Hellooo! Sorry I haven't updated in aaaaaages but I've been in Florence, Italy for the past 2 weeks and the first villa had Wi-Fi but unfortunately (no FanFiction or Facebook for me ha he) the second one didn't so that is why I haven't uploaded in a while. Also, school is starting for me on the 5th and I have some really important exams coming up, which means a lot of extra revision, so I probably won't be able to post so much but I will definitely try – especially if I get more reviews (hint, hint, nudge, nudge) :P…
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"Leave her alone Glimmer. She hasn't done anything to you!"
It was Peeta.
Peeta Mellark; Career Tribute, District 1, strong and powerful nothing compared to a weak, useless, seam girl from District 12, yet he had come to my rescue. I didn't ask for his help, he chose to help me. ME! Suddenly, to my pleasure, Glimmer's smirk flew straight off of her face, as she was just as shocked as I was with Peeta's actions.
"Pee?" she whimpered. 'Really?' I thought 'Pee? She calls him Pee?' but I wasn't the only one that questioned the nickname as I saw other tributes snickering and Peeta winced. Over to my left, I saw Jayden glaring at Peeta the same way that Glimmer glared at me at the ceremony yesterday. What was his problem? Was he jealous of Peeta for some reason? And why was he suddenly acting all friendly towards me? Glimmer was still pouting at Peeta.
"Pee, why are you defending her? She isn't one of us." She said indicating towards Cato and Clove meaning that I wasn't a career. Peeta, still with his back to me, took a step towards Glimmer threateningly as she backed away a bit.
"I've told you before," he replied quite angrily, "My name is Peeta, P-E-E-T-A. Ok? Not Pee – I hate that stupid nickname so stop calling me by it! And secondly, I 'm defending her because she hasn't done anything whatsoever to you and you're trying to get her killed before we have even stepped into the arena!"
Glimmer blinked, obviously surprised by this sudden outburst, and quietly mumbled,
"But – but she's from 12. We're from 1 we aren't meant to socialize with the lower class tributes –"
"We aren't meant to socialize with any tributes at all – no matter what District they are. I don't even care that she's from 12, that doesn't automatically mean she's weaker or not as skilled as us. We aren't some type of advanced race of people just because we come from a slightly richer District. We're all equal and when it comes to life or death in that arena in 3 days time, it really isn't going to matter whether you're rich or not just as long as you're smart enough to evade death for long enough!"
Everyone, from all of the Districts just stood their, gaping at Peeta. It wasn't normal to get a Career Tribute who believed that all Districts were equal; they usually classed themselves above us all. Slowly, Glimmer turned around and stared at everyone watching her.
"What are you all looking at?" she practically screamed, sending everyone back off into the training stations. Peeta slowly faced towards me and came over to me.
"Are you alright?" he asked me kindly holding his arms out to help me up. I couldn't respond in time thanks to his eyes. Every time I saw them it was like looking into a crystal blue pool of water and they just dragged you further and further in as if they were hypnotizing you. I hadn't even recollected what the situation was until the coordinator came storming over to us.
"What do you think you're doing Mr. Mellark? How dare you make contact with another tribute and then attack her! That is a violation of not only 1, but 2 rules!" We were both confused until we looked at our surroundings. Peeta was standing directly in front of me with his arms in front of him and I was sprawled onto the floor with stray spears and my bloody arm. For anyone who hadn't seen the previous scene, which she hadn't, it would look an awful lot like Peeta had been the one to push me down.
"Wait, that's not true –" I began to defend him but the coordinator cut across me.
