Chapter 19: Peeta
"Shh. Shh. Shh. It's okay Katniss." I coo to her, stroking her cheeks with my thumb. Her breathing still irregular. Tears pouring out of her eye lids. Her eyes stay focused on me, as do mine.
"Peeta." She breathes, her fingers slipping from clutching her stomach to running over my lips. "How could I forget all those moments?"
My eyes widen. Was all that a relapse of all she lost? Does she remember it all? My smile widens too. "How remember?" I whisper.
Her nod signals my brain that she has. I press my lips back to hers, keeping them pressed against mine. There's only a few seconds where I actually separate. The only reason for breath. My hands run into her hair as I pull her closer to me.
"Thank goodness. Thank goodness." I repeat against her lips. She lets out a giggle, as it must tickle.I laugh and break my lips away, resting my forehead against hers. "You're back. You're back!" I exclaim.
I wrap my arms around her and bury my head into her shoulder. A whole lot of sorrow is lifted. A whole pile of uncertainty, fear has been lifted off of my shoulders.
"I - I don't know what to say. I'm just so relieved."
"That's all you need to be. I love you so much, I couldn't believed that happened at all."
"I love you too. So much. So So much." I peck a kiss to her lips again. In the corner of my eyes I can spot the flower bouquet. The one that was given to me because of this, bright yellow dandelions, katniss roots and primroses.
One of my only refuges when Katniss lost her memory. One of the only reminders that would tell me that she would return to our family. She has now.
"Come. I need to call Ryan and tell him and Charlotte to bring the kids over." I smile and take her hand, standing up. I lead her to the phone. I dial my brother's number and Charlotte answers.
"Charlotte, it's Peeta. Could you and Ryan bring Dwyn and Leigh over to the house?" I ask into the phone, wrapping my arm around Katniss' waist.
"Of course Peeta. What's happened, you seem more excited than you have been in a while?"
"She's back." I smile wider and I hear Charlotte gasp.
"We'll be over soon. That's so exciting Peeta!" She says and we farewell each other. I place the phone back and hug Katniss again.
"Dwyn and Leigh are going to be ecstatic. They haven't seem you since the incident." I tell her, ending up trailing off.
"Peeta?"
"I was so scared of letting you see them while you were awake. They would want to talk to you and you'd be acting like a total stranger. I didn't want to freak them out." I explain and frown at her. "I'm sorry. They did see you asleep though. That's the time they would come and see me and those were the times when I went home and Prim looked after you."
Katniss nods at me and rests her head on my shoulder. "We're okay now. We can be a family again." She whispers and I rest my head against hers.
"Yes we can."
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