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I finally managed to jammed by key into the door knob, turning it and making it open. I sighed. I am never getting drunk ever again, especially with those two. Those two devils, a small smile was slowly growing on my face, before it was wiped from my face when I saw one of my four roommates and best friend, arms crossed.
"Glimmer." I slurred, walking forward.
"You are in big trouble, missy." She gripped my arm and dragged me to the sofa.
"Am I?" I laid down on the arm of sofa, hoping to get relieved from the nausea and pain I was feeling.
"Is she back?" I recognized Flinch voice as she walked into our living room.
"Oh my god, Katniss. You look awful." I could see Flinch looking down on me.
"Thank you. Thank you very much." I joked.
Before I knew it I was rolling off the couch onto the floor. I looked up to see Clove sitting down at the spot where she just pushed me off.
"Clove." I whimpered. The girl always seems to play rough. Pushing us around, threatening us with knives, it was all in good humor though.
"You've been out all night, and couldn't even manage to give us a call that you were alive." Clove bit into an apple she held in her hand.
"I was busy." I attempted to sit up. Glimmer held a bottle of water near my face and I grabbed it before opening it and putting it down.
"Busy doing what? Getting fucked?"
I choked and cough up the water in my mouth. In between my coughing and attempting to breathe, I managed to through the bottle cap at Clove.
"Language, young lady." Glimmer reprimanded her, causing Clove to stick out her tongue at her. Despite the girl's tough exterior and badass attitude, she was quite childish. Not completely unwarranted, since she was also the youngest among the four.
"Well, is she right?" Flinch directed at me with a sly grin on her face.
I tried to stop myself from smiling, while thinking about last night.
'You're drunk Katniss.'
'You should go home.'
'Let us take you home.'
'Both of you are just as drunk as I am, so shut up.'
"No." I replied, but I failed to keep the smile from my face.
"Liar." Clove sat at the edge of the couch. "Come on, Kat. Give us some deets."
I shook my head. "I don't kiss and tell"
"I think you did much more than kissing last night."
I laughed.
"Katniss, why are you…"
She turned to the tall, muscular blond boy. "Kiss me."
"You're drunk." He responded, holding her away from him.
"So are you." She fought to get closer to him, but his strong hands holding her arms prevented her from getting within a few inches of him.
Huffing, Katniss pulled back and escaped his restraint. She rolled her eyes at him before turning her back to him and walking towards the other boy in the room.
"Marvel…" She breathed before gripping his face and forcing his face down to hers. The kiss was sloppy and in no shape or form good, due to Marvel's shock, Katniss drunkenness and Cato quickly walking over to pull Katniss away from Marvel. She wrapped her arms more tightly around Marvel's neck and gripped his brown hair more tightly but soon was forced to let go as the other boy pulled her away and Marvel pushing and begging her to let go.
"Oh my god, Katniss. You weren't force to do anything you didn't want to do right?" Glimmer asked with concern. She was the eldest, and the one often trying to take care of the other three. Despite, her beauty queen looks and her charisma, that made everyone either love her, want to be her, or despise her. She was one of the most kind and caring person Katniss ever encountered. I was the eldest of two sisters, but to me Glimmer was the older sister I always wished for.
"No." I responded. "If anything they were the one who were hesitate at first."
"Excuse me? They?" Flinch asked.
"I don't like you like this." Cato said to her face. "Please stop acting like this."
"Like what, Cato?"
Cato sighed. "Stop acting so easy. You're not a slut."
Slut. The word sticked her like pin. Was that what they thought of her?
She felt her eyes starting to water, as she swiftly retrieved her purse and dashed towards the door.
Before the door closed, she heard Marvel cursed. "Shit. Really, Cato?"
"I didn't-," She didn't get to hear Cato's full sentence. She was already down the hall and made a dash towards the front door. However, the hallway walls were filled with people, drinks in hand, chatting, dancing, kissing and some even heavily patting. She stumbled towards the door until she was outside of the hotel suite. Clumsily, she reached in her purse for her phone.
