tidebound

Nerissa Flanagan grew up beside Finnick Odair on the docks of District 4.

Then Finnick was reaped.

He came home a victor at fourteen and after that, he never spoke to her again.

Years later, Nerissa's name is drawn at the reaping, and the boy who once abandoned her is suddenly standing beside her again as her mentor.

Nerissa thinks he left because the Capitol changed him.

Finnick knows he left because the Capitol noticed her.

The truth is that Finnick has been trying to protect her all along.

From the Games.
From the Capitol.
And from Coriolanus Snow himself.