A month had past?
Two?
Everyone lost track of time.
But Rose had a notebook with her. Her only company as Gale didn't let her go out again.
From the day Rye left from district 2, Gale stopped being the father Rose had met and grown up with. In her notebook she kept every time he was beating her.

Almost every day.

The most of the times Rose would fall asleep after crying. She only had a picture of Rye and her when they visited the Capitol. She couldn't count the hours. She could only count the bruises on her arms. Her face wasn't the same. Her lips and eyes were usually puffy and red. Her mother wasn't there to help her and she didn't do anything to help her even If she was out of the house. Well, Rose couldn't blame her mom. She had no idea what Gale was doing to Rose.

Day 79th
I tried to talk to Gale again. I told him how much I miss Rye. How much I want him in my life.
Wrong, how much I need him in my life. He still won't listen. Today he took in advantage that it's snowing outside and that he lit a fire in the fireplace. HE grabbed the metal thing next to the fireplace and pushed it on me. My burnt arms are in serious pain.

Rose woke up the next day feeling her whole body sore. She was bruised really badly all over her. Her skin started to break while she could feel the dry blood on her arms and cheeks. Her nails were in a sick shade of red from the blood. She had lost a lot of weight as she tried to fight her father with every weapon she had.
Words? Gale would never listen to her!
She had tried that for 80 whole days and it didn't work out.
Except of the physical pain she was into, she was feeling guilty. Guilty for not contacting with Rye like he wanted. She had promised to call him If Gale kept hitting her.

Dead Promise

She finished cleaning up the kitchen when she heard him walking furiously inside the kitchen. He was angry; she could tell what was coming next.

Everything happened like lighting. She didn't have the time to think, to talk, and to protect herself. Everything was useless anymore. She put on the known mask and tried not to let out moans of pain. It was useless to try. It was one of the worst times he hit her. When he shoved her away, making her fall on the ground into a small pond of blood, he threw some pieces of paper on top of her. She was only able to see the brown cover of her diary with hers and Rye's handwrite saying:
"Rose and Rye || Always"
Then she fell senseless.

She just remembered waking up in her bed, which was covered in her blood. She looked outside of the window to be met with the full moon of that night. She stood up dizzily and run outside of the house, passing in front of her father's room for one last time. She knew what she wanted. To go where she belonged to. With Rye.

She ran to the train station and paid with the little money she had on her own.
"I am coming, my love" she thought while holding the remains of her diary against her heart.

She weakly managed to walk until the Victor's Village. The sun was just rising but she felt that if she fell asleep, she wouldn't wake up again. She was holding her bleeding arm tightly but she had already lost a lot of blood.

She pressed the bell of the Mellark household a bunch of times until someone opened the door.

"ROSE?" Rye's voice was heard in her ears.
It was the last thing she managed to hear before losing consciousness, and falling into his arms.

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Sorry that the bad guy of the story is Gale! :P
Till next time; Girl in Darkness