In Between

Yes!

Ch2
Katniss POV.

I wake up with the sun in my eyes. I reach to my right for peeta, but he's not there. I sit up looking around the room but I can't see him. His side of the bed is cold and the door to the hallway is open. I force myself up and out of bed stumbling towards the door and down the stairs. As I reach the bottom the smell of eggs on toast lures me further into the kitchen to where I find peeta cracking another egg into the fry pan. I walk over to him and snake my arms around his neck.

"Well hello there. You've decided to come down stairs have you?" Peeta laughs.
"You were gone and I smelt food" I reply. He laughs serving the last of the eggs onto his plate. As I watch him I notice there's a basket on the edge of the counter.
"What is in there and who's it for?" I ask.
"It's for our picnic today." He says.
"Oh ok. Did you pack cheese buns?"
"I will be once I've baked them, yes." I nod taking my plate and sitting down at the table.

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I hold onto Peeta's hand as we walk through the long grass, holding the basket with his other. Since we left the house he has been chewing on his bottom lip, looking nervous, but what for? It's just a picnic with me. Once we reach the willow tree I spread out the blanket then laying down on it. Peeta places down the basket and kneels next to it. He takes out all of the pastries and goodies he has packed and places it in front of us. There's cheese buns, strawberries and a hundred flavours of tarts. He then sits down next to me, I lean on his shoulder as we begin to dig into our feast.

Once we've finished peeta reluctantly pulls away from our embrace to face me. Sweat dripping down his face.
"Katniss," he starts shakily, I nod, "I have loved you since the first day of school. Since then I have not gone a day without thinking of you. You are my world and always will be. I find happiness in everything thing I do with with you and I would like to spend the rest of my life with you." He reaches his hand into his back pocket and brings forth a box, "I love you Katniss Everdeen, will you marry me?" Did he just ask that, right now? I can feel my heart racing a million miles an hour. Do I want to spend the rest of my life with him? Of course I do, I love him too. And the Dimond ring inside of the box, it's so simple and perfect, just how I like it. It has a small Dimond with the word 'Always' engraved into it. "YES!" I scream. I fall into his open arms and kiss him full on the lips. A long and passionate kiss filled with hunger all throughout me. I pull away out of breath. Peeta grabs the ring out of the box and places it on my left finger, fitting perfectly.
"It's perfect Peeta." I cry.

We pack up the basket and head home. I'm still in shock that in just a short time I will became Mrs. Katniss Mellark.

That night my love for Peeta is all I can think of as I doze into one of the most peaceful sleeps I've had in a long time.