CHAPTER TWO: A New Day

Peeta woke up early the next morning. He looked around at his surroundings and saw that he was still in Gale's arms. Shocked by the situation, he thought for a minute back to the night before. At the sudden realization that they were both naked and he had a terrible hangover he remembered what the two had done the night before. Although greatly surprised he laid in the same position until Gale awoke. Gale yawned and pulled Peeta closer, staring deeply into his eyes, looking for something.

Surprised by the intensity of his eyes, Peeta barely managed to stutter out, "Gale, d-did w-w-we umm, did w-we actually….?" He finished his thought by moving his hands around. Gale merely nodded in response to the question. "Oh… well, what happens now?"

After a moment of silence, Gale answered, "Well it could go one of three ways: we can continue doing this, maybe with less alcohol, we could ignore it and be friends like before, or we can hate each other and never speak to each other again. Personally, I would hope that it isn't the last one."

"Neither do I. From what I can remember, we both enjoyed last night, right?"

"Oh, yes. I'm shocked it went as far as it did, but I do not regret it one bit."

"You don't? Neither do I." Peeta blushed. He fidgeted his fingers as the silence wore on before Gale broke it,

"Well, what do you want to do? We both enjoyed last night, we could most likely easily do it again."

"We should try it without alcohol. To see if something should come from it."

"Agreed. So… when should it happen?"

"Umm… tonight?"

"Okay. Sounds good."

"Okay." Peeta moved closer to Gale and inhaled his scent and ran his fingers across Gale's defined muscles. After laying like that for what seemed like hours, Peeta said, "Maybe we should get up now."

"You're getting up? That's great!" Gale let out a happy sigh.

"I think it's time I did. And except for this killer headache, I feel great."

"I'm glad."

The day wore on, rather slowly, but Peeta was out and about doing things as if he never fell into bed for a month. As the day wore on, Peeta found himself becoming increasingly nervous. An hour before Gale was due home, Peeta couldn't do anything except sit on his bed with his knee shaking and fingers constantly twitching. Peeta heard the door open and his heart started pounding. His thoughts went everywhere; from what he and Gale were going to do to why he was so nervous and even to thinking about buying new chairs. Gale came into Peeta's room and to Peeta's surprise, appeared to be very calm.

Gale moved forward and kissed Peeta on the cheek and said, "Hello!" in a cheery voice.

At the touch of Gale's lips, Peeta gasped and barely managed to say, "Hey," in return; his stomach did flips as he took in the site of the man that was to be his that night. He breathed deeply before continuing, "How was your day?"

Gale looked at Peeta and moved to the bed and sat next to him, closely enough so that their legs were touch, and said, "It was rather long and boring. And I think my excitement for tonight made it even longer and boring." He was rubbing Peeta's leg and Peeta could barely understand the words he was saying.

"Ohhhh… Y-you're excited about tonight? M-m-me too!"

"Mmmm… this is…. Very good…" Gale was rubbing Peeta's leg and breathing on his neck. Peeta wanted to devour him right then and there, but controlled his urges. Peeta notices the growing bulge in Gale's pants and began to rub it. Gale grabbed Peeta's face and kissed him with great passion. They kissed and undressed each other with great haste.

Peeta took his place above Gale and prepared Gale's entrance and his member before thrusting forward. Gale cried out in pain and pleasure as the two continued to go at it. When Gale climaxed he called out Peeta's name. The sound of Gale's voice calling his name and this site of Gale shooting out his load pushed Peeta over the edge and he came as well crying out.

Peeta fell over to the side of Gale and put his arm over his waist. He kissed Gale lightly on the lips when the two made eye contact. They fell asleep without another word, wrapped in each other's arms.

The next day they went about doing things as usual, ignoring entirely the events that happened the night before. Peeta couldn't keep his eyes of Gale, and felt so guilty about it. He would sneak peeks whenever he could manage and on the off chance Gale looked at him he felt his heart stop. He loved the way Gale moved, the way he carried himself. He especially loved the muscles. Up close, he was able to appreciate the beauty of Gale's eyes. He felt like he melted every time they made eye contact, and when Gale smiled at Peeta, his heart nearly stopped. Peeta was developing feelings for Gale and didn't know how he would control himself around Gale.

They ate dinner in silence, but were able to say enough when they made eye contact. Gale was reluctant to admit, even to himself, that something was going on between the two of them. All he wanted to do the entire day was pull Peeta into bed with him and devour him. They finished dinner and cleared the table, before Gale said, "Peeta what are we doing?"

"Well we just finished dinner and now we're going to sit in the living room like we usually do…"

"No. You know what I mean. You've been looking at me all day, and I've been looking at you. What are we doing?" Gale spoke quickly and nervously.

"We… I don't know."

"Neither do I. what do you want to do?"

"I love what we have done, but I feel like there should be more."

"More? Like an actual relationship?" Gale was hesitant; the last time he had an actually relationship was… well never.

"Yes." Peeta was blushing. Gale loved it when he blushed.

"Well… I've never actually… never had an actual relationship," Gale mumbled almost inaudibly.

Peeta stared, not sure if he heard Gale correctly, "Well, we can do this your way. Whatever you're comfortable with."

"Ok. That sounds good I think. But the sex cannot stop."

Peeta smiled and moved forward, "I was hoping the sex would continue." He stood barely four inches from Gale. He leaned forward and closed the space between them connecting his mouth to Gale's. His body took over ignoring the shouts from his mind. He was in absolute bliss.

It has been two years since Gale and Peeta decided to make their relationship official, Gale was still madly in love with Peeta. They've argued, but nothing they couldn't figure out. And the makeup sex afterwards was fantastic. They became part of the other, and Gale would have it no other way.