A/N Why hello there, um this is my second fanfic story...technically. I got the idea of writing this after watching Titanic. So Read and Review. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games, Both of Us by B.O.B or Titanic.


Katniss P.O.V.

Beep Beep Beep.

My alarm rings signaling the start of a new day at District High School home of the Mockingjays.

I can hear Prim my little sister running down the hallways excited for her first day at intermediate school or middle school if you prefer.

"Katniss! Katniss! Get up! We're going to miss the bus!"

"Prim...we don't take the buss we walk to school..."

"Oh...right...still get up!" She says as she runs out of the room.

I groan, summer vacation just ended, I turned sixteen two weeks ago it's still August though. I stand up lazily and head toward my closet pulling out a pair of faded blue skinny jeans. I walk over to my over stuffed drawer and pull out some undergarments and a purple tee-shirt then walk into bathroom ready to take a shower. Once I'm done I put on my clothes and braid my hair my trademark other than my smirk of course.

I grab my backpack which holds nothing other than a binder, a few pencils and pens, a book and my wallet.

I frown, this is my Junior year at District High, it will be good to see my friends after I spent my summer being a loner but at the same time it feels like I am growing up and honestly it scares me. But, I take it in looking at my room. It's forest green, my bed pushed into the middle of the wall vines covering the back board of my bed.

I close my room door feeling a sort of anxiety, I feel like I'm not going to see this room for a while.

Let me tell you abut myself, my name is Katniss Everdeen I'm sixteen years old. I live in a town called Panem in the rural section other wise known as District 12 but inside District 12 there is another division known as Town and Seam. The townies being richer than I hence the seam also being the poorest section of them all. Panem could look like a circle if you look at it from a birds eye view or a plane. Districts one-twelve we have and weirdly enough the three schools Elementary, Intermediate and High School all line up and meet at the center of this "clock." Anyways I'm entering my Junior year...as I've mentioned before, at District High. Awkwardly enough I have two friends, I'm a what people like to call a loner, nerd, geek. Those two friends Gale Hawthorne fellow geek and seam kid and Madge Undersee a 'loner.' She has no friends because she's the mayors daughter, they leave her alone but she's also a part of my family, daughter of my mothers brother.

My father died in a mine accident when I was eleven. My mother broke down her state of mind fragile. To keep Prim and I away from the foster home I worked small tasks, some jobs and hunting for food. Meats that I could sell to Greasy Sae a restaurant shop owner.

I walked down stairs, to find Prim had made me breakfast.

"Prim, you didn't have to make breakfast." I yawn, sitting down and eating the cereal.

"I know but I wanted to cook for once."

"You made cereal..." She stares at me and turns red.

"Common, we're going to be late." I say putting the dishes in the sink.

I grab my backpack and walk out the front door and wait for Prim on the steps. She comes out wearing her school uniform, a black skirt and white collared shirt and navy blue flats. Her backpack with cartoon figures on it on her shoulder.

The day is warm, the sun shines and birds chirp, there's a small breeze but it feels good. Prim and I walk down the grime filled streets. We reach the streets corner and out comes Gale, Rory, Vick and Posy his siblings. He wearing faded jeans and a black polo shirt and his black rimmed glasses. Vick and Rory wearing uniforms like Prim except they wear pants since they're boys and black converse instead of flats. Posy wears the same outfit as Prim. You see Rory, Vick and Posy are triplets, Rory the oldest and Posy the youngest.

"Hey Catnip, ready for a new school year." He says poking my sides.

"Stop it Shadow," I say swatting his arms away, but I can feel a small smile forming. Shadow's his nickname.

"Aw, common Catnip."

"School is nothing but a waste of time."

"That's not true Katniss you get to see lots of cute boys!" Prim says. I hear Rory and Vick groan and Posy giggles.

"Prim...boys have cuties." I hear Gale snicker next to me.

"What? No they don't."

"Hmm sure."

We reach the townies section and begin to see the cluster of students leaving their parents shops, their homes. Madge comes running up to us.

