My vision becomes blury and before everything goes dark, I suggest Lisa:
"Don't look behind".
And my eyes close to never open again.
The screams escape from my throath, my arms dance slightly in the air, trying to reach something. I hyperventilate until I see Peeta.
"Katniss, Katniss, calm down, okay?", he says to me trying to calm me" It's me, see, it's just me."
"But where are the other tributes?! What happened to Lisa?! Why aren't we in the Games?!"
"You were just having nightmares again".
His arm slides down to give me a tight hug. I embrace him and feel safe again.
"You were dreaming again about the Games, right?
"It was longer than the usual nightmares".
"Don't you remember? You tripped a few days ago and you passed out. The kids were very worried. Not to mention me".
It makes a lot of sense. But there is another unsolved detail.
"In my nightmare, I thought I was dreaming about founding Peter here".
"Ah, that, well Peter told me that you woke up for few minutes but the unconsciousness beated you".
"I can't believed it was a nightmare", I confess to him, because I also didn't know if this was another dream" It was all so organized and so real to be just a creation of my imagination".
"Your gore imagination", he corrects me.
I snicker at his statement.
"But Peeta, in that nightmare I was going to let you die. Just like that."
He stares at me to finally say:
"Sometimes, we're in really hard situations that our instinct convinces us to save our skin. That doesn't mean that you're a bad person. It just means you have the instinct to save another person".
Yep, he is right. Lisa and Harry were the people I was trying to save. Except by the fact they were never real.
For a moment, I want to ask him to demonstrate me if this is a dream or this is reality. But my son and daughter appear on the frame of the door that I don't get the chance.
"Mom!", they both exclaim as they both come and hug me.
In that moment, when their arms hung from my neck and Peeta approaches to complete the family hug, I know this is real.
That the 76th Hunger Games never happened and never will.
That I'm safe and sound.