Full Summary: The story of Maysilee Donner and the 2nd Quarter Quell. How she had a schoolgirl crush on Haymitch Abernathy, but learned to cast her feelings for him away. Until they were both reaped in the Quarter Quell, and the Merchant Girl's feelings for the Boy from the Seam rekindled.
I briefly smile at him from across the classroom. It's just a crush, just a silly school girl crush, I tell myself. I know my parents would kill me if they found out I so much as looked twice at a boy from the Seam.
But there's something about that cocky grin, that slick black hair, and those piercing grey eyes that lure me in, somehow.
My heart stupidly stops for a second or two, as he stares back at me, and the corner of his mouth raises a little.
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I roll my eyes at the memory. I was just fifteen then, when I had the tiniest of crushes on Haymitch Abernathy. I'm now seventeen.
I never found any of the boys from town attractive, so I guess I just resorted to a poor, Seam boy. Since then, though, I've courted - as my mother would say - plenty of merchant boys, and gotten to know the men I could potentially grow up to marry.
I've moved on. To more suitable men. I've realized how stupid and naive I was, foolishly thinking that I could ever have some kind of future with Haymitch Abernathy.
But I know that some part of me will never forget the boy from the Seam. Not completely.