"So where are we going?" Gale asked pushing away the hair from his eyes.
"You'll see" Madge said dragging him down the street towards Everdeen's. Gale gives a deep sigh but keeps up next to her. When they reach the Everdeen's house Prim opens the door for them. Gale walks in to find the familiar machines set up in the living room. A smacking sound is heard and Prim and Madge turn to see Gale hitting himself.
"What are you doing?" Prim asks quietly
"We did this already! We already know Madge is pregnant! See look" Gale lifts Madge's loose shirt revealing a small baby bump.
"Gale doesn't like the machines" Madge explains to a very amused Prim. Gale's jaw drops as Madge walks away from him.
"Come on Gale" Prim says taking his arm. Madge and Gale take similar positions as last time and wait for the picture to show. This time it doesn't.
"Prim…" Gale says voice guarding hurt.
"Yes?" she says looking at him
"Where is she?"
"She?" Madge interrupts. Gale smiles.
"Yeah I'm putting all my money on a girl"
"It's my money too, and I'm choosing boy" Madge says crossing her arms cross her chest. Gale snorts and shakes his head no.
"Guys?" Prim tries to interrupt
"Well I think it's going to be a girl"
"Well you think wrong" Madge says rolling her eyes
"No- I'm never wrong" Gale shrugs
"Guys…" Prim tries again.
"You could be wrong this time" Madge says poking him in the chest
"Yeah but I'm not going to be" Gale says poking back
"You're not the one carrying this baby!" Madge yells
"Yeah but I have a feeling…"
"GUYS" Prim yells they both jump but turn to her. "Be quiet and listen" Madge slumps back down on the couch and Gale gets down on one knee.
"What is that?" Gale asks turning his head to the side.
"The baby's heart beat" Madge whispers. Gale raises his eye brows and continues listening. After a while Prim shuts the machines down and makes tea and dinner for the expecting couple. They talk for a while mostly about Prim and Rory. "Has he proposed yet?" Madge giggles into her teacup.
"No" Prim shakes her head
"He will" Gale says and winks. Prim blushes. Later Madge and Gale leave the house and start walking home. Yet instead of walking straight home, Gale starts walking towards town. Madge quickly follows him curious on where they're headed too. He leads her to the memorial of the bombings. The memorial is in the meadow where everyone fled to. Madge stops short but Gale walks up to it and points to names. "We should tell them" he says quietly tracing the names. Madge shakes her head.
"They know" she informs him. He turns to her, eyes sparkling in the setting sun. His feet carry him around the memorial reading all the names of the lost. Madge stands back letting the tears fall from her eyes. Finally step by step Madge comes closer to the names Gale was tracing. Her delicate fingers trace along them too, her parents, the grandparents to their baby. "Gale." She hisses, "Why did you take me here?" Angry tears stream down her face and the seething is all pointed at the man walking around the corner of the memorial.
"I don't know… I come here to think a lot" He says rubbing her arm. She pushes it away violently and snarls.
"When, when do you have time to come here to think?"
"When I pick up bread from the bakery" he says pointing a thumb to the store behind them.
"Is that just a cover up to see another girl?" She says looking him up and down.
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?" Gale screams. Madge steps up to him and snorts.
"You know what. I don't want you to come home. Live somewhere else. I don't want to see your face." Gale's expression falls from angry to distressed
"Madge?" he asks shying away from her
"Save it" she says and turns on her heels back to her house. Gale stands there for a minute until he is absolutely sure he can feel every bit of his heart fall to his feet. His hands stuff into his pockets and he shuffles down to victor's village. At the end of the road he looks down at his house then turns the opposite way.
"COME IN!" someone shouts within the large grey house. Gale opens the door and walks head down into the vanilla scented family room. Hazelle Hawthorne walks down the long hallway with a bowl full of cookie dough and a large wooden spoon. "Gale" she smiles, "follow me" she leads him back down the hallway to a brightly lit kitchen. She sets down her cooking on the counter and wipes her hands on the stripped pink apron.
"Madge kicked me out" he sighs leaning against the counter
"I see" Mrs. Hawthorne nods, "What was the fight about?"
"I'm not sure. I think she was mad because I took her to the memorial… then when she asked why I took her here… I don't know. She thinks I'm seeing another girl" Mrs. Hawthorne laughs making Gale's head snap up with an evil glare. "what." He says
"Oh nothing, I said that to… your father… when I was pregnant with you" She smiles sweetly at her grown son.
"Oh" he says smiling a sad smile
"I kicked him out too" she shrugs turning back to her cooking. Gale laughs and takes a bit of the cookie dough causing Mrs. Hawthorne's hand to smack his hands away from it.
"So… she'll take me back?" Gale smiles
"Not for a while. She'll probably cry next or dance around the room… or both… hormones do some crazy things to your emotions" She says waving her spoon in the air. Gale snorts then looks confused
"So it's the baby's fault?" he wonders scratching his head
"Yes" Hazelle laughs. Gale tells her his hunches on the baby's sex and his mother quickly agrees with him, "Your father guessed all of your genders. I was wrong every time but I wanted a baby girl… no offense… but your father always got his way" she laughs shaking her head, "So you possibly will too" Gale grins
"That's because I'm always right"
I'm going to continue this chapter :b
A light blub just went off over my head. I'm going to do something EVIL(: ... and sad... :/
Please review and give me your ideas!
~Erin~