Surprise! I managed to finish chapter five earlier, but I'm guessing chapter six is going to come later since, well, school time. Enjoy your read, I thank everyone for their lovely reviews, and keep reviewing too!
~Love from your author, Buttercup-Primrose 3
Kind girl POV:)
Few days have gone by past, it's now a Saturday morning. Prim and me have been teaching Peeta to speak a little bit of French so he could sound French-like. I've been teaching him setting up snares too. He enjoys learning new things from Prim and me, and he's been a good student so far. Prim asks from outside my room,
"Katniss, are you ready yet? Today's the first day we take Peeta out and show him to the public!"
"It's Freddy… Prim." I reminded her as I slide my blue dress on. We have to sound like he's our close cousin, not like a cousin that we don't really know a lot. She said,
"Oh yeah! Ok, so, we call him Freddy!"
"Exactly Prim." I sighed, hoping she won't forget about calling him Freddy. Prim's been calling this day a 'date' but it's not an official 'date' because, no, we can't do anything like a pair of 'lovers' would do, because 'Freddy' is our cousin that isn't exactly our cousin. I'm certainly confusing myself right now, and the name Freddy…
~Flash back~
"Ok, so Peeta, here's the plan Prim came up with. We're going to show you off in public." I said to Peeta. Certainly he shook his head and said no. Prim said,
"Peeta, this is a different story. You'll be a fake character named Frédéric Leblanc, and you're our cousin…"
Prim finishes the story, the only comment Peeta gave at first,
"Why does my name have to be 'Frédéric'?"
"Well, sorry, it's just a random name we came up with." Prim answered. Peeta doesn't seem to be satisfied with the answer. He keeps asking,
"What's the complete story about the name 'Frédéric Leblanc'?"
"Ok, so the start is I think I should let you come from France because that's the most romantic place I could come up with in thought. You know, all pink and stuff. Plus, pink is my color, and I personally think pink is the most romantic color-"
"Ok Prim, enough with all the color and stuff and finish answering Peeta." I cut out her sentence by tickling her until she screams for me to stop and finishes the answer.
"Then Katniss asked me about the name and I said 'throw me a letter' and she gave me the letter 'F'. Then the first name that came up to me that starts with an 'F' is 'Frédéric' because I was thinking about M. Chopin…" I laughed out loud when Prim said Chopin. I never knew the name was an idea from Chopin. Peeta laughs,
"That's why my fake name's 'Frédéric'? Good job Prim… What about my last name though?"
"Well, about Leblanc, it's just my classmate's name is Thea White, and I think of that name all the time because once my teacher wrote down her name on the white board as 'The White' accidently, and I translated it to French and it means Leblanc which actually is a real last name, so I decided to let you have that last name." Prim finally gave out a complete answer, and I appreciate that. Peeta seems to be finally satisfied, he said,
"Alright, I'm Frédéric Leblanc in disguise… Fine, that idea works for me."
"Yay!" Prim shouts happily, appreciating Peeta/Freddy liking the idea she came up with. Prim couldn't shut up how her idea was great, and how she's such a genius…
~Flash back over~
I walked outside onto our patio, telling mom I'd be out in town for the whole day. She nods and waved goodbye. I waved back, to show a bit of respect. Prim's already waiting for me at the fence with Freddy. I'm still going to call him Peeta for random reasons, I'm still used to calling him Peeta anyways. Peeta waved 'hi' as I ran towards our gate. I smiled and said,
"Hi Freddy. Let's show you off around the whole district, shall we?"
"Alright, let's go." Peeta smiles as we walked slowly behind Prim who's excitedly jumping up and down. Prim wanted to join us for today in case something got messed up. Peeta and me didn't held our hands up together since it would be kind of awkward because we're 'cousins'.
~Page break~
We got to district 12's richer area as I showed Peeta some of the stores around, including Delly's shoe shop of course. I looked at the clock located near the city center fountain, 7:00am, around the time where everyone comes out and do whatever they do on the weekends. Prim led us towards the 'governmental' part of this area. I asked Peeta, "Guess who lives here Freddy?"
"Madge Undersee, her parents and her little sister?"
