You are the missing half of me - An after mockingjay fanfiction

Chapter 22

Katniss' POV:

After we've eaten breakfast we decide to just stay home and watch movies, because it's starting to get really cold outside.

Peeta bakes some sort of a cake while Gale unpacks his stuff, since he decided he wanted to stay in twelve for a while. Anyways that leaves Madge and me by our selves.

"So, what's going on with you and Gale?" I ask.

"Me and Gale?" She laughs.

"Yeah, it's pretty obvious something is going on."

"What? Nonono." She says and blushes.

"Your blushing." I say. "It's obvious, Madge."

"I freaking had a nightmare and he conforted me and that's it!"

"There is something more Madge. I know you well enough to see that you have feelings for him."

"I don't have feelings for him! I can't have feelings for him!" She yells.

"Why?" I ask. "It's obvious he likes you."

"Can we please not talk about this right now?"

"Talk about what?" Gale says and walks over to us only wearing a towel around his waist.

I roll my eyes at him, it's just so obvious he's trying to make Madge like him. But he fails, because Madge just looks away.

I stand up and drag him out of the room.

"What are you doing?" He asks.

"Where are your clothes?" I silently yell, when I close the door to the living-room so Madge won't hear us.

"Chill off! I just needed to dry before I put my clothes on."

"Well dry upstairs! There's a girl in there that I know you like-"

"I don't-" He starts, but I cut him off.

"You do. And please don't think she will like you back because of your abs, because she's not like that. You need to talk to her, Gale, like normal people do." I say, trying to convince him to do the right thing.

"I'm not good at that!" He yells.

"Just try, Gale."

"OK, but it's not gonna work." He says, unconvinced and walks upstairs probably to change into some clothes.

"Katniss and Peeta, come here!" Madge shouts.

I walk into the living room, Peeta as well. Madge is pointing at the TV.

There's a reporter talking about me and Peeta while pictures of me and Gale hugging at the train station comes up.

"It was all a lie?" The reporter starts. "We now know that Katniss and Peeta is alive and that they're still together. But there are still speculations that their love was only an act and only for their own survival. We now know that Gale - Katniss' war-partner from the same district - isn't her cousin, so is there something they needed to hide? Tune in tomorrow 'cause both Katniss and Peeta will be here taking about just this." She says, and the screen goes black.

I tighten my fists in anger. Plutarch said they wanted a interview with us because of the rescue, but now we are going to discuss a stupid love dilemma. Why the hell are they doing this?

"God why is everybody so obsessed with our private lives? Why can't they just mind their own damn business?" I say, trying to sound calm.

"They're just bored with their own lives." Peeta says. He's a little tense as well. "What about we leave now, so we will arrive in the Capitol tomorrow?"