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We left the hotel early so we would have enough time to say goodbye too Johanna, Annie and Nick. Peeta took Nick in his arm at the minute we arrived. What kind of make me freak out a little bit. I knew that someday Peeta would like to have children. But I had no idea if some day I would like to have some, and I know that Peeta deserves it. How could I protect something that fragile when I couldn't even protect Prim or keep Peeta safe during the games? After some cups of tea we left back to the station. Johanna was going to stay a little bit longer before she went back home.
While we were waiting for our train, Haymitch went for a little walk. Peeta and I were waiting on a bench hand in hand. We were talking about Christmas Eve when I thought I recognized someone in the crowd. I stopped moving and talking immediately. Peeta was still talking to me, he hadn't noticed I was listening anymore. When he finally did he looked at me, still holding my hand and rubbing my palm with his thumb. "Katniss? Is everything okay?" He saw I was looking at someone in the crowd and understood what was happening. There she was, standing in the crowd laughing with someone I didn't know. Like nothing didn't even happen. She just stood there, with her long blond hair hanging in her back wearing a blue dress. For some reason she looked to her left and our eyes crossed for like a second. She stopped laughing at the second she noticed me. I saw how surprised she was to see me in her eyes. She said goodbye to the woman she was talking to and walked in our direction. My mom.
"Peeta, why don't we go find Haymitch?" I said while I almost jump on my two feet. Peeta saw my mom walking to us, she wasn't really far anymore. "Katniss, maybe you should listen to her. I think you need it. Just to know why, maybe if you talk to her, even for one last time, you would understand why she did it." He said calmly. Listening to the one woman I really needed that abandoned me twice! I knew he really meant well, he always does, but what if I don't want to listen. Well If I wanted to go away it was too late now. She was standing right in front of us.
"Hay, Katniss. Peeta." She said. I felt the anger crowing inside of me. "Ms Everdeen." Peeta replied. He was still holding my hand and putted a little pressure on my hand to let me know he was there. "Happy Christmas." She said with a little smile on her face. Happy Christmas, really! That's the best thing you found! "So, how do you do?" Mom told me. How do I do? How do I do. Well right now, I don't do really well! I was still not giving her an answer but looked right into her eyes. I could feel she was feeling ashamed and that was exactly what she deserved. Peeta was still rubbing my hand, what helped me to face her. "I'm sorry Katniss." She finally said. So she was sorry, and that should make me feel better! Of course now I had to forget about the fact that she abandoned me once more when I needed her. I should forgot that she never called even to know if I was alright. Not even told me she moved out of district two, I should forget all of that because to woman was sorry! "Feel better now? So you're sorry, telling me that made you feel better. Well good for you. Now that you feel better, relieved, you can just go back at ignoring my phone calls and ignoring that you still have a daughter. Forget me. You already did so well at it! Yeah, like when dad died, you forgot you had to care for you daughters. Forget how I took care of you and Prim for years. Forget that without me, you won't probably be here smiling and laughing. You can just go back to your nice little life now." I said almost screaming it for the whole station. Mom's eyes got wet. Don't tell my she would dare cry! I knew that if I stayed one second longer in front of that woman, something bad would happen. So I walked away pulling Peeta after me.
"What do you want me to say?" She said running after us. I had to slow down because of Peeta's artificial leg, so when I did it was absolutely not to let her come apologize to me again. The 'I'm sorry Katniss' she could keep it, I don't need that! So kept on walking and Peeta didn't say anything. "Do you want to hear me say that I've missed you every day? Because I did! Do you want me to say that I love you, because I do? What is it that you want to hear?" Oh, so I should talk? Not even in her dreams. "Common sweetie, stop walking and talk to me!" Did she just give me an order! "What mother! What do you want ME to say! I called you day after day. Peeta called you! Even Haymitch gave it a try just to see if you picked up his phone number! Do you want me to say that I've missed you? Because I didn't! And even if I did just for a second, I just had to remember me that you abandoned me while I needed you most. I needed you when Prim died more than I ever did in my entire life. Even more then when I volunteered to safe Prim. But where were you! You were just having fun and rebuilding your own life while I was left all alone. If it wasn't because of Peeta, I would probably still be in my bed crying after Prim. But how would you know that! How would you know that I was finally doing better? You weren't even there! I had to hear it from Gale that you moved out of district two! But all you want to hear is that I forgive you, don't you? Well I don't! So don't count on that. Oh and by the way, just in case you didn't knew. Soon Peeta and I are getting married, that's why he called you a few months ago, and no, you're not invited! So now if you can excuse me, I have to find the rest of my family, which since a long time, don't include you anymore. The only persons I need now are those one who were there for me and took care of me when I took care of them. But you probably don't even remember what taking care of someone is. Bye mother." And again I walked away from her. I could feel tears of anger coming into my eyes. She didn't run after us anymore, she walked away crying, and I didn't turn back to see it. I was heading towards Haymitch with the one person I knew would always be by my side.
So a little family drama this time. Let me know what you thought about it by reviewing.