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Chapter 7-

PEETA'S POV

I sit twiddling my fingers waiting for Katniss to finish getting ready for the party she's bringing me too with her friends. As she walks out of the room my breath catches I thinks she's always beautiful but I've never seen her so beautiful as she is now her dark hair cascading down her back in loose curl ringlets, her eyes looking smoking and mysterious with charcoal eyeshadow and a small smudge of eyeliner bringing out her gray eyes, a clear gloss making her lips shimmer and she's wearing a silk silver dress with a low V neck and it goes down to her knees with the outfit completed by silver high heels and the pearl necklace I gave her.

Johanna and Madge come out of the room moments later looking lovely as well but they can't compete with Katniss. Katniss sits down next to me quietly and doesn't meet my eyes. I grab her hand and squeeze it lightly and whisper "You look breath-taking Katniss." She meets my eyes then looks down quickly with red cheeks. "You look good too Peeta." I chuckle at her and take her chin in between my fingers and gently lift her head to meet my eyes. "You picked out my clothes silly," I tell her and she grins back at me and we all get ready to leave for the party.

"May I ask what's going on with Madge?" I whisper as Katniss and I walk a little ahead of everyone. She just shrugs and replies "I saw her when I was shopping with Prim while you were in the cologne store and we talked a while it's not her fault what Gale did she thought we've been broken up a while because we didn't hang out lately and she told me what I already knew that we're friends and she would never knowingly betray me and she's really really sorry she almost started crying. So I invited her to go to the party with us to prove I'm not angry with her." I nod happy that she didn't lose one of her closest friends.

The party is filled with drunk people screaming and dancing and playing drinking games but there's an excited energy in the air. Everyone goes off in different directions but I don't think I know anyone else here besides who came with us so I stay beside Katniss side as she holds my hand and moves through the crowd saying Hi to people she knows and she is oblivious to the very admiring looks she's receiving by some of the party-goers I even get to dance a little with her and she lets loose and bit and seems to be having a lot of fun with me and I can't stop smiling looking at her.

20 minutes later

"You're in the army wow you must be so brave! What would you major in if college? I'm a Political Science and Government major. What friends brought you here? What do they major in? Wonder if I'm friends with them? I have a lot of friends." says Cashmere the blond girl that started chatting me up as soon as Katniss got preoccupied. She kind of reminds me of Delly really touchy and talks a lot and blond hair too but Delly is more of Blake Lively pretty except with blue eyes, and paler and Cashmere is more Jenifer Lawrence pretty except with hazel eyes and on the shorter side. I'm friendly to her but I can tell she's trying to drunkenly flirt with me and I'm not really interested in seeing her right now. I've tried to see if I can move on and distinguish my romantic feelings for Katniss in the past I dated Delly for a while and have been on a few dates with other girls and one more very short relationship with a girl from back home named Leevy but the problem was always I could never feel romantic feelings for the other girls that I feel for my Katniss.

"Hey!" I hear a girl startled shout not far away and could recognize that voice anywhere. Katniss. I quickly and excuse myself from that girl Cashmere and run over to where I heard her voice in a dark corner with this douche guy with his one arm on the side of her head and another holding her close to him his face in her and his patronizing voice in her face saying something like "Come on baby you know you want me to give me a kiss come on you want me to stop playing hard to get." She tries to knee in the groin but he catches it and growls and I come up behind the jackass and grab him by his shirt and throw him on the ground away from her and growl at him in my most menacing voice "What the hell do you think your doing to my friend?!" he sneers at me and tries to get up a punch me but he's drunk and slow and so very predictable so I duck and grab his arm and twist it behind his back and ask in his ear, "Do you want me to snap it or are you going to apologize to her and leave her alone?" he nods and I let him go then he moves to take a swing again and I du k again punching him in the face and slam him in the ground.

The cops show up quickly as I hold Katniss making sure she's okay and she looks frazzled and irritated and maybe just a bit scared if you really look at her but she tries to put on an indifferent mask. The guy gets taken away from the cops after Katniss and I as well as all the witness who began to show as the fight started to say what happened. Katniss tells me the guys name is Marvel and that he's never been her favorite person but they were acquaintances and the guy got pissed because he keeps getting turned down by her. "I can take care of myself Peeta," Katniss says but not with much force and hugs be tight at the same time while she nuzzles her face into my neck because she knows that I know that and I love her and will never stop trying to take care of her.

Okay, let me first says I'm sorry for the long wait but to help make up for it I'll have two updates today so yay!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you like my writing I have a few other stories you may enjoy so check them out if you haven't already I just wrote a new One-Shot called The Hunger Games Post Mockingjay One-Shot which is a cute little heart-warming story if you're in the mood for that.