A/N- Hi! Well, this again is theeShadyLady. If you could please R/R that would be awesome. Ok, Continuing on… This is Katniss's reply to Gale's second letter, about a month after she received it.

((DISCLAIMER: I still do not own the Hunger Games, but I can dream rite?! :P))

Ch. 4: "Change"

Did you know, at first, I didn't even know he actually loved me? During the whole 74th Games, I thought it was all fake. After he admitted that he loved me during the interviews, on the way back to our rooms he told me it was a lie. Haymitch even told me it wasn't real, he said to just play along with it. But on the train ride home, he found out I was acting, and I found out he wasn't.

And when I started thinking back, I realized some of the things that I did while I was in the arena with him, might not have been all an act. Then when the 75th Games came around and we were sent back, I started to fall in love with him, for real this time.

And I'm so glad you didn't volunteer, I don't ever want you to have to go through that. It changes you, I don't want you to ever change, Gale.

Also if we had left, nobody would have been there for Prim when she was drawn for the Games. She would have died alone in that arena… Well, I guess she— never mind. I know that's not what you meant when you said you wondered what might have happened, and I really don't know what would have happened if we had left, but it does matter because that's in the past, and we can't ever go back.

I think it's best, if I just say goodbye right here and end this, because all we are doing is hurting each other and neither of us wants to do that. I wish it didn't have to come to this, I wish something could change the way we both feel, but that's like wishing for the sun to stop shining… or trying to force the grass to stop growing, because none of these things are ever going to happen. So, I am sorry, but…

Goodbye, Gale Hawthorne.

-Katniss

~theeShadyLady~

(A/N- This is NOT the last chapter.)