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Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games or it's characters. All credit goes to Suzanne Collins. I don't own the last song. All credit goes to Nicholas Sparks.


Katniss's POV

Two days later...

"Hello?" I hear the sound of my mom's voice." Oh, Hi Peeta."

I slip on my shirt and search for my black converse.

"Yes but she's going to be running ten minutes late because we have to drop Prim off for her piano lessons," Mom says.

"Always about prim," I grumble and spot my converse right next to the T.V. stand.

"You too, bye," Mom says.

Seconds pass before I hear a knock on the door.

"Katniss, hurry, Prim is going to be late for her lessons," She says.

"I'm going to be late for a punishment you gave me," I growl and tie my shoe laces.

I hear her sigh and say," We'll wait for you in the car."

"Whatever," I say under my breath.

...

"Have fun sweetie!" Mom waves as prim walks into the building.

Ever since the night I told her to get out my room, she hasn't spoken to me, which I don't mind.

"You've been saying good bye for five minutes," I say in an impatient tone.

"I just needed to make sure she got In there safely," Mom says.

"Right," I try to hide the annoyance that tries to show.

...

"Here we are," She parks in the parking lot of the bakery.

"I see that," I grab my satchel and step out the car.

"Katniss, wait!" I hear before I can walk away. I turn around and see that her windows are lowering as she stretches her body towards the passengers side.

"What?" I say impatiently.

"I-" She looks like she wants to say something but shakes her head." Never mind, have a nice day."

I turn around and head towards the back of the bakery.

I look backwards and see that Mom is just leaving the parking lot.

When I turn back around, I walk towards the back steps.

"Pst,"

I stop walking and look around.

"Over here, Everdeen," I hear a mischievous voice.

I look over and see that Clove is behind the end of a dumpster.

I walk towards her and say," What are you doing here?"

"Marvel says you work here, now," She motions towards the place.

"As punishment," I say in an annoyed tone.

"Punishments," She rolls her eyes." Just another way to try to keep us from having fun, lucky for us were rebels."

"What are you doing here?" I ask.

"Cato and Marvel are working so I thought that you and I could go to the beach, have a couple of drinks and hang," She suggests.

I look towards the back door of the bakery and then back at her.

"Why the hell not," I say and she laughs.

She loops her arm around mine as we walk away from the back.

...

"So you an Marvel?" She wiggles her eyebrows at me and takes a drink from the bottle of tequila.

"No, that'll never happen," I grimace at the thought.

"Oh, come on, he's hot and he gets you," She passes me the tequila.

"He's an asshole," I point out causing her to laugh really hard.

"He is but so are we," She says in between laughs.

I take a large drink of the tequila and spot a young boy building a sandcastle, in the distance, with his father. The young boy adds sea shells to the castle, while the father stacks sand on top of sand. The mother takes out her camera and says something to get their attention.

"Kids, gross," Clove says." Cato and I are never having kids."

"You guys are going to be together? Forever?" I ask.

"Until we die," She smiles to herself." We have our entire lives planned out. He's going to keep performing and I'm going to get a job where I can. We're going to continue living in his apartment and live happily ever after."

"Oh," I say as she passes me the bottle.

I take a large drink and set the drink in the sand.

"What about you?" She asks.

"I'm going to move out once I'm eighteen and never see my disgrace of a family again. Then, I'll probably be living under a damn bridge or be doing time in jail," I admit.

I'm not going to College because there's no hope for me. I don't have any money on me so I'll keep stealing to have something.

"Awesome," she grabs the bottle and keeps drinking.

...

"You- You- You know what we should do?!" I slur into the darkness.

"What?!" Clove laughs.

"We should- We should juzzzt- go trash something!" I stumble in the sand.

"Why don't we- Why don't we just go- and- and- and-" Clove falls to the sand and throws up.

I laugh really hard and fall to my knees.

When her retching stops, I hear," That tastes- like- like shit."

I laugh harder and clutch my stomach.

"Hey!" I hear a yell.

