I am so so so so soooooooooooooo sorry! I know I've taken a long time. I've been…. Distracted :P

Chapter 20

We say goodbye to Haymitch and head back over to Prim's house. It is well past midnight. I walk Prim up to her room to say good night. She lay in her bed and watches me for a long time, "You can get in my bed too if you want."

I frown, "Prim, you know that we're not going to-"

"We've slept in the same bed before! Besides, I was going to get a body pillow, just like back in District 4."

I nod, "Just like 4."

She goes to a closet down the hall and pulls out the large pillow. She brings it back and pulls it under the covers.

I hit the light switch and make my way through the dark to her bed. I trip over the foot of the bed and grunt. She laughs slightly. I crawl under the covers and rest my head on a spare pillow.

I stare up at the dark ceiling, "Is it hard for you to be here?"

"Here as in 12?" I nod. It takes me a second to realize she can't see my head movement so I'm about to speak but she can sense what I'm thinking and continues with her answer anyways, "Yeah, some."

"Some as in a lot or a little?"

"Some as in I'm trying to ignore it."

"Oh, sorry."

"No, it's fine," It's quiet for a long time. I don't want to bug her much more about it but soon she's talking again, "It's just that… I don't know. I never thought I'd ever have to come back and confront the people I've left behind. It hurts to see how much has happened in the little time I've been gone."

I nod again, knowing she'd be able to sense it. I hear her, as quietly as she can, bury her face into a pillow to let out a soft sob. When she's done, she quietly reaches across the bed for my hand. I take it and massage her palm with my thumb in an attempt to soothe her. It stays this way for a couple of minutes, "You know, Thresh has grown." After saying that, she soon falls asleep. I follow after.

I wake to the smell of something delicious. It smells like eggs and sausage, pancakes and bacon, and muffins. I head to the kitchen downstairs to see what's going on. Prim has pushed all the dirty dishes aside and is making breakfast. She looks up and smiles as I walk through the door, "Borrowed some ingredients from Haymitch. He doesn't cook much, but he's always got something laying around."

"Thought you couldn't cook."

"Yeah, well, I guess we'll see how it turns out."

I take another step into the room. Lucy is sitting on a stool at the counter. I stare at her in question. She is untied. Prim laughs at my face. Lucy explains, "Prim said that if I didn't run, she'd untie and feed me."

I nod and take a seat at the stool next to Lucy's, "Lucy, I think I can speak for both Prim and myself when I say that I'm really sorry about all of this. We didn't mean to kidnap you."

Lucy sits in silence. Prim continues the apology, "And we were never going to cut your leg off. Nick just… he gets carried away."

I snort, "You're the one who said to tie her."

She laughs, "Yeah, I guess that's true."

We both look at Lucy, "Is there anything we can do to have you forgive us?"

"You guys kidnapped me, tied me up, threatened me, brought me… I don't know where we are,"

"District 12," Prim interjects.

"Sure, District 12, then you left me in a car to freeze half the night. I don't know if I'll ever forgive you. And if you ever think we'll be friends again, you've got another thing coming."

Prim does a fake pout and talks so only I can hear the sarcasm in her tone, "Darn, I was really looking forward to the friendship we could have had together."

Lucy takes a sip of her orange juice, "Yeah, well you can kiss that goodbye."

Thresh walks in the room and rubs his eyes tiredly, "It smells… amazing!"

Prim laughs, "Made lots of bacon… just for you!"

He smiles, "Thanks sis, I owe you one."

She frowns, "No you don't. It's going to take a whole lot of a more breakfasts for me to make up leaving you."

He looks at her funny, "Whatever. May I please have some bacon?"

"Of course," Prim loads six pieces on his plate.

After finishing our large breakfast, only two of the pancakes were burnt by the way, we packed some extra clothes for Prim and Thresh. We all piled in the car. I started it up and started driving down the street when Prim yells, "Wait!"

I slam on the breaks, "What is it? Did we forget something?"

"Yeah, we did," She unbuckles her seat and opens her door, "Thresh get out of the car." Thresh obeys without question. Prim looks over my face, "We'll only be a minute, I promise."

She grabs Thresh by the hand and runs up to Haymitch's house with him. She knocks on the door. Surprisingly, the man answers it. He looks over young Thresh. I can tell that he is touched by finally getting to meet this member of his "family" as they kept calling themselves last night, but he tries to hide it by hiding his face behind the familiar bottle of whiskey.

Thresh sticks out his hand to shake with the man's, but like he did with me, he ignores the hand completely. Prim glares him down until he shakes Thresh's hand firmly. They talk for a while and then Prim and Thresh come back to the car. "Sorry, I just thought it would be important for them to meet in case we never come back again."

"Yeah, I understand," Prim buckles herself in and closes the door, "You know, we could invite him to come with us."

"I already did. He said he's not going anywhere. He's lived here his whole life and he plans on dying here too."

"That sounds really exciting."

Prim smirks, "I think Haymitch is done with excitement. He got his fair share back in the Hunger Games."

"Can they really be that bad?"

"I guess we'll find out soon."

"We finally getting the tapes this weekend?"

"Yeah, I've waited long enough."

Sorry, I know it was kind of blah. But guess what I just found out? They're making the Hunger Games into a MOVIE! Should be epic:P