Katniss P.O.V
I wake up with my little sister Prim curled up in my arms looking peaceful when she's sleeping. I carefully release her from my grasp trying my hardest not to wake her. Today is the reaping, but still just like every other day I get ready and set off to meet Gale in the woods.
When I arrive Gale is already there waiting by the large oak tree looking out onto the meadow, he loves to sit here as it combines both of our favourite places, the meadow and the woods. I quietly walk up behind him trying to sneak up on him, but Gale has a real hunter's hearing and could hear anyone from a mile away. As I step behind him he swiftly turns around grabbing my legs and tackling me to the ground. He hover's above me looking deep into my eyes. For a few seconds I return this but he becomes to realise what we're doing and awkwardly moves off of me.
I'm the first to break the silence as I ask when we'll be going hunting and he replies. "Well I thought instead we could spend the morning together, is that um.. Ok?" "Sure" is all I say in return. After a few moments of silence he says,"I covered your hunting for you, I case you were wondering why I have so much,I decided to get up earlier to get the hunting done so now we just have to go to the hob, so whenever your ready."
At this I stand up and stretch my hand out towards him and help him up from the ground. Slowly we walk towards the hob and we decide to not let silence overcome us as we know that this will only lead to us thinking of the day ahead. When we arrive at the hob we trade all of our game and Gale uses all his money to buy some food, he gets; a box of strawberries, some meat, a loaf of bread from Peeta who we decide to stay and talk to for a while before leaving to get... some juice, a few vegetables and then we take off towards Gale's.
When we arrive Gale goes inside and within seconds comes back out with a basket. I wonder what's inside then remember the food and I smile at the thought and Gale mischievously smiles back. We then set off on our hike back to the meadow, this takes a while as Gale's house is etleast half a mile from our destination. On the way we pick up a few more berries and shrubs from the plants nearby to add to our feast, when we arrive we have a significant amount more food than before. Gale pull's out a blanket from the bag and spreads it out on the ground.
We both sit down on the blanket and Gale makes us both some sandwiches with the loaf of bread, the meat, a few of the vegetables and some of the shrubs we picked up on the way. Whilst he's doing this I place a variation of our berries into a small bowl I found that Gale must have put in the basket. When Gale's finished we both eat our sandwiches talking like when we first met about each other. We decide to play a game where we take it in turns to say and old memory about ourselves and end up talking about experiences we've had together.
Gale's P.O.V
I can't help but look at her! Those beautiful grey eyes, her amazing dark hair that shines in the sunlight. Suddenly she's looking at me and I embarrassedly look away quickly, I know she's realised yet I feel the need to try and hide it. She then says to me, "Gale" and I look up to her, forcing me to look into those deep grey eyes. "If I got reaped would you volunteer?", I think about this for a moment. Then I lean in towards her, I kiss her gently how I've been wanting to for so long. She doesn't return it at first but after a few moments she gently kisses me back. She pulls away shortly and looks me in the eyes, and just by looking at her I know what she means, then I reply,"In a heartbeat".
After our kiss it became to feel awkward and eventually Katniss says that she has to leave. As she walks away I watch her descend into the distance, and even after she's gone I still stare at where she was. I think about what I did and wether it was the right thing, if she would agree and all of a sudden all these questions are appearing in my head. Does she have feelings for me? Does she care about me? What will she think of me now? Would she volunteer for me? And the one question I can't stop thinking about. What was that look in her eyes after I answered her question? Why were her eyes filled with all those emotions? Slowly I pack away the remaining food and the blanket away into the basket not forgetting about that one question.
When I arrive at home I go into the kitchen and put the food away in the kitchen and put the blanket and basket away in the cupboard. When I am done I slouch down onto the couch where I think and think and think about that one question. Why did she look at me like that? I'm so lost in my thoughts I didn't realise my brother walking in. Vick then wakes me from my thoughts with his words,"You love her?". I look at him in utter shock, he's only ten how can he judge love so well! He then reply's,"Oh please you can tell when your around her, there's just something different about you". I think about this for a while then reply.
"Yeah... I do." Is all I say in return not wanting to elaborate. Eventually he breaks the silence and tells me I should tell her and we have a long conversation how I know there's no way she'd take it well, especially before the reaping! And then Peeta comes into the discussion. "But she loves Peeta!" I shout. I didn't mean it but I can feel the tears welling up in my eyes and I can see in hurt in Vick's eyes I try to stop him but he runs up to his room ignoring my words.