Chap12
The next month goes by in a blur. Our daily life continues in patterns like this: doctor's appointments for the baby. Calls from Gale that go unanswered. Peeta takes a shift at the bakery. We kiss. I get calls from Finnick and Annie. I get sick. Gale calls again. I go to see Peeta and his crew at the bakery. Gale calls again. I disconnect the phone. Peeta makes me dinner. I reconnect the phone. I sleep.
Before I know it, the day come when we're supposed to find out what gender the baby is. I wake Peeta excitedly. "Peeta wake up! We get to go find out if our baby is a Katniss or a Peeta today!"
"'Kay." He says with his face pressed into my stomach.
I smack his head. "Peeta! Wake up!" I say excitedly.
I start kissing his face. I do this for about a minute until I realize this isn't working. So I bite his ear gently.
This makes his beautiful blue eyes flutter open. "What are you doing?" he asks curiously.
I giggle. "Waking you up! Today's the big day!"
He gets out of bed and pulls me into him. He looks at my bump.
He smiles. "Hi baby. Its daddy! I can't wait to find out if you're a boy or a girl!" he kisses me fervently. "I love you Katniss."
I grin. "I love you too, Peeta." Then I run downstairs. "Come on! Let's go see what our baby is going to be!"
We get in the car, skipping breakfast altogether in our rush to make it on time. We rush to the hospital and check in with the nurse. She tells us to have a seat.
Minutes later, Dr. Lewis comes into the lobby and leads us to the ultrasound room named after Prim. We go through the same procedures as always. But this time, it comes with a moment of truth.
He runs the imaging thing over my stomach and we watch the screen. He watches a moment, and then turns around to us.
"Congratulations! You're going to have a baby boy!" the doctor sounds happy for us.
I smile at Peeta. "It's a mini you!" I say with pleasure.
He leans down to kiss me. "I had really wanted a mini you." He says quietly.
I smile. "You may still get one, but I hope you don't."
He frowns. "Why? You are absolutely perfect in every way."
I laugh. "If you say so, baby."
The doctor writes our baby's status in his records.
"Your baby is one hundred percent healthy and happy. By this point in time, he should be able to hear your voices, so if you talk to him, he'll hear it."
I smile in admiration. "Hi, pretty baby. It's your mommy! I love you so much."
Peeta grins at my stomach. "Hey son. It's daddy. Your mommy and I love you so much."
I smile at Peeta. "I love you."
He kisses me. "I love you too."
The doctor rubs the jelly of my belly and tells us we can go home. Peeta grabs my hand and we walk to the car. As we get in, he opens my door. I smile and get in.
But he doesn't close my door; he leans in to kiss me. He kisses me ferociously. Yummy, I think to myself. Then he breaks away.
"Man. And I wanted more!" I giggle.
Suddenly he doesn't look so happy. "You have a visitor."
I look to my left and none to my surprise see a very solemn Gale Hawthorne.
I groan. "Get me out of here."
Peeta drives out of the parking lot, but not before I can see Gale burst into tears and cry.
Instead of going left towards home, we go right towards the center of town.
"Peeta?" I ask.
"Hmm?" he replies.
"Where are we going?"
He smiles. "Well, I figured it was time to start baby shopping so I'm taking us to a baby store."
I smile. We drive for about 5 more minutes until he pulls into beautiful miracles child store. He finds a parking space and runs over to get my door. We walk into the store and start going down isles. First we walk over to the cribs.
"I like this one." I say. It's a mahogany affair that has a gorgeous color. It has a place for a mobile. But it doesn't have a mobile attached to it.
Peeta smiles at me. "Whatever you want is what we'll get."
He picks up the box that contains this crib. We walk to the clothes.
I peruse the isles and find a few outfits. I walk over to Peeta and see his beautiful arms filled with outfits.
I whistle. "Wow, you must be having fun." I smirk.
He lays out his choices and I look through them.
There's a sunset orange affair with safari animals on it, a teal jersey that says 'team cuties!', and a little hat that's been airbrushed and says "Baby Mellark" on it.
I start to cry. "That hat…" I say.
Peeta frowns. "What's wrong?"
I smile through my tears. "It's adorable."
He gives me an exasperated look. "Then why are you crying, love?"
I laugh. "Because it... It just surprised me, is all."
He has a look on his face that tells me he knows something is bothering me, but otherwise keeps his thoughts to himself. He takes my hand and we walk to the register.
The cashier; I know her. Delly Cartwright; a girl I once went to school with. It feels like a lifetime ago. In actuality it was, because I was very different then.
She smiles widely. "Katniss! Hey, remember me? We went to school together before… well you know." She turns. "Oh, and you too, Peeta."
I smile. "Hi Delly. How's life?"
She finishes ringing our items up. "Great. I just finished school so, yeah."
"Well, it was nice to see you." I say.
"You too. Come back and see us!"