Chapter 2:
"We got into another fight last night." I said.
"Why don't you tell him to stop with the idea of having fucking kids already?"
Oh Johanna, where would I be without you.
"I don't want to upset him. You know how he gets after..." I couldn't say it. It was still too heart-wrenching. "The hijacking." I spit out. There was an awkward silence between Johanna and I. She was in the Capitol when "it" happened.
"Stand up to your man."
I sighed. "I guess you stood up Gale again." Johanna and Gale had a weird relationship. They were always on and off, hot and cold. Gale says he loves her, yet there's a tense and awkward silence that fills the air when he's around me—we're friends still, but a part of him longs for a version of me that died on the day of the 74th annual reaping.
Johanna on the other hand says and does exactly what she wants, when she pleases.
"You shouldn't treat him like that, Johanna. He really does love you." She looked down at the ground and shuffled her feet as we walked around what used to be Victors Village.
"He doesn't love me." she mumbled, practically under her breath. "Not as much as he loves you." Gale still loves me. Maybe at one time I did love him, but back then I couldn't. I was forced to love Peeta, until I realized that I do actually love him. It took me a while and like Haymitch said, "I don't deserve him." Well, I don't blame him for thinking that.
"Johanna," when I said her name she finally looked up from her dusty, gray combat boots. "Go find Gale and tell him you love him."
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Forgetting The Fire's We've Started
FanfictionAfter the Rebellion, Katniss is left shattered and broken. Luckily, she has Johanna to keep her grounded. Between frequent fights with Peeta and Finnick's upcoming memorial service, things become out of hand quickly.
