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Katniss POV

Crucis won't even know what hit him when I confront him about him making up those rumours. He is going to wish he never messed with me. When I confront him I will make sure it is somewhere, where there is lot of students so they will know that the rumours were never true. The lunch room is possibly my best bet. Maybe Madge will overhear me and Crucis talking. If she heard it I know she would say sorry about everything that she said. I just wish Peeta were here to help me stay strong because you never know what Crucis might come up with, he could blurt out another lie about me. Every time I think about what I am going to say to him, I fill up with rage and the only words that come to my head are swear words and I don't think that would be the best way to get a response out of him if I just call him names the whole time.

The next day at school I take it like it is just any other normal day at school, but I know inside it won't be a normal day in the lunch room when I get in there. When it is finally lunch time, I walk into the lunch room and see that son of a bitch sitting at his lunch table with his group of friends. This is going to be fun embarrassing him in front of everyone. I go to mine and Peeta's usual table put all my stuff down and head towards Crucis. I make sure I have a very mad look on my face to show him that I know about the rumours. He notices me walking towards him and excuses himself from the table.

"Katniss, baby what's wrong?"

"Excuse me, I am not your baby, do not ever call me that again and you know what's wrong you are the one responsible!" I say very loudly

"Keep your voice down. Come on let's get out of here and go somewhere more private." He says trying to put his arm over my shoulder, but I shake it off.

"I'm not going anywhere with you, you jerk and I will be as loud as I want to be!"

"Look I don't think the whole school wants to hear about your problems alright, so let's go somewhere else." He says showing that he is obviously embarrassed as grips his hand onto my arm to pull me out of the room, but I stick my ground.

"Don't you ever touch me!" I say pushing him away from me. As I look around the lunch room to see students starting to stare at us. I better get this over with before a teacher comes and splits us up.

"What is wrong Katniss, why are you being all bitchy?"

"Oh bitchy is that what you call it, well you want to know why I'm bitchy! It's because I just found out who made up those rumours about me and I'm feeling really bitchy about it!"

"Look I'm so, so sorry Katniss I didn't mean to hurt you."

"What! Yes you did, you made them up intentionally. You made them to make me push away my boyfriend. You made them to make my friends push me away from them and you think I'm going to take your stupid, pathetic apology!"

"I know you probably won't forgive me for what I did, I am truly sorry but the whole school doesn't need to hear about this. Can we please go?"

"You told lies to the school about me and I want them to hear it because they need to know none of those rumours were true!"

"Who cares what they think they are all just a bunch of losers anyway."

"Don't you dare call them losers; you're the biggest loser here right now."

"Oh my god, get the fuck over it Katniss. No one cares about your stupid little rumours anymore, they are forgotten about and no one probably cares about you either."

"You're wrong I care about her." Says Madge, coming over to stand next to me. She obviously has overheard mine and Crucis's conversation.

"And so do I." Says Gale walking towards where Madge and I are standing then standing next to Madge. "So leave her alone or I will come looking for you. I don't ever want to hear another word come out of your mouth about Katniss or any rumours about her, because I will come straight to you."

"Whatever." Is all he says as he walks back to his table. I walk back over to my table with Madge and Gale walking behind me. We get to our table and sit down. Madge sits down next to me while Gale sits on the other side.

"Katniss I just want to say I'm so sorry for yelling at you when I found out about the rumour, I was just being the jealous girlfriend. I don't know why I believed those idiots; they just convinced me that it was true. They told me they saw you two behind the school, I should have listened to you. You are my best friend, I'm so sorry Katniss please forgive me."

"Oh course I forgive you." I say as I pull her into a hug. "So does that mean you two are going to have another shot at love?" I say looking at Madge and Gale.

"I'm not sure, Gale can we go somewhere and talk privately?"

"Sure, will you be alright here by yourself with that jerk just sitting right over there?"

"I'll be fine thanks." I say before him and Madge walk out of the lunchroom.

I so hope their relationship works out then that means everything will be back to normal. Well that's what I'm hoping for. I'm glad that all this drama has passed now, those first couple of weeks were horrible. I'm just glad we found out who made up the rumours, I have my friends back and I have Peeta back.


Madge POV

I am such an idiot for not believing in Katniss, she's my best friend. When she told me that the rumour about her and Gale wasn't true and I wouldn't believe her. I feel horrible for what I said to her that day when I found out about the rumour and not just her, but Gale as well. I have liked him for so long and I know what he is like I should have known he wouldn't go behind my back and cheat on me. I guess when Silver told me about seeing Katniss and Gale kiss I believed her because she supposedly saw them kissing. I'm just so glad that all the drama is over and I can go back to my old normal life, I hated hanging out with Silver and her group all they wanted to do was hang out with numerous boys and get up to mischief. I would just prefer to stay at home or hang out with normal people.

As me and Gale walk out of the lunch room I feel the butterflies in my stomach I haven't had a conversations with him since I told him our relationship was over. I haven't even thought about what I would say if this ever happened. Hopefully something will just pop into my head as we are talking. As we walk through the school corridor I see a classroom that has been left open so I walk in there with Gale walking behind me.

"So what did you want to talk about?" he says sitting on a desk with his arms folded. He's probably thinking 'I told you I never kissed Katniss'.

"I'm so, so sorry I didn't believe you when you told me the rumour wasn't true. I shouldn't have listened to Silver; I should have believed you when you said you didn't-"

"You should have but you didn't, you just dumped me."

"Well what would you say to me if you found out I was cheating on you?"

"Well I would probably do that same thing you did, but I would make sure that the evidence is real first. You should have believed your own boyfriend when I say that I didn't cheat on you, you know you can trust me I would never do that to you Madge, ever. I love you."

"You still love me? After what I did to you, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't even want to talk to me." I say looking away from him.

"Of course I still love you, I'm just disappointed that the amount of time we spent apart. We could have had a great time together but it was cut short, too short." He says standing up and pulling me into a hug.

"I agree… Uh Gale?"

"Yeah."

"I still want to be with you. I want to put the past aside and look at the future, our future… together." I say pulling back from his hug and looking into his eyes.

"So do I, do you think we can give 'us' another shot."

"I think we should." I say grabbing onto his hand and entwining my fingers with his.

"Would it be ok if I kissed you?" He says putting his free hand under my chin to lift up my face to his.

"Yes." Is all I say before we both lean in to give each other the long deep kiss we have been waiting for.

This day couldn't get any better, I just got my best friend back and I got my boyfriend back. I can't believe I lived without them for so long, I've forgotten what it was like to have Katniss and Gale in my life. I have missed them so much and now I have both of them back and our friendship and relationship is so much stronger, nothing now will ever tear us apart.


So everyone is back together and everyone is friends again, what else do you think will happen next? Will it be good or bad? Keep reading! Next chapter will be up in 3 - 4 days :D