Life In New York
Katniss Everdeen's P.O.V.
Chapter 1: How It All Started
I toss and turn all night. How can I sleep? I'm changing school's this year and summer vacation won't last forever. I live in New York, now. Mom, Dad, Prim and I moved here 8 years ago.I met my best friends Gale and Finnick when I was 12, Gale was 14 and Finnick was 16. Gale's dad had just died, mine did too. They worked together. They were firemen. His dad had gone into a burning building to save a young woman, around her early 20's. My dad had gone into the building to save a girl around 7, Prim's age, her name is Rue. They all made it out but dad and were sick from all the smoke and had burning wood fall into his side. He was badly burned and so was dad. Dad went back into the burning building to save Gale's dad. They got out and were sent to the hospital. Gale's dad died in a few days. 2 days later I saw Gale on the playground at school. I sat on the ground next to him and said I was sorry for his loss but he kept quiet so I left him to himself. Dad was slowly dyeing and mom was slowly tuning out. When dad died we went to the station to get his medal and I saw Gale with his mom, 2 brothers, Rory and Vick and his mom was about to give birth in the next few days. The next week was horrible; Prim was so upset, Mom was tuning out and I was breaking down, lashing out and fighting with mom to get her to eat.
One day a month or so after dad died I was at school and Gale's class, Finnick's class and my class had science together. I was partnered up with a guy from my class, Marvel, I think his name was, Anyway, he had knocked over a glass and the contents landed on my thighs. It burned through my pants and my thighs got boils from the burning liquid. I jumped up and quickly started pulling at them; not to get them off, just to get them away from my guy in my class Cato started laughing at me and Marvel, the guy who spilt it on my lap and Glimmer she's in my class too.
"Shit, Shit, Shit!" I said."Ow, Ow, Ow, Ow!" I mumble and they started laughing harder.
"Miss Everdeen! Sit down, stop swearing and pay attention!" The teacher yelled at me. I stopped everything scowled at her, walked over to Marvel, slapped him across the face, gathered my books and started walking out. I was pulled back by my braid and I turned around to see Marvel that's all I saw before his hand came in contact with my face. I fell to the floor. I slowly got up and I was just about to kick him when he jumped at me knocking us both to the floor. He was punching me and the teacher was screaming at us. I got in a few good punches before a guy from one of the other class' picked him up off of me and another guy from one of the other class' helped me up. The two guys ended up taking me to the nurses' office. The nurse gave me some ice and left and I was stuck sitting there with them. They introduced themselves Gale Hawthorne and Finnick Odair. We all became best friends and started pulling pranks with each-other and finally were back to now. we got expelled last year for silly stringing, throwing bologna at and throwing pumpkin guts on all of the teacher's cars. So now were going to all have to go to a new school.
Luckily were all going to the same one.