Chapter 53

Katniss's POV

"I think it would be better if you two were to be left alone for a while." Haymitch announces as I see him get up in the corner of my eye. I hear the door open and then shut. I now know that Peeta and I are now left in Haymitch's room alone. "Look Katniss." Peeta begins to say. "No Peeta." I interrupt him.

I feel his eyes staring at me making me feel like I am being videoed by a camera again. "Peeta, you know how I have been lately. Always thinking the worst of things instead of the best. At the moment I can't help how I feel. My hormones are going crazy my moods are doing the same. I am going from one minute to being happy to depressed and then back to happy again."

"I am sorry that I got angry at you. I didn't mean too. If I had been thinking straight I would not have done it. But because I am pregnant with your child I can't help how I feel. I have been trying to be happy and enjoying every moment with you, and I have been in some moments because I know how special these last days are going to be for you. Especially if you do die." I hear him sigh.

"Look Peeta, I know I shouldn't think like that, but us fighting like this is not how I want you to remember our last moments together. I want our last moments to be happy, like us watching the baby as they kick like crazy in my stomach or us spending the whole morning wrapped in each other's arms. Those are some of the things I would want to remember before I die."

I take a deep breath and awkwardly turn so I am facing Peeta.

"Peeta, can we just forget that this ever happened please. I don't want us to fight anymore over this subject, or at all for a matter of fact. I will try and not think about you dying again. Please can we forget that this ever happened?" I ask Peeta.

He nods his head. "Already forgotten." He answers. I know he is lying but I don't care I just want him to hold me. I move closer to him and our arms pass each other's and wrap around the others body. I

hold him tight and let myself start to calm down. Eventually we pull away and our lips meet in a small passionate kiss. We don't keep it going to long just in case Haymitch were to barge in.

He gets up and hold his hands out so I can grab them. I do and he lifts me effortless off of the couch. We lace fingers and walk to the door and walk out.

"You guys all done?" Haymitch asks us as we step out of his room. I look to Peeta and we both nod. "That's good. So are you going to come back inside or are you going to go?" He asks us. "

I think we should go. Katniss looks really tired and I could use a little me time." Peeta answers. I don't know how bad I look but I know that I feel terrible. "Okay then you two." He says understandingly.

"If you want to ever see me sweetheart about anything just come over." He says. I nod. "Okay Haymitch." I answer. "Bye guys." He says. "See you Haymitch." We both say. We turn in the opposite direction of Haymitch.

Peeta and I head back to our room and actually make it in this time, unlike last time when we ended up at Haymitch's and Peeta and I had a fight. Peeta decides that he is going to rearrange the room and then paint, while I rest.

I don't object knowing how I feel. I don't bother to change. I slowly make myself comfortable as Peeta settles down in the lounge room. When I get myself comfortable my eyes fall shut and I fall into a deep sleep.

Peeta's POV

I peer into the bedroom and make sure that Katniss is asleep, and as expected she is. Knowing how tired she looked earlier on, it doesn't surprise me that she is already asleep. I told Katniss that I would rearrange the lounge area and do some painting. I am not going to do the painting, but I will rearrange the lounge area.

She doesn't know what I have planned for her. I push the crib against the wall along with the couch and the boxes that still contain the baby things. Now the room is an open space. I walk out the door and quietly shut the door, as I don't want to wake up Katniss.

I head down to the cafeteria and say a few things to Greasy Sae. She nods and starts to gather her things. As she does this I say that I need to go and see Finnick and Annie. She understands and lets me go.

I head up to Finnick and Annie's room. They are all ready to go with the things ready. They head to Johanna's to pick up her and Gale as he is likely to be there. They do that while I head down to Wendy and Prim's where we meet them and Effie and Haymitch.

They come with me and we end up at my room where we meet Gale, Johanna, Finnick and Annie. We enter quietly and they start to set up. I shut the bedroom door so that any noise will not cause her to wake up.

I hear a little knock on the door and I open it to find Greasy with lots of things and a man holding the cake I have been doing in the afternoons. I usher them in and she starts to set up food on a table that Gale and Johanna had already set up. The man sets the cake on the table and leaves as he is needed in the kitchen.

I hear another knock on the door and I go over and open it and I see Cinna and Portia along with Katniss's prep team. I wave them in and they join the others. Everyone seems to be here now.

