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Chapter 2: Trying New Things
By: Chloe Jo
I put on his dress with a new found spirit. For some reason, I think because it was from him, I felt kind of… happy.
I head down stairs and do something I hadn't done since he left. I made breakfast. After eating, I stay sitting at the table and try to figure out what do to as my first step to finding Peeta. Last I heard he had gone to the capital to help young bakers learn the best techniques and help them get their businesses going. I decide it would be a good idea to try doing some of the things he loved doing. I write down a list.
Baking
Painting
Sitting in the meadow
Being nice to people
I try to think of which to do first and I create a game plan for my day. First I was going to pack a basket paints, pencils, canvas and lunch. Peeta had tried to get me to paint with him for the longest time, I just wouldn't. After packing my stuff and making lunch I decide I might as well tackle number 4 while I am at it.
After everything is ready, I leave my house for the first time in 3 months and walk to the only house in Victor's Village that looks like someone from the Seam lives there. When I get to Haymitch's house I do not even bother knocking, I just let myself in.
Apparently I was not the only one who is having a good day. When I find Haymitch in his stinky man cave, he is actually awake and doesn't have a bottle or a knife in his hand. When he sees me, he nearly falls over from shock.
"Holy crap, sweetheart! It has been so long! I was starting to worry that you were dead." He said with bugged out eyes.
"I know, I am just as surprised as you are. I don't know what came over me… Here, I made you lunch." I hand hi one of the sandwiches I made and a bag of strawberries. "Well, I have some stuff I have to do, so I guess I will see you later."
I heard him mumble, "You getting dressed isn't going to be your only surprise today honey, but good thing you look nice. It will make it better." Then the door closed, I was not sure if I was supposed to hear him, or if that was even what he said.
As I leave Victor's Village and in to town, I am amazed. When Peeta left, the rubble had just been finished being cleared away. Now there were actually buildings, and some businesses are remarkably already open after just 3 months. After seeing all of the progress 12 has made recently, I feel so bad. Peeta would be so mad at me for letting myself waste away while the world right outside my door was rising from the ashes.
As I walk through the square, I smile up at what is the frame of the new Justice Building. I see that the grocery store is already open and make a mental note to stop there on the way home to get things to bake with.
I finally get to where I wanted to be, the meadow. This was one of Peeta's favorite places. He always said that the meadow's beauty and tranquility helped him sort out what was real and what wasn't. I take a deep breath of fresh air and can smell the flowers that are just beginning to bloom. I find the perfect spot next to a patch of orange poppies.
I pull out my art supplies and tried to remember what Peeta had always done when he started a painting. I remembered he always would draw what he wanted before he painted it, so I started there. I started to draw the poppy, but it was small. But for I really realized what I was doing, I was drawing a muscular, scarred hand holding out the poppy, then a man holding it. He had scars and burns on him. I did not know who I was drawing until I was almost finished with his face. It was him. He was holding out the flower for me to take.
I had put so much detail into the picture, like that laugh lines around his month, that I decided that I would only paint 2 things. The poppy, which would be his favorite sunset orange, and his beautiful blue eyes.
After I am finished with my picture of Peeta, I set it aside to let it dry and I ate my lunch. It felt strange to eat two whole meals in one day. After finishing my lunch and having spend a good amount of time in the meadow, I decided it was time to leave. After how great it felt to be in the meadow I knew I would be coming back here often. This place helped me just like it helped Peeta.
I remembered to stop by the store to get some baking supplies. After I picked out the basic supplies like flour, sugar, eggs, I went to picking more specific things. I tried to remember things that I liked. So I grabbed a considerable amount of cheese from the dairy. The last place I went to was the spice aisle. As soon as I was in the aisle I could smell it. It smelled like him, cinnamon. I was so happy to even be able to smell him that I bought more cinnamon then I would be able to use in a lifetime.
After going to the store, the meadow, to visit Haymitch, I realized it was time to go home. I did not want to push myself to far in one day. So I headed toward Victor's Village, arms full of supplies for an activity I did not really understand how to do.
I finally make my way home. When I got there, something felt off. As soon as the door clicked shut, my heart stopped.
"Katniss?" Someone asked, followed by the unmistakable frantic step of a prostatic leg.
He came back for me.
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~Chloe Jo