Chapter Five

Gale ran his hand through his dark hair desperately, while pacing impatiently around the room. Zachary's body lying there, dead as the animals Gale used to kill back then during his hunting days.

"What are we going to do? What are we going to do," Gale kept whispering those words. Peeta heart clenched with pain, seeing his loved one hurt, affected by having killed another person. For taking a life, for Peeta it was nothing out of the ordinary. He was used to killing, if it meant saving your skin. Zachary deserved it. "Is going to be okay, I will never tell anyone, we just need to bury him." Gale looked at him. Nodded and asked, "Where would we bury his body?"

"The forest is the safest place." He responded.

With shovels in hands, both he and Gale went to the farthest end of the forest, dragging the heavy body of Zachary. None said a word, just dug a perfect hole on the earth, deep enough to cover Zachary. Peeta smirked internally, Gale had saved him. It meant the other man had feelings for him. Dirt was getting all over himself, but at the moment his mind was battling with questions to ask Gale.

Peeta remained silent. He couldn't speak, and seeing Gale's tense body the older boy would not respond to his questions. It took about two hours to dig up a hole of about five feet into the ground. Enough to throw a body, to get rid of the evidence of Zachary's lifeless body but Peeta knew better. The Capitol is smart; they would grow suspicious on a couple of days of Zachary not reporting in. He knew Gale was thinking the same thing.

Throwing the body in and covering it up took less than the digging. Peeta's entire body now covered in dirt, even on the insides of his nails. Gale looked at him, his piercing gray eyes on his. "How many saw you speaking to him?" Gale asked without emotion.

Peeta thought about it. "Maybe one or two villagers not that many." Gale shifted uncomfortably.

"Prim saw you." There it was the reason why Gale had come to his rescued tonight. The little bitch of Prim had seen him talking to Zachary. Although, it reassured Peeta knowing Gale had been jealous. "Gale-" Soon warm lips were on his kissing him hard. It felt unreal, like a dream. Rain drops falling from the sky, soon drenching them both completely wet. The kiss lasted for several minutes, breaking apart for air when necessary.

Then Gale broke it off took both shovels and left him there alone on the forest. It is then he realized this had been a good-bye kiss.