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-Love, Buttercup

Shadow boy POV:)

"Peeta, do you know how to set up a snare?" Katniss asked me curiously. I shook my head. Katniss sighs, she smiled and said,

"Of course you don't. That's fine. I'll teach you sometimes. Hey Peeta, what do you usually do on the weekends?"

"I stay at home, usually Leeva goes to sports practice, dad stays over night in the capitol, mom has patients for the whole day." I answered her truthfully. Katniss's smile widens showing her white, perfectly lined teeth. She said,

"That means we can spend the weekend together in the woods!"

"What are we going to do then?"

"I'll have to teach you how to set up snares, and you might be able to help me with my school work you think? You're smart, well, at least Jed and Leeva are smart."

"Yeah, I'll help you with whatever you need for school."

"Ok, well you just go ahead, sit down or something and watch me hunt today."

"Oh, sorry, I delayed your time for hunting…"

"Nah, it's fine. I came here earlier today, I was worried about you for the whole night and I wasn't confident that you're still fine so I came into the woods earlier."

"I thought you might be in the woods earlier today, I'm good at predicting."

"Of course you are. Look! A pack of birds!" Katniss gasped and she walked quietly towards the bushes, mounted her bow and shot down two birds. She laughs happily and tells me,

"I haven't shot down two birds with one arrow forever!"

"You just did it Katniss." I wasn't really able to share the joy, because I'm always a well-fed child that never experienced hunger. I tried to feel the joy anyways. She suddenly got quiet and walked beside a tall tree, her bow and arrows mounted, targeting the top of the branch. One arrow, two arrow, three arrow, and three squirrels fell off the tree. Katniss picked them up and stuffed them into her game bag with the two birds. She smiles and said,

"Lots of prey, Prim's not going to starve for this whole month."

"If your family starves, I'll help you out. Remember the promise?" I reminded her of what I said yesterday. Katniss gave me a hug and said,

"Of course I remember the promise. Thank you Peeta."

"You're welcome, but just remember to keep my promise." I hugged her back. She says, "Of course I'll keep my promise, but look, I really have to get going. School's starting soon."

"Alright, good luck in school. Will I see you afterschool?"

"I'm pretty positive."

"Ok then. See you same time afterschool."

"What if I can't come? I don't have any other ways to contact you…"

"I'll be worried then. In that case, we'll meet each other in the woods tomorrow."

"Ok… I just want to let you know, I can't let my mind get off you for this whole day. I'm trapped somewhere in myself, my mind's confused."

"I'm trapped too, it's fine. We'll hopefully get over with it."

"Peeta, can I try something?"

"Yeah what is it?" We broke apart from each other, eye contact, our faces moved closer together. Our faces, less than one inch apart; our noses touching; I felt her eyelashes, felt her lose hair, and felt our lips touching. Warmth and passion, and the tingling feel that made my stomach turned and rolled. The feeling what the kiss gave me. Warmth and passion is what she brought for me. Our lips broke apart. Katniss blushed beetroot red, seeing her blush made me blush helplessly. Katniss whispered,

"Thank you Peeta. I have to go now."

"I really can't let you go now. I can't leave you. I'll get worried." I begged, even though I know she's still going to go to school at the end. She said,

"Peeta, I really need to go. I promise I'll see you afterschool at the end."

"Fine, go, I'll see you afterschool." I sighed as she carries her game bag and ran towards the fence, leaving me, sitting down on one of the fallen tree trunk, lonely. I grabbed up a stick, and I drew a picture of Katniss the kind girl who brought me warmth and passion.

I'm worried about you,

I can't leave you,

I want the feel of your hair once again,

I want to look into your grey and life-filled eyes,

All of this is what love cause me to think,

But I'm not allowed to love you.

You're from the seam, and I'm a shadow child,

That's our life, and we can't do anything to change that.

I'm still worried about you,

I'm still helplessly love you,

No one can change that either.

Peeta Mellark, what are you daydreaming about? I don't love her. I can't love her. Then why did I ever think that I love her and no one can change that? How exactly does Katniss feel about me? I've gone insane. Peeta Mellark, calm down.

Kind girl POV:)

I couldn't believe what I just did to Peeta in the forest. I hope he didn't mind.

"Katniss? Are you listening to me? Katniss?" I realized it was Prim who's talking to me. I turned my head and said,

"Yes? What is it Prim?"

