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After

The other side of the bed was empty. The smell of food had woken Madge up. The aroma of coffee and what she thought might be waffels filled the air. Rolling over she found clothes laid on the bed.

Slowly she sat up, reaching for the clothing she looked around the room. The sun was shining through the windows, her dress was on the floor beside the bed, and her phone was on the night stand.

Reaching for the phone she saw that she had 6 text messages and 20 missed calls. She should feel guilty for upsetting her parents, but after the last few months of how they had acted she couldn't bring herself to feel that way. She read the messages.

11:30 Dad: Past curfew, come home now.

11:40 Missed call: Dad

11:45 Dad: Where are you? Getting worried.

11:46 Missed Call: Dad

11:55 Missed Call: Dad

12:00 Mom: Call your father and please tell him you aren't with me. He doesn't believe me.

12:05 Missed Call: Dad

12:15 Missed Call: Dad

12:16 Dad: This is not funny, Madge, WHERE ARE YOU?

12:20 Missed Call: Dad

12:45 Missed Call: Peeta

1:00 Dad: Drove around and called Peeta. He says you are not with him. Please call me back. I know you are mad but please let me know you are okay.

1:25 Dad: Madge please.

1:30 Missed Call: Peeta

The other 12 calls where spread out from 1:45 to 7:30 this morning (45 minutes ago), 2 more from Peeta and the rest from her dad. Okay now she did feel bad. He didn't deserve to think his daughter was in trouble.

He answered in two rings. His voice was filled with panic. Before he could say anything besides her name Madge jumped in.

"I am so sorry, really I am. I didn't mean to disappear like that. Mom called and tried to get me to leave with her. I just needed to shut everything out for a little while. I stayed with a friend, I'm safe. I lost track of time and fell asleep. I'm really sorry, dad."

Her dad sighed, "I've never been so scared, Madge. We will talk more when you get home. Which is soon, right?"

"Yes, I won't be more than an hour."

After hanging up with her dad Madge got dressed. She had to roll up the sweat pants, which were obviously Gale's, but the shirt wasn't too big. It was a t-shirt for a band Madge had never heard of before, Lord Huron.

Walking out of the bedroom Madge followed the delicious smell into the kitchen. Entering the room she saw Gale standing in front of the coffee maker. He only had basketball shorts on and she felt like she should avert her eyes. Which was silly after last night. Clearing her throat she spoke.

"Smells good in here."

Gale spun around and gave her a goofy grin.

"I hope you like waffles. How do you take your coffee?"

He placed a plate of waffles on one of the place mates. He just stood there waiting and she realized he was waiting on her answer about the coffee.

"Black is fine," She took a seat at the table, "I can't really stay long."

He brought her the coffee. Then he grabbed the other plate and sat down across from her. He started eating.

"Did you sleep okay?" He had ignored her comment about leaving.

Taking a sip of coffee she just nodded. Meeting his eyes was becoming impossible. She didn't really want to eat waffles and make small talk with Gale Hawthorne. This was crazy, sitting across from the guy she could barely call an acquaintance, who she slept with, eating waffles, and talking about beauty sleep. She shouldn't still be here.

Instead of leaving she took a bit of the food. Why did he always make her do the opposite of what she should do? She looked up at him and caught him staring at her.

"What?" She asked confused.

"You said it was fine. Remember? I asked you."

"That doesn't mean it's not awkward, Gale."

"It doesn't have to be, Madge. It could be the start of a friendship."

Start of a friendship? Yeah right. Madge wanted to laugh but she was too busy trying not to panic about what happened last night.

"Yes, because when Katniss asks what was the ice breaker in our previously non-existent friendship I will tell her we took each others clothes off."

Gale put down his fork and glared at her.

"I should have known you were going to be difficult."

"Yeah, well... I am a townie after all."

"So that's what this is about? I hurt your feelings."

