I feel awful guys. I'm so sorry I'm updating late but I'm trying to get a routine while I'm back at school so I won't be able to update every week. Updates will just come when it comes but I promise it won't be over a month.

Anyways, chapter 6…

Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games or any of the characters all rights go to Suzanne Collins.

Chapter 6

I looked at him and saw the little things that I could only see when I really studied him. Like the way his eyelashes glittered in the moonlight or the little freckle on his chin.

He caught me staring and I quickly looked away, embarrassed, but then he spoke in a nervous voice. "I really like you Katniss." That got my attention. I looked back at him and he quickly went on. "I mean I know I've only known you for two days but, I know it sounds stupid but I feel like we have a connection."

I stared at him for a few moments and didn't speak until I saw the look of rejection and hurt on his face. "You don't have to feel the same way. I just don't want to regret never saying anything." He said before I could get a word in.

"No!" I said too loudly. My cheeks burned in embarrassment then I said more quietly. "No, I like you too. I've just… I've never been in a real relationship. None with actual feelings."

"Okay well we could start by telling each other more about ourselves. I don't know much about you except you live near a forest."

"Um well, I have a dog. His name is Eddie and he's an orange Spinone Italiano. I found him in the forest and he was really hurt so I got my dad to take him to the hospital and I begged my parents to let me keep him. My dad died a few months after that."

"I'm so sorry. I'm sure he was a great guy."

"He was." I said holding back tears. "Anyways, he's like the best dog ever. I wish he was here but my mom told me I couldn't bring him with me as part of my punishment. What about you?"

"Well I don't think there's much to tell about me. I paint, I have a cat, well it's Prim's cat. Her name is buttercup and she's really ugly. I don't see what Prim sees in her."

"I'm not a cat person either. When I was five I was at the park a few minutes away from my house and I saw this cat with cute big eyes and I leaned down to pet it and it lunged at my wrist and gave me a scar."

I showed him the three claw marks on my wrist and he started laughing. "It's not a funny. My parents almost had a heart attack when they saw me all bloody.

We shared a laugh then it quickly died down and we stared at each other in silence. "You know what else people in a relationship do?" He finally said.

"Um…"

He moved very close to me, staring intently into my eyes then moved a strand of hair that had fallen out of its braid away from my face before leaning in and kissing me.

The kiss was electrifying. I felt tingles all over and never wanted it to end. He leaned back with a small smile on his face and I'm sure I just looked ruffled by the intensity of it all. "That was…" I trailed off.

"Great." He finished for me

"No, better than great. I don't think I've ever had a kiss like that."

"Good. That kind of boosts my ego."

I laughed a little and looked back at the stars. "Do you think I earned the first thing you did to land you in here?" He said suddenly.

I sighed before answering him. "I did some pretty messed up stuff and they were all because my dad died and my mom was absorbing herself into work and I just wanted her to pay attention to me. The first one that I was caught for was because I was caught with alcohol on school grounds and a guy gave me drugs to deliver to someone and I was caught with it. The dude that gave it to me denied that I was his. I'll admit that I was drinking the alcohol but I would never touch drugs or anything. So the police came and my mom came and it was all a big mess."

He stayed silent for a while and I couldn't help but get nervous. What if he judged me and didn't want to be with me? This wasn't even the worst I've done. "Please don't judge me." I said, "I know what I did was wrong but I've had enough judgment over the last two years to last a lifetime."

He looks at my pained expression in surprise. "No! No, I don't judge you or anything, I'm just thinking." He paused for a moment before asking. "Did the guy that gave you the drugs ever get caught?"

"Yeah, a few months before school ended, we were doing locker checks and they found a bag of it in his locker."

Peeta smirked. "Good, anyone who hurts Katniss Everdeen shouldn't get away with it."

He glanced at his phone and suddenly stood up. "We should get going. I don't want to get you back to Effie late."

"Okay." I said and stood up as well.

We cleared up the hot chocolate and moved back to Peeta's car. We sat there in silence for a while then I finally said. "Thank you. For a lot of things really. For not judging me for taking me out there… for caring." I whispered the last part and it was so quiet I wasn't sure if he even heard it.

"I will always care. Never doubt that, okay?"

I nodded. "I won't."

He leaned in and kissed me again.

"I don't think I want this night to end." I said. "It was perfect. Other than the part with the big blonde dude." I added.

"I'm glad."

The smile on his face made me want to kiss him again but he had already started the car and was driving again. But a feeling of dread washed over me when I realised that we would have to end this relationship. No matter how perfect it felt there will come a time when I would have to go back home and leave Peeta here.

Sorry it's short guys but I felt I had to get it to you. I'm loving your responses to my story and I just want to thank you guys for sticking with me. Next chapter will be in Peeta's POV cause I've been dying to do that for a while now.

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