My Dark Past [Completed]

Chapter Thirty-Five: Labour

"Katniss, I don't want to leave you because you're already a week over your due date" Peeta frowns, Peeta hasn't been to work since the due date that Willow was suppose to come and he needs to go to work because we need as much money as we can manage for when she comes, if I'm being completely honest I need time alone from Peeta okay yes that sounds like I'm being a total bitch but he's always around me during this pregnancy and I just need to have some air

"I know, you can call me in the afternoon to check up on me okay? I'll answer and everything will be fine" I reassure him as I walk him to the door

"Okay, you promise you'll answer?" He ask, I kiss him on his lips with a smile

"I promise I will. Now go, I'll be fine" I say with one last kiss and he's out, I let out a deep sigh and decide to do the dishes because they were starting to pile up in the sink, when I'm done I just sit down on the couch and watch movies on Netflix to pass the time over but not for long because I start to get the worst feeling well more like the sick kind of feeling, I then get a bad back pain so I immediately go to bed seeing as Peeta isn't here to massage my back, great! The one day I make Peeta go to work is the one day that I need him.... I can't even call him because he'll rush over here no matter what I was going to say and so bed is my best option right now, luckily I fall asleep instantly.

I'm awoken by massive pains that was much more stronger than earlier, struggling I try and get up but it really hurts as I do so which makes me wince of course me being the stubborn person I am I just play it off as if it's another fake contraction so I get myself to the kitchen to make myself some lunch seeing has it's late afternoon, half way through preparing my lunch I feel another shoot of pain which causes me to slide down to the floor moaning and groaning at the pain, you've got to be kidding.... going into labour now? While Peeta's at work? I should've never made him go! What am I going to do?! It hurts too much to stand and the phone is all the way in the other room, so I just sit there crying because I know now something bad is going to happen, Peeta's not here, I'm alone, the phone is out of reach, my mobile is in my bed room also out of reach and now I might lose my baby.

It feels like the pain is going on for years but truthfully it's only been an hour or two, the phone has rang three times already and I say a silent prayer to god that Peeta's got the message if it is him and is on his way. It feels like forever till I hear the door get pushed open and my name being called frantically, it's Peeta.... he's here! I then shout for him so he knows I'm in the kitchen and his eyes grow wide, he knows what's happening

"I'll go get the hospital bag and we'll go to the hospital" he tells me and he comes back in a matter of seconds, I must smell disgusting because I was sitting in that puddle from my water breaking like an hour ago, Peeta locks the door and carries me while running down the stairs and into the car lot of the building, it's happening.... we're going to have a baby soon.

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The midwife told me that I am six centimetres dilated and that I've still got a while till I'm ten centimetres, in the meantime Peeta tries distracting me from the pain by talking to me, he helps me go through different exercises and even sits on the toilet seat as I have a warm bath which calmed me down just a little but this baby is causing pain that's becoming unbearable and so I just had to request an epidural, it was just as painful getting it but it definitely works because I don't feel the excruciating pain anymore and I'm finally able to get some rest. When I wake up my parents are in the room talking to Peeta as he sips on his coffee, they soon acknowledge that I'm awake

"Hey sweetie, how you feeling?" Mom asks with a smile

"Okay, the epidural hasn't quite warn off yet but it makes this process easier" I sigh