Real or not real?

[16]Our New Family

Katniss POV
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Me. Peeta. Prim. Our new family. The three of us. All together as one.

We all get up off the floor, wiping the tear stains off our faces.

"So, Primrose, what would you like to do?" I pleasantly ask.

"Katniss can we go to the meadow?" She pleads.

"Of course! We have some catching up to do, anyways." I wink at her. She comes up and hugs me. How sweet. I hug her back.

"Come on we gotta get going!!" I smile.

We head down to the meadow with a packed picnic. Prim runs ahead of us, chasing butterflies, as Peeta and I stay behind.

"Katniss, what about our honeymoon," he questions.

"Well, we could reschedule it, or leave a bit later than we planned."

"But prim.... "

"She can stay with Haymitch and Effie.
They wouldn't mind."

We reach the meadow and prim twirls around in circles until she almost falls over dizzily.

"Katniss braid my hair!" She giggles. It's astonishing to finally see her happy.

"Okay little duck! Come over here," I motion her toward my lap as I sit on the ground.

I start braiding her hair, strand after strand. I now have a little girl to do hair with again.

I put the tie around the tips of Prim's hair and finish it.

"Ta-da!!" I say.

"No, no, no, not quite, " Peeta says as he places a weaved flower crown on top of her head. "That's better," he smiles.

"Thank you Katniss and Peeta!" She exclaims, hugging us both.

"You look beautiful," I say.

"Not as beautiful as you," she frowns.

"Hey! Stop it, you." I tap her on the nose and she giggles.

We dance around the meadow. Holding hands and spinning in circles. Including Peeta, that is. We all dance and sing. We sing the valley song, because I knew hanging tree would be too much for Peeta.

Under and through each other's arms, circling around one another, skipping to our own words. Soon enough, the sun sets.

"I think we should go tell Haymitch and Effie our news!!" I exclaim.

"News?" Prim questions.

"You, silly. You're our news!" I answer.

"Oh yeah, haha."

14 yer old prim is not any different than the 10 year old prim I used to know and boy do I miss her.
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"Haymitch!!! Effieeee!!" Peeta and I holler through Haymitch's/ their house. We kept prim waiting outside so we could surprise them with her back and all.

I run up the stairs and into their bedroom, only to find both of them on their bed. "Well look what we have here...." I smirk.

"HEY!!" Haymitch shouts from across the room. "Shoo, get out of here!"

"Payback for all the times me and lover boy were interrupted, jus sayin," I state.

"That doesn't mean you do it back to m- ugh I'll be down in a minute."

Hah.

I go down the stairs and join Peeta on the couch. I glance out the window at Prim and put up my index finger, indicating that she won't have to wait too much longer.

"What do we have today...." Haymitch asks as he makes his way down the steps, Effie trailing behind him," hey, aren't you two supposed to be on the train?"

"Yes, but we decided to tell you some news-" I'm cut off by a smirking Haymitch who sits down beside Peeta and pats his back.

"Proud of you bread boy. Finally wanted some toast, eh?"

I blush and shoot Haymitch a disgusted look.

"No, Haymitch, that's not our news so you can stop assuming things," I matter-of-factly say.

Peeta secretly glances out the window and nods at Prim. The front door creaks open as she steps in wearing her flower crown from the meadow.

Haymitch and Effie's weirded out expressions grow as they both take a step back.

"Woah woah woah what's going on," Haymitch says with surrendering hands. I walk over to prim and sand by her side.

"She never died," I say as Effie gasps. Prim smiles and waves with a smirk resembling haymitch's.

"Oh, my," Effie gapes in confusion and gives prim a hug. "I've missed you, Primrose," she says with a sad smile.

"I've missed you too, Effie," prim says hugging her back.