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Chapter 12

Katniss' P.O.V.

Previously

Marvel just sighs and says,"Nighty-night Kitten." And gives me another kiss on the forehead.

"Nighty-Night, Marvie. Good night you heartless person named Jo."

She just laughs again.

"Are you on laughing gas?" I ask curiously.

"No." She says simply and drags my boyfriend out of the room.

He is right? I mean He didn't ask but I'm pretty sure that we're boyfriend/girlfriend, right? I'm just going to have to ask him tomorrow when he drives me home.


Sleep found me quickly last night. My dream was nice to.

"Marvel! AHHH!" I shout laughing. Then I feel cool water come into contact with my skin. "I'll get you for that!" I yell at him while laughing. I pick myself up out of the pool and he just stands there. We I get to my feet, he pushes me back in without warning."Ohhhh. You are soooo getting the wrath of Katniss Everdeen!" He's close to the edge so I pull his ankle and he comes in with me. When he resurfaces I ask him,"So? How's the cold water treating you?"

I hear everybody laugh. When I look around I see Cato, Cashmere,Gloss and Jojo are playing water volley ball. Gale is on the patio with Madge making hamburgers. I feel two hands go to my waist and pick me up and toss me across the pool. When I'm in the air I hear everyone laughing. When I make my way back to Marvel he's whistling like a not-so-innocent person. He looks to me and smiles.

"Sorry, but I had the opportunity and I took it." I laugh and that huge smile that he always wears when he's around me apeers. His face leans forward to mine,I lean to. Just as we're about to kiss something hits my head and I shoot up.

Jojo.

"JOJO! EVEN IN MY DREAMS YOU MESS UP KISSES! WHAT THE HELL MAN!?"

Just like yesterday, she laughs. It creeps me out really.

"Gloss must be getting to you. Your never this happy all time." I state with a smile on my face." But if he hurts you, I kill him." I say with a straight face and she knows I'm serious.

"Ditto." She says lifting a finger in the air. "Now come on brainless let's get you out of this joint." She already has my bag in her hands.

"Okay, fine let's go." I look around. "Where's Mar-"

"In the hall." She says already looking tired of the conversation.

"Okay, okay. I was just curious." I say with my hands in front of me to mock defense. When I walk out of the room I see Hazelle at the desk signing some papers.

"Hello sweetie! We'll be out of here as soon as I'm done with signing a few things." Hazelle tells me and Jojo.

"Okay." I say while looking for Marvel. I spot him down the hall with Gloss. I wave at him and he has that huge smile on his face again, and waves back. When he gets tome he gives me a kiss on the forehead. I think that's as good as we're going to get with Jojo in the same country.

"Hey Kitten."He says with that smile on his face.

"Hey Marvie. Doesn't that hurt?" I ask pointing to his face.

"Yeah, but seeing you is worth the pain of this smile." He says to me looking me straight in the eyes. Again BEAUTIFUL EYES! I'm lost in them. They show so much emotion. His show love,adoration, curiosity, humor, and his eyes are twinkling again.

"Aw. Your so sweet."

In the background I can hear Jojo and Gloss fake gagging. I hug Marvel and then pull away from his warmth just as Hazelle walks over. "Okay kids time to go. Katniss, I know how much you just love me and my car, I have errands to run and I doubt you want to do them with me. Johanna came with Gloss on her motorcycle. Your not getting on. Your going to be riding with Marvel in his truck." She tells me like I didn't know. I know, and she knows that she's just pointing out the obvious. She just does it because I do it to her all the time. We go back and forth for almost everything.

"But Hazelle I just love your Van! OH THE HORROR! Okay, I'll ride with Marvel."I say fake sniffling, and my bottom lip is pouted out. Hazelle and I start laughing. Towards the end I lightly grab my shoulder and say,"Oh. It hurts. But it's so funny. Aha. Aha. Ah-owwww."

"You okay?" Jojo asks smirking, probably thinking about yesterday.

"Yeah. But this is not nearly as funny as your use of words. I'll tell y'all when we get to my house." I tell Marvel and Gloss as we walk out of the hospital entrance. "I'll see you later Hazelle. See you at the house Jo." I tell them as we all go our sepreat ways. Marvel and I start to walk towards his truck I hear someone running to me. I turn around and see Jo running towards us. It looks like she has something to say.

