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"Its not what it looked like," I said moving past her and going into the kitchen.
"Tell me what it looked like Katniss," my mother said calmly following me into the kitchen.
"What ever you are thinking it wasn't," I said starting to collect all the dirty dishes and stacking the dishwasher.
"I was just thinking that a couple of weeks ago my daughter started dating her best friend and I come home to find her sleeping on the couch with someone else." She looked at me shaking her head.
"You have no idea," how dare she judge me.
"Yes I do Katniss. Don't you think there were other men when I was dating you father," she said. "One of them was Peeta's father but even though I had feeling for other people I was faithful to your father."
"Maybe you should be having this conversation with Gale mum," I yelled.
"All I am saying is that…," it annoyed me that she was still so calm all I wanted to do was scream.
"No!" I snapped throwing the pan that Peeta had cooked with into the sink.
"Katniss sit down," my mother said pulling out a chair at the table.
"No I'm done," I began to storm out of the room.
"Katniss sit down," my mother raised her voice just enough for me to stop in my tracks and slump down in the chair.
"Now I know since your father died I haven't been the best mother," she said sitting down and taking my hands in hers. I wanted to scream at her that was a down right shitty mother that she nearly let her children die that I had been taking care of this family since the day dad died.
"But I don't want you to try and punish me by acting out," she said.
"You really have no idea," I took my hand back and refused to look at her.
"Then tell me Katniss please help me understand," she said.
"I never wanted to date Gale mum it was always Peeta even when I just met him. It was never Gale I agreed to go out with him because he was my best friend and I didn't want to hurt him."
"This does not excuse the fact that you are cheating on Gale with Peeta," she said.
"One Peeta and I didn't do anything we just fell asleep watching TV and two I found Gale having sex with someone else so I think our relationship is void," I said crossing my arms.
My mother just stared at me for a moment she opened her mouth a few times to speak but then closed them.
"Have you talked to Gale about this," she finally said.
"No why would I talk to him about this," I threw my hands in the air.
"I am just asking you a question. You and Gale have been inseparable for years and your going to let this come between you," she said.
"Because he changed mum he promised me that he wouldn't when we started dating but he did and I hated him."
"Katniss I think you shouldn't go jumping into another relationship. If things have ended with Gale you should just take some time," she said.
"No I don't need time I need Peeta and nothing you can say is going to make me break up with him," I don't really need Peeta I want to date Peeta am I turning into one of those whinny girls that die if they break up with their boyfriends.
"Katniss I am not saying that you should break up with Peeta I am just saying that maybe you should have waited a little while before jumping on the next train," she said. When the hell did we start talking about trains was she calling Peeta and Gale trains.
"Look mum I am grown up I have been taking care of this family for years and not that your just beginning to be a mother again doesn't mean that you can sit there and lecture me," I said getting up and storming to my room. Slamming the door I thought if that was the kind of supportive Prim was talking about.
"Katniss we were not finished talking," mum said opening the door and coming into the room.
"Really cause I thought we were done," I said throwing myself on the bed.
"Katniss I know that you are angry with me," I felt my mother sit on the end of the bed.
"Yes I am angry. Lets start with the fact that you shut down after dad died. The fact that Prim had to go without that she was hungry and upset because she had just lost both her parents. Or how about the fact that I had to learn that you are taking a new job from Prim," I yelled.
"I was going to talk to you about that Katniss," she said sounding shocked.
"While we are giving advice that no one wants to hear I don't think you should do it. You can't even work three days here without breaking down and your expecting to do it in nine," I spat to her.
"Your right Katniss."
"And the fact that you need to move to another district which means I would have to double my shifts to support you in nine as well as Prim here. Then there is the train ticket to and from nine….wait I'm right," I sat up and looked at her.
"Yes Katniss I have decided that I'm going to nine however I wanted to talk to you. I was thinking that I would increase my shifts at the hospital that would mean you would need to stop working so much to look after Prim," I could tell that I had upset.
"Mum I'm sorry," damn it I should have listened to Prim and be supportive. I came up behind her and wrapped my arms around her resting my head on her shoulder.
"I know that I have not been the best mother since your father died but I wanted to try and make up for it. When you said that you were dating Gale I realized for the first time that you were only a teenager with the weight of the world on your shoulders. So I went straight to work and asked for more shifts. So that you could finally be a teenager," she said.
"Really?" I was shocked I thought that I would always have to look after Prim and mum.
