Chapter 21:
Foxy sat up in her hospital bed, eating a bowl of ice cream. She was finally allowed to eat solid food, but hadn't spoken since she had woken up. She looked up from her chocolate ice cream when Haymitch and Effie walked into her room, solemn expressions on their faces.
"Hello, sweetie, how are you feeling?" Effie said, sitting on the edge of her bed and stroking her fiery red hair.
Foxy shrugged. She hasn't really had emotions since she had woken up and attacked her doctor. She came to the conclusion that they put anti-depressions in her morphine drip, but she couldn't live on those forever.
"Um, Finch, Haymitch and I have come to the decision- please understand that this is the most important and hardest decision we have ever made" Effie said, tears welling up in her deep brown eyes. "We decided to send you to depression rehabilitation."
Tears started to well up in Foxy's eyes- apparently not even anti-depressants could soften this blow. She couldn't leave. Everything she needed to heal was right here in Panem, not in some rehab center in some far away city. "No!" she screamed, tears slipping from the corners of her eyes. "I want to stay here, please let me stay here!" she begged, breaking Effie's heart.
She thought of all the children in her orphanage as her own and everyone looked up to her as a mother. She filled in for every lame mother that couldn't take care of her child and the one's that never got chance and she loved every second of it. That's why this decision broke her heart, even though it was the right thing to do.
"It's all we can do, sweetie" Effie said, trying to calm the hysterical girl in front of her. "Please understand," she begged as a doctor ran into the room, stabbing Foxy's arm with a needle full of sedates. "It's all we could do," she whispered, crying as Haymitch led her out of the room.
"Honey, I'm home!" Cato called; walking threw the door of his home.
"Hey" Clove called from the kitchen. "How was job hunting?" Cato had been looking for a job because his inheritance was running low.
"Boring" Cato said, wrapping his arms around her from behind and kissing the top of her head.
"Yeah" Clove sighed. "Can you get Ali. I still have to feed her?" Clove asked turning around in his arms and giving him a small peck on the lips.
"I have to do everything!" Cato exclaimed and Clove laughed, pushing him out of the kitchen.
Cato chuckled walking into the living room. He picked up his daughter giving her a raspberry on her stomach. "Hey there, princess."
He straightened out her shirt, reading the yellow words embroidered on the light pink shirt: I'm going to be a big sister. Cato grinned, bounding into the kitchen and dropped Ali into her highchair before wrapping his arms around Clove and spinning her around.
"Are you really pregnant?" Cato asked.
"Yeah" Clove grinned and Cato pressed his lips to hers in a passionate kiss.
Thorn sat outside the run down shack in he middle of nowhere. The shack was about 20 minuets outside town and no one had been there in months. It was the perfect place to do what he had to do.
He jumped onto his feet when a white SUV pulled up in font of him. His hands started twitching when the familiar blond stepped out of the driver's side door.
"Where is it, Gloss?" he asked. He wasn't sure if he could handle being without it much longer. It had been three days since he last had some cocaine.
"Gale has it. Calm down" Gloss said. Since Gale started sleeping with his sister his father had him trained in the family business: drug dealing.
Gale then walked up to them, holding a small plastic bag of the white powder Thorn craved so badly. Thorn reached for it, but Gale pulled it out of his reach. "Pay up" Gloss said, crossing his arms over his chest.
Thorn pulled his wad of cash out of his pocket and all but threw it at Gloss before reaching out for the bag of cocaine. "Give me the damn bag, Gale!" Thorn yelled, distress easily detectable in his voice.
"Is that my sisters' money?" Gale asked. He had totally abandoned the only family he had left, but he still needed to know if his little sisters were ok. "Is that my sisters' money!" he repeated louder.
"No" Thorn lied easily. He didn't feel bad at all or stealing the three hundred dollars, but he needed the cocaine.
Gale narrowed his eyes, but nonetheless handed him the bag. Thorn waited for Gale and Gloss to get back in the SUV and drive away before digging into the bag of the white powder.
"I'm not ready for this, Johanna" Madge exclaimed, pacing back and fourth across her living room.
"I thought you liked him" Johanna said, flipping threw one o Madge's mother's magazine. Madge and Blight have been on a few dates (Gale present at all of them, but none of them knew) and it seemed like they went nicely.
"I do, but…" Madge trailed off.
"What!" Johanna basically yelled. She wasn't exactly in a good mood, but then again she never was.
"I feel like I'm betraying Gale" Madge said so quietly that Johanna barely heard it.
"Gah!" Johanna yelled. She was prepared to kill Gale, that son of a bitch, back at the beginning of the year for hurting Madge so badly and wanted to kill him more now for making Madge fell guilty for his mistake. "He was the one who betrayed you, Madge. He's still fucking the shit out of Cashmere so you can be all cute with Blight" Johanna said.
That did something to Madge. That one sentence changed her- for better or for worse no one could really decide. She smiled and exclaimed, "I'm going to call Blight and were going on a date!"
"There you go, Madge! There you go!" Jo exclaimed and high-fived Madge.
Madge got out her phone, staring at Blight's number. "Will you call him for me?" she asked sweetly.
"GAH!"