Love On A Record

Chapter 10

Katniss

I walk into the studio and notice Peeta standing alone at the other side of the room. I start walking over to him and he looks up at me.

"Didn't you hear?" He asks. "They cancelled today."

"Then why are you here?" I ask.

"I don't know," he says. "Seemed like a quiet place for me to think but then, you showed up." I look down and take a step back.

"I'm sorry about everything," I say. "About what I did."

"Don't worry about it," he says.

"But I do worry about it," I say softly as I sit on the piano bench. "I made a joke out of your feelings by what I did. I tried to sleep with you because I was drunk and I knew you wouldn't leave me alone."

"Katniss, I just want to, if I were to do that with you, I wanted it to mean something other than you just being drunk and looking for a warm bed." I look at him and get up into my feet slowly.

"I'm ashamed of the girl I am when I party too much," I say.

"You need help, Katniss," he says.

"I'm trying," I say. "But I want to feel something. And sometimes, alcohol or a good romp is what it takes. And as bad as it sounds, I knew I wouldn't wake up alone in the morning. I knew that you would take care of me." I reach into my pocket and pull out the song he wrote and left in my trailer a week ago. "And this, this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read." He blushes and looks at his shoes.

"I was, I was feeling a lot of stuff when I wrote that," he says and I smile.

"I know," I say. "I'd like you to play it for me."

"Why?" He asks and I stand up so I'm standing in front of him.

"Because you wrote it," I say. "And you deserve to be the one to play it." He glances at me before sitting down and plinking a few notes on the piano. I pick up the guitar and playing so he starts to actually play along.

"You're giving me a million reasons to let you go
You're giving me a million reasons to quit the show
You're givin' me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

"If I had a highway, I would run for the hills
If you could find a dry way, I'd forever be still
But you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

"I bow down to pray
I try to make the worse seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one to stay

"Head stuck in a cycle, I look off and I stare
It's like that I've stopped breathing, but completely aware
'Cause you've given me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Giving me a million reasons
About a million reasons

"And if you say something that you might even mean
It's hard to even fathom which parts I should believe
'Cause you've given me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Givin' me a million reasons
About a million reasons

"I bow down to pray
I try to make the worse seem better
Lord, show me the way
To cut through all his worn out leather
I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one to stay