Ch. 26

Ok so many of you were worried on what happened, and concerned. So first thing first, I am on Cato's side on this one, Katniss is being over dramatic and stubborn. But we all know Katniss is stubborn and I'm trying to keep her in character as possible since I already changed a lot. Ok, so here we see their drunken sides, and a completely different Madge. I hate how she's a goody goody, and I decided to change that. Hope you like it! And sorry for the ending!

Mandy!

"So you and Cato in a fight or something?" Madge asks, flickering her eyes back to me and back to the road. I shrug my shoulders.

"Yea," I whisper.

"Wanna talk about it?" she asks. I shake my head, and we don't talk until we're pulling up in her driveway. Madge being the town mayor's daughter, she hasn't moved out. And why would she? She had everything. And I mean everything. She got all the clothes she wanted, as much food, a roof over her head, she had it all. So of course she wouldn't move out.

"What about you and Gale?" I asked. "In fact, where the hell is Gale?" she got a sheepish smile on her face.

"Well… uh… Gale is kinda.. Here?" she says.

"What!' I yell. She gives me a weak smile, and shrugs her shoulder. I groan and pick up my bag. "Why didn't you tell me?" I ask her calmly.

"Because I knew you would freak out! And you are!" I roll my eyes.

"Why is he even living with you?" I demand.

"I didn't want him to leave back to Texas. And I didn't want to leave here, so he's going to stay here until he gets back on his feet." she sighs, and runs her hands through her hair.

"Well, then. I can see why we need a girls' night." she giggles, and we get out of the car. Madge's house is like a flipping mansion. Fountain in the front and all. Perfectly cut grass, trimmed bushes, everything was perfect. Everything was clean and in order. Especially the house. Not a loose article anywhere, practically to no dust. And the best part, Madge's parents thought she was the perfect daughter. Thought she always did the prim and proper.

Well they were wrong.

From the moment you step in Madge's room, it was a mess. Clothes everywhere, random things and knick knacks here and there, posters of her favorite bands, and the best part, her closet. Underneath. Madge was a total bad girl. Complete opposite of good girl. Sure, she may come to school in dress were perfect nails, and hair, but deep down from the makeup and clothes, that wasn't Madge.

Madge is the girl that would hook up with some random dude in an alley way. Madge is the girl who doesn't listen to the rules when she's out of her house. She's the one who drinks until it runs out. Madge is the one who has no problem acting like a complete idiot, as long as she's having fun, she's good.

And that's what makes her awesome.

I flopped down on her bead.

"How long are you staying girly?" Madge yelled form the bathroom. She was fixing her hair, by straightening it. She was taking off the light makeup and stripping down to her bra and underwear.

So conservative.

"Uh.. I don't know! I think just tonight!" I yelled to her. I promised Cato I would only be gone one night, so I planned on keeping that promise. I needed to repair any damage that I've created with him, because then again, he was my fiancé.

"Alright hun!" Madge said, while finishing putting on her eyeliner. It was thick, but it looked smooth and clean. She fluffed her hair, and walked towards me with a makeup bag. "No! No!" I started crawling back on the bed, and eventually hit the backboard. She pulled off the cap for a separate eyeliner, and started to put it on.

"Madge are you forcing people to play dress up again?" I heard Gale ask. Madge jumped off of me and glared at Gale. Gale looked her up and down and smiled all the way to his ears. Madge blushed furiously when she realized she was still in her underwear and bra. "Maybe I should come in more often," Gale smirked. Madge squealed and ran up and hugged him.

"Um hello?" I asked. The both looked at me, and Madge managed to escape his grasp and run into her closet to put on some clothes.

"Hey Catnip." Gale waves at me. I wave back.

"Hello," I say cautiously. I haven't really talked to Gale one on one a lot, and I wasn't looking forward to it.

"How are you and Cato?' Gale asks. I mentally groan. Of all questions… it had to be this one?

"We're good. Engaged." I said cautiously.

"What!" I heard Madge scream from her closet. She came out form the closet with some sweatpants. She started screaming and jumping up and down and ran over and squeezed the life rut of me which I'm guessing was meant to be a hug. "You didn't tell me because!" she asks when she finally pulls back.

"Slipped my mind. He proposed on graduation." I said.

"You've been engaged for two weeks and you didn't bother to tell me?" she asks. I laugh and shrug my shoulders.

"Not a lot of people know." I smile at her.

"So… who's the maid of honor?" she asks. I shrug my shoulders.

"We haven't even talked about anything. I don't even know when we want the wedding, but when I do, you'll be the first to know." I tell her. She squeals again, and runs back into her closet. Gale is still standing by the door, clenching and unclenching his jaw. "Gale?" I asked.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he grits.

"Because I didn't tell anyone. I didn't know it was that big of a deal."

"That big of a deal? What are you talking about! Your getting married and its no big deal!" he roars. I cringe, and Madge comes out of the closet with a dress on. it's a one shoulder black cocktail dress, with a pink strap, and a rink belt over the midsection.

