The Ones who brought the fire
My name is Katniss Everdeen I am 16. I moved here to district 11 with my mother, and sister. My sisters name is Primrose. She and I are twins. But anyone can tell us apart she has Blue eyes I have Grey. She has short hair mine is long. She has a bubbly personality and I'm not so open. ( Ever since my father died I ignored my other feelings and needs to take care of my family. My father, Gale, and I were the only ones who knew how to hunt so provide for our family.) I even went so far as to care for my family I starved myself just so they can eat. I got away with it for a while but putting on many shirts so my waist would seem as normal but my sister Primrose noticed the shirts had gone missing and confronted me about it. So Primrose watch me closely when we eat but now that we are going back to school I am paying the lunch bills so I don't eat lunch I bring it home. My sister and I are trying out for cheerleading. The only reason I am going is because I just couldn't say no to my Prim she has been through some very tough times, well I have too but I have to be strong for them. So I don't cry or complain but I do stick up for myself and my family and if I do make friends I will consider them family to and fight. My father always did tell me I was a fighter but my family has never seen me fight before. Of course I fight when they hurt my family but they were never there to see it. But now we are on our way to the new school. It took 20 minutes of searching but we found it and it is huge!
As I get to the front of the school I notice a guy staring at me with his mouth open. I looked at my clothes but saw nothing out of the ordinary. Just a pair of my jean shorts with a few holes and a tank top because its hot out. While I was trying to figure out what was wrong I bumped into this incredibly hard wall. But walls don't move. I look up to see an blazing blue in front of me staring that's when I realized he probably just said something.
"I'm sorry what?" I asked while trying to figure out how to make myself look less of a dork in front of this kid. His eyes were absolutely amazing they burn with a fire so much like mine. I finally take in all of his features. He has spiky blond hair that is moved just the right way over his forehead. He seemed all to familiar. He was an angel and there is only one person I know of that I could describe as that….
" CATO!" I yell and jump on top of him sending us both to the ground.
"Katniss I missed you so much you have no idea!" He breathed in my ear. We finally let go with much reluctance.
" Hey Katniss can I see your schedule I want to see if we have any classes together!?" He asked.
" Yeah sure!" I said as I started digging through my bag for my schedule and handed it to him. All of a sudden Cato hugs me close while a knife whizzes past my face. Surprisingly I felt my cheeks reddening to the sudden closeness. Then I hear Cato smelling my hair from above.
"God Cato you are such a freak why are you smelling my hair?!" I laugh as I turn around to see my long time best friend, Clove Dix.
" What up sista!" Clove yells. You see ever since Clove found out I was moving back she decided she would come back with me.
" Nothing much Clover what about you!? I respond hugging her .
" Getting use to this school man is a real challenge you know somebody's locker swings open by itself at times and it about hit me in the face if I hadn't stabbed it with my knife." Clove says trying to keep a straight face while looking at the horrified expression on Cato's face. I finally couldn't hold in my laughter so I busted out while Clove joined.
" Why does she have a knife Katniss?" Cato says after he realizes what he must look like and putting on his macho face. I open my mouth to answer but then I remember we are where anyone can hear so instead I say,
" I will tell you when we are alone but now I want to introduce you to Clove my crazy friend from 11 that was obsessed with knifes. When we had to go out into the fields to collect the crops Clove here would cut them up cause when I first met her she was trying to climb a tree that had absolutely nothing on it because I had just cleared it out. So I finnaly decided that I should tell her so we could get our job done earlier." I started to say as Clove interrupted me.
"But when she came over to me she said and I quote ' Sorry there but your shit outta luck there me and my partner just cleaned out that tree but you can come help us with the next.' That's exactly how we became friends. After that we found a four leaf clover and I picked it up so Katniss calls me Clover. Our little group of friends called her The Girl on Fire for two reasons. The first one was when the sun was coming down and we were all trapped in a tree after Katniss helped me up of course and were handing down the fruit and a huge bear decided that time to come and our little friend Rue was in the tree with us. When she saw the bear she slipped off of the branch she was standing on but Katniss caught her then Rue hopped up higher after Katniss had instructed. Well the tree we were in had been the one Katniss chose to hid her bow and arrows in fortunately. She shot down the bear and as I said before the sun was setting so the sunset behind her made her look on fire. The second one was when it got really dry and the forest fires started coming more often but one of them caught our mess hall on fire while everyone but the elderly were in. We were in there and a part of the building fell on Katniss and burnt her leg but she managed to get out after seeing her sister Prim screaming for Katniss. She took Prim and found a way out and then came back for the rest of us. None of us died that day and it is all because of Katniss here!"
Cato looked at me and then down to my leg and I saw tears in his eyes just before he wrapped his arms around me and whispered in my ear,
"I am so sorry that I couldn't protect you." He said. We were never a couple but after this I am absolutely sure that we will be. I put my arms around his neck and Kissed him since it was my first kiss I didn't know what to do. But we broke apart after Clove cleared her throat and we broke apart blushing.
"UHH Cato I think this is the part where you ask her out!" Says Clove.