Chapter Thirty five – Friends? (KPOV)

On Sunday everyone went home, apart from Peeta. We drove to pick up Prim from Rue's house. She greets me with a smile but I ignore her. "Katniss, I'm sorry. Okay? But you can't blame me. I am only fourteen you know." She huffs and slumps back in her car seat.

As we pull into the station, I turn to look at her in the back of the car. "Fine." She relaxes and smiles. "But just know, I am going to make your life hell." Her smile quickly fades as she watches me get out the car.

Our parent's train finally arrives (after 30 minutes delay, geez). "I've missed you both so much," my mother says as she hugs us tightly. "Mum. Need. Air. Can't. Breathe." I joke.

We drive back to ours and invite the Mellarks in for dinner. My mother nods approvingly at the tidy house, that I supervised everyone cleaning thoroughly earlier today.

We settle down for the left over stew and start conversations. "So, anything interesting happen while we were gone?" Jack asks. "Prim got a boyfriend." Prim drops her spoon in shock of my reply.

"Primrose Everdeen, is this true?" My mother demands. Prim mumbles a yes. "What's his name?" Gwen asks. "Rory Hawthorne," Prim says quietly, but not quiet enough. Now it's my mother's turn to drop her spoon. "Katniss, get your bow."

I am laughing so hard I'm crying. "Don't worry Ms. Everdeen. Katniss has already threatened Rory and Gale's lives," Peeta reassures her. I smirk at the memory and Prim glares at me. I wink at her from across the table.

That night, the nightmares plague me again.

The truck crashes against the car over and over, but each time, someone different is in the car. All of my loved ones. First my father, then Madge, then Annie, then Finnick, then Gale, then Prim, then my mother, my father and then Peeta. I scream each time for them to get out, in the hope I will save them, but with no such luck. Every time I can't save them, I part of me dies with them. Peeta's scream is so haunting. It replays over and over.

I scream myself awake. "How can this be fair?" I mutter to myself, Peeta's finally look still fresh in my mind. I pick up the phone and dial his number. "Hello?" "Peeta?" My voice cracks. "Katniss, are you okay?" "I had a nightmare, I'm sorry; I had to check you were okay. I'm sorry if I woke you up," I confess. "You didn't wake me. I had one too." I smile at the fact that I can share this with him.

"C-can I come over? I need to see you." "Please hurry," I tell him. I can basically hear him smiling. "I'll be there in ten minutes."

He arrives with his school backpack. We embrace for around 10 minutes, just making sure that this isn't another nightmare, before sitting down on the couch. "Want to talk about you dream?" He nods. "My mother was-" he stops and shakes his head. "I'm sorry, I can't. It's too difficult. I will tell you eventually, but right now, it's too soon. Do you want to talk about yours?" I shake my head. I'm too raw to even consider how I would put what I dreamt into words. "I know how you feel. It's too difficult to even think about it."

We fall asleep in my bed, wrapped in each other's arms. We wake at 5:00am. I decide we should get up and pretend as though Peeta just came over for breakfast. Once we're dressed, we go downstairs and watch TV until we hear someone else stir.

By the time we get to school we are both half asleep. Now that everyone knows, it's a lot easier because they know not to ask questions. It's only when I'm falling asleep in science, someone asks.

"You get nightmares too?" I snap my head up and see the second to last person I would expect. "I'm sorry?" "I've been where you are. Still am. Here, I photocopied my notes so you can catch up." Clove is popular and mean… why is she being nice to me?

"I'm so confused. I thought you hated me?" She laughs. "Yeah, firstly, I just want to apologise for all the shitty things Glimmer made me do." Made her do? "She's such a bitch." I chuckle. "Isn't she supposed to be like, your best friend or something?" Clove shrugs. "We were. Then she turned into supermassivemegaslut with her fake boobs and fake hair and I became more for a body guard."

"Should you really be taking the piss out of her fake boobs?" Clove looks at me proudly. "These puppies are all me." "Holy shit," I mutter. She laughs again. "So yeah, I would have come and said hi to you years ago but I had this twisted sense of loyalty towards her." "Why me? And why now?" I ask still confused.

"Because you're the kind of person I'd love to be friends with. You're loyal, moody and fucking insane with a bow. Plus, now Glimmer can annoy Finch and I can escape while they check their make up in their science experiment." We glance over and laugh at Glimmer and Finch looking at their reflections in a sheet of aluminium.

"Hey, do you want to sit with us at lunch? Couldn't have you hanging with that now could we?" She smiles. "I was going to ask you anyway considering I've already told Glimmer to fuck off." I like this girl. "So does this mean that we're friends?" I nod. "Friends," I say extending my hand to her to shake.

When Clove and I sit at the lunch table everyone goes quiet. Clove clears her throat and starts to say something. "I just want to say sorry for being such a cow to you all. I'm not actually like that; it was just how I was expected to act." Everyone stares blankly at her.

She drops her head to her hands. "Why did Glimmer turn me into such a bitch?!" "So you're being serious? You're not just messing with us?" Madge asks sceptical. Cloves head flies up. "What? No! I'm with all of you guys, I hate myself for acting the way Glimmer made me. She's awful to you guys, and don't get me started on Finch. I'm sick of it now. I told you to get a life and started talking to Katniss. I am so sorry for being such an ass to you guys."

Everyone exchanges looks, like they're having a silent conversation. Madge nods at me. "Okay, we accept your apology." A smile dances on Clove's face and she lets out a breath of relief.

"So, Clove, got a date to the dance?" Clove shakes her head violently. "I was going with Cato, but he's such a dick I broke it off. He can go with Glimmer for all I care." She stares downheartedly at her food. Finnick snickers. "Well the broken nose he's sporting would look awful next to your dress." We all turn to see Cato hunched over his lunch tray with two black eyes.

"Oh my god! What happened?" I raise my hand and show her my knuckles. "I am proud to say, I am responsible for that." Clove laughs uncontrollably. Peeta kisses me knuckles and I blush. I turn to see Clove smiling at the guy sitting next to Cato, Marvel. He mouths 'hi' and she blushes, mouthing it back.

"Uh, hello! Someone moves on fast!" I nudge her back to reality. "Oh um yeah…" she mumbles. "Clovey has a crush on Marvel!" Gale exclaims. Here he goes with nicknames again. "Keep it down dumbass!" Clove hisses. I laugh at her nickname for him.

"When did the flirting start?" Annie asks. "A few days after I told Cato I didn't want to go to the dance with him because he is a jackass with major attitude problems." "And when was that?" Clove shrugs. "Around a week before the holiday. I saw him a few times, but I was always with Glimmer and Finch so I never had a chance."

Peeta glances over her shoulder. "Well it seems you have more of a shot than Glimmer does." We look over at their table again, to see Marvel brushing Glimmer off then blushing as Clove smiles at him.

When we turn back around Gale, Finnick and Madge start singing. "Clove and Marvel sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes-" Clove launches an apple at Gale's head. In an attempt to dodge it he falls off of his chair. We all laugh at him and his trying to stay mad fails; he ends up laughing with us.

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