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Disclaimer: The Hunger Games, and unfortunately,,,Peeta, belong to Suzanne not me:(
Chapter 3:
"But my eyes don't make it to hers...they stop at Peetas...".
No! "Peeta!" I plead with my eyes. He heard it wrong! He thinks Im in love with Gale. But I'm not. I could never be! I'm hoplessly and desperately in love with Peeta Mellark. But here he is looking at me with cold unfeeling eyes after thinking he has heard me proclaim my love for another. He turns away.
"Goodbye Katniss." No! No this can't be happening! He can't be leaving!
"Peeta!" I scream. I'm running after him as fast as I can. I grab his wrist and he looks at the floor.
"Do you like hurting me?" he asks. My heart breaks.
"No, Peeta the last thing I ever want to do is hurt you! Sweetheart, listen." I try to reason with him.
"No. I'm done listening." He jerks his arm out of my grasp. "You tell me you want me. That you want to marry me and be with me forever. Tell me that you want to start a family together...and you just throw me away like I mean nothing to you because you can have Gale now. That is not love." he says.
"Peeta." My voice is softer as I wrap my arm around his. "I just told him we are getting married. I want him to know that I love him like a brother. The best friend love we shared before the games even happened. But even though I love him...I'm in love with you. You're the one I'm going to marry."
He looks me in the eyes and breaks me into a million prices. "No,
Katniss. You were."
He cant do this to me! I put my arms around his neck and kiss him. Putting everything I feel for him into it begging him to understand that even thought what he just saw looked like the largest form of betrayal...it was nothing. He pulls me closer. I think it's working, but then his eyes snap open and he pulls away.
"You can't keep doing this. Tell me right now! Who do you love? Who do you want to share your everything with and spend forever with him and only him?" he asks. He is angry with me.
"Peeta...it's you. I want to be with you. To marry you and to spend every moment of the rest of my life with you." I lightly kiss his lips. He sighs and picks me up bridal style.
"Me. Not Gale?" he asks.
"You." I say, the firmness in my voice daring him to call me a liar. He takes me to my room and puts me in bed. I wouldn't dare ask him to stay with me tonight, even though I won't sleep at all without him. But before I can even turn over he has slipped in next to me and put his protective arms around me.
"I love you Peeta." I say.
"You say it as if you didn't just say the exact same thing to him..." he is crying. I feel his tears on my neck, where his face is buried.
"Because I love you both...but differently. Maybe Gale and I could have been together. But we won't be. After the games everything about our relationship changed. I'm slowly realizing how easy it would have been to love him. But I don't. Because something changed me. Not the games...you. If I had never met you...then maybe...but now there's no chance. I could never hope to feel this for him. This is something I only want with you." I know he won't believe me. I don't deserve it. But I don't expect what he says next...because I know what I'm going to have to do...
"Katniss..."
"Peeta please. I need you to believe me."
"Prove it."
