Hello! It´s me again, hope I didn´t took so long, but in my country is back to school time and I´ve got hell-a homework these days, so updating wasn´t easy, but I´m finally back, I kinda have this story´s resolution in my mind, but let's see how it ends. Again Peeta´s POV

Chapter 9: The end (?)

When I woke up I was still a little bit hurt from last day´s talk, for an instance I had forgotten how miserable and incomplete my life was, but then Katniss asked about my dead family and those feeling went back again, uhh great, I thought, but I knew it wasn´t her fault, poor girl didn´t even know she had a sister. I grabbed my coat and boots and went to the pond, Katniss still sleeping on the couch. I grabbed a couple of apples and sat by the pond, we had been eating apples for about a week and at this point I was sick of them, but anyways it was better than eating nothing like in the arena.

A couple of minutes later Katniss woke up, she kissed my cheek and sat by my side, like yesterday,

"Good morning Peeta" she said with a smile on her face, I wondered what made her so happy, "Uh, Good morning Katniss, you tired" I replied, I forced a smile and noticed I was probably too unhappy that I looked irritated by Katniss, "Uh, sorry for bothering you Peeta, but I´ve got a…". "You were not bothering me at all Katniss, it´s just that…. Um, what where you saying"

I didn´t continue what I was saying because it made me sad to think about it, "Oh, yeah I´ve got a doubt about my past, I´d been thinking about what you told me and I think somebody is missing in this whole story, I think, so…did I had any close friend or friends at all back at district 12" she said, I frowned, Gale… I thought.

I hadn´t mentioned Gale once because he was my least favorite person of all, he hated me too… "Gale, he was your hunting partner

" I said, still frowning, she noticed my expression ´cause she asked, "Um, Peeta is something wrong with…"

"No, no, it´s just that Gale and I didn´t get along" I said, "Oh, but why?" "Because she bombed the capitol and killed your sister!" I snapped, I noticed the horror look at her face, I felt really bad for saying that, and quickly apologized.

"Look, I´m sorry Katniss, I didn´t mean it, it´s just that maybe I was jealous, he liked you and you seemed to like him too, you know…"

She smiled at me, a fake smile I thought, "Oh, then don´t worry Peeta; he must have been an idiot anyways" she said.

I smiled back at her, and continued eating my apple.

Later that afternoon, after we cleaned our coats and boots at the pond Katniss suggested we went on a walk, "But, what if…" I said "Don´t worry Peeta, I bet they think we are already day, besides, it´s not a good hour to check the districts, the night is close and the sun is hiding so don´t worry, we´ll be fine" she interrupted; I nodded and agreed, I mean, how could I say no?

We grabbed everything and went to walk, we passed a couple of trees and noticed all the leaves where yellow and orange, fall season has already started, "It´s going to get chilly in a few days you know, because fall is almost here" I said, she just nodded, I looked at her and saw her smiling and containing her laughter.

"Hey, what´s so funny?" I asked, almost laughing, she busted laughing, and it felt really awkward, I had never seen her laugh so hard, she laughed weird, but I didn´t minded, "It´s just that I hadn´t noticed your socks had little bears and pink hearts" she said, she was still laughing, I blushed and looked at my socks, Oh cr*p! I thought. I must have grabbed them from the wrong shelf the morning they came to kill us.

"So, did I make you laugh?" I said, taking advantage of the situation, "Um, yeah" she said, still laughing, "So then that means I´m funny right?" I said, flirting was a new think for me, but I liked it, "Ha-ha, of course you do" she said, to my surprise she grabbed my hand. We continued walking, hand in hand, for a couple of miles more until….

"What´s that?" she said, I looked around us, and saw nothing, however I heard the same weird sound and had strange feeling somebody was following us… Katniss was worried, "Peeta I think we better go back to the….." "Ahhhhhhhh!" I shouted, something hit my leg hard, it felt like somebody shot me with those capitol super advanced gun that immobilized your limbs and made you feel the pain like traker jacker venom.

I could barely walk, Katniss was horrified, "Peeta! What´s wrong! We need to get out of here! Peeta!" ; she grabbed my hand harder it almost hurt, but the truth is, the thing that hurt the least was my hand, we walked a few meters more when another bullet, or whatever it was hit me, this time in the chest, it was the end, I could stand up anymore, I fell to the ground and tried to crawl a few kilometers more, Katniss was helping me, but then I noticed something weird on the right side of her back, it was similar to the wound on my leg, she had been shot too, but she didn´t tell me, because she knew I´ll go crazy about it, and indeed I went crazy, "Katniss! Leave me here! Katniss! Go!"

I shouted to her, by the moment I said that she was already crying, she was a strong woman, she hides her pain, something men, like me can´t do.

Several bullets where shot at us from the back of the forest, I wondered why didn´t they just kill us right there, I knew they had more powerful weapons, that could kill a man in seconds, but not this one. "No! Peeta! I can´t, see! I-I really like you Peeta, and I would rather die here with you than go anywhere to a safe place" she said, I smiled, her words make me feel some sort of joy.

"Thanks, I love you Katniss, ok? That can never be changed, but I´ll rather be death myself, than you getting killed and all being my fault for not letting you go, so please make me a favor and save yourself, ok?" I replied, this was a hard decision, but I loved her so much I´d rather see her with another man, than in heaven with me, at that point I crying, harder than her, she leaned by my side grabbed my hand and kissed me, on the lips.

It was the sweetest and longest kiss I had ever received in my whole life, it made me smile, "I´ll love, if not on this life then on heaven we shall be together" she said, she kissed me again and ran to the woods as fast as she could, I wanted to remember that kiss for what was left of my life, I saw her ran into the woods, disappearing into the darkness, not before she was all gone another bullet strike her arm "No!" I shouted in horror!

Then another bulled caught me too, on my ankle, I could barely breathe at this point, I knew that somehow this was the end, everything was over, I couldn´t do anything else to save Katniss, I always wondered what it felt like to be dying, I bet this was what it felt like.

I took one last breath and closed my eyes, waiting for the end to come, however it didn´t come, at least not now, before I lost complete consciousness I heard a shout on the direction Katniss left, I was alarmed expecting the worse, what if I had sent Katniss to the wrong path and caused her end? Then I heard another shout, this time more horrifying than the last one, --Peeta!- It said, I knew it was her voice, Oh c*ap, oh c*ap, oh c*ap, I thought.

I tried to stand up to go help her, bad idea, when I was on my knees another bullet caught my back, almost instantly I fell unconscious. This was it…

Chapter 9 is up, the end? Or no? Please tell me what you thought about the chapter, also I´m trying to spice things up between Peeta and Katniss; personally I really liked writing this chapter, instead of doing my math homework, *_* THIS ISN´T THE FINAL CHAPTER DON´T PANIC

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