It has been too long since I last updated. I have been loaded with homework, laziness, and lots of other stuff. I also got married, but not really…long story. If you would like to know the story let me know (I'm not even out of high school so why would I get married?:P )

This is going to be the last actual chapter. I will do an epilogue part 1 and part 2. I just feel like I'm dragging this story on longer than it should be. I have another story that I am dying to write, and one that I have started. But the one I've already started is going to have to be something that I finish before I post. It is gonna be epic.

Chapter 25

Peeta

I watch Katniss bring the chicken to her mouth. She closes her eyes and groans. "Peeta, this is amazing! I could eat his every day." I smile and lean over the table to plant a kiss on her cheek. She swallows and looks down with a red face.

We continue eating and then I take the dishes to wash. Katniss helps by drying them off and putting them in their cabinets. I occasionally bump hips with her and she giggles. If this is what life with Katniss is going to be like, I can't wait to get married. "Katniss?"

"Hm?" She looks preoccupied with drying a glass mug. I cover her hands with mine and slowly push them down and help her let go of the mug. When her eyes meet mine, she starts to open her mouth. I shake my head and lace my fingers with hers. I pull her out of the kitchen and up the stairs to our apartment.

Katniss stays silent until I reach our bedroom. "Peeta-"

I press my finger to her lips and she slowly nods. I open the door and shut it behind us, letting the dark surround us. I pull my hand away from hers and wrap my arms around her middle. My lips move close to her ear. "Baby, I need you to do something for me." I lean further in and suck on her earlobe. She whimpers under the contact and lets out a breathy, 'okay.' I move my fingers so that they're at the hem of her shirt. "I need you to take your clothes off."

Where the hell did this cocky bastard come from? I don't know where I'm going with this, but Katniss doesn't need to know that.

Katniss steps back and slowly pulls her shirt off, then her pants, and never breaks eye contact with me. When she is down to her underwear, she steps back. "Underwear too." I tell her

Soon, she is standing completely naked in front of me. "Now what?"

"Lay on the bed." She walks around me and I hear her move on the blanket. I stand with my back to her for a moment longer. When I turn around, I see Katniss staring at me. She doesn't say anything, even as I lay down next to her.

I bring my mouth to her neck and start pressing small kisses along it. She sighs and leans further into me. I start to kiss closer to her mouth and before I reach it, I ask her, "Do you trust me?"

"With all my heart." I can barely see her in the dark, but I know she is being as serious as she can be, if not more.

I smile and press my lips against hers. When she doesn't exactly kiss back, I pull away slightly. "Baby, you can kiss me back." I hear her chuckle and feel her lips against mine again. When they move against mine, I let out a sigh. One of my hands supports her head and the other trails down her body until I feel her hips. I break our kiss and move down to her collar bones. My fingers start rubbing her clit. Slowly, I enter a finger and hear a soft moan.

"Peeta don't stop."

I enter another finger and thrust into her. Normally she would whine that I'm still fully dressed, but right now I want to do this for her and I am hoping she'll just go with it. "Katniss, I need you to come for me."

I look up to her and she nods. After she starts bucking her hips, I can tell she's close. When she comes, she lets out an amazingly sexy groan that makes my spine shiver just to know that I made her do that.

"Peeta, why did you do that?" I shrug and tell her that I wanted to. She yawns and turns around to spoon me. "It's been a long day."

"Yes it has." I say as I pull the comforter over us. "Go to sleep, we can have more fun in the morning." Katniss chuckles and presses her ass into my groin. She starts shifting a little and I hold her down. "Baby don't do that."

"Why?" She mumbles.

"I can't make love to you when you're half asleep."

Gale's POV

I wake up and see a blond head of hair on my chest. This isn't what I wanted. I still want Katniss. I need to get her myself, not with the help of this bitch.

"Morning, Gale."

Her voice is more annoying than I remember. Remind me why I'm doing this with her? "Uh…"

"What's wrong, sweetie?"

Okay now I'm freaking out. I push her off of me and start getting dressed. "Glimmer you have to go."

