Chapter 10
Disclaimer: I do not own the hunger games or the characters.
Katniss POV:
I wake up with a pounding headache, god I must have slept too much.(Note: You can wake up with a headache if you slept too much it happened to me all the time when I would get home from school.) I sit up slowly and grab my sleep attire which consist of a sports bra and boy shorts and I go in to the bathroom and close the door. I step in the shower and begin to shave my body and then wash my body. I hear the bathroom door open when I'm washing my legs.
" Katniss, I know you're in the shower and all but I just wanted to tell you that Rue is sleeping over with me when Jo comes. Oh and I invited Clove, Foxface, Rory, Gale, Annie and Madge. But they wont be staying the night I told Rue to keep it to herself. Do you want Finnick and his friends to come? They all seem pretty nice. " She says. I rinse my body off and shut the water off and grab my towel and wrap it around my body and step out of the shower. I find Prim sitting on the toilet with the seat closed.
" That's fine, but you're doing the inviting. Just invite them and tell them to follow me home in their cars since Jo, Rue, and Finnick will be ridding with us we won't have enough room in our Jeep or text them the address. " I say as I drop my towel and pull my underwear and bra on. Prim's seen me naked plenty of times so it doesn't really phase her when I do this. I walk over to the medicine cabinet and pull out my cream for my tattoos.
" Yours started to itch to. Mine as been doing the same it should go away in about a week or so. Anyways since were having all these people over like 12 people what do you want to do when they get here and what part of the house should we go ?" she ask. I think for a moment.
" We should take them into the theater room and we should play I never and truth or dare. Do you think we should bring alcohol into the mix or no? " I ask her putting the cream away.
" Good idea. I don't know about the alcohol maybe we should ask them if they want to drink if not we will just go with soda. So I'll tell Sae we're having people over and to stock up on food and drinks. I'll text everybody tonight the address. " she say. I nod and look at her. She opens her month like she wants to say something, but closes it instead.
" What do you want to say, just say it." I say to her.
" I was just worried that what if Peeta doesn't believe us when we tell him tomorrow? " she ask. I raise my eye brows at her like really.
" Really Prim that's what's bothering you. All we have to do is tell him everything even if he doesn't believe us all we have to do is take out our contacts. If that doesn't work we have Hymitch and Grandfather." I say.
" Right I don't know why I didn't think of that. Oh and about the contact thing your still wearing yours I recommend you to take them out and when your done Effie said that dinner is ready." she says getting up and walking to the door and leaving. I take my contacts out and drop them in their container. I braid my hair and walk out the bathroom and pull on a pair of sweats and a shirt and my house shoe boots. I leave my room an go down stairs and go sit at the dining table with everyone. I see that dinner consist of salad and steak. We eat in a peaceful silence until Effie decides to break it.
" So Prim tells me you both are having friend over on Friday and only two are staying for the weekend? " She ask me . I nod my head still eating.
" How many are coming, I want to make everything perfect before they come." she says. Of course typical Effie she is always organized. I roll my eyes at her and she scolds me about no bad manners at the table this just causes me to roll them again, but I answer her question anyways.
" 12 people if including prim and I then 14. We're going to be in the theater room and their coming after school is over this Friday. Prim already told Sae to stack up on snacks and drinks." I say.
" Oh my that's a lot of people. I will make sure there are enough comfy chairs in the theater room for you guys and are the ones that are staying over will be using the guest room?." She says.
" No their staying in our rooms and I need money to I have plans to go somewhere this weekend." I say to Effie.
" Oh Katniss, you and Prim already have money in your account I just need to give you your credit cards. You'll get them tomorrow when I get home so I have to make a trip to the bank."
" Yea, spend as much as you want and don't take anyone down in the basement, if they ask it's a wine cellar. Oh and hands off my alcohol." Haymitch speaks up.
