Katniss?" Peeta says. I meet his eyes, knowing my face must be some shade of green. He mouths the words. "How about that kiss?

And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.

Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?

Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.