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To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed. And more than once, I have turned in the school hallway and caught his eyes trained on me, only to quickly flit away."

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me."

Our only real interaction happened years ago. He's probably forgotten it. But I haven't and I know I never will ..."

At first one, then another, then almost every member of the crowd touches the three middle fingers of their left hand to their lips and holds it out to me. It is an old and rarely used gesture of our district, occasionally seen at funerals. It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love."

It's this detail, the untucked blouse forming a ducktail, that brings me back to myself."

Bright and bubbly as ever, Effie Trinket trots to the podium and gives her signature, "Happy Hunger Games ! And may the odds be ever in your favor !"

The boy took one look back to the bakery as if checking that the coast was clear, then, his attention back on the pig, he threw a loaf of bread in my direction. The second quickly followed, and he sloshed back to the bakery, closing the kitchen door tightly behind him."

Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler) The frantic voice of Claudius Templesmith shouts above them. "Stop! Stop! Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to present the victors of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark! I give you-the tributes of District Twelve!"

This is the first kiss where I actually feel a stirring inside my chest. Warm and curious. This is the first kiss that makes me want another.

Unlike the staged kissesand caresses so far, this gesture seema natural and comforting. I don't want him to stop and he doesn't. He's still stroking my hair when I fall asleep.