She looks away, and then down, for a moment. How does she even answer that? He'd had his share of struggles -- admittedly, many of them with or about Katniss. It was clear he had had feelings for her, ones that eventually changed into something meant for her. He had been a lot more honest and open than anyone she'd dated before him, and though they'd had their disagreements ... it had been her first real "normal" relationship, probably. After years of struggling with the emotionally unavailable, the dangerous, the mentally unstable ...
But it's hard to boil all of that down into something she can explain without overloading Katniss with a massive amount of context that was both unneeded and honestly kind of depressing and terrible. ... She tries, after a moment, though: ]
He brought me flowers. And he knew what they meant.
... Nobody had ever done that for me, before.
[ She pauses, playing with a piece of her hair absently ]
There were a lot of things that I was struggling with back then, but he made it easy to forget about that for a little while, when we were together. Maybe it wasn't good to run away from my problems like that, but ... it was nice while it lasted.
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She looks away, and then down, for a moment. How does she even answer that? He'd had his share of struggles -- admittedly, many of them with or about Katniss. It was clear he had had feelings for her, ones that eventually changed into something meant for her. He had been a lot more honest and open than anyone she'd dated before him, and though they'd had their disagreements ... it had been her first real "normal" relationship, probably. After years of struggling with the emotionally unavailable, the dangerous, the mentally unstable ...
But it's hard to boil all of that down into something she can explain without overloading Katniss with a massive amount of context that was both unneeded and honestly kind of depressing and terrible. ... She tries, after a moment, though: ]
He brought me flowers. And he knew what they meant.
... Nobody had ever done that for me, before.
[ She pauses, playing with a piece of her hair absently ]
There were a lot of things that I was struggling with back then, but he made it easy to forget about that for a little while, when we were together. Maybe it wasn't good to run away from my problems like that, but ... it was nice while it lasted.