"You have a lot of responsibility, and I don't envy you that at all," she said carefully, not wanting Katniss to think that the next comment was anything other than a joke. She didn't want her only real friend to think she was discrediting everything he had to deal with, "But I am I little jealous that none of them are after mixing your DNA with theirs."

Katniss's problems with boys was far more complicated than being seen as breeding stock with new DNA codes to bring into the culture of the District.