"No," it's said on an exhale, like just that single word took so much of her energy to say. He presses a kiss into her hair and part of her wants to lean in and kiss him, to feel something other than this, but she doesn't because it's such an incredibly selfish impulse given what she knows Gale thinks of her. For what had to be the thousandth time in the past year, Katniss wished that he didn't love her and that her life would be easier if that were true.