"Thank you and don't worry we won't and Peeta is coming over tomorrow we're going to bring him here after school to tell him." Prim says to Hymitch who nods his head. After dinner we retire to our rooms to go to sleep. Since I slept when I got home I'm not tired. So I get in my room and go on my laptop to do my homework. After an hour of homework I finish. I look at the time and see it's only 11. I sigh trying to think of what to do. The only thing I can come up with is the basement. So I take my boots off and put my tennis shoes on and leave my room. Everybody is asleep so I walk using hunters feet all the way down to the basement to workout. When I get in there I go over to the archery station at start to set up. I don't know how long I'm down here messing around until I hear footsteps behind me. I turn around with my bow raised ready. But I instantly drop it when I see it's only Hymitch.
" Jeez sweetheart what's got your panties in a twist." He says sarcastically. I fight the urge to roll my eyes at him so I just shrug and place my bow down and walk over to the knives station.
" I slept when I got home and wasn't tired so I came down here. What are you doing up in the middle of the night? " I ask him while throwing knives. He starts to laugh.
" Sweetheart I think you need to check the time it's 5 in the morning and Prim should be down here in about 3 minutes. " he chuckles at my face expression.
" Oh " Is all I say. Had I really been that lost in shooting that I didn't know I stayed down here all night.
" Your going to be like a walking zombie by the time school ends. " he continues to chuckle. I shrug at him not really caring.
" Since you stayed down here all night you don't have to train this morning. Just go make yourself look presentable you look like shit ." He says caring yet in a insult tone. I nod my head and leave the basement and go into my room. I take off my shoes and grab red underwear and a bra and walk into the bathroom. I close the door and strip off my sweaty clothes and get in the shower. I wash up and get out and dry off. I put my underwear on and then put my make-up on my face. I put my contacts back in and go to my closet. Pick out a pair of light blue jean with a white belt, a dark blue spaghetti strap shirt that shows my belly piercing, a black thin jacket that's the same length as the shirt, and my black and blue Jordan's. I put my hair in a hair in a messy bun not really wanting to do it. I put on some sliver studs and walk out the bathroom. I put my ring and bracelet on and pick up my bag. I check the time and it's only 6 school doesn't start until 7:00 so I grab my head phones and put them in my ears and listen to music. I go down stairs and eat breakfast and then go the living room to sit and listen to music still. I start to play candy crush after a while. I look at the time and it say 7 so I get up and make my way to Prim's room. We do our code and then I go into her room and sit on her bed. When I look up I see that Prim's mouth is moving, but I don't hear anything coming out of it. So I take my head phones out of my hears.
" What did you say? " I ask her.
" God, Katniss I said what should I wear !" She exclaims. Roll my eyes she must be trying to impress someone.
" Who are you trying to impress? " I tease her. She starts to turn red and I laugh.
" Nobody, I - I don't - Just shut it Katniss !" She huffs exasperated. I shake my head and get up and go into her closet. I throw her a pair of black jeans, a green and white SpongeBob geek shirt that is loose and hangs off the shoulder with sleeves that come down to the elbows, and her green and white Samoa's( note: Samoa's are a pair of Adidas, but different style shoes.). She puts the clothes on and smiles.
" I knew you could help me, but what about my hair." I sigh annoyed that I have to come up with everything and she just gives me an innocent puppy dog plead to help her. I roll my eyes at this, but can't help the smile that plays on my lips.
" Just pull your hair in a bun or straighten it and put some silver hoop earring on. " I say to. She goes in to the bathroom and I smell something burning and then she comes out 20 minutes later with her hair straighten and earrings on. I nod my head in a approval and we make our way downstairs since we only have 10 minutes to get to school. When we get down stairs we find Finnick waiting with Hymitch.
" Sweethearts, Third day and your already going to be late. Anyway Finnick came to the door 5 minutes ago and said you guys are his ride since his car in the shop. " He says eyeing Finnick. I nod my head and motion for Finnick to follow us to the garage. We pile in the Jeep with Prim driving and me in the passenger seat.
" Sorry about that Sophia here was having a melt down trying to impress some boy." I roll my eyes in Prim's direction. Prim has her eyes on the road but I can feel that she's rolling her eyes at my too.
" It's fine. Who is she trying to impress is it Peeta? " Finnick ask. Prim looks at me for a quick second before turning her eyes back to the road.
" Oh no, I don't think so. Blond people aren't really her thing." I say to him and he just nods his head.