"Hey Marvel put this on please." Jo tells Marvel, holding out a stick that looks like chapstick.

"What is it?" He asks.

"Just put it on." Jo says shoving it in his face.

"Okay, okay. I'll put it on. Gee." He sighs and puts it on. When He's done and hands it back to Jo and asks,"What the hell did I just put on. My lips are tingling. It feels weird. Am I going to die now?" He raises an eyebrow.

"Honestly there is a possibility you could start to lose feeling in your lips and not be able to move them. And slur your words. Don't lick your lips. You could kill your self if you ingest it." Marvel's eyes and my eyes go wide.

"Are you trying to kill me?" Marvel asks in a shakey voice.

"No. Just making sure your lips-" She points at Marvel's poisoned lips"_don't touch those." She finishes pointing at my lips. "I just had you put on Black light Chapstick. I can put a black light on where ever the chapstick is smeared, and a purple glow will show up. I have a black light back at the house that I have been hideing from you Kat. And I will use it, if necessary." With that she starts to, not walk, but SKIP away. We watch her skip to her motorcycle. Get on. Let Gloss get on the back. And drive away. That was terrifying. I Katniss Everdeen am officially weary of my dear friend, Jojo's sense of sanity.

"I don't think I'm ever taking anything from Jojo again."I voice my thoughts.

"Ditto. Well, let's get going to your house before I lose my lips, lose the ability to talk, or die. The truck's this way." I chuckle and follow him to his 98 green Chevy pick up. I get into the passenger seat, he gets in the driver and starts up his truck. When we get on the road he tells me I can play around with the radio stations. So I start flipping through channels till it lands on Bayou 95.7,Your Kiss by Prince.(Remember I'm from Louisiana, Home of the Alligators, Mardi Gras, Bourbon Street, etc. etc. And I may be a teenager but I'm not, how-do-say, Hip, with it. I listen to classic rock, Heavy Metal, things like that. So Bayou 95.7 is a classic rock station. Just saying.)

I stop it there and Marvel looks at me like I'm a mystic wonder so I ask," What's that look about?" I say confused.

"Just another thing I just found that I absolutely adore about you. Your taste in music. I love this song. But it's not my absolute favorite. Rock of Ages by-" I cut him off.

"Def Lepard. Love that one too. I have it on a CD and caset tape. One for my so called piece of crap truck and one for the car my Dad started to restore. I helped him but I don't know it just the last thing I helped Dad with before he had to be deployed for. That was the last time I went to the shed in the back of the yard of my house. I just don't think it would feel the same to do anything with it without him. Maybe I can get started on it again, but I don't know. Did they put me on some kind of drugs, 'cause I have never told anybody about the car before. It was a secret between me and him. My mother didn't want to have it in the shed because she said it was a hunk of junk. But Dad and I still cleaned out the shed and put it in there. He taught me all about cars. I picked it up pretty quick, it fascinated me. I still love classic cars. They never cease to amaze me. Haven't scene it since I was nine. Yep, I'm on some kind of drugs."

"Yeah they put you on pain pills. Ms. Hawthorne has them. You know I have a classic too. It's an ol' 97 Chevy Impala. It's in my garage. I'll show you when you come over to my house."Heoffers and I immediately accept. Old cars are my only love and passion besides Prim and Jojo, my sisters. "Well okay then I'll bring you to the house once we get your clothes." He has that smile again. And I'm happy that I'm the one that caused it. That brings the one question that has been on my mind since yesterday.

"Hey Marvel?" I ask nervously.

"Yes, Kit-Kat?" I love the nickname.

"I was wondering. Where do we stand? I just want to know. I have no idea and I'm confused about that. And I have to be confused." I ask afraid he'll get mad for me being so...oblivious, you could say. I never know about these things. Peeta had gotten mad when I had asked this question. That should have been the first warning. But then again I am oblivious.

"Where do YOU want us to stand." He asks getting serious.

"I honestly don't know." I say embarrassed.

"Well how about this. I'll take you out on a date this Friday and we can decide then. Yeah?" He asks hopeful.

