PLEASE READ THIS VERY LONG A.N.! PLEASE!

Wow. Just wow. The response to that first chapter was phenomenal – thank you all so much for your follows and favorites. I would like to give an ULTRA SPECAIL thank you to everlasting1286, hpfan73, and Bellanator116 for reviewing. I really appreciate feedback guys, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing (even if it's just something little) I would really appreciate it. I want to make this story awesome for y'all but I can't do that if I don't know what you guys want.

On another note, I would like to set the record straight that while this story is loosely based on the fantastic movie When Harry Met Sally, it will not follow that same plot line. I love the concept of that movie, but I don't want to be accused of copying.

Finally (yes, that means I'm going to stop talking soon), if you are not exclusively dedicated to Everlark and would like to expand your fanfiction horizons, you should read Drowning Embers' story "Plenty of Fish in the Sea". It's a Finnick/Katniss pairing that she and I are writing together and we'd love you to love Finniss with us.

Now enjoy chapter 2.

"Uhm…Katniss?"

A hand gently shaking her shoulder rouses Katniss from her slumber. "Just five more minutes," she mumbles without opening her eyes.

"Katniss, it's Peeta. Wake up. The car broke down and I need your help."

Katniss's eyes shot open. She took in her surroundings – sure enough, the car was stopped in the right lane of an empty highway in the middle of nowhere. Crickets chirped into the pitch-black night. An open teddy-grahams box rested on her lap, but the little bears themselves lay all over the car from when she and Peeta had attempted to throw them up in the air and catch them with their mouths during a gas stop an hour ago. Since then, she'd fallen asleep to Peeta's Pandora station.

Finally, she looked at Peeta. "What do you mean the car broke down? We just got gas."

Peeta nodded. "I know. But the check engine light started blinking a few miles back and all of a sudden the car just…stopped. I need your help to push it over to the side of the road before I can call someone."

Katniss groaned as she rose from her seat, scattering teddy-grahams everywhere. Peeta chuckled and pulled a few from her now-very-messy hair.

"Alright bread boy, what's the big plan?" Katniss asked once she was out of the car and standing by the trunk next to Peeta.

"Bread boy?"

"You are a baker, after all."

Peeta nodded. "Indeed I am. Alright, first things first, we've gotta get this moved over to the side of the road. Think your thin little girl arms can handle that?"

"My 'thin little girl arms' can probably bench more than you on their worst day," Katniss scoffed.

Peeta laughed. "I'd like to see you try. Now go to that end and start pushing."

Katniss positioned herself at one end of the car's rear while Peeta positioned himself at the other. As they began pushing on the car, Katniss realized that Peeta didn't really even need her help at all – he was more than capable of pushing the car off to the side. Her eyes raked appreciatively down his arms, enjoying the sight of his muscles rippling through his thin white t-shirt, all the way down to his hands, fingers braced against red metal. I wonder what else he could do with those hands…

Peeta coughed lightly, breaking Katniss out of her trance and reminding her that she was supposed to be helping him push. She blushed slightly at the inappropriate direction her thoughts had taken and braced herself against the car, pushing with all of her might.

It took about 2 minutes for them to get the car situated on the side of the road, and another 2 to contact his insurance company.

"Now what?" Katniss asked as Peeta shoved the phone back in his pocket.

"Now we wait." He sighed. The two slumped against the hood of the car.

"So…" Peeta sighed, "how did you and Finn meet?"

Katniss smiled wistfully. "There was a Halloween party freshman year…I was dressed in this little nurse costume my sister had found for me, all white except for the red-cross symbol on the breast. He was a caveman – both in outfit and demeanor. He kept asking me if to 'check him up'. I eventually got drunk enough that I said yes, and we've been together ever since." She chuckled. "He's one of those guys who seem like such douches at first, but grow on you after a while. When I woke up with him the morning after the party, I was ready to end it, but he was just so sweet and sincere that I decided to stick around."

"Do you love him?"

Peeta's question caught Katniss off guard and she had to think for a moment.

"I think so," she finally said. "At least, I've never met anyone who I like more than him. Isn't that what love is?"

He shrugged. "I guess so. But suppose there's someone out there who you end up liking more. Would you leave Finnick?"

Katniss nodded. "If I felt more strongly for someone than I do for Finnick, I would leave him." She thought for a moment. "I doubt I'd find one though. Guys tend not to notice me."

"What are you talking about?" Peeta laughed. "You're one of the hottest girls I've ever met in my life. If you were my girl, I'd never let you get away. I'd hug you close every night and tell you just how beautiful you are."

Silence settled between them as they both realized what Peeta had just said. Katniss shivered.

"Are you cold?" Peeta was begging her to let him change the subject.

"A little."

Peeta grabbed his faded leather jacket off the hood of the car and stood in front of her as he gently placed it over her shoulders. Her fingers came up to take it from him and their hands brushed. She looked into his eyes. An electric current zinged to life between them.

"Katniss…" Peeta whispered. He started to lean in – to extinguish the flame burning in her eyes.

But his lips hit her cheek as she turned away and whispered, "I love Finnick."

Neither one spoke again until the tow truck arrived.