Chap 21

Mystery Voice

by BreadBoy

This story is not connected to Fire Daisies or Panem High.

The songs in this story are not really sung or written by Katniss, but just let it go. She writes them in this story.

Peeta's POV:

I was finally done. I told Katniss what I felt. I got to punch Cato. I broke some bones.

All I could do was get on back to my room. There was nothing else to do, Clove carrying on, Cato and Katniss together. I could only hope that she's be happy with Cato. I could only hope that he or Clove wouldn't hurt Katniss. I could only hope Finnick and Beetee weren't in my room, waiting for me.

Of course none of my wishes came true.

Finnick and Beetee were both on the couch, Beetee doing some sophisticated math problem on a notebook, and Finnick watching some kind of cheesy reality show on TV. their heads shot up when they heard the heavy door open.

"What the-"

"I'm fine," I lied.

"Who beat you up? I'll kick his ass for you," Finnick gave me a determined look.

"Nobody that you should care about," I heaved a sigh and collapsed onto a loveseat. Beetee inspected my bruises.

"Whoever it was, they beat the shit out of you," Beetee noticed.

"That makes me feel a lot better," I said sarcastically.

"We need to get you to a hospital, man."

"No! They'll know I was in a fight and suspend me!" I shouted.

"We're gonna take you to the fight doctor, stupid," Finnick rolled his eyes. He unlocked his phone and called this 'fight doctor' I've heard about. Apparently, he had this guy on speed dial...

"Doc? Yeah, this is Odair...No, not me...A friend...I don't know, he won't tell me...Yeah, he's really broken...Okay. Okay. Thanks." Finnick ended the call. Beetee decided to stay with his precious math work, so Finnick helped me up to the highest floor, and he knocked on the door all the way at the end of the hall. He knocked hard.

A buff man answered the door. "Odair! Your friend?"

"Peeta," I mumbled.

"Peter! I'm Brutus, the fight doctor. I fix those guys like you up. Okay, Peter, let's get you on the bed," Brutus wheeled a medical bed out. His whole room was like a hospital, with only one room, one bed, but a bunch of machines and whatnot. He inspected me He lifted my shirt to see how bad the one on my stomach was.

"I've gotta re-break that nose of yours, kid."

"What?"

"See, bones start growing back immediately, and your nose grow crooked. So we gotta re-break it and fix it straight." Brutus explained. I took a deep breath as he broke my nose. The pain was unbearable, but not too unbearable.

He put cast or something on it, which kind of hurt, and he said the bruises would get better over time. He let me go with a smile, and I walked back to the room almost fine. As I settled into my bed to take a nice nap, an anonymous text popped onto my screen.

Cato Hadley's cheating on Everdeen.

It showed a picture of Cato kissing another girl.

I didn't have to figure out who sent this text. She probably sent it to everyone except Cato.

But Clove can do what she wants.

I'm not a part of that anymore.