This is a story that I have had wrote for a while now. Well only the first two chapters anyway. But I want to upload to see what you all think? I like it but do you? I hope you like it... Here it is...

1.

I let go of the string and the arrow flies through the sky, hitting its target in seconds. The girl from 6, the one that caused so many deaths, falls infront of me, taking her last breathe as I hear the cannon go off. I feel nothing but guilt as soon as I see her hit the floor but there is still a little bit of me down deep that is kind of happy that she finally died. Over the past 4 days since the beginning of the games, she has caused 10 deaths. Honestly, I never thought that a 17 year old girl from 6 could cause so much pain.

"Lev?" I ask, looking around, suddenly worried about my district partner.

"I'm here!" I hear his voice come from the inside of the Cornucorpia. I follow it to find him hunched over, holding onto the metal that makes the cornucorpia. "I'm fine, just getting my breathe back." He must have had one hell of a fight with the boy from 2. A cannon sounds, signalling the boys death and I relax slightly, but then realisation hits me. There is only us two left. One of us has to kill the other. "Do it." He asks, as if reading my mind.

"No, I will not kill you." I say, backing away as he motions towards my bow. I toss it aside and he moves to pick it up. Tears form in my eyes. We have become such good friends over the past couple of weeks, as if I would be able to kill him. "I'M NOT GOING TO KILL HIM!" I shout up to the sky. I'm probably gonna pay for that. "NO WAY!"

"Katniss..." Lev starts but I put my hand up to stop him.

"YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO KILL US BOTH!" I'm looking up at the sky fully now, my vision clouded by tears.

"Katniss, its okay." I hear Lev say from behind me and I turn around and am in his arms in seconds. My tears go all over his shoulders and I hold on tight. I dont normally hug people but I cant help it. His body jolts slightly and he lets out a small yelp of pain. "They only need one winner Katniss." Thats when he pulls away and I catch sight of the small dagger that he must have taken from the District 2 Male, sticking out of his abdomen. I dont even have time to react before his body slips through my arms, landing in a heap on the floor. I hear the cannon but unlike any other cannon, this one is further away.

I jolt awake to the sound of knocking. "Katniss? You awake?" I hear from the door. Its Effie. Her voice is not what I want to hear when I have just woken up from a nightmare.

"Yeh." I shout back. "I'll be out in a minute." I hear her heals click as she walks away down the hallways to the dining cart. My hand grazes over the sweat covered bed sheets beneath me. The tears are still falling from my eyes at the thought of my fallen friend and my head is pounding, probably from my own screams as my throat is also dry, telling me that I did do a lot of screaming.

Its been 2 days since the games and I've had no rest since. Every waking moment was spent either in the prep room at the Tribute Centre or doing interviews with Caesar Flickerman. Every night, I would go to sleep, only to be woken up about half an hour later by a nightmare. Each one the same. Lev dying.

I am the victor of the 73rd Hunger Games. Katniss Everdeen, the new Victor, the one that deifed the Capitol without meaning too. The girl on fire. Sweetheart. The girl in Love. During my interview, I mentioned something about a boy that once through me bread and everyone now knows that I have feelings for him. I dont know why I have feelings for him, I dont even know him, I just know that there is something there.

"So, Katniss tell me... Pretty face like yours, there must be a lucky fellow back in 12?" Caesar asks me and I search my brain for something to say, something that wont make me sound desperate or stupid. I know that I'm not a good liar so anything I lied about would definitely come back to haunt me, so I just tell the truth.

"Well, there is this one guy, but we only saw eachother once. I doubt he even has a clue who I am." I say, looking at Caesar, trying to forget that hundreds of people are watching me right now.

"Well, how about we jog his memory?" My heart starts to race.

"Okay, well I was outside your family Bakery, it was raining and it was about 3 years ago. You threw me a burnt loaf of bread... Ever since then, I havent been able to get you out of my head." Thats only partly true. Every time I see him walking around, I feel like there is something more there, like I love him but it cant be that because I would never love someone that I have never actually talked to.