"You'll get late for school if you don't hurry."

"Prim I'm ready for school. C'mon." I led the way and walked to school, without talking to Prim. I didn't feel like talking. I felt like thinking. I heard Prim running towards me, she shouted, "Katniss! Wait for me!"

"Little duck, you're too slow." I teased her. She frowns and said,

"It's not my fault Katniss, you're taller than me, and you're older, and-"

"No more excuses duck. Hurry."

"Fine. I'll see you at night!"

"Ok!" I never told Prim the why I can't just go straight back home afterschool, because Peeta's a shadow boy, and I promised him. How exactly will the word 'shadow' mean to me now? I'm supposed to be strong, and I'm not saying I'm weak. Katniss will never be a weakling. Now class do I have right now? History with Effie Trinket. That's great. I really don't want to have a crazy capitol teacher to teach me right now, but I don't see any other options. Effie's my greatest problem, but there's also Gale who I heard that has a crush on me from Delly, there's Madge who I usually sit beside with, and there's Delly the great gossiper…

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I'm glad that classes are over,

I'm glad school's over,

I'm glad I had something for lunch to eat,

I'm glad I don't have to go back home and stare at mom,

I'm glad Prim's going to have fun at her friends house,

Most of all, I'm glad I'm going to Peeta's house.

"Katniss? Are you listening? Hello?" Madge woke me up from my daydream. I said,

"Oh yeah, hey."

"Katniss, is everything alright?"

"Yeah everything's fine."

"No, something's wrong. You're not concentrating on things as usual."

"Everything's fine Madge!"

"No, something's got to be wrong. You can at least tell me!"

No, I cannot tell her about Peeta. I lied,

"Ok, I'm just happy that Prim's happier and healthier."

"Yeah, that's a good thing, but you seemed to have different feelings in the same time." Darn. Madge just has to be that good at reading me. I said,

"Madge, I'm fine. Look though, I really have to go."

"Alright, whatever Katniss says. See you tomorrow!"

"Bye!" I grabbed my school things and ran outside. Unfortunately, Delly stopped me at the front door. Delly looked at me, grinning, she asked,

"What's up with Katniss for the past twenty four hour?"

"Not much. Prim's just not starved anymore." I answered. She kept talking,

"That's why you're so happy? Why are you also sad?"

"I'm not sad Delly. I'm NOT sad. I'm totally fine."

"Katniss, you're sad, and you're also confused."

"Delly, I can't talk about this right now. I'm on the go. I seriously have to go."

"You promise you'll tell me?"

"I can't promise. I don't promise things." That was certainly a half lie.

"Are you going to tell me?"

"I don't know. I'll think about it. Gotta go." I ran pass Delly and got to the bushes. Short cut towards Peeta's house. Something caught my leg, something whispered.

"Hey, Katniss."

"Who the hell is this?" I gasped. That thing sat up. I'm positive it's someone I know, by the voice, by the color of the hair, by the bright blue of the eyes. The only thing that's different is the boy is covered in dirt. He smiled showing his perfectly lined up white and shiny teeth. I had to gasp again,

"Peeta! Why on Earth are you in the open public? Why are you so dirty? What happened, tell me everything!"

"Katniss, shush. We'll go to the forest, and I'll explain everything."

"Peeta, we can't. Gale's in the forest."

"Shit. I drew a picture of you on the ground."

"Oh Peeta… It's sweet of you, but the problem with Gale… I heard he has a crush on me."

"We're in bad luck today."

"Ok, if he talks to me tomorrow about the picture, I'll just say I drew it."

"The thing is, you're bad at drawing aren't you?"

"He doesn't know how bad I am at drawing. We never had art class together." He stood up ready to walk in the secret passage. I stood up too, covering him so he doesn't get discovered. The passage way is an ancient maze, so there are tall bushes surrounding us everywhere, it's not too bad if it's covering both short Peeta and me. Peeta's shorter than me. We walked through the bushes and got to Peeta's house. We're here. In his backyard, walking towards the backdoor where we're standing right now. We kicked our shoes off and walked up to his bedroom. He asked,

"Katniss, do you ever doodle on your notebook or anything?"

"No Peeta, I can't even draw." I sighed. He laughs and shook his head,

"Oh Katniss. Someone can hunt but can't draw. I can't imagine it."

