Chapter 51

Katniss's POV

I can hear Peeta's steady breathing and can feel the presence of his eyes on me. I turn to the side he is on and my eyes open. "Morning." I say with a catch in my throat from me not talking since last night. "Good morning beautiful." He says like he does every morning. No matter what mood I am in the morning this greeting will always make me one hundred times happier. "So how are you feeling?" He asks. My hands instantly fall to my stomach, it's just a reaction now.

"Alright." I answer. His hand reaches down to mine. "What about the baby? Are they okay?" He asks. I smile and my thumb starts to stroke his fingertips. "The baby is fine. They haven't done anything to extravagant lately." I answer. "Besides the other night?" I think back to what he is talking about. Oh right, the night before last when I told Peeta about how I felt.

"Yeah, besides the other night." I say. "How about you? How are you going?" I ask him. "I'm fine when I realise that you are here with me." He says. I smile and he wraps me in his arms.

Johanna's POV

So, last night was better than I expected. Hard to believe that Gale was still a virgin. Especially after he treated me, just enough for last night, but still wanting him the next morning. I feel his arm around me. I wonder if he is awake. I lift my head from the position on his shoulder and look into his face.

His eyes are half open and looking at me. "Morning idiot." I say biting my lips for some idiotic reason. "So that is how you treat me after I treated you like that last night?" He says in a sexy tone raising his eyebrow waiting for a response.

"I suppose I should give you some slack, knowing that you did treat me very well last night." I say. "Exactly." He says kissing my head.

"So, you should stay here all day with me." I say. He sighs. "I wish I could, but if my mother finds out that I didn't arrive home last night she will lose it." He says. I start to kiss along his neck.

"So what. You are a 19 year old man who shouldn't have to be told off for staying somewhere besides home." I say. "I have just never stayed away from home before." He says. "Well you have now, so don't worry about it." I say pushing my fingers through his hair.

"Okay, but I still should go back to show her that I haven't died." He says with a smile. "You are definitely not dead." I say kissing his nose. "Definitely not to me." I continue before placing my lips back onto his.

The sheet is the only thing protecting us from getting caught if someone does dare to enter my room. He breaks away. "Oh and I do need to go back to Peeta and Katniss's because we are making the crib. Finnick and Annie will be there too. You should come along as well." He says. I look at him with a crazy expression.

"Seriously. I am always the one left out of these things." I whine. He runs his hands down my back. "I'm sorry. I should have asked that you could have come yesterday." He adds. "It doesn't matter. I will tag along today and make fun of how terribly you work with your hands." I say.

"Come to think about it, you work really well with your hands in something's." I add with a smirk. "Really?" He asks with a sensual expression. "Oh yeah." I say. He leans up and kisses me again. I don't think I will ever get sick of this.

Gale's POV

Johanna and I eventually get out of bed. I get dressed back into what I was wearing last night when I got here. I wash my face and then go out to the lounge area where Johanna is. "So good looking, how do you feel after your first time?" She asks. I walk up to the couch where she is spread out on and kiss her fore head.

"Is amazing too much of an understatement?" I ask. "Sounds fine to me." She answers. I sit on the couch next to her and see that she is only wearing a top and underwear. "I thought we were going out today?" I say to her whilst laying my hand on her leg. "What? Don't you think I look pretty like this?" She says in her sarcastic tone.

"You look amazing in anything." I say. "You haven't seen me in some of the things I have in 7." She adds. What could she possibly have? I look at her with a confused expression and she lifts her eyebrows and her eyes widen.

Mine then do the same. I now know what she is inferring. "Oh, I wish I could see that." I say. "You might. Just wait and see." She answers.

"Come on. Go put some clothes on. I don't want to keep Peeta and Finnick waiting too long for me to get there. They have no idea what they are doing." I say getting up off of the couch.

Her hands slap down onto her legs and she groans. "Fine." She says getting up and walking into the bedroom. I sit back on the couch and wait for her to finish getting dressed. "Come on good looking. Don't we have some places we need to go?" She says walking straight out of the bedroom and to the front door.

"Look who is wanting to go so badly now." I state with some sarcasm. She opens the door and holds it open for me. I walk out and pull the door shut. She puts the key card in her pocket and we start to walk.

"You still need to work on that sarcasm a lot more." She states. I laugh and grab her hand in mine.

