I do, I need you. #wattys2016

Hallway Kisses.

That night Effie whisked me away to stay in a house across the village with the rest of the girls. Peeta kept Rye, as I would be pre-occupied with the girls. I didn't want to leave him; and I'm for sure not looking forward to having to sleep alone tonight. Or the rest of the weekend. Maybe I can sneak over there in the middle of the night when everyone's asleep.

The next morning was hectic. Effie had us up by five the next morning, Annie had make a huge breakfast and all the boy except Haymitch showed up to eat. Effie said as a tradition he's not allowed to see her at all today until the actual wedding. As soon as Peeta stepped inside the house that morning I literally jumped into his arms and kissed him. He told me he could hear my shouts from the nightmares.

After breakfast we all rode to the huge dining hall where the first wedding would be. Peeta and I are the only ones having an outdoor wedding. Our prep squad arrived minuets ago, that leads us to now.

It leads us to Effie rushing around, and shouting at everyone to hurry. The boys and girls were separated to different sides of the building. Effie screams at us from the bathroom where she's putting on the dress. I glance at Johanna who laughs and shakes her head. "It is her day I guess..." I note and shake my head also.

"This is impossible!" Effie shrieks from the bathroom.

"Come out, let us see it." Johanna yells back.

She emerges from the bathroom and I swear everything stopped. She was drop dead flawless. No makeup. A gorgeous dress. "Oh Effie." I smile tears slipping out. "You look gorgeous."

"Oh but I don't have any makeup on my dear." She tells me taking my hand.

"And your barely getting any." Annie chirps.

"What? No! I need my regula-"

"Oh no you don't." I interrupt her laughing "I think Fluvis knows what to do." I look to him and he nods.

She sighs, defeated. "Alright dears, go get your dresses on." We nod and take our dresses and make into the hallway.

"Annie." I nudge her shoulder. "Can you hold this? I'll be right back." I whisper. She nods taking my dress and I turn darting back down the hallway. I reach the door of where the boys are and knock before pushing into the room.

"Katniss?" Gale raises an eyebrow. "What are you doing? Is everything alright?"

"I need to talk to Peeta." I say my eyes flickering to him, he nods and follows me to the hallway.

I don't hesitate to press me lips to his hard slipping my fingers into his hair. "Something tells me you don't have anything to tell me."
He whispers into my lips.

"Nope." I grin kissing him again. The door is cracked and Gale laughs.

"I told you Blade! That's ten bucks, fork it up." He laughs. He closes the door and I kiss him again. Someone -I'm guessing Gale- hits the door.

"I think that's our cue to stop." Peeta chuckles breaking away. I pout and he crosses his arms over his chest. "We'll see each other in half an hour." He smiles.

"Sure, but we can't do this in public" I smirk pulling him towards me again and kissing him hard. He breaks away breathing fast trying to catch his taken breath.

"Okay, True." He says breathlessly.

"Peeta!" Someone calls from inside the room.

"Okay, seriously. I've got to go." He laughs. I kiss him one last time before he rushes back inside. I run to the girl's changing room. It's quiet when I enter, each of them wearing a crooked smile.

"What?" I ask.

"How's Peeta?" Cressida smiles, I blush and tell her to hush.

The brides maid dresses are short, a light purple color. Low cut top, with a heart outline curving around my breasts. I look at myself in the mirror tugging the dress down.

"Has anyone checked on the kids?" I ask turning around to face them.

"Yeah, Jo went a few minuets ago. Said that everything's fine and their asleep, your moms gonna bring them out when it all starts."

I nod and put my clothes into a duffle bag I had brought along. As I'm walking from the changing room back to Effie's main room, I catch a glimpse of him. He's wearing a gray suit, with the cuffs rolled up halfway to his elbows. I smirk and shake my head entering the room. "The boys headed out." I say as I throw my bag in the corner behind the door.

"Let's go then." Effie smiles looking at me, I hold my arm out ready to lead her to the alter. Being the first bride's maid, I am to lead her down there, then walk her down the isle. Like her and Haymitch shall do in a few days for me, they'll give me away along with my mother.

We stop in front of the doors, each of the boys stands waiting two. "Go out in pairs, step together, like we rehearsed earlier." She says quickly. I nod.

Johanna and Blade go first.
Then Gale and Cressida.
Next Peeta and I.

Then finally she comes walking down the isle. She's beautiful. After her, a baby Michael is wheeled down the isle to our feet.

The rest of the children stay behind, I see my mother and Mac but I pay no mind. I watch Effie and Haymitch as they say their vows. I tune in when it's almost over. "And do you Effie Trinket take Haymitch Abernathy to be your lawfully wedded husband?"

"I do." She smiles as she slips the ring onto his finger.

"And do you Hay-"

"Of of course." He grins cutting him off.

"Well, then that's it. Haymitch, you may kiss your bride."

He smiles that smile. "Certainly." He kisses her bent over holding her above the ground securely in his arms. He'll be good to her.

**

I sit with Gale, half an hour before his own wedding. It's the next day, my head rests on his shoulder. We sit in silence, watching all the others busy around us. "You know." I start. "I always figured it'd be us getting married." He lets out a chuckle squeezing my hand before letting go.

"I know, but he's good for you. Everyone knows it." I smile. "I may not have been the best to you, but I never hurt you right?" He asks.

"You sure were difficult to deal with a lot of times." I chuckle. "Like when you smashed Peeta's cake for me." I see the sadness on his face. I stand reach out my hand.  "Come on best friend, let's go get you hitched."

I was the maid of honor for that wedding too, Annie is Johanna's maid of honor. I chose Cressida as my maid of honor.

If only Prim was here.

I let go of his hand and quickly make my way to Peeta. I snake my arms around his waist and he hugs me close. He kisses my temple and releases.

"Two more days my dear."