"You know, that whole cute when awkward thing? Yeah, that totally hasn't gone away," Johanna teased. "Do you do that on purpose or is it, like, some skill you've developed? Because seriously, that's kind of great."
She teased because she liked him, really. He was freakin' adorable. And he seemed like a genuinely good guy. She wasn't exactly used to those. You didn't get exposed to a lot of them in the Capitol, for one thing. And even in her District, so many of the men were jaded by everything they'd been through -- fear of their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters being Reaped -- that they weren't so good, weren't so nice.
Panem was pretty much the United States of Issues, okay? Okay.
"How's it been?" she asked, looking at him curiously. "I've seen you around and all, but we haven't really talked."