A/N.

Well hey! My exams are officially O-V-E-R and I am all yours again! Life is so good, my exams went well and I am just looking forward to the week ahead hehe. Oooohhh and I got my piano exam results and I got 91, which is great! My friend got tickets to a ball-type thingy tonight, so he's taking me and I'm staying in his house after and going for a trip tomorrow so you probably won't get another update until the end of next week because I usually write mostly at the beginning of the week!

Ok in this chapter Katniss and Peeta play a game, and let me tell you it is fuuun. I played it with my friend when we were drunk, and let me say it was pretty embarrassing! I have to leave out a few questions because of what happened to Katniss etc. but this is gonna be a fun chapter! Ok enough of me, enjoy! x

Chapter 16 - November

Things fell into a normal rhythm after the wedding. Katniss and Peeta hadn't kissed or made any sort of romantic gestures since that night, but neither wanted to bring it up.

Finnick was a little dazed and unsteady at first, so Katniss let him stay in her apartment for a week while Peeta stayed at Finnick's place. After that he was fine, but he still wouldn't share what had happened. Neither of them wanted to push him to, either.

Katniss noticed that Peeta was spending increasingly more time away from the apartment, and came home exhausted every time he left for longer than a couple of hours.

Prim was doing increasingly well at school, coming top of the class in everything. She even received a letter from a state college offering her a scholarship in two years. Katniss hadn't heard of this happening before, but Prim explained that it was rare. This made Katniss immensely proud of her little sister. It also took a huge weight off of her chest. Katniss has started worrying that when the time came, she wouldn't be able to afford to send Prim to college. Katniss was struggling to keep herself in school, but was handling it just so.

One day, when Katniss was feeling particularly stressed about life in general, she decided that she needed to blow off some steam.

"Peeta?" Katniss asked. Peeta looked up from where he was kneading some dough on the counter and gave her a small smile.

"Yeah?"

"Let's get drunk tonight." Peeta's grin spread across his face, and his blue eyes twinkled.

"I was hoping you'd say that."

Katniss got home from the hospital that she was interning in as part of her coursework and called for Peeta. He appeared from the kitchen, covered in flour.

"I'm just gonna go change and then you can get as shit-faced as you want." Peeta winked at her, and proceeded to pull his shirt over his head. Katniss looked at his toned chest and let out a needy sigh. Over the last few weeks, Peeta had seemed to be looking for any excuse to take off his shirt in front of her, like when they went swimming - which had been his idea. He was tempting Katniss, and she knew it.

It was just then that Katniss had been staring at his chest in a daze, and Peeta had said something to her.

Katniss snapped her head up. "Uh, what? What did you say?" Peeta chuckled, repeating his question.

"Do you want dinner? I can make something if you're hungry." Katniss shook her head. "No thanks, I ate at the hospital."

"No problem." With that he continued to his room and pulled on a clean blue t-shirt. "I got a bottle of vodka, if that's what you want."

"Sounds perfect." Katniss shot him a wicked smile and headed for this kitchen. She picked up two shot glasses and the tall, clear bottle and returned to the living room, where Peeta was waiting for her, sitting on the ground with his back against the couch. Katniss sat across from him and poured them both a shot, downing them with a wince.

"Do you know any drinking games?" Peeta asked.

"Well no, but I have a game if you're interested." Katniss remembered the game from one time that she and Finnick had gotten particularly drunk.

"Be my guest, then." Peeta replied, pouring more shots.

"Ok, it's not much but it can be pretty embarrassing sometimes. It's called firsts. I ask you what your first experience of something was and you tell me. Simple."

Peeta smiled, and poured yet another round of shots.

"Ok, I'll start off easy. First job?"

"Easy. Working for my parents in the bakery."

"I waitressed in the cafe down the street. Your turn." Katniss replied, swallowing the shot Peeta set in front of her.

"First kiss?" he asked, giving her a smirk.

Katniss blushed. "A guy called Thom. We were in kindergarten and he decided that he was madly in love with me. He came up to me one day in the playground and sort of ambushed me. He kissed me and walked away with a bruise on his cheek." Katniss grinned proudly.

Peeta looked confused. "I thought- You told me I was your first kiss when we were dating?"

"You were my first real kiss. I don't think Thom counted." Katniss giggled, the shots taking effect.

"Mine was with some girl called Cashmere when I was fourteen. It was a little against my will." Peeta chuckled, taking another shot.

Katniss felt a pang of jealousy in her chest hearing this. She too thought that she had been Peeta's first kiss. Her next question slipped out of her mouth without even processing in her brain.

"First time?" Katniss slapped a hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. Where had that come from?

Peeta's cheeks flushed red. "Oh, uh, Katniss I- I mean, I've never.. I'm a virgin." He flicked his eyes away from hers, embarrassed.

Katniss felt the jealousy from the kiss revelation ease. She knew it was petulant, but Katniss didn't think that she could bear someone else being close with Peeta the way that she so badly wanted to be.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked." But she wasn't. She wasn't sorry. Not in the slightest. Katniss had already known that Peeta was a virgin, but she wanted to hear him say it. To hear that she was the only person that had claimed his heart.

"First love?" Katniss asked in a low, almost inaudible voice.

Peeta's eyes shot up, suddenly serious.

"Katniss.."

"Peeta, who was it?"

"It was you."

A/N.

Soooo this chapter was kinda short because like I said I have the ball thingy tonight so I have to go get ready now and I'm running low on time! I hope you guys enjoyed this, There are only a few more chapters left! I know exactly what I want to do with this story, so there will be no writers block!

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