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Katniss POV
I'm running through the woods and I trip on something. I look over and see that It's a dead body. I quickly get up and go back to running, but I seem to be slowing down. I hear low growls behind me and I try to run faster, but I can't seem to. The growls turn into a loud roar, and I begin to yell. I'm going to die.
"Katniss!" I hear someone yell and I begin to shake.
"Katniss!" I hear someone yell again and I open my eyes. I see that peeta is holding onto my wrists and staring at me.
"Nightmare?" He asks and kisses my fore head.
"Yes." I say and he goes back onto his side.
"Do you want to talk about it?" He asks and caresses my hair.
"I was running through the woods and I tripped over a dead body. I got up and ran but I seemed to be running slow. I heard growl behind me so I tried to run fast but I couldn't. The growls turned into a roar and I thought I was going to die. Then you woke me up." I say and he pulls me into his arms.
"It's not real, it's just a dream." He says and kisses my fore head.
"I know." I say into his chest." What time is it?"
"7:00." He mumbles and kisses my cheek.
"You should start getting ready school is-" I begin and he says," I told you, I'm staying here with you Katniss."
"Peeta, you can-" I begin and he lifts my chin up and kisses me. Seconds later he pulls away and says," I'm going to take care of you."
I sigh in defeat and say," Fine."
"Go back to sleep." He says and I put my head back on his chest. I nod and try going to sleep, but I just can't seem to.
"I can't sleep." I say moments later. I look up and see that peeta is still awake.
"Well, I can make you breakfast, want to come?" He asks and I nod my head. He gets up and carries me downstairs and sets me down on the counter top. He walks over to the refrigerator and takes starts to take out all types of things. Peeta sets them down beside me and says," Do you want to stay here or watch T.V.?"
"I'll stay here." I say and he nods." Do you need help?"
"No, I'll be fine." He says and shoots me a smile that causes me to blush and look down. That smile!
"What are you thinking about?" He asks and pours flour into a bowl.
"I-um-um- nothing." I say and blush.
"It's not my eyes again, is it?" Peeta asks and laughs.
I blush really hard and say," No."
"Well, then I don't know." He says and smirks as he grabs two eggs.
"Your smile." I mumble and blush.
"Katniss, my smile is not as good as yours." He says and I blush some more.
"Quit lying." I say and shake my head.
"It's the truth." He says and looks at me.
"No it's not." I say. My smile is just regular, what so good about mine.
Peeta walks over to me and says," Why do you say that?"
"Because, It's just regular I guess." I say and shrug my shoulders.
"What will make you agree with me?" He asks and looks at me with those gorgeous eyes.
"Nothing." I say and smirk.
"Not even, this." He says and kisses me.
When he pulls away I say." Nope."
"How about this." he says and tickles me. I begin to laugh and say," Stop. st...stop.."
"I just want you to say it." He says and laughs.
"Your going to make me pee on the counter." I say and laugh uncontrollably.
"Just say it, and I'll stop." He says and laughs.
"It, there I said it." I say in between laughs.
"Katniss." He says and laughs abit." Say my smile is beautiful."
"No." I say and laugh some more. I'm going to pee myself." Peeta, stop I'm going to pee all over the counter."
"We can be here all day Katniss." He says and I laugh.
"My.. My smile is beautiful." I say and he stops tickling me. I catch my breath and see he's smirking.
"Was that so hard?" He asks and I punch him lightly in the arm.
"Shut up." I say and roll my eyes. I try to hop off the counter but peeta stops me.
"You'll open up your stitches." He says and grabs my hands." Are you mad at me?"
"No, I just want to go pee." I say and we laugh.
He carries me to the bathroom and gets out. I close the door and do my business. When I'm done, I wash my hands and brush my teeth since I'm in the bathroom already. I look in the mirror and see that ,my braid isn't that messed up. I tip toe over to the door, and see that peeta isn't here. I tip toe down the hall and peek into the kitchen. He's in there mixing something. I get on my knees and crawl all the way behind him, he doesn't notice I'm here.
"BOO!" I yell and he screams. He drops abit of what was on the bowl onto the floor and I begin to laugh.
