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Warm, familiar hands shake me awake, "Peeta! Peeta! Wake up, it's just a dream! Not real!" My eyes shoot open and I awake in my bedroom in my house, in my district. 12. My body shakes slightly as the nightmare fades away from my head.

" 'm sorry." Katniss shakes her head at me.

"Don't be. You worried me. I came over for breakfast and I heard you screaming." She backs away slightly, like she's intruding on my space, "I hope you don't mind." I shake my head, "Do you want to talk about it?"

"No thanks." Same answer every time we ask the other if they wish to discuss their nightmares. I think we both feel as if we each have enough problems so we don't want to add to the other persons. That's how I feel at least.

I wish we lived together but I'm too scared to ask. What if it seems to forward? What if the gesture scares her off? I rather keep what minimal contact we have than lose it all entirely.

"Do you want me to come back later?" I nod slowly, I think that would be for the best. I'm not sure how safe I am to be around right now.

"Yah, you can go out hunting or whatever and I'll work on making lunch for when you get back." She nods as she sits on the edge of my bed.

"Alright, well I'll see you in a bit then."

"Ya." I stay in bed until the tremors stop tearing through my body. It's exhausting waking up like that and the days only begun. Dr. Aurelius thinks that I'm more prone to episodes when I'm tired so this is a bad start to the day.

I wash up and head down the stairs. It's already 10:30, I'm usually up at 6. The life of a baker. I block the thoughts of my family as thinking about them will just make me lose what little sanity I have left. I enter the kitchen and start grabbing ingredients to make some bread.

~ ~ ~ (Katniss POV)

Go hunting he had told me. I haven't been out to the woods in quite a while. I think a short retreat to the woods will do me good. I grab my bow and arrows and head towards the woods. I think today I'm just going to walk, I don't feel like hunting. It's the middle or spring and summer will soon be here in district 12. I think fall is my favourite season though, I love the colours. The leaves crunching under my hunting boots, the nice colours. Hunting is best at that time.

I cross the threshold, into my sacred place and let out a sigh. Things are ok, I'm ok, Peeta is ok. We're all ok. I find a fallen log and sit down, taking in my surroundings.

~ ~ ~ (Peeta POV)

The oven dings and I hurry to grab the buns before they burn. It's always a fine line between cooked and burnt, at least that's what my father told me. I place the buns on a cooling rack and grab lunch out of the frezer: stew, made by Sae and warmed up by me. I dump the cold contents into a pot and turn the stove on.

I wonder if Katniss took my advice and actually went out hunting, with me being in the Capitol she hasn't been to them in a while. The stew warms up as I ponder my relationship with the mysterious Katniss, what are we even? Acquaintances? Friends? More than friends? Are we lovers still? I'm not sure and I really don't feel like asking out of fear of having my heart broken. Again. I'm not sure if my heart can endure being broken again. But I need to know.

Todays the day I decide, I will ask her at lunch what the two of us are.

"Peeta?"

"In the kitchen!" I call. I place the buns on a plate and spoon stew into two bowls and place them on the table. I can't wait for Katniss to see what I've made for her. She comes in wearing her hunting jacket and boots, that must be a good sign, right?

"Did you go hunting?"

"No, I went to the woods but didn't hunt." She shrugs. I nod.

"That's good still."

"Yah." She sits across from me at the table, "So, what's for lunch?"

"I heated up some stew Sae made and I made you cheese buns." I smile proudly at myself.

"Cheese buns? Those are my favourite!" She exclaims excitedly before stuffing one in her face. The gooey, still warm cheese centre spills out onto her chin and I find myself grinning. She swallows. "You remembered they were my favourite?!"

"Yah," I nod proudly, "I thought you would enjoy some."

"Well you were right!" She exclaims before stuffing another one in. There is a comfortable silence for a few minutes but it stretches out and things start to turn awkward. Better now than never I guess.

"Katniss, there's something I wa- need to ask you." I look up at her from my lap, where she looks slightly concerned.

"Sure." She says, swallowing some of the stew.

"I-," no- that's the wrong way to start that. I need to just say it and get it done, "What are we? Friends? Are we lovers? What?" She puts her spoon down and wipes her face with her napkin.

"I-." She stops herself, maybe she's just as confused as me.

"I need to know Katniss, I- I just need to know." There's so much more I want to tell her but I can't. Not yet, not without knowing what her answer will be.

"Why don't we start as friends and see where things go from there?" I smile. That sounds good. No acting, no pretending just being.

"That sounds good Katniss, really good." We smile at each other and finish dinner in peace.

I have an idea I want to run by you guys. What do you think of me ending a chapter where you guys pick what happens, here's an example: Peeta has a flashback, should Katniss stay or go? You guys would vote in your review and whichever got the most votes is how the next chapter would start. Like the idea? Nah? Let me know!