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Chapter 1 Peeta's P.O.V.
"Real." She had said it, the word I had been longing her to say since we were 5. I look at her now, I look deep into her eyes and I see everything, I see all of my memories of her normal and hijacked and I just can't help wanting to stay like this forever feeling this strong love for her. "So what happens now?" she asks casually. For a moment I am confused what does she mean? But then I realise she wants me to stay here, with her. "Well, I could move in?" as soon as the words leave my mouth I feel anxious, what if I got the wrong end of the stick? However I am rewarded with one of Katniss' beautiful smiles as she says "You spend most of your time here anyways!" and then she laughs, a real laugh, I haven't heard her laugh like that for ages. Then she leans in for a kiss.
We are disturbed by a repeated banging on our front door, and then we hear Haymitch hollering at us to open the door. Katniss sighs and slowly she gets up to open the door, and I quickly follow her down the stairs. "Do you have any liquor?" Haymitch slurs, "Why would we have any liquor Haymitch?" Katniss replies irritably. "You said we, not I we, is there something you're not telling me sweetheart?" Haymitch asked intriqued now. "Well, umm yes actually Haymitch…" Katniss starts "Katniss and I have decided to move in together." I finish for her; she always said I was better with words than her. Haymitch begins to laugh, really loud "well it's about time!" he finally matters to splutter out after his laughing fit. I can feel Katniss become very tense beside me; her cheeks have also become a very light shade of pink. Thankfully Haymitch turns to leave and I can see the relief in katniss' eyes, but before he walks out the door, he turns to us and says "Now you two kids have fun." he then winks at me and walks out.
Katniss storms into the living room and, starts pacing back and forth ranting about Haymitch. While she does that I just stare at her, watching her petite body pace angrily, her soft brunet hair shine around her shoulders, her grey seam eyes dart around the room. Suddenly she looks up at and sees me staring "What?" she asks in a softer tone than she had been using. "Nothing," I reply "I was just admiring your beauty." I say with a smile. She just rolls her eyes and goes to turn on the T.V. which is odd because usually her chosen form of entertainment is reading. However I soon realise what she is doing as she turns on the Panem News channel. Katniss worries a lot about things returning to the way they were, and everytime something good happens to her, it almost always gets taken away from her. So because Katniss and I were finally happy together she was checking to make sure nothing would jeopardise that. When she was satisfied that nothing out of the ordinary was happening she turned to the cooking channel as she knew I often like to watch that.
I sat down next to her on the sofa and she came closer and snuggled into me, it felt nice, I had almost forgotten how nice it was to have her in my arms. However she does find the cookery shows very boring and she began to fidget and so I suggested she went to phone Effie and her Mother and tell them about us moving in together. Her face floods with relief and she gives me a light peck on the check and she silently moves out of the room to fetch the phone.
Katniss' P.O.V.
As much as I love Peeta, I cannot stand his cooking shows. So I am extremely grateful when he suggests I call my Mum and Effie. I call my Mum first, our relationship hasn't always been the best but we have been trying to figure stuff out, and losing Prim has made our relationship a lot stronger. She told me that she was happy Peeta was back to normal and that we were able to love each other again. Effie on the other hand was more ecstatic! "WOW! This is soo exciting, when is the wedding?" she practically shouts down the phone at me. "What Effie, there is no wedding, we are just living together." I reply "What? You can't just live together? She exclaims "Effie calm down, I am sure one day Peeta and I will get married but not now, not yet." I reply calmly "Okay, well I am happy for you two, I will come down to District 12 soon, ta ta for now lovie." And with that she was gone. I turn round to go ask Peeta what he wants for dinner when I am surprised by his presence in the Door way.
He was smiling, I walk up to him and put my arms around him, I then whisper in his ear "How long have you been listening?" "Long enough to hear you say we will be married someday." I start to giggle "Ahh so that's why you're smiling, but if you were listening carefully, you would have heard me also say that we wouldn't be married for a while." "I know," he says with a chuckle "But it's nice to know that you think about these things." And then he kisses me and I forget everything I just hug him closer. When we finally break apart he says he'll cook dinner to celebrate our first night living together. There isn't much in my- I mean our cupboards but he still manages to cook up something delicious. After dinner we snuggle together on the sofa for an hour or two, he reads I just sit there happy to be in his arms.
I decide to go up to bed and Peeta says he will be up in a minuet, I go into the bathroom strip off and have a nice, hot shower. I dry off and slip into my pyjamas putting my clothes from the day in the hamper as I walk back into our room. Peeta is already there, sitting on the edge of the bed, waiting for me. His hair looks damp which means he must have used the bathroom on the landing whilst I was in the bathroom off our bedroom. He sees me and smiles, I climb into bed and he slides in next to me he puts a protective arm around me and hugs me close. He whispers how much he loves me into my ear and slowly I drift off to sleep.