"Yeah and the fact that are graduating this year and I guess would want to go away to college," she said.
"I'm sorry mum," I felt so bad for yelling at her. Years and years of pent up anger exploded.
"Its okay Katniss I understand," she said.
"I know you are just concerned but Peeta is really amazing," I reassured her.
"I know if you like him he will be amazing," mum said getting up.
"He is," I said.
"I will have to meet him then," she said smiling.
"I really am sorry for what I said your doing your best," I said.
"Its okay Katniss," she said moving my hair behind my ear then turning to leave.
"Mum is it okay if Prim and I use the car tomorrow?" I asked.
"Sure Katniss as long as your back by five I start work at 6," she said turning and leaving.
As soon as mum left the room I grabbed the phone and called Peeta.
"Hey," Peeta whispered.
"Did you get home okay?" I asked.
"Yeah smooth ride," he whispered.
"That's good, why are we whispering?" I started whispering.
"I just got home trying to make it to my room give me a second," he said.
"Where the hell have you been?" I heard someone yell.
"I was out," Peeta said and then everything became muffled. "Mum I'm on the phone," Peeta said.
"Oh so you know how to use a phone. I thought you didn't because I cooked you dinner and you didn't even have the decency to call and tell me that you weren't going to be home;" the women who I assume was Peeta's mother yelled.
"Amy leave him alone," a man said.
"I told Dad that I had a date," Peeta said.
"Oh you had a date, Who's the lucky girl?" she yelled.
"I'll call you next time," Peeta said.
"We are not talking about next time Peeta," she screamed. "We are talking about today."
"Peeta go up stairs," the man said.
"I spent hours cooking for you people and your don't show up."
"I'll eat it tomorrow," Peeta said.
"No it was for dinner," the women yelled and a dish hit shattered.
"You didn't have to throw it mum," Peeta said.
"Peeta why don't you go to bed you a game tomorrow," the man said.
"No he is grounded he is not going tomorrow," the women said.
"I didn't do anything," Peeta snapped.
"Your not grounded Peeta just go to bed," the man said.
"I'm sorry Dad," Peeta said.
"Don't be sorry Peeta you did nothing wrong," the man said.
"He did nothing wrong," the women yelled. "If that boy killed me it wouldn't be his fault."
"Oh and if Wynn or Arlo killed him you would still find a way to blame it on Peeta," their voices got further and further away until I couldn't hear them anymore.
"Peeta? Peeta?" there had been silence for a few moments. "Are you okay?"
"Did you hear that?" he questioned.
"Yeah," I wanted to run and get in my car drive to his house punch that woman and then hug Peeta.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"Its not your fault Peeta," all I wanted to do was hold him.
"Yeah I know, so how was your mother?"
"We yelled well I yelled and she was calm and then she lectured me about trains and Gale and then she said that she was going to try and work more shifts at the hospital so I could be a normal teenager," I still felt bad for yelling at her.
"Train?" Peeta said laughing.
"Yeah she said that Gale was a train I just got off and I shouldn't get on another train for a little while," I laughed.
"Well I'm glad you got on my train," Peeta said laughing.
"No you were the train not on the train," I pointed out.
"Well I'm glad you got on me," he laughed. "Wow that was totally inappropriate."
"I'm glad to," I laughed.
"Apparently your dad and my mum had a thing," I laughed.
"Really?" he didn't sound surprised as he led on.
"Yeah in the middle of her lecture on faithfulness she said that there were other men when she was dating my father and your dad was one of them," I filled Peeta in.
"Wow so we could have been bother and sister," he said sounding as grossed out as I felt.
"Lets just not think about that," I tried to laugh it off.
"I wonder how far they went," I knew exactly what he was talking about. Did our parents have sex with each other?
"I really don't want to know!" I said.
"Good me either," Peeta said. "We will need to do the social studies homework some time tomorrow as well," I was so thankful he changed the subject.
"Yeah why is that? Oh yeah someone stormed out of the classroom," I joked.
"That's fine," Peeta said calmly then went silent.
"Peeta? Peeta? I'm sorry," I said panicking think thinking I really offended him.
"Got you," he said laughing.
"Oh I hate you!" I said laughing.
"You can't hate me I'm too cute," Peeta said.
"Keep believing that," I said but the thing is I think he was right.
"So my game is at 10 tomorrow, at the park, " he said.
