Author's Note: See you at the bottom.
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games or its characters. All credit goes to Suzanne Collins
Katniss's POV
Three weeks later..
The phone in the living room immediately rings. I quickly answer it since Peeta is still asleep.
"Hello." I answer.
"Hello!" Gale yells and I flinch.
"Could you be any louder?" I say in anger." What do you want?"
"Is Peeta there?" He asks stressed out.
"He's asleep." I say and I hear him mumble a,' shit.' " Maybe I can help."
"Fine." He sighs." I want to be a nice husband and make breakfast in bed for Johanna but I don't know how to cook anything."
"I'm useless in the kitchen." I say.
"No surprise there." He murmurs." Just, help me out here!"
"Shit, ok, I'll pick you up in ten minutes and we'll go buy breakfast and say you cooked it." I say.
"Better than my idea." He says and I hear rustles.
"I'm going to change, bye." I say and click.
I set the phone down and tip toe upstairs. This is my chance to make Peeta breakfast in bed. I guess it's more like buying him breakfast in bed.
When I reach the top step, I see that Peeta is still asleep.
I quietly put on some yoga pants and boots. It's still not cold out until the ending of October. August is barely ending.
I grab my phone and decide to leave a note for when he wakes up.
Peeta,
went to help Gale out with something. Be home soon, love you.
- Katniss
I leave the note on the nightstand and head downstairs.
..
"Calm down!" I yell for the hundredth time.
"I'm sorry." He mumbles." I just don't want her to divorce me."
"Over breakfast?" I snort and pull up into a waffle shop. Peeta and Jo have never been here.
We get out the car and head inside. The last time I came here was with Prim and mom about a year in a half ago.
"Can I take your order?" A pretty blonde asks.
" What should I get her?" Gale asks me.
"Just get something that she likes." I say.
"Get me number four." Gale says.
"Ok." the blonde says." What about you Ms. ?"
"Uh," I scan the menu. Peeta likes cinnamon, I'll get him cinnamon waffles." I'll get number 12."
"Will that be all?" The woman asks.
"Two extra orders of number 12." I say. Gale likes cinnamon as well.
"Katniss, are you pregnant?" Gale jokes.
"Maybe." I lie and look away.
"WHAT!" Gale yells.
"I was joking." I hiss when I see people looking.
"That'll be $20.35." The blonde laughs.
"We're splitting." gale says. He knows how stubborn I am.
I take out ten dollars and a quarter. Gale and I hand our money to the woman and we sit down; waiting for our order.
"How's marriage?" I ask him.
"Not as scary as I thought it'd be." He says.
"Sounds nice." I say with jealousy. Wait, why am I jealous?
Gale grins and my eyes widen.
"Shut up." I mumble.
"You want Peeta to propose." He teases and I turn red.
"Be quiet." I mutter and try to change the subject." What's with the weather today?"
"Trying to change the subject, I see." Gale smirks and I punch him in the arm." Ok, Calm down."
"Damn you, Gale." I huff and sit back.
He laughs and says," I'm surprised he hasn't popped the question. You're both head over heels for each other."
"Order up!" The blonde calls and I jump out of my seat.
I grab my bag and race out the waffle house.
"Catnip! Come on! I was teasing you!" Gale shouts after me.
I scowl and get into the car. Gale makes his way to the passenger's side and says," I'm sorry."
There's a tap on my window and Gales gaze turns cold. I look beside me and see Cato. I have a restraining order on him.
"Katniss and Katniss's friend." He leans against my car." How's life?"
"Great." I spit out.
"Interesting." He rubs his chin.
"Get the fuck off my car and leave." I mutter.
"Not happening." He says.
"Why's that?" I hiss.
"I have an offer." He says.
"Didn't you hear, get off the car and leave." Gale mutters.
"Fine, Fine." He says and gets off the car." So you leave your baker for this."
"His name's Peeta." I glare at him.
"I'm married." Gale points out.
"Ah." Cato nods." Cheating."
"We're not cheating." I mutter.
"I don't blame you." Cato acts like he didn't hear me." That baker is girly, don't you agree Abigail?"
"It's Gale." Gale corrects.
"Peeta's not girly." I feel my anger rise.
"How does he beg you to stay with him every day?" He laughs." Does he tell you you'll have a life supply of cupcakes?"
"You asshole-" I reach for the door handle but Gale stops me.
"It's what he wants." Gale says.