When I got back into the penthouse, where we were staying, Lev found me and sat me down to talk to me. Thats when he told me who the boy was. That the the boy I had feelings for was his youngest brother. And then he proceeded to tell me that it would never work between us but I still dont know why he said that. Maybe I can talk to his brother about it. Either of his brothers.

"Katniss! Come on! Cinna needs you in an hour." Haymitch shouts from right outside the door and I sigh. He knocks again, or more like bangs before grumbling something and walking off, probably in the direction of the bar car.

I finally swing my legs over the edge of the bed and pull myself up to my feet. Today is the day that I go home. I can't wait to get back to distrct 12 and see my family. I miss my baby girl like crazy. Willow, or Willow as I call her, is my 4 month old girl. She is by far the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life and I love her to pieces but everytime I see her, I think about her father. About a year ago I was attacked and raped, by Eric Stratser. I dont remember it because he knocked me out and by doing so, erased quite a lot of my memory from after I was 11. I remember some things but other are just blanks in my mind. I've spent the last year trying to get my memory back but I couldnt.

When I found out I was pregnant with Willow, I didnt believe it because I knew that I never wanted children and I didnt remember ever having sex so when my mum found out, that is when she told me that I was also raped and at first, I didnt want the baby but at the time I was already 5 months gone and it was too late to do anything about it. When she was born, I didnt regret it at all. I didnt have enough money or anything like that so my mother suggested dropping her off at the orphange but I couldnt do that because people say its a horrible place.

I had to go through a lot of hell in school too. Everyone called me names and nobody liked me, Madge was the only person that stuck by me and Gale too. He still helps out with the baby, he acts like a father to her which is good because I dont know what I would tell her when she was older, I dont think I would be able to tell her the truth about her father. She would hate me for keeping it a secret and it would definitely be hard to find the right time.

Its really hard being a mother at 15, not as hard as winning a Hunger Games but still really hard. Its not like I dont have any Motherly experience, because of looking after Prim the past couple of years but when its your own child, its completely different. Mum has been a great help though, surprisingly. About a year and a half ago, she didnt even pay attention to me and now she listens to everything I say, she helps out a lot more and she has even talked about going to work at the Apothecary to support us all. We cant survive on my hunting forever and Prim is definitely not taking out tesserae. I guess now that I have won the Hunger Games, we wont even have money problems.

"Hey Princess." Lev says from behind me, I jump, turning around. Tomorrow is the start of the games start and I definitely can not sleep. Lev insisted on calling me Princess after I got annoyed at Haymitch calling me 'sweetheart'. "Cant sleep?" He asks, standing next to me as I look out over the Capitol. I've been up here on the roof for about 2 hours now and I feel like my arms are going to fall off from the cold.

"Of course not." I reply. "Worried about tomorrow." He nods in understanding and glances out over the Capitol. Below, they are having some sort of Celebration to congratuate the tributes even though we are all in here.

"Me too. Maybe we should think about something else?" He asks and I nod, turning away from the Capitol and looking at him. He leads me over to a bench and offers me his coat, which I take because I'm freezing. "What about your family? Tell me about them."

"Well, my sister is Prim and she is amazing. You'd love her. She's so kind and loving. I remember taking her out into the woods once to hunt and we came back early because she kept begging me not to kill anymore squirrels because she thought they where 'cute'." I laugh slightly at the memory. "My mother, well, Its only in the past couple of months that me and my mum have been close. Since my dad died anyway."

"What about Willow?" He asks and I narrow my eye. How does he know about my daughter? "News travels fast." He adds, as if reading my mind.

"Well, She is 4 months old now, its gone so fast and she is the love of my life. I cant believe that somebody so beautiful and amazing could come from such a discusting thing. I was-" I'm about to tell him the truth when he butts in.

"Yeh, I know what happened to you and trust me all I wanted to do was go over there and break his face." I feel the tears threaten to come from my eyes, why would Leaven Mellark hate Eric because of what he did to me? Leaven didnt really know me then. "Carry on."

"Yeh, anyway, Willow doesnt look anything like that asshole. She looks like me but beautiful. I dont know what I would do without her. She makes me know that whatever happens, I will have her there." I finish and I look up find him watching me.

