LIFE SUPPORT
by @jlalafics
(Based off The Midnight Club)
“Who is up tonight?” I ask him trembling. The drugs, though swift, can cause some freaky side effects. I have the shakes, my limbs disobedient as I try to still them. Peeta watches me carefully and I give him a weak smile. “‘Oh true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick’.”
He takes my hands to steady them. “I didn’t know you were into Shakespeare.”
“What girl isn’t into a story about Star-Crossed Lovers?” I respond as I look down at our joined hands.
Meeting his glowing blues, I can’t help but think that in another life, we would’ve been good together. We would live in some country house with a large meadow and just spend our days watching our children running around it. Our first born would have his eyes and our second would have Peeta’s blond locks.
“‘Thus with a kiss I die’,” he whispers under his breath, his smile shy. “Guys can be into Romeo and Juliet, too.”
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