" So I heard everybody is coming over to your place on Friday. " he states. I nod
" Yea, it was Sophia's idea. But only Jo and Rue are staying for the weekend don't tell anybody. We don't want them to ask if they could join." I say. He nods again. We get to school late since we missed home room. We separate to go to our first periods.
Finnick's POV:
I walk into first period late and to the back of the class to sit next to Cato.
" Dude where were you? You weren't here in home room." He ask.
" Rose and Sophia were running late which made me late because I ride with them." I say shrugging. Something crosses his face, but it doesn't stay their for long. I shrug letting the situation go. first and second period go by and now I'm in gym class talking to Peeta, Cato, and Thresh since we all have this class together with Rose, Sophia, clove and Jo.
" So Peeta what was all that speaking another language yesterday with rose and Sophia about? " Cato ask Peeta. We all turn to Peeta looking at him expectantly.
" Nothing, but I am going to their house today after school. They want to talk to me." He shrugs. I frown at this Rose didn't mention him coming over today, although why would she tell me.
" Why ? " I ask
" I don't know they told me to come so I just said yea." He says. We nod our heads.
" So, how did Sophia get all of our numbers? Did you guys get a text saying to come to their house this Friday after school to hangout? " Thresh say.
" Yea, I might have something to do with that. Sophia sent me text asking for you guys numbers and I gave them to her and she told me that she wants to get to know all of us better." Peeta says sheepishly.
" Dude ! This is excellent. We get to see how they act outside of school." Cato says. We nod our heads. Gym class consist of me sneaking glances at Rose still trying to wrap my finger around why she would want to talk to Peeta. Class ends and we go to change and make our way to next period and next period goes by and now we're heading to lunch.
Katniss POV:
" Rose, Sophia did you guys see who made the Cheer team yet? " Rue squeals.
" No, we got here late we didn't have time. " Prim says as we sit down at the lunch table with everybody.
" Oh my God, get up now. You need to see it the Careers( Cashmere and her sluts we call them the careers since they think they rule the school.) had a bitchfit with the coach. Come on." Rue says getting up. Prim and I exchange a look with each other and I just shrug and get up to follow Rue and Prim does the same. We get to the front of the cafeteria where the paper is up with who made the team. Prim takes a look first and when she's done. She turns around beaming. Curiosity gets the better of me and I take a look. I read through the list and I find the Career's and Rue's name, but I don't see mines or Prim's I turn around frowning.
" I don't see our names. " I say to Prim. She gives me a confused look, but then laughs and shakes her head this only makes my frown deeper.
" Rose, look again it should be at the top." she says. I turn around looking again and then I see it
Head Cheerleader: Sophia Deen
Co- Head Cheerleader: Rose Deen
" Oh '' Is all I say. How did I miss that it was in front of my face then I realize I was looking for our real names. I chuckle to my stupidity now I see what was so funny.
" Congrates Soph. " I smile at her.
" You too. Now I see why Cashmere had a bitchfit." she laughs as we walk our way back to the table. Everybody is beaming at us well almost everybody Annie is staring daggers at me. I look around confused.
" What ? " Prim says.
" Finnick came over here while you guys were looking at the list and he showed us a video of your tryouts and might I say wow where did you guys learn those moves? " Jo ask.
" Our mom was a gymnast when she was in high school. So she put us in gymnastic when we were younger." I say. Everybody nods not saying much because talking about our parents is a touché` subject.
" So, I guess we're all going over to your house this Friday." Madge says changing the subject. They nod their heads.
" Yea, I can't wait I bet it will be so much fun." Foxface say. Then the bell rings and we go to our next period. I sit next to Peeta and Portia gives us a recipe on Blueberry muffins and we go to our stations to make them. As I 'm stirring the batter Peeta speaks up.
" Allora, posso seguire voi ragazzi per la vostra casa da quando mi ha spinto qui?" He ask. ( So, can I follow you guys to your house since I drove myself here?) I shrug.
" Creto, non mi interessa il tempo che arriva." I say to him as we put the muffins in the oven. ( Sure, I don't care as long as you come.) He nods his head.
