[On Hold] Love Me Like You ~ Everlark

Chapter 3: Night Out

Kat's POV

I'm stood outside my car, waiting for something to happen but nothing does. I pat my curls on my back and flatten out my dress before walking to the door of this unfamiliar fancy restaurant.

"Good evening, ma'am. Table for-?" The waiter outside the entrance asks me.

"Oh, I have a companion over there." I say while pointing somwhere inside the restaurant since I don't even know where my companion actually is.

The waiter bows his head before opening the door for me. I enter the restaurant, immediately being hit by the coldness of the air conditioner. I am here inside a restaurant, standing awkwardly in front of these people eating. They don't give a shit about me so I don't too.

I scan the room and my eyes land on the guy in a simple tux, checking his watch. I suddenly feel the urge to pee but I hold it in since I can't do that right now. Especially because he has already noticed me after searching the restaurant.

I slowly walk towards him, dreading the time that I will reach the table he is in. His smile almost makes me fall on my kness. I curse myself for wearing such high heels tonight. I reach the front of the table and he stands to shake my hand. I hesistantly take it with a blank face on.

"Hey. I'm Peeta, Peeta Mellark." he introduces.

"So I've heard." I smile and he does the same.

"Oh-I'm Katniss Everdeen." I introduce as I drop his hand.

"So I've heard." he says mimicking my voice.

I giggle a little before we take our seats and a waiter approaches our table. We order for our food and make small talk while waiting. We crack a few jokes here and there, like we really know each other.

After dinner, we agree on taking a walk out in the shore. There's a beach near this place and the air there is really cool. It's rarely noisy there so you could also stop there to think about things which I do.

We reach the beach after walking out there a bit and I grab each of my heels from my feet and place them in my hands. The cold sea breeze makes my hair go flying everywhere as it dances along with the wind.

I huff out a breath and take in the scene in front of me. A darkened sea and some lights from afar. My feet digs into the cold sand and Peeta takes my hand after removing his own shoes and socks. Peeta looks at me as if asking for permission to hold my hand and I just simply nod my head.

We walk along the shore, the wind blowing through us. My breathing gets even like I'm just sleeping out here while walking. Peeta's big hand unwraps from my hand and he places it around my waist this time, pulling me in closer.

I lean my head on his shoulder as we continue to walk slowly. My hands silently wrap around my shoulders because I'm wearing a strapless dress out here in the cold night. Of course, Peeta notices this and removes his jacket.

"Here, take this." he says while handing it over to me.

"No, it's okay. I can handle it." I laugh a little.

"I insist, Katniss." he says while grabbing my hand and enclosing it around the jacket.

"Well thanks then." I smile before wearing the jacket around my shoulders.

It felt new to hear him say my name in front of me. It was like a new, invented word. But it felt good to hear, like a sound of bells ringing when Christmas comes. My smile gets wider by the time we make a stop in front of the beach.

I fall on my butt, landing on the smooth sand and I laugh a little at what I just did. My bottom of my dress is now covered in sand and Peeta follows me, getting his dress pants covered with sand too. I place my hand on his head and mess up his hair. He looks better with his hair messy.

"Hey! Stop it. That took my stylist hours to fix." he jokes and I just laugh at his silliness.

My eyes lock with his and it just stays there. My heart pounds in my chest and my breathing actually gets shallow like the very first time I met him. Well actually the second. I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, I'm under pressure.

He slowly leans in, like what happened every time we meet. I do too and I think, we really can't get over a meet up without having kisses. My forehead touches his own and I see him close his eyes before I do. I feel his lips brush mine a little before something interrupts us.

"Hey! The sea is off limits at nine pm! You're only allowed in the sandy area up here!" someone shouts and I'm guessing to us.

We quickly pull apart when we start to hear footsteps getting louder and louder. I look up to see a watcher checking his watch while staring at us.

"I'm sorry but people aren't allowed to stay near the water at this time because of high tide." he reminds us and Peeta stands up before brushing off the sand on him.

"I'm sorry sir. We didn't know about that but I think we'll just... go now." he says before handing me his hand.

I take it and he pulls me up before I brush off the sand on my dress. He takes my hand in his awkwardly as we walk away from the beach. He lets go of my hand once we reach his car.

He doesn't even open the car door for me like he did from earlier. He just goes straight to his side and enters the car without any word spoken. I silently do the same, thanking the guy that interrupted us. It would've been more awkward if we actually kissed.

But I also wanted to kiss Peeta.

Hey guys I hope you all liked the chapter.

I haven't updated this book for so long and I apologize about it. I had three older versions for this chapter but I kind of deleted them because I didn't know how to actually continue them.

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Shirley xx

"I looked in my rear view mirror and it seemed to make a lot more sense."