Johanna Mason was kind of a big deal. Not only was she popular and hot as fuck, but she was popular and hot as fuck. All the girls who didn't want to be on her wanted to be her, and all the boys crossed their fingers and wished that maybe she would be straight, at least for them. But she knew she wouldn't. Especially not after she saw the shy, unassuming Katniss Everdeen shakily walk into Panem high school on the first day of their senior year.
She was sat at a table with Finnick and Annie, rolling her eyes as Finnick told some undoubtedly dirty and probably mildly offensive joke. Then there she was. She was dressed plainly enough in a pair of jeans that were beginning to tear at the knees and a less than perfect leather jacket thrown over a dark grey shirt, but... didn't realize that she had been staring until Finnick waved his hand in front of her face.
"Hello? Earth to Mason?" he laughed as she swatted his hand away from her face. He sniggered and followed her gaze to the girl who was now nervously talking to the receptionist at the front office.
"See something you like?" Johanna shot him a look and with a pointed
"Fuck off." she turned her gaze to Annie.
"What?" Finnick interrupted as Johanna tried to ask Annie about how the three weeks she had spent in France near the end of the summer had gone. Johanna raised her eyebrows at Finnick's next comment
"She's cute" he said, munching on an apple which he had drawn from his bag. He gazed at the girl again before turning back to Johanna
"She doesn't really look gay though." Johanna snapped her eyes away from the girl and shot Finnick another dirty look. "How the hell does someone look gay?" she half shouted at him, drawing the attention of a few passer-by who snickered before walking away when Johanna flipped them off without even glancing to see who they were. Finnick shrugged.
"I don't know..." he continued, "you look pretty gay."
She stood up angrily at this, sending her chair flying behind her.
"You're such an ass!" she replied as she stormed away. Finnick was her best friend, and she was glad to have him in her life but at times he could be so... infuriating.
"Johanna... wait!" Finnick laugh-shouted at her, before shrugging and tossing the core of his apple into a nearby trash can with surprising accuracy. Due to her altercation with Finnick, she noted, she had now lost sight of "the girl" and hadn't even been able to catch her name. She stormed outside into the quad where kids were sprawled out over the grass, some reading or studying, (what the fuck were they studying? she wondered, it was the first day of school) but others were just talking or fiddling with their phones.
She pulled her phone out of her pocket to check the time and noted that there were about ten minutes before class was due to start. She sighed.
"Johanna!" she heard a voice call she looked up to see Gale Hawthorne bounding across the grass to her, practically stepping on some kids to get there. She closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose. Gale fucking Hawthorne was a jock, and the kind of guy who thought he could have his pick of the girls whenever he wanted. Last year, he had shown an interest in Johanna, even after she had come out, and continued to pester her about going out on a date with him.
"Johanna!" he said again as he drew closer, putting his hand over his brow in order to shield the sun out of his eyes. "How was your summer?" he asked, baring his teeth in a smile that would have had any other girl swooning.
Johanna glanced at her phone again, just five minutes then you can excuse yourself. She thought, turning her attention back to Gale.
"It was fine, how was yours?" she asked in a blasé way that she hoped conveyed the sentiment of "I'm asking because it's polite, not because I actually care."
Not taking the verbal cue, Gale started rambling on about his days lifeguarding at the town pool and, disgustingly enough, the girls he had hooked up with over the summer. Johanna cut him off and rolled her eyes.
"Listen Gale, as much as I'd love to stay here and talk about the girls you fucked over the summer, I actually have a class to go to." She stood up and brushed past him, glancing at her schedule and realizing, much to her despair that she had Physics first block. She quickly walked to the room where she had physics, only glancing or raising a hand in greeting to those who shouted her name in the hallway. As she walked into the room she was more than pleased to see "the girl" sitting towards the back of the room, nervously tapping her foot and chewing lightly on the end of a pen while glancing at her schedule, which looked worried and torn at the edges. So fucking cute Johanna thought as she sauntered towards the girl. She gestured to the vacant seat next to her
"Do you mind if I..?" the girl's head snapped up and the pen fell from her lips as she stared at Johanna, who raised her eyebrows, still waiting for a response.
"Oh... uh yeah. Sure." The girl said, scooting over slightly so that the other would have plenty of room to get the chair out. Johanna unceremoniously dumped her bag on the floor before sitting down.
"So. You're new here right? I'm Johanna. Johanna Mason. And you are?"
The girl nodded, still glancing at her schedule, trying to make sure for about the fiftieth time that she was in the right classroom.
"Um Katniss." she said, biting her lip as she reached down to pick up her fallen pen.
"Katniss Everdeen." she finished.
Katniss Everdeen. Johanna though, relishing the sound of the girl's name. I bet the two of us are going to be good friends this year.
Authors Note: Hey guys! So what do you think? Should I continue with this story, got any ideas for what should take place in the following chapters? Let me know! I hope you guys enjoy this first chapter.
