I Never Knew - Everlark FanFiction

Chapter 10 - Just friends

Katniss' POV: (Normally I would alternate between Katniss and Peeta, but I'm really lazy so I'm not going to check.

It's been a week since me and Peeta became friends. We've actaully been getting really close. He's my best mate out of all of the group, to be fair.

"Sleepover at ours?" Finnick asks the group, bounding into the school diner to our table. Everyone nods their heads in a agreement and we're gonna go over when we are ready, after school.

~4 hours later, 18:00~

"Hey, Kat." Peeta smiles, pulling me into his warm embrace. I breath in his scent and we stand there for what seems like hours. We have to pull apart at some point though. Shame.

The girls put their sleeping bags and clothes down and straight away Finnick suggests his signature game of 'Truth Odair'. It's exactly the same as the typical spin te bottle truth or dare, but Finnick decided to call it that after his crazy ways. I swear to God he's the most self absorbed person I know.

Everyone groans but sits in a circle anyway. It's their guilty pleasure. And mine. Oops. 

"I'll go first." Annie chirps up. She spins and it lands on me.

"Dare." I groan.

"Go and sit in the lap of your best friend," I smirks, "Oh and stay there for the whole game." She thinks I have a crush on Peeta, which I guess I do but I don't want to make a show out of it because he won't like me back.

I drag myself up and walk over to Gale, hiding away my smirk. It's Peeta who's my best friend and I see his face fall when I'm not walking over to him. And then I suddenly change direction and hop into Peeta's lap. His arms snake around my waist and everyone smirks at us. I can sense his grin and my cheeks burn up. I feel a tingle at his touch. This is what it's like every time. I wonder if he feels it too. Probably not.

I spin the bottle and it lands on Peeta, because I am not going again.

"Truth." He mutters.

"Tell us about your crush." I say.

"Well, she's very beautiful, and we get on very well. But I feel like she won't like me back because she could get any boy she wants." He mumbles. It's not me. I'm not beautiful, and it's kind of obvious that I like him back. My face falls.

"Is she in the room?" I say before I can stop it from coming out of my mouth.

He blushes and looks me in the eye, then quickly away again. "That would be another question, Katniss." He laughs. Urgh, I just want to know so that part of the pain will go away.

We get on with the rest of the night and all of the couples just made out and seven minutes in heaven and stuff. Me and Peeta didn't do anything else though. That's a shame. He likes someone else though, so it would have been awkward anyway. But I think the group could sense my discomfort either way and make it easier for me, because then we won't be forced into intimate stuff.

It's 11:00 and everyone has got changed in their onesies. Finnick and Annie have matching sea-green onesies, Gale and Johanna have brown, Cato and Clove have white, Marvel and Glimmer have pink (lmao over here at Marvel wearing pink pahahahahahahaha) and me and Peeta both have orange. I went along with wearing it, just so he didn't find out that I was upset with him. Why am I so jealous? Jesus Christ, Katniss. Just stop thinking about him like that. He doesn't think about you like that and never will. Your just best friends and that is all it ever will be. 

I sigh out loud at that thought and everyone looks at me. Crap.

"I was just....errrr.... tired...?" I struggle to think of a liable excuse.

"Yeah," Annie chirps, "I think it's time we go to bed now."

Everyone mumbles in their agreement and the couples climb into their sleeping bags with each other. Oh, how I want that with Peeta.

But strong arms knock me out of my thought. Peeta's hands slide around my waist from behind.

"Need help with the nightmares?" He whispers.

I don't want to because I'm trying to stop these feelings for him. But before I can stop myself I feel my head nodding. Honestly, Katniss?

He climbs in after me and I lay my head on his toned, built up chest. I nearly feel myself drooling. 

I doze off after that and I didn't have any nightmares whatsoever, unlike every other night.

So, that is your chapter. I was updating last night and then my dad told me I had to go to bed and I got really annoyed at him lmao. But it's here now yay.

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~Ingrid x