My birthday isn´t exactly that good. My mother just gave me a stiff hug. Prim felt bad she didn´t gave me a gift. I told her it didn´t matter. I went hunting yesterday and caught fresh berries. It became my birthday cake.
I have been avoiding Gale ever since he told me he wanted to be my husband. Just thinking about it makes me shudder. Kissing Gale makes me uncofortable , he´s like my brother.
Today is Choosing Day. My mother acted kind for once in her life. I think she was please to get rid of me. She gave me one of her dresses. A light blue one . I bathed and then I dressed in the dress. Mother even helped me braid my hair into an elegant braid bun.
I walked out of the house with Prim in hand. She was happy since she found the whole romatic. Yeah right! I mentally scoffed but for Prim´s sake I held my horses.
My mother and Prim leave me in the girls side. Both of them take seat as expactators. I hear someone pst me.
I turned and saw Greasy Sae. She was one of my father´s friend.
"Girl did you planned on going on like this?" Sae asked.
"I´m not dressesd that bad," I said.
"I meant without this," Sae said. She takes a pin out of her bag. Not any pin , it was my father´s mockingjay pin.
"How?" I asked shocked.
"He gave it to me before he died," Sae said solemnly ," He said to give it to you when you were eighteen."
She then grabbed my hand and gave me the pin.
"Thank you," I said. She smiled and walked toward the expactetor line.
Choosing Day works very ´s done every year in May. On the right side were the girls , on the left side were the boy. The expactators are seated on a horizontal line at the back. The girl´s name is read from a list. There´ll be a bowl with the boys names. Effie Trinket will take out of the glass a name , and the girl and boy shall marry. The Capitol says it´s 'fate' or something like that. Honestly I don´t believe it.
"Welcome, Welcome ," Effie says ," To this day we commemorate as Choosing day! Where fate will be the mayor factor in this ceremony. We´ll start with Raquel Anya."
The ceremony goes alphabetically I´m truthfully sorry for those who´s surname ends in r or s. I see Gale there . I avoid his eyes . He still hasn´t been choosen to be a husband.
"Katniss Everdeen," Effie says. I walk toward the stage were Effie is. She then walks to the bowl with names. She chooses one. I can hardly breath. Is it Gale? Is he a good man?
"Peeta Mellark," Effie reads. I see Peeta , the boy or rather young man I bumped yesterday. The one who gave me hope those years ago.
I was at school. Our rations were going low and now that my father wasn´t here to support us with a little more meat. There is no money here unless you have a shop. It was raining and I gave all my food to Prim and my mother even though she started hating me. I arrived to school when a blonde boy walk towards me. I started feeling weird around him. He gave me chills and made me feel starnge and quasy.
"Here," He says giving me a piece of his bread ," Take it."
"No thanks," I said stubbornly.
"I don´t really need it," he says ," I have more at my house." He didn´t wait for an answer and gave me the bread. Immidiatly he walked away , knowing I will give it back. But I didn´t . I was grateful. He saved me. He made me believe again.
"Katniss and Peeta Mellark," Effie chants brightly. He looks at me. His bruise , not so prominent as two days ago. His eyes still bright as ever. I suddenly feel a bit of excitement and yet again I feel strange . A good kid og strange.
Effie leads us at the back of the stage. I hear the peacekeepers talking quietly. The oldest people in the district stares at us. I feel uncomfortable.
"It´s okay Katniss," He says .
I nodded at him. We go to the back and libe for us to sign the marriage papers. Peeta is looking at me.
"Katniss if I´m not the one you wanted I´m not going to force you to be mine," He says. I smiled at him.
"There is no need for that," I said ," I´m happy with the choice 'fate' decided."
Peeta gives me a hundred watt smile then.
"Alright ," Peeta says. When we reach the booth I sign and for the first time realize I´m no longer Everdeen , I´m Katniss Mellark once I sign those papers.
We do and then the mayor asks us to kiss.
I´m nervous , I have never kissed someone before. Before my nervousness continues Peeta leans in and presses his lips on mine. I forget the world , forget everything. I feel butterflies in the stomach and I feel a golden light light us. It´s like we were ment to be. Literally sparks are flying.
More whispers were heard after we break apart.
"Wow!" I said.
"That was my first kiss ," Peeta admits. I´m taken aback because Peeta is really handsome and girls stared at him at school.
"Mine too," I said ,"I´m glad I was choosen to be with you."
"Me too," Peeta says as he runs his hand through his hair.
"It´s like we were ment to be," Peeta says after a while.
"I know, I felt that too," I said. We then kiss again and I feel it again.
Maybe fate does exist. Maybe destiny exist. All I know is that I will be happy with Peeta by my side. The man I never thought I will marry is the one that I married. For once I´m glad for this Choosing Day or else I wouldn´t have married Peeta.