"Why? I thought you felt something." She acts so innocent, well at least tries to.

I shake my head. "No. You're a good fuck but that's it." I don't make eye contact with her.

"But babe-"

"No!" My raised tone lets a squeal out of her. "Don't call me babe, or sweetie or anything else. Whatever this was is done now." I hand Glimmer her clothes and she throws them on. Before she leaves and tell her, "I have to get Katniss back on my own. Have a good life."

"You realize that what you are doing is wrong, right?" I narrow my eyes at her. "Peeta would be mad man to let Katniss go and her about him. You're the asshole trying to break them up. And for what? So that she would be unhappy and hate you for the rest of your lives?"

I open my mouth to protest, but Glimmer beats me to it. "I was a bitch trying to get Peeta, but at least I realized that I can't interfere with love. You better find a way to pull your head out of your ass and apologize for making Katniss scared of you." And with that she leaves.

I stand at my open door staring at the wall with my jaw down. Maybe Katniss doesn't love me at all. Is that why she lives with bread boy?

As soon as I put two and two together, I run to my phone and dial the number.

Peeta's POV

I wake up to the sound of Katniss's phone. My arms are still wrapped around her. "Katniss, your phone."

She jerks her head up and groans. "It's Gale's ringtone."

My jaw clenches and I pull her back down to me. "Just let it go to voice mail." She nods and closes her eyes again. After the ringing stops, a couple seconds pass before we hear it again.

"Peeta, what if he's in trouble?"

"Well he can go fuck himself because I don't give a shit." I yawn.

"You can answer the phone if you want."

"Okay fine." I get up and pick up her phone. "Hello?"

"Oh, uh who is this?"

"It's Peeta."

"Okay well, can I please talk to Katniss?"

"Why should I let you?" Katniss sits up in bed.

"Put it on speakerphone." She mouths. I nod and do so.

"I need to tell her I'm sorry."

I frown. "Sorry for what?"

I hear Gale sigh. "Look, can I come over so I can say this in person? I feel even more like an asshole for this and I don't need to apologize over the phone."

I look to Katniss and she bites her lip. After what seems like an eternity, she nods. I shake my head and hope that this won't end with someone in the hospital. Or dead. "Okay fine, but no funny business." I tell him to meet us at a diner down the road for breakfast.

Katniss and I sit at a table. Well, I sit and she lays her head on my lap. We come here all the time and the owner, Sae, gave us our own designated booth. At about nine, I hear footsteps and I look up to see Gale standing next to our table.

Katniss sits up but fails to make eye contact with him. I motion for him to sit across from us. "Go ahead." I say.

"I am sorry. It took so long for me to realize that you two are actually in love and that you wouldn't do anything to hurt each other. I always thought that you," he looks at Katniss, "loved me like I loved you. I guess I thought that you were too shy to tell me and that you went to bread boy- I mean Peeta to make me jealous."

"Go on." Katniss mutters, folding her hands on the table.

"I am moving on." He says. "Obviously you are happy with Peeta and-" I look at Gale and see his eyes fixed on Katniss's hands. "What's that?"

Katniss looks around. "What's what?"

Gale starts to reach for her hand, but I slap it away. "That on your finger." He says and points to the ring.

"Oh. The engagement ring?" I ask, trying not to get all up in his face about it despite how much I want to.

Gale sighs. "You're getting married, Katniss?"

Katniss nods and kisses my cheek. "I love him, Gale." This time she looks at Gale's face, but not directly into his eyes. I don't blame her. "Anything else you want to apologize for?"

He nods. "I'm sorry for telling you that Peeta doesn't love you for anything but sex and that he was going to leave you and that he would never want to marry you."

"Better. Now if you're lucky, you'll just leave now and not end up in the hospital. Goodbye Gale." Katniss looks at me and kisses my cheek again. "Come on Peeta, we're done here."

Well there was what you were waiting for. I am going to start writing the story I just thought of (sorta). You'll find out soon enough…

PLEASE review! I am so sorry again that it took so long!