Hi everyone, I am so, sorry it took my so long to update. Thankyou to my new Beta GallagherGirl202 for reminding me to update :P

PS. Just to avoid confusion, I did change my name; to LittleMissInsaneOfMind, just incase you're wondering

Hope you enjoy the new chapter!

Previously

He looked dead, and his eyes were puffy and red from his crying. I could see that he hated looking and feeling this vulnerable.

"Come on Gale, let's get you upstairs"

And with that I started to slowly lead him up to my bedroom, never letting go of his hand.

Chapter 5

As we walked, I could see Gale trying desperately to get his emotions in check. He hated himself for showing weakness, I could see that much from looking at his face.

I pushed my bedroom door open, and was momentarily struck by indecision. Bed, chair, floor. Bed, chair, floor. The chair's really quite uncomfortable. The floor isn't exactly spotless. Looks like the bed it is.

I led him over to sit on the messy and crumpled sheets, quickly throwing my sleeping gown under the pillow. He just sat there, staring at the floor, looking positively glum.

I reached out and put a hand on his shoulder, hoping to provide even a little bit of comfort.

"Come on Gale, I'm sure she'll be okay"

At that Gale jumped of the bed, so fast i nearly keeled over and faceplanted on the bed.

"NO!" he shouted angrily, his hands balled into fists, "Don't say that when you and I both know she IS NOT okay!"

"...She's not okay..."

It was barely a whisper.

He collapsed onto the bed beside me, and wrapped his huge arms around me, sobbing into my chest.

"I'm sorry I yelled at you, Katniss, I just...I can't stand to know that Posy is down there, dying, and there's nothing I can do about it!"

I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and cooed to him.

"Ssh, Gale. I'm sure she'll be just fine. You know that my mother and Prim are both down there working as hard as they possibly can to save her. They love her nearly as much as you do, she's a family to us as well. They will do everything possible to save her, Gale. Don't worry."

His sobs continued on for a little while longer, but they slowly quietened. I wasn't sure how long we had been sitting here like this, but it must have been a while, at least an hour. He finally slowly sat up and loosened his grip on me, although not totally letting go.

His eyes were still puffy and bloodshot from crying, but tears were no longer flowing out of them. He looked me in the eyes, looking slightly sheepish, but still upset.

"Katniss, I'm sorry about that. And I-"

I cut him off from what he was about to say.

"Gale, don't worry, it's fine-"

"-I'm sorry about before. With Peeta. I shouldn't have..."

"Well THAT, that WASN'T fine!" I said, rather sternly.

"I know but...I couldn't help it! Him coming into your house like that, uninvited, that saying all those things to me AND to you, even though I'm older than him AND I've known you for a lot longer!'

I sighed. This wasn't going to be easy.

"Gale, you can't beat up every guy who come into my house!"

"But-"

"OR any guy who says a few bad words about you. I know that your emotions were just running high because of the whole Posy thing, and I forgive you for that, but you probably shouldn't have punched Peeta like that"

"I know, and I'm sorry. Kind of..."

"GALE!"

"Okay, okay. I'm sorry. Really sorry."

"Better. I forgive you."

We then lapsed into awkward silence. Very, very awkward silence. The type of silence where somebody invariably yells out "A Gay baby was born!"

Unfortunately, we had nobody here to yell it out for us.

So it was still awkward.

I wasn't used to this, being awkward around Gale. Usually being around him is as easy as breathing.

But not today.

Then again, I don't usually have him sitting on my bed, in my bedroom, alone, after he has just has a small breakdown right in front of me.

He was looking down at the bed, fiddling with the bed sheets. I was sitting facing him cross-legged, just looking at his face.

I had to admit, he WAS pretty handsome.

Wait, what?

I had never, ever, thought of Gale in a romantic sense. I had always seen him as a brother. I should definitely, never ever think about that again. Yes. I will erase that entire mental conversation from my brain. Poof. Gone.

Now I'm thinking about it again. Ugh!

Just then Gale apparently found something under the sheets, and held it up.

I wouldn't usually mind, if he wasn't holding up my old bra.

Now it was REALLY awkward. I could practically SEE the heat radiating off my cheeks.

Great, the one day I have Gale sitting on my bed, I leave my gross old granny-bra lying around in it. Yay. It wasn't even a nice bra!

Dear ground, if you could, would you please swallow me up right about now? Thanks a lot. Love, Katniss.

He was just staring at it like he had never seen a bra before in his entire life. Actually, that was a question, had he? I mean, he only had two brothers and a toddler sister, so why would he have?

I really don't need to be having that conversation in my head right now, so I pushed it to the back of my mind.

He lifted his eyes from the hated piece of lingerie to meet my own eyes, and I expected to see embarrassment mirroring my own.

I was (perhaps unpleasantly) surprised.

He had a look in his eyes that I have never seen before on Gale. I briefly wondered what it was, but before i could do a great deal of pondering, he had thrown the bra somewhere in the near vicinity, leaped over and fervently attached his lips to mine.

Oh. My. God.

Gale was kissing me. Was this a good thing, or a bad thing!

I had absolutely no idea.

While my brain was discussing this, my body had a mind of it's own. My fingers wound their way into his hair, and I found myself kissing him back just as fervently.

I was too busy trying to think about whether this was actually a good idea to hear the door opening.

But I definitely heard the sharp intake of breath.

Gale apparently did too, because he stopped kissing me, but he didn't move off me.

I peered above his head to see my mother standing in the doorway looking mortified, a little bit disproving.

She decided to say what she was going to say and leave as quickly as possible. I can't wait for the lecture I'm going to get after this. Yay.

"..um, ugh, a, G-Gale, your, ah, sister is stabilised, but we, ah, want her to stay here for the night. Um, I think your mother and brothers need to know the news, so, ah, maybe you should, um..."

Right. Point taken. Time for Gale to leave.

Gale reluctantly pulled away and walked out, not meeting my mothers eyes as he passed.

When he had gone, my mother turned on me.

"now, young lady, explain to me what was going on in here!"

YAY! Chapter 5 finished!

Hope you enjoyed it!

-LittleMissInsaneOfMind