Peeta Mellark stands there awkwardly as Katniss stares at him with angry and confused eyes, and Madge smiles, watching "Adam" with dreamy eyes.
"Katniss, aren't you going to say anything?" Madge asks.
Katniss walks closer to Peeta.
"Oh he is your boyfriend?" Katniss asks Madge, but her eyes are locked with Peeta's.
"Well I mean, almost. He is the guy that I have talked to you so much about." Madge says her tone sweet, and soft.
Katniss takes a deep angry breath, her eyes still watching Peeta.
"Hello." Peeta smiles a dangerous smile.
"And this is my friend Katniss. And he is.." Madge starts but Katniss cuts the girl off.
"A liar." Katniss turns around so that now she is facing Madge.
"Your Adam is a dirty liar." she continues.
"Katniss, what's wrong with you, why would you say that?" Madge asks shocked.
"Hey honey, I think that I'm leaving because really.." Peeta starts to walk away but Madge stops him.
"No no no, wait." Madge runs to the man and gently touches his shoulder.
"No, you wait. You are not leaving with this guy." Katniss says firmly to her friend.
"Katniss what the hell is wrong with you?" Madge says getting angrier.
She takes Katniss's arm and pulls her away so that Adam can't hear them before she starts to talk again.
"Your ruining everything!" Madge yells at Katniss.
"Yes, with a good reason." Katniss says, and then she turns around to face Peeta.
"You better tell her the truth, right now! Katniss orders Peeta.
"Or should I tell her, Adam?" Katniss threatens crossing her arms.
"What are you talking about?" Madge asks softly confused.
"Is your friend seriously crazy? Because if that's the case, I'd better leave." Peeta says.
"No no, don't leave. Why don't you instead have the balls to tell Madge the type of an idiot asshole you are?"
"Okay Katniss, enough!" Madge screams pulling on her friends arm again.
"My granddad is out there, and he can show up any minute now, please leave!" Madge begs.
"Let him come. At least he can help you get rid of this coward. He tried to hook up with me too!" Katniss yells.
"What?"
"It's true. This is the same guy that.." Katniss starts turning around to face him, only to see that the man left.
"And now where did he go?" Katniss asks looking around.
"He left. You must be happy now. It's what you wanted. Scare away any man that would come close to me. Isn't that what you said last night." Madge says her voice filled with anger and hurt.
"What are you talking about, are you crazy?"
"Crazy. Is that what you think that I am? I'm just a crazy idiot that can't take care of herself and because of that, you made up this stupid lie to.."
"No no, Madge I didn't make anything up! This is the same guy that I talked to you about yesterday. The idiot that kissed me. His name isn't Adam, his name is Peeta." Katniss sighs.
"No no. That's a lie! And you are selfish Katniss! I'm going to go find him." Madge says tears falling down her cheeks.
"No, Madge wait!" Katniss yells after the girl, but Madge is already running away.
X
Madge stands in a bridge watching the water flow. "I knew that I was going to find you here." Peeta says to the girl.
"Where were you? Why did you leave like that?" Madge asks.
"I was feeling uncomfortable. Your friend started to make up things and lies about me, and I didn't like that." Peeta says his hands on the pockets of his jeans.
"Katniss told me that you guys had already met?" Madge asks softly.
"Yes." Peeta says shortly.
"So she was speaking the truth?" Madge continues.
"Yes it was before I met you. I was sitting in a bar and she came and sat next to me, and she started to talk to me, and well, she told me that she likes me. But I'm a really shy guy and I don't like that type of women. And well later she, kissed me." Peeta says acting damaged and hurt.
"Katniss kissed you!?"
"Yes. I mean you can ask me friend about it, he was there with me. I didn't tell you anything because I had just met you and there was really no reason to tell you. But I find it unfair that she is making all of these things up now, just to have a revenge on me." Peeta says.