"We will be there," I said it was weird but I was really looking forward to it.
"Okay I better get some sleep," he said.
"Good night Peeta," I said.
"I will see you tomorrow," he said.
All I could do was smile.
"Primrose, come on we're going to be late," I yelled up the stairs.
"Give me a second," she yelled.
"What are you doing?" I yelled back.
"I'm making something it will take another second," she yelled.
About five minutes later she came running down the stair holding something.
"Whats that?" I asked.
"It's a flag for Peeta so we can wave them and really embarrasses him" she said holding up a green triangle flag stuck to a ruler with Peeta's name written on it.
"I made you one too," she said handing me one.
"I think that these will embarrass me more than they help Peeta," I said taking the flag off her.
"We're showing our support for you boyfriend," she said giggling.
"My boyfriend," I said mocking her.
"Bye Mum," I didn't know if she was up.
"I think she is still asleep," Prim said.
"Lets go!" I said waving Prim's homemade flags.
"I am excited for this," Prim admitted while we were driving.
"Really? I didn't know if she was joking or not.
"Yeah I play soccer at school with Rory," she said.
"You will have to explain what is going on then," because seriously I didn't even know soccer was a sport until Peeta mentioned it.
"You can't touch the ball with your hands," Prim said.
"Is that it?" I asked.
"Yeah basically," she said.
"That sounds easy," I laughed.
"Well if Peeta can play it," she laughed.
"Oh funny," I said poking her. "So you like him?"
"Yeah he is okay," she shrugged.
"Just okay?" Peeta was more than okay to me.
"He makes you happy and that makes me like him," she said as I pulled into the near the field.
"Really I'm touched Prim," I said getting out of the car.
"That and he brings me cupcakes," she laughed.
As we found a seat in the stand I caught sight of Peeta on the field.
"Go Peeta!" Prim yelled causing him to look in our direction. A huge smile spread across his face and he waved.
"Good luck," I mouthed and waved back.
"Thanks," he mouthed winking as a blonde haired guy hit him on the back of the head.
"You were amazing!" I threw my arms around Peeta neck and kissing him.
"We lost Katniss," he said reaching down and holding my hand.
"But you were amazing," I said kissing him again.
"You had no idea what was going on," he laughed.
"No idea! All I know is that you weren't meant to touch the ball with you hands and you didn't do that. So you did a good job," I said holding up my flag and waving it.
"What's this?" he said taking the flag off me.
"Prim made them for you," I wanted to kiss him again but there was to many people around now.
"Where is she?" he said looking around.
"There," I pointed to the field where she was playing with a couple of kids.
"Come on I want you to meet my dad," Peeta said pulling me along after him.
"Dad," Peeta said going up to a man. He was basically the same height as Peeta with the same features Peeta obviously got his mouth and his nose from his father.
"This is Katniss," he said.
"Its nice to meet you Mr. Mellark," I said offering him my hand.
"Nice to meet you too, Katniss," he said shaking my hand. "You look so much like your mother." No one had ever told me that I looked like my mother.
"Thank you."
"Did you enjoy the Game Katniss?" he asked.
"Yeah I had no idea what was going on but Peeta was amazing," I said squeezing his hand.
"He was maybe if you and your brother learn to work as a team you may win next week," the man said to Peeta.
"I tried Dad but they are assholes," Peeta said.
"Peeta don't call them that," the man warned.
"Why they call me that and you say nothing," Peeta snapped.
"Yes but we are better than that," he said. "Here they come."
"Just remember how cute I am," Peeta whispered into my ear.
"Guys this is Katniss Peeta's friend," the man introduced me to the three people that had just joined us. One I recognized as Peeta's mother, the other was his brother Arlo and the other was the person I saw hit Peeta before the game stared I guess was Wynn.
"This is my mother, Arlo who you have met," Peeta pointed him out and he winked at me. "This is Wynn."
"How you going?" Wynn said looking me up and down.
"My girlfriend she is my girlfriend," Peeta snapped at him.
"So Kaitlyn you were the one Peeta was with last night," his mother spat at me.
"Amy don't," Peeta's father warned.
"Its Katniss not Kaitlyn," I said correcting her.
"I have better things to do," she said sighing then turning and walking away.
"It was nice to meet you Katniss," the man said smiling.
"If your ever sick of him," Wynn winked.
"Sorry," Peeta turned to my when they had left.
"Its okay," I smiled. "Don't you need to go with them?"
