"Gale i just don't know if i can do this" Katniss responded after i had asked her to run away. Her face look troubled and with disbelief as she couldn't believe that i had just asked that question.
"Gale , What would we do with our families, we can't possibly take them all and sneak out and hope we don't get caught. You have to think about our families too not just us don't be selfish"
"I know" i snarled she was making me feel like and idiot. I knew that we wouldn't be able to leave our families behind. If we did they would torture them asking them where we were and since they wouldn't know they would probably just kill them. I thought of my brothers and sisters being tortured because of my selfishness , No i tried to push that thought aside i could never do that to them.
"look Katniss im sorry that i asked that question ok ?, forget it."
She still looked at me puzzled at my wave of emotions. Frankly i was quite puzzled at my own emotions. We finished our lunch in silence and went home no further questions asked. We had a whole day until the reaping happened and most people stayed home and just got ready trying to forget the horrid and twisted event that we would all forced to take part in later.
On the way home i tried to avoid everyone i could, what Katniss had said earlier was true. I was being selfish and i hated that Katniss had called me out for it. I had always liked her and I had always tried hiding it , But this time i had probably ruined the chances of her and I ever being together. I had taken it too far assuming that she would want to run away with me, assuming that she was on the same page that i was. But i was wrong and her words haunted the back of my mind playing over and over just making me angrier and angrier at the thought that i had made a mistake.
When i arrived home i looked at my family and how happy they were. If i ran away this would be stripped from them and i would be forever in the back of my mind be haunted by it. We didn't have much, but we had each other and that's what mattered. This brought us a small amount of happiness and still something was better than nothing. I walked over to my room and locked myself in. I was in there for some hours when i heard someone knock on my door.
"who is it ?" I replied wondering who was knocking.
"Gale its me Katniss, I know i wasn't to nice earlier and i want to apologize."
I was so stunned and taken aback i didn't know how to respond. I must have taken some time in thinking because i heard Katniss again
"Will you please let me in so we can talk ?" She sounded worried so i decided best not to keep her waiting and quickly got up and opened the door.