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Chapter 5. Peeta's Plan
"Madge? Madge Undersee? The mayor's daughter?" Delly nods wildly. "But Delly, Madge is…" I trail off, not able to think of words to describe her. "Quiet, sensitive, caring, pure? A girl who's struggling to find her true-self?" Delly says completing my sentence. I shrug in reply to her description. "Peeta, I know you broke up with Katniss and Madge wasn't who you expected I'd say but it's been five months. I think it's time to move on." She says hesitantly. I know she's afraid of hurting my feelings but she can't make me feel any worse than I already feel. "I know but Katniss was my first crush. I mean you remember when I told you how I felt about her." I say softly. There was an awkward pause as Delly remembers the memory. After the silence past I asked "So why Madge out of everybody in district 12?"
"Well I've been hanging out with her a lot lately for a school project and as we've been hanging out I've gotten to know her. And I think she's a lot like you. You two have so much in common" I raise my eyebrows in surprise. "Me and Madge have a lot in common? Really?" I say with some interest. I cross my arms at my chest as Delly answers enthusiastically, "Totally and who better to pair you guys up than me! I mean I know both of you well enough to know you guys are a lot alike and you might think I'm crazy about this but I think you're meant to be together" "Okay now I think you're crazy. Madge and I barely know each other" I say uncrossing my arms. "I know but-"she soon gets interrupted by a voice.
"Delly!" we turn our heads to the cheerful voice. It's Madge. She's waving at us with a big smile on her face. A smile that I've never seen on her face before. She walks over to us clutching books to her chest. "Hey Madge" Delly chirps. "Hey are you busy right now? I was wondering if you had any time to spare to work on our project some more? I feel like we falling behind a bit" she says her cheeks turning slightly pink as she notices me. "Yeah I think I have time to work on it some more. But first I would like to introduce you to Peeta. Peeta this is Madge Undersee the mayor's daughter and Madge this is Peeta Mellark the baker's son" Delly says with excitement rising in her voice. I ignore the message through her voice telling me to ask her out and introduce myself.
I stand up and shake her hand. "Nice to meet you Madge. I'm Peeta" I say while displaying a smile, hoping to make her feel comfortable in my presence. "Hi Peeta. I'm Madge. I've seen you before, in school right?" she says shyly. "Oh yeah were in History and Math together" I say just remembering we go to school together. While we introduced our-self's we looked into each other's eyes, never breaking the gaze. For a moment there was a spark, a connection between us. I guess Delly thought the silence was too uncomfortable for her because she butts in and broke our gaze. "So Peeta can I shorten this meeting and go with Madge?" "Sure" I say looking towards Delly. "Come on Madge" Delly says packing the cookie I brought for her from the bakery. "Okay. Bye Peeta" She says before following Delly.
When I get home I don't know what to do so I start working out. From then on I did a daily exercise routine. I did several push-ups, sit ups, wall sits, lifted weights and ran many miles a day. My motivation: Katniss. I thought if I renewed myself and worked out to get in shape, Katniss would want me back. Two months later from the lunch in with Delly my body is in a lot better shape. My muscles (abs, biceps, triceps, calves, and thighs) are as big and strong as they were before my heart was broken. My body transformed from skin and bones back to skin, muscle, and bones. I also stopped wallowing and doing nothing and went back to baking at my family's bakery. My family is so happy and relieved that I've gone back to my normal self and started eating again.
During one of my workouts in mid-spring where life is just starting to come back to nature, I thought of a plan. A plan to get back the girl I love. When I was doing push-ups in my front yard in victor's village an idea popped into my head. Around my 18th push up the idea of jealously enters my mind. I thought if I asked another girl out and got all lovey dove with her when I'm around Katniss, she would eventually get jealous and come back to me. A smile appears on my face as I continued my push-ups. Excitement for my plan to start gave me some extra energy so I could go longer on my workout. Now I just need to find the perfect girl for this important plan.
One day while I was at the bakery I got a surprise visit from Madge. I'm kneading dough to make more bread when I hear the chime of the front door's bell. "Hello?" I hear in front of the counter. When I turn around I see Madge standing in front of me. "Hey Madge" I greeted. "Hi Peeta" she says while tucking a strand of her hair behind her ear. "What can I get you?" I ask softly. "Umm… Can I have two strawberry fruit tarts and one blueberry fruit tart?" "Sure thing, coming right up" I say as I reach into the glass cabinet for the fruit tarts. "So who are these delicacies for?" I ask as I pack them up and put them in a to-go bag. "The strawberry ones are for my dad and I and the blueberry one is for my mom. She's been craving one of your famous blueberry fruit tarts lately" she chuckles.
Everyone in district 12 knows Madge's mom suffers from horrible migraines and an unknown disease so we never talk about her because we don't want to upset Madge. Her mom hasn't been out of the house since she was a little girl; it's been years since we've seen her out and about. "Well I hope all of you enjoy these. Here you go" I say handing her the bag full of goodies. She turns towards the door and we both see Delly in the window gesturing for me to do something. I give her a puzzled look and she blows me a kiss. Now I get what she's telling me and it's like a light bulb turned on in my head. Madge is perfect for the role in my up- coming plan so I decide to ask her out. "Wait Madge!" I say as she turns on her heel to leave. She turns back to face me and that's when I ask her. "Would you like to go out on a date?" I ask quickly ruffling my hair. Her breath got caught in her throat and her eyebrows go up in surprise but go back down just as fast as they came up, because she knows what Delly's gesture means.
Her face lights up in excitement as she says "Yes" "Yes?" I echo back. "I'd love to go out on a date" she says cheerfully. "Great! Where do you want to go?" I say grinning from ear to ear. "Um…Greasy Sae makes decent soup. Do you want to go to meet at the hob, Greasy Sae's stall at 6 tomorrow?" She asks her voice full of hope. It shocked me that someone so innocent like her would go to the hob. The hob is the only place to buy and sell banned items, such as spirits, poached game, or other goods illegally obtained. It was originally a coal warehouse until it was abandoned. "Why would someone like her go to a place like that?" was what ran through my mind as I said "Sounds good. See you then!" She then left the bakery with a hop in every step she took. I chuckled as I saw her out the window spilling the news to Delly. They both screamed with joy and ran off chattering something about what she should wear during the date.
"Phase one is complete" I say as I went back to kneading dough.
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