In between laughs, I raise my head and see there's a bright light coming our way.

"IZZZZ THE POLICE! RUN!" Clove yells in a over dramatic voice.

We laugh harder as the bright light gets closer.

" Intoxicated at night on the beach?" I hear a deep male voice." You're coming with me."

I feel a strong hand wrap around my arm and yank me up.

"RUN!" I laugh and stumble but he keeps his grip on me.

"Oh, is the bad cop going to take us to jail?!" Clove laughs.

...

"Blow on this," He places a small tube in front of my lips.

"Iz it- Iz it- a balloon?" I stumble.

"Just do it," He says.

"Finnnnee, bossy," I grumble and blow on the damn thing.

After several seconds he tells me to stop and he studies the object.

"What's your name?" He asks and grabs my satchel.

"Scarrrrrrrrlett Johnsan," I slur.

"Your name is not Scarlett Johansson," He says.

"Myyyyy stomach hurts!" Clove whines before she starts throwing up.

"Katniss Everdeen?" He reads from what looks like a small square paper.

"Yesssss," I say and feel my stomach doing something funny.

"And you're seventeen years old," He says in a disapproving tone.

"Mmmmmhhhhhmmm," I place a hand over my mouth.

"Does your mother happen to be Crystal Malcomson?" He asks.

"Blrgh!" I throw up all over his shoes.

"I won't take you to the station this time but this is a warning for both of you. I'll drive you both home," He says.

...

"Watch your step," He helps me up the stairs.

He knocks twice on a chocolate door and it opens seconds later.

"Peeeeeeeeeeetttttaaaa!" I laugh and stumble.

His eyes widen and my mom comes into view.

"Mommy!" I laugh.

"Where have you been?!" She hisses at me.

"She was on the beach with a twenty- two year old. They were both intoxicated." The cop says as I start to get another funny feeling in my stomach." I had her take a breathalyzer test and she got a 0.15. She'll be let off with a warning this time but if this happens again, she'll be suspended from the beach and tooken to jail until you pick her up."

"Thank you, Lloyd, " Mom grabs me by the arm and pulls me inside the house." Thank you for helping, Peeta."

"You're welcome," He mumbles and looks at me.

"Byeeeeee," I wave.

As soon as he exits the house, mom sets me down and yells," INTOXICATED AGAIN?! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE AT WORK! DID YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED YOU HAD PRIM AND I? WE THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDNAPPED! I HAD A GROUP OF PEOPLE HELP SEARCH FOR YOU BUT THEY HAD TO WORK TOMORROW SO THEY WENT HOME EXCEPT FOR PEETA! THAT BOY ONLY HAS ABOUT TWO MORE LEFT TO TRY AND SLEEP BEFORE HE HAS TO WORK AGAIN! YOU'RE GOING TO WORK TOMORROW WITH OR WITHOUT A HANGOVER AND YOU'RE GOING TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE AND TELL THEM WHAT A IDIOTIC THING YOU DID SO YOU CAN LEARN YOUR LESSON! ALSO, FROM NOW ON, IM WALKING YOU INTO THE BAKERY SO YOU DONT GET IDEAS ABOUT LEAVING !"

I throw up all over the carpet and pass out before I can hear anymore of her yells.

Peeta's POV

I take off my shoes and hear a light knock on my door.

I look over and see Dad walking towards me with sleepy eyes.

"Did you find her?" He asks.

"The cops did, she was at the beach intoxicated," I say." The cop also said that a twenty two year old was with her, I think it was Marvel."

"That boy's nothing but trouble," He says.

"What if he did something to her?" my eyes widen.

"Son," He places a hand on my shoulder." I'm sure nothing happened, and you said it was a twenty two year old. There was never a gender revealed."

I sigh and nod.

"Right," I agree.

"Get some rest," He says." I know your shift starts early today, but I'll let you come in at ten."

"Dad-" I begin.

"Pete, It's fine," He gives me a small smile." Get some sleep."

"Goodnight," I say.

"Night," He says and leaves my room.


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