Hallo again. Sooner or later I'm going to stop telling you guys hello. Oh well. Anyways, I am going to type the 36th chapter now and NO ONE IS GOING TO STOP ME. Unless my mom offers me a cookie. Then I'm going to stop and eat the cookie. Ahh, I'm getting off track here… Chapter 36. Right. Oh, yeah, and I apologize if I start off too many of my chapters by saying "that night" but I'm going to do it again.

That night Peeta and I lay in his bed talking. Not about one thing specifically, but topics bounced around. I made the mistake of bouncing it back towards the whole "motherhood" thing.

"Hey, Peeta?" I asked him, turning over on my side to look at him. "Do you think I can do it? Raise the baby?"

"Well, you know more about survival then the average parent of six kids." Peeta scooted backwards so he was propped up by the wall.

"Raising a baby isn't all about survival, you know." I sat up with him. "You have to teach it manners and-and" I made a very loud noise of aggravation and crossed my arms angrily. Tears threatened to come but I tried not to let my hormonal side get the best of me. "I will be responsible for someone's life for over eighteen years! If anything wrong happens it is going to be my entire fault!"

Peeta put his arms around me sympathetically while I pouted. "No it isn't! It will be our fault."

I kept pouting.

"You know, pouting never did anything to anyone." Peeta said quietly, studying my sulking face.

"Whatever." I slid down under the covers and closed my eyes. "I'm tired, so this bed is currently mine. Goodnight."

"Katniss," Peeta tugged lightly on my arms. "You can't sleep your troubles away. In fact, they aren't even troubles!"

I furiously wiped a tear away and said to Peeta, "You wouldn't know. You have never been a mother."

Peeta started laughing. "Thank goodness I haven't! For one: I am not female. And actually since you agreed to let me help raise the kid, I will be a father, which is pretty much as close as you can get to a mother without changing genders."

"What…?" Surprisingly enough, Peeta had actually cheered me up. I laughed a little and sat back up with him. "Dang it. I was supposed to be depressed all night long."

"Such a shame you had to go and be happy." He smiled and gazed subconsciously at my stomach in thought.

"What are you thinking?" I asked him. Peeta should be use to me asking him that by now, because I do it a lot.

He looked up. "I was just thinking about… how I feel about it. About the baby."

"Well?" I wrapped my arms around my stomach (which wasn't too hard since it was pretty big) and looked at Peeta.

"I don't know. I guess I'm… proud." He turned to me and looked hopeful that I would understand him. "Like I said, I don't know. I mean, it isn't exactly even my kid…"

"Sure it is. It's your DNA, isn't it?" even to my own ears, it sounded funny and I laughed really quiet.

Peeta laughed with me. "Yeah, I guess you're right. It is my DNA. But it is just weird because, you know… we didn't really..."

"Yeah, I get it." I saved Peeta from a horrible moment of embarrassment.

He smiled shyly at me. "It is just odd that I am a father without doing anything. I have a hard time calling myself the baby's dad."

"That's okay." I tried to stifle a yawn and failed miserably.

"You should get some sleep." Peeta pulled the covers up to my chin once I had lain flat again. "Tomorrow we will go exploring."

"Exploring inside, right?" I said with another yawn.

"Of course. There is no way I am letting you outside this close to your due date."

"Sixteen days…" I said in wonder. "How did this ever happen?"

"We got involved with politics. That's how it happened." Peeta laughed and gently wrapped his right arm back around my waist.

I rested my head against his shoulder and sighed. "Mmhm... See you in the morning, Peeta."

I felt him kiss the top of my head. "Goodnight."

Aw man. I hoped that chapter would be longer than that. Oh, well. That makes it better for the next chapter. If I had continued on to the next day, this chapter would be toooooo long. I'm sure that would be okay with some of you avid readers, but unfortunately for you, I am not such an avid typist. :3 That's okay. See you all next chapter (hopefully)! -TheSoggyBug