Heartbeats (update date: 01/04/2015)
Chapter 1: At Finnick's
It was the last Monday of summer break, there, in Chicago.
It was unbelievably hot, considering that it was now close to 6:30PM and people were drinking ice-filled water, wearing sometimes light clothes, but were more often shirtless. But it was not a big problem if you knew the right person, the one who had a swimming poo-
"-Finn ! Stop that; I'm going to be soaked wet !" said a pissed-off Katniss, who had NOT planned on swimming today. But Finnick had splashed her on purpose. There was no way this crime could stay unpunished. Katniss knew Marvel and Cato; if she didn't do something RIGHT NOW, they would tease her about that for months.
So she tossed her book and her sunglasses somewhere on her towel, then jumped in the huge swimming pool, grabbing Finnick, and keeping both her and her best friend under the water for several seconds.
When they emerged, they fought mercilessly -still in the water- with whatever they could reach.
Their friends were laughing so hard, watching Katniss and Finnick fight heroically with a plastic fork and a tube of sun lotion, that no one heard Finnick's phone buzzing.
When, two hours later, everybody came back inside their friend's enormous mansion, Finnick finally looked at his phone, and saw "2 MISSED CALLS-ANNIE.". "Oh, crap ! I'm calling back Annie; go order the pizzas, guys, I'm coming."
Finnick came back several minutes later, with a smile reaching his ears: "Hey guys ! Guess what ? Annie's transferring to Faction High !". Annie had been Finnick's girlfriend since they were 15 (for her) and 16 (him). They were friends before, but they had fooled no one; everybody knew it had been love at the first sight between them, no matter how much they had tried to deny it.
Her, Katniss and Clove were friends since kindergarten, but Annie had to move in France a year ago with her family.
Glimmer, Peeta, Marvel and Glimmer, whom Katniss, Clove, Tris and Four had met last year (while Annie was gone), didn't know her, but the girl was very kind and really sweet, so there would certainly not be any problem for anybody to get along with Annie.
Finnick added: "She's coming tomorrow at noon, and she'll live in that Greasy Sae's studio, just across the street. With you, Katniss ! That's her, that roomate Sae told you about, Kitty Kat ! So... I was thinking we could throw a party, like, Wednesday ? To celebrate her transferring and our horror at the thought of going back to college on Monday ?". Everyone agreed; a party at Finnick's was always a good way not to think about something bothering you, and to have some drunken fun with your friends.
When the pizzas were eaten, his friends left his place, leaving Finnick wondering where he could take Annie for a date, the day after.
The park ? Too ordinary.
The swimming pool ? They would have fun, but it wasn't exactly his idea of a romantic date.
And then, as he was desesperatly searching (he didn't even know what) on Google, he found THE perfect thing.
It actually wasn't the romantic thing he was looking for, but it was exactly the kund of thing that could be interesting, fun, and new for both of them.
He reserved two places, then called his girlfriend. He missed her so much !
He called her just to hear the sound of her voice; he didn't have much to say otherwise (of course he wasn't going to tell her about the surprise date !).
She seemed touched by the things he told her: that he couldn't wait to finally hold her in his arms, to kiss her, to simply tell her how much he loved her. She answered him sweet things too, and the both ended falling asleep as they were still on the phone.
[A/N: That's it ! My very first chapter ever ! I am just so happy ! Please, could you tell me what you thought about it in a review ? It would help me a lot ! (I will update kind of non-story, which will actually be explanations and informations about everything I didn't manage to explain in a chapter. I will also answer your questions, if you have any !) Thank you.
This chapter was dedicated to Ethylen, MysticDexios, Ivivyan, JelsaBacon4Ever, and secretivemuch, who have always be there for me, and encouraged me to write :) I could never thank you enough.
P.S.: I am French, and only 14, so I am sorry for the grammar/else mistakes I might have made... tell me what they were; I'll try not to make the same ones twice !]
Thanks a lot for reading; it means the world to me !
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