Okay guys, this is my first story…. Don't be too harsh? Its one of those "What if Panem was a high school blah blah blah" stories but I'm hoping mine will be different/better…. It might change POV throughout my fic, but im not sure yet. Katniss is the new girl and so is Prim, but they go to different schools. Okay, I will get on with it now… I hope you like it!

X Sabine

Katniss POV

I wake up again with tears trickling down my face and a sore throat. I guess I had been screaming again, I always do scream when I have night mares about him, which is basically every night. I roll over in my bed and fix up my blanket, which I had twisted during the night. I see Prim sleeping soundly. Good. I don't like waking her up, she needs the rest, she has nightmares too. We both dream about the same thing, our father. He died when I was 11, Prim was only 7, he was in a house fire, which was 5 years ago... My mother was their too, but she got rescued. After that night, my mother was never really there. I mean, she was always here, but she wouldn't move, she wouldn't speak she wouldn't really do anything…. It's as if, when our father left, he took a bit of her with him. But maybe that always happens when someone you love, and I mean truly love, not like that sappy romance shit you see in high schools or in the movies, dies, but I wouldn't know, I've never been in love, and quite frankly I'm planning on keeping it that way, I don't want to turn out like my mother.

She has been getting better though. Ever since she went back to work she has been handling herself better. She's a doctor, and a good one at that, so is Prim, not me though, I can't do it; I can't even be in the same room. But not Prim, no definitely not Prim she has always been the stronger out of the two of us, like mentally stronger, she is the brains. I mean, I'm not dumb, but I am always more of an athlete than a doctor, I guess I take after my father. I am reasonably short, prim is around the same height as me, and I am strong, very strong, but I guess that happens after 7 years of gymnastics and 5 years of boxing. Dad used to be a boxer, he was really good, he one all his fights, but he stopped after he met our mother, I never understood why he stopped, I never could give up on my dream.

I roll over again and look at my clock, 6:47, might as well get up. I slowly get up and stretch and wander over to the bathroom and hop in the shower. I have a longer shower than normal because I decide to wash my hair, might as well look semi decent for my first day of school. I hop out and dry myself and wrap the towel around me, I normally would get dressed, but I promised Prim she could choose my outfit, I pray to god she doesn't pick a skirt, I shudder just at the thought of it. I walk over to Prims bed and shake her awake

"come on little duck, wakey wakey" I say.

Prim roles over and mumbles a bunch of words, which I translate to "I'm up".

She then gets up and hops into the shower. She must have washed her hair as well, because she is taking ages, y hair is basically dry now. I get changed into my bra and underwear and sit on my bed until she gets out with soaking wet hair, yep, I was right. She dries herself and chucks on her underwear and a bra and wanders over to our cupboard.

"Close your eyes Katniss!"

I do as I am told and cover my eyes with my hand

"No peaking" I hear her whisper.

She then makes me get dressed with my eyes shut, I asked why and all Prim said was

"Because, it's a surprise"

Prim POV

I knew there was no way Katniss would let me put her in a skirt, I'm not stupid. When Katniss realises I've put her in pants, she lets out a sigh of relief. I laugh

"there was no way I was putting you in a skirt Kat!"

"Well thank god I have a smart sister"

"Well, I wanted to come out of this experience smiling! Not with a black eye!" I say. I know there is no way Katniss would every hurt me, but still. I let out a laugh, just in case she didn't figure I was joking. I look at her face and a wave of relief washes over me when I see that she is smiling.

"I wouldn't hurt you little duck!" she says

"Kat, I know you would nev…"

"I'd kill you!" she says laughing. I laugh to, so glad that I'm on her side, not on the over. Because, she could, after all, she has been training since she was around 11, I don't think she has ever even lost a fight, I'm not positive though, Kat won't take me to her fights; she says she doesn't want me to see that side of her, the violent side. But I have, I don't mind though; I wish I could learn to fight like her. I remember once last year when I saw her for the first time fight

It was at our school back home, in New York. My class had been let out for lunch 15 minutes early because we had been good. I was eating an apple, everybody else around me were eating expensive things from the cafeteria, but we didn't have much money, considering the only money we really get is from Katniss fighting, mom still wasn't back at work. Anyway, I was eating an apple and one of the rich kids in my class called Sam said something along the lines of

"look!" he was pointing at me "the stupid rat can't even afford proper food!"

Everybody near me started laughing! where I lived was called the seam, it was the poorest part of New York, and it had a lot of sewers and rats, and that's why they call me rat, I hated it. It was so mean, even some of the people that I thought were my friends were laughing at me. I started to cry, but that just made them tease me more. I walked away from them and sat down by myself and started to cry. Katniss must have seen me from her class room window our something, because the next thing i hear, was Katniss screaming at the kid for teasing me. But then the bell went, and all the students came in. that's when the trouble really started. Unluckily, the kid that started teasing me had an older brother, he must have been in year 12, and was head and shoulders taller than Katniss, who has always been reasonably short. Katniss turned her head when Sam's big brother, I think his name was Jackson, said

"What do you think you're doing, yelling at him like that?"

