A/N What up, Chicken Cutlet? So I'm kinda liking where this story is headed and I think I still have a few ideas but you know, you never know. Anyway I have dance class tonight and I'm scared my teacher will be mad at me for hurting my back. We're auditioning for the Capelia Dance Convention and yeah. That's all for today Chicken Cutlets. Thank you and enjoy!
Everything seems to happen in slow motion. A rather large car hits the front of my truck with indescribable force, sending Gale and I flying down the opposite side of the road. As we're tumbling down the ditch I regret not putting on my seat belt. I'm being thrown around the truck, hitting windows and the door. Finally after an eternity the truck skids to a stop, laying on it's side against a tree. The radio is still playing music but it's being drowned out due to the blood pumping through my ears.
"Katniss?" I vaguely hear someone shout above me but I can't see their face. "Katniss, can you hear me? Katniss please say something." I try. I try really hard to talk but my mouth seems glued shut. Sirens blare, getting louder and louder and within minutes I'm being lifted from the truck.
"We have a female, late teens. We're taking her to Capitol Community Hospital immediately. The male seems fine, just in shock." who ever is next to the man carrying me speaks to an unknown human. I'm soon placed on a bed inside what I assume to be the ambulance. "The other driver involved in the collision fled the scene. We don't know where he or she is." at that I force myself to open my eyes and swallow past the lump in my throat.
"Who the fuck leaves after that?" I say, my voice extremely hoarse to me. A man inside the ambulance with me turns sharply and breaths a sigh of relief.
"Thank God you're awake. How do you feel? What hurts? Don't move to much." he speaks hurriedly while we bump along the road.
"Only my leg and head." I mumble. The man nods and someone else I didn't notice before jots something down onto a clipboard. "How's Gale? Where is he?"
"Slow down, Miss." the doctor puts a gentle hand on my shoulder. On any other day, I probably would've swatted it away and started insulting him but my head hurts so much I deiced to let him. For now. "We think at some point while you and...Gale?" I nod so he continues. "Were going down the hill you hit your head on the window which from our knowledge so far caused a minor concussion. But we will just have to wait until we get to the hospital." talking seems to make my head even more so I shut my mouth for the rest of the drive.
An hour or so later I'm laying in a hospital bed with a very annoying brace holding my leg still. I don't remember what the doctor -who's name I found out is Thresh O'Hare- said it's called, but I shattered a part of my leg and will be having a couple surgeries and will be bed ridden for at least a month then confined to crutches for some period of time. And as for my head I surprisingly do not have a concussion, I just hit my head very hard on my window which might have been prevented if I had been wearing a seat belt. At some time during my mental rambling my room door opens and my Mother and sister run in.
"Oh my God, Katniss I am so incredibly sorry about what I said earlier. I really didn't meant it. I love you so, so much." Prim runs to the side of my bed and gently wraps her arms around me, careful not to touch my leg.
"It's fine, it's fine. Get off me," I push her away from me which makes her smile.
"Aw good, you're still you." she laughs. I roll my eyes and focus on my Mom. She gives me a small sympathetic smile and moves to sit on the foot of my bed. Her hand awkwardly pats the foot that isn't being held in a brace.
"How do you feel sw- honey?" she asks. I immediately notice how she stops herself. I shrug but don't say anything.
"Although I don't give a shit, where's Snow?" I question her. Prim looks at her and bites her lip. "Oh, he didn't want to see me. I see. What I find crazy is that I can almost die but he can't put down his goddamn phone and get off he lazy ass to see me."
"You know that's not it-" Mother starts.
"It's alright, I mean I don't care but still." before either of them can start talking again, a uniformed cop walks in and I soon recognize her. "Oh great. You're here too. It's a party!" this time when I look her, she doesn't look at me with pity. She looks furious.
"You must be Katinss's mother?" Lavinia asks Mom.
"Yes, I'm Matilda Snow. Nice to meet you." Mom shakes Lavinia's hand then sits back down on the bed.
"I apologize but before I get to why I came here, can I ask why is her last name Everdeen, but you and her father's last name is Snow?" Lavinia seems genuinely confused.
"My husband, their Father," she points to Prim and I. "Was killed a few years ago so I remarried and Katniss doesn't like him." Mom shakes her head like it's no big deal but I can see her start to tap her foot. It's something she almost always does before she cries.
