When I was walking home I scuffed fallen pieces of leaves under my shoes. Mom said she wanted to stop at the hob, for the rabbit I killed. She told me to go ahead home. The house was empty, so I went to the bakery.
When I walked into the bakery, I heard Will, my younger brother, humming a tune. Me and Will look the exact opposite from each other. Whereas I have Mom's brown hair and dad's blue vibrant eyes, Will has Dads blond hair and moms grey seam eyes. We both share traits from both, I've had numerous people tell me I have my dad's painting skill. And everyone tells Will he has a beautiful singing voice, just like my mom.
Will comes up from under the counter, probably expecting a customer. "Oh hey Hailey" he picks up his cloth off of his apron, wiping the counter free of flour. Will and dad like to work at the bakery. It's bonding time for them like hunting is for me and mom.
"Hey, where's dad?" I ask he pointed to behind the counter towards the back of the bakery, where the ovens are. I climb over the counter and swing my legs over.
I pass the freezer and the oven room and walk until I get to the cake room. I turned to the right, down the hall and through a door way, when I see dad sitting in a stool bent over cookies, icing them. He looks up when he notices me.
"Back from hunting? Where's your mother?" I pull up a stool next to him looking at the beautiful work he was creating. "At the hob," I say taking one of the cookies. "Primroses eh?" I look at the flowers on the cookies resembling the beautiful flowers perfectly. Dad smirked and snatches back my cookie before I got a chance to bite it. I take a blank cookie instead and started icing it, matching it exactly identical to my dad's.
"So, what did you guys get?" he asks. "Well I got a rabbit. With my knife." I said sounding proud, which I was but that just reminded me of the boy I saw his grey mysterious eyes, staring at me. "Good throw" his voice echoes through my head. "Wow, your finally getting good at hunting?" he joked. I slapped him on the shoulder which caused him to laugh. "Hey, just kidding!" Dads piling the primrose cookies on a tray but looks up and glances out of the window. His face changes and suddenly he is standing up whipping off his apron. I look up at him and it's as though he just remembered I was there.
"Hold on Hailey, I got to do something. Finish those cookies for me?" I nod my head but I'm curious to know what made him go all crazy. I stand up moving closer to the window and across from the bakery I see a house. A house that was usually vacant. But now outside stood a tall strong looking man, He had dark brown and so did the boy next to him. I am shocked to see the boy, because that's the boy I saw in the woods. I can only guess that the taller, older, looking man was the mystery boy's father, since they looked so alike. Now out of the window I see Dad charging his way towards the man and the boy. I had no idea what he was doing but something tells me he wasn't too happy.
I was right but I didn't get why my dad looked so furious, the man I never seen before didn't look too happy either and pushed his son in his house. The man's grey eyes were staring down my dad intensely. I'm suddenly more curious then I was before, leading myself through the hallways to the front room, forgetting about the cookies.
Will is still there, mopping the floor. He sees me. He's looking at me over his blond curls covering his eyes. "Where did dad storm out all angrily to?" he nodded his toward the door. I look out the door to see my dad and the tall man arguing. Dad's stance looked tense.
Will is about to go outside to get bags of flour to bring inside, but I volunteer, with more on my mind then doing a good favor for my brother. As soon as I open the bakery door I hear my dad's voice.
"You said you wouldn't come back, It was hard on her!" who was her? I asked myself. I walk to the side of the bakery, careful not to make myself noticeable. But I still have a good view of my father and the man. I walk in the fence seeing the towering bags of flour.
"Don't worry I'm not here to steal her from you Peeta." The man's deep voice said. "I have a family now." He continued.
"That didn't stop you the last time you were here!" my dad, looking about ready to explode. I've never seen him this mad.
"Well she deserved better than this!" The man yelled, holding his hands up. Remembering what I came out here to do, I crept closer to a bag of flour. I lifted it, putting it over my shoulder.
"Better than what Gale? What do you know about Katniss anymore!" They were just about screaming now; just about all of district 12 could hear them. But I figured out one thing, they were talking about my mom, and the man's name was Gale. I figured that was enough eavesdropping for now. I carried the flour bag over my shoulder out of the gate and locked it behind me.
"Better than her husband trying to kill her!" Once the man yelled those words it felt like the whole district sound silent. You could hear a pin drop at this moment. Out of shock I dropped the bag of flour.
"I haven't done that in a while Gale." My dad says shamefully. Not denying a word. I didn't like the sound of what that man was saying. Dropping the bag of flour caused the man, Gale my dad had called him, to look at me. His Gray eyes widened as he spotted me. My dad wondering what he was looking at so intensely he turned his head towards me. I felt tears in the rim of my eyes. Was my dad hiding a secret? Seeing me upset was no surprise to my dad. He knew I heard what Gale said. I was embarrassed. I'm not sure why. But Gale and my dad were staring at me, and I felt overwhelmed. So I ran, past the bakery.
"Hailey!" I heard my dad behind me. I ran until I got to the Hub. Thinking of my mom, thinking of what Gale said. I was behind a tree when dad caught up. Maybe I was overreacting, or maybe I heard Gale wrong. Dad stopped in front of the Hub catching his breath. My mom walked out of the Hob waving goodbye to somebody.
"Peeta?" mom walked over to dad, holding his shoulder. "Are you okay?" Dad coughed and waited a moment until saying anything.
"Did you see Hailey?" As soon as dad said this, mom's face filled with panic. Mom has always been protective of Will and me, even now that we're older and can take care of ourselves. I never knew why though.
"What?" mom yelled in fear. Dad finally catching his breath calmed down mom, telling her nothing was wrong. "Katniss, Gale's back." dad was staring into the eyes of mom, her eyes widened. Mom muttered something I couldn't hear and said "What does that have to do with Hailey? Where is she?" she calmed down a bit enough to not sound crazy.
"I'm sure she is fine." The truth was I wasn't fin. Not even close. I wanted to know who this Gale guy was and what he meant by saying my dad was trying to kill my mom. Mom was still staring at him, begging for answers
Dad told her how I heard something that Gale said. Mom leaned closer waiting for dad to continue. When he didn't mom demanded, "Peeta, what did she hear?" I could tell mom was getting impatience. Dad looked down at the ground frowning, probably remembering what happened.
"Gale mentioned something about how you deserved something better than a husband who was trying to kill you." Mom's eyes widened even more. And right now I was more confused than I was before. Did Mom know dad was trying to kill her?
"He was talking about when you were hijacked." My mom's voice cracking as she said this. Dad nodded. "I'm sure Hailey is confused and went somewhere to think" dad tried to comforted mom. Dad got something right. I was confused. What is being hijacked mean? And why was dad hijacked.
"I want to see Gale." Mom said softly so only dad, and me of course, could hear. Dad looked shocked, but nodded understandingly and they walked away.