Chapter two
Six months later…
Everything is coming along great. Our house is nearly finished, Peeta's been working on it nearly every day apart from the two days he has set aside to be with me. I don't know how but every day I seem to love him more and more. We've been talking recently about marriage, I think he might propose soon, but I've stopped thinking about it so that when he does ask, if he does ask, my reaction will be genuine.
One night we are both laying on the couch in Peeta's house. My head is on his chest and I can hear his steady heartbeat. "I'm so happy" I tell him. His heartbeat quickens. He leans down and kisses my forehead. I rub his side and pull myself up to him and stare into his blue eyes. Peeta's hands cup my face and pull me to him so that our lips are pressed against each other for a deep and passionate kiss. He pulls away and whispers into my ear "Will you marry me?"
At 20 years old I'm old enough to marry and I can't think of anything more wonderful then marrying the love of my life, Peeta Mellark. I pull him even closer, our foreheads touching and I say "Yes." He picks me up and twirls me around his living room while saying "I can't believe it, you said yes." When he puts me down I say "Of course I said yes, I love you more than anything Peeta." He smiles and kisses me, then picks me up and carries me to his bedroom.
We collapse onto his bed and I fall on top of him. He looks at me and says "You're so beautiful" then pulls me into him for a long kiss. I roll off him and he climbs on top of me kissing me quickly and passionately. He pulls away with a questioning look on his face. I know what he means. He wants me fully. I nod and he pulls his blanket over us cocooning us in.
It starts of slowly, I've never done this before and neither has Peeta but it seems like it's going alright. I ask him "Good?" He confirms "Good." Our bodies fit perfectly together, we were made for each other. My legs are wrapped around his waist and he is kissing my neck. I have never experienced pleasure like this before. I am now completely his and he is completely mine.
We stop and lay next to each other. We are both out of breath. He turns on his side and I fear that it didn't go how he wanted it to. I sit up and say "Peeta, are you ok?" He fiddles in his bed side table then sits up next to me. His hands then reveal a small box which he passes over to me. I open it and see a magnificent ring. "I've been thinking about marrying you for a long time and today I just couldn't wait to ask, so here's the ring."
A smile spreads across my face and I give him the ring gesturing that he put it on my finger. It fits perfectly. I take his face in my hand and pull him towards me for a kiss. "Thank you for the most perfect night." I say. He smiles and says "It was the best night of my life. We made love and you said yes to being my wife. I should be thanking you." I smile and he wraps his arms around me. We fell asleep with his arms wrapped around me and my head resting on his chest.
The next day I wake up. Something's wrong I don't feel a warmth next to me. I immediately sit up and search across the room for him. He isn't here. I am now running franticly down his stairs and around his house screaming his name. He runs out of the kitchen towards me. "What's wrong?! Are you ok?" He asks, "You were gone, I thought, I thought you left me." He frowns and pulls me into him. He kisses me gently on the cheek, "I would never leave you Katniss. I was just making us breakfast." I've been so stupid, why did I immediately think that he would leave me? Maybe it's because everyone seems to leave me. Gale, my mother, Prim. I hug him tightly not wanting to let go yet.
One month later...
Today is the day that I will marry the love of my life, Peeta Mellark. It won't be anything big, just me and Peeta. We will just go to get registered as a married couple. Me and Peeta stand together in front of the desk and say our promises to each other. It is over in a flash and I am now Katniss Mellark wife of Peeta Mellark.
After that Peeta leads my deep into the woods this root has a familiar essence about it. I try to figure out where we are when I see the lake me and my father used to swim in. In the distance I see a building. We are approaching it. After a few minutes of walking we arrive at the front door. Peeta looks at me and asks "Do you like it. I finished it yesterday." The once small hut had been transformed into a small habitable house. Before I have time to take all this in Peeta picks me up and carries me into the house.
It is warm and beautiful. I can't believe he has done this, as nice as our homes in 12 are, this is much better and more intimate. The fire is lit and there is a small plate of bread on a table next to it. This is perfect. He leads me towards the fire and sits me down next to him on the floor. "Now I know that the marriage registration thing would go fast so I thought that this would be better, just me and you." I stroke his cheek "This day couldn't have been any better."
He sticks a piece of bread on a metal rod and hands it to me. The toasting of the bread. After this we sit on the couch my head on Peeta's lap. He was fiddling with my hair. We don't talk until he says "Katniss Mellark, you are finally my wife." He leans down and kisses me softly, he tries to pull away but I don't let him. I pull myself up to him kissing him hard and deep. He pulls away for a second and asks "Bedroom?" I shake my head and say "No I want you now."
He laughs and climbs on top of me like before. I unbutton his shirt but I can't get it off fast enough so I just rip the buttons of. He doesn't seem to mind and starts to unzip the back of my dress. He gets up to pull it off and remove his trousers but he soon climbs back over me. This time it's better, faster. We are so caught up in each other that we don't notice that we are rolling of the couch until we are both on the floor. I land on him "Are you ok?" I ask. "Couldn't be better" He replies.
For a while we are laying on the floor making love to each other in front of the fire. He stops and pulls me up. "I haven't even showed you the bedroom yet. The bed is big." He says. I laugh and say "What are we waiting for?" He pulls me into a room which must be the bedroom. He wasn't wrong the bed is big. I jump on the bed looking around the room he is stood next to the bed. "You like it?" he asks. I pull him down on top of me and say "I love it.