Chapter 3 -Safe

I wake up feeling happy and refreshed I didn't have a nightmare last night. The sun beams through a gap in the curtain and I give a happy sigh. I am about to get out of bed when I remember the two strong arms around me. Peeta and I have barley spoke since he's returned but were sharing a bed. I guess we did that more or less on the victory tour.

I stare out the gap of the curtain. I listen to the birds singing sweet no long before I hear Peeta begin to stir, I panic a little whether i should be awake or asleep. I decide on asleep, so I quickly shut my eyes and do my best to pretend to be asleep. I hear Peeta give his morning sigh and then he chuckles. "Katniss I know you not asleep!" I give a sigh " fine, fine! How did you know?"

"You don't scowl when your asleep" he chuckles, I grab a pillow and throw it at him. We both fall in to puddles of giggles. "I should probably go hunting" " I should probably get baking" we both let out a exhausted sigh until Peeta asks "why don't we go for a picnic?" " umm ok!" And I let a smile forms on my face and he returns one.i climb out of bed and we both get ready for our picnic. He rushes back to his house to prepaid the food. And I have a quick piece of toast and rush to meet Peeta outside his house. We start to walk down the narrow track down victors village towards. Peeta leads the way and I follow closely behind. We don't say anything but sometimes silence is nice and this was. It was peaceful. We soon arrived at the woods. "So where's the best spot for a picnic?" Peeta asks me. I wreck my brain for a special place where I could take him. Until I remember the place. "Peeta it is a long walk through the woods but it's worth it, do you want to go their?" I worry with his leg that it may be hard for him but he so up for it that he is already off. I take the lead and after an hour we have arrived. Peeta takes a minute to catch his breath but the second he sees where we are all he can make out is "wow!" I have taken him to the lake. The place I only ever shared with my father. And now I know it will be my and Peeta's special place.

I lay the picnic mat out and setting up the food once Peeta has taken in the scenery He starts to help we have finished setting out the picnic i lay down on my back, shut my eyes and feel the hot, blazing sun on my cheeks. Peeta comes and joins me. "Two years ago we were reaped and showed on a train for slaughter" Peeta announces . I'm so startled by how much I had lost in such a sort space of time. The amount of pain and hell I have been through. But I can't help thinking the hell Peeta's been through. He has lost his whole family, is memory, his leg and been hijacked. Plus torched, I just feel so guilty amuse it is pretty much all my fault. I turn to my side so I'm facing Peeta. I start slowly "Peeta" he turns to face me "I just want to say I'm sorry. It's all my fault and I ju.." I burst into tears and Peeta wipes them away. "Shhh" he murmurs "katniss'so none of this is your fault, it's as much mine as yours." We whispers. "But it is i mean you would'nt have been torched, your family wouldn't been dead. Your wouldn't have had the lost you good memor..." I can't finish my sentence because his lips have crashed into mine. He's kissing me gently. It take me a second to relise I want him to kiss. I feel the hot fuzzy feeling I felt in the cave and on the beach. I just keeping kissing him. I don't know how long I was kissing him it hours but must have been a minute or so. We have to pull apart to breath and we let our foreheads touch.i open my eyes to see Peeta's huge smile and his eyes looking down at me. the sun on my back, the kiss, the lake and Peeta all these things make me happy. "So are we going to go in this lake or not? I believe someone started teaching me how to swim until we were rudely interrupted but the game makers!" He says with sarcasm. "Luckily you have a great teacher" I say. "I'm am very lucky" I take off our jumpers and don't bother to take off anything else, it's soo hot we just want to get in. The lake is crystal blue along the edges it is filled with wild Lily's and lots off of other wild lake flowers. I take Peeta's hand and walk slowly into the water watching my step.I take a big step and land into the water. The water is surprisingly warm and I lay on my back in a star position and stare up to the sky. I sit up to watch Peeta come and join me.

I teach him to swim for about an hour until I start to feel cold. We both clamber out the water helping each other. We lay down on the tartan mat. I have this burning to ask him a question " Peeta when snow took you away from me" I pause to she his reaction, he nods but I can see his fist tense a little. I continue tho " before you were hijacked what kept you going?" I sighs and then a small sad smile creeps up along his face. "The thing that kept me going was my memory's of you" I get taken a step back because I was just the same as me,the memories of his good past kept me going while I was in thirteen. But the true thing that kept me going was the little pearl Peeta gave to me on the beach in the quell.

I close my eyes and think about the good times in the past two years their was not many but a few. I must have fallen asleep because as I open my eyes the trees above my are blurred, my eyes are cloudy and dry. "Hey" says Peeta. "Hey, how long was I asleep?" I ask "and hour or two". "Why did you let me sleep so long?" I asked a little confused. He smiles and replies "because you looked as though you were having a good dream instead of a nightmare" I smile because I think of how kind and considerate he Is. I give him a kiss on the cheek "thank you." "No problem" I can feel the blush creep down my face and onto my neck. I can tell he see's it but he give a faint chuckle. I grab a stick and play with the dirt for a bit, drawing pictures and writing my name. I do this for a while until Peeta says "did you know when snow had me I had dreams about you dying and I would wake up sweating,screaming and worrying about you. Even know I was hijacked" I am shocked by this I don't know what to say I don't. I just send my lips crashing into his. I can feel his lips melt into mine. I love the sensation of the hot, fuzziness. Our tongues dance in our mouths. He collapses onto the mat but my lips follow. I am laying on top of him, I feel his hands on the back of my neck and I gently pull away, I open my eye and take in the scenery, the moment and Peeta. I adjust so I'm lying in his arm and we look up at the clouds. "Katniss" Peeta whispers into my ear. "Umm" I reply "I love you" I let and smile form as the words tickle my ear. "I think I might just love you to" i whisper back into his ear. He chuckles lightly and I kiss his cheek.

I had fallen asleep because when I open my eyes I am greeted but a beautiful sunset. Peeta sleeping in the mat, he looks so peaceful and happy but I want him to see this sunset. I gently shake his shoulder and whisper into his ear "Peeta, peeta" his eyes start to flutter open and he stare into my eyes and smiles. I pull him up and show him the sunset."it's wonderful, thank you for waking me." He give me a long kiss on the lips. "We should probably get going I announce. We start to gather up our stuff and make our way home.