"I wish I had met her." He says and I smile, but then drop it as I know what he means. If he thought he was going to survive then he would say, 'I'd like to meet her someday' or 'Would you be able to introduce us when we get back' Or something like that. He plans on dying.

"You might get to yet." I say to him.

"Come on Katniss. You have more to live for then me. You have a daughter who would be lost without you, you have a loving family and a best friend that needs you. Nobody cares about me, I'll be fine." He says and the tears threaten again.

"Leaven..." I know I cant say anything to change his mind but I just wanted to say his name. Unluckily the name makes me cry and I think about how many times its going to make me cry if he does actually die.

"Come here." He says and pulls me in for a hug. "Just promise me that you will look after that little girl. She needs you."

I'm not quite sure why that memory runs through my head but it does and I let it because its a nice memory, sad but nice. He always seemed to become more interesting when I talked about Willow after that, in the arena. It was nice to have someone to talk to in a place so horrible. I wasnt actually with him until the last 4 days of the arena. He ran off during the bloodbath and I got a pack before eventually running off into the woods and hiding in trees. He however, mostly stayed down by the lake in a cave that he found. One day I found him wondering around in the woods, he says that he was looking for food but also for me. From then on we hid out in the cave, leaving sometimes to hunt. We seemed to have a lot to talk about when we got bored. It did cross both our minds that we would have to split up but we didnt really wan to, we would deal with the end when it came and deal with it we did. There was an annconcement saying that a feast was at the cornucorpia, with things that we all needed. Me and Lev didnt really need anything but we knew that it was the end so we went and thats where he died.

"Rise and shine sweetheart." I've walked from my bedroom into the dining car without even realising. "We have a big big big day." Haymitch says, mocking Effie, who isnt here for some reason.

"A big big big day that I'm looking forward to for once. I bet you're happy that you finally have a neighbour in that awful place?" I ask, taking a seat at the table and loading up on food.

"Not really, I have a feeling that you arent going to leave me alone are you?" He asks with a sarcastic smile on his face.

"And I have a feeling that the whole Victors Village reeks of liqour, not particularly a smell I was Willow to smell." I reply.

"Oh yes, the wonderful Willow Everdeen. Cant wait to meet her." He says, this he says nicely though.

"Well maybe you can but if you are drinking then its a no." He laughs at me and I laugh back, almost choking on a small piece of bacon thats on its way down my throat. The Avox behind me, pours me a drink and I nod in thanks, still coughing from the bacon. After the drink though I'm fine. Haymitch is still laughing but I'm not sure wether he is laughing at the sarcasm before or the coughing. Either way its not funny now.

"So, you going to talk to Interview boy?" He asks me, referring to the boy I mentioned in my interview. Haymitch hasnt shut up about it since I mentioned it.

"Dont know Haymitch." I say quietly. I honestly dont know if I can talk to him. What would I say to him. I'm not even sure of my feelings for him yet, I cant tell him until I'm sure. "Maybe I'll know when I see him." Then the room falls into silence.

For the rest of the day, I'm poked and prodded by my prep team as they ramble on about how excited they are to see me at the parade in a couple of days and what I'll be wearing because they arent actually getting me ready for the parade, they have to stay in the Capitol but Cinna is coming over, so the whole job is Cinna's. Him and Effie will be staying over night on the train as they have to attend the party the next day to congratulate me and remember Lev.

"What about when she was running from that fire, I swear my heart was racing so much, I didnt think she was going to make it!" Venia says and I roll my eyes. The conversation has somehow got on to the arena.

"Oh me too!" Octavia squeels. "But then our brave little Katniss got out of there and survived against all odds." She gives me a quick kiss on the cheek only to be waved away quickly by Flavius because she will 'wreck my make-up'.

2 hours later, I'm standing at the door waiting to be let off the train to see my family. Effie is running around getting everyone in formation. Cinna and Portia first, then her, then Haymitch and finally me bringing up the rear. On the other side of that door is my family and friends and I'm here being shouted at by Effie because I'm 'slouching'. Sometimes I really just want to shout at her. By the sour look on Haymitch's face as she fixes his tie, he wants too aswell. Atleast in a couple of days, we wont have to deal with her for another 6 months.

