She doesn't tease him when he says that she's his friend, because she's glad he said it before she did. He took the risk in defining their relationship into something she wanted anyway.

"Please," she says, soft and purring because that's how she's always related to men best, with a bit of enticing tint. "You would have saved me whether or not I was a contender, or whether or not I was your friend. That's just the kind of guy you are. You don't stand there and let people bleed out if they don't deserve it."

(Like Dandy did.)

"I bet someone back there in the Capitol is drawing pictures of us smooching right now." Or worse. Capitolite Hunger Games fans have intense imaginations.