Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.

Really? What did you cost me again? I ask. A lot of trouble. Don't worry. You'll get it all back,he says.

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

I'm very hard to catch," says Rue. "And if they can't catch me, they can't kill me. So don't count me out.

Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.

I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale. I sit on the rock where Cressida filmed us, but it's too wide without his body beside me. Several times I close my eyes and count to ten, thinking that when I open them, he will have materialized without a sound as he so often did. I have to remind myself that Gale's in 2 with a fancy job, probably kissing another pair of lips.