Chapter 4: Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not?
Six months following Prim's win, she has to depart across Panem for her Victory Tour. I accompany her to the train station, along with my sister's two mentors. As the Victors prepare to board the train, Peeta suddenly seizes my hand and drags me onto the locomotive and into the first empty car we come to, my blue Reaping dress flapping at my heels.
"What are you doing?" I hiss. But Peeta doesn't respond as he pulls out a diamond ring that would have cost a Seam girl like me a full year of trading to get. I stare, wide-eyed, as Peeta earnestly holds it out to me.
"Katniss Everdeen, will you marry me?"
It's only then that I remember our bet: that if Prim won the Games, I would agree to marry him. I had completely forgotten that it was my promise to keep. Besides, Peeta has been wonderful to me and especially my sister.
So despite my vow to once never wed, much less have children, for Peeta, I decide to take the plunge.
With purpose, I take the ring and jam it down on my ring finger. My face is serious as I grab Peeta by his collar.
"Is that a yes...?" Peeta stares.
"Are you gonna kiss me or not?" I snap, impatient.
And we move as one, our lips colliding into each other's at the same moment. Peeta's hands wander low quickly, groping me through the blue folds of my dress before I boldly raise my leg to his waist. Encouraged, my fiancé hoists me up the wall and we begin to make out. Far, far away, I hear the train whistle blow, warning its departure, but I don't care. All I care about is that I will now be the wife of a Victor, as well as the sister of another.