Prim's POV
Going to sleep is easy, waking up is the hard part. Not knowing what will happen next is normal, but today it's taken to a new extreme. I have to prove that I'm not as uptight as they think I am, after today they will look up to me. Katniss was a bad ass, she won the Hunger Games, won the rebellion, and now is living a dream life with Peeta, leaving me in district 12. Everyone expects me to be like her, but I'm not my sister, though the only way to not be a target anymore is to get through today. The question I face is how do I prove myself. I ponder over the question as I leave my house and begin to walk to school.
Halfway through my journey I get stopped by Glimmer and Clove, two of the girls coming today.
"Where the hell do you think your going, why do you have your books?" Clove asks as if I did something wrong.
"Um to school, I thought we were meeting up after." I answer not sure why the two of them burst out laughing.
"Your more of a loser than I thought, were ditching school moron," Glimmer tells me, as if I have already failed. Clove takes my books and throws them in the trash, "If your going to hang with us you should know that we don't go to school." I nod in response and follow the two over to the rest of the group.
"So what are we going to do?" I ask the group hoping one of them will actually answer. Their group is composed of mostly nineteen and twenty year olds, a few younger but only one girl my age. Posy Hawthorne, we used to be close but she changed after hanging with the older crowd, and stopped talking to me, she gives me a slight wave and though I don't get an answer, we all start walking and I move closer to the 14-year-old.
We don't talk, just walk in silence with the rest of the group, though I still have no clue as to where we are going. Suddenly Cato, one of the older members at twenty, stops moving and for some reason we all stop with him.
"So Prim, have you ever had a drink," a clearly drunk Marvel asks. I shake my head in response, I have seen Haymitch and I have no intention of ever becoming like him. They all look at me strangely,
"Tisk tisk Prim, no wonder you're so tense, one sip and I promise you'll feel better," Clove says while starting towards the bar, nudging me to follow. I begin to shake my head, knowing that it's not a good idea, but my feet answer for me, as the carry me into the bar behind Posy. Clove and Glimmer immediately run up to the counter and start flirting heavily with the bartender. He seems to like the attention and starts to hand out drinks, free of charge. Glimmer lips meet his as he starts to kiss her as if expecting a reward for giving a bunch of underage kids free drinks.
I look up and see that everyone's drink is either empty, or close to empty, though mine is still full. Cato comes over to me and whispers seductively into my ear,
"Drink up." Reluctantly I move the drink closer to my lips, gagging at the smell, though not wanting to seem weak I take in a large gulp. The taste isn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I finish the rest of the drink fairly quickly. Cato pats my back, "Nice even I couldn't chug a glass my first time, you want another?" I nod, and he returns seconds later two more drinks in his hands.
When I can't remember how much I have taken in, we leave the bar, and though it takes me a minute I realize that Glimmer is missing.
"Wait," I slur. "Where's Glimmer?" Cato smiles,
"Don't worry she'll be here soon she's just paying for our drinks." I nod thinking she will be here soon, though when she doesn't return I get nervous,
"Um shouldn't she be back by now," I question not sure if my confusion is from the alcohol or from my lack of knowledge.
"I don't know it depends what she's doing to him," a deeper look of confusion clouds my face which makes Cato shake his head. "Don't tell me that your that naïve." When the real meaning of his words click, I make a face of disgust wrinkling my nose in the process, especially since I am pretty sure that the bartender was at least 15 years older than her. "Hey she does what she has to do, sometimes you have to pay a price." Though still completely disgusted, especially at the fact he seems completely cool about the entire situation. I return my face to normal, and stop talking before I do something else uncool.
Glimmer catches up to us a few minutes later, even though she doesn't say a word, and tries to act like everything is okay, I can tell that something is wrong. I try to find out if she's okay but she shrugs me off, and as I don't get an answer an erie feeling washes over me. After a few moments of silence, someone finally speaks up filling the empty void we are all surrounded by.
"So," Clove begins. "Where should we go next?"
A/N So that's it for now... I hope that you like it, this story will involve a lot of peer pressure, and drinking and drugs, as well as some more mature content, I'm warning you now so please no hate later on.. Okay well please review. Thnx:D