At one point, while lying in bed, she misses him and thinks of how comfortable she feels with him. Significantly, she compares her relationship with Gale to her relationship with Peeta, and recognizes that she genuinely has with Gale what she and Peeta pretend to have in front of the other tributes and the cameras. Katniss has this close friend/ romance thing going on with Gale. She is attracted to him while considering him a close friend at the same time. Gale is stuck in the no-man's land of friend/lover conundrum that Katniss feels.