Madge didn't even know what this was about. She didn't want to argue. That isn't what she had wanted when she sat down at the table. He scared her a little, the way he had made her feel last night had scared her. Then he had provide her with clothes and made her breakfast. Plus the small talk, it was all too much.

"No, I'm sorry, I did want last night. It is okay. I do need to go though. I promised my dad I would be home soon. He has been worried."

Both Half-lies and half-truthes filled the words that had come from her mouth.

"Madge..." He started as she got up from the table.

"Thanks for breakfast."

She walked out of the kitchen, out of the house. Again he didn't stop her.

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Gale couldn't stop looking at her. It had been a week and a half since she had left him in his kitchen. He wasn't sure how waffles had turned into a arguement but he hadn't seen her since and he wasn't sure if he wanted to see Madge. Except... he couldn't stop looking at her.

Madge was on the opposite side of the cafeteria. She was sitting with some girls Gale guessed where friends, and she was wearing a grey cardigan. She looked pretty and she was laughing about something one of the girls had said. Gale liked her like this, care-free.

He needed to stay away from her though. He understood that, they weren't friends and one night together was not going to change that fact. Which was fine with him. All he knew about the girl was that her parents were getting divorced, she was an only child, and that she was close to Peeta. He didn't need to know more.

A motion on his right brought his gaze away from the Mayor's daughter. Ava Locke was now sitting beside him. Their fathers had been close friends at one time. Gale and Ava had grown up together. She was a nice girl even if she was too clingy.

"Hey Ava." Gale turned his full attention to the blonde.

"Hey Gale, not thinking of doing anything terrible to the Mayor's daughter are you?"

A look of confusion came over Gale's face. What did she mean? Gale do something terrible to Madge? He could feel his face turn red as he thought about the other night in his room. Ava couldn't be talking about that though, especially since that hadn't been terrible.

"You were staring at her and it's no secret how you feel about townies."

Ava batted her eyelids and gave him a smile Gale was sure she thought was sensual. It wasn't, Gale tried not to cring.

"Ummm..." Gale started.

Katniss came out of nowhere and slid in between Gale and Ava. Gale didn't think he had ever been so happy to see his best friend. Ava's face didn't look happy.

"Katniss..." The name was forced from her lips and sickly sweet.

"Ava..." The mocking tone was filled with disgust.

"Don't you have a townie's face to suck?" Ava sounded annoyed.

"We take breaks to eat, Ava, besides we aren't as slutish as some people." Katniss said pointly.

"I'm suprised you can say that word, Katniss, being a prude and all."

"Actually..." Katniss was interrupted.

"Hey Katniss, can I talk to you?"

Gale froze, what was she doing here? He wanted to look at her but stopped himself. She meant nothing to him and he needed to stop staring.

"Hey Madge, sure."

As Katniss got up from the table Ava practically glued herself to Gale. Trying not to role his eyes he slid away from her. Ava wasn't having it though, she put her arm around his waist.

"I didn't know you were into blondes, Gale."

His eyes shot up to meet Madge's, they had a challenge in them. She was mocking him, she knew good and well that she had blonde hair. She also knew good and well that he was into her. Before he could say anything she followed Katniss out of the cafeteria. What had he gotten himself into?

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The classroom was empty. Gale looked around and wondered if this was a good place. Now he just need to figure out how to set his plan in motion. He wanted to get Madge alone for a few minutes to talk. Maybe if they talked about what had happened he could stop staring at her. He could tell you the exact color of her hair since it was all he had looked at in History class.

History class, that was it, he could make his reason about History class. They haf just gotten out of that class, so that would make sense.

Stepping into the hall he looked around for her. She was standing at Peeta's locker talking to the young baker, her back to Gale. He moved towards her.

"...well I just don't see how you can say one is better than the other."

"What? Kaleo is far superior to Cage the Elephant."

"You can not compare them. They are both great bands."

"Yes, but..."

"Madge, can I talk to you?" Gale interrupted.

Madge turned towards him. A look of confusion on her face and for a second she just stared at him.