Jackson was a lot bigger than Kat, and a lot scarier. Most people would back away scared out of their minds if this happened to them, but no, not Kat. She spined right around and started walking towards him and said

"what do you think YOUR doing yelling at ME like that! He was being a bitch to my sister!"

Now she was almost standing on his feet, she had to tilt her head back to look him in the eye. Basically all of the schools attention was to them, but still no teachers could be seen. That's when the first punch was thrown. Jackson swang his fist right where her face was, but luckily Kat had the sense to duck. All the students started chanting

"FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT" and were crowding around the two of them. I had to stand on a table to see over the crowd of people. Jackson tried again, this time Kat blocked it and hit him back in the face, then again in the stomach, her fists were flying, all of the place, making thuds and clapping noises when they made contact with Jacksons ski, leaving red marks where they had hit, they're going to leave plenty of bruises. She threw two more punches, one that hit him in the nose and blood started gushing everywhere and the last in the stomach again. Jackson then collapsed on the floor

"Think twice before you throw a punch at me, bitch!" Katniss shouted at him. She then kicked him really hard in the side and grabbed her bag and started walking off towards the door. She grabbed an apple from the counter of the cafeteria and bit into it, she kept walking towards the door. She swallowed the apple and turned around and looked at everybody, they all had their jaws hanging wide open and their eyes following her every move

"What are you all looking at!" shouted Katniss. Everybody dropped their eyes and Kat walked out. She got suspended for 2 weeks, but she said it was worth it.

Kat's voice brought me back to reality when she asked

"Are you finished yet!" she said jokingly. I realised we were still standing there in our bra's and me in my underwear and her in her pants. I quickly helped Kat into her top and Jacket and started to get changed myself. We weren't in a rush, we still had about an hour until we had to leave, but I really wanted to do her hair. I Made Kat promise to keep her eyes closed while I got dressed so we could look together. She complied and I put on a pair of yellow skinny jeans Kat gave me for my birthday and a tight white top with a black jacket over the top. I dragged Katniss to the tall mirror.

"On three you can look, okay?" I said

"Okay" Katniss said.

"One… two… three" she dropped her hand and gasped.

Katniss POV

I looked in the mirror and gasped. What I was wearing actually looked good. Prim thinks that I am really pretty, but I think I'm around average, but with what I am wearing today, I think I look pretty good. I'm wearing black ripped skinny jeans that fit me perfectly and a white tight t-shirt with a beige leather jacket.

"Oh my god prim! This must have cost a fortune!" Prim bought this outfit; mom gave her a lot of money so that she could give it to me for a birthday present, my birthdays not for a few weeks, but she insisted.

"Thank you!" I gave her a big hug.

"That's alright Kat! You deserve it, but please you're suffocating me!" I quickly let go of her and said sorry and she laughs. I laugh too.

Prim and I then go down stairs to have breakfast. Normally our house would be a lot smaller, but mom's new job pays really well and they gave us this house so she could live close to her work in case there was an emergency or something, but Prim and I still wanted to share a room, I don't really know why, but we just felt lonely without each other there, we had just grown so accustomed to sharing a room. We quickly finish breakfast and go back upstairs to finish getting ready. We still have about half an hour until we have to go, but I think Prim will take around that long to do our hair. If it was up to me, I would put it in a braid…. But Prim made me promise that she can do it, so I left it out. Prim finishes her hair while I'm brushing my teeth. She has done two braids down hair head and they finish in plaits over her shoulders, they look really cute. She covers up the mirror in front of the chair I'm sitting on so I can't see what she is doing… but I smell something burning. She is then brushing my hair and pulling a hot iron through it.

"Prim… you better not burn my ear!" I say to her. She looks at me and laughs.

"Ha! I am way too talented to burn your ear! After all if I don't become a doctor, I think I will become a hairdresser…" I just look at her and smile. Not many people can make me smile, but basically every word that comes out Prim's mouth brings a smile to my face. She's just so happy, that it makes me happy. About 10 more minutes of her running the hot iron though my hair and she's done, it looks pretty good and I'm happy with it. I look at the clock, and realise that's its 8:20 and we should start to head off soon. We grab our bags and go downstairs to grab our lunches. I look down and notice that the back of prims singlet has become untucked and is hanging out.

"Tuck your tail in little duck" I say and wink at her when she looks at me. She tucks it in and we put our lunch in our bags, put our bags on and head for the door. Prim had gotten a fancy scholarship to a medical school, so she is going there today, but I'm just going to the high school, we can't afford to send me to the sports school, but I don't mind. Our mother had already left for work, so we locked up the house and went our separate ways, Prim to the right, me to the left.