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Peeta's POV

It's 10 o'clock and I've had to help my parents out in the bakery at the last minute. I hope Katniss doesn't mind if I'm a tiny bit late she knows I'll still go to her house. Finally when I finish what I have to do up to my mother's standards I head for the door so I can finally leave. I swing open the door and there standing right in front of my house is Katniss. What is she doing here?

"Hey, what are you doing here? I thought I was going to meet you at your house?"

"I couldn't be bothered waiting any longer."

"Were you that eager to see me?" I say shutting the door behind me and walking down the stairs of the porch towards her.

"No you were just taking too long."

"Sorry about that, I had to help in the bakery… again."

"Oh that's ok, I didn't mind taking a little walk anyway. Come on let's get going."

"Alright."

We start walking towards the woods and I follow Katniss on the path that we took a while back, when she asked me to study in the woods. She grabs her bow and arrows from her hiding spot on the way and keeps walking until we find a grass patch to sit down, so we can get on with doing some work. She walks a couple more metres and finds a comfortable spot to sit down on and I follow suit, sitting down next to her.

"I'm so glad we can get this assignment over and done with, next week is when we hand it in."

"Same" I say sadly.

"What's that matter? Don't you want to finish this assignment?"

"No it's not the assignment I'm going to miss having these dates with you."

"Hey remember when we started this I told you it's not a date." She says pointing her finger at me.

"Sorry. A study session, Is that more appropriate?"

"Yes that's better, and you know we can always hang out."

"Yeah, and instead of focusing on this assignment I can focus on you when we hang out."

"Exactly, but I think we should at least get this over and done with so we can have the rest of the day to hunt."

"You mean so you can have the rest of the day to hunt. I couldn't catch the slowest animal on earth if it was right in front of me."

"Well the more we hang out here the more I can teach you about hunting." She says giving me a smile that melts my heart.

Those smiles are what light up my life. I'm so glad for having Katniss in my life to give me them. I really feel like over these past couple of weeks I have developed strong feelings for her. I want to be more than friends. I want to be able to express my feelings for her and express them to everyone else to show that I only want her. I have to tell her how I feel. I need to tell her now, but at the right time. After a couple of hours perfecting out assignment, we finally finish it so all we have to do is hand it in.

"Come on, let's leave our stuff here and we'll come back for it later. I need to walk off the cramp in my leg." she says standing up, grabbing her bow and arrows and walking deeper into the woods.

"Alright, are you going to teach me some hunting as well?"

"Sure if you behave" she says giving me a sexy smirk.

"Of course, I always do." I say standing up and start walking behind her, following her path.

After 10 minutes of walking through the woods looking for some animals to shoot, Katniss spots a squirrel up in the tree and shoots it instantly right through the eye, like always.

"You have such good aim; I don't know how every time you get it straight through the eye."

"Practise makes perfect." she says walking towards her kill and putting it in her hunting bag. Is this the right time when I should tell her my feelings? I guess I have to tell her at some point.

"Katniss I want to tell you something."

"Yeah, what is it?" she says walking up to me.

"Uh I don't know how to say it."

"Come on spit it out... Does it have something to do with the rumour?"

"No I wish… uhm" Why do I feel so nervous? Is it because I've never really expressed my feelings to a girl before? "Over the past month and a bit we have become really close, and I have loved being your friend throughout that time."

"I'm not really following." she says giving me a confused look so I pull her closer so she is standing in front of me and a grab both her hands in mine.

"I-I have feelings for you Katniss… uhm I really like you and that's more than a friend… I have never expressed my feeling for a girl before because… you are the first girl I have ever truly fallen for. I think you are the most beautiful, smart and caring girl ever."

"Do you really think that?"

"I really do. I don't know if you have the same feelings for me as well but-" I say but she cuts me off with her sweet lips on mine then pulls away.

"I-I feel the same way, I have for probably as long as you. I'm so glad you said something because I know I wouldn't have."

"Oh, I should have said it earlier then. I also wanted to ask you something else"

"Another surprise?"

"Well I wanted to ask you to uh… be my girlfriend. Is it too soon to ask you?" I say and she looks away from our gaze. "Is there something wrong? Is it too soon to ask?"

"No it's not, I want to be your girlfriend… but I want you to be fully faithful to me."

"Katniss I promise you will be the only girl in my life. And I know it may still be hard for you to trust me but I promise if you give me a chance I won't hurt you in any way." I say making her blush and she gives me another kiss with those soft lips.

"In that case… I would love to be your girlfriend." she says as we continue with another passionate kiss.

Throughout the next week Katniss and I walk to school together, entering holding each other's hands. Every morning I can feel the glares from the students in every direction. Everyone knows that we are dating for real this time and I can tell Orchid is upset about it. I feel bad for leading her on all those times so she could have moved on to someone else by now, but I know she will eventually get over me. Remembering about the list we made we asked Gale, Madge and Silver if they had anything to do with the rumours and every one of them said they had nothing to do with them, but we don't ask Silver about why she lied to Madge about Katniss and Gale kissing because she didn't want to start anything between her and Silver. Silver will probably still insist that she saw them kissing since her and Madge have now become best friends.

This leaves only one person left on our list Crucis and I would ask him about the rumour but he hasn't turned up to school all week, and I have no idea why but I really don't care what those guys do anymore. This weekend Katniss and I have made plans to have an actual date in the woods. She is taking me to a cabin that her and her father used to go to when she was younger. It surprises me that there is even a cabin in those woods without anyone from the capitol finding it. I'm so glad I spoke up about my feelings for her when I did, because I wouldn't be in this position right now of being so happy with her by my side and her as my girlfriend. I don't ever want to lose the love of my life.

So they are finally dating! But is it going to last for long? Keep reading to find out! Next chapter will contain lemons!