Finding the Missing Piece: Book 3

Chapter Twenty

Peeta POV- (The morning of the wedding)

I wake up to a stirring feeling in my stomach and my heart aches. I push back the unusual feeling and look around the room and realize I'm at my old house.

Then my mind wanders to Katniss and I realize that today is the day that I finally get to marry her.

I barely slept a wink last night, falling asleep around three, so I hope she slept well.

I imagine she's already awake.

Maybe she's even been up for hours from nerves or already getting ready for the wedding?

I wonder what she is doing right now.

Katniss POV-

I wonder what Peeta is doing right now.

I just got to the reception hall, they have me, Bristol, and Carter in a bridal party room.

I sit on the puffy black leather couch as Bristol adjusts my makeup and fixes a few of the stray pieces of hair that decided to come out of the waves Bristol put into my hair, that are pinned out of my eyes in a little braid across the side of my head.

My dress is still perfect and even better now that I'm all fixed up too.

I look and feel truly stunning.

I can't wait to see Peeta's reaction.

Carter is in Bristol's arms, shes wearing a little ruffly dress and a headband to match along with Bristol's bridesmaid dress.

"Kat, how are you feeling?" Bristol asks me softly.

I look up, "Uh, yeah. Just a little nervous, I guess."

Bristol nods and sits down on the couch next to me.

Carter's brown eyes float up to my gray ones and she grins a little.

"Hey, baby. You look so beautiful." I chirp to her, taking her out of Bristol arms, hoping she will help me forget about how nervous I actually I am.

I hold Carter out in front of me, her bottom resting against my arms, her tiny head of brown hair in my hands.

Bristol sits there for awhile, just watching us, eventually she speaks up, "I went out there earlier and it looks just perfect. You'll like it a lot, it's so beautiful out there." She says, a little mesmerized.

I giggle a little, "That's good." I say, somewhat nonchalantly.

I thought I was doing fine until something triggered a thought.

Bristol is my maid of honor and Prim is not.

Prim isn't here.

I close my eyes and bite my lip, forcing myself to not cry. To force mystery to stop thinking about this or anything else but of course, my mind then wanders to my father.

Prim nor my father are going to get to see me marry Peeta.

It's all my sister ever wanted, was for me to marry Peeta. It was all my dad ever wanted too, for me to find someone to love me just as much or more than he did.

That's what he wanted for both Prim and I.

To find a Peeta.

I found the guy that I never thought I needed, a perfect man.

A man who cares for me and gives me what I need.

A boy who keeps me sane and smiling.

I'm not the same stupid, bratty, young girl that I was two, almost three years ago when I realized something was missing. I was extremely lucky that I found him immediately. Looking back on it now, it was surely fate's great plan.