We go back to speaking English and having small talk while we wait on the muffins. When they're done I put 5 in a brown paper bag and Peeta takes the rest. The bell rings and we make our way to music. When I get in there. I hand Cinna a muffin and he winks at me and smiles. I go sit next to Prim and she takes my bag and takes a muffin and so does Jo. I roll my eyes they don't even have the ordasity to ask me not that I care. Cinna tells us to go find an instrument that we can play. I walk over to the big piano and look around to see if anyone is watching satisfied that no one is watching I turn around and start to play and sing a valley song that mother taught us how to sing. Prim comes and sits down beside me and sings along with me. When we're done everybody starts clapping. then Peeta says
" Voi due vi conoscete quella canzone di? Mi ricordo quando mia madra usa per contare a me di notte, ma mi fermai quando sua sorell e` morta perche` ha dato I suoi troppi ricordi." He says. We nod our head not speaking because we need to have this talk at home. Then the bell rings and we go out into the parking lot. Finnick and Peeta walk out with us and Peeta goes and gets his car and we get in mine and drive home with Peeta following us.
We get to my house and Finnick goes into his house looking jealous as ever. I roll my eyes at this. I can see that Peeta is confused because I know that he recognizes the house that we are at he just hasn't put two and two together yet. I motion for him to come in and he follows us in still very confused. Prim and I sit down on the couch in the living room and he sits across from us and we just star at each other for a couple of minutes neither of us not knowing what to say yet. Until Peeta breaks it.
" So, you guys live with my Uncle? I thought I recognized that address Sophia sent me." He says still confused. I sigh and look over at Prim not knowing where to start at.
" Peeta, we stay with him, but not for the reason you think we do. We are not who you think we are. " Prim says carefully. Peeta just sits their looking stunned and confused. I'm not so good with words or talking so I just wing it.
" Do you know Dahlia Everdeen?" I ask him. He nods his head.
" Yea, that's my mothers older sisters name. What about her? She's been dead for 6 years." he says.
" I'm getting to that part. Just bare with us. Do you remember that she had two twin daughters named Katniss and Primrose Everdeen?" I ask.
" Yea, I haven't seen them since I was 11 - Wait how do you know them?" He ask perplexed.
" Peeta, we are them. I'm Katniss and that's Primrose." I say and Prim waves at him. He sits there on the couch shocked, eyes wide, mouth opening and closing. We stay like this for 2 minutes until he's able to form words again.
" I don't believe you. You look nothing like them. Is this some kind of sick joke for the two of you?" He ask suddenly angry.
" What ! No of course it's not. We don't look like that anymore because of what happened a few weeks ago." I say astonished that he would think we are joking.
" Then how am I suppose to believe what your saying is real if you don't look like them?" He ask running his hand through his hair as he paces the floor looking at us scrutinizing us very closely. I look at Prim and she nod her head. We look up at Peeta and we both take out our contact from our eyes showing our real eye color. We watch as Peeta stop dead in his tracks and intake are sharp breath. Then he says.
" K- Katniss? Pri- Primrose?" He ask.
" Yes, in the flesh. Now will you stop freaking out and take a seat so we can tell you why we look like we do and how we got here?" I ask impatiently. He nods his head and sits at the edge of the couch waiting for us to start. I look at Prim signaling her to start talking. She sighs and then begins.
" Ok, before we start. Save you questions until the end and do not interrupt us. " She says sternly. Peeta nods his head and Prim takes a breath before beginning.
