Skinny Love

Chapter 27

Chapter 27

-Katniss's POV-

-DREAM-

I look around and see my dead baby girl, Dandelion. She looks around four years old and has a dandelion in her hand, starring at me. She has blonde curls, ocean blue eyes, and is wearing a white floral dress. "Hi Mommy." She says, in her baby voice. I bend down to her level and smile, "Hi Baby girl."

She looks at me and then at my stomach, "My baby sister is in there." She whispers. "It's a girl?" I ask. She nods, "She has brown hair, blue eyes with specks of grey and her name is Arabella Grace Mellark." She then looks down in disappointment.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

"But there is a bad ending. I'm not allowed to tell." She says and a tear slips out of her eye.

"Why?" I question further.

"I'm sorry momma but I need to go." She says.

"Wait!" I call out but it's too late. She's gone.

I wake up and get up, frantically. "I need to go back to sleep to find out more." I whisper to myself. I go downstairs and drink milk. Which makes me a little tired and grab a blanket, turn off the lights and lay down on the comity couch, closing my eyes.

I finally find sleep.

-DREAM-

"Momma." Dandelion says.

"Sweetie, you need to tell me what's going on." I say.

"I can't I'm not allowed. I'm so sorry." She whispers.

I hug her, "Will everything be okay?"

She sighs and blows the dandelion in her hand, the seeds flows away in the wind.

"At first everything will seem as if it was perfect. But then it will slowly fall apart and trust me, you won't feel the pain." She says.

I cry and say, "It's okay, right?"

She nods, "Well daddy is trying to wake you up. I must go. Bye Mommy."

"Goodbye baby girl." I whisper then wake up.

I see Peeta shaking me, "Babe, you awake?"

I nod sleepily. He scoops me up and sets me on the kitchen stool. "No! I wanna go asleep!" I whine. He chuckles, "We have your ultrasound today, remember?" My eyes fly open. He grins, "Did that wake you up?"

I nod uneasy and head upstairs. I change into a black dress that hugs my baby bump, my neckless, diamond studs, add some mascara, slip on leather boots, then add a white and black scarf.

I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly see a little girl behind me, crying. I turn around and she looks at me with her blue eyes. "Momma." She whispers and disappears. I start to hyperventilate, What in God's name was that?

Peeta rushes up, "Katniss, what's the matter!" He yells. I just shake my head and try to calm down. Eventually I do and say, "Let's go." He looks at me uneasy but I just go to the car. He grabs the keys and follows me.

We get in and he starts up the car. He drives and I just look our the window. "You want to tell me what happened?" He asks. I shake my head, "No." I whisper, barely audible.

He sighs and continues driving till we make it. We go to floor B and into the pregnancy center. "Katniss Everdeen." I say. She nods and types it in. "Doctor Clarity will be with you in a couple minutes." She says and I nod. I sit down next to a girl with platinum hair that goes to her waist and emerald sparkling eyes. She looks about 5 months pregnant.

She looks at me and smiles, "Hello." She greets. I smile, "Hi."

"I'm Eleanor." She introduces herself. "Katniss." I say. "What a pretty name." She replies. "Thank you. Yours is too." I thank. She smiles and the nurse comes in. "Katniss Everdeen." She calls. Peeta and I stand up. "Good luck." Eleanor whispers and I follow the nurse.

"Right in here." She says and points to a room that seems familiar. I did go here for Dandelion. "Miss Clarity will be here in a moment." The nurse says and leaves. I lay down on the long chair that is like a bed.

I look around to see monitors and wires. "Nervous?" Peeta asks breaking my train of thought. I nod, "Very."

Suddenly a women who looks about in her early 30's enters. She has blonde hair and ice blue eyes. "Hello, I'm your midwife, Doctor Clarity." She greets.

"Okay. So I'm just going to run some tests and come back with all the information I can." She says. I nod and she takes some information like how many months do I think I am, when it happened, and runs tests.

She goes out for a couple minutes. I nervously play with my fingers until she comes back in. "Okay! So your 2 months pregnant actually. It's Peeta's. The due date is January 1st. Only one baby, would you like to know the gender?" She asks. Peeta nods and before she even says it, I cut her off,  "It's a girl."

She widens her eyes and looks at the screen. "Yes, well, how did you know?" She asks, surprised. I shrug while lying, "Mother's instinct."

She nods and copies the picture of my baby girl then hands it to me. We thank her then leave, I also bid Eleanor in the hallway. Peeta and I head to the car. We get in and get ourselves situated. I just stare at my beautiful picture of my soon to be baby girl. Yet something lingers in the back of my mind.

What storm is yet to come?