Chapter 1

This is my first time at a fanfic so I hope it's not too terrible. Please leave a review and let me know what you think! Chapter 2 is almost done :)

Gale's POV

I've seen her at school many times and have always wanted to go up and introduce myself to her but I never knew if she even knew my name, but I surely did know hers. I am 2 years older than Katniss Everdeen and her father died along with my father in a terrible mining accident only six months ago. I saw her at the Justice building and I wanted nothing more than to go up to her and just hug her and tell her that if she ever wanted to talk that I would be here for her but I couldn't seem to bring myself up to do it. We both are from the seam so we are scarce on food, so I hunt for my family in the woods which was illegal and I could get into some serious trouble.

One day while I was setting up snares, I heard leaves crunching. I thought to myself that it was the Peacekeepers, they finally found me, but when I decided to go check it out, I saw her. I saw her with a bow and arrow and how graceful she was with it. She was shooting a squirrel and she shot it right through the eye. What precision I thought, and just then I stepped on a twig and she stood straight up with a freight.

This was my moment, I had to say something.

"Hi, I'm Gale"

She didn't say anything, she just stood there staring at me.

After a few long moments she replied.

"I'm Katniss" she mumbled

"Catnip? Did you say?" I replied playing stupid

"Not Catnip, Katniss" she said frusterated

"Oh, Hi Katniss, it's nice to meet you"

She looked worried and I knew she didn't know what to do until she saw my snares about 20 feet away from here and it so happens that I had caught 4 rabbits with them. I saw her eyes get wide.

"How did you do that?" she asked curiously

"Oh that? I am pretty good at snares" I replied

"Can you show me?" she asked

Should I be doing this, talking to him, I don't even know him, but he is good with those snares maybe I can learn a thing or two from him. Maybe I will be able to catch more game. Katniss thought.

She is asking me to show her how to set up snares, she actually seems interested. Maybe, just maybe I have a shot at something with her. After all this time, maybe I will be able to get her to notice me.

After three hours have passed she was getting good with setting up snares, she even caught a rabbit to take home. She offered to show me to use a bow since I helped her with the snares.

We decided to meet at this big rock by the water Sunday at 8am so she can show me how to use the bow. I was so happy I couldn't stop smiling.

She seems guarded though as if she doesn't want to trust me, but I will get her to trust me if it is the last thing I do, because whether she can see it now or not, I do like this girl a lot and I want to get to know her.

Once we got to the fence we parted ways without even saying goodbye, she took off down the opposite direction as I did.

"Gale, what took you so long today?" my mother, Hazelle asked.

"I met a girl out in the woods today" I replied

"GALE HAWTHORN! Are you okay? Did she go tell a peacekeeper? WHAT?" my mother replied worried

"No mother, she was hunting too, it was Katniss Everdeen"

"Oh dear, her father was in the accident too wasn't he?" she said sadly

"Yes, yes he was…" I replied

I was so incredibly tired I decided I wanted to go to bed early today. It was such a wonderful day that I didn't want it to end.

Back at Katniss' house…

Katniss POV

"Hey little duck" said Katniss as she walked into the house to see her sister, Primrose playing with that dreadful cat

"Hey Katniss, how was your day?" asked Prim

Prim is going to be 12 years old in three months and will be entered into the reaping once. I will not let her take out any tesserae once she turns 12. No need for her name to be entered in more times that necessary.

Once a year, the 12 districts of panem select two tributes between the ages of 12 and 18 to fight in what is called the Hunger Games where one male and one female of each disctrict will fight to the death where only one tribute comes out alive.

"It was good Prim, it was good" Katniss replied while she was heading to wash up

What do I do? Gale seems like a nice guy, but I just don't trust anyone, how do I know that I can trust him? I want to because it would be nice to hunt with someone else, but do I want to have someone who looks as perfect as him to hunt with me?

Gale's POV

I am so excited to meet up with Katniss tomorrow morning I can hardly sleep. I hope that she remembers. I wake up that morning and put on my boots and jacket and grab my game bag and head out into the woods to the rock where we said that we would meet and sure enough, she was sitting there waiting for me. She heard me come up and she gave me this small nod with a slight smile. I bet she has a beautiful smile and I am going to get her to smile for me.

"Good morning Catnip" said Gale

"Morning" said Katniss

That was all the greeting they did because Katniss jumped off the rock and walked past Gale so that they could start the teaching. It didn't take long for Gale to pick it up, he will never be as good as Katniss, but he's getting close.