"Your going to pay." he says in his best angry voice. He grabs me by the waist and throws me over his shoulder, carefully, so that my thigh doesn't start to hurt. He sets me on the couch and begins to tickle me. It's a good thing I peed.
"Stop." I say and laugh. I get an idea.
I grab his hand and pull him in for a kiss. He immediately stops and just concentrates on the kiss. I grab his bicep and try to pull him closer, He grabs my waist and does the same. Minutes later, I'm on his lap and we're having a make out session. I hear someone clear they're throat and we pull away and see my dad standing there.
"Hands off." he tells peeta and he takes his hands off me. I can see the blush on peeta's face." Calm down boy, you look like your about to burst or something."
I look over at peeta and see that he is super red.
"I'm going to wake up prim." My dad says and heads up the stairs. I burst out laughing and rest my head on peeta's shoulder.
"That was two times you're dad has saw me make out with you." Peeta whispers and I laugh." Yesterday he saw me all over you, today he saw me touching your butt."
"Peeta-" I begin.
"What kind of impression am I making, your dad probably doesn't like me." Peeta says and I take my head off his chest.
I shake my head and say," Peeta, he likes you."
"How would you know?" He asks.
"I know he doesn't hate you because your a good person. Your sweet, kind, caring, funny, romantic,-" I begin and he just kisses me. He pulls away seconds later and I say," He likes you."
"Ok." He replies and lifts me up bridal style taking me towards the counter top. He begins to mix that thing in the bowl and starts to cook it. When he's done, I see that he made pancakes.
"Again!" I yell in excitement.
He laughs and carries me to the table. He sets a stack of pancakes in front of me and I give him a peck on the lips.
"You know how to spoil a girl." I say and he kisses my cheek.
"Not just any girl." He says and goes to flip some pancakes. Prim comes in the room looking beautiful in a dress.
"You look beautiful, prim." I say.
"Thanks." She says and twirls." What do you think peeta?"
"I agree with Katniss, you look beautiful." Peeta says." Want pancakes?"
"Yes, please." Prim says and turns to me." Don't forget to change your bandages, and to apply ointment."
"I won't." I say and smile at how motherly like she acts.
"Here you go." He says and gives prim her stack of pancakes.
"Thank you peeta." Prim says and sits in front of me." Katniss, how do you flirt with a guy?"
Peeta snorts and laughs and I just sit there looking dumb.
"Um, Um, I think you just, I don't know ok." I say and hide my face from embarrassment.
"I'm just teasing you." Prim says and she laughs along with peeta.
"You guys are evil." I say and eat my pancakes.
"But you love us." Prim says and giggles. I continue to eat my pancakes. Well I can't say that I love prim and like peeta, that will just probably hurt him. I'll just stay silent.
"So how are things going with Rory?" I ask and she blushes.
"Looks like we have another fire girl." Peeta says and prim and I blush.
"Shut up." I mutter and he laughs. His laugh is so perfect as well.
"We're just friends." Prim says moments later." How are things going with you and peeta, dad told me he caught you letting peeta touch your junk."
I choke on my pancake and she giggles.
"Did you enjoy yourself peeta?" Prim asks and I turn to see him turning beat red. She laughs really hard while peeta and I just blush.
"Prim, I heard that Rory kissed you in the cheek." I say and she turns beat red. It's true?
"How would you know that, you were gone for days!" She yells and turns red.
"I just randomly said that, I didn't think it'd be true." I say and she turns red." Karma."
"You guys are both evil." She says and peeta and I both look at each other and smile.
"But you love us." We say in our best prim voice.
"Peeta!" I hear someone yelling outside. There's running and then rye and wheat enter the house.
"What?" He asked concerned.
"We smelled pancakes." Rye says and prim and I laugh. Peeta just rolls his eyes and says," Sit down."
Rye sits by me and wheat sits next to prim.
"So what are we talking about?" Rye asks. I look at prim and shake my head but she smirks and says," How peeta was grabbing Katniss's ass."
"And how prim's cheek was being attacked by Rory's lips." I say really fast and they both burst out laughing.
"That's enough to get us through breakfast." Wheat says and Peeta groans in annoyance.
"So Katniss, how was the experience?" Rye asks.
"Shut up, rye." Peeta says and flips a pancake.
My dad comes in the kitchen and sits on the counter top like a little kid.
