I laid in bed looking up at the ceiling like I had once at my home. Thinking of the place I grew up made my heart heavy, as I begun to avidly miss my father. I longed just to give him one more hug. And tell him one more time how much I love him.

Love. Love was such a stupid thing. If I didn't love anybody or anything this would be all too easy. But stupid love was making this all too hard.

I heard a knock at the door, and I knew who it was. But yet I couldn't bring myself to say I was I was awake. I couldn't bring myself to sit up when the door creaked open, and my boyfriend walked in.

Brendon sat on my bed, and I could feel his eyes lingering on me. I just couldn't bring mine to open and meet his.

He stoked my hair as he watched me pretend to sleep before leaving after a good 30 minutes. I could only hear faint things, I think he was whispering to me and himself. Yet I couldn't listen to anything he was saying, I was too busy trying not to. I didn't want to keep falling in love with him, like I used to every day.

After he left I sat right up. And pouring over me was guilt. I didn't want to be hurting him like this, but I had to. There was no other way to keep him safe.

But I just couldn't help but feel like I was ruining him. He made the sacrifice to come out here and be with me but all I was doing was pushing him away. It wasn't that I didn't love him. It was mainly that I loved him too much.

The next day was like the last.

I walked down the training center, making sure I left before Brendon. In my tight black leggings and white tank I walked into the center. Feeling the cloth 1 on my back as reassurance that I was only going to keep him safe. I was doing the right thing.

"Hade" I smirked, standing next to Hadrian who was at the ropes section.

"Laci Kingsly has reappeared. What did I do to deserve this?" he asked in mock disappointment. "I hoped I got rid of you yesterday." He added with a perfect smirk.

I matched his smirk, sitting next to him. "Well lets see, you criticized my archery skills. You cockily thought you were better at sword fighting then me,"

Hade cut me off, flipping back some of his careless caramel hair. "Cockily knew that I'm a better swordfighter. It's a fact."

I ignored him. "Um then you "accidently" shoved me when we were testing knifes, and distracted me the entire time when we were at the edible foods."

Hadrian smiled, "Distracted you?"

I flipped my hair, "You kept making funny faces and getting on my nerves" I added plainly, playing around with the tan rope.

"Well then I did my job," he leaned in so that his lips were touching my ear, "Taking out the competition,"

I smirked, pushing him away from me. "You're just like your father" I teased. I remembered Cato from years ago. As handsome as he was he was ruthless. We all knew he was going to win those games before they even started.

Hadrian grinned widely, "I try my hardest" he said adding a little bow.

"Oh stop flattering yourself," I rolled my oceanic eyes.

Hade laughed, before without adding another word leaving and heading to another station. Archery.

I got up and followed him there, amused at the fact that he never looked back to see if I would.

"Well?" I asked once I was next to him again.

Hadrian looked down to me with a smirk, he was definitely a few inches taller then me. "Well, I wanna see if you made any improvement from yesterday,"

"Oh come on!" I protested, "I wasn't that bad!" I said, seeing the beautiful daughter of Finnick and Annie out of the corner of my eyes looking over to us. I almost wondered if she was jealous I was flirting with Hade while dating Brendon. It was as if I was taking all of the guys here. I hoped she didn't mind.

She walked over to us, standing next to me. I looked over to her. She had tangled gorgeous brown hair and bright green eyes. "Hey," she nodded to us picking up a set of arrows.

Hadrian looked to her and then to me, and raised his eyebrows as if to ask my opinion on her. I shrugged, giving him the ok. "Hey. I'm Hade..drain. Hadrian. And this is Laci." He introduced. I could almost see a trace of blush when he corrected himself. As if he only wanted me to call him Hade.

I nodded to her, pretending to not really notice her. I was waiting to see the vibe if I would want her on my team or not. But considering she was from for, and her parents both won, I was sure she was going to be an asset.

"Sealy." She said back without meeting my eyes. She sure met Hade's though. But something told me she was no threat, Hadrian kept his eyes on me.

I finally spoke, turning to Sealy and tucking my golden hair behind my ear, "Well your welcome to hang with us," I said to her, as if giving her an official invite.

Sealy smirked, "Thanks. Where's your boyfriend anyways?" was the first thing she asked.

Hadrian looked at me interested, as I shrugged, "Brendon? I don't know" I said nonchalantly. I hoped it was convincing enough, I was going to have to get used to looking like I don't care.

"He's fine, probably talking with Mason."

"Mason?" I asked him confused who Brendon would be talking to. I didn't bother to listen when he talked about yesterday at dinner last night.

Hadrian looked at me funny, "My district partner?" he laughed. And suddenly I remembered the dark haired girl that was on the float with him.

"Oh…yeah."I shrugged.

But all I wanted to do was go over there, and make him stop. I longed to talk to him so much, and it was taking everything in me not to. Not taking to him was making me miserable. And so I blamed love for it all.

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