"Yeah. I like that. Your go at words and figuring things out aren't you?" I ask with a smile. He truly is amazing. He's smart. Handsome. Sweet. Kind. Caring. Understanding. Funny. Loving. He's got those amazing green eyes. I have learned in the short time that I have known him, that his eye color goes from when he's happy to a really light and airy green, to when he's mad they get a dark green, and then when he's sad they go to an almost black/green color. I never want to see those beautiful eyes a black/green color again. It pains me to know that I'm the one who mad them that color.

"Yeah. I'm the middle kid. I have to have something to show up with. Gloss is the looks of the family, I'm the brains, and Rue is the adorable little kid that nobody can no to." He says smirking at the last part.

"Hey you have the looks and the brains. I think that your more handsome than your brother, Finnick, Cato, Thresh, Gale, and most certainly Peeta, the asshole." He chuckles and says a quiet thank you.

"If he hurts you again, tell me. I won't tolerate anybody hurting, my girl." He tells me. I smile at the 'my girl' part.

"Your girl? I like it. And your My Marvel, My Marvie." He smiled back at me. And nodded. After a few minutes he hasn't said anything."You okay? You haven't said anything in a while." He shrugs his shoulders and takes one hand off the wheel and brings it to his lips and pinches it. "Can't talk?" He nodded. "I'm getting, Jo for that. I mean that's a little over protective. But then again it is Jojo. She's crazy with a capitol C." He nods at that. About Five minutes later we make it to my house and I see my mother's car in the driveway and Jojo's bike with no Jojo. "Oh shit." I say as I jump out of the car and sprint into the house to see something pretty expected. Thank God Gloss is here.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?" I yell and get a fuming Jojo to stop yelling and trying to claw at my mother. Gloss is behind her holding her back by her arms. He looks tired out. "Let me repeat. What the hell is going on in here?" I ask calmly. Jo get's out of Gloss' grip and turns to me fully.

"Your mother dearest here tried to tell me that I wasn't allowed in HER house. I then told her that it is YOUR house. She then told me that she was the eldest and the mom. So after I got over the initial shock of her trying to tell me that she was being a mom, I told her that she doesn't even have a job to pay the bills and it's you that has two jobs and pays the bills. I also told her that I help pay the bills so it's partially mine to. I also told her that YOU said that I can come into YOUR house and live with you as long as I helped pay for the bills and food, with MY TWO JOBS. Your mother then decided it was a good idea to slap me. You should know what happened after that. She should be happy that My Gloss is strong enough to hold me back from ripping her God DAMNED HEAD OFF!" Gloss is now holding her back again and mother is backed up to the wall. I step in front of Jo know ing that I am the only one that can calm her down.

"Jo. I need you to calm down. I need you to calm down, Jo." She's still trying to get out of Gloss and Marvel's grip and past me to my dead-beat mother. So I do the only thing that I KNOW for a fact that will calm her down. "JOHANNA ALLENE MASON! IF YOU DON'T CALM YOUR ASS DOWN, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS, WITH ONE ARM!" She looks at me because I have never spoke to her like that. I see a brief flash of fear in her eyes and I hate it, but I need her to calm down. Her face and eyes go to stone and she clenches her jaw. She goes slack in Marvel and Gloss' hesitantly let go and Jo stands on her own. I turn to Gloss and Marvel and say,"Would you excuse us for a moment? I have some overdue issues to resolve." They nod and walk outside.

"Katn-"I cut my mother off.

"Don't you even say one damn word to me." She gasps.

"You can't talk to me like that! I'm your Mom."