"Right, big big big smiles everyone." Effie shouts over Haymitch's head, I know ts directed at me but I carrying on looking at the floor, honestly I'm kind of finding it hard not to smile. The door opens without warning and fresh air floods the stuffy air that has built up over the past 24 days. I breathe in great smell of Coal and Pine Trees, the smell of District 12. I dont realise anyone started moving until Haymitch is actually out the door, the cameras are pointing in the train trying to get a picture of me and I brace myself quickly before walking out.

The first thing I see is Haymitch as he leads me away from the cameras. Then its my sister. Then finally my little girl Willow, who suprisingly isnt in the arms of my sister, or even Gale, my best friend and Willow's god-father. But in the arms of Masan Mellark, with Peeta Mellark standing right beside him, stroking Willow's face. I feel the need to steal her away from them but my sisters arms around me before I can react. I bury my face in her shoulder and wrap my arms tightly around her. "I have missed you so much." She says. I look behind her and try to find my mother but I cant. I'll have to ask Prim about it later.

"I've missed you too." I reply. "I want my baby." I whisper and Prim pulls away, nodding. I can see the tears in her eyes. She waves Masan over and he hands me Willow.

"You're sister wanted to greet you properly so I offered to hold her, if thats alright. That's quite a little girl you've got there Katniss, she is definitely special." He smiles and backs away, pulling Peeta away after him. I forget about any attempt to run after Peeta and talk to him and instead I look down at Willow. She looks so older but I guess thats just because I'm her mother. She always looks different when I leave for more than an hour. I kiss her face and her eyes open, the blue that reminds me so much of the man who attacked me, Eric. I pull her close to me and find myself crying.

"Hey Catnip." I hear behind me and hand Willow to my mother before throwing my arms around my best friend. "Thank you for coming back." He whispers into my hair and I find myself letting out a small laugh. "How about we go home?" He asks and I nod as I pull away and grab my sister arm, walking towards the Seam, away from the Cameras and away from where Haymitch seems to be having a very heated conversation with a camera man as he tries to push his way through the crowd to see me. Maybe now we can have some peace and quiet, no more cameras, no more Effie and no more 'congratulations'.

I expect to go back to my house but for some reason we end up stood outside the Bakery back door. I can see the tree that I once almost died under and I have no intention of going back inside this house. For starters, Mrs Mellark hates me and it will remind me too much of Lev. I also need to find My Mother.

"Prim, whats going on? Why are we here?" I ask her. Gale gives me a quick hug before leaving, but its not just a hug its different. Its like he feels sorry for me. I can tell by the way his arms enircle me that something is going on.

Thats when Prims face drops and my heart seems to sink in my chest. She never gives me that look unless something bad has happened. She pulls open the back door of the Bakery and strolls inside. "What are you doing? Come back here." I hiss. "You cant go in someone elses house." She still waves me in though and I check to see if the coast is clear, before stepping in, leaving the door wide open incase I have to make a quick getaway.

"Katniss, I need to talk to you." Prim mumbles. Tears have now formed in her eyes and just at that precise moment, Mrs Mellark comes bounding out the kitchen.

"Primrose? Why is the door open?" She hisses at my little sister. I feel the need to shout at her or atleast say something back but nothing comes out as I'm shocked into silence, how does she know my sisters name? What the hell is going on?

"Sorry." Is all I say and close the door quickly behind me, something tells me that I dont need to be ready to make a clean getaway. If something happens, I'll just have to stick up for myself.

"Thank you." She growls and goes back into the kitchen to talk to someone.

I turn back to Prim. "Whats going on?" I ask her. She leads me over to the sofas and begins to speak.

"Katniss, mum died." She says and my heart drops even lower. "The day that you won. I think it was because you refused to kill Leaven. I was out with Willow when it happened. We where in the Town Square, talking to the Baker when next thing I know, the sirens are going off. Mr Mellark followed me and we found our house up in flames. Masan was kind enough to take us both in even though I have to share a room with 2 boys that snore like mad but they gave me and Willow, Leavens bed so it isnt all bad but I still cant believe that she's gone, sometimes I feel like I'm going to wake up from this nightmare any minute.

