Chapter 10: Sorry Gale ;)

A/N: You guys know how a ton of other authors say that they'll update a ton because school is out? Well that's the opposite for me because I'm never home! Sorry, and when I am home I get distracted by Facebook and Twitter. Maybe you can blame Amelia Earhart for me not updating. She said I have no friends when I saw her at Sky Vacation Bible School.

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Katniss' POV

Peeta, Gale, Delly and I walk into the dining room and sit down. I see Delly gazing up at the big glass chandelier hanging above the table. She better get used to seeing fancy things because she'll see a lot of it at the Capitol. Some attendants bring in some food and set it down on the buffet tables that area along the walls. Once they leave we all walk over to is and dish up some food. We sit down and eat for a few minutes and Peeta, like normal, is the one to start the conversation.

"Do you two have any questions about the games?" He asks Gale and Delly. Gale just looks down at his plate, probably not wanting to make eye contact with Peeta or me.

"How do you find shelter?" Delly asks. Peeta and I begin to laugh and Delly looks blankly at us, not understanding why this is funny. Gale looks up at us too to see what's so funny.

"What's so funny? It was a legitimate question that I would like to know the answer to as well." Gale asks.

"It's funny because Peeta asked the same thing last year. But when he asked it Haymitch and he started to argue and Peeta ended up with Haymitch's hairy, smelly foot on his chest." I explain to them.

"Then he took a bottle of liquor and went to his room." Peeta finishes.

"Did you two like Haymitch?" Delly asks.

"No, not at all. The only thing he did well is sending us gifts in the arena. Other than that we hated him." I say.

"But he was our mentor and we still go to him for advice. Like when I was found in the arena, he helped us with that." Peeta says. I see Effie walk in out of the corner of my eye.

"Are we going to end up hating you two?" Gale asks then received a stern look from Effie.

"Manners!" She tells him. I laugh a little at this remembering when she told me the same thing when I shoved Peeta backstage after his interview last year.

"Katniss! That is rude, do not laugh." Effie tells me. I try to keep a straight face but I smile a little. Peeta turns a little to look at me, he smiles at me. I stop holding in my laugh and start to laugh. Effie huffs and stalks out the door muttering something about teenagers and poor manners.

"Should we be worried about her?" Delly asks.

"No, not at all. Just give her some time and she'll be fine." I tell her. We eat dinner and just sit there and talk.

"So in the games, are we going to pull a star-crossed lovers act too?" Gale asks. There's that word again, "act" I hate that word. Everyone knows that it was much more than an act. I know Gale knows that, he must be doing this to mess with Peeta. I close my eyes and take a deep breath.

"Gale, it was not an act. I don't know how many times I will have to say this, but it was not an act. You need to understand that."

Peeta's POV

"Gale, it was never an act and never will be. I can tell that you love me, but I will never love you more than a friend. Peeta is different; I've told you that before." If I'm correct, Katniss just said that she loves me. "Let's just try to make this trip as quick and painless as we can. You'll go in the arena, both come out alive and we'll go home. No extra drama, the games causes enough as it is." We all sit in an awkward silence for a while then Katniss stands up.

"I'm going to bed, see you all in the morning." She walks to her room and before she goes into the open door she looks back at me a smiles a little, I grin back at her. She walks into her room and shuts the door behind her. Delly stands up, pushing the chair away from the table.

"I'm going to bed too, hopefully sleep some stress away. Good night." Then she walks to her room at the end of the train and leaves Gale and I sitting in an awkward silence. Right now the only think I hear is the sound of the train rolling down the track.

"Why Mellark, why?" Gale says. My first thought is Katniss.

"It's not like I asked for this to happen. I didn't ask to be reaped, which started this whole thing."

"You still didn't have to tell the whole country that you have a crush on my best friend." He says. I stand up and walk over to the window and lean on the wall.

"Why do you care if she was just your best friend, you never made a move; so I took my opportunity." I say to Gale. Gale gets up from his chair and stalks over to the where I am standing. He stops when his face in inches from mine and staring at me straight in the eye.

"You listen to me, Mellark. Stay away from her; I don't care about the star-crossed lovers. I've known her longer so stay away."

"Gale, no matter what you say; I'm not staying away. Anyone can tell that she loves me. She just said that what she feels for me is different. I'm not going anywhere!"

Before I realize what I'm doing my fist makes contact with Gale's jaw. The impact knocks his head upwards and he takes a steep back. He shakes his head in fury then throws a punch at my stomach. I lean up against the wall, the punch had taken the breath out of me a bit. Then I go at Gale and punch him on the face. When I pull my hand away I see blood running down my knuckles. I look up at Gale and see that blood is streaming out of his nose. He looks up at me and I know I'm going to get it. The first time he tries to punch me I duck. He swings his leg around to try to knock me on the floor, he fails and I jump at him making him fall on his back. This is my only chance, I have his arms pinned down on the ground with my legs and I am about to punch him when I start to hear a high pitch voice.

"Peeta Mellark! You get off your tribute right now! That is not acceptable and that is very rude!" I get off of Gale and he stands up.

"Thank you, now both of you go to bed. You have had a long day and you will need to save you energy and fighting for when the games begin. Good night you two! Tomorrow is a big, big, big day!" I walk past Gale and go to my room near the front of the train. I go in the bathroom and wash off the blood. I change into more comfortable clothes and lie down. I didn't realize how tired I was till my head hit the pillow. I was out.

Gale's POV

Great, Katniss admits that she will never love me like she does Peeta and now my face is covered in blood from my nose down. Effie walks me down to my room. When I go in I wash the blood off my face and hands in the bathroom. I change into clean clothes because mine have some blood on them. I turn the light off and crash. I can't wait for all of this to be over.

A/N: I think I made Gale too mean. Peeta just brings out his mean side I guess. Why you gotta be so mean Gale? Again, sorry that I haven't been updating a ton; I really wish I could but Facebook and Twitter distract me! I'm also gone a lot now too. I hadn't done Peeta's POV yet and I thought that this was a good thing to have through his eyes.

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