"Peeta, it's not funny." He's laughing even louder now. Definitely laughing his head off. He's a crazily insane hyena. I put my hands on his mouth, looked at him seriously, and said, "Shuttup."

"Fine, fine, fine." He tries to stop laughing. It did work a bit, me blocking his mouth with my hand. When he finally stops laughing, I removed my hand and asked suspiciously,

"So, why were you at school today, how could you ever find school if you've never been in town?"

"Katniss, when my parents and my brothers were talking about how to get to here, how to get there, I drew down the whole map of district 12. Eventually, I remembered the map." Peeta pulled out a paper from his drawer. He held it up to show me. It was a perfect map of district 12 drawn on one piece of paper, and the forest is shaded in with my favorite type of green. My favorite color. I appreciated it. The rest of the town is colored in lots of different color. The map is absolutely beautiful. I sighed dreamily, "Peeta, the map… Absolutely beautiful…"

"Here," He handed me another copy, "you can keep this one."

I scan through the map. The difference I see than the other map is the warm sunset, and there's Peeta and me drawn in the forest. There's Prim and my mom at the front of my house, the great mansion of Madge, Peeta's house, Gale and his siblings in front of his house. My eyes are probably red, I can tell that I'm not seeing clearly. My eyes are probably watery. The map is amazing, but what part exactly is attracting me so much? Peeta asked softly,

"What's wrong Katniss? I didn't mean to let you cry…"

"Peeta, it's fine. The map is just oh so… So beautiful. Amazing. It's everything. It's the best present I've ever gotten… It's, I don't know how to express my feelings." I tried my best at trying to explain, he asked,

"The sunset and the stars, me and you in the forest. It's what I added, I thought these might be, more, special."

"The sunset is amazing, the orange, the warm orange. It reminds me of you…"

"That ways you can't forget about me. Want to go to the forest? At the top of the hill we can see the sunset I drew down on the map."

"Yes. Let's go. I'm usually not home at night anyways."

"Alright, let's go. We can spend the night in the forest if you want."

"What about Gale? We don't want him to see us together in the forest… Plus, you can't get discovered."

"Why would you care if I get discovered anyways?"

"Peeta, I don't want to talk about this right now."

"Just tell me, is it like how I care if you get caught meeting me and hunting?"

"Exactly Peeta. We really have to go, Gale goes hunting at midnight again."

"Alright. You'll have to teach me how to set up snares."

"How about we just have a peace and calm night together?" I can't believe I just said that to Peeta. Peace and calmness? What's he going to think? Plus, I still have more questions to ask him…

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"Peeta?" I asked when we finally sat down on the hill. It's 5:00pm. He sat down and asked, "Hmm?"

"Why were you all dirty when I saw you today?"

"I wanted to come and see you at school, but I can't get discovered; so I hid behind the bushes and covered myself in dirt, otherwise people are going to see me while I'm waiting for you."

"You were waiting for me?"

"Of course I was. Or why would I be behind the bushes hiding risking my life?"

"Why would you wait for me?"

"The same as why will you care for me Katniss." Peeta's so sweet… He patted on his lap, I walked over and rested my head on his lap. He strokes my hair with his long and slender fingers. I snuggled closer up to him. I want to freeze in this moment. I want to live in this type of peace, where the sun's setting, where it's warm, where I'm surrounded by dandelions, and where I'm surrounded who I actually love. I can't believe I said I would never love him. I raised my head up and smiled at Peeta. He smiles back. We move closer to each other and our lips touched. They were always full with passion, although this is the second time I've ever kissed a boy, the second time I've ever shared a kiss with Peeta. We broke apart and smiled at each other. Our signature move. I will never leave him. I can never leave him. I will never want to leave him, and it's all a different thing. Peeta could change my personality into a soft- hearted person, but my soft heart will only occur when I'm around my beloved, like Peeta and my sister. Our lips contacted again, the inside of my body turns upside down again, tingling every little corner. We broke apart because we both ran out of breath. Peeta caught his breath, laughs and said,

"Does this sound stupid? If I say I want to live in this moment forever?"

"No, I feel the same way, and I always will."

"You mean you love me?"

"I suppose so. Why?" That question sounded absolutely retarded, but Peeta grins and said, "Because I love you too."

Alright, I'll be writing chapter four, and hopefully it'll be submitted in two~three days ;) Review guys!