Chapter 1: The Down Fall

**This story takes place after the book, The Hunger Games**

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark come back from the Games,... Things have changed in Katniss's life. Though feelings start to stir in the young victor. After confessing to Peeta that the love she expressed in the Games was all a show, she still knows she cant give him up. Meanwhile, Gale Hawthorne is working hard to show her that he loves her. Trouble arouses when both lovestruck boys begin fighting for her love.

"If you love two people, always pick the second person. Because if you really love the first person you wouldn't have fallen in love again."