I Miss You, Rue
Katniss' POV
After our marriage, Peeta and I started a memorial flower garden—we grew primroses, buttercups, and rue flowers.
On the second anniversary of Rue's death, I went to where we'd planted the rue flowers and began to sing.
"So lonely, missing you each day, I pray if only for a moment I could see your smiling face. You'd take away this emptiness inside of me, but I'll be strong until we meet—I miss you. Long to hear your laugh again, so kiss me. Let me know that life begins when I'm by your side, holding you tight. You give me strength to brave it all, with faith and hope when darkness starts to fall. When the wind blows cold and threatening, nobody's there to comfort me. Someone, somewhere, hear my plea. Until then, please let me know I'm wanted. I hear your heart singing that sweet song. I'll be there to sing along in all your dreams, just you and me. The music stops when you're not here, but my heart sings until you're near to me. How can you even hear my cries—that call your name beneath the stars tonight? When the wind blows cold and threatening, nobody's there to comfort me. Somehow, someone, hear my plea. Until then, I hope you know I need you to chase away the clouds so I can see you. Run through fields of flowers like we used to do, just we two. Hold onto the memories until that day I'm holding you again. Good night, my friend, good night."
Peeta came home, carrying our daughter, Rue Primrose Mellark, and I silently saluted into the distance, murmuring, "I'll see you again, someday, Rue of District Eleven." I joined them and Peeta nodded, keeping the topic at dinner off the Hunger Games.
I went to bed and then the next day I was fine, but I still missed my sisters—Primrose and Rue.