Life Through Sea Green Eyes - A Hunger Games Fanfiction

Part 3: Chapter 6

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Life Through Sea Green Eyes

Part Three: The Crazy Girl Back Home

Chapter Six

          Annie breaks up with Blake that evening. I find this out because, the next morning, Blake shows up at my doorstep with a completely devastated expression on his face. This surprises me, because we’ve only known each other for a day, and although we hit it off, I’m sure he has better friends that he could go crying to.

          “Annie broke up with me,” Blake says.

          “Do you want some coffee?” I ask.

          Once I have him seated in the living room, with coffee and sugar cubes in easy reach – the sugar is more for me than him – Blake finally explains why he’s here, of all places. “You know Annie the best,” he says. “I don’t understand what I did wrong.”

          “Maybe you should be talking to Mara or Natare,” I suggest.

          Blake shakes his head. “She talks about you way more than anyone else.” My eyes widen, because I had no idea Annie was so attached to me. Not that I mind, of course – I prefer her company to just about anyone else’s, even Natare, because Annie doesn’t nag me like Natare does. And there’s something about her that just puts me at ease.

          “You want me to tell you why she dumped you?” I clarify.

          Blake puts his coffee down and cradles his head in his hands. “She said something about me being perfect, but somehow not right for her. That makes no sense! If I’m so bloody wonderful, why would she dump me?”

          I frown. “You didn’t give her a hard time, did you?”

          Blake shoots me an incredulous look. “I love her, Odair. Of course I fought for her!”

          I abruptly feel horrible for Blake, because he’s a genuinely nice person and he doesn’t deserve a heart break like this. Not that I blame Annie, but I do wish she’d followed my original advice before it came to this. “Maybe the problem really isn’t with you,” I suggest slowly. “Girls are volatile, emotional, unfathomable creatures. It could be that Annie just – for whatever, crazy girl reason – couldn’t return your feelings, and she decided to break it off now rather than lead you on.”

          “Maybe,” Blake says, but he doesn’t sound convinced.

          “If you started dating someone because you thought they were amazing,” I elaborate, “but a few months in you realize that while you admire them and love being their friend, you just can’t make the emotional leap to romance, wouldn’t you break it off right away because it wouldn’t be fair to either of you if you continued the charade?”

          “I guess,” Blake says, but this time his voice is only laced with a minimal amount of hurt.

          “Have a sugar cube,” I suggest, and he pops one in his mouth. As he crunches, I share some of my own hard-earned wisdom. “Unless you’ve been living underwater for the last few years, you may be aware that I know a little something about women.”

          Blake laughs at that.

          “Here’s what I’ve discovered,” I tell him. “There’s no way to predict what a girl is going to do, because every single one is different. The only thing you can do is be yourself. If they like you, then they like you. If they don’t, they don’t. That’s all there is to it.”