For Love or Security?

by Iadorebooks438

A Hunger Games AU in which no one went into the games and now they've recently been abolished but that doesn't mean everything goes smoothly. Katniss and her family are slowly starving to death. What will save them from this fate? She may be a strong and independent young woman but she still may need help once in a while. What will she do for her families security and welfare?

4. Chapter 4

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Katniss POV

We decide on a date that in exactly three weeks at the beginning of spring we'll marry and it will be a small affair. When I get home The Hawthorne Family is there when I arrive home Hazel helping Mom prepare dinner, Prim talking to Rory and Vick playing with Posy while Gale sits at the kitchen table looking deep in thought. Mom turns to me and smiles "Katniss, dinner will be ready soon will you set the table please?" I nod and set the table. Soon we all gather around the table and dig in there is no talking the only sound is the clattering of silverware and sometimes someone compliments the food saying something like "This is really good grub." usually a comment from Rory or Vick. Finally, Gale breaks the silence when Mom brings out the Sweet Potato Pie we've been saving "Where did you get all of this how could you afford it?" Hazel gives him the Mom glare she's so good at and he looks angry now "Everyone is wondering!" I take a deep breath and start "Gale I invited you all over for dinner for a reason. Gale your my best friend and you're all like my second family and I have some news." They just nod so I go on. "I'm engaged to the baker Peeta Mellark." Silverware clatters on plates as everyone stares at me in all different levels of surprised. "What are you talking about I've never heard about you even being friends or going out now your saying your engaged to this guy when did this happen!" Gale shouts. I knew he would be surprised but not this angry. I try to explain myself in a the calmest voice I can manage "He's a good person I haven't been very close to him and I would have never thought we would ever have any sort of relationship but he came and asked for my hand the other day and in our current situation I couldn't refuse." Gale is fuming by the time I finished. He doesn't say another word but storms out slamming the door. Hazel apologizes and the kids try to divert the conversation to make everything less uncomfortable but it doesn't work well and soon they leave after inviting them to the wedding on March 20th and to pass the message to Gale.

The next day I go to the mayor's mansion and ask for Madge who looks more pleased than I would ever think to see me. We go to her room and discuss our lives since the last we spoke even though we've never been chatty with each other are a conversation is pleasant and easy. I tell her about my upcoming marriage and she looks pleased for me and doesn't ask for many details. She suddenly jumps up and walks over to what must be her closet. "Do you have a dress?" she asks me I just shrug and she starts gathering dresses from her closet. She lays four white dresses. "Choose," she says and gestures towards her fine gowns. I shake my head stubborn and say "I couldn't Madge." She shakes her head back at me and looks me in the eye with a no-nonsense look and says "This is my wedding present to you. I have more white dresses than I know what to do with taking whatever you like." I give out a huff but accept it. The first dress that I notice is the one she wore several years for the reaping. One I would definitely not choose for that reason and it may be too childish for one's wedding gown. One is off-white and made out of silk and is form fitting and goes done to mid-knee and has cap sleeves. There's another that is pure white with simple flower embroidery made out of a fine cotton and lace it goes down to right above the knee and has three quarter sleeves then another pure white dress made entirely out of lace that is sleeveless and goes down to the ankles than a bluish white sweater dress made out of cashmere with a blue ribbon at the waist. I choose the pure white cotton lace dress with the flower embroidery which is almost too fine but the one that is most acceptable in my opinion. Madge puts the dress in a box for me and throws in a pair of white boots to match the dress and we talk for a little while longer before I go back home.

Peeta's POV

The wedding is fast approaching and is now only two days away I'm excited but very nervous. What if I can't make her happy? What if she ends up despising me? What if we're not as good together as I always hoped? These thoughts constantly run through my mind. We've been getting along well and making wedding plans have gone successfully we decided I would make the food including the wedding cake of course and she would take care of some simple decorations for the apartment were the toasting will be held. We have also gotten an appointment at the Justice Building to get married at exactly one in the afternoon. I've invited my family and close friends and she has done so as well. Today is the day I plan on giving her most of the wedding gifts I've been planning.

She arrives and gives me a little smile and I grin at her back and take her hand. We sit at the sofa and talk for a few minutes then I ask her to stay there and as I go to get some of her gifts. A basket with 12 cheese buns that I learned are her favorites then five fruit tarts, a dozen chocolate chip cookies, peppermints, lemon drops, and the rarely found chocolates from the sweet shop in town, a slab of pork, a slab of beef, and five scented candles. Then a small box with pretty hair combs which are silver with silk blue flowers on them and a bundle of dandelions and wildflowers that I collected from the meadow. She has a strange expression I can't decipher yet and she then looks put off and says "Too much I can't get you anything this is all too much." I take a deep breath and try to take her hand back but she pulls her hand away from me with a frown. "Katniss, I've been saving for a really long time to be able to spoil my fiancée with gifts and you know are old art teacher had connections to the Capital? Well, I sell some of my paintings and that pays well too. I'm not expecting anything from you it makes me happy to give you all this stuff." She wrings her fingers together and bites her lip in thought for a few moments but seems like hours then she nods slowly and says "Okay, okay if it makes you happy I'm not going to take it away from you just don't spend all your hard earned cash on me please." I nod vigorously "Will do."

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