Katniss' POV

Things are heavy.

In the same day Rory goes on his first date, Effie prepares a room for my sister so she can stay, my adopted brother has mood swings, and I find out that my best friend is pregnant. What a day, huh? Johanna looks at me with a lot of emotions, sadness, regret, guilt, anger, frustration, trust, the list goes on. I wanted to say something reassuring but with the mood she was in and how I have no way with words I decided not to. "So now you know, Gale knows, my parents know; guess now I just need to tell him." This surprised me, Gale isn't the father? When I asked her this they both stared at me then laughed. "No, Gale had nothing to do with this! Geez brainless how slow are you? I would be in such less of a panic if he was." I nod, not sure how to respond.

"Katniss, I know it's a lot. And I'm extremely sorry for being so bitchy lately; it's all these damn hormones! I just don't know how the school will take it, most likely calling me a slut, or worse Madge or Annie! And I don't mean to drag you into my problems; it's just that I need a girl to talk to. Sure my mom's been pretty supportive, but she doesn't understand a lot of this." She starts babbling incoherently while tears run down her face. Gale and I exchange a look; neither of us know what to do. It's new for us to have people come to us for their problems, not just because we're not good at it, but because our friends don't usually have horrid problems. Sure sometimes one of us will wake up in a state where we just want to stay at home, but we help each other forget. This is different, Johanna doesn't want to forget. She wants to talk about it.

"Jo, I'm not sure what you want me to say. But if there's any way that I can help tell me okay? I'll be here for you, even if Madge or Annie aren't. You also have Gale, you'll be okay." Through bloodshot eyes she looks up and smiles at me. "I know your question," she whispers a moment later, "you want to know who did this to me. Well I'll tell you,"

The continuation of that sentence nearly made me faint.

Clove's POV
"Clove? I'm heading out, I'll be back around three this afternoon." I hear dad call from downstairs. I didn't reply though, I'm staring at the text I just received from Glimmer.
The bitch is pregnant, can u believe it?! OMG dont tell tho, I wanna ;)
The bitch… so she means Katniss?

Back up… Katniss is pregnant?! After spending a month with her and Peeta I thought I would have known! Well in reality, how can you tell so soon? I started thinking back to the biology homework I was just doing, about women and pregnancies. Going back a few pages I reread the part about what happens during the first trimester. … hormones….apatite changes… cramping.…. None fit Katniss that I knew of. She stayed the same through the month that I've been working with her. Unless she was pregnant before.

Before I know what I'm doing, my cell phone is out and I'm typing a message to Marvel.

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Rue's POV

"I still don't understand Andi, how will this help all of us?" Rory asks for the fifth freaking time that evening. We were all in my room, each holding a flyer that read Run for Cause: Run for the charity of your choice, person who runs the most wins an added one thousand dollars to their campaign. I'll admit, her plan was crazy, and unreal, and it was a longshot. "I'm in!" I exclaimed without a second thought. Two different looks were shot at me, one excited and one confused. "Really? You'll help?" I couldn't nod before her arms were wrapped around me. "Thank you thank you thank you Rue! We're going to do this, we're going to help Peeta and Katniss and-"

"Wait. Explain to me the plan again?" Andi slapped her hand over her eyes while I smacked him on the back of the head. "Ow! Geez it was just a question!" Rory said, rubbing the back of his confused, little head.

"One more time! Okay, so we get to choose the charity that we run for right?" Rory and I nodded. "And Katniss wants to become more fit, right?" Another nod from Rory. "And there are surgeries for the blind, right? So we should make our own charity! About helping Peeta get his sight back, that way when Katniss trains she'll lose weight and if we win Peeta will get his sight back, it's a win win!" You can't ignore the pride in Andi's eyes when she says that, probably because she thought of it herself. "Why didn't your parents just get the surgery for him?" Rory asks. I almost hit him again, right after he said it Andi started to tense up and become uncomfortable. "Well, the bakery was always more important. And we couldn't afford the surgery if we were going to keep the business strong while four kids are in school. So, yeah. I saw this flyer and thought my ever supporting friends would help me with my idea."

The puppy dog face directed at Rory, thank goodness I'm already on her team. After a while Rory finally gives in, claiming he felt that Katniss deserved this chance (and had nothing to do with Andi's threat of never going on a date with him ever again).

Squeals filled my little bedroom when Rory caved in. After we calmed down a bit Rory asked a huge question, "So what are our chances? There has to be a bunch of people competing." Andi smirked, in the evil way that told you she was up to something. I liked it. "Let's say, I know a couple of guys."

Third person POV
Andrea Mellark couldn't believe she was doing this.
But she knew if she didn't that her team was screwed, and so were her brother's chances of gaining his sight back.

She knocked on the door softly, and then rang the doorbell. Standing there, waiting for a response felt like forever. But when he finally answered the door her heart hammered in her chest. "What do you want pipsqueak?" She raised her eyebrow at that one, "You need a tutor, I can give you one. I'll be your tutor on one condition." He crossed his arms, who would want a 14 year old to tutor them? Well, he needed a tutor (bad) and here she was. Leaning against the doorway he waited for her proposition. "Well?"

Andi swallowed her fear as the words left her mouth easily, "You sponsor and run with us in the Charity run. That also means running with Katniss."

She held her hand out to him, waiting for him to take it. He took his time, but then realized there were no other options.

They shook on it, and no one was to know until the day of the race.

WHEW!

Wow. I last updated in June? Whaaat? Man does time fly… but I did have a really busy summer. REALLY busy. And I just recently started school again, who knew it would be so much work this year?! English essay, physics graph, and painting due Monday, Chemistry lab report, Spanish packet, PE test, and a whole freaking exercise of math due Tuesday. Plus I'm doing the play and MUN (model united nations). HELP! But I decided to put it off and update! No, I have not forgotten this story. Yes, I do have a plan for this story. No, it will not be ending soon. Yes, the Mellark boys will be back soon. No there isn't a complete cure for the blind yet, but I set this story more in the future. Maybe this is 2020? I dunno, but thank you for reading and sticking with me. It really means a lot :)

And to those of you with no homework, you lucky people…