True enough, but Matt isn't complaining about his childhood while his father was alive. He'd been a good father, just an unconventional one and yes, they'd been poor but his father had always provided what he'd needed. Ultimately, Matt thinks they'd both had good enough childhoods until everything went wrong. Sometimes staying is hard because if you're the one to leave it seems to hurt less. Matt understands that, but he's glad that she wants to stay now.

That's all she can do: work on it. Matt will definitely try to help Katniss stay the person she wants to be and become the person she wants to be. He doesn't want her to have to be that girl ever again either. She's got the rest of her life to become someone she wants to be, to become whatever she wants to be.

No, a man planning to leave her wouldn't do that, at least Matt wouldn't. He bows his head to rest his lips against the top of Katniss' head. "So will I," he promises her in a whisper. "You can sleep if you want to," he tells her.