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My Life after the War
Chapter 1- The beginning
I was Katniss Everdeen. Now I'm Katniss Mellark. My husband's name is Peeta Mellark. I live with him in my house. I lost my little sister last year. I miss her. My mom lives in the Capital to work at the new hospital. I miss her too.
One year ago…
I'm at my house singing. I'm all alone. My sister got blown up by the rebels. I think. No one will tell me. My mom works at the Capital's new hospital. There is too much bad memorize for her here in district twelve. I'm forced to live here by the Capital because I shot their new president, Coin.
I keep the front door unlock. I'm lying on the couch singing as always. I hear the door open. I don't worry about turning around. I don't get a lot of visitors. I stop singing.
"Keep singing. I love it." I know that voice anywhere. It's Peeta, my love. I turn to look at him. "You know I was thinking. We have never had a first date. I mean we do eat together, but not a date, date."
"I know what you mean. Are you here to ask me to a date then?" I know him to well.
"Yeah, how about tomorrow at noon for lunch?" He asked.
"Works for me. I'll see you then." I start singing again because I might squeal if I don't. I hear the door open and shut. He left. It is getting late, so I go to bed.
I didn't have any nightmares last night. I'm glad. I smell food. Greasy Sae must be here. I run downstairs. She is here cooking. She comes and cooks for me to times a day. Someone hired her to take care of me. I don't know who did.
"You must have had a good night sleep last night. I didn't hear you scream your head off." Greasy Sae turns and hands me eggs and bacon. I eat my eggs and a piece of bacon. I give my other pieces to my sister's cat, Buttercup. Buttercup and I do not get along. I keep her because she reminds me of my sister.
Greasy Sae leaves. I look at the time. It is nine o'clock. I decide to start getting ready. I take a shower. I find this orange shirt. It is the orange color like the sunset. It is also Peeta's favorite color.
I'm brushing my hair when I hear the door bell. I bet it is Peeta, but he would be early. I get up. I grab my game bag and my bow and arrows. I head downstairs fast. I open the door and fined the one person I don't want to see. It is Haymitch.
"What are you doin here. I'm busy." I say as soon as I come out of shock.
"I came to get you. Come on." I know he isn't drunk because he isn't swaying. That only means that he is out or he is running out.
"Who needs me?" I know he isn't going to answer me.
"You look nice. We can do this the hard way or the easy way. Which one is it?" I slam the door shut and lock it. I head back upstairs to finish getting ready. I braid my hair the way my mother did it. I hear the bell again. I left my arrows and stuff downstairs.
I look into the peep hole and see Peeta with a picnic basket and a blanket. I open the door and hug him.
"Hey, why is Haymitch sitting on your porch?"
"He said he needed me. I slam the door in his face. You are better than whatever Haymitch needs. Let's go." I step out and shut the door.
"I really need to take you. Stop."Haymitch says after us. I keep walking, but Peeta stops.
"Why do you need me? If it is better than my date with Peeta I will go." I wait for an answer. He doesn't. I grab Peeta's hand and we walk off.
"Are you planning to go hunting on our date?" I laugh about it.
"No, I have a hunch that you are taking me to the woods. Never go to the woods without a weapon. Dad told me that rule." I say. I look over at Peeta. He looks down at the ground. I try to get a conversation on, and it works. We start talking till we get to the fence.
I go under first. Peeta passes the basket and blanket under. I help him get under. His mechanical leg is having a hard time getting under. He finally gets under.
"No more woods for me. My legs aren't getting under good." Peeta says. He has a smile on his face. He hands me a blindfold.
"Put this on. I want to surprise you." I put it on. We walk for a long time. We finally stop.
"You can take the blindfold off now." I take the blindfold off. I'm at the lake where my dad took me when I was little.
"How did you know where this place is?" I ask. I shocked. I place the basket on the ground. I start to unfold the blanket.
"I came out here once when I had both legs. I started to wonder around I came across it. When I was watching the clips from the war, you guys ate here. I tried to remember the way. I did." Peeta looked proud of himself. He sat down next to me. We pulled the food out of the basket.
"We have sandwiches, lamb stew with dried plums, Cheesy buns, water, and my favorite bread with raisin and nuts. Most of the food is your favorite." Peeta is so sweet. Where did he get all the food? I know he made the bread, but my favorite food.
"Where did you get the lamb stew with dried plumbs?" I have to know.
"The capital just sent the train load of supplies. I bought the stew for you since you never get out anymore. I thought you would like it." We talked and ate. This has been the best first date ever. We walk over to the water holding hands.
"This is where I learn how to swim. My dad taught me how to." I bend down to touch the water. Peeta comes over a puts his hand on my back. I stick my hand under the water and splash Peeta.
"Hey don't get me wet." He has a big grin on his face.
"I can splash you if I want to splash you. What are you going to do about it?" I ask him I have no idea what he would do to me.
Next thing I know is I'm in the water. I start to sink, but I can swim. I start to swim off under water, so Peeta can't see me.
"Katniss this isn't funny come on up." Peeta keeps yelling. He isn't looking carefully. I creep up behind him and shove him into the lake.
