The Symbolic Hunger Games

Chapter 21 - Prim And Cato Visits

I wake up by the pain. I moan out because of the pain in my stomach, which wakes Peeta up.
"Are you okay?" Is the first thing he asks as he practically jumps out of bed, looking at me with worried eyes.
"I've got a horrible pain in my stomach." I say, another moan escapes my mouth. Peeta looks so concerned.
"Is there anything I can do?" He asks.
"Could you turn on the tv, and fix a cup of lemon tea would that be great." I say, and Peeta nods, kissing my forehead, resting his hand on my growing abdomen and turns on the tv and runs out to fix a cup of tea. He's so sweet, caring about me, he's always so worried that something will happen to me. It's true, what Haymitch said before the second quarter quell. I could live a hundred lifetimes and never deserve that boy.

It's some hours later and I'm relaxing in a hot bath, a one my mother used to prepare for me before the Second Quarter Quell. The beautiful scents of the dried flowers makes its way into my nose and I just breathe out. All of this pain from the baby makes me really sore in my whole body, because of all the puking and gagging.
I sink down in the water, making my nose almost touching the water. I close my eyes.
And then the birth of the child comes into mind. I open my eyes, I'm frightened. I've seen all these women giving birth throughout the years, when they get to my mother. I've seen how much pain they're in, their screams. The screams I ran away from and I'm about to be that woman in a matter of months. The thought makes me wanna run away. But you can't run away from yourself.

Prim and Cato arrives today from district 2. I'm still mad that Cato convinced Prim to live in 2, since they're still some rebellion from the people who served the Capitol there. And since Cato's a head peacekeeper there, which makes my younger sister an extra big target.

There's a knock on the door and I quickly get down and open to see my sisters smiling face.
"Hello." She smiles at me, and I quickly pull her into a big hug.
"I've missed you." She says.
"I've missed you so so so much, and I've been so worried for you." I say, and tears almost fill my eyes as I say it.
"You don't have to worry for me, I'm grown up now." She says and I smile and look at her.
"Yes you are." I smile at her and she smiles.
I look over her shoulder to see a very nervous Cato.
"Hello Cato." I say, in my nicest way possible, he gives me a shy smile and closes the door.
"Hi, thank you for letting me coming." He says, he looks really nervous.
"No problem." I say and as I finish the sentence, an awkward silence begins. I decide to break it quickly.
"So, come in." I say and give them a small smile and I walk in. I let out a sigh and roll my eyes because they can't see me.
Peeta gets down the stairs and as usual, is really social. Even with Cato. The guy we were in the same games as, the guy we thought we killed and the guy that tried to kill us. It feels weird to be in the same house as him, but I guess I'll have to get used to it.

The day goes by and the night comes quickly.
"Okay, I wanna tell you something. I say, Cato's and Prim's eyes are at me now.
"Uhm...okay I'm just gonna say it. I'm pregnant." I say and give them a smile, Peeta smiles at me.
Prim's eyes widen first, but then she smiles happily and runs over to me.
"Oh my god, I'm so happy for you!" She smiles and hugs me. I laugh at her and she chuckles.
"Hey little duck, don't get too excited. You might scare the baby." I joke and she laughs.
Cato walks up to me and pull me into a very awkward hug.
"Congratulations." He smiles shyly and walks over to Peeta and hugs him too.
"Anyways, Peeta and I are gonna go to bed now, your bed's in Prim's old room. I changed the covers this morning so it should be good to sleep there." I say, making sure they heard sleep. I don't want them to do anything else, but who am I to stop them? She's basically a grown woman now which is hard for me to understand.

Peeta and I get up to our bedroom. When he closes the door, he pulls me into his arms and kisses me deeply. I smile against his lips and kiss him back. He lifts me up and I wrap my arms around his waist and I for once get taller than him. He kisses me and leaves small marks down my neck and I let out small moans.
We lay down on the bed and Peeta hovers over me.
"I love you. I love both of you." He smiles as he mentions both and I smile back at him.
"And we love you." I smile at him and he smiles, leaning in to kiss my lips.
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I wake up, screaming after having a nightmare. I was back in the arena, hunted by the mutations, the dogs had blonde fur and blue eyes. It was Cato.

Peeta hugs me tightly and calms me down.
"It's okay. You're safe." He keeps repeating until I get calmed down.
Then we lay there, watching the ceiling.
"I'm hungry." I say and he looks at me.
"I'll make you something." He says and gets out of bed, kissing the top of my head.

About two minutes later I get down to the kitchen where Peeta's making chicken soup with freshly baked cheese buns.
"Oh my god it smells so good." I say and let all the amazing scents hit my nose.
He looks at me and smiles. I love how he looks at me. Like nothing has ever changed.

He puts the buns into the oven and walks over to me, resting his hands on my hips. I look up at him and smile. He smile back and we just stand like that, looking at eachother.
"Did you have any nightmares tonight?" I ask.
"Yeah." He says honestly.
"What was it about?" I ask.
"You, pregnant in the quarter quell. Y-you and the baby got killed b-by Enorbaria." He says and I see how tears starts to fill his eyes. As they hit his cheek I lean up and kiss both of his cheeks.
"I'm here. We are here." I say and smile at him. He gives me a small smile.
"I love you." He says and kisses me and pulls me into a hug.
I hug him back the best I can because I'm only wearing one of these silk robes from the Capitol.

I think Peeta and I can be fully happy here. We will be when the nightmares stop.
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Idk if I should keep writing on this book, because no one like reads the chapters anymore...
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Hanna