What if Peeta and Katniss became close friends? What if Katniss slowly fell for Peeta? What if the Hunger Games worked completely differently? There's something else that forces them to confess their feelings, and it's still condemned upon them by the Capitol. What is it? And how will they figure it all out with these teenage feelings running around inside of them? AU

The effect it has on him is nothing short of satisfying. But wrong, so, so wrong, and different and not me. It's the hunger. The side of me that I didn't think would be. That wants things like this; nakedness, beds, Peeta. And so it's not really me, who reaches out and grasps his wrist when he makes to stand and leave, it's the want. The fire begging for more fuel. *Rewritten*