A/N: I see. It hasn't been a year. Yet I do think that I have to say sorry for going on a hiatus. :) I experienced writer's block and became busy finishing every requirement I had to finish so that I can graduate. Anyway, I did it! :) I officially obtained my degree in philosophy November of last year! After that I attempted to work but it didn't work out because it caused me to have a weak immune system because of the time that work demanded. Still, it's okay. I do believe there are still opportunities waiting to be grabbed. As of now, I'm still unemployed and just do whatever I feel like. :)
I still haven't organized the story but I decided it's been on hold long enough. I'll be doing my best to continue and pick up my unfinished stories where I left them. I'll also be doing my best to upload multiple chapters this month, if not twice a week, to make up for the lost time. Thank you for the support and continue enjoying life! :)
As far as copyright goes, I think you all know how it goes! :)
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Peeta's POV
"AMNESIA?!" I flinched a little hearing Finnick's voice. He suddenly stopped pacing back and forth and stand in front of me. I make no move and continue on looking down the floor. Too hang up with my previous encounter with Katniss to even look at my friends who gathered around me. "Are you kidding me? Don't tell me you believed her Pete."
I just gently shook my head, still refusing to look up, "Why wouldn't I?" I take a deep breath and exhaled loudly, "She said she doesn't know me. She didn't even gave me any hint of recognition when she saw me." Finally, I look at them only to regret it a second later, they're all looking at me with the same expression, pity. It's enough to make me feel sorry than I already am, "She just… stared at me."
We all stared at each other for God knows how long. Everybody weighing in the words that we think that's good enough to be heard. But in the end, I refused to give them any more details as to what Katniss said to me. Finally, as always, not being able to take part in silence, Johanna huffed and crossed her arms in front of her chest while shaking her head, "So what? That's it?"
Thresh let out a groan before talking directly to me, "She's just mad, that's why she made that excuse. Personally if I were her, I would've done the same thing."
Cato sighed and harshly shook his head, "No. I don't it's just an excuse. Even from where we are standing, it looks like she really doesn't remember Pete."
After a moment of complete and utter silence, it was broken by Finnick, "What are you going to do now? Do you have any plan?"
I looked at him, completely in wonder as to what I can even do at this point. Everything that I'll do would just be futile, right? "Plan for what? Even if you all don't say it, it's clear that my chance had already slipped. I can't make up for what I did to her anymore." I exhaled loudly and put my head down in my hands, "It's pathetic."
We heard a loud groan and looked at Beetee's direction, "Yeah it is. Because you nerds are looking at it all wrong."
I feel my eyebrows furrow, "What are you saying?"
"It's not totally over. If we're going to look at it in a new angle, the situation is perfect than ever." He walked towards me and gave my back a gentle pat, "Why do you have to make up for the past when you now have the chance to rewrite all of it to make way for a better future? Don't you see, it is actually begging for just that? She can't remember you Pete, you can use it to your advantage. You can establish a new relationship with her, one that you have been dreaming of for a year now since that day."
I shake my head, refusing to even think about the possibility of taking advantage on a helpless woman. Not that I think Katniss is helpless. She's the strongest person that I know, "I don't think I can just take advantage of her even if the situation calls for it."
Beetee let out a huff and chuckled, "Okay, wrong word. Let's just look at it as you starting anew with an old flame. How does that sound? Innocent enough for you?"
Cato then spoke, making me look at it in a different manner, making me hope that I can really do things right, "I think the dork is right. Use this as an opportunity Pete, sweep her off her feet all over again."
They're right. This is my second chance. I'm not going to screw it up. I'll do everything to make it up to Katniss. To show her that after all this time, it still her. Always her. That I regret leaving her. It's worth a shot! What could go wrong?
Katniss POV
As I look outside the window in front of me, I can't help but remember my previous encounter with an old friend – old friend? I don't know if I can even call him that already, or ever. It's the first time I've seen him since…
"OH MY GOD KATNISS! You got in an accident?" I'm suddenly shaken from my reverie as I felt someone hug me and practically screamed my ear off.
I try my best to shake her off me, "What?"
Madge, my childhood best friend looks at me with teary-eyes, "You just said you got in an accident! Why didn't you tell me?!" She continues to shake me making me slightly feel a little dizzy.
I grabbed both her hands and put it down hard before exhaling loudly, "Stop that! I didn't get in an accident."
Suddenly her character changed from concerned to mad and smack me lightly in the head which made me let out a small chuckle, "You moron! Don't give me a heart attack. I was about to lose it."
I started laughing at her until I heard another voice directly addressing my way, "Well then, why did you tell him you were in an accident?"
Looking from Madge to the person by door, I give him my most innocent, "Huh?". He just shake his head and make his way to sit with me and Madge, clearly not even slightly believing my best to look clueless with what he's talking about, hoping to just drop the subject. Damn Gale!
He just pinched both of my cheeks before crossing his arms in from of his chest, "Peeta! Peeta Mellark! Ring a bell?"
I looked at both of them, seeing as they are eagerly waiting for an explanation with what happened earlier. Personally, I don't think there's anything to explain. I just did what I believed to be the best, "What about him?"
Gale sighed and lean closer to me, looking directly at my eyes, "You just told him you were in an accident and what's more, you claimed that you don't know him. What's gotten into you?"
I sigh loudly and just say anything that first popped out in my mind, "I panicked okay? I didn't expect to see him. It's like watching someone come back from the dead." Well, it's not in a sense not true. I really don't expect to see him.
They both studied me for a few minutes before Madge talked again, "Then, what do you think would happen when he finds out that what you said to him is not true?"
I scoffed and chuckled, clearly my friends are being sarcastic if they even believed that I would see that… man… again, "Who said he'll find out? I told him that because I want him to leave me alone. It doesn't mean that we happen to saw each other accidentally that we're going to be seeing each other again. He may have a death wish if he ever wishes to see me again."
"Still, an amnesia? You cannot come up with anything better than that?" It is evident that Gale is against to how I have handled the situation, but as tired as I am now, I don't really have the energy to argue.
I just raised my eyebrow at him, challenging him, "What would you have me do then?"
We stared at each for so long that it made me celebrate in silence when he finally broke his stare and lean back to his chair, "I don't know, you could've just slapped him. It would hurt less than knowing that the person you love claims to have forgotten you."
I'm slightly taken aback from what he said that I can't help the clenching of my jaw and fist simultaneously. I'm silently cursing myself for being affected. NO! "He doesn't love me. He never did."
Madge moved closer to me and gently covered my hands that are now in a tight fist with hers. I can see she's trying her best to calm me down, "You don't know that. He had his reasons for that day, Kat. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the courage to approach you knowing that you for sure hate him for leaving you."
Abruptly than what I have planned to, I stand up and let out a small, if not, sarcastic laugh, "Yeah? Well, sucks to be him then. Whether or not he had his reasons, it doesn't matter does it. What happened back then is done. We are done. We have been for a year now. Honestly, I don't think I have it in me to forgive him yet, or ever for that matter."
I slowly make my way to the door. Before I can totally leave the room Gale spoke making me turn to them once more, "Still, you should've just told him to fuck off if you don't want him to bother you."
I shake my head harshly, determined to prove that I handled things just according to how I see it would be best, "He won't. And I don't plan on ever presenting any opportunity for the possibility that we're going to see each other again."
ENDNOTE: So, I just leave it to this for now. :) Thank you! Reviews in any form is highly welcome! :)
