He's mine

Chapter 19

Katniss's POV

Today, I decided to do something productive. I'm gonna clean up my room. I see a box where I find a bunch of yearbooks. All from elementary because in middle school I stopped socializing after my father passed, so I didn't really care about the year book.

I open the first one and find my kindergarten class.

I'm all smiley, wearing all pink and the ribbons on my pigtails have come undone, though, my hair looks flawless. Besides me I notice a boy with red shirt who I recognize to be Peeta. He was so adorable. I smile. I move on to the next one and find my first grade class.

I quickly find myself, sitting in the middle. I'm wearing a blue dress with polka dots and my arm is around a blonde boy who recognize as Peeta once again. Maybe we were friends? I open the next year book and look for my second grade class.

I stand on the third row wearing a purple striped shirt. I seem to be holding hands with a blonde who wears a light blue, long sleeved t-shirt. I once again see this boy is Peeta. We must have been friends but how come I don't remember?
I move on eager to see if something like that is on the next pic.

On this pic I'm on the very back row. My hair is in two braids and I'm wearing a pink shirt. Besides me stand a blonde girl in purple who I recognize as Madge and besides her is Peeta making a funny face. I laugh.
I look for my fourth grade class on the next yearbook.

I find myself once again besides Peeta. We're both wearing white and holding hands. We are right to the right of the bout who held a trophy. I also notice that in this picture, for the first time, Delly appears on our class picture. Hmm... I wonder...

Finally I get to fifth grade and see that my suspicions are true. I stand on the back. My hair in two braids and my shirt is gray. Peeta no longer stands beside me. Madge does. On the middle row, on the left end, Peeta's kneeling down. He curls as unruly as ever and he wears a gray shirt too. He looked really handsome. In front of him, sits Delly wearing a jean dress and a jean jacket.  That had become friends.

How come I don't remember this? How come Peeta doesn't either? Why does he think that Delly had been his best friend all along? Something here is wrong. What did that Merchant Slut do?

I'm taken out of my thoughts by a knock on the door.

"I'll get it!" I call out. I open the door and find Peeta standing there looking down and shuffling his feet.

"Hi." He says looking at me with his gorgeous blue eyes.

"Hey! Come on in." I say. We sit on the couch and start joking around for a while.

"Katniss?" Peeta suddenly becomes serious.

"Yeah?"

"I've made up my mind. On who I love." He says and my heart beats faster.

"Who?" I say swallowing the lump in my throat. He looks at me directly to my eyes.

"You." He says leaning in. I lean in too and our lips meet in the middle for a wonderful kiss.

I don't know how long we kiss but when we pull away our lips are swollen and we're out of breath.

"Wow." I say.

"Will you be my girlfriend, Kat?"

"Heck yeah!" I say and we laugh. "Peeta, I think we used to be best friends before you met Delly. I was looking at yearbooks of elementary school and we look pretty friendly on all of our class pictures. That is until Delly shows up on 4th grade and then in 5th we're not even standing close."

"That's weird. But wouldn't we remember?"

"I was thinking that maybe Delly manipulated us, our memories, to seem like all that time we spent together, you spent it with her and I with my dad."

"Maybe. It wouldn't surprise me. She's different from what I remember. You're more accurate to the perception I had of her."

"That bitch! How could she do that to us!"

"Kat calm down. It doesn't matter anymore. We're together now. That's all that matters. We can always ask my dad about it, though. But for now I just want to spend sometime with you. To make up for the lost time."

"Okay." I say and snuggle to him. "I love you."

"I love you too, Kitten."