The fifth chapter :)

I was busy, so I hadn't much time to write... I can't sit around writing every night. Unfortunately. Hope you like it... Please review C:

In her eyes I can see every kind of emotion - trepidation, confusion and protest. "I' m not!"

"Who did this to you?"

"No one. I'm not hijacked."

"What is with you?"

"Nothing" Why is she so stubborn?

"Something is wrong with you. I see it. I feel it. But I don't know what's it. You can tell me it." A flicker of exhaustion crosses her face. Her façade gets cracks.

"You won't understand it." Her voice full of sadness and frustration.

"I could try to understand it. If you would tell me it." I think of how we used to tell each other everything. That's far gone.

"I-I can't" A tear rolls down her face.

"Why?"

"I just can't"

"Ok. You'll tell me it another time. I'll come with you to 12." Her face lightens. The color comes back to her face and her cheeks flush.

"Really?" She asks shaky, like she isn't sure if it's a joke or not.

"Yeah."

She wraps her arms around my neck and whispers a "Thanks" in my ear.

We stand there for several minutes, embracing each other. It's so much like it was before this whole problems. It's like we're back in the woods, warming each other an a chilly day.

"I've missed you." My voice sounds like I'm choking on something.

She steps back and looks at my face. "I've missed you, too." Then her eyes focus on something far away and Goosebumps cover her arms.

"We should get going" I take her hand and we go to my mothers house.

I'm just about to touch the handle when the door opens, my mother standing in the door frame.

"Hey mom." I want to go in but she still blocks the door.

"Katniss, I have to talk to you. Alone." I look at her confused. She takes Katniss hand and pulls her in. When I want to follow them, Rory stands there, blocking the door. "Want to go for a walk with me?"

I'm not really in the mood, but something says me it isn't a question.

He comes to me and closes the door behind him.

"What's going on?" I'm sure he won't answer me.

"Mom wants to talk to Katniss" Sure.

"Lying isn't good." I smile at him weakly.

"You lied your whole life."

"If I didn't lie we would have starved." My voice getting ice cold.

We follow a path at the edge of the woods. How much I miss this feeling of being free. Free in the woods with the old Katniss.

A dark haired, pale girl walks by. "Hi, Rory."

He flushes and answers fluttery. "Hi, Sierra"

When she's out of earshot I decide to ask him about her. "Ah. Sierra,huh?"

He flushes again.

"Is she your girlfriend?"

"No, she barely knows me." His voice higher than usually.

"But you love her, right?"

"Uhm… maybe a little bit."

"Why don't you ask her out for a date?" Guiltiness turns my stomach over and over. I've missed so much in these last 2 years.

"I don't know if she even likes me and I don't know how to ask her"

"You should just ask her out for a dinner or something."

The wood gets thinner and ends abruptly at a cliff. I can hear the water splashing against the stone.

"Yeah. You need to know…" Ouch.

I don't answer. I don't want to talk about it anymore.

The wind gets stronger and I can smell the salt.

"Sorry."

That's the end of the conversation. We walk in silence at the edge of the cliff. It goes downhill to a beautiful beach. I actually never have been at a beach. The fine sand surprises me. I expected it to be rougher and harder.

We go to a wooden path and follow it back in the direction of the square.

Suddenly Rory stops.

"What is with her?" I know who he's talking about.

"I'm not sure. I think it's some kind of hijacking." My voice sounds like ice.

"Maybe she's just gone mad…"

"I'll see."

"You're going back to 12?"

I nod.

"Because of her?"

I shrug. „I miss District 12"

He smiles a little bit. " Me, too."

"I think we should go back."

He bites his lip. "No. Uhm… no."

He looks somehow panicked.

"What does mom want to keep from me?"

"N-Nothing. Why do you think she wants to keep something from you?" He asks a little bit too

innocently.

"You're not a good liar." I smile at him wryly. "We're going back now"

"Hmpf."

We go past the square and into the street where my mother lives.

I open the door and go into the living room where I can hear my mother speak.

She sits on a chair next to Katniss. But she isn't talking to Katniss, she's talking to the blond man in

front of her. The man, I never wanted to see again.

Peeta.

Yay... Peeta came back... :|

Go Team Gale ! :3