The tears fall from my eyes and I try to shake them away but it doesnt make any difference at all. "This is all my fault. I shouldnt have said anything in the arena. I should have just died like I was supposed to. I'm so sorry Prim, that you had to go through all this by yourself." I say, grabbing her hand.

"Its okay, the Mellarks have helped a lot and Rye had taken over looking after Willow and even Mrs Mellark loves her. I think she's even warming up to me. I think me being here has made her a better person. Peeta normally just keeps to himself but I dont mind. I dont think we would have much to talk about anyway. Apparently mum and Masan had a deal a long time ago that if anything was to happen to either of them then the other would look after all the kids. Masan's kids wouldnt need looking after though, so I guess that only applied to me." Even with the news that she has just told me, she still talks forever.

"Well, I will thank him for what he has done but after these couple of days, you are coming to live with me in the Victors Village." I say and she smiles through the tears that are now streaming down her face. "Am I staying here too?" I ask her and she nods. I cant believe I just found out that my mother died and I'm thinking about where I am going to stay.

"Leavens matress is big enough for all three of us, so we'll be fine." She says and I find myself nod.

Of course the Peace and quiet only lasted about 2 days, when the train rolled in again, bringing with it, my team. Today is the parade where I get my new house, next door to Haymitch. I was really not looking forward to today. I'm pretty sure I've actually cried a couple of times about the idea of leaving this house. I dont know how I'm going to be able to leave the house my dad built himself. It has most of my memories in it and thats not just something that you give up easily. Plus, my mother and sister arent even moving in with me. My Mother thinks that I should have my own house now that I have a family of my own to protect. Mum has got a job in the Apothecary so that she can take care of Prim so that she doesnt even need to take any money from me but I'm gonna give it to her anyway, even if I have to give it to Prim.

The parade starts at 12 so that I can get through the district and then get in my new house by 5. Then I can cook me and Willow some Dinner and I can get her to bed. Gale and Rory are working on getting everything into my new house before I get there and whilst I'm being 'remade' so that they can watch me take off on my parade.

My body slams into something pretty hard and I'm knocked straight off my feet, banging my head on the cobble floor beneath me. I guess I should have seen that coming as I wasnt actually paying attention. "Sorry about that." A person says, helping me up off the floor. "I'm a bit clumsy sometimes." I open my eyes to see Ember Oakley, the Black-smiths son and only child. He's 2 years older than me and I remember that we used to talk when we where younger but then he started hanging around with the kids from town. "You okay?" He asks, looking me up and down as he rubs his forehead.

"Yeh, I'm fine, You alright?" I ask, motioning towards his head.

"Oh yeh, dont worry about me. Let me make it up to you?" He asks. I'm about to shake my head but he puts his hand up to stop me, "I'm not going to take no for an answer, Let me take you out somewhere." Realisation hits me, He is flirting with me. I dont remember him every doing that before, is he only doing it because I now am a victor of the Hunger Games? No boy ever noticed me before because I was the Seam Whore that had a baby and nobody came near me as if I had a disease. "Please Katniss?" He asks and I think about it for a second before giving up. Who cares if its for the Victor thing, it doesnt have to be serious.

"Fine, it will have to be a couple of days though. I have the parade and then the party and I'm gonna have to get someone to look after Willow." I say and he nods.

"Not a problem, just let me know when. You know where I am." He smiles and then walks away, dissapearing into the Black-smiths. Now I'm pretty good at reading peoples faces and I didnt not catch one glimpse of someone lying. Is it true that he could have been actually asking me out?

"Katniss! GET IN HERE BEFORE EFFIE KILLS ME!" I hear Haymitch shout from the Justice Building steps, shaking me out of whatever trance I was in. I nod in reply and set off running towards the steps, knocking into a startled looking blonde person, whispering a 'sorry' as I carry on running.

