I'M SORRY! I'VE BEEN CRAZY BUSY WITH SCHOOL AND OTHER STUPID STUFF!

YOU GET THE IDEA. I OBVIOUSLY DON'T OWN THE HUNGER GAMES.

Mom is awkwardly quiet all throughout dinner.

I pretend I don't notice and stuff my face full of pasta. While we eat Prim babbles about her day. About how Rory threw up all over the girl who sat next to him and then she got sick. Or how she is having a secret competition with a girl in her ballet class to see who can get into pointe first. And more fourth grade things.

Finally, when our plates are cleared, Mom clears her throat.

"So girls. Thanksgiving is coming up..." She says.

"So it is." I say not thinking much of it.

"Well, I was thinking about going up to Grandma and Grandpa's for the whole week we have off." Mom says slowly.

The drive to my grandparent's house is nine hours. That is if we don't stop for restroom or food stops.

"Will we drive?" I ask.

"Katniss... Aren't the views pretty?" Mom says almost pleadingly.

Prim smiles a little. "I'll go."

"Fine." I say and head over to the sink to put the dishes in the washer.

I really like my grandparents house. But it's literally in the middle of nowhere. My dad was born in Washington but moved to a Northern Californian town called Whitmore when he was three. Whitmore is where my grandparents lived and where my parents lived and where I was born.

My grandpa from my dad's side was born and raised in Whitmore but he moved to Washington for some reason but that's when he met my grandma. My grandpa and dad are both buried in Whitmore. Like I said, my grandma moved to Washington after my grandpa died when I was four.

Both grandparents on my Mom's side are still alive and live in Whitmore. Same with my mom's brother and sister. Mom was the only one in her family who got away from the horribly small town. I don't question her, if I were her I would want to get as far away from there as possible.

I like my cousins a lot. My pretty much best friends are Bethany and Meredith. They are twins my age from my Aunt Susan which is my mom's sister and Uncle Warren who married my aunt giving her the last name Leeg. They have another daughter, Elsie, but she's seventeen and thinks she's all that. Then my mom's brother, Uncle Sean has a daughter named Lindley. I'm not sure what happened to Lindley's mom but I don't think Uncle Sean likes to talk about it.

Now that I think about it, it's kind of weird that all of us are girls.

"I'm not going to be here over Thanksgiving break." I tell Madge.

"All of it?" Madge asks.

"Yeah,"

"How's Meredith?" She asks. I knew she would. I don't like talking about it but Meredith has leukemia.

I swallow before answering. "Better, I think."

Madge nods. Meredith and Bethany are her cousins, too. But it's more like 2nd cousins like we are.

"It's going to be okay." Madge says quietly and I just nod.

Maybe or it maybe not. Luck doesn't exactly run in my family.

OKAY, SO THIS IS JUST THE CHAPTER THAT EXPLAINS THE BASIS OF KATNISS'S FAMILY AND GETTING YOU READY FOR THE CHAPTERS TO COME. :)

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