Everything seems perfectly how I imagined it. Everyone seems done with the decorations and setting up. They sit or stand and quietly chatter. I think that it is time for Katniss to wake up.

I approach the bedroom door and tell everyone to be quiet so she doesn't suspect anything. I open the door and shut it behind me. Katniss is laying soundly on the bed with one hand behind her head and the other holding her eight month swollen stomach. I lay next to her and play with her hair. She starts to wake and I see her eyes open.

"Hey Peeta." She says. "Hey beautiful." I answer. "How are you feeling?" I ask her. "Fine. I really needed that rest. Thanks for telling me to sleep." She answers. "I thought you might, because you looked really tired." I say.

She smiles and grabs my hand. I kiss it and get up from the bed.

I walk around the bed to the side she is on. She slowly sits up and then takes the sheet off. "It's like you can sense when I need to go to the bathroom." She says grabbing my extended hand. I pull her up with no trouble and help her to the bathroom. "Thank you Peeta." She says. I smile and look down and then back to her.

"Don't thank me, because then I will feel obligated to thank you for everything you have ever given me." I tell her. She smiles and gives me a kiss on the cheek. She walks into the bathroom and closes the door. I head back into the lounge area and shut the bedroom door.

"Okay when Katniss comes out wait for a few seconds and yell surprise like we talk about before." I say. "All clear?" I asks. I hear murmurs around the room and shuffling of things. I shut out the lights and show Prim where they are so she can turn them on. I stand in the middle of the room so she is the first thing she sees in the room is me.

"Peeta." I hear her call out. I don't move I just stand in the middle of the room with my hands together looking at the door. The light from the bedroom pours into the lounge area, but only on me. Her face looks shocked. "Peeta, what's happening?" She asks. The lights switch on and everyone yells surprise.

Katniss's POV

I can see all of the people I care about in the room in front of me. Greasy, my mother, Prim, Effie, Haymitch, Portia, my prep team, Cinna, Gale, Johanna, Annie, Finnick and most of all Peeta.

"Peeta, what is this?" I ask looking around the room. The room is bright with the consistent colours of soft blue and light pink. Presents are piled up on a small table. Streamers and balloons are spread around the room with the same blue and pink colours.

A table dedicated to food lays on the other side of the room with a cake that could only be made by the hands of my Peeta.

Peeta starts to slowly walk to me. "I wanted you to have a baby shower. I know what you have said about big parties in the past, so I only invited those who I know you care the most about." I can see the smiles of the people in the room.

"I planned this with your mother and Prim about two weeks ago. So we had everything done and set so you could have the best party to celebrate out baby. We didn't have a date though. I knew that it would have to be before I went so I decided that since you have been sleeping in the afternoons a lot, that today was the perfect day. And as it turns out, it was." Peeta is now right in front of me.

He turns me around to one of the sides and a poster is revealed. It reads. 'To Toast.' It confuses me for a second then I remember what Johanna had said a while back.

'Well, you are the boy with the bread and Katniss is the girl on fire. So that little person, is Toast.' I forgot all about that. I laugh at what it says and then I jump into Peeta's arms. He laughs and I hear cheers around the room.

We party for hours, food and music seems to be all that I remember. Johanna and Haymitch drink themselves stupid and they end up passed out on the couch. The boys hang together as us girls talk about crazy things. Despite my hate for big parties this one was an exception.

I still in shock that Peeta managed to do all of this without me knowing. He is such a sweetheart. I love him so much. Everyone eventually leaves at around eleven-thirty. Johanna in Gale's arms and Haymitch under Finnick's.

Greasy leaves us the food and some things that will keep the food cool, so it will still be edible. I thank her and she leaves with a smile on her face. Prim and my mother are the last to leave. They hug Peeta and I and then head off.

As Peeta and I finally settle in bed he holds me in his arms. "You have no idea how much I love you." He says. "I have a rough idea." I say closing my eyes. "No you don't." He says.

My eye lids become heavy. Peeta starts to say every reason he can think of about why he loves me. "I love you so much Katniss that I can't even think of anymore reasons." I smile and feel him kiss my head. "I love you Peeta." I say.

"I know." He answers. My tiredness takes over my body. I start to fall asleep and I only think about how much I love Peeta.

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