"Alone?" Gale clarified.

"Umm... what do you need to talk to me about?"

Gale wondered if she really was confused or just putting on an act to throw off Peeta.

"History class." Is all he said.

"Go ahead, Madge, I will see you later." Peeta closed his locker and walked away.

Madge's confused look just seems to grow. He pointed at the classroom he had chosen. Gale then tried to steer her into the empty classroom with out touching her.

"So history class?"

"No, I just said that to get you to come in here. I want to talk about the other night."

"Gale. I don't want to talk about the other night. It's over and never happening again."

She turned towards the door but Gale blocked her. He wanted to get through this talk and be done with her.

"I know but I still think we should talk about what happened. We kind of left everything on a bad note. Were you mad?"

Madge rolled her eyes, "No I wasn't mad. I wanted you to be a distraction, yes I know that I was wrong in using you. I thought it would just be banter and then I thought it was just kissing. Despite the night going in an unexpected direction I had fun. Okay?"

He was glad she wasn't mad at him. Gale looked down at her lips. So she wanted a distraction, he could do that for her.

When his lips met her's Madge froze. There was no respones from her, that fact seemed to clear Gale's head. He wasn't suppose to be kissing her. He was suppose to be getting her out of his head. He pulled away and took a step back.

Looking at Madge he realized a few things. 1.She didn't look shocked like usual, she looked confused. 2.She really did look pretty today. 3.He liked kissing her... a lot. 4.Madge wanted a distraction, who's to say she wouldn't go find one. No, he wanted to be the one to distract her. 5.Truth be told he didn't really want to get her out of his head.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have... I mean I wanted to... but I should have asked first. If you don't want to that's fine." He hoped she wanted to kiss him.

"It was suppose to only be the once." She bit her lip.

"Yes but you said you wanted a distraction and I figured I could be the distraction."

Madge bit her lip again. He liked this plan better. He put his hands on her waist.

"Come on Undersee, it could be fun, our little secret."

The more he thought about kissing her, the more he wanted to kiss her. Leaning down his lips grazed her jaw. He moved up to her temple and placed a kiss there. Madge stepped closer and this encouraged him.

He took one hand off her waist and placed it on the side of her face. He moved toward her lips. Even with the encouragement he paused a breathe away. He wanted her to want this too.

Madge reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck. She pulled him the rest of the way. Their lips met and it was worth the anticipation.

It was almost laughable, Gale thought, that they could barely say two words to each other but they could kiss like there was no tomorrow. He liked the way Madge kissed him. Like he had her undivided attention, like the rest of the world disappered and all she saw was him.

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She was suppose to be avoiding him. It had been going so well too. Today at lunch was the first time she had even acknowledged his presence in over a week. She had been avoiding him so that they could avoid this, this thing they were doing now.

Madge was sitting on a desk, her legs around Gale's waist. One of his hands was on her waist the other in her hair, pulling her to him. Keeping her lips on his.

She didn't know why but she loved his hand in her hair. It drove her a little bit crazy. Made her pull him closer.

She liked kissing him. Everything around them melted and that had never happened before. It felt like she was somewhere else, someone else.

Gale's hand moved down and touched her hem. He then moved his hand under her shirt. That is when she broke off the kiss. She moved his hand back to where it had been. She moved to kiss him again but he moved to her neck.

"Come over tonight." Gale said between kisses.

"No." Madge moved till his lips were on her's again.

They kissed until they need to come back up for air. Gale put their foreheads together.

"Come over tonight." He repeated.

"Just kissing Gale, nothing more."

"We can just kiss."

Madge laughed, "Yeah right. I'm not coming over."

Gale made his bottem lip stick out in a pout. Madge laughed again. She kissed his mouth one more time before pushing him back. Getting off the desk she tried to make it look like she hadn't been doing what she had been doing.

"We will continue this another time."

"Far away from your bedroom." She added when he started to say something.

After checking to see if the coast was clear Madge exsited the classroom. She was late for class.