"What's the buzz?" He asks.
I give him an angry look and he seems to understand.
"Prim spilled the beans didn't she?" He asks and I nod.
"Now peeta and I are being teased." I say and smirk mischievously and glance over at prim. She smiles at first but then shakes her head." Dad, did you know that your little girl got kissed in the cheek by a boy?"
"Really ,Katniss?" Prim says and blushes.
"Another fire girl!" Wheat yells and peeta laughs.
"Double threat." Rye says.
"I want to know his name, age, address,-" My dad begins.
"Dad, she's not going to live with him it was just a kiss on the cheek." I say and chew my pancakes.
"Katniss I have to know who this boy is." He says.
"They're just friends." Peeta says and flips another pan cake.
"You remind me of your father." My dad says and I can already imagine the smile on peeta's face.
"What about us, who do we remind you of?" Rye asks.
"Your father's brother." My dad says and the boys high five each other.
"Uncle Joe was always awesome." Wheat says.
"You both think he's awesome because both of you have the same dreams." peeta says and shakes his head.
"One day I will own a mansion with a bunch of pretty women surrounded around me." Rye says and wheat nods his head.
"Katniss, you can join too." Wheat says and his eyes go wide once he sees that my dad is here and so Is peeta.
My dad looks shocked at first but peeta says," Wheat, what did-"
"I forgot, I'm sorry Katniss." Wheat apologizes.
"It's ok." I say and eat my pancakes.
Wheat leans over and whispers," I'm not that sorry, the offer is still on the table."
"I'll keep that in mind." I tell him and laugh.
Peeta hands rye, wheat, and my dad a plate of pancakes. Then he hands everyone a glass of orange juice.
"Thanks peeta." Dad says and drinks some of his juice.
"Thanks little brother." Rye teases him and I can't help but smile.
"Peeta these pancakes are amazing, they're even better than your father's." My dad says.
"Thank you." Peeta says and blushes.
"I better get going, I'll see you all later!" Prim says, taking one last sip of juice, and gives me and dad a kiss on the cheek.
"Bye Prim!" We all yell as she opens the door of the house.
"Bye!" She yells back.
"Peeta shouldn't you be going to school?" Wheat asks.
"I'm staying here to take care of Katniss." Peeta says." Shouldn't you two be going to work?"
"Yeah, but we can be a couple of minutes late, no one really comes in the mornings." rye says.
"I better get going to work, peeta since your staying here with Kat, I need you to do me a favor and keep it in your pants." My dad says.
"I-Ok." Peeta says and blushes. Rye and wheat laugh.
"I'm just kidding, I trust you, but not Kat." Dad says." She was always the trouble maker as a child."
"Dad." I say and hide my face.
"Sorry, Kat." he says and kisses the top of my head." I'll see you later."
"Bye." I say and blush.
"I bet you if we leave and come back five minutes later, they'll both be naked." Wheat says and high fives rye.
"You guys have issues." I say and remove my hands from my face.
"Maybe." Rye says and gets up." I'll see you later, you teenagers."
"Bye!" Wheat yells and follows rye.
"Bye!" Peeta and I yell back.
Peeta serves a plate of pancakes for himself and orange juice. He joins me at the table and says," Sorry about rye and wheat."
"It's ok, they're jerks at times but they're really sweet at times too." I say and drink my orange juice.
"You got that right." He says and digs into his pancakes.
When he's done he takes all the plates from the table and sets them in the sink. I should be doing something. I'm going to wash the dishes.
I get up but peeta runs over to me and sits me down.
"I want to do something, you're doing everything and I feel guilty because my ass is sitting down." I say.
"Katniss, you can't get up because of your stitches." He says and sits in front of me.
"Yeah, but-" I begin but remember that my aunt Effie owns a special ointment from the capital that helps cure cuts and wounds overnight.
"Can you get the phone please?" I ask.
"Sure." He says and gets up. He grabs the house phone and hands it to me.
I dial my aunt's number and she picks up really fast," This is Effie Abernathy."
"Aunt Effie, I need some of that ointment from the capital." I say.
"Your mother gave me specific instructions to not give you some of that ointment." She says and I get angry." She wants you to heal on your own."
