"Wake up Katniss seriously" Prim yells her face inches from mine. I roll over and put my face in my pillow and sigh
"Katniss wake up or we'll be late for school! Its the first day do you know how embarrassing that would be" she half yells, half whines. I grab my pillow and throw it at her, hitting her right in the face.
"Oh it's on" Prim laughs. She grabs my other pillow and hits me right in the face. I am fully awake now thanks to the fluffy thing that hit me straight on the face. I turn and grab my other pillow and hit her back. We go at it like this for the next minuet or two. We end up falling on my bed laughing until our stomachs hurt. Honestly this is a rare thing, no one can make me laugh like that except for Prim, and my two best friends, Gale, and Madge.
"I'm going to go make breakfast," Prim says giggling, and skips out of my room.
I walk into the bathroom and lock the door. I yank my clothes of and jump into the shower, letting the hot water run over my body. Today is the first day of high school, I'm going to be a senior and Prim is going to be in 7th. I just want to go through the year unnoticed, focusing on school and nothing else. I end up taking another 10 minutes in the shower then I get out. I put on a pair of shorts, because it is mega hot out, and a green V neck T-shirt. Then I put my hair in its signature side braid. I grab my bag and run down stairs.
I see my mom sitting in her old rocking chair acrosss the room staring blankly out the window like usual. She fell into a severe depression after my dad died when I was 11 and stopped caring for Prim and I. After that I had to grow up fast, I even started hunting, that's how I met my best friend Gale
I started trading at the Hob and bakery just so we could have a decent meal. I got a job at the local diner so I could pay the house bills, And get Prim some decent clothes so she could be happy at school and make lots of friends unlike me.
"Katniss, I've been waiting forever, we're going to be late," Prim says.
"Sorry, little duck," I say and slip on my converse and grab a slice of bread. I run out the door and see Gale waiting to walk Prim and I. Gale has the usual Seam look just like me. Brown hair, gray eyes and olive skin. Prim on the other hand got my mom's side, beautiful wavy blonde hair, and big blue eyes.
"Hey Catnip," Gale waves making his way up to me
"Hey" I give him a small smile
"Ready for senior year" He wiggles his eyebrows and bumps hips with me
"No. I just want to get it over with, go unnoticed," I admit. Prim looks up at me with her big blue eyes.
"Katniss, at least try to make friends," she begs. "I really just want you to be happy"
I sigh. I can't say no to her it was one of my weaknesses
"Okay, okay fine, I'll try but the moment something goes wrong I'm giving up" I say in defeat.
"Promise?" she asks
"Promise." I deal the deal by wrapping my pinkie around her small one
"So, Catnip you want to meet up after school in the woods and get some hunting done? I'm starting to run low on meet. Rory is eating everything in the house"
"Sure," I mumble not really in the mood to talk. I start to get the usual first day of school butterflies in my stomach. We walk in a comfortable silence all the way to school. The only sounds there is in the warm air is Prim's shoes hitting the ground as she skips ahead.
When we get to school I walk Prim to the middle school section
"Okay, Prim, after school meet me by the big oak tree off to the right side of the school."
"Okay, Katniss, I'm not a little kid any more, I'm going into 7th grade. I can handle stuff on my own"
She sighs
"I know, but you'll always be my little duck," I say while ruffling her hair.
"Hey there's no need to mess up my hair," she says jokingly while flattening down the fly away hairs. She gives me a hug, turns on her heals and skips away. I turn my neck and survey the area for Gale who I don't see anymore.
I hug my books against my chest and walk fast so I can just slip inside by myself. I watch my feet not paying attention to the people around me just worrying about being unseen.
That's when I run into something hard. I realize that hard thing is a person. I drop my books and feel my cheeks heat up and to make matters worse I accidentally trip over one. I end up whacking my head on the ground, really hard. Like really hard.
I feel super dizzy, my mind going fuzzy, and my vision is getting blurry. I can hear someone calling my name but I can't answer I'm trying so hard to answer but I just can't. I feel warm arms scoop me up and I'm looking right into bright blue eyes and that's the last thing I see before I black out.