"No I drove myself I was hoping we could do something," he said pulling me closer to him.
"Like out social studies homework," I said in the sexiest voice I could.
"Oh you make me so hot when you talk like that," he said laughing.
"Where did you want to go?" I asked.
"Family is going out won't be home till tonight," he said playing with my hair.
"Lets ditch the kid and get going," I said as Prim came running up to us.
"Peeta and I have some homework to do so we're gonna drop you home then go to his house," I told her.
"Homework sure," Prim said laughing.
"What are you saying?" Peeta said acting shocked.
"That if you two get any homework done I will be really shocked," she said starting towards the car.
"She has no faith in us," I said.
"You two are all over each other," Prim said pointing to our interlocked hands. I had seriously forgotten that I was still holding Peeta hand.
"We are not all over each other," Peeta said. "Your sister seriously repulses me. I mean look at her," he said screwing up his face.
"And his face looks like a train wreck. How you think I would be all over that sickens me Prim," I shot back.
"Sure you guys," she laughed.
"No Prim believe me he even smells disgusting," I continued.
"Woah I just played sport you gotta give a man that," he said.
"Oh no I was just, you smell amazing," I said taking his face in my hands and kissing him.
"We kinda ruined it there," he laughed as we broke apart.
"Yeah kinda," I said laughing.
"Guys lets go," Prim said.
"I will follow you and pick you up yeah," Peeta said letting go of my hand and all I wanted to do was run after him and make him hold it again.
"Yeah," I said waving.
"You two make me sick," Prim said as we got into the car.
"Shut up!"
"Fancy meeting you here," Peeta said when I got into the car.
I put my hand behind his head and pulled his towards me kissing him.
"I thought my face was like a train wreak?" he said smiling.
"What can I say I like myself an ugly man," I laughed.
"That explains Gale then," Peeta said pulling out of the driveway. I wanted to tell him to lay off Gale that even though we weren't speaking anymore that he was still my best friend.
"So how did you want to get to four?" he asked after a long silence.
"Look Peeta I know you promised Prim that we would take her to the beach but I really don't think we can afford it at the moment not until we see if my mum is going to stick with this working full time thing," I knew he was trying to get Prim to like him but we just couldn't afford it.
"Katniss I was talking about the project we need to we need to get to four," he said laughing.
"Shit sorry," I said wanting to die.
"Don't be sorry," he said putting his hand on my thigh.
"So have you looked at any of the stuff for this project?"
"Yeah it will cost us $200 to get a train to four,"
"Why don't we just drive?" I asked he already had a car and then all we had to do is pay for fuel.
"I asked Mr. Cinna that and he said that if we wanted to drive we had to buy a car and I couldn't find one for $400."
"Train it is," I agreed that a car wasn't an option.
"Then I found a two bedroom apartment that we can rent for $250 a week with a one year lease and its close to a train station so if something comes up later about getting around we already have it covered," he said smiling.
"Who is the other bedroom for," I laughed playing with his hair.
"I thought we could use it for activities," he said winking.
"When did you do all this? We were meant to do it together," I asked.
"I did it when we were fighting," he said.
"Oh the dark times we will never speak of them again," I said dramatically.
"It was really the worst week of my life," he laughed.
"So what do we still need to do?" I asked as Peeta pulled up in front of his house.
"We just need to write it up."
"So we are taking the train because a car was to expensive and we are renting the apartment because it is close to the train and it has room for activities," I said.
"All we need to do it type it up and then we can.." he grabbed my hips pulled me closer and kissed me.
"And you have to make me a sandwich," I added.
"Pffff you need to make me a sandwich women," Peeta said smiling.
"Fine if you want a burnt sandwich I will make them," I said walking away from him.
"How do you burn a sandwich," he asked following me.
"I will manage it," I said stopping at the door waiting for him to open it.
"Fine I will make them," he sighed.
"That's why you're my boyfriend," I said pulling him into a kiss.
"Your luck I like pretty things," he said throwing the door open.
"You think I'm pretty," I said smiling.
"I think your beautiful," he said pulling me up against him kissing me.
Okay I gotta ask you guys a question I was thinking of bringing other characters from the books; I know that some people don't like the way I made Gale the same age as Peeta and Katniss. What I am asking is would it completely ruin the story for you guys if bought in other characters and made them fit into my story?
Let me know =D
Thanks for reading! Oh and please tell me what you think of this chapter.