Peeta
"No, mom. This is my dream. I'm tired of your rules."
"Peet, you can't open your own bakery I forbid it," my mom yells on the other end of the phone.
"Don't call me Peet. And what are you going to do? I'm an adult. You don't make the rules for me."
My mom has always been a strict one.
The brunette woman from the print shop comes back to her car. She is very easy on the eyes.
"Peeta, did you hear me?" my mom asks.
"What mom?" I watch the woman start up her car beside me.
"I'm cutting you off Peeta. You can come to pack your things, but I can't have a traitor living with us anymore."
"You're kidding, right? What does Dad think of this?"
My dad is much nicer than mom ever was. "Goodbye, Peeta,"
"I'll be by later tonight." I band my steering wheel and look around me. The woman is long gone now. I sigh and slam my car door shut. I walk back up the path to the shop again.
Rue is organizing some new envelopes when I go inside. "Oh, hey Peeta. Did you forget something?"
"No. I just need to cool off." I scope out some of the prints I sold to the shop.
"Cool off?" Rue asks.
"Can you believe my mom just cut me off. Kicked me out of the house."
"What? Why?"
I pick out a pile of creamy cardstock for my vlog. "She doesn't approve of me opening my own bakery. God forbid she find out about the art."
"Wow. I'm sorry Peeta. Do yu have somewhere to stay?"
I hadn't thought of that. "No. I guess not."
Rue's mom comes out from the back room. "You can stay with us for as long as you need until you find a place of your own."
"Thank you." I notice one of my prints missing.
"Hey did someone actually buy a print?"
"Yeah. Katniss did. Man Peeta you don't give yourself much credit."
I shrug. No need to boast. "So, that woman who was here earlier, her name is Katniss?" That name suits her.
Rue eyes me with a little twinkle in her brown eyes. "Uh-huh."
"Hmmm. Do you uh know much about her?"
"Yeah. Just what her sister Prim has told me and of course she used to come by all the time." Rue says.
"Well, I better go."
"I'll see you later, I guess," Rue says.
I take my new supply of cardstock and head to my bakery to set up for my new vlog announcement.
I set up a large scale of one of my prints from the meadow as a background and stand in front of it.
I wait for the little red light to come on. I start my live vlog. I can see the viewer count in the corner.
"Hey everyone and welcome to Mellark Masterpieces! I'm sure you're wondering where I'm. I know it looks a bit different from my normal location."
I pick up the camera. "You are standing in my very own bakery." I use air quotes around standing. ONE VIEWER
"I'll be doing both baking and painting demos but wanted to give you all a sneak peek."
I close out the vlog and then organize my supply room until around 8:00 then head home to pack my bag and head to Rue's family's place.
I wonder who my one viewer was. Probably my little brother Rye.
Should Peeta and Katniss meet in the next chapter? What do you think?