"Gale calm down!" she says. He balls his fist.

"She's like my sister and she didn't tell me." he says.

"Gale she didn't tell anyone!" Madge hisses. I get up and walk into Madge's closet while her and Gale continue their little argument. Maybe I shouldn't tell people if their just going to freak out. But the more I wait, the worse it'll get.

I run my hand through a wall of dresses. But we are just having a girls' night, and I preferred some jeans and a cute top. I grabbed a purple sparkly tank top and walked out of her closet. Madge and Gale were still fighting by the door, so I grabbed some jeans, and walked into the bathroom to change. Seems like there's fighting everywhere. Once I changed, I finished putting on the eyeliner that Madge had begun to do before Gale barged in, put my hair in a straight ponytail with my bangs out, and called it good.

"Apologize," Madge pushed Gale in front of me when I walked out of the bathroom. I raised my eyebrow at him, and crossed my arms.

"Sorry I flipped out." Gale told me. I shrugged my shoulders and walked back to my bag. I checked my phone and saw I had a message from Cato.

Hey are you ok?

I debated on whether I should respond or not, and decided to. If I wanted to fix things, then this would be a good start.

Yea, probably going to go out with Madge for a little bit, spend the night, come home tomorrow.

I texted him and slipped my phone into my back pocket. Madge ushered Gale out of the room, and she looked tired.

"See? He's impossible." she says. She runs her hand through her hair again, and pushed herself off the door. "No more drama tonight. Let's party!" Madge says.

…

The club where we were at was crowded with young people. I was already on my 5th shot of liquor of some sort. I don't know the name, Madge ordered it. Madge was a giggling mess, giggling at anything I said to her. We both had 3 beers before we moved to shots, and to say we were drunk was an understatement.

"Maaaaaadggeeee," I slurred. She looked up and giggled at me. "I think… I think we should… actually I don't know what we should think." I slurred. My mind was foggy, and I couldn't think straight, let alone see straight.

"Call Caaaatooo!" she squealed. I covered my ears, and pulled out my phone. I barely typed in the pass code.

"What do… what do I saaay?" I asked. She laughed, and slipped off her barstool. I started laughing hilariously, and Madge was curled up in a ball laughing on the floor. I'm surprised Madge hasn't gotten stepped on yet. I jumped off the barstool and pulled Madge up off the floor. I plopped her down on her seat and put my hand in her face.

"Staaaaay. Stayy." I said sternly. She laughed and put her head on the table. I sat down in my serat, and looked at my blurry cell phone screen, and freaked out. "Madge there's something wrong with my phone!" I complained. She just laughed. Then someone came up to me, and slammed my phone down on the table. "Hey!" I yelled. I looked up , and saw the last person on earth I wanted to see. I instantly felt myself sobering up, ready for a fight.

"Miss me?" she asked. She pulled up a seat and sat down on the table.

"Get the fuck outta here Glimmer." I spit at her. She just laughed.

"What are you going to do? Fall on the floor laughing?" she taunted.

"Heyy!" Madge said, "I just fell on the floor!" Madge giggled. I slapped her hand and pinched her arm, she yelped, and when she saw Glimmer I saw her eyes lose some of that foggy look.

"Listen Katniss," Glimmer growled. "I made a deal with Cato a little while ago." she said.

"Why would Cato make a deal with you?" I grit.

"Oh this was when I texted you saying it was over," she said it like it was no bug deal and a daily topic that you bring up. It was getting me pissed. "If he didn't leave you alone, I had no deal running you over with my car."

"Ok and?" Madge asked.

"I don't break promises." she growled. "And seeing you and Cato are no closer then ever, I plan on keeping my side of the deal."

"Is that a threat?" I asked Glimmer, standing up. She pushed her chair out and stood up too. I still had a few inches on her.

"You bet your ass it is." she said. I stared right in her eyes.

"Bring it." I said. And with that, she smirked and walked off. I sat down at my seat. "I want to go." I told Madge. She nodded her head.

"Do you feel sober enough?" she asked. I could tell she was having troubles, and since my little conversation with Glimmer, I was feeling much more sober. I half dragged Madge out of the club since she was stumbling all over the place. When we got to her car, I shoved her in the passenger seat, and I walked over to the drivers side.

I was feeling good.

Think sober.

Think sober.

Before I knew it, I was halfway to Madge's house, and I was stopped at the stop sign. I saw one other car at the intersection, and I waved for it to go. They didn't budge, so I figured I would go. I pushed on the gas pedal and drove through the intersection.

Halfway through, and too late, I realized the other car from the stop sign sped up, and was coming at my side full speed. The impact was intense, and was hard enough to kill me. I felt pieces of medal and glass being thrown all over me. At one moment I felt airborne before I hit the ground. I heard screams, which may have come from Madge, or me.

The last thing I saw was a flash of blonde hair before my whole world went black.