I make my way down the corridor to my first session since I got here. I got told yesterday by Effie that she and another teacher were running a group session and I was put down on the list. I was nervous about it as i did not know who would be there. I did ask Cinna if I could get out of it but he said that it properly was not a good idea and should try and go to it.
I finally come to the door leading to the session room. I knock on the door and her Effie's voice say I could enter. I open the door and see not strangers but familiar faces. They were all sitting in a circle. There sitting to my right was Johanna. She smiles at me and gives me a little chuckle. "Why, hello there Brainless. What brings you here?"
I am about to answer but Effie cuts me off, "She was put down on the list for this session." I look around the room to see the people Johanna was talking to me about yesterday. Finnick and Annie were sitting to the left of Johanna, two seats away. Next to Finnick was Peeta. He stares at me like he did yesterday but quickly looks away. "Right, now we are just waiting for one more person, so why I quickly go and look for him why don't you all get seated and we can start." Effie says as I took my seat between Johanna and Peeta. Effie then leaves mumbling something about being drunk. I turn to Johanna who is slouched in the chair. She then looks at me.
"So Brainless, you in a talkative mood today?" she says sarcastically. I look down. "I take that as a no." I look to my left to see Peeta talking to Finnick. "You know he was asking about you yesterday." I turn to Johanna who was looking at Peeta. "He was talking to me yesterday, which he usually doesn't do very often. Wanting to know who you were, when you got here, bla, bla, bla.." I looked down onto my hands.
"What did you say to him?" I asked Johanna. Johanna smirked and laughed slightly.
"I said that if he wanted to know then he would have to ask you himself." She is now looking at Peeta with the smirk still on her face. Peeta my of sensed Johanna was looking at him because he turned and faced us. "That's right pretty boy, we're talking about you." Before Peeta could say anything, the door opened. Effie entered with another man. He had blond shoulder-length hair. He walked as if he was drunk.
"Sorry for the hold up, someone lost track of time." She said the last part looking at the newcomer. Johanna sighed.
"This guys is always drunk." She looks at me, "You get used to it." I turn back to Effie and the other guy, to see that they have already sat down. The new guy looks at me.
"And who might you be, sweetheart?" I try to answer but nothing comes out of my mouth.
"This is Katniss, Haymitch. She joined yesterday. She's-" Effie began to speak but Haymitch cut her off.
"Mute." I shyly look down. "I've seen my fair shares of mute teens." He said with as sad smile. Even though he doesn't seen full nice, he kind of is at the same time.
"Alright, so lets get started." Effie say clapping her hands together. The session went on for an hour. I barley said a word. "All we did was listen to each other about what they do to calm themselves down and what can trigger break downs and how we can avoid them. At the end of the session we were told to was free session. I didn't know what that meant but everyone else did. We all left the room and everyone walked of in different directions. I was just left by the door, unsure of what to do. Effie then came out of the room and saw me standing there. "Dear what are you doing here?"
"I, um.." I pause and take a deep breath, "I don't know were to go, or what to do." Effie smiles at me.
"That's okay. Here," she turns our body so they are facing to our right, "if you head down this corridor and head down the first flight of stair you will come to the 'free session' area. Its where people can go and have some fun. Why don't you head down there and see if there is anything there you would want to do." I nod to her and head into that direction. Once I am at the bottom of the stairs I come across all these different door with windows in them, so I could see what is in the rooms. One room is a room with a mirror wall. I'm guessing that must be a dance studio. Another room is full of different materials and those fake body things. I'm guessing that must be some sore of fashion studio. I then come across a room full of painting and pictures. I can't help but be drawn to the room. I open the door and find painting hanging from the wall, and string from the ceiling. I start to look at the painting and then go to the drawing that are lying in a messy pile. I then come across one that has a picture of two girl sitting at a table. One of which looks like Johanna and the other looks a bit like-
"Hey." The voice makes me jump. I look up to see that Peeta guy standing by the back door holding a big book, properly a drawing book. "What are you doing in here?" He asked calmly. I try and find the words but that aren't coming out of my mouth. "Your the new girl aren't you? Katniss right?" I nod. "I'm Peeta." I nod again putting my arms around myself. "I didn't really hear you talk today in the session, are you on mute?" I nod shyly. "That's okay, I was on mute when I got here as well." We are then awkwardly silent. I don't see what Johanna was going on about. He seems like a really nice guy. Not the type of guy that could break someone's nose and wrist. We stay silence in the room for about a minutes, when someone comes in. I turn to the door to see Cinna enter. I see relief on his face.
"Hey Katniss, I've been looking all over for you." He walks over to me and then sees Peeta. He gives a nod to Peeta, which he returns. This confuses me. "How why don't we get you out of here?" I nod and stand up from the chair. Cinna quickly says good-bye to Peeta before we walk out of the room. I could still feel Peeta's eyes on me.