Hey Everyone! Woooowwww...I got really good feedback this time around! Thank you so much! It means a lot to me, you have no idea...So, once again, this story is dedicated to Courtney, such a great help, I'm forever indebted to her; and Holly, my cherished sister...
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Finnick came into the room, two days later, wringing his hands nervously as he stepped in. "Hey…Kat…" he lamely attempted.
Katniss rolled her eyes, "You didn't treat me any different yesterday when I told all of you what I thought about me dying. Why are you treating me different now?"
"It's not about that," Finnick protested, cringing. "Ermmm…So…"
Katniss let out an exasperated sigh, "So? Come on! Just spit it out if you have to! If you hide it from me or try to delay it, you'll only make me madder," she warned.
"Ok, ok!" Finnick raised his hands in surrender. "I'll…just…"
"SAY IT!"
"Plutarch wants another album!" Finnick rushed out in a hurry. "Pleeeaasssseeee Kat?"
"Why would Plutarch want another album? Doesn't he know? About my condition?" Katniss demanded.
"I don't know!" Finnick ran a hand through his hair. "Kat, if I can get one more album on my resume, I'm set! You think you could do it?"
"I think I can do it? Psshhh, I know I could do it!" Katniss waved it off, though her face looked pale. "Plutarch won't know what's coming for him!"
"Plutarch won't know what?" Thom peeped in as he passed their door.
"I'm gonna sing my heart and soul in this," Katniss cracked her knuckles.
Gale ran into the room, "WHAT IS THAT INFERNAL NOISE?" he bellowed. "It sounds like freaking Brutus!"
"Sorry," Katniss rolled her eyes, not sounding a bit sorry. "Be my chauffeur?"
"Where do you need to go?" Gale eyed her suspiciously.
"To the recording studio."
"Why would you need to go to the recording studio?"
"What is this? A freakin' interrogation?" Gale snorted. "Plutarch want us to make 'nother album."
"Oh…"
"Yes, oh…" Katniss mimicked sarcastically.
"Alright, Bucko," Gale helped her up, and steered her out of the room. "We're gonna get going now…before you explode."
"Me? Explode? No way!"
"Yes way!"
"No way!"
"Yes!
"No! Trust me Gale, you do not want to get into one of those with me!"
"Yes! Psshhh, I was the one who trained you to be like this. Girl, I am the master!"
"No! Yeah right! NOT. Maybe the master at trying…and failing! BURN!"
"Yes! Duuuudeee, you just WISH that were a burn!"
"No! I am a DUDETE, hello? And you're just in denial!" Their voices faded away as the curtain closed on the scene of the perfect display of friendship.
"Ahem. Focus!" Plutarch paced the studio. "I know what's going on Katniss. I was informed by your father who holds your medical records."
"He's not my father."
"Is that all you got from what I just said?" Plutarch asked in disbelievement. "Now shut up. Here comes my big speech."
Finnick and Katniss suddenly had a rather uproarious and rather violent coughing fit.
"Now, this is the album!" he cried dramatically. "After this, Finnick will have no duetist. He will be a soloist…Alone."
"Pretty sure that's what the meaning of soloist is…" Finnick muttered.
"We need this to be special. We need to commemorate to Katniss!"
"Gee, thanks, already considering me dead and feeling the need to commemorate me…I'm touched," Katniss pretended to wipe away a tear.
"So, we are going to go off with a bang!"
"BANG!" Finnick shouted.
"Ugh! Just pick some songs and go record or whatever!" Plutarch shouted, at the end of his patience.
Their friends snickered from the stands as Katniss and Finnick high-rived each other, and set to work.
Katniss
Finnick
Hey, now I call it a split 'cause I know that you will
Uh, oh, you bite your friends like chocolate
And you said, "We go where nobody knows, we got guns hidden under our petticoats.
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no."
Now run, run away from the boys in the blue,
Oh, my car smells like chocolate
Hey, now I think about what to do, I think about what to say, I think about how to think
Pause it, play it, pause it, play it, pause it
Oh, we go where nobody knows, we've guns hidden under our petticoats
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe,
We've got guns hidden under our petticoats.
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
"Now, you're never gonna quit it, now you're never gonna quit it, now you're never gonna quit it
If you don't stop smoking it," that's what she said.
She said, "We're dressed in black, head to toe.
We've got guns hidden under our petticoats.
And "We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no."
Hey, now we're building up speed as we're approaching the hill
Oh, my hair smells like chocolate
Hey, now you say you're gonna quit it but you're never gonna quit it
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it, go
And play it cool!
Oh, you said we go where nobody knows, we've guns hidden under our petticoats
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe,
We've got guns hidden under our petticoats
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Well, I think we better go,
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here you know
Seriously better go, oh, oh,
Well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
We go where nobody knows, we've guns hidden under our petticoats
No, we're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
Yeah, we're dressed in black from head to toe,
We've guns hidden under our petticoats
We're never gonna quit it, no, we're never gonna quit it, no
No, no, no
Well, I think we better go,
Seriously better go
Said the feds are here you know
Seriously better go, oh, oh,
Well, I think we better go
Said the feds are here you know
Said Rebecca better know
Seriously better go
"That's a wrap!" Plutarch shouted. "I want a solo on Katniss, it's gonna hit the top chart, and we'll release this album after she…passes away."
"Whatever," Katniss replied, playing aloof.
"Just get up there."
Katniss's lips curled into a smile, "I'm gonna do something really, really, ironic…" Finnick gave her a thumbs up.