"Hey, Katniss, Gales. Hello Prim, Rory, Vick, Posy. "

"Hey." We all greet and walk keep walking until Prim stops in front of a shop. The Mellark Bakery.

"Ohh, Katniss look at that cake, I wish I had a cake like this." She says dreamily.

"Wait until your married because that's a wedding cake." I say looking at the three layered cake. Then our reflections, Prim look nothing like me with her blue eyes and blond hair and pale skin a trait from our mother. While I have black hair, steely gray eyes and an olive skin tone. Sometimes they mistake Prim for Madge's sister since they look alike, you know we're family. Me, they confuse me for Gales sister since we resemble each other. Then there's the triplets, Rory looks like Gale and so does Vick, Posy on the other hand looks like her mother, Hazel. She has black curly hair and dusty gray eyes, unlike the guys who have wavy hair and blue-gray eyes.

A typical seam look, the townies usually have blond hair and blue eyes like Madge and Prim. I snap out of my trance when I see Peeta the bakers son. He's in my grade but I hardly ever talked to him, he's popular, always makes friends.

"Common Prim let's go." I say walking away, while I loop my hands into Gales arm and so does Madge. We walk, our little trio until we reach the center.

"Okay kids come here." I say looking at them all.

"The lists for your first class is placed on the library windows." Madge says.

"Don't get into any fights," I say, "but, if you do..." I trail off.

"Beat them bad and then look for us." Gale finishes.

"Protect each other, yeah we get it." Rory says clearly excited to get a move on.

"Alright bye!" I say pulling Gale and Madge toward our school. I can hear them scream bye.

"Geez, Catnip why the rush?"

"I just want to get to my class already." I say.

We reach the gym doors, inside all the students file around finding their names and first class. We part our ways, heading to the lists. I find the E's and look for Everdeen.

Everdeen, Katniss: Homeroom with Mr. Abernathy room 13.

Well, I feel unlucky not because of the teacher but the number. I'm not superstitious but something honestly feels wrong.

"Common Katniss!" I hear Gale yell over the rustling students.

I jog over to him and walk out, outside sits Madge. We grab her then begin walk to the stairs that head upwards. One building twenty floors.

"So who'd you get Kat?"

"Abernathy for Homeroom." They groan.

"What he's not that bad."

"He's a drunken bastard," Gale says.

"Who'd you get anyways?" I ask them both.

"Abernathy." They reply.

"The why are you complaining we get to have class tog-" I get pushed and fall on the ground face down.

"Watch where you're going loser." Glimmer sneers then walks away. She's one of the popular's of the school.

"Bitch." I murmurer, while Gale help's me up. I dust my jeans off and then continue to walk through hallways, upstairs until we reach the fourth floor. Each floor consists of five classrooms, two at the sides, one in the middle.

"Well, here we are." I sigh.

"Let's just sneak in no one will notice." Gale suggests. I nod.

We walk quietly inside bowing our heads.

"Well look who it is." Oh no.

"The three losers." Cato another popular, usually only the Careers are popular they come from Districts one, two and four, Peeta being the exception.

I hear the other popular's laugh, there's Cato district two, Glimmer district one, Marvel District one, and Finnick district four and Peeta district twelve.

We ignore them walking to the corner seats. The bell rings and in runs Peeta he looks around and catches my eye and gives me a small smile. I ignore him as well, he walks over to his friends and sits down. The Mr. Abernathy walks in.

"Well, hello class, yes I know I'm not drunk for once, but, not for long." He walk over to the white board and slides it revealing the hidden TV for morning announcements and turns it on.

"Good Morning District High, Principle Snow here to announce a special give away." Give away? What?

"This year we will reap one special class to go on a field trip to learn about the Titanic." I hear Glimmer trying to get Peeta's attention. "Wouldn't that be totally awesome Peetie." She tries to purr in his ear. He doesn't respond, I don't know if they're making-out of what, but the talking ceased.

I keep watch on the televisions screen.

