Finding the Missing Piece: Book 4

Chapter Sixteen

Katniss POV- (A few hours later, about 10am)

"You're going to be the best daddy." I whisper softly to Peeta, as I lay across his sleeping body.

I wonder if I gave in a little too easily but what else was I suppose to do?

I love him and I'm pregnant.

I couldn't divorce him.

He didn't make that many mistakes, just one.

It would have to take a lot more than him getting drunk to make me leave him and I hope it never comes down to that but I know Peeta won't allow it to.

I've only known less than a day and it already feels like I'm falling in love all over again.

This baby is a piece of Peeta and a piece of me and I think that it is the coolest thing in the entire world.

I regret ever hating the idea of having a baby because it's a feeling I can't describe and it's not even here yet.

I just wish I could tell Peeta how excited I am, but I know the words wouldn't make an appearance and I wouldn't be able to even begin telling him without crying.

I think it's too soon to tell him how happy I truly am.

I'll give it until we find out the gender of the baby.

I think it'll seem more real to him and he will just let anything he had go, even though I don't really expect him to or I shouldn't.

He never expected me to let go Prim or my dad so I shouldn't expect him to let his family go and that's when I realize I was wrong to say some of the things I did.

But I think we both need to sleep this whole thing off.

I could use the sleep being that I'm exhausted from yesterday and he could use it too since we haven't slept like this in months.

Sure, we've been this close a few times but our hearts haven't been this connected in awhile.

I snuggle up to him, glad that I can still do that and I can be more comfortable with it.

I'm glad that things seem to be getting better and honestly, I think that it's the baby that is saving our marriage.

It took one little miracle.

I want to say that it was Peeta and I that saved it and in a way it is but I also want to give the baby more recognition.

I daydream about what our baby will look like, whether it will be a boy or a girl and how it'll act, though I hope it acts like Peeta on his good days.

I can't wait to find out what it is and what we will name it.

I know it'll have the most beautiful name if Peeta picks it out.

I can't wait to see him as a father.

It's going to be so amazing but stressful at the same time but I know I wouldn't change it at all, I know that much.

I can't wait to tell Bristol and Annie, Finnick, and everyone else.

I can't wait for Carter and Finn to get to play with our kid either.

I know that I'll love watching them grow up together.

I can't wait.

I never thought in a billion years that I would be as excited as I am now.

"Oh, hey. You're awake?" Peeta asks, looking down at me.

I bring my head up and lay flat against him.