"It's a long story." I said trying to keep the girls calm.
"Wait, did you have a threesome, last night?" Clove asked in disbelieve.
I didn't respond.
Before she could dial a number on her phone, someone reached over and grabbed her phone from her phone. She was about to curse when she turned to see Marvel.
"Give me back my phone." She requested rather calmly. She just wanted to get away.
"If you wanted to go back to your room. You should have just asked." He replied. "I'll walk you."
"No. Give me back my phone." Katniss asked again. This time more persistent, even holding out her hand.
"Katniss," He plead. "He didn't mean it like that."
"I don't care." She lied. "Just give me back my phone."
His expression seemed to soften and his hands moved as if he was going to return the phone but then the door opened and Katniss turned her head to see Cato standing there.
She wanted to escape much more now and with that ignition she quickly grabbed her phone from Marvel's hand and started to walk off. Thankfully, they didn't aim to follow after her, but as Katniss stumbled and had to lean into the wall for support, she found two hands one on her, one on her arm and the other at the middle of back.
"How much did you actually drink?" She heard one of them asked.
She didn't respond, fearing that if she opened her mouth she will throw up all the content she had that night.
She did find the strength to push them though. Although, it didn't make them move an inch.
"Would you stop fighting us?" She recognized Cato's voice.
"Just leave me alone." She slurred.
"You want us to leave you drunk in the hallway?" Cato spoke again. "Fine." She felt the hand on her arm drop.
"We're not going to leave you in the hallway, Katniss." She felt a new hand on her arm, as Marvel spoke.
She didn't respond. She was starting to feel dizzy. It was then that she started to promise herself that she was never going to drink again.
"Help me get her inside." Marvel spoke again and she heard a heavy sigh, as her body was lifted from the floor. She heard the loud music and the chattering again, and Katniss figured that they were carrying her back their suite.
Soon, she was away from the noise, although she could still here the traces of the party. She felt the feeling of soft sheets under her body and she finally opened her eyes.
"Leave me alone." She slurred.
"Stop being a brat." Knowing that Cato was the most likely of the two to say something like that to her, Katniss knew it was him that spoke.
"I thought I was being a slut." Katniss replied. "Now I'm a brat. Anything else I'm being Cato?"
"Annoying. And a fucking pain in the ass."
She was too drunk to think about a comeback, but she also promised herself that whenever she was sober enough she was going to punch him in his face.
"I hate you." She settled on saying. "I hate both of you."
She could here Cato scoff. At least, she thought it was Cato.
She was now under sheets, head lied on a heap of pillows. Marvel came out of the bathroom, glass in hand. "Drink up."
She was slow in taking the cup from him so he instead sat next to her on the bed, his hand held the back of her head up as she drank from the cup.
She turned her head when she didn't want to drink anymore causing Marvel to lean her back down before placing the glass on the night stand.
"We're going to go. Call us-"He placed her phone in her hand. "if you need anything."
"No." She protested, holding on to his arm. "Stay."
Cato scoffed. "Now you want us to stay. I thought you hated us."
Katniss feeling perplexed, snapped "I asked him to stay. You can go." Although, she didn't want neither of them to really go.
Marvel smiled, as he took off his shoes, and laid beside the girl on the bed.
"Whatever." Cato fainted carelessness. "I'm going back to the party."
Before he could exit Katniss called out, "You can stay if you promise to be nice."
Marvel laughed, while Cato stop in his track and turn around. She was teasing him, he caught that much.
"How nice?" He asked after a sigh.
Katniss pause to think. She really wanted both of them to stay with her. So in the end she settled for "No name calling."
Marvel laughed again, and Cato scoffed. "Fair enough. Move over."
He walked over to the bed, taking off his shoe. He lied on the right of her, since Marvel was already on her left.
She was really enjoying the warmth from both of them. It was nice having both their bodies pressed against her, and her being comfortable with it. She wasn't comfortable around a lot of people; her personality didn't permit her. She had to admit though that throughout the last two years she made extreme progress in the making and keeping friends department. Being comfortable with two guys sleeping in the same bed as her –in a platonic way- was the perfect proof.
