Here's Chapter 6!
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Chapter 6: Our house, her rules
Katniss's POV
"First, Dr. Woods and I will be staying here with you. I will be here to regulate your therapy sessions with Haymitch," she babbled.
Peeta and I took a bite on our breads. Effie decided to discuss her lecture while eating breakfast to save time. "It's on my schedule," she would say.
We were all at the dining table eating while Effie roamed around us, barely eating her food.
"That means I'll be here all the time," she said, emphasizing each word.
Peeta and I locked our eyes on each other with worried faces and swallowed the bread together with a gulp.
Haymitch and Dr. Woods were sitting across us. They were also eating some of Peeta's breads. I just didn't know what it was called. I was just too afraid to ask Peeta what it was or he might start going on about breads and pastries.
"Understand?" she asked.
Of course, no one answered. No one listened. No one even cared.
"I can feel we're in the train again," Peeta whispered over to me.
I laughed.
Haymitch was keeping an eye on us both. Maybe he was thinking something about us. When Effie saw the taped bottles of liquor on his hands, she almost collapsed. She mentioned that that was the worst thing she ever saw in her whole life, that that was the most ridiculous thing that a man could do.
I turned over to Dr. Woods. Effie was still circling round and round the table.
"So how are you, Dr. Woods?" Peeta interviewed.
"I'm good. I'm good." He said, chuckling every time. "It's my first time here at District 12. I have to say it's not that bad. I am actually from District but I became a doctor at the Capitol so yeah. I have no wife and kids. I refused to because of… you know…."
All the people in that house, even Effie who wasn't listening because she was busy dealing with other matters, knew exactly why.
"How about you two? How are you?" he asked.
We both knew what to answer that we replied together.
"Good maybe…" we said and both looked away.
It surprised me when I found that I had already finished my bread like the rest.
"Are you listening?" Effie bellowed.
"Yes," we all said.
"Good. As I was saying, boys with boys and girls with girls, every night."
Peeta looked at me. He looked scared. He quickly grabbed my hand and insisted.
"We can't be!" he refused.
Then, all heads turned to him. Beside Dr. Woods' soft giggles, there was a long silence. After that, I spoke up.
"Peeta." I looked at him in the eyes. "It will be okay." I rubbed his arm as he let go of me.
"Don't worry, kids." said Dr. Woods. "It comes with the therapy."
Peeta lowered his head. I know that there were a lot of things going on in his mind.
"And mind you, this is the fun type of therapy. Not the lame and boring one," Dr. Woods explained.
I rubbed Peeta's shoulders. "See. It'll be fun," I cheered himup.
I heard Peeta let out a sigh. He might be thinking about having those dreams again. About losing me…
"Going back. Katniss and I wil be staying at her house. Dr. Woods, Peeta, and Haymitch, here on Peeta's house," Effie continued.
"I have my own house. I live alone, okay?" Haymitch answered, who was secretly sipping liquor.
Finally, Peeta looked up. "This means hello Dr. Woods."
I smiled. He was alright.
"That's my boy!" Dr. Woods exclaimed.
We all burst out in laughter.
"But where will we handle the therapy sessions?" Dr. Woods asked.
"Here. At my house. I mean why not?" Peeta said with a grin.
"Very well then," Effie approved.
Well, about me and Effie, I think this would be kind of awkward. And, oh, I'll be the one waking up early with her because I'm with her. I don't think this is going to be good. Peeta can talk with Dr. Woods and they'll be best buds. Peeta can be friends with anybody. He always knows what to say. But I think Effie might not be that bad either, I thought.
Haymitch suddenly stood up and walked away. He was really drunk judging by the way he walked.
"You're staying here!" Effie scolded.
But nothing can stop Haymitch. He stepped out of the house and headed for his home.
"The session will be every day. The more regular it is, the faster you will heal," said Effie. She looked at her watch then to the clipboard she was holding. "Oh, it's almost time! Dr. Woods, anything more to add?"
