Heart of a Willow (51st Annual Hunger Games)

Part Nineteen - New Beginnings

NOAH'S POV

My body is numb. I can not register any pain. I can not feel anything. I am curled in a tight ball. The tingling feeling starts to drain from my body. I start to slowly move my fingers and feet, trying to regain the feeling. I try to pull myself but collapse.

"I have fucked everything up!" i scream maybe a little too loudly. i know i shouldn't have. I don't even know where i am. i seem to be lay on a bed of grass. I can smell pine trees. i can hear ducks quacking in the distance suggesting a lake or river.

 i try again to get to my feet but still, i do not succeed.

"WHY! I HATE THIS. I HATE EVERYTHING" i scream. "Leigha... I need you back "

I scream into my hands, tears stinging my eyes as I remember my last few seconds with Leigha. Her tears. My tears. Her rouge voice.

A shadow looms over my body. I can feel it but i don't look up. A hand comes to my shoulder. I flinch but still refuse to look up.

"Noah" i hear a voice. A girl's voice. The voice i have been craving since it left me. I don't believe she is real though. That i am hullucenating.

"I know you are not real. Just go" i cry.

"Noah. It's me. It's Leigha." She says, lifting up my chin. I stare into her face. Those eyes that i could never hullucenate over. I pull myself up so i am now on my knees.

"Leigha? Is that you? Really?" i ask, starting to believe it. She nods, her eyes sparkling with tears. I pull her down into a long kiss. I'm not going to let her go again. We have been finally given a second chance. Together.

After what seemed like forever, we broke apart but only because we needed air. A smile come's across my lips. "Where are we?"

"It's our place. what we dreamed of when we were little. Someone up here had listened to us. We can be together" she laughs slightly. "And i still have your ring" She holds up her hand and there sits the ring i gave her.

"You stillwant to get married?" i ask. She nods again. "We have no where to live, Leigha"

She smiles and points behind me. I turn to see a little cottage on a small hill. It's perfect. "It's amazing" i whisper. I attempt to stand up but my leg refuses to let me up and i feel myself fall. Leigha's hands fall under my arms and struggles to pull me up but she keeps a hold of me until i can keep a firm stand.

"Let's go home" she whispers as we turn and make our way towards the little cottage. We can be together forever and that's how it will stay.

"I love you" I say squeezing her hand.

"I love you more" she says back.

10 YEARS LATER

I sit down on the bench in the yard. I love this spot. Where I can look over the valley peacefully. Well now, i get no peace. Leigha walks over to me. A smile plastered on her face. Her light blue eyes sparkle as the sun hits them. I bring her into a tight embrace. She looks up at me and our lips crash together. 

 We break apart as laughter grows louder in our ears. I sigh loudly and turn to see two children running up to us. A girl with Dark hair and light blue eyes a little way behind a boy, who's hair is a golden brown and his eyes are a dazzling dark blue eyes. You would never have thought they were twins. Six years old.

"Mummy! Daddy! River put a worm in my shoes!" My little daughter cries out.

"Daddy. Don't believe her!" River cries out. His golden brown hair growing lighter as he runs into the light.

"Come on you guys. Give Daddy a break. River no worms. Willow please go and feed your fish and then you can go and play" Leigha says tiredly.

"Ok" they say in harmony. But then Willow bursts out, rather unexpectedly. "When will Autumn be here mummy?"

"Soon. Now go on" Leigha laughs a little and watches our babies run back into the house.

"Not long now. A few months to go" I say, patting her swollen stomach. She smiles and pulls me into a long kiss.

Not a bad second life considering all we went through. Now we are happily married, have the twins and another girl on the way. Some say we have grown up too fast. Parents at twenty years old with the twins but we don't care. We are together. We have a family.

We have each other...