If you are reading this twice, please go back and read the real chapter 16. My bad. I posted the chapter after this and skipped the real chapter 16. Sorry again for the confusion.

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Flashback

"I'm letting it go, Finn." He looks out into the sunset, "I'm letting her go."

"Just like that? What about-"

"Ah, don't start with me Finnick! No, 'what about' nothing!" Peeta says.

"Peeta-"

"Finn. Stop! I cheated on her! I committed the worst possible offense in a relationship!" He yells. "Hell, I wouldn't take me back either!" They both sit in the sand deep in thought. Silent in their own convictions.

"What if you guys found a way to get past this?"

"It's never going to happen." Peeta states. "Besides the fact I cheated on her, she said some things that really hit home."

"Peeta, you can't take that stuff to heart. She was hurt. She wanted to hurt you."

"No, Finn. You weren't there." Peeta swallows. "She said I didn't love her; that I never cared for her. She said them like they were facts. Like anything else was a lie."

"She doesn't know half the shit you've done for her. You've never told her."

"I guess it doesn't matter now." He shakes all thoughts, "I lost her. 'I've loved and I've lost' as they say." The sun finally sets leaving them in the dark. Peeta stands up to leave. "I'm getting out of here Finnick."

"See you later," He waves at him.

"No, I mean out of this town. Out of this state." Finn looks up at him. "The memories will haunt me forever. I can't stay. I'm going on some college visits next month. I'll make my decision after."

"You act like we're never going to see each other again." Finn tells him astonished.

"We graduate in two months. I'm leaving and it's more than likely we won't." Finn watches Peeta's retreating form and the anger swells in his gut. He was going to just leave and try to forget everything. Peeta was losing himself. Finn was rapidly losing his friend and he had no idea how to stop the chain of events. Finn couldn't help but think that the whole situation was his fault. Had he not left Peeta alone that night, he would have never been drugged: he never would have cheated on Katniss. They wouldn't be having this conversation.

Spring break and then some wasn't nearly long enough to repair broken hearts. They hadn't talked at all since that faithful day out front Katniss' house. They even went as far as switching lab partner in first period to avoid any contact. They passed each other in the hallway like they never knew each other.

"Peeta!" Peeta turns around to see Glimmer. The last person he wanted to talk to.

"Glimmer please just go away." Peeta tries.

"Peeta, please." She stops in front of his path causing him to stop. "I'm sorry about what happened to you. You have to know I had nothing to do with the drugs."

"Just the sleeping with me while I was on them and breaking up my relationship with Katniss. Because that's something you would never do." He tells her sarcastically. He tries to walk around her.

"Look. I'm not going to tell you I'm sorry for what happened between us. You initiated it and I would never say no to something I've wanted for so long." Peeta rolls his eyes at her. "But I'm willing to try to be your friend, even though that's not what I want."

He laughs in disbelief. "I don't want to be your friend Glimmer! How long am I going to have to tell you that? Please! Let's just agree to be civil!" With that he walks away.

Katherine catches up with him in the hall.

"Hey," She shyly says to him. "Long time no see."

"Yea, since the night of the party where you ditched me. Thanks for that anyway." Katherine exhales rubbing her eyes.

"I didn't abandon you Peeta!" She looks at him. Peeta avoids eye contact. "I'm sorry if you feel that way." She turns to walk away.

"I'm sorry, okay?" He grabs her arm before she can leave. "It's been crazy and I'm sorry again. I don't want to lose my last friend at this school." Peeta looks at her sadly.

"So, I saw you talking to Glimmer. You're not friends with her are you?"

He looks at her, "Why? You jealous?"

She laughs, "Definitely not. I just really don't think it's a good idea to be her acquaintance in any way." Peeta felt like there was something she wasn't telling him.

"Right…"

"I mean it Peeta. Just don't!" Her tone was a menacing one. "So I haven't seen Katniss in a while."

"You're kind of really late." Peeta closes his locker and continues walking, "We broke up."

"How is that possible? I thought it was going great."

"What, have you been living under a rock? It was all over Facebook. After you left me in that room, I cheated on her." He stops. Peeta didn't want to remember. He didn't want it to hurt anymore. He was doing a good job at it, too.

"What?! That's not possible!" Katherine shakes her head. It didn't make any sense.

"Oh it's possible. I couldn't keep it in my pants while I was high on roofies." Peeta's turn to shake his head, "But I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's in the past and that's where it's going to stay." He walks away.

Katherine didn't have many friends at her new school so Facebook wasn't as accessible to her as it could be. After the party, she had gone on vacation for spring break. When she came back, there was a lot of tension in the school; particularly between him and Katniss. She didn't think much of it until Peeta's current confession. This wasn't right and Katherine had to do something about it.

"Remind me why I'm here again?" Johanna asks Finnick.

"Because Annie couldn't make it and…" Finnick can't think about why, "I don't know. It doesn't matter though. You're here now and you are going to help me."

"This is bull! I don't want to help clean you're room."

"Light spring cleaning. That's all." He starts putting his laundry in the hamper. "Should take no longer than an hour."

"Kill me now!" Johanna exclaims. She then runs to stop Finn from picking up his clothes. "Let me do this. This is the easy stuff." Finn drops everything and lets her continue while he finds something else to do.

Johanna picks up a pair of Finn jeans about to throw it in the hamper when something falls out. "What's this?"

"Oh shit! My phone! I've been looking for that for weeks." He says from the other side of the room, "Oh well. Just an expensive paperweight now. My replacement phone came in the mail a while ago."

"Can I look through it?" Johanna asks him.

"Knock yourself out." Johanna throws herself on his bed and starts perusing his phone. "At least make it look like you're doing something." Finn tells her. She just sticks her tongue out at him and continues.

"There's an unheard voicemail. Can I listen?" Nosy as always Johanna asks.

"I said go ahead. I have nothing to hide." Johann puts on her headphones and listens.

"Hey, it's from Peeta…I think." She lays there listening. After a minute, Johanna bolts from a lying down position to an upright one. "Oh…My…God!"

"What?" Finn asks.

"Motherfu-"

"What Johanna?!" Finnick yells.

"I can't believe this!" She looks at Finn, "Here," She hands him her headphones.

"Put it on speaker, unlike you I don't want to be here forever." He smiles at her.

"Yea keep smiling at me pretty boy. This is going to knock that smug smile right of your face."

Again, I'm sorry for my mistake. But again, I'm willing to make good by posting the next chapter later tonight.