Katniss curled up in Peeta's arm as Caesar Flickerman asked the question everybody was dying to hear the answer to. "So what's your biggest dream?"
Peeta sighed and looked down at Katniss at adoringly as possible but it just didn't feel right. This whole thing felt wrong. It was all a lie. He looked back up and kept his eyes on the beautiful Avox who stood in the corner of the room, watching him with sad eyes. He never took his eyes off her as he spoke.
"My biggest dream is to take her back home with me so we can start our new together. But this time no Hunger Games,"
They all looked at him, her faces softening and some of the Camera crew breaking into tears. They all thought he was talking about Katniss. Even Katniss believed it! She got up from his arm and looked at him, "Do you mean it?" She asked, her voice was soft and weak, as if she was trying to hold back tears herself. He just looked at her and nodded, "Yeah," And then Katniss kissed him.
After all the cameras packed up, Peeta rushed out of the living towards his room, trying to wipe off the taste of Katniss's lips from his. He opened his door to see a boy Avox a little younger than him making his bed. His platinum blonde hair was long, falling straight down to his neck. His skin glowed white and looked made of porcelain and his eyes calm sky blue. He resembled a lot like the other Avox that was usually in Peeta's room. And that's when it hit him, she wasn't here. Peeta cleared his throat, "Excuse me. Do you know where the other Avox who's usually here is?" The boy looked up at him with a devilish look on his face, knowing that something was happening between him and the other Avox. He quickly wiped the smug look off his face and took out a notebook and a pencil that was tucked under his shirt and quickly scribbled down something. He held up the sign, "She didn't want to walk in on you again. She knows you like to take showers when you're stressed," Peeta pouted at the message, the boy held up a finger signaling for Peeta to wait a second as he scribbled down a new message.
"I have an idea,"
-Later that night –
12:37 am.
Peeta stood in his room, taking deep breathes. He reached up and grabbed the teal colored lamp, but then he let it go. "I can't do this, this is crazy," He said he plopped down on his bed.
The little Avox had told him in the middle of night when everybody was asleep to wreck his room and then wait. The girl Avox came into his room every night at 1am to clean up. If it was already clean (like it usually was) she would open the door, check to see if it was clean and then leave. But if it was messy then she couldn't leave in such a rush. After she sees the mess she would have to close the door and begin cleaning, the moment she closes the door Peeta can wake up and talk to her.
Peeta had to talk to her urgently and this was the only way.
He sighed and jumped off his bed, gripping the lamp and then smashing it to the floor. He then kicked at his bed posts and tore at the curtains, tossing pillows onto the ground and throwing tiny glass ornaments. He tried not making too much of a mess, but he did want to ruin some of the Capitols stuff because he was still angry he had to be in the Hunger Games in the first place.
He looked around the room and sighed in accomplishment before turning off the lights and crawling into bed. And then he waited.
It wasn't long the girl Avox unlocked the door and peaked in. Her eyes widened at the mess and she crept into the darkness. Peeta heard the click of the door closing an slowly got up from bed. There's eyes locked even in the darkness and she immediately ran for the door. Peeta called out to her, "Wait! Please don't go," His voice was turning into a beg. "Stay, please?" Peeta clapped his hands twice and the lights flashed on. He reached over to his side table and grabbed a notebook and quickly scribbled something on it.
He held it up to her and read it aloud anyways. Her face softened when he spoke.
"Please?"