"Correctly answered." I nodded as Peeta gave me the answer. Just then, Prim waved towards the building and shouted,
"Hey Tiara! Hey Madge!" There's no need of purposely introducing Peeta… Madge and Tiara shouted as they walked down their staircase,
"Hey Prim! Hey Katniss!"
"Hey girls, who's the boy Katniss's standing with?" Madge just have to ask. Oh well. I guess we'll just have to do it. I said, introducing Peeta,
"This is Frédéric Leblanc, our cousin, from France visiting us."
"Oh, hi Frédéric! I'm Madge Undersee, and that's my little sister Tiara Undersee talking to your cousin Prim." Madge shook his hand and spoke slowly in case Peeta doesn't understand. I said proudly,
"Freddy can speak fluent English too! He's bilingual!"
"Wow! That's so cool!" Madge gasped and whispered to me, "Does he date?"
"Meh, he's already dating this French girl back in France." I lied in case Madge actually falls for him… She asked,
"Does he have any picture of her on his phone or camera, something like that?"
"No, he doesn't have his phone with him right now because he left it in France, and he's looking for a new camera to buy in the capitol when he's visiting." That was such a great lie, but I have to go to the capitol in a few days anyways, with mom and Prim. Maybe we could let Peeta come with us too. Madge sighed,
"That's sad. Do you know how she looks like?"
"I don't know, you can ask him. Freddy! Madge has a question!" I called Peeta over to answer Madge's question. I whispered as he comes,
"Make up how your fake girlfriend in French looks like."
"Alright, that's not too hard." He whispers back as he starts answering about Madge's question. He describes her look,
"Her name is Gabrielle, a medium height and she's pretty thin. She has blonde curls that go to her shoulder, and her skin's quite pale which contrast with her dark brown eyes."
"She sounds fairly pretty!" Madge sighs. I'm pretty sure she's falling towards Peeta because she's doing her daydreaming thing again. Madge can't fall towards Peeta, or else her heart's going to break when she finds out there's no such cousin of mine called Frédéric Leblanc. Peeta smiled and lies,
"She is pretty, and she's also 16, in my same class."
"Won't she miss you when you're here in Panem?" Madge asked, Peeta shrugs,
"Oh no. She's currently visiting her part of family in Germany."
"Oh. That's good. She's having fun right now?"
"Yeah, in the same time, taking care of her little five years old brother."
"How adorable! What's her little brother like?"
"Her little brother's name is Elliot, he looks like his sister but in a male version, and he has bright greenish blue eyes."
"Aww…. He must be so cute!"
"Annoying in the same time. They also have a dog too, a German Shepard."
"I want a German Shepard, but dad doesn't let me and Tiara have one."
"Don't get too upset, you might get one someday."
"Oh well. I'll just keep dreaming about it I guess." Madge finishes as she goes over to Tiara. I laughed quietly so Madge won't hear,
"Oh Freddy… The best liar I've ever met."
"Ah, the Freddy for of Peeta is the best liar." Peeta said in his mysterious voice. Oh Peeta, such sweet Peeta. Tiara, Prim and Madge walks over to us, Madge whispers to Peeta and me, "Tiara says she want's to say something."
"Yeah, what does Tiara want to say? Something embarrassing?" I asked teasingly, Madge called Tiara over. Tiara said,
"Frédéric, you're really hot."
Peeta, Madge and me tried our hardest not to laugh, I hope Tiara doesn't really mind if we accidently failed our attempt not to laugh… Madge burst into laughter. She obviously isn't really good at attempting not to laugh. She said overwhelmed,
"So that's what you wanted to say Tiara? You know how old you are, right?"
"Yeah, but it doesn't mean I'm not to say how I feel about him!" Tiara protested, she adds, "Plus, I also know that he's already dating, it's not like I want to date him, I only wanted him to know that someone like me would say he's hot."
"That's alright Madge. Thanks Tiara! I appreciate that, and I'm sure Gabrielle would admit that too!" Peeta calmed their temper down, half laughing still. Prim was still laughing and gagging, and I stopped her from gagging by tickling her to make her laugh that all that choking sound out. I stopped all this craziness,
"So, what are we going to do for the rest of the day?"
"We show Frédéric around district 12, duh!" Of course I know that Madge, but where though? The best answer is to find out by asking, I asked,
"Where in district 12? Not outside, it's way too cold. Plus, it's already the start of December…"
"I've got an idea. Let's take Frédéric around the mall!" Is Tiara out of her mind? The only malls we've got here in Panem are all in the capitol! Madge said,
"Tiara, you know where the malls are, right? We don't have any malls in district 12."
