"Now what do you think?" Peeta asks wearing a cocky smile.
In just a split second Katniss slaps him right across the face hard.
"This is what I think you idiot. What do you think?" Katniss answers.
"You slapped me?" he says rubbing his cheek.
"I'm gonna leave before I hit you again." Katniss says, turning around to walk away when he grabs her arm.
"No, wait. Don't leave." Peeta begs.
"Take your hand off of me, if you want to keep your teeth." she warns smiling.
"Okay okay." he says, letting go of the girl.
"There is something that I want to tell you." Peeta tries again.
"What is it, will you never give up?" Katniss laugh at the man.
"Say what you have to say. And it better be important." Katniss says.
"It's very important. If I don't say this, I will die." Peeta says with his dramatic acting voice.
"Okay, you convinced me. You have thirty seconds. And you better not say something as stupid as the kiss thing, because I will cut your tongue out."
Peeta looks at her with an intense look, the way he always does when he is about to say his next line.
"Your eyes.." he starts but Katniss cuts him off.
"What, what's wrong with my eyes. Do you see a problem with them?" Katniss points at her silver eyes, getting defensive.
"No, and don't interrupt me." Peeta says with an annoyed voice.
"Well then say it quickly, you have ten seconds left." Katniss says with a voice that is just as annoyed.
"Your eyes are, like two lakes of crystal water. Water that calls me, water that unclean's me, water that drowns me." he says with his over dramatic voice, that he thinks sounds flirty.
He starts to caress her cheek softly, and Katniss smiles in response, rubbing her cheek against his hand for a couple of seconds before she stops her acting and goes back to the same Katniss.
"And you'll be drowning all right, if you don't stop touching me right now." Katniss snaps.
Peeta gives her a confused and shocked look.
"Oh, and one advice. Change your lines honey, because not even an idiot will believe this crap." Katniss says with a firm voice, and then she walkes away.
X
Later when it's already dark, Peeta finds himself sitting in the same table than he was before he met the annoying fiery and beautiful girl, who's name he didn't even know.
He is drinking shots with Gale and once he told him how the girl treated him Gale breaks into a loud laugh.
"I'm saying this from experience Peeta." Gale says, taking a sip from his beer.
"There will always be at least two girls that will send you to hell."
"You're pathetic. You need to learn from me. All the girls that I know, want me. No one has ever rejected me. I never lose." Peeta says cockily.
"Oh, you never lose? And that school girl just now that slapped you? Oh I know, it was love at first punch right?" Gale says.
"No no, that girl was different. I'm pretty sure that she likes girls you know?" Peeta wonders out loud.
Gale laughs again.
"Yes right, only a lesbian can resist the almighty Peeta Mellark." Gale says sarcastically.
"That's true." Peeta confirms.
"When are you going to understand that not every girl is going to fall for you."
Peeta drinks his shot, and then he sees another school girl with blonde hair.
"You wanna bet on it?" Peeta challenges.
"What are you doing?" Gale asks.
"I'm going to show you, that there is no woman on earth that will reject me." he says, and then he stands up and walks to the blonde girl.
"Where are you going?" Gale mumbles to himself.
"Now were did she go?" the blonde girl asked herself while she looked around.
"Hello beautiful. I knew that I was going to find you." Peeta says.
The girl looks around in shock. "Are you talking to me?"
"Yes princess." he answers.
"Do I know you or..?" the girl asks.
"This is for you." Peeta says, while he places another ring on the girls finger.
"A gypsy in Spain, read my hand. And she told me that tonight in this street, at.." he looks at the time from his clock. "eight thirty I was going to meet my future wife."
The blonde girl smiles.
"Really, she told you that I was going to be.."
"The mother of my children." Peeta cut her off.
"Yes, do you think that I'm playing with you?" Peeta asks.
"No no no, it's just that this is all.." she starts but Peeta cuts her off again.
"Incredible. I know. The same thing happened to me. I just saw you walking and immediately I thought.. wow, it's her. And now here I am. Giving you this ring and..feeling all these feelings for you." Peeta sighs dramatically.
