Sorry, haven't been updating AND having a messy chapter. Anyways, just an information, this chapter could be kind of random... :P School's almost over, bunch of homework, report cards, tests, and I'm going back on stage for more performances and competitions. (Yay for me!)
Ok, here's something I need you guys to help me decide on: The ending of this story.
Option 1: I'll end it right after they come back from the Capitol
Option 2: I'll end it when Madge and Tiara are off to the Capitol
Option 3: I'll end it when their school year is finished
Don't worry, I might write a sequel if you guys review+favor+follow. It's all depending on you guys ;)
(You can answer them by reviewing or PM, although I'd prefer review :P, you know, all authors are... yeah.)
Anyways, enjoy ;)
-Luuuuv Buttercup 3
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Kind girl POV:)
As I walked down the stairs, the sweet smelling scent of Peeta pastries climbed slowly into my nose. Peeta makes good desserts, especially cheese buns.
I ran down his spiraling stairs and shout out,
"Peeta! What are you making today?"
"Well come in and taste it!" Peeta pulls me into the kitchen.
"Close your eyes." He commands and I accepted the command. He pops something sweet, something soft, drizzled with chocolate syrup and filled with cream and some banana…
"Is it crêpe?" I asked, eyes still shut.
"You got it. Banana and chocolate crêpe." He laughed approving my taste of food. I'm certainly getting better at tasting and making food.
"Well. We can eat these on the train. We better get going though, or we'll miss the train to the Capitol." He walked towards the front door, pulling his suitcase and mine. Jed sneaked behind me and said,
"You're not going to miss the train are you? Well anyways, guess what? I'm coming too. I'm going back to school today."
"Really? Well you better not spy on Peeta and me." I warned playfully.
"Well, you two can't go up and do something on the train. You're cousins."
"Right. You might need to remind us sometimes."
"Isn't there Madge or someone you all talk to?"
"Yeah. Ok. I'm leaving. See you on the train!" So I dashed off to the front door to meet Peeta.
~Page break~
"So Jed was annoying you." Peeta laughed as I tell him the story on our way to the train. Doing all kinds of dramatic moves and stuff.
"Yeah. He was." I sighed, stopping all the moves.
"I think he likes you a lot!" He laughed even louder which I would never appreciate. It's not the usual warm smile he would give you.
"Well anyways. You have to start being Freddy again. Good luck."
"Good luck too, Katniss my cousin."
And of course, we laughed at each other for our daily good luck wish with no need.
"Katniss!" There comes Madge boarding the train.
"Hey Madge! What's up?" I asked as I guide her to the empty seat beside me.
"Not much! Did you hear about Tiara about us leaving?"
"Yeah. I'm sad."
"Aww… It's all right. We're not sure anyways."
"Well hopefully no one's going to leave."
"Let's hope so too. And let's hope Freddy can stay here longer."
"Of course he's going to stay here longer. Gabrielle's not going to be in France for a little while too, I think she's staying in Germany for quite a long time."
"Oh. Ok. Are they still contacting each other?"
"I don't know. He would tell me anything." Was I blind or did Madge's eyes actually light up?
"Are you bugging him about Gabrielle?"
"Course I am. What do you think? I'm his close cousin!"
"I'm just asking…"
"Actually he's my closest cousin."
"Oh. So you're not his closest cousin?"
"I'm still kind of his very close cousin. We get along pretty well."
"You get along very well. Not just normal well."
"Well, we're cousins, not doubt about that."
"Yeah, I know that. Ok, I'm going to hang around in the train. See you later!"
Madge walked away, waving 'hi' to Gale and she walked off. At least Delly didn't come on this trip. If Madge really left the school… There's only one possible group of girls I can join: Clove and Finch or Foxface.
I know there's another group that would want me because I'm like smart and stuff, but that group of girls are just really dumb but not dumb about fashion and makeup: Glimmer and Cashmere.
So it looks like I can only get along with Clove and Finch.
"Katniss? You want to go around the train?" Peeta tapped slightly on my shoulders. I gasped, "Oh yeah! Sure! Let's go!"