"Where's the other one? Johanna? I think that's her name." Cato smirks and Gale's grip tightens on me." Ah that one, always wanted to get her in bed."
"Fuck off!" Gale yells and reaches for the door handle.
"By the way, Delly says Peeta was great in bed." Cato smirks and I punch him in the face.
I hop out my car and punch him repeatedly.
"FUCK YOU CATO!" I yell in anger.
Someone tears me away from him and I struggle.
Cato gets off the ground and wipes his nose. He laughs but makes contact with the ground again when Gale punches him.
"LET ME FUCK HIM UP!" I yell and claw at the persons arms.
"Arrest them." I hear behind me. Shit.
Peeta's POV
I wake up and see that Katniss's side of the bed is empty. I spot a note on the night stand.
Peeta,
went to help Gale out with something. Be home soon, love you.
- Katniss
I look at the clock and see that it's only 9:52. My phone starts to ring and I see that it's not a number from my contact list.
"Hello." I answer.
"Peeta." Katniss says in a stressed tone.
"Katniss? What's wrong?" I ask." Why did you-"
"I need you to bust me out of jail." She says.
"Jail? Katniss, what did you do?" I ask sitting up.
"I'll explain myself when you get here, just please." She begs.
"Hurry up, I need to call Johanna-" I hear gale in the back round.
"Shut up!" She yells.
"Girls feisty; like it." I hear another voice.
"Tell me about it, I lived with that for two years." I hear Cato's voice and the line goes dead.
Katniss's POV
"I'LL FUCK YOU UP! YOU HEAR ME!" I pull on Cato's hair. The cops try to pull me away.
"Separate cells." I hear someone murmur.
"KATNISS LET GO!" Gale yells in anger. He only calls me by my name when he's being serious.
I let go and the cops stumble a bit.
"Love you, baby." Cato makes kissing faces.
"Shut it." A cop says and leads me over to a separate cell.
I sit on a seat and kick the ground with my foot.
"GALE HAWTHORNE, YOU ARE IN SERIOUS SHIT!" I hear Johanna's yells.
"Somebody's in trouble." A drunken man says.
"I can-" Gale begins.
"Hey you, get him out." Johanna hisses at the cop.
"He needs to be-" He begins.
"I paid, get the fuck out!" Johanna yells and the cop grabs the key in an instant. No one wants to mess with an angry Johanna.
I hear more walking and see that it's a cop and an angry Peeta.
"Fight, Katniss?" Peeta asks in disbelief.
"I-" I begin.
"No, we'll talk about this when we get home." Peeta shakes his head.
The cops open my gate and Cato says," Bye, love."
"You-" I reach for his cell but Peeta throws me over his shoulder like a bag of flour." FUCK YOU, CATO!"
We exit the jail and Peeta sets me down. We walk towards his car and get in.
"I need to pick my car up." I say and he looses it.
"Why, Katniss!" Peeta yells.
"He started it! Plus, it's not my fault he keeps on forgetting he has a fucking restraining order!" I yell.
" You could've called the cops!" Peeta yells.
"Peeta, he was talking about you and Johanna!" I yell.
"Katniss-" Peeta rubs his temples.
"No, ok! You know what, I'm walking the rest of the way home!" I yell and get out.
"Katniss, come back." Peeta says in a frustrated tone. I speed walk and hear him open his car door. I take off in a sprint but he catches up to me and stops me." Stop!"
"Get away!" I yell and try to move around him but he won't let me.
"We're not done talking about this!" He yells. Peeta's never been this angry and it scares me.
"You want to talk about this? Fine! Let's talk about this!" I yell." Gale called and asked for help! He was trying to make Johanna breakfast in bed but he didn't know how to kick and I didn't either so we drove to a waffle house and placed our orders. I thought hey, maybe this is my chance to make Peeta breakfast in bed! We pay and get in the car and Cato leans on it. That's when he started saying shit and we lost it!"
"Katniss, I don't want you getting yourself in trouble because of me!" Peeta yells.
"Then how come you always get yourself in trouble because of me!" I yell back and he's silent.
"It's-" He begins.
"No." I shake my head and start to walk towards the waffle house. I end up taking off into a sprint and don't stop.
"By the way, Delly says Peeta was great in bed."
I start to feel nauseous at the thought of those words. When my car comes into view, I hop in and drive to wherever the road takes me.
Peeta's POV
Katniss isn't home when I get there. I guess she needs time alone. I'm such an asshole, I shouldn't have yelled at her.
