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What's your problem Annie? All I did was state the truth about Finnick, if he were in there Annie would most definitely be in there with him, and would never leave his side. We both know the way she reacted when she saw Finnick after the rescue mission, it was like they were glued together. Maybe Finnick was wrong…maybe Annie is messed up in the head and he was just too blinded by love to see it. Katniss… Stop. Annie is your friend, you shouldn't be acting this way towards her. "Annie. I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't think about how hard it was for you when Finnick passed away." I finally take the first step and look up at her, her face has turned a bright red color, and her underneath her eyes is puffy, it's in this moment that I see she and Finnick were truly two halves of a whole, I get weird flashes back to the beach in the quarter quell of when Finnick cried for Annie, when the mockingjays terrorized us both.

Annie sniffles, and wipes her eyes one last time. "It's okay Katniss. What's said is said. Nothing can be taken back, it's all over now. So, what do you want to talk about?" "I think…I should catch you up on what's going on with Peeta." "What do you mean? Haymitch said he just had a few more injuries than you….is he okay?" "No, well. Kinda. He didn't remember anything but our first reaping. But I did get him to accept and understand our first games." "Well then. That's good….isn't it?" "Then he flipped on the quarter quell's interviews. He saw where he made up the pregnancy…" "Oh good! So you got to tell him about your real pregnancy?" "No. He had one of his attacks, and almost killed me and our little girl." "Oh my god, Katniss…I'm so sorry!" just then we're pulling into her driveway…it's the last thing I expected….it happened so quickly…I could barely get a grip on myself. "Annie! What's going on?" "I-I-I- didn't realize this would start so soon…I thought it'd take them at least a couple days to figure out where you were staying…" Annie's front yard has the paparazzi covering it, their large cameras all aiming at her car. I don't pity myself, I pity Annie and Dillan. "Dillan, buddy, I know! Mommy will take care of this! It's okay!" "Annie, what are you planning on doing?...Do you not see how many photographers there are? They're not going to just move out of the way, until… they get their pictures!"

Before I can even touch the door handle, I take one last look of reassurance from Annie, and I've never seen her looks so determined and angry. She lets out a scream and slams her hands onto the wheel letting out an obnoxiously loud and long beep of the horn, I take it back…I do think she's mentally insane... Even from inside the car it's enough to make me think back to the fist games when I blew up the career's food pile with Rue. I feel my eyes cross, and I push my hands up to my ears trying to ease the pain in my ears. "Annie! What were you thinking?" I look back at Dillan and he is screaming his head off from all the noise. "Katniss….this is exactly what I was thinking." I turn back to her and see a content smile plastered onto her face and she's pointing towards the yard, I look out the window, and realize that I was ignorant for doubting Annie; she is completely mentally right in her actions!

The yard is completely cleared, not one flashing camera remains. I smile so big that it burns my cheeks; Annie pulls into the garage and closes the door without a single issue with the paparazzi. "Good thinking, Annie!" "See….everybody thinks I'm crazy, and have no idea on what should be done, or even what's going on….who's the incompetent one now?" I start laughing, "Oh Annie…" "Sorry about the noise Dillan, she reaches back and pulls him up to the front seat, she bounces him for a minute and kisses him on the forehead and he stops his screams almost immediately. I extend my arms and Dillan obliges and happily coos as I play with his baby fingers. "Come on Katniss, let's go inside and we can talk a little bit more about how the pregnancy will come week by week." Whatever brought this on for Annie to want to talk about pregnancy is quite startling. But after seeing her instincts in the past few hours, I agree gratefully and walk inside with Dillan on my hip. I can't stop kissing Dillan's chubby baby cheeks, he's just so lovable, I can't stand it! Annie lets me hold Dillan for our talk on pregnancy…she seems to think it'll make me even more fond of the idea of the baby.

"So Katniss, have you had any morning sickness yet?" "Oh yeah…I've been rudely introduced to that full force…" "Well get used to it….chances are you'll be having it till the end of your first trimester." She smiles and looks at Dillan as if it were a fond memory of her's. If making these small jabs at me over pregnancy makes her smile, then I feel like it makes us even…after what I said about Finnick. "About how many weeks are you Katniss?" "Oh…umm…Ever since the crash I have lost count. How many weeks was I in the hospital?" "Three…almost four weeks." "That long? So I guess….I'm almost twelve weeks." "Wow, you're showing more than I was at this point." She instinctively touches my stomach, "Hey buddy, how are you? Are you going to be a big boy just like your daddy." He/she starts wiggling at the word daddy…again. "Annie. I try to avoid that word, it always gets her all worked up…" "Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't know." "It's fine. Can we stop talking about this kind of stuff for now? I'm really hungry for some real food." "Fine! But don't think you're avoiding this talk forever!" She skips off to the kitchen, I get to keep holding Dillan, and I couldn't be happier.

