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~THG~

I put my head in my hands and keep my legs pulled up to my chest. Dad is still crouched next to me. I can hear is breath, not shaky like mine. I can feel his hands on mine as he pulls them away from my face.

"I'm real. I promise." he tells me. I look into his eyes and decide I can trust him. I reach my arms around his neck and bury my head into his shoulder. I close my eyes and sort things out. I think back to what was shiny and what wasn't. All the people were shiny, but the grass wasn't. The sky wasn't. The people were fake.

"I-it wasn't real?" I say.

"It wasn't real. Nobody is going to hurt you or anyone else." he says. I nod and stand up, still unsure of all this.

"What's going on?" I hear. I see Roy, Macy, Caleb, and mom standing there. I'm pretty sure Caleb is the one who asked. "It's okay, you can go back inside." Dad says. Caleb gives me a sympathetic look then walks in, taking Macy with him.

Mom walks toward me, "Are you alright?" she asks. I nod. "Just a little shooken up." I lie. I'm not alright, how could I be? She gives me a quick hug and walks inside. I hear a door slam and look next door. Crap, Haymitch is walking out the back door, drunk.

"I heard a scream! What happened?" he asks, his words slurred.

"Go back inside!" I yell. He mumbles under his breath and stumbles back inside. I'm not in the mood to talk to him right now, wait a minute. Maybe I am. He's known mom and dad since they, well, won the Hunger Games. He'd know how the Hawthorne's know mom and dad! And he'd be too drunk to even realize he was telling me something my parents obviously won't let me know.

I hear a akward cough behind me and I remember Roy. I turn around. What am I supposed to say? "I..Uh.."

"You can go on home Roy, everything's fine." dad says. Roy nods and gives me a look. A look of fear and confusion. He doesn't know what happened to me, we're going to have to tell him sooner or later before I end up hurting him. Roy walks away, looking back a couple of times. Then he disappears into his house.

"Hey dad I'm going to go talk to Haymitch." I say. No point in lying considering I'm terrible at it.

Dad looks at me and bites his lower lip. "Go ahead, but hurry back." he says. I nod and hug him again before walking next door.

Once I walk in I instinctively start breathing through my mouth. It smells terrible. I, of course find Haymitch sitting at the kitchen table. I pull up a chair and sit down.

"What do you want?" he asks sighing.

"How do my parents know the Hawthorne's?" I ask getting to the point. Haymitch laughs and slams his bottle on the table, sloshing the liquor everywhere.

"They haven't told you? Well, there's a first time for everything. You might need this." he says handing me a bottle. I eye it and sit it on the table in front of me. "Well…Tell me!" I say growing anxious.

"Gale, the dad, he was your mom's hunting partner or whatever." he says taking a big gulp of the drink. "Apparently, he liked your mom more than friends. But then she met your dad and they've pretty much hated each other forever. Your dad really pissed him off, Gale said that 'He wasn't good enough for Katniss' and all this other crap. And your mom, well, she's pretty much hated him ever since he blew up her sister."

My jaw drops. So Roy's dad was pretty much my mom's boyfriend? But wait…"He blew up Prim?" I ask. I remember my mom talking about her once, how she loved the sugar cookies dad was making.

"Pretty much. He probably invinted the bomb that killed her."

"Probably?" I ask. This is too much information to hold. "By probably I mean 99% sure." he says. He takes another huge gulp and collapses on the table. Ugh. I stand up and walk home a little woozy, leaving the alcohol behind. The information buzzes around in my head and I put it together, piece by piece. Like a puzzle, with the information Haymitch gave me, and the information dad and mom gave me.

So Roy's dad and my mom were best friends and hunting partners. But he liked my mom. Then mom and dad went in the hunger games and fell in love. Then the rebellion happened, dad got hijacked, Roy's dad blew up Prim. They never talked again. What? I walk inside and sit at the table. I put my head down and think more.

So they haven't talked since, why not? Would he still hold a grudge against dad this long, even after they're all married with kids? I groan and hear a skweek. I look up and notice I'm not the only one sitting at the table. Dad and mom are sitting there. Wonderful.

"What'd you and Haymitch talk about?" dad asks sipping some tea. I can feel tears in my eyes. I had no idea how much that Gale guy hurt dad. I wonder how he felt when he found out it was Roy I was kissing.

"I know." I whisper. They exchange confused looks. "Know what?" mom asks worried.

"Gale." I say. That one word changes everything. Dad drops his tea and the cup breaks, spilling tea everywhere. Both of their jaws drop and I look back and forth between them.

"What all do you know?" Dad asks, forgetting about his tea. Then I tell them everything Haymitch told me, stumbling with some of the words. Once I'm done mom burries her head in dads shirt and he hugs her back. I'm guessing because of the mention of her sister. They sit there for a while, debating what to say or do. I can tell.

"We need to talk to them you know." I say. They look at me surprised. "Why?"

"Because Roy saw what happened to me. And he'll probably go home and tell his parents. And they'll figure out what's wrong. And then…well I don't know what happen after that." They look at each other again sending each other messages with their eyes. "I know what he did was horrible, but they at least need to know. Incase when I'm around them I have…well you know." Dad looks at mom.

"I'm fine with it if you are." he finally says. Mom sighs. "Fine." I smile a little and stand up. "Well we might as well get this over with." I say standing up. They don't object and stand up with me. We all walk slowly towards the door and shuffle towards their house. Mom clenches dads hand and I bite my hair nervously. When we get there mom says "It's now or never." and rings the door bell. I hold my breath when the door opens and I see Gale.

"Uh, come in." he says. I have a bad feeling that this won't end well.

~THG~

:O Sorry for all of the spelling errors in that...Okay, so I was going to write more but I just decided to stop there. :] Omg, look :{) THE SMILEY FACE HAS A MUSTACHE! :}( LOL! Now he's frowning. So did you guys enjoy that? I hope you did! Even if you didn't, REVIEW! :D You guys are so awesome! XD XD XD

"Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers' table." -Katniss.

Okay guys, so I have some ideas of what's going to happen next, but what do YOU want to happen? You guys have been so awesome reviewing so much I want to use some of your ideas! So what do you want to see happen? Thanks for reading guys! I love you all! (Not in a stalkerish way…maybe…:D LOL)