Rising From The Ashes

Chapter Four She Needs Me

Author's Note

In a car for four hours so I will probably able to update to pass time. Hanging with kogymstar2 #gymnastic comp. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor. >>----> Katniss Mellark

Peeta's P.O.V.

Once I turn around, I see Katniss running towards me with a smile planted on her face. I can see the joy in her eyes when she sees me turn around. In an instant I drop all of the bags that were in my hands and jog straight to her. At first I thought that she would think I was approaching her to strangle her, so to ease that thought I smile. I could see relief flash in her eyes as she can see that I mean her no harm but to be with her again. Once the distance has shortened, she jumps into my arms, with her arms around my neck and legs locked around my waist and of course for not expecting this to happen I am surprised but quickly recover by wrapping my arms on the small part of her back, lifting her higher into the air. There are no words that can explain the happiness I feel in my heart. I put my head by the crook of her neck, with her hair in my face. Her hair reminds me of summertime, how the wind will bring the scent of wild flowers to my nose, I love it. As I inhale and exhale I can feel Katniss shutter in my arms, I hope it's because of the breath I took and not fear. "I missed you so much Katniss." I say into her hair.

"I missed you too Peeta, more than you could imagine. Please, please don't leave me again. I don't think I could survive. I need you Peeta." Katniss begs me while pulling her head back so I could see her face and I see a tear run down her cheek, I reach hand up to her face and wipe the tear away with my thumb but rest my hand there. She leans in and I don't want to let go of her at all. I am really surprised and kinda worried that she is really easy to hold even though I only am supporting her with one hand on her back but she might be light because she has a good hold on me or because I have muscles from lifting all those hundred pound bags of flour in the bakery.

"I need you too Katniss. I love you. " I tell her with my vision kinda blurry because I am beginning to cry as well. She moves her hands to the back of my neck and wipes the tears that had fallen off of my face.

"I love you too Peeta. Don't leave me again. Stay with me?" She asks with desperation in her eyes and voice. I somehow think she already knows the answer to that question.

"Always." I say and with that I kiss her. This kiss is not like the others where cameras and audiences were in front of our faces, this kiss is just for us. Me and Katniss. I feel my insides burying with a spark, a spark that could take a whole forest out because it is that powerful. I love the effect that this girl has on me. We pull away from the kiss when we need a breath of air, I look her in the eyes and see that she was hit with the spark too. What she did next kind of surprised me, she kissed me again but a little harder and I could tell she needed me as much as I needed her.

We kiss in synchronization with one hand running through her hair and the other on her butt to support her up. I can feel Katniss running her hands through my hair with a little tugging as she goes. I swipe my tongue on the bottom of her lip almost begging for her to give me entrance, which happily obliged. I am at bliss for every single second I explore her mouth while fighting for dominance with our tongues, which I came out as the victor and Katniss the loser. I can feel her smile into the kiss and so am I. We have no idea how long we have been in heaven kissing but we are soon interrupted by an annoying voice that I had encountered with before I got here.  Ugh Haymitch.

"GET A ROOM WOULD YA! THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO BE SCARED FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE! JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT PERSON IS ME!!!!!" Haymitch yells drunk as can be out his window.

"SHUT UP HAYMITCH!!" Katniss and I yell back at the same time. We laugh knowing how that was a little weird. Once the sound of the window being closed, me and Katniss lean into another kiss when suddenly, it starts pouring down rain. I see Katniss laugh and I wonder what she is thinking in that beautiful mind in hers.

"What are you laughing about?" I ask her while looking up so I could see her face.

"Oh nothing,"she replies back with a smile and a little laugh.

"Come on, tell me!" I whine like a little boy who didn't the exact toy he wanted. "PLEASE, now I am so curious!"

"I just think that it is kinda cute, well romantic that we were about to kiss in the rain. But it is just a-" she was about to continue with what she was saying but she is interrupted by me kissing her lips. Kissing in the rain, so romantic. I could tell that at first she was startled by my action but then she recovers by kissing me back. I begin to move in the direction toward her house so that we can no longer draw attention to us. I totally forgot that I had dropped my bags in front of my house and know they are in the rain but I could hardly care about them now, all I can focus on is Katniss.

"Where are we going?" Katniss asks in between kisses she gives me.

"Well we had our romantic kiss in the rain now lets go inside. I want to spend every second of my life with you as much as possible." I say as we walk through the door of her house. I set Katniss on the ground and make sure to close and lock the door. I turn around and place my hands on Katniss' hips, drawing her in closer. I look her deep in the eyes and ask,"You love me real or not real?"

She looks up to me and says,"Real. A million times real. Will you stay with me forever?"

"Always. And don't you forget that." I answer with all the love I have in my heart.