Life after the fall of panem

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

I wake up again, not opening my eyes yet, just laying there. I feel around for Peeta but he's not there. My eyes barely crack open, and a smile stretches across my face. I let out a soft whine as my body gets out of bed. When I reach the bathroom, which is connected to our bedroom, I realize I have no clothes on. I scan the floor , the only thing I see is the clean laundry basket, but it's all of Peeta's stuff. 'Oh well' I think when I grab a longer gray t-shirt and a pair of his green plaid boxers. That's when I smell it, 'it's, it has to be, it's turkey and .. and potatoes, and..' , I start to take deeper breaths , '..and something with cranberries.' I look at myself in the mirror before going down stairs. I have this , glow about me this morning. I actually look pretty good. Maybe Peeta and I should do that more often. I slowly walk down stairs , peeking at the clock before I go, seeing it's 4:30pm. I quickly reach the bottom of the waiting to see a glimpse of my dashing husband. He's mixing things vigorously while standing there in only his red striped boxers. He turns around to grab more flour when he see me. "Wow, you look incredible." Peeta freezes, staring at me, admiring my features. "Sorry, I was in the bathroom and just saw your clean basket so I .." I start before he cuts me off ," No, you look great in my clothes, my boxers look like short shorts on you." He winks at me. "You look casual and comfortable in the shirt." he says. I blush and say, "What are you making?" "Well I found your wild turkey and I used our left over potatoes from a few nights ago to make mashed potatoes and I made cranberry cheesecake for dessert." I start to walk over to him, and he makes his way to me. I jump and he catches me in mid air, I kiss him, over and over again. That's when my stomach growled, and Peeta laughed. "Sounds like someone's hungry !" I smirk at him. We slowly finish our meal before Peeta says," Katniss? Why did we wait so long?" "For what?" "To share what we shared last night." "I don't know... But we were definitely missing out." I wink at him and he laughs while finishing up his last few bites of cheesecake . "I thought you wanted to wait though." Peeta says. "I do, but I don't want my life planned out for me, I want to go day by day and see where fate takes us." I explain. "Ohh, so if something happens because of this, you won't be mad at me?" Peeta asks timidly. "Of corse not." I tell him and he smiles "Peeta, you love me. Real or not real?" I say bringing up the past, letting him know nothing will change how I feel about him. He smiles and shakes his head at the floor. "Real."