So anyways .. I'm sorry if it took a long time for me to update. I was just so busy with other stupid things like school and so on.
Faery X Queen: Are you actually from the future? Just asking.
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"What?" I ask him as he looks at me.
"Nothing, so… Are you two finally official?" He asks me, still with the stupid grin on his face.
I blush at his question. "No, we're just friends." Yeah Peeta, so stop trying to woo her.
"Okay, whatever you say." He says. Almost leaving but I asked him something.
"What time did you came home?"
"Before you were even home, what, do you think she would just barge in this house?" I just look at him, and he almost leaved this room but he remembered something. He turned around again telling me "And, uh… Peeta, don't tell some girls that are not a slut that her clothes would look great on your bedroom floor, you might just lose your opportunity."
"Do you know it's rude to eavesdrop?"
"Do you know that you just don't kiss your 'just friends'?"
Ugh… I hate him…
The day after, I was already in the studio. I already memorized some of my lines and was unbelievably good at acting that some of them were giving me dirty looks. I think some of them used to be the teacher's favorite. Some girls were whispering and giggling, some of them I catch staring at me. I get that a lot every time. Delly and I shared some awkward staged kisses, since we started to ignore each other two years ago, and since we were best friends before but never shared any kind of complicated feelings for each other.
After practice, she came up to me. "May I talk to you?" She says uncomfortably.
"Sure…" I say as I fix my script and things. "What about it?"
"It is about the thing that happened to you and Katniss in the janitor's closet." She says, sitting next to me.
Okay, I promised to Katniss not to talk about it ever again. But maybe I could talk about it to her; she is one of her best friends. But I still get a bad feeling about this, so what now? "It was an accident." I told her, quickly.
"I know" she says.
"Then what do you-."
She looks me in the eye, "I just want to know if you might like her."
"Why?" I ask. To tell, or not to tell.
"I know you, even if we've been ignoring each other the past few years; I've had enough experience to prove that you might like her." She tells me. Does she really know me that well?
"What if I do then?" I ask her.
"So you do like her." Oops. I feel myself blush that answers her question yes. I thought she was going to be happy for me but instead she glared at me. "I'm warning you, she's not a toy that you can play with."
Ouch, that hurts me. "I'm not going to play with her." I snapped at her. "I'm not what you think I am."
"Yes, you ARE!" Her voice getting louder. I just want to shush her because she's forgetting that we are still surrounded by others. "You play with girls you think that don't have feelings. You just pick them somewhere, and when you get bored, you just toss them away like toys."
Okay, some people are staring right now. "SHHH!" I shushed her.
"I'm just telling you to stay far away from my best friend. She's not one of your whores that sleep with you whenever you like." She tells me leaving the room. Almost all of them are staring at me right now. I wonder if they know it's Katniss that she is talking about.
I walk myself home, thinking about what she has just said. Have I really been playing girls? No, not all of them. I had feelings for the others but they just fade away, that's why I break up with them because one thing I know, you mustn't stay with one person who you know you don't like anymore. If I keep up that relationship any further, I would just hurt them more. But some girls, I just get drunk so I use them, when I am upset, I use them again, when I feel alone, when I don't get the attention I deserve… Maybe Delly is right, maybe I am a player. Should I stay away from Katniss too? No. As long as she doesn't have feelings for me, I won't hurt her. But I have hurt her. Several times already. But if I stay away from her, how can I prove that I truly am sorry. Not to mention those tasks that she assigned me. I then notice that almost all of my past realationships don't actually have closure.
Ugh, I hate it! "Peeta!" says a familiar voice behind me. I turn around to see Katniss jogging towards me. "I just thought that instead of me teaching you how to act, let's just get started on those tasks."
Wait… "But, I thought, I would be doing them alone. You know, without your help." I tell her.
"Well… I want to watch front row of how you would handle it." She says it with a smile telling me she's just going to laugh her ass off everytime I would make a fool of myself.
"Whatever…" I say to her "So first on the list is Madge, do you know where she is?" I ask her. Even though the answer is so obvious, I can't think of anything to say, anyways.
"She lives across here." She says as she grabs my hand, leading me to their house, making me blush by her simple touch.
I know that Delly told me to stay away from her, but who is she to tell me what to do? Were not even friends anymore.
Once were at the mayor's house, Katniss rings the doorbell and a housemaid appear at the doorstep. "We're looking for Madge Undersee, is she home?" Katniss says graciously, faking her kindness, in a British accent.
"Oh, Ms. Everdeen, yes, I will just call her then." Says the maid, going back in the house.
"Ms. Everdeen?" I ask, mockingly.
"Oh shut up. I swear, that maid's got some issues being that nice." She tells me.
"The same way as Johanna?" I ask her. I remember the time she was rather annoyed with her.
"Who?"
