Roommates

Work Day

I was sleeping soundly until I heard screaming and what sounded like tussling. What the hell was going on? I jumped out of my bed and dashed straight to Katniss' room. That's when I saw her. Tears flooded her eyes, her hair all messed up. She looked awful and I couldn't do anything. I ran to her and knelt down towards her, I was honestly terrified at that moment.

"KATNISS!" I shouted trying to snap her out of whatever nightmare she was in. "Please, is everything alright? Did you have an awful dream? Don't cry, don't scream, everything is okay now." I was talking to her as if she was some child. I guess I'm not really the best person to talk to when comforting someone.

She looked at me. And that's when I felt my heart stop. Her gray dull eyes looking straight at me, I don't know why but I feel like I can't breathe. "I-I'm sorry Peeta, I really am... I tend to have nightmares and hardly can sleep. If you don't want me here anymore I understand."

"No, everyone has nightmares Katniss. Sure yours could be more often but that's normal. Don't think like that, of course I would want you here." I gave her a hug, that always cheers me up so maybe it would have the same effect on her? I then got up and began to walk away until I hear her speak.

"Will you stay with my Peeta?"

I hesitated for a second. She wants me to stay with her? I had lost all my words, even the ability to speak at that moment. Its almost as if my heart was suddenly speaking for me.

"Always."

I came to her and rested herself on top of me. I wrapped us around the blanket and soundly fell asleep. As Katniss was closing her eyes, she planted a soft kiss. I don't know if she was aware of what she just did but I returned the favor back. I never want this moment to ever end.

I ended up spending the night with her which was actually quite nice. I could feel her breathing upon me but I paid no mind to that. I just wanted to make sure she felt comfortable and better. That nasty nightmare would go away anytime soon.

All good things do come to an end, and in this case the sun was coming. I needed to get ready for my Job. Managing a well successful bakery is actually a little much harder then you think. You have to considered what the people want and blah blah blah. Though it makes me happy to see the smiles on peoples faces! I get up and head to my room. I wash my face brush my teeth and take a nice quick shower. I put on anything I can really find that screams "I'm the CEO!" Which I think looks good.

I write a note to Katniss telling her that there's food in the fridge and she can take whatever she needs. I sure hope she's doing well after last night. It's only right that I help her feel much better, even the smallest of affections can do the most for some person. I grabbed my phone, wallet and car keys and headed off. Today was going to be a long day at work.

As I was driving I just had to get caught in traffic... Ugh, why now and why today? I have an important meeting which can be really big if all goes well. A cosmetic company wants to collab with us in creating scented perfume that smells just like our cakes. Awesome right? It would be even better if we can get a move on, I'll never get to work at this rate. I did an silent scream in my mind as my eyebrow was slightly twitching. How can anything get worse?

Why did I even ask that. As I finally made it to the office used for the bakery's meeting and collaborations, ignoring the fact I was 20 minutes late I entered the meeting room. Everyone was staring at me with confused and annoyed looks. I sat at my seat and began.

"Welcome everyone and I'm glad to see we are all here. Pardon me for my lateness, there was traffic on the way here. Now, Mr. Tobias we would love to collaborate with you on this business plan you have going on. Tell us, what exactly are we going to do to help such a creative idea of yours?" That is one way to start a meeting I note to myself.

"Ah yes, We wanted to include your desirable cake scents into our upcoming perfume collection. We are still working on the name and we want you to aide us in creating it. You will get a 50% of the earnings since of course you do play a big role in the creation. Now let me show you what my team has decided." He began to turn on the smartboard and showed us all the ideas they had worked together.

Each and every idea was better and better than before the previous one. Heck, I think I might even have to buy some for myself! I can tell that this, this will be big. And this going big means of course more customers, more money, and more happy faces. This definitely was a great idea on Mr. Tobias' half.

The meeting took around 2 hours but we came to a conclusion. We were able to create some different scents on what the upcoming collections could be based on. We have also decided on a number of how many collections there will be, which we chose to make 3. The 1st one being called Sugar Veil. The 2nd one being Vanilla Crème Whispers and the last being Cake kiss. We are currently on the designing the bottles but we are leaning forward on a cake-y look for them of course.

As I'm pondering to myself someone walks up to me. A wiry built girl with long dark hair, her eyes are staring at me with some sort of interest.

"Hi! You must be Peeta? It's Really nice to meet you!" She said in a sort of high pitched voice. It made my ears ring with every syllable she spoke.

"It's Mr. Mellark thank you." I didn't want to seem rude, but I don't like when people address me by my name.

"I'll just call you Peet! A nickname for a sweet guy hm? Anyways my name is Clove!" She was getting on my nerves but I shouldn't be so rude. It's not in my blood to be rude. I just sighed and attempted to shrug it off.

"Is there something you are looking for uhm..?" I had already forgotten her name.

"It's Clove... Anyways would you like to go out-" She had been cut off by Mr. Tobias.

"Clove it's time to leave now! Leave Mr. Mellark alone now. He could have a wife for all we know." I had a little blush on my cheeks. Me? With a wife. I don't see myself as the most desirable person to be with. And wait, Clove saw me desirable? I was lost for words as I saw the two exit the building with the other workers.

Guess it's time for me to leave as well. I grabbed my stuff and walked over to my car. The car I have was actually a gift from my rich uncle, Haymitch. He probably is retired now ever since he won the lottery. Now he just stays home drinking all the time. I've made sure to keep this car in amazing shape, I mean it is expensive now. I got in and began driving back to the apartment. Even though I have lots of money I see no reason to use it all. And since I don't have a family of my own I never thought there was areal reason for me to own a house of my own. I've had dreams of my having my own family. People that I need to take care off...