Sorry this is kinda short. It's Madge's random thoughts about her life so far.
Walking through the woods with him brings back memories. She can almost see herself- young and lost. Her first time here was easily remembered. Hunting, gathering, searching, waiting it had been a thrill she had never tried and she got to learn it from the most important people in her life. Have times changed? Yes. They had grown and changed and adapted to the new things about them, technology, research, discoveries, new districts, and children. Children… when the simple things like frogs hopping and boxes excite them more than life itself it's a real wonder. She had been an only child; she had never witnessed or knew anything about bringing up siblings. Yet, she's proven herself. Her children are happy and carefree. Watching them dance and laugh at the picnic running wild around them. Looking back at her life so far there is only one thing she would change. Her parents would be here enjoying everything too, but life wasn't perfect. Not having her parents there didn't mean she wasn't loved enough. Her mother-in-law made sure of that, her husband loves her more than the world, and her children tell her that they love her every chance they get. Nothing feels like it's missing anymore. There are still those dreams that come back and haunt her but he's always there to pick her up and whisper sweet nothings into her honey blond curls. Everything about him made her stomach fuzzy and her skin crawl. Just remembering sitting in Katniss and Peeta's apartment hearing his voice from the door. My voice shaking and telling the boy I've liked for so long that I liked him. I almost have to laugh. It was so forced upon him to like me it's a surprise that he realized he liked me too. He said he loved me after being with a depressed Madge on his lap for a long hour. Even though later he guessed he's liked me for longer and didn't see it through the arguments we would share when he sold me strawberries in the morning. Then the dream I had when he took me into his room. The entire bed smelled like him and I never wanted to leave. Yet somehow the smell of the home and him being there brought back the whipping and I had dream after dream until I woken up by my own screaming and Gale. I can laugh about that now… but not then. Then he all but says he wants to sleep with me. His excuse for being able to is he was over eighteen. Clever lie, he so wasn't- he had JUST turned nineteen that barely gives you any right to put a girl in your bed while his mom is down the hall. I snap out of memory lane and watch Gale with our new daughter. He's singing that song… the song he sang our first night together and many nights after. I pluck her out of his arms and his eyes pop out of his head thinking that he's dropped her. The day grows old and we've finished eating. Everyone is cleaning up the site and heading home. Thinking always brings up questions but they're never asked or answered. Good thing memories will always be there to bring them up night Gale and I were lying in bed holding, Rose her breath tickled my arms as I snuck a peak at Gale. May was asleep on his chest and he was reading a book of the history of our land. Then my eyes fell on my son, Bryce whose light sleeping breaths kept in pace with his baby sister. His curls hung over his eyes and his mouth hung open letting out the occasional sigh.
"I'm happy" Gale looked up from his book and closed it. His idle fingers played with the small curls on our daughter's head.
"Oh really?" his gray stormy eyes were playful. I couldn't help but huff and laugh.
"Yes, really"
"Don't take this the wrong way but if someone would have told me back before everything happened that I would be married to Madge Undersee and have three beautiful children. I would have laughed in their faces" I laugh quietly again, thinking of young Gale's face. He takes my hand and squeezes it. "I'm happy to"
"Glad"
Yeah sorry about not updating I've been busy and such then I went on vacation and got too caught up in Mickey to think about writing... and ta da! Here I am! :) Comment! ALSO this is the last thing I'm thinking for this story... :,( I'll write an Epilogue that I'm sure you'll love (Hopefully) and begin another story off of that. I'm thinking Eden and Rose3