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I step out of the door and into the cool air. My wedding was two days away and the feeling of nerves over whelmed me. I was in my hunting gear, which strangly, I can't remember getting changed into. For second, I smelled my father jacket. And even thought his scent is long gone, I can still imagine the sweet scented trees and coal dust.

Octavia had phoned to say she will be here with me tomorrow, maybe today if they can, to plan my wedding dress. The realisation of the rapidness of my weddings approach made me feel scared.

I had always promised that I wouldn't get married, never had children.

But with the hunger games gone, I had no reason not to move on with my life. I ran to the woods which were alive with animals today. When I was far enough in, I saw him. Prowling the woods a knife ready, the bow and arrow I made thrown over his shoulder. I would usually go to him, but I froze. He turned and saw me looking at him, but I didn't turn away.

Peeta had told me about him going to visit him in the bakery, about his blessing. I turned and began walking away. I hoped he wouldn't follow, but instead, someone else did.

Libby.

"Katniss, wait." She shouted, scaring away any game from a hundred meter radius. I turned around and scowled, if I had actually relied on these kills I might have shot the arrow at her. But I didn't rely on it anymore, no one did. But I still did it because it made me feel normal. I lowered my bow and arrow, even though it went against every instinct I had. She stopped not far in front of me, Gale hanging far beck. "The wedding is in two days right?" Her voice was slow, almost sheepish, like she was scared.

I nodded.

Gale emerged and leaned against the tree across from me. For some reason, I felt like the prey in this situation. Libby fidgeted, throwing the bow on her shoulder and the case of arrows. I frowned at them, why did she have them?

"Am I not invited then?" She asked.

I laughed, "No, you aren't invited."

She shook her head. "He was meant to be mine." But she wasn't speaking to me, she was speaking to herself. Gale stepped forward and grabbed Libby pulling her away from me. He then whispered something in her ear. Libby nodded and disappeared into the trees. As she walked away, her silhouette grew more familiar. I gasped when Gale touched my arm. I wasn't sure if it was at the contact or at the memory.

"She shot the deer didn't she? She meant to shoot me but hit the deer instead."

Gale frowned, but gave no answer, maybe he didn't know what I was talking about, but I had a feeling that he did. I can remember the deer, the one that I had in a way made friends with. But someone had killed her, and that someone was Libby.

"What happened to you never getting married or having children Catnip? Or was just with me?" His eyes were on the floor as he kicked up mud with his old boots.

I looked at him. Handsome as he ever was, the familiar smell of apples radiating off him. I missed him, the real him. The boy I could come out here and hunt with, the boy I could trust with my life. But ever since he took Prims, that trust is hard to get back.

"The world changed Gale, and I changed with it."

"You didn't change. You're the same old Katniss, lost and confused. But strong, you'll always be strong."

I didn't understand the full meaning of his words, but I knew they were a complement.

He then took me into an embrace. And I didn't pull back, like I should have. I was nice to have him around me again. We stayed like that for a long while. Just holding each other, being there for each other for the first time in what felt like years. He bent over and said. "Are you sure he's what you want Katniss?"

I felt tears in my eyes. "Because you can't go back and change things when they are done." He continued.

He was giving up, this was the first time I had witnessed Gale ever give up. I nodded on his shoulder. "I'm sure Gale, this is what I want."

He shuddered and nodded. He kissed me on the cheek then separated himself from me. "I wish you the happiest life, both of you." Then he walked away from me. I cried for a little while watching his watery silhouette disappear between the trees. But I had a life to live and i had to pull myself together so that Peeta wouldn't know that I've been crying.

I felt like a part of me was ripped away.

I hunted for hours, well, not hunted more just walked around, thinking. God, my prep team would go mad if they knew I had been crying this early to the wedding, saying it would ruin the look. I just hoped that this was the last time Libby tried anything bad, and that Gale has finally accepted that this was the life I wanted.

He must realise now that not even he can change that.

I went back to town. The sky was darkening by the time I reached the bakery, but it was shut. I headed for home, wondering why Peeta has closed early. But when I saw the cars parked outside I knew why.

Octavia dragged me inside and sat me of the sofa. They were all there, Octavia with her leaf green skin and her pink eyes. She still wore clothes that resembled mice. She still looked like she belonged in the Capital, sipping tea and watching the Hunger Games, not here dressing a girl from District 12 for her wedding. She grabbed my hands and shirked. "Katniss, this habit of biting must stop! You give me nothing to work with." I lightly pulled my hand back and noticed that Peeta was getting examined by Venia. She was stroking his arm and looking at his eye brows. He glanced at me, worry all over his face.

Octavia left me to get something from the car. Flavius stood in front of me; he examined the bald patches and nodded with improvement. "The hair is starting to grow back." His corkscrew Orange hair was as perfect as it has always been. His purple lipstick gleamed at me. I smiled at the good news, but it didn't really bother me. He sat down next to me and began digging through his bag. Stick thin Venia trots over to me and looks at my eye brows with disappointment.

"I thought you would have wanted to keep them in shape after everything, I thought wrong." She sat down on the opposite side of me. Her once aqua hair has started to go a purple colour.

Flavius pulled out some paper. "Look through these, its some ideas we had for your dress." I took the paper and started at the beautiful white dresses. Some small, some big, but all completely not me. And even though they were all beautiful, and even though it would look beautiful, I wouldn't want to wear a dress like this on my wedding day.

"I know, we're not Cinna, but it's the best we could do dear." He smiled and patted my leg.

I stared at the dresses on offer while my prep team went to work, giving me their usual chit chat that I wasn't really involved in. And as I stared at the dresses, the fact that I would have to ware one of them saddened me.

But then, realisation hit me. I sat up, making Venia rip off the wax on my arm before it was ready. She gave me a little row but I spoke over her. "What if I wore a dress Cinna had made before?" I said.

Flavius eyed the other prep team members, he looked back at me. "Which one?"

I thought about it, and although all of Cinna's dress where breath taking, one stood out.

"You look breath taking." Octivia said the next day as I tried the dress on.

My wedding was tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

I was so nervous, but looking at myself in the mirror wearing this dress, getting married felt normal.

It was the dress I wore the interview in the first games. The orange back ground of the dress had been dyed a light blue almost white, the gems changed colour to a dark blue and a light blue, creating the illusion of waves in an ocean.

I was official killing the "girl of fire" by wearing this dress. I think the crowd would take this as a sign of me backing out, but not backing down. They would take it as a goodbye, not surrender.

I don't know why I chose these colours, why I chose blue. But all I thought about while choosing the colours was the ocean in District 4, about how much I wanted to become the waves. And in this dress, I felt like I had become the waves. I felt that I could last forever in the dress, do anything, and be anyone.

I was going to marry Peeta tomorrow, and in this dress, It didn't scare me at all.

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