X
At the institution Katniss sits in the edge of her bed, watching the ring that the blonde man with blue eyes had given her. She was smiling.
"Looks like I gave you a good lecture. You have to be really careful with me." she smiles.
"And you have to be careful with me too." Miss Margaret walks in the girls room.
"Oh, Miss Margaret."
"How many times do I have to tell you that you can't leave the school, without my permission?"
"I'm sorry miss Margaret..But I went to.."
"No more buts! Where is Madge? I'm looking everywhere for her, and can't find her."
"I don't know. She wasn't with me."
"Really?" Miss Margaret asks.
Katniss shakes her head.
X
"Your eyes are like, two lakes of crystal water, water that calls me, water that unclean's me, water that drowns me." Peeta says his usual line.
He then steps closer and kisses the blonde girl softly.
"I really like you." he murmurs when he pulls apart, pretty fast.
"Now that I kissed you, I know that you're beautiful from the inside too. I feel like you are mature, smart, you fascinate me, and I don't even know your name."
"My name is Madge. What's yours?"
"Adam." Peeta lies.
X
Katniss gets up from her bed, and sighs. She keeps thinking of that kiss that she shared with that man. Soon someone opens the door roughly and she hears a familiar sweet voice singing.
"Where were you?" Katniss asks her best friend Madge.
"In paradise, Katniss."
"What do you mean by that? I was super concerned, and Miss Margaret was looking for you."
"That doesn't matter! I met the mega super hot, daddy of the year." Madge smiles.
"What? How, when, where?" Katniss asks laughing.
"Well I wen't looking for you and Cato told me that you went to the city. And there I met him."
"Tell me every detail. What's his name?" Katniss asks pulling Madge on her bed.
"His name is Adam. And just think Katniss, my second name is Eva. It's like I was in paradise. You know, Adam and Eva." Madge sighs.
"And Miss Margaret is the snake or what?" Katniss jokes.
"Oh, that doesn't matter Katniss! I swear that I'm marrying this guy. Really." Madge says dreamily.
"Oi, it's not that big of a deal either. Remember the guy from last year? So much of that blah blah blah, so many smiles, and the hands over there and hands over here, and then you fell, and he left." Katniss reminds.
"Look that was different. Back then he was the first guy that I had ever gone out with. And now I've grown and I'm no longer stupid."
"Oh c'moon Madge. You cried for like a month when you found out that he cheated on you. You were even talking about suicide Madge."
"That wont happen again Katniss. Adam is gentle, he is sweet. I'm sure that he wants something serious with me."
"Be careful Madge. You know I met an idiot. No no, he was so rude, just like that, when he didn't even know me, he kissed me." Katniss says with a frown.
Madge sighs in shock.
"Aww it's so romantic!"
"Like the bad guys from the movies." Katniss frowns.
"And what's his name?" Madge asks.
"I don't know and I don't care, about the idiot." Katniss says coldly.
"I just had an amazing idea!" Madge yells.
Katniss raises her eyebrows in response.
"What do you think, if you, me and our guys go out on a date!"
"No no, obviously no." Katniss says.
"You should think about it." Madge sings.
X
Katherine Everdeen walks into the living room of her mansion, where her husband Charlie is reading the newspaper.
"Is someone there?" Katherine asks, keeping on the act of being blind, even if she knew that Charlie was there, she could really see him.
"You know very well that I'm here." her husband answers coldly.
The Everdeen's maid interrupts them.
"Mr Charlie, I already packed your bags."
"Thank you Silvia. You can go." Charlie says.
"Yes sir."
"When are you leaving?" Katherine asks.
"Tomorrow early. I want to enjoy the time." Charlie answers.
"Oh, I don't doubt it one bit, I'm sure you will have a good time. You always stay there for longer than needed when you go visit that brat." Katherine says.
"Good god Katherine. She is your grand daughter. Your son's daughter." Charlie says.
Glimmer was walking down the stairs when she hears her grandparents arguing, and she stops to listen.
"And the daughter of a useless woman. That woman is the reason that my son is dead." Katherine says.
"No, our son is dead, because he wasn't careful and he got into a car accident."