We go down to the cafeteria and fill up with food. We then head to my room and I explain to my mother that I stayed out and that I am all okay. She surprisingly understood and let me go on my merry way.

"See, it wasn't as bad as you imagined." She says. "I am actually surprised how well she took it." I say. "Well, you might get hell later on." She says with a laugh. I give her a glare.

"Thanks for your reassurance." I say. She smiles. "You're welcome." She answers.

Johanna and I are now at Katniss's and Peeta's door. "Are you going to knock idiot?" She asks me. "Nope." I say sarcastically. "Fine then idiot." She says as she knocks on the door. "I was going too." I state.

"Yeah right." She answers. Th door open and we come face to face with Katniss. "Hello Gale and Johanna." She greets us. "Hey Catnip." I say to her. "Hey brainless 1." Johanna greets. Katniss smiles. "It's good to see you Johanna. Peeta and I haven't seen you for a while. Please come in." She says stepping out of the way.

We walk in and then stand in the lounge area. "Well, it would be nice of you to invite me to these shindigs." She says with anger, but her sarcastic tone makes it less mean.

"I'm sorry Johanna. Peeta and I assumed that you would be busy." Katniss states. "Me, busy?" Johanna says sarcastically. "Please I am never busy." She says. "But after last night, I think I will be busy from now on." She adds.

Oh my god Johanna. I think. Yeah go ahead and tell the world that we slept together on our first night together. Go on. I think again. Tell the person that I have had extremely big feelings for in the past first.

Genius Johanna. I give her a death stare. "What? Just keeping everything real." She states. "That's right. You two had the big date last night, didn't you?" I hear from the other side of the room. Of course Peeta has now entered the room. "Hey Mellark." I say. He shakes his head. "No, no, no. Don't drift from the subject. Tell us." He says.

"Yeah Gale, don't dodge the subject." Katniss and Johanna both say at the same time. They look at each other and give each other a high five. "Yes we did." I finally say.

Katniss and Peeta start to make 'Oohing' noises. "Oh shut up." I say. They start to laugh. "Seriously, shut up." I direct them. They continue to laugh. I roll my eyes and walk over to the partially built crib and pick up the instructions. I have already figured out what we didn't get yesterday.

Maybe Finnick is a distraction. (A/N- Sorry I had too!) "Hey Mellark, I have already got what we didn't get yesterday. So get your butt over here." I say. "Okay." He says.

Finnick and Annie soon arrive and the girls chat in the booth on the other side of the room, while we men finally get the crib together. "Peeta, you want to put the last piece in?" I ask. "Okay." He says placing the last piece in. We then put the mattress in and step back to look at our work. "Not bad men. Not bad." Finnick says.

I hear a gasp at the other side of the room. We all turn around to see Katniss walking over to us. "It's even more perfect than the one in the store." She says. I smile.

"Well, we probably put more effort into it than those in the store." I say. "Yeah and I think because it was made by the many men in the world that I love." Katniss adds.

She walks up to Finnick and hugs him. "Thank you." She says to him. She then comes up to me and hugs me. "Thank you." She whispers in my ear. She lets go and steps back and goes over to Peeta and she wraps her arm around his waist as she does to her. "You guys look perfect together." I say to them. Katniss smiles and looks down.

"Thank you Gale." Peeta says. Annie walks in front of me to get to Finnick and Johanna walks over to me and planting her head on my shoulder.

We all head out to lunch and share a table. We share so many hilarious stories about the people around the table. Katniss said so really embarrassing stories about me so I did the same to her.

Everyone else was looking at us as we all laughed. I don't think that this day could get any better. It is one of the best days. Last night was one of the best nights, if not the best. I am so happy to have these people in my world. Even if I hated some of them most of my life, they make my life better.

After lunch, we all split in our groups and head off to our next destination. Johanna and I walk back to her room and she opens up the door and steps inside. "Well the last day has been amazing." She says. "I know." I say. She wraps her arms around me and her lips push up to mine. My arms wrap around her waist and lift her up.

I place her back on the floor and we break apart. "So, when do you want to see each other next?" I ask. "Come over whenever you want." She says. "I can do that." I say.

I kiss her one last time for today and step back outside her door. "Bye idiot." I say walking off. "I was going to say that idiot." She yells down the hall. "Bye good looking." She yells back. I hear the door close and I walk off with a smile.

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