A/N Hey guys, here's the update, I hope you like it and thanks to the very few who took the time to review.

I heard you and Gale that morning. You were not loud by any means, but the wall wasn't thick enough to spare me. I knew it didn't make sense, but I was jealous. I had spent the better part of my teenage years observing you, and seeing him hover around you to keep the other guys at bay. Maybe, if he didn't exist in high school, I would have found the nerve to speak to you. Maybe. Maybe, if he didn't exist that summer you moved in with us, I would have found the nerve to finally go after what I wanted. Maybe.

I finish unpacking during the rest of the afternoon, alone in the apartment. Both Mellarks are working today. I google the publishing house again, making sure I know exactly how to get there tomorrow morning. I don't want to be late for my first day.

I heat up a slice of pizza for supper, still alone. I decide to give my sister Prim a call. She's back home for the summer, after her first year at college. Prim is such a good student, she's working her ass off at school, trying to earn a scholarship. Her dream is to get into medicine. She already has healer hands and the most compassionate heart; she would be an amazing doctor. Prim is my favorite person in the world, even before Gale. I'm going to miss her terribly too, but I know she'll be working everyday to earn as much money as she can. She tells me all about her new job at the pharmacy and how lucky she is they chose her. They are the lucky ones, and I tell her so. She just laughs.

I just hung up when Finn and Peeta arrive.

Peeta was catering for a baptism today and Finn went to help him out. It apparently lasted longer than planned and Finn is angry. I listen to them bickering about what went wrong with the mini quiche for a minute before retreating into my room.

I'm surprised when Finn knocks on my door a minute later, all smiles, to ask if I want to go to the movies. This fight sure hasn't last long.

I'm soon walking alongside Peeta down the street; Finn and Annie in front of us.

He's not saying a word now, giving me the weird sideway glances again. I'm starting to get annoyed. I never did anything for him not to like me so why is he acting so cold? I'm almost about to ask when his phone rings.

"Sorry, got to take it, it's the bakery," he apologizes politely before taking a few steps back. We are almost there anyway, I realize, when I see the theater is right to our left.

Annie is talking loudly and animatedly about her new art project and she's taking so fast, I can't understand half the words she's saying. I can tell Finn is lost too. Then, he stops her by putting a lingering open mouth kiss on her lips.

I take a few steps back too. I feel out of place, I shouldn't have come. Peeta's not talking to me and I can't count on Finn or Annie to make small talk. I play nervously with my braid. Maybe I could still go home, fake a headache or something. Bottom line, I do want us to get along.

I take a deep breath and decide to stick to it. We enter the theater and I regret my decision immediately because, when his lips aren't glued to Annie's anymore, Finn insists to see the new satiric comedy and Annie agrees. Peeta is still on his phone talking about a cake and just follows us. I sigh quietly, it's not really my kind of movie, but since I want to bond with them somewhat –so they don't throw me out– I keep silent. I'm starting to feel like that ship has sailed tonight. I sit closest to the aisle, next to Peeta. He finally closes his phone but still, not a word to me.

The movie is the most boring, unfunny, badly written thing I've ever seen at the theater. I look to Peeta, he's staring blankly at the screen, and I don't dare say anything in case he likes it.

About forty minutes into the movie, Annie and Finn start kissing. At first, it's just a few restricted kisses, but it quickly turns into a full blown make out session. I don't want to look, really, but they are soon grasping at each other's hair and just as the movie is getting really loud, Finn almost embark on Annie's seat to held her closer to him, his tongue all over her.

I can't help but blush when I realized people around us are looking and pointing at them. They start whispering among themselves louder and louder, but the two of them seem oblivious to the fact that almost everyone behind us is watching them and not the movie.

The way they are fondling each other leaves nothing to the imagination. Their movements are so clumsy and jerky it is almost comical.

Peeta shifts into his seat, inching closer to me, trying to distance himself for the couple, his body in a weird angle. Peeta turns towards me, and when I see the brotherly disgusted grimace plastered on his face, I start giggling in silence, a thing very out of character for me. The absurdity of the situation added to my nervousness from before and to the way people are staring at the unrestrained couple is getting to me.

I hold a hand over my mouth to silence myself. Peeta's eyes stay on me and his unease quickly turns into amusement as a small smile appears on his lips. Annie lets out a loud whimper behind him and I'm struggling to hold it in. Peeta covers his mouth too, trying to disguise a giggle into a dry cough. Finally, when someone comes behind us to snap a picture of them, we both crack, erupting loudly into laughter.

That, at last, catches Finn's attention and he straightens up, going back into his seat and giving Peeta and I a questioning look.

I sober up, but Peeta is still trying to catch his breath, and people are giving us nasty looks.

I grab his arm boldly, "Let's leave before they make us."

He follows me instantly, and we hurry towards the exit. Once outside, we erupt in laughter once again, I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard. It's nice.

"God, that was awful," I exclaim, both talking about the movie and the situation.

"Horrible," he agrees.

"I thought you liked it," I admit and he chuckles.

To my delight, the weird tension between us is gone. We decide to get ice cream on the way back, and we talk. He's easy to talk to, and he's such a good listener I find myself talking more than I usually do about my own stuff.

I can't wrap my brain around how many job he's juggling to become a pastry chef quickly. I tell him all about my upcoming internship, even admitting to the fact that I could have gotten one in Albany but wanted a taste of the big city.

"So, what kind of movies to you actually like?" I ask him.

"You're going to think I'm a big nerd," he shies away coyly.

"I won't," I promise him.

"Well, I like science fiction the best," he admits, and he must really think I'm someone else if he thinks I'm going to make fun of him for liking science fiction. I don't enjoy romance comedies, or horror films or even dramas but science fiction, I can handle.

I put him at ease. "I like science fiction too, my dad used to make us watch Star Wars with him all the time."

He seems surprised; I guess he figured I was a chick flick kind of girl.

"My ultimate favorite is the Fifth Element," he says.

I never watched it, I thought it seemed unrealistic and a bit weird. I tell him so, he just chuckles.

"I'll have to fix that."

I smile. "I guess you will,"

"I'm off tomorrow night," he offers and I nod in agreement, thinking how crazy it is that Peeta and I are becoming such quick friends when he didn't seem to like me one bit a couple of hours ago.

So? Do you guys like it so far? What do you want to see happen in this story? Do you want more Haymitch, more Annie and Finn? Do you want me to concentrate on K/P or talk a it about her job and friendship outside of the house?

Would you mind if I updated on Sundays?

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