She wasnt be the right word to describe her, she was just, empty. And not depressed no, just unfulfilled. She was different that was for sure, but good different the different that everybody liked and appreciated.
And he, well he, he was something else.
It all started their freshman year of high school second semester, she was the new girl and he was the boy everybody loved. The typical pairing of course, she had just transferred for her boyfriend, the real big man on campus the senior that anybody would kill to be with. They met through mutual friends and classes and had never really thought much of each other. That is until she was single.
Their first date was to the movie theater and he was too scared to kiss her until the credits. After that every saturday night was date night, they would go to the mall or out to dinner any where they could just talk and he would wait until the end of the night just to kiss her goodbye. One day they went back to her house afterwards and things got, as one may say in other terms he banged the fuck out of her. After that saturdays turned into every other and after the last time all chords were cut. He was her first and she was his and through her best friend the entire school managed to find out and it was a running joke until senior year.
Two guys in a row she had fallen for had just left her, she loved them and she had ruined it. From that point on the Katniss that everybody had known was gone.
Peeta and Katniss remained close friends throughout high school. He would deal with her break downs and she would deal with his, no matter who they were with they always were each other's rocks. In the same way they were each others anchors, she would yell and scream when she found out he was dating madge undersee the most over rated girl in the entire school and he would refuse to speak to her for months when she slept with one of his friends. "Eskimo brothers" as she would call it;
Peet!
whats up kat?
I did a bad thing...
who?
...Marvel, but please don't tell anyone this time it's really a secret.
cool Kat.
Come on peet don't be mad he's a cool eskimo brother to have right?!
She would never get a response. But deep down he still cared for her enough to not out her for longer than a month. This kept going until junior year when they got into a big argument. He was dating glimmer at the time and she confessed her feelings for him only to be told he was moving to virginia. She begged him for days to meet her one last time and she sat and waited at the coffee shop they had gone to after their first date. She sat and waited for 4 hours until the sun set and the doughnuts were all gone, she sat and waited until the coffee was cold. When she got up to leave she was on her way back to Gales appartment, sobbing wondering why she didn't back together with him freshman year like he begged her to.
She went back to school the next day and he was gone. Glimmer of course spent the next two months crying and sobbing about her long lost love, and Katniss did everything in her power not to take her chemistry book and bash her head in with it. Rue her best friend was the only one who real knew what was going on becasue to the rest of the world she was back with Gale and they were the perfect couple again.
When senior year came to an end she had almost totally forgotten about Peeta. Single and ready to move on with her life she was starting at CU in the fall, moving away from everyone at home. She was ready to restart her life, New friends, new state, new life.