"No no, it's their fault. Those two killed him. My son left because they drove him away from this house." Katherine goes on.
"He left, because he was tired of you Katherine. You pushed away every woman that he fell in love with. Including Effie." Charlie blames.
"Do not mention that slut!" Katherine yells.
"You really want to talk about sluts? Look in the mirror honey." Charlie says, before he walked away.
Glimmer runs up the stairs.
X
The next day Katniss lies in her bed, smiling when Madge runs to their room.
"Katniss, my darliing." she sings.
"Yees?" Katniss sings back.
"I need to ask you a favor." Madge says.
"Oh, what?"
"Well, my grandpa is outside, and he wants me to spend the whole day with him, but I need to escape at six, to see Adam, c'moon please help me?" Madge begs.
Katniss sighs. "Madge I already told you to be careful with this guy."
"What if this guy is the one Katniss? I need to see him."
Katniss laughs.
"Fine, I'll make something up." she laughs.
"Where are you going with your grandpa?" Katniss asks.
"I don't know, but he will probably want you to come too."
"No no, so I can stay here and get things ready. Is your grandpa staying in the same hotel as always?" Katniss asks.
"Yep."
"Okay, good so we can meet there then at six."
"Perfect." Madge says.
"Are you going to stay here the whole night alone?" Madge asks.
"No, of course not. But don't worry about me. At six?"
"At six. Don't let me down Katniss!" Madge yells before she walks away.
"No, I won't." Katniss rolls her eyes, but smiles.
"Don't forget! Love you."
"Love you too." Katniss yells back.
She puts on a white tank top and turquoise teal shorts.
"I know what I'm going to do." Katniss smiles, and then she places the ring that the man gave her yesterday on her finger.
X
About an hour or so later Katniss is standing in the same spot that the man from yesterday had kissed her, and she was hoping that for some reason he would show up there tonight.
"Hi." she all of a sudden hears his voice, and she is sure that she is just hearing wrong.
But when she turns around, the man was standing there, his blue eyes sparkling in the sunlight, his lips forming a sweet smile.
"What are you doing here?" she asks surprised.
"I thought that if you enjoyed slapping me yesterday, you would come back for more." Peeta says.
This time Katniss just can't hide her smile anymore.
"And you know, it still hurts. I don't know if I'm ever going to recover from the trauma." he jokes.
"You poor thing." she says with a slightly sweeter voice. A voice that she hasn't used on him yet.
Peeta laughs.
"Are you going to have to go to see a therapist? she jokes.
"I think so. And when I'm crying in my couch alone.." he says, stepping closer to the girl.
"...I'm going to tell him that I kissed you like this." Peeta whispers, before he presses his lips against hers.
Again, Peeta felt this strange feeling, like he didn't want to pull apart.
At the end he had to, and when he did, she whispered.
"Don't forget to be careful around me."
"I shouldn't talk to you anymore." Peeta whisperes back.
"Why?"
"Because you are just like the stars. You are beautiful, but I can't touch you." he says softy.
Katniss smiles and then she walks a fair amount so that she is not way near the man anymore.
"I see that you liked my ring?" Peeta says, when he notices that she is wearing it.
"It's a fantasy one, but there are worst no?" she says eyeing her ring.
"I think you deserve something more romantic. Like a flower."
"I already have one." she smiles.
"Where?"
"In my name. My name is Katniss." she smiles.
"How appropriate. My name is Peeta." he smiles.
"How appropriate as well." she says.
"Why?" he says laughing.
"I had a parrot, and his name was Peeta. And he always kept saying stupid things, like you."
"Okay. So then I'm going to shut up and I will look at you instead. I wouldn't want to miss those eyes that are like two lakes of crystal.."
Katniss stopped smiling, and now she was frowning. "And again with that idiotic line. If you keep saying that shit, I'm going to leave."
"What? If you keep interrupting me, I won't be able to win you over." he says.
"Oh, don't worry. There will be better guys for that." she says coldly, smiles and taps his shoulder.
"It's alright." she speaks like if she was talking to a little kid, and then she starts to walk away.