"No no no, that cannot be true. Katniss isn't like that. And to top it all of, she told me that your name is Peeta, not Adam." Madge says accusingly.
"Do you see? It's incredible how far her jealousy can get. But it's logical, you believing your friend before me, a guy that you just met. And I get it, girls your age don't really understand these type of things. Goodbye Madge."
"Wait! Your only a couple of years older than me anyway. Please just.." Madge begs but Peeta cuts her off.
"I would have really loved it if we could have had something together." Peeta actually manages to look really sad and he gets a tear to roll down his cheek. And then slowly he starts walking away.
"Adam, wait!" Madge yells after him.
Peeta's sad face turns into a devilish mean smile when he hears her yelling his name and when he turns back around to face Madge, she kisses him softly.
"I believe you Adam." Madge says gently.
X
Later that evening Katniss is walking when she spots Peeta laughing with Gale next to their hotel.
She walks up to them and Peeta smiles at her.
"Hello gorgeous."
"Gorgeous the punch that I'm going to give you." Katniss says angrily.
"Tell me if you need any help buddy." Gale says to Peeta before he walks away laughing.
"What's up baby? Did you come to get your part?" Peeta smirks at her.
"You are an asshole and a coward."
"Really? And I thought that you liked my little kisses." Peeta says as he moves his hand to caress her face, but Katniss grabs his wrist instead.
"Don't you dare touch me, or my friend Madge, understood?" Katniss says firmly still holding his arm in the air.
"That's how I like them. Wild to haunt." Peeta says.
At this point Katniss has enough of his cocky attitude and she slaps him hard across the face.
This time the tables turn and it's Peeta's turn to grab her wrist.
"What the hell is wrong with you? What did you think huh? That just because I gave you a fantasy ring and a couple of kisses I was going to marry you?" Peeta yells.
Katniss pulls her arm away from him.
"I'm too much of a woman for a trash like you. What did you think? That I believed all of your stupid tales that you told me? Of course not. But my friend Madge is very innocent and I won't let you hurt her. Do you understand? I'll kill you before I let that happen." Katniss yells back.
X
In a house in town a girl with red long hair is getting ready for her date. The music is playing loudly in her room and she gently applies her lipstick. She plays with her hair and poses in the mirror playfully for awhile when her smile is frozen because a flashback haunts her mind again.
Flashback
As the girl applies her lipstick a man comes into her room, and all of a sudden the man throws the girl into her bed and starts undressing her. The girl cries and tries to get away, but the man is too strong and she can't get away. She cries the whole time but no one hears her as the man starts to rape her painfully in a raw way.
The girl is brought back to reality and she quickly wipes the lipstick away with a paper with shaky hands. She then moves to shut the music off, when her doorbell rings.
"I'm coming." she yells her breathing still fast due to the flashback.
The doorbell rings again, and she runs to the door.
Behind the door stands Plutarch.
"Can I come in?" he asks.
"Um, yes of course." the girls says, her long red hair moving quickly as she nods her head.
"I'll just get my bag." she mumbles when she notices that Plutarch is starring at her.
"You look really pretty. So much better without glasses, why don't you stop wearing them?" he asks.
She gives him a nervous laugh as she puts her glasses on. "I don't see anything without them."
"Let's go?" she asks walking to the door.
X
Katniss is standing in the hallway of the institution when Madge walks in.
"Where were you? I was looking for you from everywhere, I was worried about you!" Katniss yells at the girl.
"I don't believe you. "
"What do you mean by that?"
"Oh god, will you ever get tired of lying to me, of feeling jealous of me? You know Miss Margaret was right." Madge says meanly.
"What are you talking about?"
"You're a fake Katniss. It's not until today that I realized what type of person you are. Why did you lie to me? Why didn't you tell me what really happened between you and Adam."
"First of all, stop calling him Adam. I already told you that his name is Peeta and.."
"I'm not going to swallow anymore of your lies Katniss. Adam already told me everything that happened that night in the bar, and you know what? I feel pity for you."