"My brother's fiance"
"Oh yes, she is rather nice for a face that looks all brutal." Another fake British accent. "I heard she was from District 7, I know people over there lives in the mountains where they cut all the trees. She must be tossing axes ever since she could tumble."
"Oh please, a gorgoeus girl like her, it's impossible to get her to carry a heavy thing like that."
"You think she's gorgeous?" She says, her expression has the look of worry and one other expression that she has never worn before. Or maybe, I have never seen before, who knows?
Just at that time, Madge appears at the doorstep, obviously surprised to see me. "Oh… hey, Peeta?" She says wondering. Obviously she doesn't know why I am here; I've never been here ever since three years ago.
"Hey" I reply. "May we come in?"
"Ofcourse." She says graciously. Even though she's the mayor's daughter, she is not stuck up like the other rich kids I actually call friends. She is really nice but wants to keep to herself.
Once we're inside, I just realized that I haven't really thought of how I am going to apologize to her. I see a jar of flowers near the kitchen place, so I just grab them. I follow her to her room, Katniss following behind me, and I am surprised about how absoloutly nothing changed by the design of her room except that there is already two bookshelf instead of one. The same things as usual, her soft, white bed still fixed and same covers. There is a piano at the other side of the room. The balcony that invites the air in, making this place fresh. And her closests full of untouched clothes that she doesn't usually use.
Once she sits on her bed, Katniss on the chair next to the bookshelf, reading, I think, I start on my apology speech I made only a few seconds ago. "Dear Madge," I begin, seeing Katniss at the corner of my eye, with a stupid grin on her face, controlling herself from laughing. "I know that I broke up with you three years ago. And because of that, this is my apology speech. Please forgive me." I tell her showing her the flowers that I picked up from a vase somewhere near the kitchen.
That speech has got to be the worst speech ever. Madge is even to dumbstruck to speak. When she finally regains her thought, the first words that came out from her mouth were "Why are you giving me wild onions?"
What? Wild onio- Oh, I thought this were flowers. I here Katniss from the bookshelf giving a loud laugh. Totally humiliated, I toss the onions out the open window at my side, only to hear someone say 'OUCH' from outside. I look out the window and see the maid from earlier getting hit by the onions. Before she can even look up, I quickly shut the window and closed the curtains.
Katniss is alive but she is barely breathing from all the laughter. "Who was that?" Madge says opening the curtains but I sclose them quickly.
"No one…"
"But I just heard…." She then fades away and gets back to the topic. "See, Peeta, I am flattered by this…" she lies "But I don't know if I can accept your apology."
"What? But why?"
"It has already been three years and this apology of yours, isn't even good enough to cover a second." Only now has she been this brutally honest.
"Then what can I…" I trail of, trying to remember what she liked three years before. As I can remember, our relationship started when I played her favorite song at the piano that she taught me, Safe and Sound.
Before I stop myself, I sit at the stool for piano, and played it again, I could remember it as if it was yesterday. After that, I see Katniss, mouth wide opened, surprised, and Madge, almost with tears in her eyes. "This is how our realtionship started, and I was thinking, I want this to be how I am going to apologize to you, and start a beginning of maybe being just friends? I remember how you used to say that this is your favorite song. And I hope it still is, so I just want to say I'm…" Before I could even end my sentence, she flung her arms around me giving me a friendly hug.
"Why do you have to let go?" She asks me with pain in her voice. Obviously, she has never moved on.
"You deserve someone better, someone who deserves you." I reply.
After that, she accepts my apology and I went to the next street with Katniss, to apologize to the next person on my list, Granger Mione. There was silence within us for a couple minutes but then she breaks it. "Wow that was unexpected."
"Surprised?" I ask.
"Obviously." She tells me. "I didn't know you had it in you."
"Had what?"
"Feelings." She replies. "You didn't like her just because of her face, didn't you?"
"No." I say it honestly. "I actually like that she wasn't stuck up like those other kids. She is very nice, and I like the kind of girls that actually have talent in music… I think. She is really good with the piano, and I practiced that one piece just to get her."
"You seemed to really like her, but why did you two have to break up?"
"I felt like my feelings were fading away, and I know, if I keep that realationship up, the more that I would hurt her. But I also didn't want to see her cry, that's why I just texted her the morning after my conclusion."
We were already at the front porch of the next girl's house, but before knocking, Katniss gives me a heartwarming smile, telling me "That was the first right thing I think you did." She tells me. I then return the smile. She then quickly says "But that wasn't the right way to break up with a girl." Feeling the need to say something meen to me. I then chuckle and knocked three times at the door.
We encountered 27 houses that day, some are hard to get the apology out of, some are not even caring anymore. But I think the best part of today was getting Katniss to think that I am not that jerk that get girls just to get into there panties and leave them alone after. The more she knows about me, the more that there is a chance that she might like me back.
So there you go! I hope you enjoyed it.
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