When I'm finally ready and on my parade car, I'm knackered, I just want to go to bed. My mind is more tired than my body as I havent been able to stop thinking about Ember. I cant believe he would actually like someone like me. I never wanted marraige or kids but now I already have a kid, maybe I should take an opportunity like this because for someone like me, it doesnt come often. I catch sight of him as I am ready to set off. He is smiling up at me as he stands next to his father. I wave slightly and he waves back. Gale is not far from him, looking confused, making me laugh. I scan the crowd for anyone else I know and I find the Mellarks. Mr Mellark watching me with Peeta and Rye standing next to the having a conversation with a girl that I know to be Leavens girl- well ex-girlfriend now. Maybe I should talk to her. Oh yeh I forgot that I had letters for the all off him. Before we went into the games, we both sat down and wrote letters and gave them to Haymitch but then he gave them back to me when I made it out. I binned mine and kept Leavens so that I could give them to his family personally. He wrote one for each of them separately.

"I present to you, Katniss Everdeen, Victor of the 73rd Hunger Games." I hear the Mayor say from somewhere and the parade car jolts awake and I'm off, out the square and into town. They told me inside the Justice Building that I'll be going through town first and then through the seam and finally into the Victors Village where Willow and my team will be waiting for me. Haymitch though, gets the honour of staying on my car with me. He has to sit in a chair behind me. I dont get to sit down though, I have to stand up and wave to everyone and smile.

By the time its over, my toes are all but dead from the heals, my arm feels like its about to fall off and my face feels like I'm permanently smiling. Haymitch helps me down off the car and the Mayor hands me my key so that I can unlock my own house. I smile and slide it into the lock. The warmth hits me as soon as the door opens, someone must have lit all the fires. Masan follows me in, carrying Willow. Prim brings up the rear and we all stare up at the house that I'm gonna be living in. Its absolutely amazing, the hardwood, the Capitol furniture. Its so elegant that it seems like a crime for someone like me to be living here.

The Mayor proceeds to show us around. The kitchen is bigger then the whole downstairs of my old house. The sitting room looks like its set up for the President and the office is extraordinary. The table in the dining room is different than anything I have ever seen and the downstairs bathroom is bigger than the bedroom I used to share with My Mother, My Sister and Willow. Upstairs, there are 6 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. One of the bathrooms is my private bathroom and the other one is at the other end of the hallways. My bedroom is just at the top of the stairs and Willow's is right across from mine, all set up and everything, but I know that I will probably be moving her crib into my room, she is only 4 months after all. There isnt anything else in this house for a baby though, maybe I can quickly go to the baby shop in town before Effie shows up.

When the Mayor leaves, Masan makes us all some Dinner. Its nothing special, just some chicken and mash but its nice. Chicken that hasnt been hunting and Potatoes that havent been taken from the Coal infested grounds of 12. Proper Chicken and proper potatoes. I offer for them to stay tonight but Masan says that she best get Prim home so they go about 8, leaving me alone as Willow went to bed an hour ago. Oh yeh, I forgot to tell you that I'm not allowed to keep Prim living with me. We taked to te Mayor about it and apparently, she has to have a proper gaurdian until she turns 13 so until she is living in the Bakery but luckily its only round the corner. I told all of them that they can visit anytime they want, even Peeta who always seemed to be busy when I was in. I dont know what his problem is with me but I dont think he likes me very much.

The Capitol left me what they call a 'Baby Monitor' which allows me to go anywhere in the house and still know if Willow is crying or not which is probably the most useful thing I could have. She always seemed to cry when I couldnt hear her before. I make myself a hot chocolate, something I tried for the first time in the Capitol, and take a seat infront of the fire.

"Morning Beautiful." A voice says behind my head. I turn around on the matress and see Peeta's face looking back at me. His arms are tightly around me and he is in my bed. What is he doing in my bed? Oh yeh, thats right, we slept in the woods last night.

"Morning. Is this a dream or am I actually waking up next to you?" I ask and I feel a laugh rumble through his chest. He smiles down at me and again and I smile back. Last night was my first time ever having sex and I believe that it was Peeta's too. Yesterday I brought him out here for a date and we swam in the lake and had a picnic and then settled down infront of the fire and it just sort of happened. Most 14 year olds that you see having sex these days are not in love they just think its something that have to do but I am in love with an amazing guy.