~Page break~
"I heard before from Leeva that there's a thing called the hunger games, and this room on this train is used for training." Peeta and me walked into a room filled with weapons, ropes, climbing walls, and etc. I grabbed up a knife and hold it,
"So, the knives are for killing?"
"I guess so." Peeta shrugs as Haymitch sneaked up behind him,
"So, Peeta Mellark. What on Earth are you doing in public? Huh?"
"Mr. Abernathy, I'm just. Ok. Here's the story and the deal-"
I decided I'll let Peeta tell the story so I wandered off in this small training center.
I sliced some dummies, stabbed them, and walked off to the next station.
A silver bow and silver arrows.
I took them, mounted my arrows while this other person in hot pink smiled at me and turned on this machine. Fake wooden birds started to fly around in the room: One arrow equals one bird down.
"Nice job, Katniss."
She walked over to me and clapped her weird clap. It must be Effie that's clapping.
"Thanks Effie!" I smiled back, while taking out the knife I took when talking to Peeta. I stabbed the knife on some platform, hard.
"THAT IS MAHOGANY!"
"What? I was just putting my knife down-"
"VERY HARD AND VIOLENT! YOU JUST KILLED A PIECE OF PLACEMAT!"
"What? I was just taking a rest, putting the knife down on a table, vertically."
"You know how expensive mahogany is?"
"No… Ok. Effie shut up."
"MANNERS !"
"Ok. But seriously, SHUT UP EFFIE!"
Effie frowns with madness and walked away.
I walked pass the table I just stabbed, turned around, deciding maybe I should go back to check on Peeta and Haymitch.
"So, does Haymitch understands the story now?" I whispered into Peeta's ear. He shook his head and answered,
"He gets it, but he thinks I shouldn't risk it."
"So he doesn't get why we're doing this?"
"He does, but he doesn't like it."
"Tell him it's none of his business."
"I did…"
"And it didn't work, did it?"
"No."
"Peeta, Katniss?" Haymitch interrupt our little whispering conversation.
"Yeah, what?" I asked, nervous, if he's going to send Peeta away.
"You two will have to act better if you want to survive this secret."
"So you'd let us do this act?"
"Just as Peeta said, none of my business."
"Ok. Thanks for supporting," I shrugged and pulled Peeta away, "c'mon Peeta, we'll go check our rooms."
"Katniss!" Haymitch called.
"What do you want now?" I asked, groaning.
"It's one room for one person. You're between Peeta and Madge!"
"Oh. Thanks."
And I pulled Peeta towards our room.
Kind girl's little sis POV:)
I wonder how Katniss's doing now… Hopefully she still remember about Freddy is Peeta…
"Prim?" Mom knocked slightly on my, or more like Katniss's bedroom door.
"Yes mom?"
"I need you to collect some berries from the forest."
"Why?"
"Katniss usually brings berries from the forest for us or we'll starve."
"Is that why she goes to the forest?"
"Doesn't she go to the forest for the meeting with Peeta?"
"I thought she goes in other times too."
"I don't think so."
"Oh. Ok. Thanks mom, I'll be on my way!" I waved goodbye at mom and grabbed a basket, heading off towards the forest.
Shadow boy POV:)
The train room is absolutely luxurious, a small crystal chandelier hanging from the top of each of our bedroom. Everything is delicate.
There was a slight knock on the door.
"Freddy?"
"Who's outside?" I walked towards the door.
"Katniss."
"Oh. Come on in! Door's not locked."
The door knob twisted and there stood Katniss with a grin on her face. I tried grinning like her and asked teasingly, "What do you want? Why grinning?"
"I just found out something really interesting. See that door over there?"
She pointed her finger towards the white door with probably a platinum doorknob on it. I said, "Yeah. See it."
"Ok. Go unlock it. We can join our rooms together. Wait for me! I'll go open it from my side!" Katniss dashed back into her room and I unlocked the white door. I look straight into the other side. There stood Katniss, smiling even wider. She said,
"Well, see it now? We have access to each other's room now."
