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Katniss is sitting on her bed when she begins to finally contemplate his message.

Hi, Katniss.

Okay, so he does remember me. But, what is that message supposed to mean?

Katniss was never the one to imagine all the possibilities of situations, so as she's sitting there, thinking of what was going on in his head, she comes up clueless. Then she gets a headache.

Groaning, she gets up and goes into the kitchen and takes a headache reliever pill. Just as she finishes her glass of water, her sister comes in and drops her bag on the floor.

"That's what your room is for, Prim." Katniss scrutinizes.

"Yes I know but my arms were just so tired from walking all the way home, Katniss."

"Whatever, little duck, just make sure it ends up in your room."

"Okay, Katniss." She replies as she goes to the fridge to grab some juice.

"So how was school?" Katniss asks, just to get her mind off of Peeta, knowing full well that Prim will do the trick.

"Oh, it was awesome! Rue and I have 6 out of 8 classes together! And since it's the first day, it was just rules and boring stuff so we got to talk the whole time!" she practically yells. She takes a drink of her juice before continuing. "So, yeah today was pretty fun. Except for when we were at lunch with Rory, and Kylie walked by touching Rory's arm! She totally did that on purpose."

Unlike Katniss, Prim is very sociable and up to date with all the school gossip in her middle school. So naturally she is a normal teenager and that means boys. Yes, as much as Katniss cannot stand it, Prim already likes boys. Especially Gale Hawthorn's little brother, Rory.

Gale Hawthorn is a lot like Katniss in a few ways. One being that both of their dads' died around the same time. Another being that they are both on them live on the poor side of town known as The Seam. But overall, the last one being that they look a lot alike with their similar olive skin and grey eye color. Sometimes when Katniss was little the kids at school would run up to her and ask if they were brother and sister.

But other than that, Katniss and Gale are nothing alike. He is popular because he is on the football team and goes to the school events. He is always with his friends (the other football players) and the cheerleaders. Anyone else, he hasn't really given the time of day to since they started high school three years ago.

Katniss starts to get lost again in thought when Prim suddenly interrupts.

"Katniss, hello?"

"What, what?"

"I asked you if I could go over to Rue's house for a little while."

Oh, yeah sure. Just make sure you're back by 6:30." Katniss replies, while prim is already heading to the door, knowing that Katniss was going to say yes.

"Thanks!" Prim yells, as she's walking out the door.

That night Katniss cannot stop thinking about him. The more she thinks the more she doesn't really know. So naturally, her mind drifts back to the past like it always does when she's alone.

"Ouch!"

Katniss is laying on the ground looking up at those stupid slippery blue monkey bars that she fell off of.

"Katniss are you okay?!" Peeta asks as he peers down at her, covering the view of the monkey bars with his face.

"I thinks so." she replies as he begins to help her up.

"Oh, goodness. I'm so glad." He smiles out of relief at her.

That's when she finds herself smiling back at him, admiring his pretty blue eyes.

"You really should be more careful, Katniss."

And just like that, her smiles becomes her signature scowl. "No. Don't tell me what to do, Peeta." If it's one thing that Katniss doesn't like, it's being told what to do.

She whips her head around and begins to march off towards the hill. The place she always goes when someone makes her upset at school.

"Katniss! Wait!" Peeta yells as he starts to run to catch up.

"No, Peeta. You made me mad" she says as she reaches her hill and sits down.

"I know, I'm sorry." Peeta apologizes right before he sits down next to her. "It's just that I love you and I don't like you being hurt."

Katniss looks over at him sharply. "You love me?"

He beams at her, clearly pleased that he made her scowl go away. "Yes"

She looks back down to her hands in her lap and can't fight the grin on her face. "I love you too, Peeta."

"Yay!"

She laughs at his excitement.

"Now can I go push you on the swing?" He asks her while standing up and grabbing her hand.

She giggles but let's him pull her up and walk her to the empty swing.

Katniss is pretty sure the taste in her mouth is blood from biting her tongue and cheeks, while remembering the first time he told her he loved her.

You were five, Katniss. Get over yourself!

She groans and turns over onto her stomach and smashes her face into her pillow. Not much later, she drifts off to sleep.

Hey guys this is also a short one, I know but the next one will get it more exciting and moving when she goes back to school. Please review so I know what you guys think about it so far.