"The reason she doesn't want you to give me some is because she wants to take me back to district four." I say in anger.
"I'm sorry but I can't dear, I don't want your mother mad at me." She says." Get well soon."
I sigh in anger and click end. Well then I'll just have to talk to Haymitch.
"Can you please take me to Haymitch?" I ask and he nods.
"Are you ok?" He asks and lifts me up.
"Yes, but I'm starting to get a feeling that my mom was lying and that my wound will take longer than a week in a half to heal." I say and scowl.
"Why do you need Haymitch?" He asks.
"Aunt Effie has this ointment from the capital that helps heal wounds overnight and my mom gave her instructions to not give me any. That's why Haymitch is going to call and convince her." I say and he gives me a small smile.
He opens Haymitch's room door and sets me on an arm chair. Haymitch is passed out on his bed clutching a bottle. I remember yesterday he came in and grunted, then he left seconds later.
"HAYMITCH WAKE UP!" I yell and he wakes up but lands on the floor.
"Couldn't you shake me awake." He says and stands up but stumbles. Peeta helps him to the arm chair in front of me and I say," Do you know what my mom is going to do?"
"Yeah, she's planning to take you to district four if you don't get better in a week in a half." he says and grabs a bottle of unopened liquor.
"You were asleep, how would you know?" Peeta asks shocked.
"I hear everything." He says and looks over at peeta and I." I hear your grabbing ass now, Mellark."
"How did you-" I say and begin to blush.
"I hear everything." He says and pops the seal of his liquor.
"I made pancakes." Peeta says.
"Good job." Haymitch says and drinks the liquid.
"Don't you want an actual breakfast?" I ask and look over at peeta to see he's shocked.
"I'm having one right now." My uncle says and drinks some more.
"I think that's enough." Peeta says and takes the bottle from Haymitch but receives a punch in the face. He falls to the ground and Haymitch grabs his drink.
"You don't ever do that again or I will beat you with that bottle!" I yell at my uncle and crawl over to peeta. I cup his face and say," Are you ok?"
"I think so." He says and sits up. There's a bruise forming on the side of his cheek and I turn and give Haymitch a death glare.
"Relax, he's well enough to grab your ass again." Haymitch says and chuckles.
'It's not funny." I say and scowl." I came here to tell you to call your wife and tell her to give me some of that ointment shit form the capital, because my mom told her not to give me any."
"It's about damn time you asked for my help, I thought you we're just going to sit there and let my dumb ass sister take you away from your ass grabbing boyfriend, your crazy friends, your lovely uncle and aunt, and your father." Haymitch says and I blush when he calls peeta my ass grabbing boyfriend. He reaches for the phone and says," This will only take a minute."
I sit on peeta's lap and look at the side of his cheek. The bruise is really bad.
"I'm fine." Peeta says but I shake my head and kiss the spot where the bruise is at.
"Woman, I just got a deep cut in my damn arm. It's pretty deep bring that ointment shit with you, I need it." He says and clicks the end button.
"Will she come?" I ask.
"She's coming." He says." Now leave me alone, go do something with your lives."
"Fine." Peeta says and lifts me up bridal style. We leave Haymitch's room and he takes me upstairs. He sets me in my room and he says," I'm going to go over to my house and change, I'll be right back."
"Ok." I say and see his bruise." Peeta wait!"
"yeah." He says and rushes over to my side.
"You need to put ice on the bruise." I say and he shakes his head.
"I told you Katniss its fine." He says and kisses my fore head.
"Fine." I say and cross my arms. I'm going to do something he doesn't like.
"Are you mad?" He asks.
"No." I say and shake my head." Go on and change, I'll be here."
"I won't take long." he says and leaves the room. Once I hear the sound of the front door open and I close I getup from the bed and tip toe all the way downstairs. I go over to the refrigerator and fill up and bowl with ice and grab a rag.
I tip toe upstairs, but It gets more difficult to keep my balance so I'm moving really slow. I hear the sound of a car, and It's probably Effie's so I try and go upstairs abit faster. I get to the top stair and nearly fall on my ass but I catch myself.
I tiptoe to my bedroom and set the bowl of ice on my nightstand. I set the rag beside the bowl and lay down on my bed. I hear Effie's yells downstairs.
