The House Party

The Morning After

11:30 am Saturday Morning

Annie Cresta woke up with a pounding headache and an arm attached to her waist. She turned around and saw that the arm belonged to Finnick Odair, the most popular boy in school, her neighbor, her childhood best friend. She was spooning with Finnick Odair! She freaked out and pushed away his arm and got up as fast as she could. Thankfully he didn't even stir. She looked down and saw that she was only in her underwear and a guys t-shirt that read Property of Brookhaven High School Athletics Dept. She couldn't remember anything from last night.

She looked around and saw that the house was destroyed. She didn't even know whose house this was. She was so confused. Her best friend Johanna Mason was curled up next to Beetee Anderson the biggest nerd there ever was. Her other close friend Katniss Everdeen was asleep in Peeta Mellark's lap and her other friend Clove Foxworth was laying across Cato Kellenburg.

'Okay,' thought Annie ' Something happened last night and something big because there is no way in hell that me or any of my friends would ever be caught dead anywhere near the people that we were curled up with.'

Glimmer Smith, one fourth of the "Populars" as people liked to call them was spooning with Marvel Thomas who was known as one of the towns stoners along with Enobaria Garcia. Enobaria had her feet intertwined with another fourth of the "Populars", Gloss Lewis. The mayor's daughter and the editor of the school newspaper, Madge Undersee was laying on the couch on top of Gale Hawthorne. Madge was a well liked girl and was nice to everyone. Gale was a loner who hated everyone and constantly had strained expression.

Finch Walker was in an uncomfortable position in an armchair, holding hands with Thresh Robinson who was in the armchair next to her. The other half of the "Populars" were curled up together. Brutus Hall and Cashmere Lewis. Being a "popular" as well as a couple made them extremely powerful in their school.

There were cups strewn throughout the room and there were beer stains everywhere. She looked at the photos on the wall and finally realised whose house this was. If you could even call this a house. This was the mayor's mansion.

"Oh shit." muttered Annie.

Annie walked outside in the back yard. She vaguely remember swimming and dancing with Finnick. She really hoped nothing happend. She did wake up with clothes on. Well only in her underwear and some guys t-shirt. Annie had always had a crush on Finnick.

They were neighbors and best friends. Well at least up until middle school. He joined the football team, made new friends and gained instant popularity. He forgot all about Annie. Annie made new friends too. As a young child Annie's mother had forced her into girl scouts. She hated all those girls with a passion. She was a bookworm at heart. Katniss and Johanna's mothers also forced them into girl scouts. Katniss was a tomboy and Johanna preferred to be the bad girl of the town. None of the other girls liked them because they hated selling the stupid cookies they were forced to and hated wearing the horrid bonded over this and became best friends. In the 8th grade Clove Foxworth moved into town and together the four became the best of friends. They were the weirdest group in school. Annie was the shy and quiet bookworm but had a terrible temper, Katniss was a tomboy and very overprotective of her friends and younger sister. Clove was very girly and always looked her best. Johanna wore a leather jacket everyday and always got detention. They were desired throughout the school. As were Finnick Odair, Peeta Mellark and Cato Kellenburg. They were the best football players anyone had seen in a long time.

Outside there were more cups and some beer bottles on the ground and Haymitch Abernathy was sleeping on a pool float naked. Haymitch was the town drunk and a direct descendant of the founder of the town, therefore he owned all the stores in town and pretty much everything. He would have been the mayor except for his drinking problem. He was around 30 and had longish blonde grey hair that went to his shoulders.

There were also fish in the pool and what looked like a eel down at the bottom. That was gonna be hard one to explain. Annie walked back into the house and into the kitchen looking for something to drink. She grabbed a cup and filled it with water. She then went into the bathroom looking for aspirin. She had a killer headache. She found Madge's older brother Rye asleep on the stairs. He was only in some shorts but had sharpie drawings all over his face and chest. On his stomach was written AC+FO.

"Oh dear lord." muttered Annie. She decided he needed to get him up or someone else was gonna end up stepping on him.

"Rye."

Nothing

"Rye!"

Still nothing.

Annie kicked him in the side and he woke up.

"Morning sleeping beauty."

"Fucking hell Cresta! What was that for?"

"You wouldn't get up."

"What the hell happened last night?"

"No idea."

Rye looked down. His eyes widened and he looked pissed.

"What the fuck happened to me! Look at me! Who fucking did this?"

"Rye calm the fuck down. We'll figure it at later. Can you please show me where you keep the aspirin?"

"Its in the bathroom."

Rye got up and led Annie to the bathroom. He opened the cabinet and gave her some. After Annie took it they heard growling coming from the bathtub. Rye pulled back the curtain. In side the bathtub was a five foot long alligator. It turned its head and growled at them.

"Run. Fucking run!"

Annie and Rye sprinted out of the bathroom, down the stairs, and into the living room while screaming all the way. Everyone was already awake and looked confused.

"Why are you making so much fucking noise?" groaned Gale from underneath Madge.

"Hawthorne! Get the fuck away from my sister!" screamed Rye.

"Rye, would you just shut the hell up."

Everyone was awake and mostly naked. The boys only had their boxers on except for Finnick who was only wearing a my little pony t shirt that was made for a five year old girl. The girls were wearing the guy's shirts except for Johanna who was in her bra and underwear.

"Okay listen everyone," said Annie "I get that you're all very confused. I only woke up half an hour ago and I took a look around. The house is a mess. This is the Mayor's house too by the way. There are fish and an eel in the pool , Haymitch Abernathy is asleep outside, naked, on a pool float. There's also a alligator in the bathroom."

"Well that explains nothing!" said Glimmer "And why did I wake up being spooned by pot head over here?" she said pointing to Marvel.

"Do you really think I have an answer for that Smith?"

Everyone knew Annie and Glimmer hated each other. Glimmer had dated Finnick from 7th to 11th grade. Annie thought Glimmer wasn't good enough for him. Glimmer also treated him like shit and treated Annie and her friends like dirt.

"Hey guys whats that over there?" asked Finch pointing to a DVD laying underneath the coffee table. Peeta picked it up and read aloud.

"Last Night. By Finch, Madge, Annie, Katniss, Gale, Johanna, Cato, Beetee, Clove, Finnick, Rye, Victoria, Triton, Brutus, Enobaria, Cashmere, Gloss, Glimmer, Marvel, Thresh, Peeta, Prim, Rory, Sebastian and Rue."

"Wait why was my sister here?" Asked Katniss "She's only a freshman. And so is Rue, Sebastian and Rory! Wait. Where are they? My mom is gonna kill me!"

"Maybe they had enough sense and went home?" suggested Peeta.

"Lets just watch the tape. Shall we?" asked Madge putting the DVD in.

"Um… Finnick?" asked Enobaria

"Yeah?"

"You um… might wanna cover yourself"

Finnick looked down and realized he wasn't wearing any boxers.

'Yup.' thought Annie. 'Yup. This is the boy you like. This is the boy you've loved since you were five.'

Finnick picked up the first article of clothing he could find which happened to be a very tight and very short black skirt.

"Hey!" shouted Glimmer. "Thats my skirt!"

"Smith would you shut the hell up?" asked Enobaria

Glimmer, looking defeated took a sit on the couch, everyone else sat on the floor, couch, or arm chairs. The TV came on and started playing the DVD. It looked like security cam footage but in color. Everyone looked around. There were camera's all throughout the room pointing at every angle. Peeta had the remote and pressed play.