Mockingjay High: An Everlark Story

Chapter Seventeen: The Cave

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

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••Peeta's POV••

"Somebody should go back and finish her off." Cato snarls.

Staring down at the ground, I twirl my sword by the hilt, so that the point makes a cone shaped hole in the grass

"I'll do it." I say softly.

"What?" Cato snaps.

"I'll-" I start to say but Clove cuts me off.

"We heard you!" She snarls. "why would we let lover boy got after his lover?"

"Beacuse..." I say

"Because what?!" They both snap at me.

"Because I don't love her anymore." I lie while my heart shatters in two.

"Alright go enough. Go!" Cato yells

Branches fly at me,while I run. Leaving scrapes and cuts on my face and arms. Finally, I get to the tree where Katniss dropped the beehive on us. I see her. Kneeling next to Glimmer's unconscious body, prying the bow from her hands and pulling the sheath from behind her back.

"Go Katniss!" I yell at her. She turns around startled, "Go! Run!"

Katniss then quickly turns around an sprints in the other direction. I soon hear footsteps crashing behind me. I turn around to see none other than Cato Larek standing there, sword in hand, wearing a face of hatred. The worst hatred there could ever be.

"You lied!" He yells as he brings he sword down on my thigh.

I hear a sickening crack and two pairs of footsteps. One pair running away and one pair running towards me. As I start to fall, black dots dance around in my eyes. Just before I hit the ground, arms pull me in an embrace making my body shoot with electricity. Then my world goes black.

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I slowly drift back to consciousness. I feel a cold, wet, cloth on my forehead. My leg doesn't hurt as bad anymore but it still hurts like hell. I open my eyes to

find Katniss smiling down at me.

"You're awake." She says, still smiling. "Does your leg still hurt?" she asks, a pained expression flashing across her face.

I look down at my leg to find it wrapped up in cloth. "Katniss, did you do that?" I say pointing down at my thigh.

"Yes, silly, who else would've?" Katniss says, while lacing her fingers through mine.

"I don't know, Cato?" I joke.

Katniss lets out a small chuckle. "I surely doubt that. He broke your femur, it was a clean brake but it will take a while to heal. The two half bones need to be placed where they were, before the brake can fully heal, so for the time being I made a brace with my arrow shafts and wrapped it in cloth that Prim sent to us."

"Wow you sure know alot about this." I say staring into her beautiful gray eyes, while smiling.

"Well, My mother gets a lot of injuries from the miners, so I've caught on. At least enough to know about broken bones." She says looking back into my eyes, smiling. Then she cahnges the subject so abruptly it catches me by surprise. "Peeta, why didn't you ask me out after what happened behind the middle school in seventh grade?"

"I don't know. I just thought seventh grade was seventh grade and you would want someone better than me and that you would probably forget it ever happened and-"

Her lips meet mine, interrupting my rant, and and an electric shock goes through me. This kiss is different from the one we had in the woods a couple days ago. This time we know what we are doing as our lips move in sinc. I feel Katniss lightly bite my lip, asking for entrance, and I grant it to her. Katniss's tongue starts to explore my mouth and I hear myself moan.

Katniss laughs through the kiss and pulls away just enough so that her lips brush against mine on every word she says. "This is better than seventh grade." She says with a grin, then starts kissing me again.

Now its my turn to pull away and I do just like she did. "That's because we know what we are doing know." I start to kiss her again but she pulls away again.

"And Peeta, no more braces either." She says, grinning, yet again. I kiss her again, and this time, she lets me kiss her.

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As we go back to go kissing, this time Peeta is the one who lightly bites my lower lip, and I let his tongue explore my mouth. He starts kissing my neck and I realize that this is my weak spot, because I start to moan. As soon as his lips touch mine again, I realize something else. When we both lose our breath, we pull away. It takes us a few seconds to regain it, but we soon do.

"Peeta?" I ask.

"Yeah?"

"You know what I realized?" I say with a smile on my face.

"We fit together just like pieces of a puzzle." I reply.

"Guess it was meant to be." Hes beaming a 100 watt smile.

"I don't guess it was meant to be. I know it was meant to be." I say leaning in, giving him a short kiss on the lips. "You'll stay with me, right?" I say when I pull away.

"Yeah, always. Forever and always." He says, beaming yet another 100 watt smile at me.

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