I'm wide awake thinking about Katniss and Gale. All I can think of is him putting his nasty hands on that precious girl. What if he did? What if he still does? My mom hits me but I can deal with it, she's just a girl and he's a musculer man. I can handle my moms slaps she does it at least one a day. Yes, I know she sounds horrible but she wasn't always that way. On the first day of school she was happy and loving, she always no matter what had a smile on her face. Maybe, just maybe had she overheard my father telling me his highschool sweet-heart ran away and married a coal miner and well he had to settle for her. I gguess that would put me in a bad mood too, loving someone and marrying them thiinking it's true then finding out he only picked you because his love married a coal miner. I look at my clock midnight I need sleep I'll never want to get up in the morning! I look out my window and see the moonlight hitting the dew on the grass in the medow. The meadow is about 10 feet outside of the Seam, I discovered it while walking, trying to get away from my abusive mother. That day she was in a really bad mood and I just had to get away, where I was going well that was unknown. I had come across the meadow by accident, when I noticed it's beauty I sat there and just stared.
The figure walking outside snapped me back into reality, who was that. The only thing I could make out was the gender, a girl. Who was she? Her hair was down gently caressing her face and she walked in the semi windy night. She was about 5'7 and was thin, was she from the Seam? She had a bag on her shoulders it looked heavy, but not as heavy as the bag of flours I carry. As she got closer I could make out her face, her perfectly rounded but slim face, her big eyes and her perfectly shaped lips. I could now recognize her as Katniss. What was Katniss doing in the middle of the night roaming the town? I slowly tip-toed down stairs making sure I woke nobody up. I slipped out the back door, the one without the bell and searched for Katniss. I found her she was moving quickly towards an abandoned house in town, I went to chase her. I finally caught up with her and tapped her shoulder, she turned around startled and punched me in the stomach. Wow! That hurt!
"Peeta? What are you doing I could've hurt you? Why would you do that are you crazy? SNeaking up on a girl in the middle of the night!" She yelled at me now, I could see the anger in her eyes.
"I'm-I'm sorry, I-I was j-just making sure y-you were OK." I managed to stutter out trying to catch my breath. She sighed staring at me intently.
"I'm fine Peeta, I was, um, just." She whispered those words she for some reason not telling me what she was doing. I was able to stand now and I looked at her, I could see the crease in her forehead, the worry in her eyes and I knew something was wrong.
"What's wrong Katniss? You can trust me, I promise I won't tell." I saw a single tear roll down her check and I gently wiped it off with my thumb. I then extended my arms out for her she ran into them and even though she didn't know me she trusted me with her an her problems. I felt great even though that was wrong considering the state she was in but I finally had her and I couldn't be happier but I held it in.
"Gale, Gale said he couldn't help me provide for my family and I anymore. I got worried and started to yell, he then got mad at me and, and..." She trailed off and what!
"What Katniss, what happened?"
"He, he hit me! I-I didn't know what to do, he has never acted this way! I thought I knew him! NOw I have to-to provide for my family on my own!" At this point she was hysterrical, how could he put his hands on her! I mean she's an emotional wreck! What is wrong with him, I knew there wasn't something right with him!
"Where did he hit you? I'll fix it, he won't be able to move after I'm doen with him!" I was yelling loudly but not at her, I was angry in general!
"No! Please don't Peeta! Peeta please don't! I'm begging you!" Her tears had slowed but her eyes are puffy and you can tell she's upset and hurt but she trusted me with her problems I can't betray her. I sighed, knowing I couldn't do a thing.
"OK, but if he ever lays his fingers on you again I'll handle him!" I could see she was considering what I had said. I couls also see she was tired and restless and hungry too. She nodded her head and started to walk away.
"Wait! Come inside I have extra bread you can have, it isn't the greatest but it's not stale." She stopped dead in her tracks and listened, she then turned around looking for emotion in my face, or honesty. I nodded to prove I was telling the truth and willing.
"OK" She said as calmly as possible but I could tell she was grateful. I walked her inside through the back and gave her two loafs of bread, she stared at them at first almost refusing.
"Take them, for me." She took the bread and said a silent thank you but I can tell what I just did meant more that a thank you to her but she stayed calm and modest. She exited and I wached her make her way to the Seam and walk into her house, hopefully going to bed.
I walked up stairs furious at what I just heard! He hit her, he hit her! I can't believe him, if I was in his position I would protect her with all my might! I would make sure she was fed and cared for even if I had to go without. Why would he do this to her, why? She was gorgeous and sweet even through her protective barrier. I may not know her well but I now her and Gale have been friends since she was twelve, the hunted together every Sunday, they would be seen in town together trading at The Hob. The Hob was a trade place, hunters and others traded there. It was illegal of course if anyone got caught they would get whipped at the best, death was a possibility. If Katniss and Gale got caught with their usual load they would be sentenced to certain death and what would Prim do without her sister there to provide for them? The thought of a nearly starving Prim was sick! She was a sweet little girl her and Katniss always looked at the cakes on display, I decorated them extra pretty just for Prim. I remember one time she looked at a cake I made that resembled the meadow. The bright green luscious feeling grass, the light pink flowers that formed in the spring, the small puddles that would form after a normal spring rain and a girl twirling in the grass. She resembled Katniss that's why I chose her. They loved the cake even Katniss loved it. I waved at them through the window, Prim smiled and waved Katniss just waved, and I wish she would smile more. Smile, that was nearly impossible for Katniss to do now. I slowly drift asleep.
That night I dreamt about Katniss and Prim dancing in the meadow, Katniss was smiling, Prim was the only person that could truthfully make her smile. They danced and danced then the dream took a dramatic turn! Katniss was in the Hunger Games; she was running and running but what from? A mutt! She was running from a mutt, a mutation of the capitol sent out to kill her slowly but surely. She turned shooting it with an arrow, right in the chest that should do it. I was wrong, the bear like creature stood up and ran, she ran to the cornucopia! The careers were there waiting for her, it was either the careers or the beast either way she was going to died right then and there. Before anything happened I woke up in terror, good thing that dream was over. I wiped the tears from my eyes and got dressed ready for a hard day, while holding a dark secret.