Hey everyone I couldn't leave the last chapter as it was so here is chapter nine. In case it wasn't clear Peeta feels really guilty because he does love Katniss and plans on breaking up with Delly. We left it when he just hung the phone up on Katniss . . . As always read & review!
MrsMellark78
Katniss POV
He is such an idiot! When I said I didn't want to be friends I meant I wanted to be more than friends but he hung up before I could say anything of the sort. So now I'm walking to the bakery at seven o'clock in the evening and no one but me knows where I'm going, I still have Prim's phone but noone has phoned me yet so either Prim hasn't told mum or mum is giving me my own space for a bit. I'm freezing because I didn't think about putting on a jacket and the only thing in my jeans pocket is my b-line card for on the bus. I'm standing opposite the bakery now and the sign says closed but after spending the whole day in Peeta's bedroom I know which window is his.
I walk around the back of the bakery making sure not to be seen and I climb the drain pipe which goes right past Peeta's window, so I begin to climb, he could be in there or not, they might be working on cakes and bread for tommorrow or having dinner. I'm next to his window now and I feel like I've been knocking on it for about half an hour without any answer. So I grab my b-line card and use it to try and unlock the window and I hear a click when it unlocks. I open it with ease and climb into the room, it's empty so I sit on Peeta's bed, turn Prim's phone off and wait.
(Two hours later)
I've heard four different footsteps come up the stairs now but they have all gone into another room which isn't Peeta's so I have no idea where he is, I heard raised voices earlier and it as Melissa's voice I couldn't understand what it was about. I hear some footsteps coming up the stairs I get up silently and hide behind the door, it opens and in walks Peeta but he looks completely different from earlier, he's covered in bruises and has a black eye and a cut along his shoulder that has cut through his t-shirt, a gasp escapes me.
He turns around immediately and he can't see me because he hasn't turned his light on and the curtains are closed, he walks towards me and he's so close I can feel his breath on my face, I'm not sure whether he has realised it's me or not.
"Rye? Wheat?" he whispers, "Is that you?"
I can't help myself, I wrap my arms around him and he tenses up, I look at him, he sees me and he relaxs and wraps his arms around me and we stand there for a few minutes just hugging. "Your an idiot sometimes do you know that?"
"Why?" He asks, still not letting go of me, "Your the one who said you didn't want to be friends and yet you turn up here."
"You hung up before you let me say that I wanted to be more than just friends but not until you break up with Delly, I don't want you to have two girlfriends," I say still hugging him. "And don't do it over the phone."
"I won't but I'm confused about something," he says looking down at me. "How did you get in? And how long have you been here?"
"I was already walking here when you hung up on me and if you didn't realise I'm really good at climbing drain pipes and there just so happens to be one right outside your window," I say releasing him and sitting on his bed. "But do you want to know what I'm confused about?"
"What," he says sitting beside me holding my hand.
"My are you completely beaten up?" I ask and he drops his gaze to his knees, "Who did this to you? And why the hell would someone do this to you?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," he says and I raise an eyebrow at him so he continues. "My mum did it, she always does stuff like this too me, even if it's just a thing as burning a batch of bread or icing a few cupcakes wrong. But this time it was worse she made sure she made it worse as well, she wanted me to apologise to you and she didn't believe me when I told her about the letter, she's the opposite to Hazelle. Hazelle bottled it up and just let it all out at once, mum lets all her anger out when she feels it."
"Oh, Peeta, I'm so sorry, I was the one who told her and I probably made it sound worse than it actually was," I say feeling only guilt towards Peeta. "I'm so sorry."
"It's okay, she probably wouldn't have stopped anyway, the last time it was this bad was last year when I said I wanted to be an artist not a baker. You see my brothers can follow there sreams and become a professional footballer and be part of a band, me on the otherhand have to go into the family buisness. It was horrible, I was put in hospital but mum said I fell down the stairs." I hear a door slam from down the hall and Peeta tenses up, "You need to go, now! She'll shout at you and then she'll never like you."
"No, I'm not going anywhere," I say staying where I sit whilst Peeta tries to pull me up but my feet are planted to the ground. "If she has something to say she can say it to me as well."
"Please go, Katniss," he begs. "I don't want you to get hurt."
"I don't want you put in hospital," I counter but he continues to try to pull me up. "I'd rather be covered in bruises or put in hospital than see you put in hospital."
The door of Peeta's bedroom bursts open and Melissa stands there eyes bulging and she walks into the room and I can see the anger build up even more when she notices me, she holds a wooden pole in her hand. She lunges for Peeta but I jump in the way and get the full blast of it right on the head, I stumble backwards slightly and everything goes slightly blury but I don't move, which slightly surprises her. Sh steps to the left but I follow her movement , I become slightly dizzy and she notices she steps left then right but just as she lunges for Peeta again, she gets me in the exact same spot and I black out . . .