"The cruise ship will, take you out to the sinking point of the Atlantic starting from New York. But, I'll save the details for the winning class, which I will also accompany." He smiles like a shark.

"And the winning class is..." he says pulling a random slip of paper from a bowl, "Mr. Abernathy's class, Congratulations." He says smiling like a shark, his snake like eyes staring into the camera his white hair and white rose just make him look creepier. I swear I heard lightning. I gulp, while the class cheers.

"Isn't this great Catnip?"

"Yeah, but, don't you feel like something's wrong." His smile wavers.

"Yeah a bit, but, maybe we should just ignore it you know first day jitters."

"Yeah, he's right Katniss." Madge agrees, I nod.

"Alright class we're going on a cruises, pack your bags," he laughs, "and here are your class schedules..." He begins to call out names, "I honestly don't know why you need schedules you all have the same classes." He grumbles. Then I hear the bell ring signaling the end of homeroom.

We live in California, how the hell is this school affording this? I grab my backpack and follow Gale as he leads Madge and I to our next class, Music and Art with Mr and Mrs. Detach.

We get there last and end up getting the front seats.

"Hello class I am Cinna and this is my wife Portia, you may call us that." He talks about what will be expected from us and then goes on to our first assignment, the class groans.

The door opens and reveals three new girls.

"Sorry, we're late we're new and couldn't find our homeroom and when we did class was over." A short skinny girl with green eyes and black hair says.

"It's okay, just have a seat behind them." He says pointing at Gale, Madge and I.

He continues to talk and tells us our homework is to find a song and sing it, solo duo or trio and play instruments whatever we please or paint a picture. That's when we will do introductions, he let's us talk among us to plan.

I turn to Gale and Madge, "You guys want to work together?"

"Sure." They reply.

"What song?" We talk about songs and decide on one song. Then I feel a tap on the shoulder, it's the new girls.

"Hi, I'm Annie," says the girl who was giving Cinna their excuses for being late, "and this is Clove" he says pointing to a girl with black hair that's in a ponytail and has brown eyes, "And this is Johanna." She points to the girl with shoulder length hair and hazel eyes.

"We we're wondering if we could work with you guys." She asks hesitantly.

"Uh, yeah sure how about the song "Both of Us" by B.O.B" I ask them.

"Yes!" Johanna says.

"Okay, cool, oh and by the way that is Gale and Madge." I say pointing to them.

They nod there heads. I stand up and head to Cinna.

"Um, we chose our song..."

"Okay, good, here is a key, go out to room twenty and you can rehearse there. How many in your group?" I think for a minute.

"Six."

"Okay, off you go."

I walk back to them, "The teacher gave me a key told us to go rehearse."

They nod and stand up heading for the door.

"Hey, cuties where do you think you're going?" Finnick asks to the Clove, Annie and Johanna.

"No of your damn business." Johanna glares at him.

"Damn, feisty one." Cato says. I roll my eyes and open the door common guys they're not worth it." I say as Clove glares at all of them. Glimmer glares back, while Peeta and Marvel stay quiet.

I walk to room twenty at the corner of this floor, the fourth floor. I open it and find a miny studio complete with instruments. Gale walks over to the drums, Clove goes to guitar and Johanna to bass guitar. Annie, Madge and I head to the microphones.

"Wait." I go over to some cabinets, looking for the sheet music to Both of Us. When I find it I pass it out getting stands as well.

"Okay, ready?"

"Yup they all respond." We practice until the bell rings and leave with our backpacks. Cinna already outside I hand him his keys and thank him.

The six of us go on with our day ignoring the Careers.

"Are they always like this?" Annie asks.

"Yeah., you just have to know how to ignore them." The rest of the day go's by like a blur and soon enough I'm walking home, a permission slip in hand. Dreading the moment I have to ask my mom to sign it and I have to leave Prim alone with our mother here in California while I head for New York.


A/N So...what did you all think? :) I hope you liked, feel free to review...right down...there... :D

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- The Music Girl