"Well that's great! Did you unlock your door to Madge's?"
"No. Not going to do that, rather share mine with yours."
"Of course you'd rather share yours with mine. Like how I rather share mine with yours." She smiles, lifting her head up. I lifted her chin up higher, and we move closer to each other, our lips less than one-inch apart, butterflies dancing inside my body.
"Freddy?"
Someone just have to ruin the moment. Katniss groans and I groaned.
I whispered, "I'll be right back. You get back to your room and lock that white door."
"Alright, love you, and see you later!" She gave me a quick kiss on my nose and walked back to her room from that door.
"Freddy? Freddy! It's Madge!" Madge's outside the door. Grr… Fine, I'll go open the door. I faked a smile, "Hey Madge! What's up?"
"Not much! Just wondering if you wanna hangout? You know, dinner's soon and I was thinking if you want to go walk around on the garden?"
"Um… Sure."
"I mean, you don't have to if you don't want to."
"No, sure, I'll come. Do you want to grab Katniss and Gale?"
"Sure! I'll go get Gale, you go get your, um, cousin."
"Ok. Meet you in the great room in this carriage."
I locked the main door and walked into Katniss's room from the white door.
"Aye Katniss? Where're you?" I asked.
No replies.
"Katniss?" I asked again.
No replies. I walked further into her room. I'm surprise about what I see, clothes piled up everywhere, wrapping papers, and I feel hot water steam. I got it, I know what she's doing.
"Katniss? You almost done with the shower?" I asked.
"What? Who's outside?"
"Peeta. Peeta's outside."
"GET OUT PEETA! You don't disturb a girl's shower!"
"No. I'm not disturbing you, Madge's asking if you want to come and hangout on the garden."
"Oh yeah, sure. Just wait a sec, I'll meet you in your room. So, get out!"
"Ok, ok. I will. Gosh."
I walked out, hearing Katniss laughing.
~Page break~
Gale and Madge are already in the great hall, watching Katniss and me walking and laughing towards them.
"It's hard to believe you guys are actually only cousins than a pair of lovers!" Gale laughs with a bit of sorrow on his face.
"Actually, we're only really close cousins, and we know each other really well."
I told him with a smile, while putting my arms around Katniss's shoulders.
Madge laughed at the confused Gale,
"You jealous you're not Katniss's cousin aren't you Gale?"
"No. Why would I be jealous?" Gale protested, although it's not even true.
"Oh, you so would be jealous. Anyways, c'mon let's get going."
Madge keep laughing and pulled Gale to the stairs.
Katniss and me exchanged a look and followed them upstairs to the garden.
~Page break~
"The garden's really nice isn't it Freddy?" Madge asked me, warmly, with a bit of passion and love.
"Yes, it's nice indeed." I said, trying to hide the sighing voice.
"Oh! Look at that swing under the arch of roses! Let's go!" Madge giggled and try pulling me away.
"Um, Madge, do you think this is a good idea?" I asked, pulling myself away from her. She giggles and said,
"Of course it's a good idea! C'mon!"
"Um, I'm not sure… Why don't we go around the flower bushes instead?"
"Alright, we'll go with your idea." Madge frowned. I hate ruining people's feelings, especially girls, but I really don't want Katniss to pass out crying again.
"Freddy! Come over here!" Katniss waved at me, calling me over to the tulips.
I ran over and she said,
"Isn't this pink beautiful? It's just like Prim's dress!"
"It's beautiful. And it's Prim's color too." I nodded with agreement, although it actually is kind of weird about guys talking about clothing. Good thing Katniss understands my mood so she stopped talking about clothing.
The four of us spent the rest of our time on the garden until dinner. Gale and me following Katniss and Madge around the whole garden, listening to them saying: 'Oh this flower is beautiful!' and 'Isn't this color gorgeous?' and stuff like that. Sometimes boys just got to be patient about girls.
There. Sorry if I won't be updating in two weeks, I'm REALLY busy :(
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