Piece By Piece {Completed}

Chapter 6: One Year

One year... one year since fighting and lives being lost, one year since the world has changed to a much better and safer place. This day is especially hard for me because it marks a year of Prims death, since my little duck was taken way too soon and today I haven't moved from my bed but I'm not alone because Peeta stays with me instead of going to the bakery and no matter how much I protested against his choice, he never budged and chose to stay with me, making sure I eat and tries his hardest to make me less miserable than I am and even gets a slight smile out of me.

I'm laying down in bed, curled up in a ball when Peeta walks in with some food but I hide under the covers more, trying to hide away from the pain and emptiness that I'm feeling from not having my little sister with me

"Come on, Katniss. Let's go downstairs" he coos, softly peeling the covers off me

"I miss her..." I feel my eyes starting to fill with tears and immediately climbs in next to me and holds me as I cry, never in the eight months that Peeta and I have been together, there has never been a time where he wasn't by my side when I get a hard day, he lets me cry when I need to and just holds me while reassuring me that he's there for me, that's all I needed to get through it

"Shhh. It's okay. Tell me something about Prim, anything" he tells me and I do, I tell him the story of when Prim had a nightmare and I climbed into her bed, sang her a song and held her till she slept, once I finish the story I realise that I'm no longer crying and although I still feel the pain of not having Prim, I'm filled with happy memories, I look up at Peeta who's already smiling

"Talking about her can help you feel a little better. Prim would want you to live on, think of the memories you have of her. It's okay to grieve for her but as long as you don't dwell on her death" he says, I lean up and kiss him but I let the hunger take over a little, I move so I'm straddling his waist and my hands start wondering up his shirt

"Katniss... if we do this the—" knowing what he's going to say I stop him with a kiss

"I know... but... we could, um, touch" I reply nervously and he chuckles, flipping us over so that he's hovering over me, we kiss hungrily and I feel him play with the hem of my shirt but he doesn't do anything further, so growing impatient, I lift my shirt over my head and take my bra off along with it, having this new founded confidence but as he stares I cover myself

"No..." he says taking my hands away from my breasts

"You're beautiful" he mummers, kissing them both, kissing then turns into sucking and I don't know why but it brings me a weird sense of pleasure, a noise I've never made before slips out of my mouth, it sounded like a whimper and a moan, when Peetas lips are off me I take the chance to lift his shirt up over his head and run my hands over the soft skin and the muscles on his arms. Peeta doesn't have a body with lots of abdominal muscles but he has a firm and well built frame that I think is perfect and wouldn't trade for anything

"Katniss... are you sure you want this?" He whispers onto my lips, I look into his eyes that are dark with desire and it makes me feel things that I've never felt

"I trust you, Peeta" I reply and he nods, his hands slowly slide down my side and all the way to my pants, he looks into my eyes as if asking for permission to do what he wants and I nod. He pulls off my pants and underwear, my cheeks redden by being so exposed to him even if I trust him with my life

"It's okay... relax" he whispers against my ear and as I'm distracted by our kissing, I feel pressure down in my most sensitive space but I let out different moans, groans and whimpers in the night as Peeta uses his fingers to pleasure me and at some point he used his mouth.

All through the night we pleasured each other in ways without actually giving ourselves to each other but I cried out Peetas name so many times that I lost count, he let my name roll off his lips a couple of times but once it's all over, I feel so much closer to Peeta than I had felt before and I know I should feel embarrassed by exposing myself to Peeta like that but for some reason, I don't.