"Hey bitch," Johanna, one of my roommates and my best friend falls onto my bed. "What's up bitch?"

"Nothing." I laugh.

"How's Cato?"

Cato Harris is my boyfriend. I wouldn't say I love him but he's cute and he's fun. Johanna Mason and Annie Cresta, my two roommates and best friends hate him. So does my step brother, Finnick Odair, who is also my best friend. My mother and step father decided that they were going to send Finn and I away to a boarding school. They were going to send us to a normal boarding school originally, but while Mom was looking for schools she passed over Interlochen Arts Academy boarding high school. I have a younger sister but we got to choose where to live, and since she was of age, she chose to live with our biological father and I chose Mom. Finnick and I are the same age, sixteen, and we are juniors at our school. I haven't seen my little sister in five years. Mom remarried four years ago and after Finn and I asking to have sleepovers at the same people's house because we are best friends and his friends are my friends and my friends are his, they decided to just send us to boarding school so we would always be with our friends. We came here for our freshmen year, quickly became the most popular people in the entire school, and now we are in our junior year. I never answer the phone for my biological father and every time he calls Mom and asks to speak with me I hang up. If it's Prim, then I'll talk, but if it isn't, I'm not going to speak to him. My step Dad is named Shane Odair. I just call him Shane. It's basically the same situation with Finn's mother, father and little brother.

"Don't be a dick licker." I warn.

"Fuck you, Brainless. You'll see. That Cato bitch is no good."

"He isn't that bad."

"How long's his dick?"

"I dpon't know!"

"I'd appreciate it if you weren't talking about dicks with your brother in here." Finn says as he walks into the room with the phone pressed to his ear. "No Lily, they haven't broken up yet." Finn tells my mother. "I don't know." He pauses. "Dad-god, I'm not asking her that! You guys can talk to her!" he tosses the phone at me.

"What?" I ask.

"Hi honey." Mom says.

"Hey Mom, hey Shane."

"Hi Katniss." Shane says.

"So what'd you guys ask Finn to make him so red in the face?"

I hear a sigh, and I'm guessing it was Mom because A, it sounded like her and B, she sighs when I ask questions that could piss me off.

"First," she begins. "Did you take your medicine this morning?" She means my ADD medicine.

"Yes, why?"

"I'm just making sure." She says.

"What'd you ask Finn?" I repeat.

"I asked if you and Cato had broken up yet." She says.

"No we haven't. Why do you guys want us to break up so badly?" I grumble.

"He's an asshole, that's why." Shane says.

"He is not an asshole, Shane." I argue.

"Don't argue with me." He warns. He's just as much my father as the actual one is, and when I get older, it's him I want to walk me down the aisle.

I have called him Dad before, and he was happy about it.

"Katniss, honey," Mom sighs.

"He put you against the wall right in front of us because you asked him a question!"

"He was playing around!"

"He was not Katniss, and you're just trying to convince yourself he was. You need a boy that makes you smile and holds you when you cry and gives you hugs and buys you chocolate, one that'll kill someone for you. You need…you need someone that would jump in front of a bullet for you. Katniss, I don't mean to be blunt here, but Cato seems like the sort of guy that would push you in front of a bullet rather than take one for you." Mom says.

"Mom all that chocolate and the taking a bullet stuff…that's all in the movies…"

"Shane buys me chocolates and gives me hugs and holds me when I cry." Mom says.

"And I would definitely take a bullet for her." Shane adds.

"Katniss, what I'm saying is…" Mom takes a deep breath, and I think he starts crying, because Shane jumps in.

"Katniss…Cato isn't a good person. We…we won't give you our blessing until you find a guy like the one your mother just described. Don't hate us for it honey, that's just reality." He pauses. "Oh, and maybe Finnick was so embarrassed because I asked if you and Cato have had sex yet. We love you, tell Finnick we love him! Bye!" the line goes dead before I have time to react.

I hand Finn his phone. "Mom and Shane said they love you." I huff. Annie comes running in and she's red in the face.

I recognize this look. This look is fury.

"What's wrong honey?" Finn asks. Annie is Finnick's girlfriend, and Mom and Shane adore her.

"I think I just saw Cato sneaking into his dorm with some blond!" she shrieks. "I swear to god, and he was kissing all up on her before she even had the door shut and she was kissing him back!"

I fiddle with my bracelet for a moment in silence as Johanna starts muttering ways to kill and Finn storms off.

I can't help it when I hiss, "They were right. That motherfucking bastard is gonna pay!" and then I race out of the room in my white tank top, sweats and yellow Abercrombie jacket with no shoes. It is Saturday, after all, and I usually spend my Saturdays doing nothing. Finn is at his door and I walk but beside him and push it open.

Sure enough, Cato is on top of some blond, and they're making out and he's tugging at her shirt until she takes it off.

I'm not even upset.

Shouldn't I be feeling pain right now?

Finn opens his mouth and I slam my hand over it and press a finger to my lips. Then, I make a camera gesture with my fingers and wink. Finn snaps a picture and send it to my phone, and then I close the door so quietly that they don't hear it.

And then I remember about the outdoors concert for the music part of the performing arts school, and I realize that I'm going to get revenge because I have to sing this song with Cato.

"What are we going to do now?" Finn asks.

"We are going to get revenge, that's what we are going to do." I answer calmly.