Prologue (Past)
You have stumbled upon my first fanfic! Hope you enjoy! (The characters will be occur but ill to keep them from not being occ.)
All of the characters belong to the genius Suzanne Collins.
Peeta
"But Daddy I don't want to go to school!" I whined. It was the first day of kindergarten and my first day of school, and the last thing I wanted to do was start.
"But it's the law, son, and besides it'll be fun! You're going to meet a bunch of new friends and play!" Dad stated as he pack a couple of short bread cookies then handed me my lunch and grabbed my hand. "Let's go Peet."
We walked to school and as we got to the entrance we saw a group of kids timidly mingling with each other, noticing one off to the side. Dad pointed out that lone girl with stunning steel eyes. "See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner."
"But why did she run off with a coal miner when she could've had you? "I asked.
"Well," he paused. "When he sang the birds stopped to listen…" I turned back to the little girl with two braids going down her back in a red, plaid dress and stared with childlike wonder.
I watched the steely-eyed girl throughout the morning. She was playing by herself with blocks in the corner. I wondered to myself why she hasn't made any friends or went to play with the other girls in the fake kitchen or dolls. In gym my eyes were stuck to her as she kept up with the boys and excelled in the games, showing how quick and agile she was.
Later that day in music class, the teacher asked if anyone knew the Valley Song, a time old lullaby that almost all mothers sang to their children, and the girl with the two braid's hand shot up in the air, and the teacher asked if she would sing it for us. She took a deep breath to either calm her nerves or to begin to sing, and as soon as the first line of the song was sung, everyone fell silent and I could've sworn that the birds outside fell quiet to listen. In that moment I knew I was a goner.
At lunch I walked over to where the plaid dressed girl was sitting. "Hi, I'm Peeta. You were really good at singing today," I said bashfully.
"Thank you Peeta..." she said timidly and paused, "I'm Katniss...".
"Can I sit with you?"
"Um.. Okay."
"So…" there was a long pause, "Want a cookie?" pulling the shortbreads out of my lunch bag.
"Sure!" she said as her face lit up with delight.
And that was the start of a friendship that would last for years.
A few years later in 3rd grade Madge, the timid mayor's brunette daughter whom they soon learned had an affinity for bending the rules, befriended them.
In 4th, a bubbly, beautiful, and kind Delly who had long blond hair with blue eyes that looked as if she and Peeta could be brothers came bouncing in. Along with the irresistible Finnick, with bright sea-green eyes and wavy sun highlighted auburn hair from constantly swimming, with a tendency to hop from girl to girl.
Finally, in middle school came Thom, tall and stern with black hair and brown eyes, who was quiet and gruff, but fell head over heels for Delly's bubbly personality. Annie, who moved from California and had a perfectly tanned body and lightened hair from practically growing up on the beach and swimming all throughout middle school and into high school. Lastly, the medium sized brunette Johanna, with brown eyes and a love of axes from growing up with a lumberjack for a dad. Everything was great, perfect really, in their little group, flowing easily until that one day.
Thanks for reading! This is my redo of my first fanfic and I hope that you all liked it! I'll try to update as much as I can, stock piling them over the winter break. Please review because I really want to know how I'm doing.
I am re-uploading this after many years because I became reinvigorated in the fandom and decided to re-do this pretty good story line, so I hope you'll stick with it! Thanks! 3