An: Well thanks to Nty 1o1 for reviewing and giving this a shout out! She told me to update tonight so please review maybe I could get two reviews this time? Anyways this will get longer and better! Also this is a year before the games. So Haymitch is 15 and Maysilee is 14.

"Mitch! Come on mom says you have to take me to school!" I hear my 9 year old brother Hayden call out to me from downstairs.

I groan and roll out from the warmth of my bed. I tug on a shirt and pants and slip my boots on. I shuffle downstairs and find Hayden jumping up and down. I can't help but wonder if I was always so excited to go to school. Because honestly that place is useless everyone knows once you turn 18 you go to the mines.

"C'mon." I mutter as I grab a chunk of bread from the table and shove it in my mouth. "See ya mom!"

She smiles and tucks my dark curly hair behind my ear and hands me my school bag. "Have a good day."

I give her a wave before I push my brother out the door. I lag behind him a little bit chew on my bread. He turns around grins at me.

"Can I run ahead?" He's missing a tooth. "Please."

I smile and ruffle his hair. "Go ahead."

My brother and my mom are the only ones I care about. I can tell we're nearing the school when I see the town kids and the Seam kids mixing together.

"Haymitch!" I hear a shrill voice call. I grind my teeth and see Maysilee waving at me.

"Not now." I mumble to myself. I walk over to her. "What do you want?"

She gave me a grin. "How are you?"

"Fine." I fight a snarky comment. "How about you sweetheart."

She rolls her eyes. "Stop calling me that, I'm good."

I bit my lip as I see my friends gawking at us. "See you later."

I quickly turn and make my way into the year ten building and my friends slap me on the back. I roll my eyes and my best friend James smirks at me.

"A town girl huh?"

I shake my head and look at her. "We're friends that's all."

James laughs. "Sure you. I would milk it while it lasts. You get a town girl and you won't go hungry again."

I frown. "We don't go hungry."

My friends shook their heads and walked into their classes. I roll my eyes and catch a glimpse of Maysilee with her face towards the sun. I can't help but notice how attractive she is. I've had girl before but no one whose as sweet as her. I turn my attention back to the teacher, I feel like an idiot Maysilee's nothing but a shallow and annoying merchant girl.

The rest of the school day goes by without anything eventful happening, James and the rest of my friend had seemed to forget about this morning's run in with Maysilee. We're dismissed from our classes and I meet Hayden at the year 4 door. He's going on about some song about coal miners he learned today. I tune him out and my eyes catch Maysilee's, she shyly smiles and turns away and her sister frowns at me. I look back at the dirty ground and follow my brother into the Seam.

"Mitchy?"

"Yeah?"

He sighs "Why was Maysilee waving at you much?" He asks me. "Is she your girlfriend?"

"Hayden she's not my anything. Now get inside and do your homework."

He nods and takes off into the house with his dark curls bouncing around him.

I throw my bag in the house and grab the bucket we keep by the fire place and scoop the ashes into the bucket and take them outside and dump them into the pile fore the Peacekeepers to get rid of. I walk back inside and say hi to my mom.

"Hey mom." I yawn.

"How was school?" She looks exhausted.

I shrug my shoulders. "The same useless stuff I won't use because I'll be blown to bits in the mines in 3 years."

She pales. "Haymitch, you know I don't like that."

"It's true."

My mom sighs and kisses my forehead. "Alright, can you bring in the laundry off the line when you're done?"

"Sure."

I walk outside and am just about to take off when my mom puts her hand on my shoulder.

"Stay away from the fence Haymitch Abernathy. Do you hear me?"

I give her a solemn nod and walk outside to the laundry line. I pull down the shirts and toss them in the basket. I pull down a pair of my pants and jump when I see Maysilee on the other side.

"Shit." I exclaim. "What's wrong with you?"

She giggles. "Just saying hi, what's up Haymitch?"

"Chores." I mutter, would it kill her to stop stalking me.

She purses her lips. "Can I help?"

I scoff at her. "Are you for real?"

She nods eagerly and pulls a shirt off the line and folds it and put it in the basket. "Yeah. I was thinking when you were done we could go to into the woods."

"Shh! You do know we could get killed for that?"

Maysilee tucks her hair behind her ear. "Alright, but do you want too?"

"I guess."

She helps me fold everything and I wince when I hear Hayden.

"See you look momma I told you he has a girlfriend."

I whip around and shoot daggers at him and he runs back into the house. I look at Maysilee and she didn't seem to notice.

"Anything else you need help with?"

I shake my head and grab the basket and take it inside. Maysilee is smart enough to stay outside and not come in much to my delight. No one's in the room and I quickly dash back outside.

"Come on." I say gruffly and lead her to the fence and I go first and she follows.

We walk for a few minutes before I see Maysilee walk in front of me. I stop and she crosses her arms.

"Haymitch?" She asks softly.

"Yeah?" I ask trying to sound as polite as possible.

She runs her hand through her sunshine colored hair. "Can we go somewhere else?"

I smirk. "Sure."

I grab her arm and pull her down the rocks and lead her to a small hill over looking the mountains. She plops down in the grass and starts braiding flowers together.

"So are you done stalking me sweetheart?" I ask her after a while.

She blushes. "What are you talking about Haymitch?"

"You pop out of nowhere and you wave to me a lot and you're always smiling at me."

I picks at her flowers. "I thought we were friends."

I roll my grey eyes. "I don't make friends Maysilee."

She furrows her eyebrows. "Why not?"

" What's the point you'll either be killed in the Games, die of starvation or get blown to bits in the mines. It's me, my brother and my mom that's it."

She looks sad. "No wife or kids."

I toss a stone. "Nope."

Maysilee scoots closer. "What about me?"

I chuckle. "You, you're a girl who I know will turn out okay."

She links her fingers between mine and looks dead serious. "We could both turn out okay. Together."

I smiled a little. "Sweetheart you know I'm no good for you."

"Maybe I don't care." She shrugs and runs her hand through my hair. "Maybe I think you're different."

"Is that a good thing?" I taunt her.

She puts her face close to mine and I smell her sweet breath and she presses her lips against mine. I freeze for a second before I kiss back. She sighs and I pull back.

She looks embarrassed "Yeah that's a good thing."

I play with her hair. "Good to know."

She kisses me again and I smirk. Maybe Maysilee's not so bad after all.

AN: This was better I think I know they're moving fast but there's reason that Haymitch will bring up soon. Should I continue what should happen next? Please review!