Cress Darnel has spent most of her life in love with her best friend, Carswell Thorne. So when Thorne gets engaged, and his betrothed asks Cress to be a bridesmaid at their wedding, she swallows her pride and says yes. She doesn't know, of course, that pretending not to be in love with someone is so much harder, when faced with the prospect of forever.

Gale returns to District 12 as the lone victor from the 74th annual Hunger Games. Madge watches him fall apart, and tries her very best to fit him back together again.

When Gale Hawthorne returns from the 74th Hunger Games as a lone victor, Madge does everything in her power to bring back just a shade of life into those dull, grey eyes.

When Madge and Gale are Reaped for the Quarter Quell, they both know it is a personal attack on Katniss and Peeta, as a warning from the Capitol. With the outside world at the start of a Rebellion Madge and Gale must find a way to escape the Games alive, or become just another one of the Capitol's ploy for control.

With his wife in a coma, and his hormonal teenage son barely speaking to him, Draco Malfoy finds comfort in the most unexpected of arms.

I haven't seen Gale Hawthone in almost three months. And now he's here, at Katniss' wedding. I shouldn't care but I do. Of course I do. He's my goddamn husband.

Madge lists all her first times with Gale. From the first time he smiled at her, to the first time they kissed. Their story should've never been, but sometimes the universe works in mysterious ways.

On Madge's twenty-third birthday she receives the most curious of gifts; a very drunk Gale Hawthorne.

Draco Malfoy makes a bet with Blaise Zabini, that entails him taking Luna Lovegood's virginity. Soon, the lines between reality and make believe become blurred, and Draco finds himself falling in love with a girl who sees right through him.