"I'm sorry for jumping you both." She apologized, as she felt herself succumbing to the sweet tranquility of sleep.
She could almost hear the smile on his face as Marvel responded, "Don't apologize, sweetheart. You're lucky we were too drunk to do anything."
"Nothing happened, Ok?" Katniss started to stand.
"But something did start to happen." Flinch suggested.
"Were the hell was Marvel when this was happening? I told him to keep an eye on you when we left with this one." Glimmer jumped in, nodded towards Clove at the end.
"I told you guys I was fine." Clove defended.
"Underage drinking is not fine." Glimmer argued.
"Brandan was drinking." Clove argued.
"Brandan is not my responsibility. You are." Glimmer attested.
"Since when?"
Glimmer rolled her eyes at the younger girl.
"I should have come with you." Katniss admitted.
"You refused." Flinch reminded me.
"Because I was drunk and lost all my senses." Katniss defended. "So much for having my back."
"Marvel said that he was going to walk you back when you were ready." Glimmer replied.
Katniss shook her head. "Enough about me. How was your night?" She asked to no one specific.
"Seemingly boring compared to yours." Flinch responded.
"What are we supposed to be doing today?" Katniss asked.
"We-" Glimmer got up. "- are supposed to be packing. We have a train to catch tomorrow. I already packed. What about you lot?"
"Finished yesterday."
"Already done."
"I'll finish tonight."
"Why are you going back to District 12? I thought that all your family died or something?" Clove was one to bluntly put things without considering what the others might think.
Katniss didn't miss the arm slap that Glimmer gave Clove before replying, "It's ok. Yeah, all my family is dead but that doesn't mean that I don't have people there that I can visit."
"If all my family died, I would never go back to Two." Clove declared.
"Not even to look for Cato." Flinch teased Clove.
"Especially not to see him."
Katniss smiled.
Glimmer and Clove train was arriving in a few minutes, but since Katniss and Flinch was going to further districts they had to take Panam South, which meant they had to wait for an hour or so.
After saying goodbye to Glimmer and Clove as they got on Panam North, the two girls sat in the waiting room.
"God no." Katniss cursed as she turned sharply towards Flinch.
"What is it?" Flinch ask looking over her friend's shoulders.
"Look away. Look away." Katniss commanded her friend, but she was apparently too late since the next second, she heard a soft voice.
"Flinch?"
Flinch smiled and stood up to meet the boy who was now rolling his suitcase towards the two girls.
"Peeta. Long time no see." Flinch responded going in for a hug, and hope that despite their distance during the last year didn't make her action awkward. Seemingly not since the blonde boy released his hand from his carry on so that he could reciprocate the hug.
Throughout the entire exchange, Katniss turn away her face, hoping that she would not recognize her, or even better even acknowledge her, but no luck there…
"Katniss?" She heard his voice said her name, forcing her to slowly turn her face to look at him.
She hasn't actively been avoiding him for the year but whenever they saw each other, whether it was in their Computer Technology Class or in the dining hall, they would ignore each other.
"Peeta." She said dryly, sitting in her seat. She hoped that he didn't expect her to hug him as Flinch just did.
"Are you going back to Twelve?" Flinch asked.
Peeta shook his head. "Not directly. I am going to Eleven to stay with Thresh for a day or two, and then going to Twelve."
Katniss almost smiled. He was trying to spend as little time as possible with his family. She didn't blame him.
"What about you? Going back to Five."
Flinch nodded. "I guess we are going to be on the same train. You should sit with us."
Katniss stared at Flinch. She wanted to kick the girl onto the train track.
"Sure." Peeta answered, seemingly hesitant.
Flinch walked back over to Katniss, Peeta following closely behind her. Katniss was thankful that Flinch served as a barrier between her and Peeta. However, she had no doubt that this was going to be an awkward ride, especially when Flinch get off at Five, and she was forced to sit with him for an hour and a half.