"Haymitch, dear where are you?" Effie says in her high pitched voice.
"In the guest room." I hear him yell.
"You need to be careful Haymitch." I hear her say. Her heels are louder than her voice though.
Minutes later Effie's heels click up the stairs and she comes into my room. I see that today she's wearing a blue wig.
"Hello dear, how are you?" She asks and walks over to the side of my bed.
"Fine." I say and she gives me a sad smile.
"Ok." She says and sits down on my bed." I'm not supposed to tell you this but I'm starting to feel bad because I know how much prim means to you."
"What are you getting at Effie?" I ask.
"Don't take prim to school tomorrow, your mother's planning on taking her out of school and then coming here to take you." She says and gives me a sad smile.
"Thanks for the heads up Effie." I say and give her a small smile.
"Your welcome dear, and don't let prim out of your sight." She says and I nod.
She leaves my room and peeta comes in seconds later with another pair of clothes on. He sits beside me and I turn towards the night stand. I fill up the rag with some ice and turn back around and press it against peeta's cheek.
"Katniss I said it was fine." Peeta says.
"No it's not." I say and shake my head.
"How did you get the ice and rag?" He asks.
"I got it myself." I say and he gives me a disapproving look.
"Katniss, your not supposed to get up." he says and I just shrug my shoulders and keep the rag pressed against his cheek.
"We got the ointment now, so it's not big deal." I say.
My mother is just a snake in the grass. She was actually going to take prim from me.
"What's wrong?" Peeta asks with concern in his eyes.
"Effie told me that my mother was going to take prim out of school tomorrow and then she's going to come for me." I say and look away abit mad.
I can feel peeta's heart beat quicken and he grabs my wrist.
"She's not going to take you, she can't." He says and his voice cracks a little.
"I know. Prim's not going to school tomorrow and we'll have to stay somewhere else." I say and think for abit. I can always go over to Annie's or Johanna's.
"You can stay with me." Peeta says and grabs both of my hands. I try to hold onto the rag to make sure that the ice doesn't fall.
"Peeta I'm not sure that's a good idea, she might assume I'm with you." I say and he looks abit disappointed.
"Then where will she least expect you to be?" He asks.
"Finnick." I say and snap my fingers." She met him at the party and I know that she knows he's a big flirt. She would least expect me there."
"So you're going to stay at finnick's?" He asks with a big frown.
"If he even lets me." I say and shrug my shoulders.
"I know finnick and he won't turn down an opportunity like this." he says and rolls his eyes. I laugh and press the rag back onto his bruise." I can already imagine that smirk on his face and him saying,' Nobody can't resist this.' "
I laugh and he just smiles abit. My laughter dies down and peeta and I both begin to lean in. Our lips touch and the kiss begins slow and gentle. Minutes later we're all over each other. His hands are on my back and they begin to slide down again. I begin to blush but I pull myself closer to him. His hands reach my butt and I hear laughter behind us.
I turn around and see that my uncle Haymitch is laughing his butt off.
"It's true!" He says in between laughs.
I blush and roll off of peeta.
"I always knew you weren't that innocent, boy." Haymitch says after he's caught his breath. He looks at peeta and then at me and laughs again.
I look over at peeta and see that he's blushing really bad. I see that his blue eyes are filled with embarrassment.
"Your new nickname is ass grabber Mellark." Haymitch says when he's calmed down. I look over at peeta and see that he's blushing a very dark red because of his new nickname." I came up here to bring you you're ointment, but it looks like I interrupted a ass grabbing session."
He bursts into laughter again and I hide my face with a pillow.
"Get out Uncle." I mutter and shut my eyes tight.
"Here's the ointment." He says and I feel a small thud on the bed. He must've threw it." I'll let you two get back to what you were doing."
Right when I think he's leaving he says," You don't want to keep Katniss waiting boy."
"Out!" I yell and throw a pillow at the door way. He dodges it and laughs, but closes my room door.
I slowly look over at peeta and see that he's still red.
"I'm sorry about my uncle." I say and it comes I out in a whisper. He turns towards me and I see that all the embarrassment has faded and is replaced by love. Love. He told me he loves me once but I didn't say it back and I still feel guilty about it. He understands, right? Or is he abit disappointed I didn't say it back.
