What am I going to do? Katniss thought the following morning I said yes, why did I do that… I don't know how to be married; I don't even know how to be in a relationship… Long term… I can't do this… I should have run...
"Katniss!" She heard Gales Mum call her down
"Just a moment" she called back calming herself down, well trying to, she couldn't slow her breath, by the time Gales Mum decided to call up again Katniss was trying to control her panic and didn't reply, this caused Gales Mum to come upstairs to see what was taking so long
"Katniss?" she asked walking into Gales room to find Katniss sitting on the floor with her head on her knees and her arms wrapped tightly around her legs "Katniss, are you alright?" she asks concerned rushing over to her side
"I promised myself I wouldn't get too close to somebody, I promised myself, what if he leaves or dies or…" she rushes out in a panic while Gales Mum sits next to her
"Or Grows too heads or goes grey or gets fat or turns green?" Hazelle continues causing Katniss to look at her utterly confused "You don't know what's going to happen in the future, nobody does, you can guess but you won't know until you actually live it"
"But…"
"No, no butts, I heard from somebody that you regret the things you didn't do more then you do. What do you regret?" she asked
"Not being able to save my sister or dad or Finnick or anybody that died" she confessed
"Anything else?"
"Not being…" she stopped herself and tried to thing of something she had done and regretted, she found it hard to think of a reason and looked back at Hazelle "You're right"
"I know" she said knowingly "Just remember, Gale will never leave you willingly, I remember him attempting to get back to District 12, them bringing him to the door nearly gave me a heart attack. If he ever does have to leave you, we Hawthorne's will always be there to welcome and comfort you with open arms"
"Thank you"
"Anytime, now get your lazy bottom down stairs before they eat all the food… I'm not making anymore!" she joked standing up before pulling Katniss up too
Katniss was scared of what she saw all over the kitchen table, plans, wedding plans, her wedding. She only said yes yesterday
"What are they?" she asked carefully indicating the table
"Your wedding plans" Vic explained "It's a simple wedding held in the church around the corner, it's going to take place on 5th July at 2pm; all we have to do is send invitations, I've already had them printed all you to do is write the persons name on the envelope and their address…"
Katniss zoned out after this and began writing on the envelopes, she invited (so far) Annie, Finnick Jr, her mum, the Hawthorne (obviously), Haymitch before drawing a blank and giving up.
"Vic, may I ask why you are planning the wedding?" she asked the ambitious little boy
"You said you didn't know how to be or get married, so if I do it all for you, you wont have an issue marrying into the family!" he explained as if it were obvious
"What about the begin married bit?" she asked amused
"That's simple, I've taken out books from the library" he stood up and collected a handful of books from the chair besides him and handed them to me one by one "The perfect wife, how to be married, what to expect after marriage and then, what to expect when you are pregnant, how pregnancy affects marriage and how to raise your children"
"Right, well looks like I have a lot of reading to do" she said absentmindedly
"If you still have trouble you can always asked married people, I'm sure they would answer all of your questions"
"Right… When's the wedding again?"
"5th July at 2pm"
"What am I wearing?" she asks
"Well, that's what I need your help with; I've got the pictures of you in all those wedding dresses, which one was your favourite?"
"I don't know, the one with sleeves?" she asked, unhappy about the thought of trying dresses on
"That's great; I'll call in a favour with one of my friends Mum. There's a girl at school who thinks I'm really cute, I'll agree to date her if she can convince her Mum to loan you a nice fitting a pretty dress for your wedding. Oh I can tell her she can be my date to the wedding"
"I'm going to see Gale" she walked out of the kitchen into the living room
"Hello" he said trying to contain his laughter at his brothers reaction at the news of them being engaged
"Hello" She replied
"Do you want me to tell him that he can't plan out wedding?" he asks "I know girls always dream of it or something"
"No, I love that his planning it, less work for me, also I'm renting a wedding dress for free" she smiled and sat next to him, he instinctively wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her slightly closer to him
"At least he'll have practice for when he gets married"
"True"
After a few moments Katniss spoke once more
"Do you think married life will be different from how it is now?" she asked thoughtfully
"I guess, I mean Vic has announced that I'm buying the house next door so we'll have more space and … well… I guess eventually we might have children so that will be different"
"Yeah…"
"Well put it this way, lets see our wedding day as the beginning of the rest of our lives" he said
Katniss looked up at him about to laugh when she saw he was serious, she thought for a moment before repeating
"The beginning of the rest of our lives"
The end
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