I slowly turn around to face her. "Excuse me? Did you just say Mom?Because I haven't had a Mom since I was 8 and a half. When I was 8 and a half, I had to find a job. Do you know how hard that was!? 8 AND A HALF FUCKING YEARS OLD! I HAD TO FIND A FUCKING JOB! 8 and a half. That's when I had NO ONE to depend of rely on. I was the one to keep Prim from fucking dieing of HUNGER! You are a poor excuse of a mother. You only gave birth to me! That's it! Nothing else! And you wonder why I chose to hang out with Dad more when he was here, and then be a shut-off when he was gone! YOU DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO HELP ME WHEN DAD WAS ON DEPLOY! I remember when I was six. The Hawthorne's lived next door. I climbed the tree in the front yard. Dad was on deploy. I fell out of the tree. I broke my arm. Who came running? NOT YOU! Hazzel came running for a child that wasn't even her's, to take care of! You didn't even bring me to the DAMN HOSPITAL! YOU DIDN'T EVEN COME AFTER YOU GOT THE CALL THAT I WAS IN THE HOSPITAL! That day was when I chose Hazzel as a mother figure. Daddy didn't even die yet and yet I still chose to look up to some one else as a mother figure! The only reason that I didn't kick your ass out of this house when I became 15 was because of Prim! I didn't and don't want my baby sister, no scratch that. MY DAUGHTER to be taken away from me! But you know what I turn eighteen REAL soon. At midnight. Next month. On the 15th. Consider yourself kicked out of MY house. I have let you slid so many times. Prim was the only reason I was ever nice to you. You don't have my respect or trust. You lost that when I was 8 and a half. Once I'm eighteen I'M BRINGING YOUR ASS TO COURT! GETTING CUSTODY OF PRIM! AND HOPEFULLY PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL! I'm not even going to even start to get on the subject of what the hell you just did to my sister. Not Prim, but Johanna. You better start packing your shit. Make sure you got all of it. I DON'T WANT A GOD DAMNED THING OF YOURS IN MY LINE OF SIGHT IN MY DAMN HOUSE! ON THE 15th. YOUR LEAVING!" with that I turn to Jo, and tell her in a calm voice,"Come on Jo let's go."

She brings her shaky hands to my face and wipes off the tears I didn't even know were there. She pulls me into a light hug, because of my arm. She whispers in my ear,"Your okay. I'm here for you sis. Remember? Sisters forever."

I nod and say,"Together forever."

"That's right sis. We're in this together. You are the strongest person I know. I want you to remember that. Okay?" She asks me. I nod. "Good. Cause it's true. Now. Let's pack a bag or two and go to Madge's."

"Okay." I reply weakly. I hate to be seen as weak, but I think I get to have at least one weak moment. It's been so long since I have been able to be weak. We go upstairs and pack two bags each. At this point I am completely ignoring my mother. Just like she's done to me for so long. We both pack enough clothes for a few days of school. We also pack other clothes like night-clothes and casual clothes. I also pack a I go to Prim's room and pack some clothes for school, casual, and night,for her too. When I'm done I go back to Jo and I's room and collect her. We walk down the stairs with our bags. But Jo only lets me carry two of them. That's how many straps can fit into one hand. She carries the others. When we get to the door and open it, the boy's heads snap to us and they hurry and get the bags, and put them in the bad of Marvel's truck. I walk back into the house to get Jo, Prim, and I's book bags. I see my mother sitting in a chair.

"I'm sorry." She says.

"Too little. To late." With that I go to the door. Put down the book bags and slam the door as hard as I could. I then ask one of the boy's to pick up the book bags and then I walk to Jo. "I know that you don't like anybody to drive your cycle, but I don't want you in front right now. Your to hyped up right now. Let Gloss be in front. I heard that he loves motorcycles and has one himself. Please. For me?" I ask her. I know how much she loves Mockingjay. So that's why I put the kicked-puppy-look on. She can't say no to it.

"Okay. For you. But I won't like it." She grumbles.

I chuckle,"Wouldn't expect you to." I walk over to Gloss and tell him,"Your riding up-front on Mockingjay. Your lucky right now. You will be the first person to ever drive her besides Jojo. And thank you for holding Jo back, back there. If she were to hit my mother, she would have pressed charges." I give him a hug and walk over to Marvel and hug him, one-armed.

He hugs me back and his head rests on mine. My head is buried in his chest."Come on. Let's bring you to Madge's so you can settle down and tell Prim what happened."He murmurs in my hair. I just nod and let him lead me to the passenger side of his truck. He opens the door and helps me in. He even buckles me in. He gives me a kiss on the forehead,and smiles sadly at me. I smile back at him. He closes the door and walks over to his side of the truck and starts it and pulls out the drive-way.


HEY I HOPE YOU LIKED IT! I DON'T KNOW IF MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT BUT I HAVE ANOTHER STORY CALLED "A Hunger Games Sleepover" I would appreciate it if you would check it out and tell me what you think of it. I'll be back!