Chapter 16: The star crossed lovers
I see a hovercraft above us. Katniss helps me up. The electric current freezes us in place. Then, I black out.
I wake up in a bed. My leg hurts. I try to sit up, but I can't. A boy comes from a door at my left. He's an Avox. He can't talk. He brought me food. I try to eat to food at the plate, but it grows in my mouth. I stop eating and he disappears again. I won the hunger games. I can't understand that I was able to do that. It would be impossible without Katniss. Katniss, she isn't here. But she is alive. Healthy, safe and somewhere nearby. I fall asleep with a smile.
I wake up some days later; I know someone is there beside me, before I open my eyes. Is it Katniss? I open my eyes and June sits on a chair beside the bed. She smiles. "Hello Peeta" she says. "Hello June" I replay. "Where is Katniss?" I ask. "Can't tell you, but she is safe." She tells me. Her voice is high-pitched and her tongue is like everyone else in the capital. "Peeta….. Your leg" June says worried. "Yes, June. What?" I say even more worried. I feel my legs, both of them. But I haven't seen them. "We had to, like…. like amputate one of them" she says.
June and the others in the prep team works together. I have to relearn to walk. I have a prosthesis leg and it's so hard. Is it like this it feels to walk in high heels? Maybe not like high heels, but hard anyway. We work whole day and after lunch, I meet Portia. She show my outfit for tomorrow.
The first interview
I am below the scene and it smells new. I hear the audience. I just wait to meet Katniss again. I miss her. Haymitch come into the dark space below the scene. He tells me "Good luck now. Good job boy". He disappears in the dark and the audience gets crazy.
Katniss is just a few meters away. She runs against me and hugs me. My balance isn't the best, so I almost stumble at the floor. But Katniss helps me find control over my leg, and I kiss her. I don't care about the audience. They are nothing for me. But Katniss is. Caesar taps at my shoulder.
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