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28! Enjoy x
Katniss' POV
Then he issed me. Woah. This is not what we rehearsed. But I didn't know what to do, should I break it off, shout at him later or just pretend like this is how it was meant to be? I do nothing but kiss him back. I could feel Peeta's eyes on me questioning my every move. But why should he? Maybe I'm imagining things. Peeta might not even care that Gale and I are 'together'. But there's still a shadow of doubt in me.
We're still kissing and then Gale breaks it off. He smiles. 'You're enough for me, Katniss.' he says, pushing a loose strand of my hair behind my ear. Then everyone starts clapping. Except for Peeta. Miss Trinket gets her paper and waves it as a fan.
'Ooo, very heated. Well done, you two, but next time lay off the physical part of the relationship. A+!' she exclaimed. Gale hugged me and whispered in my ear.
'Even you can't say that wasn't an act.' Was it an act? My head was all over the place and I didn't reply. I just walked away and went to Peeta. It was the end of class and we made our way to first break. It was silent for a couple of minutes when Peeta just let it all out.
'What the hell Katniss?!' I don't know why, but I didn't seem surprised at Peeta's outburst.
'What?' I say almost casually. Peeta pulled me behind a bush. 'Oo, Peeta you just broke up with Delly...' I say, just to get him off topic.
'Shut up, Kat. You know what I'm talking about! You and Gale. I know that kiss wasn't scripted, something's going on.'
'Nothings going on...' I say quietly. I'm hopeless at lying, especially to Peeta.
'Don't lie to me Katniss.' I breath in heavily. Here it goes.
"I'm sort of going out with Gale...' I say in the quietest voice, but Peeta picks it up.
"What?!" he shrieks.
"No no, he's a really nice guy when you get to know him." I try to add.
"I do know him Katniss! I've known him for 4 years and you, who I've known for literally a couple of months, I chose over him. Why? Because I trusted you." Peeta's about to walk off but I hold his arm.
"No listen..." Tears start to form in my eyes.
"No YOU listen. Think about what you want Katniss, then come back to me. Right now, I can't even look at you." He jolts his arm away and then walks away. I fall and sit behind the bush and cry silently. I sit for about 10 minutes when my phone buzzes. For once, its not from Glimmer.
Hey, where are you? I've been looking everywhere.x -Gale
I get a mirror out and look at my face. Its gone all poufy and blotchy from the tears. I take out my water bottle and wash my face with some water. I then get out the bush and find Gale. I stay on my phone to not draw attention to myself. With my head down, I bump into someone.
"Cato." I had a feeling he still hated me so I was ready to walk off. I got to about one step when he spoke,
"Peeta told me." I really didn't know what to say. I didn't think Peeta would ever tell Cato, but to be honest, I wouldn't have told Cato ever. I'd never know what to say. There's a small bit of relief in me.
"Told you what?" I ask, stupidly.
"You and Gale! God Katniss don't play games with me!" I was amazed to hear his anger. But obviously, being me, I shouted back at him.
"I'm not! So what if we are?!"
"Because..." first bit of silence he's shown me.
"Because what Cato?" Still silent. It was annoying me. "Because what?!"
"Because ... I thought that we... We had something.." I was still pretty angry at him about this morning.
"Well, we were going to be friends and you ruined that. Gale and I could work so why are you so annoyed for? I told you this morning, and you just walked away!"
"Because you asked me to! I've done everything for you Kat and you just threw it back in my face! Well now, I can even stand next to you. Goodbye Katniss."
"Cato, you can't just walk away!"
"I'm not, you told me to." He put his hand on my face and then walked off. I held back the tears because I was in the open. I am not a weakling. I try to find the toilets when my phone buzzes. Twice. First one is from Gale.
Where are you? Meet me at McDonalds x
I text back saying OK. I check the other. From Glimmer. What does she want now?
Ha. Saw you and Cato are over. About time. Well done Katniss Everdeen, you now know that I AM ALWAYS IN CONTROL.
That's it. A tear ran down my face. I quickly wipe it and get out of school. I wait outside McDonalds and weirdly Gale is not there, even though he is the one who invited me. But I see him from a distance, running. But I don't even protest of question why he's late, I'm too sad to be doing that. He finally gets to me and he was panting.
"Sorry. Bus was taking ages so I ran it." I just nodded, but I wasn't really paying attention to him. "Hey are you okay?" For the second time today, another tear runs down my cheek. "Katniss..." Gale put him arms around my head and hugs me. "It's okay. Let's get something to eat." He stroked my hair and we went inside. I sat down and waited while he got my food. When he came back he brought me a burger, fries and a coke. "So, what's up?" I tell him everything. How Peeta, Delly and Cato all hate me, I haven't seen Annie or Finn, Clove's sick. Then I burst into tears. Again. Damn, what's wrong with me today?! "Katniss." He holds my hand. "You don't need them. You've got me and I've got you. No one else matters. Maybe it's best that they're gone, I mean, they were just holding us back." I am amazed to hear what Gale had to say about them. Has he always felt like this? He leads me up to my front door. "I'll tell the school that you were ill. Have a rest, Kat."
"Thanks Gale." I say and I stand on my tip toes and kiss him. It was a long one like before in Drama. I broke it off.
"Anytime." he says to me. Then he holds my left hand, kisses it and walks away, my arm stretched out as if to keep him. Then i walk inside and rest my head on the door. Is this the start of something new? PING! Ugh, my phone went off again. Glimmer and ... Annie. I read Glimmer's first.
You're with Gale..? Can't say that wasn't a good choice. But I never want to see you with my Cato ever again or there will be trouble. Big trouble.
Why can't she just get off my back?! I then read Annie's message.
Hey Kat. I heard about you and Gale. I'm not angry at you, promise. Is it okay if me and Clove come by later? xx
Sure and thanks. Love you x I text back. At least some of them aren't against me. I get changed into my NSPCC big tee and my leggings. Then now that's all left to do is wait for Clove and Annie...
oo what will happen..? Review to find out
