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"Mum can I take the car?" I didn't want it to be a big deal because she would ask questions and I didn't want to answer them.
"Isn't Gale taking you to school?" she questioned handing Prim a bowl full of cereal.
"They had a fight," Prim giggled.
"We didn't fight," I snapped.
"He left us on the side of the road mum," Prim said with a mouth full of cereal.
"But I thought I saw you come home in a car yeasterday," she said with a touch of concern in her voice.
"Katniss's boyfriend drove us," Prim looked at me and smiled. I love my sister more than anything in the world but at this very moment I could kill her.
"Katniss are you dating someone?" she asked.
"No! Peeta isn't even a friend he is just a guy I'm doing a project for social studies with," this wasn't a big deal!
"Peeta Mellark?" she questioned.
"Yeah," how the hell did she know Peeta?
"I knew his father he was a really good man," she smiled. "Personally I always thought you and Gale would end up together."
"There is nothing between Gale and I we are just friends," I shout.
"Rory says that you are all Gale ever talks about," Prim said laughing.
"Friends, friends, friends," I said putting my fingers in my ear in an attempt to block out my mother and Prim out but I realize it just made me look like a five year old.
"Your very defensive," my mother said smiling.
"I'm getting the bus Prim so you can either stop talking about this and come with me or you could walk!"
"Wait wait I am still eating," she screamed after me.
"Hurry up then," I said heading for the door. I was hoping that when I opened the door Gale would be there like he always is waiting to drive us to school.
"I though that he would still come," Prim crept up behind me as I was staring at the driveway.
"You and me both sister," I held out my hand and she took it in hers.
"Maybe Peeta will dive past and save us again," she laughed.
"We don't need saving we have each other," I said.
"Yeah but we are still walking to school," she said pointing out the obvious.
"I should get a car," it is stupid that I have been relying on Gale to get around for so long.
"You should just apologize to Gale," she laughed.
"I didn't do anything," I started fighting back when I realized that she was laughing.
"Your so not funny!"
"I am a little funny," she said skipping in front of me.
I looked around the cafeteria and sighed it was like the first day of school again. Not knowing where to sit knowing that one wrong move will cause you to wear your lunch or make an annoying friend that I just didn't need. Across the room I spotted Gale sitting amongst a bunch of jocks and cheerleaders that may or may not have belonged to one of the team sport that Gale took part in; But I had no idea maybe he had secret friends that I didn't know about.
Taking one last look around the room I was about to give up and eat my lunch alone on a bench next to the teachers car park like I did before I met Gale when I saw Peeta. He was sitting alone on a table in the corner of the room, staring into space while pushing the food around his plate.
I slowly made my way across the room there was part of me that wanted to run outside to my safe bench and there was another part of me that pushed me closer and closer to Peeta but I didn't know why.
"Can I sit here?" I had already placed my tray on the table and sat down before I asked him. My voice seemed to pull him out of the daydream he was having.
"Katniss," he stared at me with his mouth open.
"Peeta," I couldn't help but laugh he looked so shocked.
"Hey," he stopped staring at me and concentrated on the food on his plate.
"Is it okay if I sit here?" I questioned again.
"Of course," a tiny smile crossed his before it disappeared.
"Your head looks worse," a black and blue bruise had formed around the gapping cut on his forehead that looked like it had just begun to scab over.
"Kinda hurts now," he said reaching up and lightly touching it.
"You should go to the doctors you might need stitches," I said moving to the chair next to him so I could take a closer look at the cut on his head.
"Its fine Katniss," he said turning his head away from me.
"Just let me see," I said waiting for him to turn his head back to me.
"I have had a million cuts like this Katniss it will be fine," he said smiling.
"Ew I hate blood," when I look at it closer it is all-moist and it is was like I can see his skull.
" Then why did you ask to see it," he went back to eating his food.
"Well if I could see your brain then I would have advised you to see a doctor," I laughed.
"Well I am glad that I have such a expert in the medical profession taking care of me," he laughed.
"How did it happen?" I finally started eating my food.
"I didn't tell my brothers that they were better than me, so they slammed me head into the tiled floor" he smiled which made me question if he was telling the truth.
"Are you serious?" I questioned but Peeta didn't answer the smile just disappeared from his face and he went back to playing with his food.
"Have you done the Math homework?" Peeta questioned after a long silence.
"Are you in my math class?" I tried to think of my Math class and who was in it. Gale is in my math class.
"Yeah I have been all year," he said laughing. "You don't really notice anyone other than Hawthorne."