" Ok, so lets see where to begin" she sighs. Peeta snorts
" How about the beginning." He says. Prim glares at him and he holds up his hands in mock defense motioning for her to continue. She rolls her eyes at him
"Anyways, this all started years ago actually 6 to be exact. Dahlia our mother your aunt died in a car crash we were in the car when this happened. I think you know the details. Katniss jumped over the seat to save me before the truck made impact on the car and mother was killed on impact. Katniss was unconscious for 2 months because she got the most of the blow with her over me. She woke up 2 weeks before they said that they were going to cut her life support off if she didn't pull through-." Prim stops holding back a sob this still gets to her because she was going to loose her only sister and she'd be the only twin left . I reach out and squeeze her arm reassuring her. I look at Peeta and he has tears in his eyes. Prim continues
" The doctor said that she was going to have problems remembering her long term memories, but not her short term memories. We were living in Italy at the time because mother wanted to live close to her family. Aunt Vivian you mother, our aunt and mothers sister and uncle Hymitch their brother comes down for the funeral since she was going to be buried in Italy. You guys came and then after that Father wasn't his self anymore he put everything into working and keeping us a live. He quit his job and got a new one for some company because it paid better. 2 years later we were still in Italy going to school trying to get over the death and father was barely home anymore, but everything started to change father took us out of school and started home schooling us said it would be better because we get to see him more often. We were still young so we didn't think anything of it. Until a month later we were moving away from mothers, our family to go to France. Father said it had to many memories of mother in Italy. He started to teach us different languages and survival skills and we're thinking ok maybe he just wants us to be smart and protect ourselves. This kept going on for 2 more years moving around to a different country earning there language and more skills until Katniss started to get fed up with it and started to ask him questions about why are moving again, why can't we stay in one place, why can't we go back to school. Father started to run out of excuses until we were 16 and he told us that he was working for this company which we knew we just didn't know what for and he said that he does all the wire transferring. Which is very risky. He told us his job required him to move around a lot and he didn't want to leave us alone anymore. So we believed him. Another year passed and we have been to more countries than we can count and know so many languages it's ridiculous and we know everything about protecting ourselves and identifying the enemy. Then our world came crashing down when one afternoon we were in Spain at the time and father came in saying we have to go to America because people are after him. We didn't know what he was saying so we just gave him a confused look. " Prim says taking a breather. Looking at Peeta who is listening intensively. Prim turns to me.
" Can you finish? I told half now finish the rest." she states. I nod and sigh.
" So we were confused because he came out of no where with this. He kept sighing and trying to find the right words to say as we just sat their waiting for him to say something anything really. Then it finally all came out. He said that people have been after him for a while, but were never able to fined him because he was always on the move and one step ahead of them. Until he found out that they knew about us and was after us now so they can get the information they need from him by capturing us. When he heard that he said that's why he kept pushing us harder to learn his skills and working us to put information in us. He said if they ever had found us at least we would know how to protect ourselves. He said that we couldn't stay with him anymore because they were on to him and that he was more vulnerable to save us. So he called Haymitch saying he needed to take us and protect us until he could deal with the people hunting us. So he told us this saying that we it's too dangerous for us and that he wouldn't let them get to us and wasn't going to take a change since we are all he has left. So he told us that our ring - " Prim and I show Peeta our rings we always wear. Then get back to the story.
" Have trackers in them if we are in trouble to press the button on the inside and it will alert him and Haymitch. Then he gave us the bracelets- " We show him our bracelets. " so that Prim and I can communicate if we are ever apart from each other and they have trackers so we can find each other if the situation calls for it. Then he handed me a flash drive with all the countless accounts on it. That's what they want from him because he had the file to all the accounts and how they plan on taking the governments money. He gave it to me so it will throw them off, you know so they will think it's still with him and not with me. I hid it in a place nobody can find. He told us that we couldn't look like we did and we had to change our names or hey would find us for sure since they did a background check on us. He said when we got to America to blend in and act normal. So after he said all that we were stunned and processing everything he had just told us. When we did we spent our last 2 days with him because we knew it would be a possibility we wouldn't see him again. When it was time to leave we only had a small suitcase with pictures and personal belongings, no clothes no nothing. We hugged him goodbye and we got on a private plane to go to America. When we got their we didn't even have enough time to take in our surroundings until people huddled over us moving us into a black van and we were met with Aunt Effie. She took us to a salon. You know Cinna and Portia our teachers at school. They know father and they made us over so no one could recognize us. We chose the names Rose and Sophia. So now we go by those name in public, but in private we go by our original names. Anyways after that Effie took us to the mall since we couldn't bring our regular clothes with us. We got a new wardrobe and everything. The tattoos and piercings were our ideas and the tattoos all have meanings to them. We were at the mall for about 6 hours and then finally came to the house and Effie gave us a tour of the important thing. Haymitch keeps us trained every morning before school starts. " I take a break to let it sink in before continuing again.
