Katniss Everdeen has never had a boyfriend. It's no big deal, really, but she's starting her senior year at Panem High and she hasn't even had her first kiss yet. She can't start college, go into the "real world," without having kissed someone. But fortunately, she's not the only one with this problem.

Ruby has everything she could wish for. Except she's drowning in her husband's world of dinner parties and fundraisers, always having to play a part other than herself. She feels as though she's in a fog, only half living. But then Liam Stewart gets inside her head, quite literally, and she starts to realize how exciting life can actually be.

The people of Panem only celebrate on three days of the year: the Summer Solstice, the Harvest Festival, and New Year's Eve. They're the only days in District 12 where both Seam and Merchant people come together. It was on one of those days, the New Year's Eve of his seventeenth year, that Peeta Mellark finally worked up the nerve to talk to Katniss Everdeen.

Not everything that Peeta told Caesar was a lie. A Catching Fire AU written for day four of PiP's The Language of Flowers.