Chapter 2

'Mooom!' Posy yells. 'Where did you put my dress? You know, the peach colored one with ruffles!' Posy Hawthorne is the typical 'daddy's little girl' since she is the mayor's only daughter. And she is a little spoiled. Even though her mother tries very hard to keep all her kids grounded, sometimes things just can't be prevented.

Hazelle walks into the hallway, 'honey, don't yell. If you have something to ask me, then you come to me all right?' 'Yes mom,' Posy mutters quickly. 'But where's my dress?' She asks impatiently. 'The peach one with the ruffles?'

'Yes, like I said' the little girl says irritated. 'You mean like you yelled and if you're going to have an attitude with me then don't expect an answer,' Hazelle says calmly. Posy scowls but eventually looks towards the ground and says 'Ok, I'm sorry mom,' hoping that her mother will tell her what she wants to know. Hazelle nods and says 'that's better. Your dress is at the drycleaner's.'

Posy's eyes widened, 'what? I wanted to wear that today! What am I going to wear now? What must Stacey think if I show up in an old worn out piece of cloth?' Posy doesn't look like the other people in town, just like the whole Hawthorne family. They look more like people from the seam. That's why she often feels like she has to impress her classmates by wearing fancy clothes and by showing off her wealth.

'Don't be so dramatic, you have plenty of dresses that you can wear,' Hazellle reassures her.

'Oh, you don't get it, you don't get anything!' Posy screams while she angrily storms out to her room.

Gale wakes up with a start when he hears screaming outside his room. For a moment, he is scared that he overslept so he quickly looks at his alarm clock. 6.30 AM. Relieved, he lays down again. He doesn't have to be at the bakery until eight. Thankfully, Peeta suggested to open up; otherwise he would have had to wake up an hour earlier. The screaming goes on, so he decides to go check out what all the fuss is about. He is already up anyways. He puts on a robe and opens the door, just catching a glimpse of Posy before she slammed her door shut.

'Mom, is everything all right?' he asks worriedly. 'Oh, you know the usual teenage behavior,' Hazelle sighs. 'I'll go talk to her if you want,' Gale suggests thinking it is not acceptable that his little sister acts like this. 'No, just let her blow off some steam.' He looks at his mother. She has bags under her eyes and it looks like she needs help in the household. His father is always in the office, she has to do everything alone most of the time. She needs help. He reminds himself to have a little talk with his sister and parents later. Now, he just wants to crawl into bed again.

When he wakes up again, it's 7.30. Crap, he overslept. He quickly gets dressed and runs downstairs straight out the door. 'Bye mom, I'm going to work!' He hears his mother yell something about breakfast but he doesn't have time. He'll just eat something at the bakery.

Once he reaches the bakery, he is panting. The bakery isn't even that far away but he ran just to be sure. When he's inside, he takes in great smell of freshly baked bread that he loves so much. 'Hey Gale, you're early?' Peeta says surprised. Gale's father isn't too excited about Gale's career choice. It isn't good for his image. He thinks that Gale can do so much better like working in the office and becoming the next mayor when he retires or something. However, Gale doesn't want all that, especially when the games are still 'alive' and the capitol still has power.

Gale is snapped out of his thoughts when Peeta asks him to help a customer that just came in. It's a girl who seems to be a little bit too excited for going to the bakery. Of course. Girls usually come in just to see Gale given that he is the mayor's son. And he is handsome. The girl flirts a bit with him and ends up buying three different kinds of bread. After a while, she finally leaves.

'That's why we hired you, you know, because of all the female attention you're getting,' Peeta jokes. Gale and Peeta have been friends since they were children. They grew up together; they know each other even better than they know themselves. Even though all the girls only notice Gale each time, Peeta doesn't seem to mind. He has eye for only one girl.

'Haha,' Gale says rolling his eyes. 'Maybe they come for all the delicious bread, have you thought about that?'

'Yes, I have but that doesn't explain why business is always better when you're here.' Peeta says with a teasing tone. The day continues like this, with the boys teasing each other while selling bread until it is closing time.

'Can you close up? I'm so tired and I opened up this morning so…you owe me,' Peeta smirks. 'Fine, get out of here, go to bed!' Gale laughs. After Peeta left Gale checks if all the ovens are off and puts all the left over bread in a bag to take home. He knows Peeta doesn't want it, so why let it go to waste?

When he has checked everything, he goes outside and locks the doors. He takes a deep breath of fresh air once he's outside and starts making his way home, but then he notices something. Someone. Strands of blonde hair, which is not out of the ordinary here in town, but yet… As he gets closer he sees the face belonging to the strands of blonde hair. The cheeks are wet with tears. He recognizes her. Although he is hesitant, he feels like he should do something, console her. So his feet slowly make their way over to her.

A/N: I really like the Peeta/Gale friendship! Next chapter Gale/Madge interaction! Also, tomorrow school starts again here so I'll be posting less :( I'll try to post once a week or maybe more but no promises... Thoughts on this chapter? Have a nice day :)