"Hey Dillan. What are you doing you crazy boy?" I have him on my lap facing towards me, he seems fascinated by my daughter, or what I like to think is a girl. Dillan keeps running his tiny fingers over it, his face is priceless, he looks like he is confused as to why it's so bloated. He lets out one of his adorable baby laughs and rubs the bump gently, almost as if he's trying to communicate with her. I giggle and hold his arms up, and shake him gently, "Are you already starting to flirt with the ladies Dillan? Your dad would be so proud." I can't stop laughing at my own joke, when Annie comes back in with a huge tray of food, she starts laughing too, she sets the tray down and then delicately takes Dillan's little head in her hands and moves it all around and Dillan can't stop laughing, it's almost like she's examining her own child. "Yep he's definitely Finnick's son! Alright you little flirt; it's time for you to take a nap." I kiss Dillan on the nose and watch as Annie carts him back to his crib.

I on the other hand can't stop staring at the food. I haven't eaten a decent meal since…the car wreck. I head straight for the watermelon; I'm already munching on a piece by the time Annie walks back into the room. "Are you craving watermelon?" She gives me a smile, and sits by me and pulls out a small bowl from the bottom and she begins crunching on some sugar cubes, "See I had the opposite problem, you're here craving nice, healthy, watermelon; when I was pregnant with Dillan, I ate these sugar cubes all the time!" I laugh and pop one into my mouth; memories of Finnick seem to hit us both. Annie becomes very quiet; I know all of her memories with Finnick are probably playing on a never ending movie screen through her mind. While the thoughts of Finnick run through my thoughts, it seems to lead me back to Peeta.

How could you leave Peeta when he needed you most? You're here eating sugar while Peeta sits in a hospital room worried, and confused about his life. Get up off your lazy butt and call his hospital room.

"Annie, where's your phone?" "Kitchen, why?" "I feel like I should call Peeta. Explain to him why I left, and that…I love him." "Katniss. Are you sure that's a good idea?" "Well. He can't hurt me through a phone." I bite the inside of my cheek before I yell out some ugly things to Annie, that, no doubt, I would regret moments after saying. I turn and walk into the kitchen and pick up her phone, it's now that I realize how thankful I am that I took the time to memorize his room number. "Hello?" "Hey Peeta, it's Katniss…"

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Katniss? How is this possible? I attacked her? And she's…calling me? "Hello? Peeta? Are you there?" I try to find the words to say… "Peeta…if this is a bad time, I can call back later." "No. No. Now is a good time. I'm not going to lie though; I'm a little surprised you're calling me…" "Well…I couldn't not talk to you…so what have you been doing today?" Of course Katniss can talk without issues now….and of course you happen to be tongue tied… "Haymitch came and had a therapy session with me…" "Oh. So do you remember anything he mentioned during it?" "I think I do. But I don't know if Haymitch is telling the truth." "What did he tell you?" "That…District twelve was destroyed and that I was…. kidnapped by the capital. Is he telling the truth?" "Yes." "Well. Is my family okay?" My chest is tightening and it hurts to breathe, even though the only member of my family that I can stand is my father, I still don't want my mother and brothers dead. Katniss seems to have trouble speaking…

"Katniss, please... I don't want to hear anything else from Haymitch. You're the only one I trust." I wish she would just spit it out. And spit it out she does…"They didn't make it Peeta." I slam my hand against the wall and my eyes are stinging from all the tears that I'm holding back, "Peeta! Are you okay?" "I'm fine….I think." "District twelve is slowly rebuilding. You have a bakery there. We live in what used to be victor's village." "Okay. What happened between us? I mean if I was kidnapped by the capital…did that change, me and you and how we felt about each other?" "It was when you were kidnapped that I realized how my life was nothing without you…And when you came back you were…"hijacked."" "What do you mean hijacked?" "They altered all of your memories of me. They made you think I killed your family, and that I was a mutt like from the first games. And that you wanted to kill me. That's why you attacked me when I visited you." "So those weren't my own thoughts?"

"Not at all…unless you've truly changed from the Peeta I knew before the car crash." "All I know is that I love you…but when that thing you called an "attack" happened, my entire mind was set on doing is killing you. But now that I know that I don't really feel that way. Then I'll control it." Can you really control that strong of a feeling Peeta? Of course you can! You survived two hunger games. You have escaped death! You can control these terrible feelings to protect the girl you love! "Okay." "Katniss, I promise I will. Always. Please come over to my room, I-I want to talk more about who I am." "I will tomorrow." "But Katniss… You're right down the hallway. What if I come to you?" "I was checked out this morning. Besides I'm going to bring you something to help you remember. I'll come and see you then…" "Okay. I'll see you then…and please…don't be scared. I love you." "I love you too." I hear her receiver click off and so I set mine down. Then I lay back on my bed and wish Katniss were here beside me. I wish I could look into her beautiful silver eyes, or touch her soft, dark, seam hair… Tomorrow Peeta. Tomorrow, you can see the girl you love. You can see her, you will be able to see her smile, and you can make sure she knows you love her and won't ever hurt her again…..

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