It's Real, little duck

Dinners

Peeta's Pov

I couldn't imagine why she would whisper my name. But she did. Did she know I was here? I couldn't help but get false hopes.

"Hey", she said.

"Hello", I responded. "I just wanted to ask if I could eat dinner with you?"

"Yes, I don't see why you couldn't. Though, maybe you should ask Sae. She is the one cooking, after all, not me. I'm bad at cooking." She laughed. What a fantastic sound. I laughed a little too.

"Okay, I'll ask her. Do you mind if I sit here with you?"

"No, sit, please"

Katniss' pov

The days were going. Peeta stayed for dinner that day and had come every day since. I was out hunting but I couldn't concentrate on the game. My nightmares seemed to get worse every night. I was usually dreaming of the dead people I wrote about in the memory book. But still, I couldn't stop writing it. I needed to remember them, and it was one of the few things I did together with Peeta. He was so nice all the time. He didn't even have any flashbacks with me there, and I was laughing more often when he was with me. I wished I could turn back the time and fix so he had not been captured. But much of what was the old Peeta was actually back. I thought about him a lot. I wished he could stay longer at nights and keep the nightmares away like he was on our Victor's train. Stop thinking this way, Katniss. It will not happen. I knew it wouldn't.

I needed to focus on the game. Sae especially wanted me to catch a wild dog and three rabbits today. I looked around me and saw a rabbit ten meters away. I aimed and shot, a spot on.

It took me three more hours to catch the game for Sae. Maybe just because my brain didn't seem to work.

When I got home Sae had already finished dinner. Peeta and Sae were talking about the old bakery. We ate the fried chicken and when they were supposed to leave, I called his name.

"Peeta?"

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

"Can you stay?"

"Sure", he said. "What?" He continued when Sae had left.

"Please stay, I can't resist all those nightmares. So please stay." He looked confused.

Then he nodded.

Peeta's Pov

Does she want me to sleep by her side? I nodded but I didn't know if I should have. What if I'm getting a flashback and hurt her. I can't hurt her again. But I'm going to sleep by her side. Just tonight.

Katniss' Pov

He leans away to his house to pick his pajamas and soon comes back in sweatpant shorts and a thin blue t-shirt. I too put on sleeping shorts and a tank top. We make it to bed and he put his arms around me. It feels so good with his strong arms as a belt around me. I sigh a little.

"Sleep well, Katniss", he says.

"Sweet dreams", I answer. It takes no more than a couple of minutes in his arms to fall asleep.

A/N: Wow, I'm so sorry the chapters are so short. As I have said, these chapters were prewritten. Like a year and a half ago. So in the chapters, later on, I'll try to do them longer.