Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.

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

But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

I can't help comparing what I have with Gale to what I'm pretending to have with Peeta. How I never question Gale's motives while I do nothing but doubt the latter's. It's not a fair comparison really. Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you sidestep that?