Reuniting Our Lives

Our Future

When I wake up, I look around to find myself in my room. Peeta sits slumped in a chair opposite my bed fast asleep. I get up out of my bed and start toward the bathroom to take a shower; something I haven't done in 5 days now. When I come out to get dressed, I hear Peeta downstairs clamouring pots and pans.

When I get downstairs, I sit at the counter watching Peeta make breakfast, neither of us saying a word to the other.

"How was the woods?" Peeta asked as he handed me a plate of scrambled eggs.

"I still don't have everything figured out. I think I've accepted that Finnick is alive now, but after that, I started thinking..." my voice got softer as I went on, "I started thinking about us." I keep my eyes averted from his as I ate my food, but more or less was pushing them around with my fork. I felt Peeta's gaze on me and I put down my fork and look at him.

"Us?"

"Yeah. After everything that I dreamt up, everything that we've been through, and after thinking about it for almost four days nonstop and a lot before, and I want to keep this relationship going. I want what I had in that dream, even though I know I can't. But I know that if I dreamt up something that wonderful, that anything you have in mind will be many times better. I need you, Peeta. So much. I need you to stay with me." Tears are streaming down my face, and when I look at Peeta, tears are flowing from his too.

"Katniss, I'll always stay with you. Always," he says in a whisper. He brings me into a warm embrace and I think once again about our future. About his proposal, our engagement, our wedding, our first child. Everything. And it's the one thing that keeps me going, and I couldn't possibly wait for it to happen.

A/N: Super duper short chapter, I know... But guys! One of my guy friends that I've liked for over 5 years (if you know what I mean... 😏😁☺😍😉) is getting a motorcycle and promised to give me a ride!!! Yassss!!!! I'm beyond ready to flirt!