Chapter 5
All our jaws drop. Mine, Peeta's, and Kara my sister's, because instead of long brown hair Katniss has long blonde hair, my Mom's Katniss's and Gale's because Peeta has his arm around me. Luckily I quickly recover.
"Hello nice to meet you! I'm Meta" I say my hand out. Katniss shakes it and nodes to Gale. He shakes it looking me down with cold gray eyes.
"You too, I'm Gale," he says.
"I would've never guessed." I joke. He smiles. Then there is an awkward silence.
"I'll take your bags and lead you to your rooms" I say nodding to Peeta to take some bags. We walk up two sets of stairs, then take a right and show them their room the only other room on this floor is Kara's.
"Here we are!" I say, and they look impressed. They shouldn't be I mean they spent about a year in district 2. "Sorry it's not that big I know in district 2-"
"No this is big enough, we've never seen a room this big in district 12!" Katniss exclaims. Wow I'm shocked.
"I thought you were both rich." I say slowly.
"No, no, we both used to hunt in the forest!" Katniss laughs. Now I feel really stupid, I saw them then every day. Funny I somehow knew they'd be important so I never turned them in.
"Wow I think I saw you almost every day!" I say taking Peeta' hand, "Well we'll leave you two alone to unpack."
"Actually can I talk to Peeta in private? Please?" Katniss asks.
"Um sure. Peeta I need to see you in the living room when you're done" I say leaving with Gale. I close the door and start to walk away but then Gale pulls me back. I snap my head back to look at him. "What are you doing!" he hisses.
"Giving them privacy!" I whisper. Then again he has a point I think.
"Come here and listen." He says and pulls me up to the door.
We hear hushed voices: 'What the heck is SHE?' Katniss asks.
'She is my loving girlfriend! Why does it matter to you any way!' Peeta says.
'Well I thought you would tell me about that, I still like you Peeta!' Gale gasps.
"Gale calm down. Its ok." I say hugging him, but the next thing catches me off guard.
'Katniss I don't like you even as a friend I'm sorry I'm doing this for Meta she was so excited to meet you, you're a hero in her eyes she looks up to you. But don't worry I'll tell her not to bother. Good bye.' Peeta says. WOW HE LIED FOR ME? I think. I get up and run down to the living room and catch my breath.
It's about 10 minutes until Peeta comes in the room, and he looks like he is about to go punch Katniss in the gut. I act like I didn't hear anything and say "What did Katniss want?" I ask.
"Well she wanted to know who, ok what, you were and I told her you were my loving girlfriend what does it matter to you! And she said she still likes me! The nerve of that girl! First having 2 kids while dating me then saying she still likes me while I'm dating the best thing that ever happened to me!" he says blowing up.
"Shh, she isn't worth it, its ok only about 6 more days that they'll be here. We can make it, right?" I say hugging him and soothing him. Soon my mom walks in and I take a deep breath. Knowing I owe her an explanation.