"Well just to be clear. This therapy can involve travelling to the Capitol, talking alone with me, talking alone with each other, hunting, baking, and much more."
Peeta's POV
While Effie and Dr. Woods were talking, Katniss held my hand. Absent-mindedly, I gently played with it with my fingers and I saw her smile at the corner of my eye. Her hair was still blue and so as mine. I felt like I want to tell her something at the moment.
I played with her hand more and she was quite giggling. I laughed a little. I liked it when we kind of flirt around. I moved closer to her and held onto her waist with my free hand. She laughed and took her hand away from my grasp. She looked at me and gave me a wink. I smirked.
"Children!" Effie and Dr. Woods shouted.
We hadn't realized that they were already watching us.
"It's his/her fault," we both answered, laughing.
"Oh gosh! You're going to give me a heart attack. You forgot your manners!" Effie raged. "What was that? Flirting in front of the dining table? I can't believe I have to say this but THAT IS MAHOGANY!"
We both laughed and clapped our hands.
"Haymitch should've seen that," Katniss told me.
I laughed even harder.
"I think I'll have to teach you some manners again. Let me add that to my schedule."
"No!" we cried in desperation.
"Then listen!" Effie cried. "Go take a bath and your first session is about to start. Rinse that paint from your hair. It looks ridiculous on you."
Katniss's POV
Peeta and I raced to his bedroom. He tried to overtake me but he couldn't. I jumped over a chair on my way and pushed it to him. I was leading. I ran up the flight of stairs and dared not to look back. I was already on top of the stairs and saw him at the bottom at the corner of my eye. I was laughing so hard. He too was. I reached for the door and swung it open. I made a jump for his bed and lied on my back, catching for my breath. Then, he was lying right next to me. He wasn't that exhausted like me.
Peeta walked towards the mirror in his closet and looked at his reflection. He was there for minutes, and then I asked him what he was doing.
"Just admiring my looks," he said with a wink. "I still don't want to rinse this off. It's not every day a blonde accidentally paints his hair blue in his sleep."
I chuckled. "Maybe, me too."
"What do you call a person with a fair golden hair?" he asked and walked towards me.
"A blonde." I answered.
"What do you call a person with blue hair?" he asked again.
"What?" I replied.
"I don't know!" he said. We were rolling on the bed, laughing.
"That was supposed to be a joke but I really don't know what to call a person with blue hair," he explained.
"We'll I guess if it's a girl it's called an 'Effie'." I replied.
"Yeah. And if it's a boy it's called a 'Caesar'." he snorted. The room was filled with laughter once again.
Then, we pretended to be Caesar and Effie. Of course, Peeta was Caesar and Effie was me. Peeta was asking me different questions while I answer him in my Capitol accent. We really had so much fun.
When we heard Effie's footsteps, I hurriedly opened Peeta's closet and borrowed some clothes. I took a purple shirt and some jogging pants. I also took a towel. Peeta was taking some clothes from his closet too.
"I'll go first!" I shouted at him when I was already in the bathroom, undressing.
I heard Peeta talking to Effie.
Peeta's POV
Effie just told me that I should take a shower right after Katniss steps out of the bathroom. She also mentioned that we were on a tight schedule.
I heard Katniss singing in the bathroom. I lied down on my bed and daydreamed about what happened today… about us. The flirting part explains it all. Oh, how I loved that. I laughed at the thought of that.
I might not have mentioned it but I saw her painting this morning, when we woke up. Effie's voice awakened me. And the first thing I saw was her painting. Just one look at it and I knew what it meant. There's this globe as a pupil of an eye. And I was pretty sure that was mine. After all those times she doesn't say anything whenever I tell her something, it was nice to know that she can actually see the world in my eyes. And her painting wasn't that bad too. Although this was the bad result: blue hair. But it's okay though.
I almost fell asleep in my daydream when she stopped singing and the bathroom door opened. She came out dressed in my clothes. The blue paint wasn't completely rinsed from her hair. She looked like she had blue highlights on her dark hair.
I took my things with me in the bathroom and closed the door behind me.
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