Katniss and Gale - The Kiss
Chapter Five
I walk into the house after Prim to see my mother preparing dinner.
"We were wondering where you were? We thought we heard someone out front. What were you doing?" my mother says to me. I blush scarlet.
"Oh. Hm. Just getting wood for the fire."I say avoiding her gaze.
" What's that on your neck?" she says. She walks over to me and examines my neck.
She loosens the grip and looks into my eyes with a knowing look.
"What's wrong?" says Prim.
" Nothing is wrong Prim, will you cut up the vegetables for me" says my mother.
My mother smirks and raises her eyebrows at me and I walk into the bathroom. I close the door behind me and look at myself in the mirror. My neck is covered in hickeys and bite marks. My neck is pink and purple no wonder my mother was looking at me with humour. I didn't even think to cover it up when I walked through the door. I let down my hair so it some what covers the marks and walk out to the kitchen for dinner.
I take my sit beside Prim and my mother smirks at me now and again. I avoid looking at her for the rest of dinner till Prim leaves to clean the dishes when my mother finally says something about it.
" So..whos the guy?" she says.
" I don't know what your talking about" I say avoiding eye contact. She laughs.
" Katniss, I know what the marks are from. Don't lay dumb" She laughs again.
" I'm going to bed. Oh, Hazelle invited us over tomorrow to have dinner" I say.
" That's good, Oh. Is it Gale?" She says.
I groan and make my way to bed and fail into a deep sleep.
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The next morning I wash my hair and decide to leave it down to cover up all the hickeys and bites.
Its just cold enough to put on a scarf so I decide to wear a black one so it doesn't stand out so much.
I walk down the stairs to see my mother and sister just getting breakfast together, I sit down beside Prim and have some of the porridge. I see my mother smirking into her breakfast and she tries not to start laughing. When she looks at me I give her a dirty look.
" Ready to go to school Prim?" I say.
"Yea, I'll just get my bag" she says. She leaves and heads to her room.
"Should put something on that" my mother says looking down into her tea smirking.
"Yea yea" I say.
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I walk down the school hallway towards Alice and Madge.
"Hey Alice. Hey Madge"I say.
"Hey" Alice says and she walks off up towards her first class.
"What's up with her?" I say to Madge.
"I don't know. She keeps saying nothing is wrong" Says Madge.
"We'll find out at lunch" I say.
"Yea. So what's with the fancy scarf? Looks like your trying to hide something" shes says smirking.
"What? No. I'm...It's just chilly" I say which just makes her laugh all the way to lunch.
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When Madge and I take our seats in the cafeteria Alice is staring out the window.
"What's wrong Alice? Come on talk to us" I say.
Alice stares at us for a few minutes then she covers her mouth,
"I think I'm going to be sick" She says and runs off to the bathroom.
We follow her into the bathroom and she's bending over the toilet getting sick. I hold back her hair and rub her back while Madge gets some tissue to wipe her mouth.
Alice sits back against the stall wall and takes the tissue Madge hands her. I flush the toilet and take a mint out of my bag and give it to her.
"Alice talk to us. What's going on?" I say.
She stares at us. Madge and I sit down beside her in the toilet stall and close te stall door before she speaks.
What's wrong with Alice? Is she sick? Or what? Will Katniss' mother talk to Hazelle?
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