Well, when we were younger, my father told me he was in love with her mother. I wondered why they weren't married, and my father told me that her mother married her father instead because when he sang, even the birds would stop to listen. I didn't understand that until the first time I heard Katniss sing. That was when we were really young, though.

Our district is poor, many of us starve, and her father, their main source of income, he died in the mines. And one night, she was sitting beneath a tree outside because it was raining, she didn't have anything to eat, so I threw her a few loaves of bread from the bakery to take back home to her family. I guess that's when we first started to notice each other.