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Disclamer: I don't own the Hunger Games or the Characters. Only the plot is mine and the story line. The rest goes to the most brilliant person Suzanne Collins.
Katniss (POV)
Madge and I were sitting in the lunch cafeteria at our usual spot near the door. Both of us aren't very social so usually we sit,
team up for sports, and do projects that require a partner together. I look over across the room and my eyes catch Peeta's. As usual we both look away blushing. This happens a lot and has happened ever since the say when he saved my life. I've never worked up the courage to speak to him, but I've thought about it many times, it's just an opportunity never presented itself.
"So what are you doing this week-end?" Madge asks looking down at her lunch tray. I look up startled. We don't really bother making small talk.
"Um... nothing really going into the woods maybe," I answer.
"With Gale?"
"Ya, we hunt together," I reply, "What are you doing?"
"Nothing really I was just wondering if you were free," she asks.
"Ya i'm free, depending on the time," I say.
"Great I was thinking we could hang out, at one of each other's houses." I immediately think of an excuse not to get together. IF she came to my house in the Seam, also known as the poor part of District Twelve, it would cause a lot of problems. Townspeople aren't usually welcome there.
"Oh I forgot I have this thing I have to go to... maybe some other time."
She looks disappointed, "Oh okay ya maybe later."
Peeta (POV)
Katniss entered the bakery and I felt nervous. I always have around her. No one else knew that I liked her, but it was just the feeling she gave me. She made me want to smile and cry at the same time. Smile because of her beauty, but cry because she will never love me. She will probably marry Gale, and they will raise a family together while I settle on a merchant girl that can help run the bakery. I hear a ding and see the shop door open. I look up from what I was drawing and see no other than Katniss Everdeen. I start sweating and freeze up.
"U-uh m-may I help you?" I say stumbling over my words.
"Is your father here?" she asks
"Um... not at the moment, he's taking a break, but I can help you," I say taking control of my mind. Usually i'm so good with words, but whenever i'm around her i'm caught in a trance.
"Never mind i'll just come back later," she says looking at the floor.
"No!" I say a bit desperately and give myself a mental slap. Please god make her take that like I just want money I think, "Do you have squirrels? My father buys yours all the time, and we eat them for dinner."
She looks surprised, "You eat my squirrels?"
"Ya, you sell them to us so we eat them. It's great that we eat fresh meat, that's why we're so thankful that you bring them."
Her face goes cold, "I should be thanking you. You have always given me fresh bread," she says looking into my eyes. Hers are beautiful. There grey, but not lifeless. They are full of sorrow and dispere, but there's also hope in there.
"How many do you have," I say trying to distract her attention. I think she mentioned the day in the rain, and I take this as her thank you, however I didn't need a thank you her living is all I could ask for.
"I brought four Gale and I had a slow day," she says.
"Who's Gale? Is he your cousin?" I ask even though i clearly know who Gale is. I just want to make it seem like I don't spend my waking hours keeping tabs on her and who she hangs out with. It does make me seem stalkerish, but honestly I just want to know about her before I talked to her. In fact this is the longest conversation we've ever had.
"He's my friend... best friend," she answers.
"Oh ya i've seen you two enter the Seam together a lot, but isn't he two grades above us?"
"Ya, why do you care?" she says accusingly.
"Just being friendly," I say giving a fake smile, although it bugs me that she's so close to a guy, who is older than her. That gives me slim chances... not that I had any to begin with.
"So how much do I get for the squirrels?"She says converting my attention back to the trading.
My father told me how many he gives her in case she came into the shop. However I can tell he's very generous with her, and if mom found out she'd be mad, "Here are your two loaves of bread... oh and here take a box of cookies."
"I can't afford these," she says angrily.
"NO it's a gift."
"Why are you giving me a gift?"
"Because you always give us fresh meat, so we're going to give you a gift," I say
"We trade I don't give it to you for free, I don't need charity."
"It's not it's a friend giving a friend a gift."
Her head cocks on the word friend, "Okay, thank you," she says and for the first time i see a smile play on her lips.
"Bye Peeta."
"Bye Katniss, see you tomorrow at school."
A/N: That's a wrap for chapter one. A big shout out to my beta HungerGamesForevuh. She is the best beta I recommend her. By the way my pen name is my sisters nick name for me.