The phone rings and I answer it in an instant.
"Katniss?" I say.
"It's Finnick." Finnick says." What's going on between you two?"
"She got arrested and we got into a fight." I run a hand through my hair.
"Johanna still won't talk to me." I hear Gale say." That asshole had it coming when he said those things about Jo."
..
Hours pass and still no sign of Katniss. I grab my phone and dial her number. It rings and rings until it reaches voice mail.
"Katniss, can you please come home? We need to talk; I promise I won't yell." I plead.
Another hour passes by and still no Katniss.
"Katniss, I'm really worried. If you're not home in an hour I'm looking for you." I leave another voicemail.
Katniss's POV
I sob and prim tries to calm me down.
"No, Katniss. No it's and's or but's." Prim says." What's going on?"
"I got arrested." I mumble.
"ARRESTED! KATNISS EVERDEEN-" She begins.
"It was Cato's fault!" I yell." He started saying things about Peeta!"
"Katniss, that's what he wanted." Prim says.
"I know, but when he said something towards the end, I lost it." I say.
"What did he say?" She asks.
"He said that Delly told him to tell me that Peeta was great in bed." I feel anger crawling back.
"That idiot!" She yells in anger." I would've beat him up then tracked Delly down and beat her ass up!"
There's a loud beeping sound and I see that its Peeta calling me again.
"Peeta?" She asks.
"Yeah." I say and wipe my eyes.
"Just talk to the poor boy already!" She lets out a yell.
"We're just going to end up fighting and I don't want to. I'm tired of it." I say.
"Johanna's calling." She says.
"Don't tell her where I am." I say.
"Ok." She says." I'll talk to you tomorrow Katniss."
"Bye." I mumble and end the call. I have more than five voice mails from Peeta.
I turn my phone off and flip on the T.V. I leave the channel on adult swim and try to pay attention to the show that's playing. But I can't.
About thirty minutes later there's a soft knock on my room door. I get up and open the door.
"I said no-" I begin and see that it's Peeta. I'm about to slam the door shut on him but he stops me.
"Katniss, please." He says and squeezes himself into the room.
"How'd you find me!" I hiss at him.
"Johanna." He says.
Prim must've told her.
"I'm sorry for yelling, look, can we talk?" He says.
"I tried being reasonable and you didn't listen." I glare at him.
"I know and I'm sorry." He says.
"I don't want to fight anymore; I'm tired of it." I say and he nods.
"We won't fight, I promise." He says and I nod." Again, I'm sorry for yelling at you. I just care about you so damn much, and you being in jail just scared the shit out of me. When you told me that you got into a fight with Cato because he was talking bad about me, I couldn't help but think it was my fault."
"But it wasn't. It was Cato's." I sit on the bed, remembering what Cato said and I get angry again.
"I promise you I'm not mad about the jail thing, just promise you'll stay away from there." He says.
"I promise." I laugh.
"What else is bugging you?" Peeta asks.
"You don't understand, Peeta." I say
"Then tell me." He says.
"Cato told me that Delly told him to tell me that you were great in bed." I mumble." Then I punched him several times and got arrested."
"Katniss," Peeta turns me towards him and cups my face with his hand," I never had sex with Delly."
"You don't have to-" I begin and he puts a finger against my lips to silence me.
"No. I never did. We never got that far because it all felt wrong to me." He says.
I look away from him, shocked that he said that.
" Don't ever get in trouble because of me." He tells me moments later.
"Peeta, what would you do if Cato went up to you and told you that I was good in bed with him?" I ask him and his eyes darken with anger.
"I would've punched him." He mutters.
"Now do you understand why I reacted that way." I say and he nods a bit, still looking angry." Peeta, you already know about me."
He nods and his eyes soften a bit.
"I'm sorry for yelling at you that way." Peeta apologizes again." I shouldn't have."
"It's fine." I say." I'm sorry too."
"For what?" He asks.
"For running away." I say." And getting arrested."
"It's ok, just don't scare me like that again." He says.
"Ok." I say.
He scratches the back of his head in a nervous way and says," Can I ask you something?"
"Sure," I say.
"I've been wanting to ask you this for a while." He starts to shift." I-"
There's a knock on the door.
"House keeping." I hear a woman say.
"Sorry." I get up and answer the door. What was Peeta going to ask me?
Author's Note: Sorry if this chapter sucked. Please tell me what you thought. Either PM me or review. Have a happy new year.