The Symbolic Hunger Games

Chapter 16 - First Meeting

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Two days later
I wake up in Peeta's arms. He's still asleep. I look out the window, I see it's still dark outside.
I lay there for a while.
Peeta pushes my body closer to his in his sleep and mumbles something I can't hear clearly.
I smile a little on him, mumbling in his sleep.
Soon his eyes are fluttering open and he looks at me with tired eyes.
"Hi." He says with his sexy morning voice.
"Hello." I say.
"Wanna eat breakfast? I'm starving." I ask. He nods and blinks with his eyes.
"In five minutes." He mumbles and pulls me closer.
I chuckle.
"Okay then." I say.
"Thanks." He mumbles and kisses my cheek.

Wen we're at the breakfast table I put up two pancakes, some cream for them and some bacon.
Peeta puts up a huge plate of bread, ham, bacon, pancakes and muffins. He takes two glasses of orange juice.
I just look at him, I'm still fascinated of how much he can eat.
"What?" He asks with his mouth full of pancakes.
"Nothing." I chuckle and digs in to my bacon.

Effie walks in through the doors.
"You can meet Rock today." She says.
"Can we?" I ask excitedly.
"Yes." She says.
She seems sad. Well, that's obvious, Haymitch died two days ago. And it was her first real love. She must be heartbroken.
I know how it felt when I almost lost Peeta during the war.
I look at him, feeling lucky that I got the chance to keep him. To keep him mine.
Peeta looks at me and smiles.
"When can we meet him?" Peeta asks.
"In about two hours." Effie says.
"That's before he'll go up for his interview with Caesar." She says.
"Okay, thanks Effie." I say and smile at her.
She smiles a sad smile back at us.

"Come, sit here with me." Peeta offers and pats on the couch.
I walk over to him and he opens his arms as I lay down and relax my head at his arm.
He kisses the top of my head.
"I've missed this." He whispers softly in my ear.
"Me too." I whisper back.

Peeta reaches for the tv control and turns on the tv. And as expected, it's a baking program on how to make biscuits.
I snort.

"What's wrong?" He asks and rubs my back gently.
"Can't we watch something else? You can watch these programs when we come back home." I say and tries to reach for the tv remote. Peeta holds it up in the air and looks at me playfully.
"I want a kiss first." He says and smiles.
I laugh and lean up against his lips and kiss them softly. His hands move directly down to my waist.

I broke out kiss half a minute later and takes the tv remote from his hand and change tv channel to a movie. I wanna see something romantic with Peeta. A kind of movie that makes me wanna kiss him all the time and makes me cry so Peeta can hold me in his protecting arms and rub my back.

The movie was heartbreaking. It was about a girl who lost her mother in a car accident and she got paralyzed in her left arm. She later on meets a boy who she loves and he helps her get through her losses.

In the end of the movie the boy gets killed, murdered by his father.
I cried so much.
I turn around while I'm crying and burying my face into his chest and I can feel his steady heartbeat.

"It's okay." Peeta says softly and rubs my back softly and strokes his hand over my hair. He bends down and kisses the top of my head.
"I love you." He says and reaches out for my hand.
He grabs it and I grab his hand back and look up into his eyes.
"I love you too." I say and rest my head on his left arm.

Effie walks in to us about two hours later.
"You wanna see Rock?" She asks.
I jump out from Peeta's arms, Peeta groans, he probably fell asleep.
"Yes of course!" I say excitedly and run towards Effie to hug her.
"Thank you." I say.
"No problem dear." She says.

I can see she's still sad from Haymitch's death a couple days ago. So am I, but I think I've been used to people close to me die so I don't react the same.
Since I saw Prim "die" and when Prim told me that mother is dead, and when my father died. There's always be a hole on my heart that never will heal.

Effie shows us to a floor longer down in the building and opens the door.
Everything I see is white and all I can see is doctors running around in the hallways with food and medecine sand stuff.

Effie shows us to a door and opens it. In the room I spot Rock lying in a bed with white sheets. His skin is so fair, it's almost scary. And he looks so pale and so skinny.
But I was too when I won my hunger games. I was starved, there's nothing unusual.

I grab his hand and holds it for a minute.
"You made it." I whispered.
His eyes flutters open and he looks around confused.
"What did you say?" He asks. Even his voice sounds weak.
"You made it." I say and smiles at him.

I can see a tear running down his eye. He shakes his head and he groans in pain.
"No I didn't." He says and another tear falls down his eye.
"I know how it feels. To loose someone you love." I say.
"No, not a person you loved in the way I loved Cara. And I killed her... I killed her!" He says and tears are streaming down his eyes.
"I've lost my mother, I lost Rue, I've seen people get murdered in the hunger games. I've seen Peeta hijacked and tortured. I've seen Peeta strangle me. I've seen my sister, who I protect more than nothing getting "blown into pieces". My father died in a mine explosion when I were just a child. Now tell me again I don't know how it feels."
I saw and now I'm the one who's crying.
He looks at me, but he's not saying anything.

"Anyways I'm happy you made it." I say when I'm done crying.
He smiles a weak and wounded smile at me.
"Thanks." He says.

Now there's only the interview left. After that, he'll be able to go home again.

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