Finding the Missing Piece: Book 6

Chapter Seventeen

Katniss POV-

"Hey, Katniss?" Peeta says after dinner as I wipe off the table and he does dishes.

I look over, "Yeah?"

"After we finish, I have somethings I want to give you."

I nod, "Oh. Okay." I say.

Then I gasp, "I have something I need to give you too!" I say a little too excitedly, remembering the album of photographs he has no idea we took.

He smiles a little, "Okay."

Afterwards, we both go to our gift-hiding spots, retrieving the stuff and meeting in the living room.

We sit on the couch together, I lean up against him with my belly pressed to his side and he hands me a small gift bag and I hand him the book.

"I didn't even think about wrapping it, I'm sorry." I say embarrassedly when I see his gift and bury my face against his shoulder.

He smiles, "No, it's okay."

"You can look first." I say pointing to the book.

Peeta opens the first page.

It's a picture of Willow and I together.

She has her tiny arms wrapped around my neck and is kissing my cheek and we are both laughing.

A smile immediately crosses his face and widens as he flips the pages.

The pictures Clove took of my belly and me making weird faces at her camera are even in there, a few of Willow and Rye's sonogram photos too.

"Oh my goodness." Peeta says laughing, admiring our baby boy.

I smile happily as I see the pictures of Rye sleeping away.

He goes through all the pictures and absolutely adores the one of Willow painting all over my belly with her blue paints.

"My little artist." Peeta says choked up, laughing.

I kiss his shoulder and he continues through to the end.

"Oh my goodness, Katniss. You all looked beautiful." Peeta says staring at the pictures.

I smile a little.

"I love it, thank you." Peeta says almost in tears, holding my head against him tighter.

"I was gonna give it to you a few weeks ago but I kept forgetting about it." I laugh.

"That's okay, I really do love it."

"Good. I was hoping when I took the pictures that you would get a kick out of it."

"I love it, Katniss. Thank you." He says rubbing my back gently.

I smile a little, glad he likes it.

"Your turn." Peeta says a second later and hands me the bag.

I sit on my knees and start to take tissue paper out of the gift bag and then I look inside.

I pull out another Manila envelope and it has my name on it and then there's a small sketch book and a little bag with a charm inside.

"Oh, Peeta." I say excitedly as I see the charm is for my necklace and has Rye's named engraved on it-just the way Willow's is.

"I will have to send the charm back when he's born to get his birth stone in it but you can wear it until then." He says.

"More letters?" I ask him, holding up the envelope.