I'm feelin' alive, I'm feelin' the rush
So energized, nothing's standin' in my way
I'm feelin' the beat, the beat of my heart
I'm feelin' the spark, I'm feelin' the flame
Lights up the dark, now I'm shinin' like the stars
It's something that I crave
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a sugar high
You can't stop me, even if you tried
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a rollercoaster ride
Got my hands up and I ain't stopin', tonight
Cause I, I, feel so alive
I'm feelin' the clouds come down to earth
I'm floatin' around, laughing so hard that it hurts
It's just one of those perfect days
I'm takin' it in, I forget to breathe
It's burstin' inside, so much I can't even sleep
I get lost in my own world
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a sugar high
You can't stop me, even if you tried
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a rollercoaster ride
Got my hands up and I ain't stopin', tonight
No one's gonna stop me
No one's gonna let you
Cause I, I, feel so alive
So-oh-oh-oh alive
Oh-oh-oh-oh sugar high
So-oh-oh-oh alive
Like I'm on a rollercoaster ride
So-oh-oh-oh alive
Oh-oh-oh-oh sugar high
So-oh-oh-oh alive
There's no, no stoppin' tonight, tonight
Cause I'm feelin' so-oh-oh
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a sugar high
You can't stop me, even if you tried
I'm feelin' so alive, like I'm on a rollercoaster ride
Got my hands up and I ain't stopin', tonight
No one's gonna stop me
No one's gonna let you,
Cause I, I, feel so alive
"CAUSE I'M ALIVE!" Katniss shouted as soon as Plutarch yelled, 'CUT!'…
"I'm pretty sure we knew that," Finnick told her dryly.
"Ugh, shut up!"
"Remind me to get you a book of comebacks."
"You stole my line."
"Whatever, you love me anyways."
"Suuurreeee..."
"WHAT?"
"Fine, yes I do..."
"Good." Finnick had a smug look on his face.
"Why are you sooo needy?" Katniss whined.
Finnick glared at her, "Shut up!"
Katniss grinned, "Remind me to get you a book of comebacks."
Finnick whined, and started a sissy fight with her, until Plutarch shouted, "GET YOUR HEAD BACK IN THE GAME!"
They headed over to Greasy Sae's for a milkshake or two, even though it was freezingly cold, because Thom worked there now since he was kicked out of the house. "Why the hell is it so cold in freaking Spring?" Katniss grumbled, rubbing her arms. "If I had known it was going to be this freezing, I would've worn something other than shorts and a t-shirt…"
Cato slipped off his hoodie, and handed it to her, leaving him in an old, worn out T-shirt. Katniss smiled at him, "Thanks." and leaned into him at they walked.
"Anything for my sweetheart," Cato wrapped an arm around her. The hoodie was overly large on her, and it went down to her mid thighs.
"I don't think I ever told you," Katniss started, as they walked into the shop. "but Haymitch calls me sweetheart too."
Cato had a large coughing fit, "I think I just choked on my own spit just there…Haymitch calls you sweetheart?"
"Yup!" Katniss skipped happily to the back of the booths, although lacking some of her usual strength and spring, she was happy.
Thresh raised an eyebrow, "I'm not cold at all…"
"Well, Mr. I'm not cold," Katniss rolled her eyes. "You guys just came out of soccer practice, of course you're not cold!"
"You know, without you on the track team, we're not as good anymore," Gale told her. "and everyone's asked where you've been."
"Yeah right, more like the teachers have been asking…I hope you told them the truth?"
"No, actually the Career's have a spiked interest in you, although I can't imagine that it's good…Oh bloody-" Glimmer and Cashmere were headed their way.
"Hello Katniss," Glimmer smirked. "I, like, need to, like, talk to you guys!
"Gale," Katniss groaned. "Why did you have to jinx it? Go away Glimmer, no one's interested or even remotely wants to hear what you or any of your 'wolf pack' wants to say."
"I'm sorry," Gale whined. "I didn't mean to!"
"Listen," Cashmere snarled, all their 'nice' demeanors gone. "If you, like, think you can, like talk to us like that anymore, then you're, like, totally wrong! You're, like, nothing but a ugly, horrible, sick piece of trash!"
"Totally!" Glimmer cried in agreement.
Just then, before any of Katniss or her friends could do anything, a cold voice said, "I'm going to ask you to step out. We don't allow any…bullying in this shop." As the girls protested, Thom led them out, practically having to drag them.
"Thanks Thom," Katniss sighed, who had slid further and further down her seat. "I don't think I could have gotten the strength to fight with them."
"Hey," Thom hoisted her up. "Don't worry about it. That's what over protective brothers are for, right?"
"Right," Katniss hugged him. "and this is what over emotional and annoying sisters are here for, right?"
"Right, but for the record, you were never annoying to me…Just trying at times…"
"Gee thanks!"
"Just kidding…but, I love you kiddo."
"Love you too Thom."
Dear Thom,
Hiiiiiiiiiii, over protective, big brother! I'm sorry I had to leave you here...but, I'm sure you're coping, and don't worry, I'll still be watching you...Always watching... I'll laugh with you when something great happens, I'll cry with you when something terrible happens...and I'll be there walking with you down the aisle when you got married. Don't disappoint me Thom, find someone who's deserving of you and make sure you both love each other...And don't worry, I'll be there with you to chase away any more of those crazy, psycho girlfriends that you may have in the future...
So, I'll never truly leave you...And, Thom...Go to Med School, become what you want to become, ok?...I'm leaving you 30,000 dollars. It's part of my savings and my dad's. I gave half to Haymitch, I owe him...
And Thom? I want you not to make the same mistake I did about Prim...I realize now that it was a mistake, Cato helped me realize that. In fact, I don't want you to do it so much, that I'll spell it out for you right now. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT...
Ok, Thom...I love you...Never forget that, Thommy Babes...
Ever your over emotional, annoying sister,
Katniss