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(I DON'T OWN ANYTHING.)

I start from the beginning. When Peeta and I met in the elevator. To Clove's birthday party. And then the kiss.

They listen inventively. When I finish, Beth is first to speak.

"So you do like him?" She asks.

"Well... It's complicated." I say slowly.

Mere groans. "For God's sake! You're thirteen. He kissed you. You kissed him back. Done."

"You're only mad because you haven't kissed anyone yet." Beth says.

We all know Beth had her first kiss when we were eleven. With a boy named Henry.

"Am not. I don't want anyone to kiss me anyway," Mere informs us, blushing slightly.

"Everyone wants to be kissed." I say. Beth nods in agreement.

Mere slumps back onto her extremely fluffy pillow. "Nobody wants to kiss me, so what does it matter?"

"Do you think he likes you?" Beth asks. At first I'm confused then I realize she is talking about Peeta.

"Um, maybe. I mean he was the one who kissed me." I say. "That must mean something."

Beth shrugs one shoulder. "Well do you have a picture of him? I'd like a visual image so I don't have to make up what he looks like."

I think it over. "Yeah, I think I screenshotted our class picture from the school website." I look through the images on my phone until my class picture comes up. "Here it is." I hand Beth my phone and point to Peeta. "He's that one."

"Whoa! Not to shabby. Nice face, too." Beth comments and hands the phone to Mere. "Not sure why he would like you though. I mean with a face like that, he should be going for girls like me." She says sarcastically.

I punch her in the arm and we all laugh.

"He is good looking." Mere says with a smile and hands me the phone back.

"He texted me, too." I say.

Beth and Mere exchange glances and Beth barrels over me and grabs the phone. That's Beth, sarcastic and bluntly honest. She and Johanna would be best friends.

"What'd he say? What'd he say?" Mere asks.

"I'm sorry." I tell them. "Now what do I say back?"

"Well. You tell him 'It's fine.'" Beth says looking at my text messages.

"Why?"

Beth looks up from the screen at me. "Do you regret it?"

"No."

"Then it's fine. Right?" Beth says, nodding.

"Yes?" I say, almost in question.

She shoves the phone into my hands.

I text him back.

Katniss: It's fine.

My finger lingers over the 'Send' button before I press it.

"There. I did it." I say and toss my phone to Mere.

"Do you feel better?" Mere asks.

I think a moment. "Yeah,"

My phone buzzes. I lumber over Beth and rip it from Mere's hands. They laugh as I quickly check my phone.

Peeta: I shouldn't have done that.

I groan. "What do I do know?" I ask. Beth grabs my phone and reads the message then she hands it to Mere. "What do I text back? 'You're a good kisser.' or 'I didn't mind.'" I say it jokingly but Mere nods. "I was kidding."

"Say to him, 'It's not that big of a deal. But why did you do it?'" Beth says. "So you're saying that it's not a big deal to you and you're not pressuring him."

"You really know a lot about this stuff." Mere tells her.

Beth shrugs. "I stole one of Elsie's magazines."

Mere and I nod.

I text him exactly what Beth tells me to.

We wait. And wait.

He doesn't text back.

Prim and Lindley have become rather restless within the first five hours of being here.

"Mom, is there anywhere we can go? Maybe they have a library. Or a playroom?" Prim asks. Mom doesn't have the heart to tell her they do but only sick kids can go in there. Prim's been mopping around, slowly reading one of her books.

Lindley is worse. Out of nowhere, she starts rolling on the floor and beating her tiny fist, screaming, "I want my Daddy! I want him! Where is he?!"

Mom tries to pick her up but she keeps pushing her away and screaming.

"Honey, calm down. What's wrong?" Mom says evenly.

Everyone watches with strange looks on their faces. I'm not sure what to do. I mean we got here barely three hours and every thing has gone crazy.

After Mom calms Lindley down, Mere leans over to me. "Did he text you back?"

"No, not yet." I answer.

"Hmm... Maybe his phone is turned off?" She asks, more to herself.

I shrug. "Yeah, sure. Maybe." I mutter. Mere pats my shoulder.

"Boys are weird."

I nod in agreement. "I mean if he's going to be a dick and not text me back-"

"Katniss!"

"What? He is being one." I say.

Beth, whose sitting on my other side, is laughing so hard no sound is coming out. When she finally catches her breath her laughs sound like wheezes.

"What's so funny?"

Beth still isn't able to talk because she is still in that weird stage between laughing and trying to breath. Finally she get's out, "You!"

"What about me?"

"You called him the d-word!" Beth blows out a breath.

I shake my head. "You've called tons of people the d-word."

"Only when I mean it. I won't say it unless someone really is being one. But it just sounds funny coming from you." Beth says patting my back rather hard.

I roll my eyes. "Guys-"

"I know. So what? He hasn't texted you back. We're going to have to wait until he does." Mere tells me. "Just try to forget about it."

"Alright..." I say and flop across the foot of the bed. "It's just it's really getting me mad."

Beth flops across the bed as well only on top of Mere's legs. "Boys are all idiots. Every single one."

"Legs are being crushed under all your fatness," Mere mutters, trying to pull her legs out from under Beth.

"Thanks for calling me fat." Beth says with the same amount of sarcasm and she gets up.

Mere pulls her legs up to keep from further leg crushing. "So what will we do until then?"

"I don't know. Watch a movie?" I suggest.

"Finding Nemo?" Beth says taking it off the nightstand.

"Yes!" Mere and I say in unison. We must be a little loud because Prim pops out from one of the bedrooms.

"Finding Nemo?" She says and I hear Lindley say "Finding Nemo!" From inside the room. The both come over and get comfortable on the couch by Mere's bed.

And just like that it becomes a movie party.

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