"What bar? I didn't meet that idiot in any bar. When did he tell you this?"
Madge just shakes her head.
"You saw him today didn't you? What did he say to you?" Katniss begs.
"The truth! And I believe him. Because I saw you perfectly when you saw me with him, you were dying of jealousy. That's why you had to make up all of this trash, right?"
"Me dying of jealousy for a guy like that?"
"Yes, yes, you like Adam. And it pisses you off that he chose me, and not you!" Madge yells.
"I would rather date an angry dog than that rat Madge."
"I will not allow you to talk like that about him. Now that I know you well I know that you are willing to do anything, to get what you want, and in this case that is Adam."
Katniss starts shaking her head in disbelief. Her best friend, the person that she has grown up with, the same girl is standing here insulting her, accusing her of something that a man that she just met told her. Katniss felt sick to her stomach.
"I don't need a person by my side, as low as you." Madge says looking at Katniss as if she is just trash. And every word felt like a punch on Katniss stomach.
"Starting today, we are no longer best friends. We are no longer sisters. Starting today, you mean nothing to me. Goodnight."
And then Madge walks away.
Katniss ran to the bathroom to throw up.
X
"That's right Annie. I'm giving parts of the company to my daughter and my son Glimmer and Marvel, because my mother wanted me to. And well, you know what my mother is like." Plutarch says to the girl with the red hair, as they eat in a restaurant.
Annie gives a little laugh as she sips on her coffee. "Yes, of course I know miss Mags."
"My mom has 24 percent of the company because she helped Venus when it first started. But now she shared those percentage with Glimmer and Marvel." Plutarch explains.
"I'm sorry to ask but, why to your children and not to you?" Annie asks.
"Because she doesn't trust me. I sold my fathers fortune because I needed the money, and now she left me with nothing. But that's all in the past now." Plutarch says as he touches Annie's hand in a flirtatious way.
Annie watches her hand in disgust and shock, not knowing how to pull away.
"Now the important thing is that someone with my intelligence and experience, would become the president of the company Venus. You know, for the sake of the company." Plutarch smiles, pulling his hand away from hers.
Annie just gives him a fake smile and a nod of her head, as she drinks her coffee.
X
In her room Madge is packing her bag, as Katniss walks in.
"What are you doing?"
"Can't you see? I'm packing my things, because I'm changing rooms." Madge says coldly as she picks up some books from the table.
Katniss runs to pull the books away from Madge. "You're not going anywhere." Katniss says.
"Let go off my things. Miss Margret was right. You are not good company for anyone." Madge says.
"How can you say that that snake is right?" Katniss cries.
"I'd rather have a snake than a liar like you." Madge says, as she pulls the books from Katniss's hands and throws them on the table.
"I'm not a liar. I can't believe that you would rather trust a guy just met, than your best friend Madge! Me, that you have known for your whole life! That man is putting you against me, because he knows that I'm right."
Suddenly Katniss gets an idea.
"The ring! Now you have to believe me." Katniss says as she starts digging through her closet to find the ring that Peeta gave her.
Madge looks down at her own hand were she still wears the ring that "Adam." gave her.
"Do you see this?! That idiot put this ring on me the day that I met him. And he gave me a stupid line of "Your eyes are like two lakes of crystal water, and god knows what else."
Katniss could see the desperation in Madge's eyes, the confusion. She could see that Madge looked worried and that she was even slightly starting to believe Katniss, but she could also see that Madge was living in denial.
"Alright Katniss that's enough! Shut up already. Stop tormenting me and stop inventing things."
"You calm down, and listen to me! We were both played by the same guy. He is the liar not me. Look at me Madge, it's me Katniss your friend." Katniss says getting tired of fighting with her already.
"I don't have friends. I never had anyone. And now that I finally found someone who can actually love me, you want to take him away from me? Katniss I don't ever want to see you again. I will never forgive you for this. Never."
X