"What's wrong?" Peeta asks and looks at me, trying to study my face.
"Nothing." I say and reach over for the ointment. Before I can even reach it he grabs it.
"Tell me what's wrong." Peeta says looking concerned.
I sigh and say," I feel guilty ok."
"Why?" He asks looking confused.
"I- forget it." I say and grab the ointment out of his hands and get up.
"Katniss." He says concerned.
"I know, I'm not supposed to get up." I say and head over to the bathroom and lock the door behind me. I take off my bandage from my leg and see that my wound looks gross. I grab some ointment and there's a light knock on the door.
"Katniss, I'm sorry." Peeta says softly.
"What are you sorry about?" I ask confused.
"I don't know, but I know that I upset you." He says sounding sad.
"You didn't, it's just me and my thoughts." I say and I don't hear anything. I put my fingers into the ointment and before I get the chance to apply it on my thigh peeta says," Can I come in?"
"What- No, you can't see me like this, my wounds look disgusting." I say and shake my head event though he isn't here.
"Katniss, I've seen worse." He says.
"From who?" I ask.
"When I was thirteen wheat and rye were playing with fireworks outside. When rye lit a firework up it got on his hand and burned it. Wheat put it out and he was rushed to the hospital. He had second degree burns on his hand and the doctor said we had to clean them and then put on ointment on his back every single day. My mom was too grossed out to do it, my dad was on a business trip, wheat was grossed out as well, so that left me to take care of him." He says. Well I wasn't expecting that.
"I don't want to gross you out." I murmur.
"You won't I promise, I can help you out." He says and I sigh. I wipe my fingers on a towel and bandage my wound up again. I open the door and peeta falls in.
"Leaning on the door, I see." I say and laugh.
"I didn't expect you to open it." He says and blushes. I put my hand out and he takes it. I help him up and he sets me on the small space of seating in the tub. He sits beside me and take my leg onto his lap.
"Maybe I should do it if-" I begin but he gives me a frown. I immediately shut up and let him take off the bandage off of my thigh. When the bandage drops to the ground I expect him to faint, or start throwing up, maybe even to run out the room, but he doesn't. He gently sets my leg down and walks over to the sink and washes his hands. He grabs the ointment and comes back to where he was sitting. He puts my leg back on his lap and he turns to me and says," Tell me if it hurts."
I nod my head and he grabs some ointment and applies it on my thigh. I bite my lip and squeeze my eyes shut. It burns, really bad.
"Did I hurt you, I'm sorry I -" Peeta begins but I shake my head and say," It wasn't you, the wound was made yesterday so of course it's going to hurt."
"Are you sure?" he asks and I nod." I'm just going to put on a bit more."
"Ok." I say and bite my lip. He puts on abit more and It's not so bad anymore. He wraps the bandage up again and moves towards my feet. He applies some ointment on the stitches and puts the lid back onto the small jar. I feel a sting come from my thigh and feet and It doesn't leave. It should leave in a couple of minutes or so.
"What do you want to do now?" Peeta asks while washing his hands.
"I don't know, what do you want to do?" I ask and try to ignore the pain.
"There is something, I've been wanting to ask you for a while." He says and wipes his hands.
"What is that?" I ask. He sits down beside my and sets me on his lap.
"Remember the first time we kissed and you ran away." he asks and I nod, looking into his eyes.." Why did you run?"
Should I tell him? He did ask me. The feeling in my thigh and stiches becomes worse but I ignore it.
"I just thought for a second that glimmer asked you to kiss me so she could get to me." I say." And by getting to me, I mean so she can tell the whole school that I believed you liked me and other stuff I don't want to say."
Peeta doesn't answer and I think he's angry at me. I look up at him and see shock in his eyes.
"Katniss you know I would never agree to do something like that." He says softly and I see honesty in his eyes.
"I know." I say and smile abit. The pain on my wounds gets really bad that if feels like I'm being burned. Peeta begins to lean in and I want to too but I can't stand the dumb pain on my thigh. I hands on the back of peeta's neck and begin to lean in but this stupid feeling of being burned makes my rest my head on his chest and grip his neck.
"Katniss, what are you doing?" Peeta asks and puts his hands on my arms.