"I'm sorry to hear that." Lavinia nods respectively. "But it appears like Katniss and her friends Gale are going to be in some trouble. Gale more than her, purely because she's injured and we have rules for injuries. So we had brought Gale to the station to question him about the accident and it appears as if he he's blood alcohol level was over two times the legal limit to be driving. Not to mention he was underaged. And we assume since Katniss can drive and obviously should've been if Gale was in such a state, we can safely assume Katniss was over the level limit as well. Plus she is also underaged." Mom turns to me sharply and but doesn't seem angry. Instead she seems confused.
"You and Gale had been drinking?!" she exclaims after a few seconds of silence. I don't respond.
"I'm very sorry Katniss, but I told you I wasn't going to tell Plutarch about what happened at school earlier. And because of your behavior today I definitely have to tell your parents." I feel my stomach drop in my stomach. Mom and Snow and Prim know that I sneak out and know that I go to parties and now know that I drink. How the hell will they react to this?
"Please don't," I whisper. I'm not one of begging, but with as much as I'm in now...
"What happened?" Mom asks Lavinia. I consider throwing my pillow at her, my hands are shaking to much. Usually I'm not this scared when I get in trouble. Most of the time I will just brush it off and go to my room like nothing happened. Jesus, what's happening to me?
"Mrs. Snow, during school, Katniss was called to the principles office because she screamed at a teacher." just at that my Mother frowns at me. "Then Plutarch called me because she seems shaky and she was fidgeting, so I gave her a drug test and it came back positive for crack." there's a deafening silence in the room, broken when Prim suddenly hits my arm.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Prim screams at me.
"Katniss, what were you thinking?" Mom sounds extremely disappointed. Even more then when I refused to show up to her wedding. I tell myself that I'm not sorry I did it, like I told Peeta. Some people just want to forget. Why should I apologize for that?
"I'm going to give you three some time to talk, then I'll tell you about Gale." before I can ask Lavinia whats wrong with Gale, she leaves. My Mom's cold stare pierces through me, threatening to cut me into two halves.
"Prim, can you please step out into the hallway?" Mom asks calmly.
"She's my sister I have a right to-" Prim starts.
"Prim, please step out into the hallway." Mom interjects.
"Mom I'm allowed to stay-"
"Primrose Jacqueline Snow, get the hell out of the room!" Mom screams darting up from the bed. Prim and I both jump, not having heard our Mother this angry in years. Prim goes white, then quietly walks out of the room into the hallway. Mom turns to me and I can see the beginnings of tears prick in her eyes. "Katniss, what the fuck were you thinking?" she's not angry anymore which to me is worse. I wish she would scream and get it over with.
"I don't to walk about it," I mutter.
"Well that's a shame isn't it? I don't give a shit whether you want to talk about it or not. I am your Mother you have to tell me."
"You haven't been acting like one." I say, gaining a bit of my courage back. "If you're not going to act like a Mother then why should I treat you like my Mother?" she seems offended but quickly hides it.
"What are you talking about?"
"You know exactly what I'm talking about. Marrying that son of a bitch. Staying in your room with the door locked for seventy two hours-"
"Maybe I don't want to think about my dead husband sometimes-"
"Exactly!" I shout, cutting her off. "Maybe I don't want to think about my dead Father. See I'm doing the same thing you're doing." she stops talking, realizing what I'm saying. Her eyes soften as she looks at the ground.
"Guess you also knew him." she gives a humorless breathy laugh, then turns serious. "Katniss, I'm so sorry."
"I don't want to talk anymore." I interrupt. Mom nods and walks out, not looking at me. Just as the door is closing, Lavinia comes back in, looking a little less severe than before. Maybe she heard Mom and I screaming.
"I'm going to make this quick and brief." she sighs. "Gale was arrested for drunk driving and causing personal injury to someone else. He will only be in jail for two week but will have his license suspended for three months. And unless you would like to press charges there will only be five hundred dollar fine."
"Of course I'm not going to press charges." I tell her.
"I know you wouldn't. I'm required to ask every time." she leaves and just like that I'm alone again. About an hour later, a nurse comes in to check on me and give me a little bit of food, but almost as soon as she leaves I'm asleep.
A/N Okay so first, I am only 13. I do not know about DUI laws and stuff. I kinda based it off the penalties from Pennsylvania and California combined. So yeah. Anyway I bruised my knee really bad at dance class last night and it really hurts. And if you want to follow me on Instagram, my personal is
.ballerina And my profile picture is the same as my profile picture here. And my fandom account is
beatrice_melark My profile picture for that is Shailene Woodley in black and white.
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