Angela's heart skipped a beat when Peeta pushed her back down on the bed, hovering over her, she bit her lip for a moment as she worked to control her breathing and compose her frame of mind again, a soft blush coloring her cheeks when he started to play with a strand of her hair, twisting it between his fingers. She moved her arms to gently drape around him, her own eyes flickering mischievously as she moved her face upward to gently kiss Peeta's chin, trying to gather her thoughts enough to come up with a come back to his words, but failing. "True enough," she whispered quietly, moving her face to look at Peeta again, her eyes still glittering slightly, but they held love in them along with the mischief.
[ If you want? ]
Lillian gave Claire a sad smile as she studied the fragile girl, barely out of her toddler days but already accused of murdering their parents. She knew that her baby sister hadn't killed them, but was clueless as to how to help her, clueless as to how to prove someone else had or discover who had killed them. She needed to find who had, but where to start? and she knew she'd have to go alone, and before she was sent to an orphanage or something herself.
"Hey," Cody murmured back, glancing down at Brook when she bumped into him, worry on his face when he saw that she had been crying, his eyes instantly scanned her, looking her over for any visible injuries, anything normal for the bullying here, and since he was a bully himself he knew most of the signs, "what happened? were you hurt?" he asked, anxious through not sure why, he chalked it up to him having been the one to bully her.



































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