"Nothing." I say and the pain gets a lot worse that I fight tears from forming in my eyes.
"What's wrong." He says and tries to look at my face but I hide it in his chest.
"Nothing." I say and a few tears come out of my eyes.
"Are you crying?" He asks and rubs small soothing circles in my back.
"No." I say and a sob escapes my mouth. The pain continues to get worse with every second.
"What's wrong?" He asks and makes me look up at him. I look into those blue eyes and tears of pain stream down my cheeks that I look away.
"This ointment isn't working, it's just causing a very painful feeling." I say and sniff.
"I'll go talk to Haymitch, maybe it's just working, but I'll make sure." He says and carries me over to my bed. He sets me down and kisses my fore head before he leaves. I grab a pillow and bite into it to keep me from crying.
Peeta comes back and he sets down beside me. I take the pillow out of my mouth and look at him.
"Well what'd he say?" I snap. I don't mean to but I just can't stand this pain.
"He said and I quote,' Well what did you expect. You can't just put it on and wait for it to work miracles without it doing abit of pain. Get out of here and leave me alone.'"
I roll my eyes abit but say," What do I do then?"
"Just fight through it." Peeta says and wraps his arms around me.'
"I just feel like taking that damn thing off." I say and he laughs.
"I'm sure you do." He says and kisses my fore head." Whenever it hurts really bad, you can squeeze the heck out of me."
"That's just torture for you." I say abit shocked.
"Not really." He says and smirks abit.
"If you say so." I say and wrap my arms around him.
I rest my head on top of his beating heart and try to listen to it. It calms me down abit but I can't stop tears from flowing down my cheeks.
"It's ok." Peeta says and rubs my back.
The pain begins to feel unbearable that I begin to squeeze peeta really hard. I don't stop though, I continue to squeeze harder.
"Katniss, if it hurts so much I can give you some sleep syrup." Peeta says casually. How can he not feel uncomfortable with me squeezing him.
"Will it take the pain away?" I ask.
"Yes, but you'll be asleep." He says.
"Ok." I say and hold onto him tighter.
He chuckles and says," Katniss if you want me to get the syrup, you're going to have to let go of me."
"Then what am I supposed to hold onto." I sob and tears stream down my cheeks.
"HAYMITCH!" he yells and horror crosses my face.
"No!" I yell and he laughs uncontrollably.
"I'm just kidding." He says and gives me a peck on the lips. I let go of him and he hands me a pillow." I'll be back really fast."
"Don't take too long." I say and squeeze my pillow.
"I won't." He says and I hear him running down the hall.
I close my eyes and try to focus on ignoring to pain but it just won't happen. I should just take it off right now and wait weeks for my wounds to heal. I don't care if its too long, this hurts like hell.
Peeta comes back about a minute later with a spoon and a packet of something on the other hand. He rips open the packet and pours the syrup onto the spoon. Peeta hands me the spoon and I make sure to take off all the syrup. I hand it back to him and he places the spoon on my nightstand along with the small packet.
"How long till it kicks in?" I ask and he lays down beside me.
"About a minute or two." He says and wraps his arms around me.
"When will I wake up again?" I ask and put my head on his chest.
"I don't know, I guess you just wake up." He says and rubs small circles on my waist.
"Oh." I say and start to feel abit foggy." I think it's kicking in already."
He chuckles and says," I can tell with the way your talking."
"There's nothing wrong with the way I talk." I say and my eyes begin to feel heavy.
"Right Katniss." He says and kisses my cheek." I love you."
He does it again and I freeze. I don't know what to say, I don't think I'm ready to say it.
"Katniss you don't have to say it back." He says abit sad.
"Ok." I say like the dumb person I am. My eyes begin to close and I mumble for peeta to stay with me.
He whispers something back but I don't quite catch it.
Author's Note: Again thank you all for reviewing and I look forward seeing what you all have to say about this chapter. I wrote another story and it's called,' Reasons to hate Monday.' Make sure to check that story out. Now, I have a question for you guys. Do you guys think that Katniss's mom and her dad should get back together or not? Please leave it in a review and let me know. I hope you all liked this chapter and there will be a few times where glimmer strikes again in the future but I think Katniss has dealt with enough issues lately. Please review!