Gale's POV

"Hey," I hand Johanna a bowl of soup. "You feeling any better?"

She wraps her blanket tighter around herself. "No. I still feel horrible."

Three days after the party, Katniss and Johanna both came down with the flu. They've both had it for four days now.

I push her hair off her forehead, and find it soaked with sweat. "Drink some more water." I hand her the bottle. "You need it."

She brings the bottle to her lips and takes a sip. She rests her head on my shoulder and I put my arm around her. She hands me the soup. "I'm not hungry."

"That's because you're sick," I say. "You still have to eat."

I hand the soup back to her, and she grudgingly takes a bite. "Where are Katniss and Peeta?" she asks me.

"In their bedroom," I reply. "Peeta's probably nursing her back to health."

"It's like a race to see who gets better first," Johanna laughs.

"I guess it is," I smile and kiss her forehead. "My money's on you."

Johanna sighs. "My money's on Katniss. That bitch has a strong metabolism. I don't know how she got sick in the first place."

Gale chuckles. "You're cute when you're sick."

"No, I'm not. I'm gross and sweaty."

"In a cute way."

She rolls her eyes. "Fine. Whatever."

I pat her head. "We should take your temperature again."

She shrugs and reaches for the thermometer on the table. She places it under her tongue, and after a minute it beeps. She looks at it.

"103. We could be here for a while."

Annie's POV

I climb out of the pool and grab a towel from the bin. I wrap it around my shoulders before walking into the locker room. I quickly shower off and change into a floral sundress.

I dry off my hair with the towel and pull it over my left shoulder before exiting. I see Finnick waiting in his truck outside the pool gates and start walking in that direction.

"Annie! Wait," Sandy calls.

I turn around and she runs up to me. "Can you be a lifeguard tomorrow? I know it's your day off, but three out of the four lifeguards are out with the flu, and an extremely rich man rented out the whole pool for his son's birthday party. I'll pay you."

"I'm not doing anything else," I shrug. "That's no problem. I know that the flu's going around pretty badly. Two of my roommates have had it for days."

"Thank you, Annie! You're a lifesaver," Sandy smiles. "Now run along." She points to Finnick's truck. "You don't want to keep your boyfriend waiting."

"He's not my boyfriend," I say.

"Whatever you want to think," she shrugs. "You don't want to keep him waiting anyway."

I jog up to Finnick's truck and climb in the passenger seat. "Are you working tomorrow?" I ask him.

"Yeah," he replies. "At the adult's only pool. Why?"

"I have to lifeguard a birthday party," I tell him.

"I was a lifeguard in high school," he says. "As a summer job."

"Really? Do you think you could teach me CPR?"

He laughs. "You agreed to be a lifeguard but you don't know CPR?" He shakes his head. "It's actually pretty easy to learn. I'll teach you when we get home."

"Thanks. I owe you one," I grin.

"No problem," he says as the truck lurches forward. We both are carried forward by the momentum. "Shit," he curses. "Do you think you could drive for a minute? 'Cause we're stuck in a hole."

Finnick's POV

"Are you serious?!" Annie raises her eyebrows. "Are you going to get out and start pushing the car?"

"That's the plan." I open my door and hop out. "I'm going to see if someone will help me push. You can come with me if you want."

She sighs and gets out of the car. "Are we just going to go up to a random house and ask someone to help us push your crappy car out of a hole?"

"Yep," I reply.

"This is a horrible idea," Annie shakes her head.

"No, it's not. Watch." I walk up the path to a small house. Annie trudges after me. I ring the bell.

Two large men covered in tattoos answer it. Behind them is a small woman. "Hi," I say. "My name is Finnick and this is Annie. My car got stuck in a hole and we were wondering if you could help push it out."

"No," the man on the left growls.

"We'll pay you," I suggest.

"No, we won't," Annie thwacks my shoulders. "Finnick we lost everything. We have no money!"

The woman behind them pushes her way forward. She has blond hair and freckles on her nose. "What do you mean you lost everything?"

"Oh, our apartment building burned down. It was all over the news in early December," I inform her.

She looks at the taller of the men. "Bobby, we have to help them! It's not like we have anything to lose."

"But, Lucie-"

"Bobby."

The man called Bobby sighs. "Fine. What can we do to help?"

I grin and turn to Annie. "I told you that it was a good idea!"

She just rolls her eyes. "Let's just get this over with," she says. "We really should get home."

"Exactly."

Peeta's POV

Finnick throws the door to the front door open and walks in followed by a very annoyed-looking Annie. "We met three good samaritans," he announces.

Annie sighs. "No, we didn't! They only helped us because our apartment burned down!"

"They willingly helped two strangers push their car out of a hole."

"If you hadn't driven into the hole to begin with we wouldn't be having this argument," Annie throws her hands up.

"Whatever! Let's just go teach you CPR!"

"FINE!"

"FINE!"

They stomp up the stairs. Katniss, Gale, Johanna, and I just look at each other until I say, "They sound like an old married couple."

Katniss nearly chokes on her pastry.

I'm so sorry it took so long to update! I got wrapped up in a new book series! Please review!