Disclaimer: I own nothing you recognize. The characters are from Suzanne Collin's novel The Hunger Games and the basic plot was inspired by the movie John Tucker Must Die.

Madge Undersee was used to keeping to herself. The little things that she thought mattered about herself didn't seem to matter to the rest of the people in the crummy little district she was born and raised in. Nobody cared about her stellar academic records when she wasn't a sports star. Nobody cared that she could play the piano when she refused to play in front of an audience. Nobody cared that she was the Mayor's daughter when she could barely choke out a coherent sentence in front of a crowd.

Madge was used to fading into the background and liked it that way.

In other words Madge was nothing like Glimmer Sterling, the school's gorgeous cheerleading captain who was currently kissing the most popular boy in their school-Gale Hawthorne.

Madge had entered the school library after school as usual and picked a back table in the library to avoid any distractions from finishing her homework. Glimmer and Gale entered a couple minutes after her and picked a back table as well, but for completely different reasons.

Madge could feel herself blush as she heard a breathy moan from Glimmer. Madge screwed her eyes shut and mentally willed the loud couple to leave. She would have stood up and walked away herself, except it was too late to leave now without drawing attention to herself. She didn't want to be that one awkward girl interrupt a hot and heavy make out session. To be completely honest, she wasn't entirely sure if Gale and Glimmer even knew that she was there. Madge had a way of blending into the background and the two teenagers were obviously too preoccupied with sucking each other to pay attention to anything or anybody else.

Besides, this was her territory. Why should she be the one to walk away when she had claimed this seat at this exact time every single day for the past two years whereas Gale and Glimmer had never set foot into the library before?

Madge shuffled her papers around, making sure to rustle her papers unnecessarily loudly. She peeked over to see if the couple had heard and hoped that they got the hint and moved to find a different make out spot, only to be met with the sight of Gale's hand inching suspiciously close to the bottom of Glimmer's cheerleading uniform.

Madge quickly gathered her things and speed walked out of the library as fast as she could. She cursed herself for not walking away sooner when she realized that the couple hadn't even parted for air, much less than look up at the sound of her departure. The disgusted blonde started walking home while grumbling under her breath about hormonal teenagers and the lost respect for school grounds. She was about half way home when she couldn't help but think that her backpack was weirdly light that day. It was then that she realized that she had accidentally left behind her laptop in her hurry to escape the library.

She stood in the middle of the street as she considered both of her options. Her first option was to continue on with her way home and stop by the library tomorrow morning to pick up her laptop. That was of course, assuming that nobody had stolen it before she got there. Her second option was to walk back to the school and retrieve her laptop now. If it had been any other day Madge would have gone with option two without another thought, but the mental image of Gale and Glimmer sucking each other's faces was enough to make her rethink her decision. A quick glance towards her watch told her that it had already been fifteen minutes since she had left school grounds. Surely that would have been an ample amount of time for the couple to swap saliva and leave her sacred study spot alone? Hoping she was right, Madge turned and retraced her steps back to the school.

When she arrived she saw that Glimmer was gone, but Gale was still there-locking lips with a different girl.

Holy crap, Madge thought to herself in a mix of shock and disgust. And okay, maybe a bit of awe. How did he do it? He managed to kiss two more people in the span of thirty minutes than Madge had in 16 years. As handsome as Gale Hawthorne was, how was it humanly possible to pick up two different girls in such a short amount of time? And not any random girls at that, but Glimmer Sterling and Johanna Mason of all people.

Johanna had a reputation that was just impressive as Glimmer's, but in a different way. Johanna was not a cheerleader but she was known and feared for her sharp tongue that didn't know how to hold back. Madge had even heard rumors that Johanna had made a senior boy cry on the second day of her freshman year. She was the only girl that Madge knew of that could scare and attract boys all at the same time.

In her shock, Madge almost forgot why she had came back to the library. She stood there with her jaw dropped to the ground until the couple in front of her abruptly pulled apart to stare right back at her.

"Are you just going to stand there all day?" Johanna snapped. It took Madge a couple of seconds to realize that she was talking to her.

"Oh! Um no, I uh, left my laptop there. Sorry," Madge said and awkwardly gestured towards the table in front of her. She could feel her face flush an unattractive shade of red under Johanna's impatient stare and Gale's amused one. She glanced towards Gale, wondering if he had seen her when he had been with Glimmer. Johanna cleared her throat and Madge jumped. "I'll just..," Madge shuffled forward awkwardly and grabbed what she had came for. She nodded towards Gale and Johanna in a gesture of goodbye, but got no response from either of them other than Johanna's raised eyebrows and Gale's growing knowing smirk.

Madge walked away with her face resembling the color of a ripe tomato. She rushed out of the library for the second time that day, cursing her bad luck and Gale Hawthorne's womanizing tendencies.

Madge spent the next day trying her best to avoid Glimmer, Johanna, and Gale. It really wasn't all that hard since she barely had any classes with the three. Although Madge and Glimmer were both Sophomores they had no classes together because Madge was taking mostly Junior and Senior level AP courses, as recommended by her teachers last year. Johanna and Gale were both Seniors, but Madge only had AP Biology with Gale, and two classes (AP Literature and AP Psychology) with Johanna, who barely ever attended the classes anyways.

Madge was sure that Gale would approach her to warn her against telling the other two girls about each other during AP Biology, the one class they shared together. She had even prepared a righteous rant to deliver to him for when the moment came. She was quite proud of said rant, as she had made sure to include a heavy reminder of the importance of respect for women and just the right amount of scornful amounts attacking his big ego. She had it all planned out-she would deliver her rant, Gale would walk away with his head ducked and tail between his legs, and Madge would become the legendary figure for all females of their District. Johanna Mason, the ice princess herself, would even manage to deliver an awkward but meaningful thank you.

But of course, things didn't quite work out that way.

Her first period class came and went and Madge was now seated at her desk in AP Biology with her fists clenched to hide her already sweating palms. She was used to directing attention away rather than towards herself, and the idea of giving Gale Hawthorne a good scolding in front of the whole Biology class both scared and thrilled her at the same time.

The warning bell rang and Gale was still not in class. Madge assumed that he was planning on skipping and couldn't decide if the emotion that caused her shoulders to slump was one of relief or disappointment.

But then, seconds before the actual school bell went off, Gale sauntered into the room with his usual confident smirk in place. Madge straightened in her seat and steeled her mind to prepare herself to deliver her planned speech. Her heart thudding at a hundred miles per hour, she watched as he approached her desk. Just as she opened her mouth to carry out her grand plan, he bent down to whisper in her ear, "Pretty dress."

She heard him chuckle before he slipped into the seat behind her and just like that Madge's ability to form a coherent thought, much less than her ability to scold him, flew out of the window.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. This one will be updated more frequently because I've been thinking about this story for quite a while and I have most of the plotting down. Please follow/favorite/review for more!:)