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Peeta’s POV
I feel light kisses on my neck, running up to my face. I smile as she reaches my lips. “Merry Christmas” she says smiling and giving me kisses as I open my eyes. “Merry Christmas” I say with the widest smile on my face. I see my beautiful wife of six years, laying on my chest and moving on top of me. As she kisses me properly our daughter comes running in and jumping on our bed to wake us.
“Wake up daddy! It's CHRISTMAS! You can't sleep in on christmas!” Willow screams, bouncing on our bed to get me up. Katniss moves off my lap and helps me get up and put my prosthetic leg on.
“Can we have some cheese buns while we open presents, daddy?” she asks, giving me puppy eyes that I can never say no to. “Of course” I say as Katniss pushes my pant leg back down. We head down the stairs together, Willow shooting down the stairs much faster than Katniss and I going 1 step at a time. We reach the kitchen as Willow runs to the living room and sits on the couch waiting for us to come before reaching for any of the presents. I grab the cheese buns I made last night and go and heat them in our oven so they are warm. As I wait for them to heat up Katniss is making our hot chocolate and putting them on a dinner tray to bring to the living room and when the buns are done I put them on the tray.
Katniss brings the tray to the living room and sets it on the coffee table as I sit on the couch next to Willow. Katniss then brings us a few of the gifts that are under the tree and sits next to me. I give Willow the gift me and Katniss got her and she opens it. “A collar? But we don't have a dog?” “ Ohhh, we totally forgot… that gift is a secondary gift” Katniss says as she gets up and gets a box from the garage, bringing it in.
Willow opens the box that Katniss brings in and out pops a golden retriever puppy, licking Willow’s face as she picks it up. “A PUPPY?” Willow screams “REALLY?” she asks in disbelief, she had been asking all year and we finally agreed it would be okay, she is almost 5 after all.
The rest of the day goes by without a hitch, Haymitch and his wife Effie showed up and showered Willow with gifts and now it's just me and Katniss alone in our room now that we put Willow to bed. I sit on the bed taking off my prosthetic leg and getting ready to rub some ointment on my stump when Katniss brings out a small box with a bow on it from our walk-in closet and hands it to me.
“I have a little gift for you that I wanted to give you in private” she says as she is handing it to me and starts to rub in my ointment for me as she looks at me opening it. I slowly pull the top off the small orange box with a red bow on the lid. Inside there is a pregnancy test on top of some cotton, it's positive. “It’s positive,” I echo my thoughts, she looks at me a bit nervous. “I know we haven’t talked about having another kid yet, but Willow-” I cut her off with a kiss. “This is the best gift yet” I say after separating from her. She smiles the biggest smile. My beautiful wife, and now mother of two.