"Its definitely not a dream, even if it does feel like one." He replies. "How did you sleep?"

"Best night of my life." I say and he nods slightly. I turn myself further into him and bury my face into his chest.

"Best night of your life so far." I can hear the tone in his voice, suggesting we are gonna have a better night when we are older. I dont doubt it. "When do you want to go back?" He asks.

"Never sounds good, I want to live in this cold little cottage forever with you." When I first told him that we were coming out here, he looked scared but then he came here and couldnt keep his mouth shut. Honestly living out here, I wouldnt mind it at all.

"Me too." He replies. "I want to spend my whole life with you Katniss Everdeen." He says. I'm about to reach up to kiss him but I'm stopped by a knock on the door. I close my eyes in annoyance. Wait, who the hell is out in the woods at this time? Is it the Peackeepers? Did the see the smoke from the chimney?

My eyes shoot open in fear and it takes me a couple of seconds to realise where I am. The fire has died out and the morning sun is beaming through the windows. The knocking from my dream comes back, almost making me jump out of my skin. I glance to the baby monitor on the table next to me, its on and its silent, good she's still asleep. The clock alerts me that its almost 8am. I am actually surprised that she is still asleep. She's normally awake by now.

The knocking comes again and I pull myself up, grabbing the baby monitor and drag my feet across the floor to the front door. The morning air floods in as I open it to find Ember standing there with a smile on his face. "Hey, I came to see how you where settling in?" He asks.

"Hey, You wanna come in?" I ask, standing aside as he strolls in. Honestly, I just didnt want to stand there. Plus this house could use another person in it.

"This place is a bit much isnt it?" He asks. "I mean, its nice but not really District 12 is it?" I let out a small laugh and lead him into the kitchen at the back of the house, sighing at the left over plates from last night.

"You're telling me. Its going to take a while to get used to." I say and flick the kettle on the make some more hot chocolate. "You want some?" I hold up the little tub to him.

"Never tried it. Whats it like?" He asks.

"Its amazing, you'll like it." I say and dont even wait for his reply before putting some of it in a cup for him.

"I'll take you're word for it." He says and I chuckle. Then I can hear crying. Willow's awake. "Do you want to sort her out whilst I finish up here?" He asks and I nod quickly before running from the room. I run up the stairs, making as much possible noise as I can and turn down the hallway to Willow's room. I find her in her crib crying as I thought she would be and pull her out. "Good morning baby." I say in the baby voice that I have got used to using now. "You hungry? Yes you are." She stops crying once I hold her, so I start walking back downstairs. My mother had bottled milk already set up for today. I had to use the years old breast pump thing to bottle it for her but she had it in a bag and everything ready because Willow is staying with Hazelle over night tonight so that I can enjoy the party. Hazelle isnt coming at all tonight because Posy isnt allowed so I talked to her about taking Willow and she agreed.

Ember is still in the kitchen when I get back down. The hot chocolate has been made and mine is sitting on the counter waiting for me. "You're right, this stuff is amazing!" He praises. "So you got anything planned for today? Before the Party?"

"Actually yeh, I was going to go into town to get some more baby stuff for the house, like a high-chair and maybe a couple toys." I say to him and he nods.

"You want some help?" He asks and I start to shake my head but I'm sensing he is a stubborn person as he starts to stop me with his hand again, just like he did yesterday. "I'm helping you." He smiles and drinks a little bit more of his hot chocolate. I grab a bottle of milk out of the bag on the side and give some of it to Willow. Whilst Willow drinks, I glance back at Ember. We havent talked since we where kids and I didnt realise I trusted him so much but I do. I mean I let him into my house without a second thought and I'm actually letting him meet Willow which is hard for me to do after how she was concieved. I never trust anybody this quickly, heck, it even took me a couple of months for me to trust Gale and he is my best friend, Could there just be something different about Ember, is he different than everyone else? Is it really possible to like somebody this much after only a day.

So... what did you think of chapter one? I bet a lot of you are confused about a couple of things but dont worry, eventually they will be cleared up ;)