"Yeah," I let my gaze drift over to where Gale was sitting.
"Maybe you will start noticing other people now that you know they are there," Peeta almost whispered.
"Are you in any of my other classes?" I swear that he wasn't but if I didn't notice his presence in my math class he may have be on all my other classes.
"No," he laughed. "Just Math and social studies."
"See I only didn't notice you in one of my classes," this caused him to laugh which for some reason made me smile.
"Well I am glad to hear that."
"What are your brothers names?" I just remembered that I had to write down everything I knew about Peeta for social studies and the only things I really know was that his brothers hurt him, people call him bread boy and he wants to open a bakery.
"Arlo and Wynn," he said staring at me. "You trying to find out things about me for that project?"
"No," I laughed he saw right through that one.
" My father owns a bakery that I work at, I have two older brothers named Arlo and Wynn and I am on the Baseball team with Gale. Do you think that will be enough?"
"I don't know what you are talking about I have already done my social studies homework," I made a mental not of everything he said.
"Sure you have," pushed his tray away.
"Have you done yours?" I questioned.
"I have."
"What did you write?" fear crept over me as I realized that this was the person that saw me at me most vulnerable and he had the power to share it with the world.
"Stuff I know about you," he said.
"What do you know about me?" I questioned but before he could answer the bell echoed through the room.
"Can I walk you to class," he said reaching across the table taking my tray.
"Well since you're in my math class I don't see why not," I get up and follow him.
"You didn't answer me," we had been walking in silence when Peeta finally said something.
"What was the question?" just like you didn't answer me I said in my head.
"Have you done the homework?" he laughed.
"Oh ah damn no," I didn't even remember getting homework.
"You can copy mine," he whipped an exercise book out of his book bag.
"I think I love you," I snatched the book out of his hand as we walked into the classroom
"And to think before lunch you didn't even know I existed," he laughed.
"Amazing what learn when you pay attention," I reached my usual desk.
"I will never tell anyone about that day to answer your question," he leaned down and whispered in my ear before walking away and sitting at a desk three rows behind mine.
"Hey," I was standing in the deserted canned food isle rotating the stock when I heard a familiar voice.
"Hey," I said without looking up.
"It's been a while," he said.
"Yeah where you even at school today?" I asked.
"Yeah I was but you ignored me like a two year old ," he said.
"Oh if you were there why did Prim and I have to catch the bus?," I snapped trying to make as much noise as possible with the cans to show that I was pissed off.
"I was angry!" he whispered.
"I still don't see why," I turned around to see Gale in his 'uniform' the usual jeans and black t-shirt that he always wore to work along with the disgusting bright blue vest we were all forced to wear.
"You don't know do you?" he was still staring at the ground refusing to look at me.
"Know what Gale? I am so sick and tired of this something that I am suppose to know but I don't know!" I almost screamed.
"Peeta likes you."
"What does that have to do with why you are mad at me?" The next moment happened so quickly that it took me a moment to realize what was happening. Gale crossed the space between us he wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer to him then he leant down and kissed me. It wasn't at all like I expected, I had never really imagined kissing Gale but it was soft.
"Do you get it now?" Gale said after we broke apart. Gale was looking down at me waiting for an answer.
"Yeah I get it," I move away from him. "How long have you wanted to?" I didn't really know what he wanted.
"Wanted to kiss you?" he said smiling crossing the space between us taking my face in his hands and kissing me again.
"It's been a while," he said smiling from ear to ear and laughing.
"So you like me and your jealous," the initial shock of the situation had passed and I maybe having a little fun with it.
" I wasn't jealous I was just a little annoyed that you're so thick that you hadn't seen it yet," he laughed.
"I'm not thick," I punched his arm.
"Katniss we have been spending every waking minute together for the last what 5 years and I have spent most of that time flirting with you," he said laughing.
"I don't even know how to flirt," I said dismissing him.
"Catnip you see this what we are doing here this is flirting," he said smiling.
"Katniss would you please get on a register and Gale finish stocking those shelves," our manager appeared out of no where and then disappeared after he had barked his orders at us.
"Umm talk after work?" I slowly backed away from Gale.
" See you then," he said reaching for my waist pulling me in closer and softly kissing me.
Gale likes me. Gale likes me so much that he kissed me. Gale likes me so much that he kissed me three times. Maybe I was thick; apparently everyone was able to see that he was into me but me. Gale kissed me and all I can think of when he was kissing me was Peeta.
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