie over my ears so they won't get cold and tug on my sweater.
I make my to the park a few streets away from here. On my way there I pass what appears to be a group of seniors smoking. I roll my eyes as they try to get me over there.
Wen I get to the park I sit on one of the swings. No one ever comes here. So this is my favorite place. I use to come here when I was pregnant with Little Fa. Only Clove knows about this place.
I swing back and forth for a while. Then I stop as little snow flakes come down. One lands on my nose and I giggle. I remember this happened to Little Fa and she started squealing. It was the cutest thing ever.
I get up only to fall. I look up ad see the group of seniors I passed by earlier.
"Hello there pretty lady" One of them purrs.
I get up and dust myself. I try to push through them with no success.
"Don't you wanna come over to my place and have some fun?" Another one asks.
"Gross, no" I say disgusted.
I push past them this time only to be thrown to the ground.
"What the hell!" I scream.
"Feisty, I like it" The same one says.
"Get off of me!" I yell.
"Nope can do, we did it he nice way, now we're doing t the hard way" He says.
He starts kissing my neck and I try to push him off. He doesn't budge.
"Stop!" I yell.
He starts taking off my sweater.
"Stop!" I yell louder.
Suddenly he's ripped off me and thrown on the floor. I look up to see Finnick and Marvel there.
"She said stop" Marvel says kicking him.
All of them run off. Cowards.
"Finnick, Marvel, Thank you!" I cry hugging them both.
"What are you doing here all alone Katniss?!" Marvel yells. I flinch.
"I was going for a walk" I say.
"Marvel dude be nice" Finnick says wrapping his arm around me then hands me my sweater.
"Sorry its just she shouldn't be out here, all alone" Marvel says.
I look at his eyes to see ten full of worry. Marvel the jokester, the class clown. Worried.
"I'm sorry Marvel, I just wanted to walk" I whisper.
"It's ok Katniss, just be careful next time" he says hugging me.
"Let's take you home" He says.
3 minted later I'm home, we dropped Finnick off at his house which coincidentally is two houses down for mine.
"Marvel why were you worried?" I ask.
"Katniss, they raped my sister like that" he confesses.
"I'm sorry" I say comfortingly.
"She was walking home one night, when, these gangsters popped out and pushed her to the ground. She was just 14, but she looked like 16, they raped her one by one, and I couldn't save her, I was suppose to pick her up, I was suppose to drive her home, but my dad told me to do something else while he went to go pick her up. He didn't. He just went home and took a nap. When I saw him, I went looking for her. I found her in an ally, all bruises and cut, I covered her with my sweater, and rushed her to the hospital, she didn't make it, she had lost too much blood. And when I saw that guy on top of you I saw my sister, and I couldn't let her leave, I couldn't let you or your family feel what mine felt" He finishes with a tear on his face. I just hug him.
"Thank you Marv" I say.
"Thank you" I whisper.
If it wasn't for Marvel and Finnick, I would've been on the floor right now, all bruised and raped. And at morning it would've been to late to save me. Especially in this weather.
"Get some sleep Kat, you need t to look beautiful for Cato tomorrow" He says. I blush.
"He likes you a lot you know" He leaves.
He likes me. Cato likes me.
That night I fall asleep peacefully.