"That is for getting me all wet." I start to walk to our picnic when I hear Peeta talking from the lake.
"Please come help me up." I know he will pull me in, but I'm not a jerk. I walk over and try to pull him up. He tugs me into the water. I start to swim around. I splash him. He splashes me back. We are laughing our heads off.
"Let's go eat now. All this swimming makes a person hungry."I suggest. I pull myself out of the lake and then I help Peeta out.
"We have sandwiches, your favorite stew with lamb and plum, my specialty cheesy buns, and my favorite bread with raisins and nuts." I pick up a dish of stew and a sandwich.
With a mouth full of food I try to talk. "I'm guessing you made the bread, but where did you get the stew with lambs and plums?" I swallow my food.
"I made out something about the stew, so I'm going to guess what you said. Did you where did you get the stew?" I nod at the question because I have food in my mouth.
"The capital just had a train load of food come. I got it for you, but then you said yes. I just brought it with us. Hope you like it." We finish eating. We pack the stuff up.
I walk over to the lake for one more look. This time I'm prepared. Peeta walks up behind me. He tries to push me in. I notice I'm falling and pull him in. We are laughing again.
"That is what you get for trying to push me in again." I say. I get a slash in the face. I splash him back. We are laughing at the same time. We get closer together. We start to kiss. I hear a noise off in the distance. I pull back from Peeta.
"Shhhh, I hear something." I creep closer to the edge of the lake and grab my bows and arrows. A big wolf pack jumps out of the bush. I shot the first one. I connect my second arrow and shot another wolf. They keep coming. I hit almost all of them when I don't have another arrow. The wolves come closer. The leader of the pack jumps out at me when Peeta jumps on him. I collect an arrow from a died wolf. I shot the one attacking Peeta. The wolves get scared a run off.
"Thanks for saving my life. Now let's head back to twelve and see what Haymitch wants." I say as we start to walk. We are holding hands and I grab my arrows and the bag. We head back to the district.
We get back in to district. Haymitch comes running up. I expected it.
"Now I'll come with you. What is it?" Haymitch is trying to breathing normally. It takes about ten minutes for him to get his breathing under control. He is so out of shape.
"Your mother is coming for a visit. You need to meet her at the train station now. Her train comes in any minute. You should go." He waves his hand for me to hurry. I pull Peeta's hand to hurry up. I've missed my mom. Last year I probably wouldn't care, but now she is the only family still alive. Peeta is having trouble running with his fake leg.
"Go on without me. I'll catch up. Your mom would want to see you more than me." I pull up close to him and kiss him on the lips real quickly. I nod and take off for the train station. The last time I left him the capital took him. I didn't want to leave him, but I didn't want to keep my mom waiting.
I was running full speed. Peeta could never keep up with me. I ran up to the train station right when the train pulled up. That was a close one. The train isn't packed. My mom was the last one off the train. About ten people got off before her. I spot her I walk up to her and give her a hug.
"Mom I've missed you so much." I pull away. I look in her eyes. I see she is having a flashback of everything that has happened to the district.
"Why are you all wet?"My mom says while she is looking down at herself. She changes her glance on me. "And you are wearing nice clothes. Haven't I told you do not take a bath in your clothes or go swimming in them?"
"I didn't mean to get wet. I was on a date with Peeta. That is why I'm wearing nice clothes. He took me to the lake for a picnic. I walked over to look at the water. Peeta came over and pushed me in. It wasn't my idea to get wet. Blame Peeta. I pulled him in. We are both wet." My mom smiled at that.
"Did I mess up your date for coming?" My mom looked like she felt bad after I said I was on a date.
"No mom, we just finish our date when Haymitch told us you were coming. Peeta and I started to run. He told me to go ahead, so I wouldn't miss you."
"Let's head home." My mom says. We hold hands as we walk towards my house. I smile. My mom doesn't return it. I lose it.
"How is working at the hospitals in the capital?" My mom doesn't look around. She looks tense. It looks like this is hard on her to walk back around this place. I remember when I was forced to live her. Now I want to live here. But it was painful for me to live here for awhile.
"It is good. They have better equipment. I do miss not using the herbs I used back here. It is different. They do pay me." She looks like she doesn't want to talk. I do try to start a conversation with her, but she gives me short answers. We finally get back to the house. Peeta is at my door.
"Hey Peeta, how was your walk?" Peeta stood up and walked over to me. He came and put his arm around my shoulder like when I helped him walk during the hunger games.
"I'm going to go unpack my stuff." My walked inside.
"It was wet and boring. I bet your walk with your mom was better." We walked holding hands to the porch. I sat down on one of the chairs. Peeta sat down on the chair he was on.
"Me and my mom's walk was awkward. When I tried to start a conversation, she would not only give me short answers. I think she feels uncomfortable." Peeta nodded.
"You have to think of it her way. She has been running away from her troubles in the Capital. She is living the nightmares while you have been here longer. This makes you more use to it than she is." I nodded in agreement.
"I've got to go. Love you Katniss." Peeta got up and kissed my forehead and left for his house next door. I went inside to change out of my wet clothes. I had a lot to think about this night.
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