But Peeta just laughs and walks after her.
X
In the Everdeen's mansion, Glimmer is calling Peeta.
"Ugh, answer Peeta, answer." she says angrily.
"What's wrong Glimmer? Are you stalking your poor boyfriend again?" Marvel, Glimmer's brother asks.
"Listen Marvel, I am not in the mood for you and your stupid things right now." she snaps.
"No, well there is nothing new there. You know, I'm going to give you an advice. Let the poor man be happy, let him be free, what if he just shut off his phone so that he can go around and...have a little adventure." he then laughs loudly.
"Hey hey hey, my boyfriend, doesn't need any adventures. I mean with all of this" she says pointing at her body.
"Ew sister. Ew. So what are you worrying then? That he left his phone in the office so that he can get some good.."
"Continue Marvel, and I will hit you." Glimmer yells.
The boy just laughs.
Glimmer calls her dad instead.
"Daddy? Oh daddy it's the worst thing in the world. Peeta isn't answering. What are we going to do?" she cries.
X
"And that is my life story." Katniss sighs as she and Peeta walk around the road talking.
"You haven't talked to me about your childhood." he says this like a question.
"There isn't much to tell. It was always the institution, Miss Margaret, and my best friend. Do you want me to talk about her?" Katniss asks.
"No,no talk about you." Peeta offers.
"I just don't really like to talk about myself." she says shyly. Then she sees the time and she gasps.
"Oh god, I'm almost late." she says.
"What are you talking about?" Peeta asks.
"My friends needs me. I have to go." she says hurriedly, and she is already walking away.
"No no no, don't..don't leave." he cries, but she is already gone.
X
"It's been amazing with you my darling. I've been missing you so much. What do you think if we go for a little walk later?" Charlie Everdeen asks his granddaughter Madge, while they sit in a cafe.
"No, no I want to stay here with you grandpa. And I'm dying for another ice cream."
"Ha! Okay okay my queen. Your wishes are my orders." He then calls for the waiter.
"Listen, you haven't asked anything about your grandma." Charlie states.
Madge looks away, her blonde curls moving quickly.
"And why should I, if she never asks for me?" she says sadly.
"Now don't be like that."
"I still remember her face of hatred perfectly. To her I'm apparently dead. I was eight years old. Eight grandpa. Let's just..not talk about her okay?" Madge pleads.
"Hey, Katniss, your finally here." Charlie says with a happy voice.
Katniss runs over to hug the man.
"Hello Mr Everdeen." she lands a kiss on his cheek. "How are you?"
"I'm good. Sit down." he tells her.
"I wish I could but I came to get Madge. It's urgent." Katniss says with a nervous smile.
"But where does she have to go, with such a hurry?" he asks.
"We have an exam." Katniss says.
"But, you have vacation from school" Charlie states.
"It's just a test that we all have to do. Don't tell me you forgot?" Katniss lookes at Madge with a look that says "play along."
"No no, the test never." Madge lies.
"But why do you have to leave now, I wanted to bring you both to dinner tonight." Charlie says.
"I'm really sorry Mr Everdeen, but we really can't miss this exam." Katniss says.
"But but, what do you think if me and Katniss come early tomorrow to have breakfast with you." Madge says happily.
"Really?" he asks surprised.
"It's a promise." Katniss and Madge say at the same time.
Both of the girls kiss the man in the cheek and after Madge tells him that she loves him, the girls walk away.
X
"Really an exam Katniss? You could have made something else up." Madge says laughing as the girl walk together Katniss's arm wrapped around Madge.
"That's the only thing that I could think of sweetheart." Katniss says.
Both of the girl are so deep in their conversation that they almost bump into a man.
Both girls gasp, but Madge calms down when she sees that it is "Adam."
Peeta's face is shocked, seeing the two girls together.
"Katniss, I present to you, Adam." Madge says enthusiastically.
"What Adam?" Katniss turns to look at Madge.
"This is Adam, my boyfriend." Madge smiles at Peeta.
Peeta stares at both of the girls with wide eyes, a fake smile on his face.
And Katniss just stares at the man with deathly eyes.