"Not another word from either of you. Miss Everdeen would you please make your way over to the first aid section where the trainer will patch you up. Mr. Mellark, you are to stay as far away from Miss Everdeen as possible and if there is any sort of contact made again I have no choice but to hand you over to the capitol where they will do what they wish to you." I shuddered thinking about what could happen and obviously Peeta knew that it was serious because he solemnly nodded before quickly walking off in the opposite direction to the first aid stand. Eventually the coordinator left as well so I was just standing in the middle of the room by myself. Well that was until I suddenly felt a pair of eyes on me. Looking around, I saw the small girl from District 11 hiding in the shadows by a wall. Seeing that I had noticed her, she shrunk back even more until she was out of sight completely but not before I saw her smile slightly, just like Prim would do when you gave her something she was grateful for. Before I got to homesick I decided to get my arm fixed but that of course made me think of my mother who was a healer and would have fixed this within a minute whereas the trainer was fumbling around with bandages that were far to small or far to big and he looked like he had no idea what he was doing.
Once I had been all patched up, I resumed my training until it was time to go back to our District's quarters. With the rush to get into the lift up, everyone apart from Peeta and me managed to get into it so we waited for the next one in silence. When it finally came we stepped in and slowly, I turned to him building up the courage to speak,
"Thank you." I mumbled to him. He turned to me confused, "You know for earlier on, with Glimmer."
He half smiled, "That's ok, she had no right to speak to you like that, self-centered egotist." I laughed, "Sorry about your arm though, is it alright?"
"I think I'll live to see it through to the interviews just about." Now it was his turn to laugh. We returned to our awkward silence as I pondered about asking him something that had shocked me back at the training hall but by the time I had decided to, we were at his floor. He turned back to me, smiled and waved before,
"Bye Katniss, I hope your arm is alright." He managed to get out before the doors closed. My cheeks were blushing and I felt a little flustered before I realised something. He knew my name. He knew my name! Something inside me was yelling at me to be ecstatic at this but then I realised he would have watched the Reaping's and my name would have been called out there. Also I knew his name so it wasn't like this was an impossibility. But still – HE KNEW MY NAME! I couldn't stop smiling as I got out of the lift and stepped into the living room. Unfortunately, Effie had to go and ruin my happy moment.
"Katniss! What on earth happened to your arm? Oh well congratulations you foolish child now not even Cinna will be able to fix that to make you look pretty enough for the interviews!"
I scoffed, "Gee thanks Effie, nice to see you too." I replied sarcastically causing Jayden and Haymitch to smirk. Cinna then stepped forward trying to calm Effie down.
"Effie, listen the bandage probably makes the wound look worse than it really is, by tomorrow it will be a thin slice which my team and I will be able to hide very easily so there is no harm done."
"Apart from my arm." I muttered to Jayden who smiled concerned. Once Effie had calmed down we sat for dinner and discussed how the day had gone.
"Katniss knows absolutely everything about herbs and plants." Jayden begun to tell Haymitch and Effie who nodded in approval, I hated how he was always praising me, what about him? Well two could play at his game.
"And Jayden is amazing at throwing spears." I boasted.
He gave me a strange look, "Well Katniss knows some stuff about ropes and setting traps!"
I retaliated, not wanting to loose, "Jayden can completely camouflage himself so that you could search for hours in the same place but still not find him!"
"She knows enough health and safety stuff to last her in the arena!"
"But he can handle a sword!"
"Enough!" shouted Effie as I suddenly realised I was on my feet and had dug my knife into the table right by Jayden's hand, he looked up at me with slight fear in his eyes but there was also something kinder something I couldn't quite place, in his eyes but I used to see it in my fathers eyes all of the time when he looked at my mother. Effie stormed over to me and ripped knife out of the table.
"Katniss! How dare you act in such a violent way towards Jayden and the table? Do you know what this is?" she screeched furiously as I shook my head trying to calm myself down.
She looked me in the eye before shouting,
"This is Mahogany!"
Ha ha! Sorry I just had to finish it with that AMAZING line :P Thank you! Please keep on reviewing if you did/didn't like it or not! Oh and if any of you like Austin and Ally, I just posted the beginning of a story there called The Willow Tree so it would be cool if you could check that out :P Thank you!