Chapter !#

(that means 13)

Mystery Voice

by BreadBoy

This story is not connected to Fire Daisies or Panem High.

The songs in this story are not really sung or written by Katniss, but just let it go. She writes them in this story.

Katniss' POV

Peeta went out the door. I was such jerk. Why couldn't I control my tongue? I just chased Peeta off again with my harsh words.

Now I was really standing alone in this wicked mess.

I gripped the soft leather of my songbook and started to tear through the yellowed, thin pages smeared with my globby black ink. I turned to a fresh page and wrote a song.

Then I sang.

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
When the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone up there will find me
'til then I walk alone

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

After I finished, I felt the tingling sensation in my eyes. I was about to cry again.

But I didn't.

I guess I was fresh out of tears. I heard a little click in the hall and footsteps.

Stupid, stupid me.

I had just signaled the release of a new Mystery Voice video.

Peeta's POV

I had to do it.

I recorded Katniss. Again.

So I went back to the EAP (established academy park) and went to work piecing together the song and making a black screen.

It made me sick when I saw a whole crowd surrounding Glimmer, asking for an autograph.

And Cato was here.

He was away from the crowd, and seemed to be in extreme concentration at something. I turned around to see the archery range. And Katniss shooting targets at rapid-fire, obviously angry and this was not calming her down. When she ran out of arrows and she went to pluck them all out of that tiny red dot on the chart, Cato came strutting over and produced a water bottle for her.

Then they talked a bit, and then Katniss smiled, and then she laughed, and then Cato smiled like some big-boy-alpha, and then Cato smiled really handsomely, and then he took those arrows out for her, and then Katniss touched his arm, and then they walked off together.

I just sat their on the bench, watching all this with wide eyes.

I couldn't wait any longer. I had to make up with Katniss soon, or she'd go to Cato; the guy who could crack my skull open in a millisecond.

And Cato returns!

Thanks, Mellarkfan121 for the suggestion. -wink-