Finding the Missing Piece: Book 6

Chapter Three

Katniss POV- (On the phone with Peeta)

"Good morning."

"Morning." I mumble.

"What's wrong?" Peeta asks me immediately.

"Nothing is wrong."

"Katniss, I know you. What happened?"

"I just had a really bad night without you." I whine.

I'm literally on the verge of a mental and emotional breakdown between my nightmare last night, Peeta being hurt and gone and the thing with Rye.

It's killing me.

He sighs, "Nightmares?" Peeta guesses.

"Yes, a really bad one. I think it was the worst one I've ever had." I tell him truthfully.

"Really?" Peeta says pitifully.

"I'm serious." I say truthfully.

"I am sorry, Sweetheart. Were you able to calm yourself down?"

"I guess. Willow helped me and I kind of forced myself because Rye was going insane. But I was up the rest of the night."

Peeta sighs, "I am so sorry. What was it about?"

I groan, I usually don't tell him but I'm too worried about what it might've meant not to be.

I close my eyes, "Rye was just born and I guess we were coming home from the hospital. Then we had a wreck."

Peeta inhales deeply.

"You were able to drive though, nothing had happened to your leg. But you all three died." I tell him bluntly.

"Wow. I am really sorry I wasn't there to help you." Peeta says guiltily.

"I just felt bad for Willow because I had scared her by screaming and crying. Then you weren't there to help so she didn't know what to do."

"But you said she helped you."

"She did. She went through the motions you do when we have nightmares."

"I'm glad she helped you."

"Me too. It just seemed so real. I couldn't go back to sleep-my mind was racing." I say truthfully.

"Hey, we are all okay though."

"For now." I blurt out.

He laughs, "I promise you nothing like that is going to happen."

"What if it does? We didn't think anything like this would happen to you but it did." I say seriously.

Peeta laughs, "Baby, I know you're scared because of what happened. But I am gonna be a hell of a lot more cautious now that it happened but we just can't live in fear."

"But what if my dream was like a sign or something that it's gonna happen?"

"It wasn't a sign. It was just your mind making up scenarios. I have been having bad dreams too. It's only because of what happened." Peeta assures me.

"But I am so scared that it'll happen in the future when we are not expecting it. Everything bad usually happens that way."

"Hey, I promise you that I am going to be a way more cautious driver. Especially now that I know there's actually people out there who will risks other people's lives to commit suicide." He says flustered.

I frown, "But you were already so cautious. What if someone else decides to just randomly crash into us?" I ask him frantically.

Peeta sighs, "Katniss, please don't worry?"