"Then why can't we go to the capitol now sissy?"
"It takes two days to get to the capitol…"
"Yeah then why can't we go to the capitol in winter?"
"Tiara, we're talking about now what are we going to do."
"Oh. I don't know. Let's go to school! Frédéric's going to come to school, right?" Now Tiara's asking Prim, Peeta and me. Well, unless we let mom and Peeta's parents know about this Frédéric issue thing, it's a no. I answered casually,
"We're not sure yet, but Freddy's going to stay here in winter."
"Yay! Then we can go to the capitol!" Tiara's smile widened. Peeta, Prim and me looked at each other, signaling the look about having to leave and sort out this problem. Peeta said,
"Ok, Tiara, Madge, we've got to go. How about we give you a call if we can meet you guys for dinner tonight?"
"Sure, but just don't bump into Delly and Eleanor, the Cartwright Eleanor. You make sure of that, Katniss. Or Delly's going to start spreading rumors about Frédéric." Madge reminded us carefully and waved goodbye while leading Tiara back into her house.
~Page break~
We got to our normal spot in the forest, the fallen tree by the creek. I sighed,
"What are we going to do now?"
"The best thing is, tell the truth to our parents." Peeta answers, I said,
"Peeta, it's our mom and your parents. What are they going to think? My mom's definitely just not going to do anything about it because she's all broke down and stuff. Is your family going to scream or something?"
"No, my mom and my dad are pretty open-minded. They'd let me take the risk and the chance of showing myself to the world."
"Ok, well I don't see the problem of telling the truth then. Let's go and figure this whole mess out, and then you could actually use your disguise to come to school and follow us to the capitol." I ended as we took off towards Peeta's house.
~Page break~
The three of us knocked on the door as Leeva opened the door. He lets out a long sigh and finally said,
"Peeta Mellark. You've actually shown yourself to the world, haven't you?"
"Ok, Leeva, listen to the story." Peeta starts telling him the whole story about meeting me and falling in love, Prim's idea about Frédéric Leblanc our cousin, and till this morning with Madge. Leeva raised an eyebrow and said,
"I can't deal with this whole thing, all I know is I support Prim's idea."
"Thank you Leeva. Do you think Jed would be supporting us too?" Peeta asked as Leeva nods his head and welcomes the three of us into the Mellark manor. Peeta's parents walked over, listen to the story explained by all four of us.
Long silence. But eventually, they nodded their head. Mr. Mellark said,
"This might work. We'll give it a go. But Katniss, do you actually have a family back in France though?"
"Well, yeah, I actually do…" I answered truthfully. I actually do have a part of my family in France, but I forgot their names. Mr. Mellark smiles and said,
"That's great! This should be fine when school ask for the information. You know, you don't really have to do anything to participate in events at school."
"Yeah dad's right." Leeva cuts in. Mrs. Mellark spoke,
"The idea's cool with me, but the punishment would probably be pretty big if something's messed up. Does your mom agree with this idea Katniss?"
"Mom would be fine with everything. It works." I made an important promise. I know for sure mom's not going to do anything about it; we just have to get my aunt and my uncle to know about it. It should be fine, the idea. Mr. Mellark said,
"Alright, we'll get Peeta registered with the school right away. You guys can just take off and do what ever you want, but no private sessions in a single room with a locked door." That made all of us giggle, but Prim didn't really seemed to get it. She's immature. That's great. Peeta gets to be in school, being Freddy Leblanc in my same class, and he also have to be my super close cousin and a great liar. Peeta asked when we got out of his house,
"Dinner with Madge and Tiara?"
"Oh yeah, I'll give her a call." I answered while grabbing my phone. I called her cell phone and told her to meet her at the buffet restaurant at 6:00pm. She got all excited and stuff and said she'll be all dressed up and stuff. Great. Finally we get Peeta out in public with the risk a little bit smaller. My life is going to go on perfect unless Peeta gets find out about his shadow child situation. Otherwise, 100% perfect.
There you go, the end of chapter five. The start of chapter six would be on the dinner :) Keep reviewing, and keep reading :)