" The first day of school we met with Grandfather Snow, you know your mother and our mother and uncles father. Our Grandfather. So we met with him and he said he knew what was going on and he asked us what sport we wanted to do since father said we needed to do 2 sports and Prim picked Cheer-leading and Track. So yea, we went to lunch and Prim said you was cute and we didn't know you were our cousin at the time so when I saw you in my class I jumped on the opportunity to get you two together since she wanted to try out relationships. so I gave you her number and then when we got home she said that you texted her and that's when everything started to click in her brain. so she told me and you know with me my long term memories are fuzzy so I have to close my eyes and think hard to remember stuffs. After we found out we went to Haymitch to see if we could tell you everything. He said yea as long as you don't go telling your parents that we are here or anybody else for that matter. So we were going to tell you sometime this week, but I forgot that you knew Italian when I was talking to Prim in music class after fighting with that Gloss dude. Since I didn't want anyone to know what we were talking about I told her in a different language what Granddad told me. Then you over heard us and then the secret was out that we were hiding something so we just had to tell you sooner than later because you would of started asking questions. We couldn't have that. So here we are telling you everything now. I think that's it. " I say sighing waiting for Peeta to say something.
He sits there for a minute letting everything dawn on him and then he smiles and gets up and pulls us into a hug. We hug back tightly until we are broken apart by Haymitch's voice.
" So, now you know boy and don't go telling anybody their life is on the line here." He says.
" I wouldn't dream of it I'm just happy I get to see them again. It's been so long." He says sincerly.
" Do you have any questions? " Prim ask.
" Yea, why this color hair? and who are them?" He ask sitting back down. Haymitch comes and joins us.
" It fits our cover name. And I don't know who them are father never told us." I says frowning.
" Haymitch do you know who them are ? " Peeta ask. We all turn to him expectantly.
" Yea, I do. The people he worked for weren't really a company. They are a group called the Capitols. They take peoples money and spend it on making weapons to sell in other countries So your father warned our government that he had the list and would give it them and go under cover for them to find out more information. The Capitol group found him out downloading a file, but he got out of there quick. So they went after him because they don't want that to get into the wrong hands and now their looking for a way to break him in giving them the information back. So that's why they are going after you guys. " Haymitch says.
" Damn that sound like a movie plot, " I say. They nod their heads in a agreement.
" Yep, all we have to do is keep a low profile until we figure out a way to give them a fake list and to get off your cases." Haymitch says. " So, this stays between us and only us nobody else we an't take chances" We nod and Haymitch leaves.
" Do you want to go up to our room. So we can talk some more?" Prim ask Peeta. He nods and we head up to Prim's room and we sit on her bed.
" So, I thought you guys had scares from the crash. " He says.
" We do." I say I turn around and show him the one on my neck and then I take off my jacket and show him the one along my left arm. Prim shows him hers as I walk into the bathroom to take off my make up. I walk back out and show him the one above my right eye brow.
" God, is that why you wear foundation instead of just eye linear and mascara? " He ask. I nod my head and sit back down. Then he starts laughing and we look at him confused.
" I can't believe I found you guys hot and I actually liked Prim. Eww." He shudders. We laugh at this and we lay our heads on his chest as he wraps his arms around our shoulders.
" I missed you guys so much." Peeta says. We nod and say we missed him to We were close when we were young, his family would always come up during the summer time and we would always play with each other everyday.
" What should I tell the guys when they ask me what happened while I was over here?" Peeta ask breaking our comfortable silence.
" Just tell them that we wanted to ask you about what we should do on Friday and stuff. " I say shrugging. I feel him nod his head. After that we catch up and laugh about old times. Then Effie calls us for dinner and since Peeta is still here he stays and eats with us. After dinner we hug him goodbye and that we'll see him at school tomorrow. then he leaves and we go upstairs. I take a shower and pull on a clean sports bra and boy shorts and I braid my hair and climb into bed and fall asleep feeling like a weight has been lifted off my shoulder knowing that we have to keep our situation a secret from one less person.
What do you think? Good ? Bad ? needed a little more ? I had fun writing this chapter. I hope you guys liked it. Please tell me some truth or dares for when they all hang out Friday night. This story is just getting started. The action doesn't start until a little white later.
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