Katniss Pov

Peeta dresses in his new tie, a huge smile on his face as he walks downstairs. He takes me by the hand and twirls me. He's in such a great mood.

"You're in a good mood,"I state.

"I am,"he smiles,"it's because I realized two things. One, this is my first Father's Day, and two, it's the first one that my mom won't ruin."

I lean in and kiss him softly. He smiles at me, and then leads me to the car. He opens the door for me and helps me get in. Then he slides across the hood. I bust up laughing as he almost falls off.

He smiles boyishly at me and I roll my eyes. He's definitely going to be the fun parent.

His brother lives in the merchant circle on the east side of town. It's a private village with about only 30 houses along one road that loops around back to the entrance.

His brothers house is big and nice.

Peeta helps me out of the car and I become nervous. Peeta senses it and takes my hand, forcing me to turn to look at him.

"Katniss, you have nothing to be nervous about. My family loves you. I love you, and that's all that matters."

"Peeta, im just worried I don't fit in. I was never a merchant. And I mean we're not even married yet we're having a baby... we're not going about anything the traditional way-"

"Katniss, I don't want to be traditional. I love the way we have things. We love each other and that's all that matters."

"You're right. I'm being dumb." I say.

He caresses my face and pulls me to his lips.

"There's our love birds,"we hear call out to us.

Peeta pulls away to find Nick walking up to the driveway from the front door. "Dad thought he heard you, but he's too polite to interrupt. I however, am not."

Peeta blushes as he pulls me to the door. When we walk in, we are greeted by Barley and his wife. "Katniss, this is my wife, Anna."

Anna is tall and blonde. Definitely from the merchant side of town. She extends her hand out to me and I take it.

"Nice to meet you,"she smiles.

"You too,"I say.

"We never thought anyone would be able to lock down Peeta,"she jokes.

"I had my heart set,"he says gazing at me.

Then he takes our clasped hands to his mouth and presses a soft kiss on the back of my hand.

Peeta leads me into the kitchen where we find his dad. He smiles and pulls Peeta into a loving hug,"Peeta! My boy!"

"Hi dad!"

Then he pulls me in for a big hug.

I'm not use to how family oriented he is.

"Katniss, how are you?"

"I'm doing fine,"I say with a genuine smile.

He really is a sweet man.

Soon they get into a deep conversation, so I decide to walk to the living room.

A set of hands land on my shoulders and I jump.

"Whoa, no need to be so tense, we're all family here,"Nick says. I forget how touchy the Mellarks are.

"Sorry, I'm just not use to everyone being so relaxed around one another."

"It wasn't always like this,"he sighs,"everyone use to be just as tense as you are when my mom was around. She wanted everything to be perfect. And it's safe to say we aren't perfect. Which is why you are lucky."

"Lucky?"

"Mom would have chewed you apart. I mean I have no doubt that you could hold your own, but she would be harsh. You're lucky she didn't find out. Especially Peeta. For some reason she always treated Peeta the worst. I was by far the worst kid, but Peeta always got the most of it. I think it's because she wanted a girl."

"That's horrible. What kind of mother could resent their child for something they have no control of?"

"Ours."

"He also knew that he loved when he was little and Mom didn't like seam people. Or happiness."

He smiles and says,"in fact, we had to lie about Anna. She's from the seam but she looks merchant."

"Really?"

"Oh yeah,"he says.

We're cut off by the announcement of dinner.

During dinner, I can't help but smile and watch as Peeta interacts with his family. He laughs and jokes with them in ways I've never seen before. And every time someone complements his toe, he gets a proud look on his face.

But the whole time his hand is on my thigh. He slowly moves it up and it drives me crazy. After dinner I excuse myself to the bathroom. Peeta follows me and once the door is closed, he pushes me up against it and attacks my neck.

"I need to have you,"he states.

"Peeta!" I whisper,"not here!"

But his fingers are already in my underwear and I'm doing everything to quiet my moans. His fingers work magic on my clit and the angle he has reaches deep inside me. Before I know it, I'm coming undone around his fingers.

The bulge in his pants is very obvious so I get on my knees and unzip his pants until I have him pulled out and in my mouth. He bites his lip as he thrusts deep into my throat, his fists in my hair.

It doesn't take long for him.

When I look at myself in the mirror, my makeup is slightly smudged from tears. "We'll just say you got sick,"he says wiping underneath my eyes. It's a good cover. He kisses my mouth sweetly and says,"thank you."

"Always,"I smile at him.

Peeta pov

Katniss and I walk out of the bathroom and go to join the others.

My father smiles at us and Nick gives me a wicked grin. Shit, he knows. "Sorry, Katniss got a little sick... damn morning sickness."

"It's okay,"Barley says completely oblivious.

"Can I get you anything?" Anna asks.

"Do you have mouthwash I could borrow?" Katniss asks.

"Of course,"Anna says,"follow me."

She leads her out of the room, leaving the rest of us. The cry of Barleys one year old daughter brings both him and my dad to her room, leaving Nick and I alone. I take a seat next to him and hope he can't smell the sex on me.

He was always the trouble one.

"You may have the rest fooled, but I know what really went on in that bathroom. Hell, I invented the bathroom excuse."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh please,"he says rolling his eyes,"any excuse you name it, I've probably done it. Doing inventory was my favorite one."

No wonder the count was always off.

"That time I claimed to drop my ring at dinner, I was really eating out Samantha Finkle. And when I said I was doing a paper at dad's office computer, I was really getting a blow job."

"Jesus Christ,"I mutter.

"The best was when I was watching that one movie with you and Barley. The whole time I was fingering Frances underneath the blanket. We kept going to the kitchen to get popcorn because we were still in the same room so it was just as risky, but we were blocked by the counter so I could actually fuck her from behind. You know, now that I think about it, I'm really surprised that I didn't knock up a girl. Or get caught."

"Dude, enough,"I say blushing. I definitely learned about sex through Nick.

Just then the girls return and soon after that, Barley and my dad.

Barley holds Bailey, his daughter, in his hands. She looks around the room curiously and her eyes fall on Katniss.

"Do you want to hold her?" He offers.

"Oh, I don't know.. I'm not good-" but he's already handing her to Katniss. She looks at me with panic at first until I show her how to properly hold her. Bailey looks at her with big eyes as Katniss tries to calm her nerves. Then Bailey reaches out o hold her finger and I see Katniss smile.

I love the sight of seeing her hold a baby in her arms because I know this will be US soon. Katniss looks up at me with a proud look on her face and I smile reassuringly at her.

And all my fears and worries go away for the night.