First Source : The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Source One : The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

"'Handsome lad like you, there must be some special girl. Come on, what's her name?" says Caesar. 

Peeta sighs. "Well, there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I can remember. But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping."

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

"She have another fellow?" Asks Caesar.

"I don't know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta.

"So here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then. eh?" says Caesar encouragingly.

"I don't think that's going to work out. Winning...won't help in my case.," says Peeta.

"Why ever not?" says Caesar, mystified.

Peeta blushed beet red and stammers out. "Because...because...she came here with me."

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In Suzanne Collins' novel "The Hunger Games", set in a post-apocalyptic world in which children are forced to participate in a fight to the death on live Television just so the Government can show them that they have complete control over everyone. They randomly pick a boy and a girl from each outlying district from the Capitol (there are 12) to compete. The protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, is thrown into the Games with fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark. When Peeta reveals to the country that he is in love with Katniss, she doesn't believe him. She thinks his genuine affection for her is just a clever strategy to get ahead in the Games by making her feel 'emotionally attached.' Throughout the book, this is her main deception to herself. She misreads every signal Peeta gives off, assuming it's just for the purposes of winning over the audience. And, finally, when the rules of the games are changed so that there can be 2 victors instead of just one, just so long as they are from the same District, Katniss plays along. She finds Peeta within the arena, injured and on the brink of death, and nurses him back to life. She plays the part of his 'significant other' so well, in fact, that she convinces not JUST the viewers, but Peeta as well. And even when it all blows up in her face and Peeta finds out that it was just for show, she still doesn't believe his true feelings for her. And she, in turn, doesn't realize her true feelings for him either. It is in this fashion that Katniss deceives herself, which is opposite of the way that Jonny lang uses deception. In "Lie to Me" Jonny deceives himself into thinking that everything is okay, and that she still loves him. Katniss, however, attempts to convicne herself that there is no emotional connection between her and Peeta, when it gets increasingly obvious though the book that there is...