Hey guys! Thank you SOOOO much for reviewing for 'My thanks' over in High school Drama. I'm so excited that I actually FINISHED my first fanfiction. It wasn't my first, but it was my first one to actually finish.
I loved your reviews, they were all so lovely. I'm glad that you guys like it and I hope you guys will love this one.
I'd like to thank Katniss4everdeenz for letting me use her idea of the name. It was all hers, so thank you so much!
So here it is, Senior Year Troubles.
Katniss' POV
I can't believe it, it's the final year of High School. I've had a huge think about what I'm going to do later on in life. I want to go to college, study to become a teacher. I know, I am the star in the movie 'Live, love & laugh' but I only want it to be a one off thing. I've told Madge that, she seems to understand.
Talking about Madge, we are starting to grow close together again; but we do have our moments. You know, like we say something and then it leads back to what happened. There are always awkward moments, but not for too long. We'll go back to normal, one day. I hope.
Johanna is really...I don't really know how to describe her. Not mean, exactly. But if someone annoys us, and she sees it. She'll bite their heads off. Johanna's really protective, and it's great. But at times, she does need to shut her mouth.
Peeta and I are going on our first date tonight. I'm excited, but nervous at the same time. Ever since Peeta told me he loved me, everything's changed completely. In a good way, though. Peeta and I have grown and I don't think we'll ever stop. I have spent a couple of days with Peeta at the bakery on the holidays; Helen, ugh. She's a bitch and obviously isn't going to change. Peeta hasn't seen her since she moved out, and I'm glad that he hasn't. Who knows what would happen?
"Katniss, are we going?" Prim asks me. I smile and nod my head.
Right now, I'm getting out the front door. But before we do, I call out "Bye mum!"
"Bye girls!" She calls back. I smile, glad that we have made up. It is actually nice, to not be angry at mum anymore. We might have had our bad days, but things have changed. It definitely has been better, I hope dad would be proud of me. I wish he was here, but he's hopefully looking over me right now, this very moment.
I walk over to my yellow Suzuki swift. I absolutely love the car, ever since I first saw it. Surprisingly, I haven't crashed it once. It's all squeaky clean.
"Come on", I say to Prim as we she follows me in. Prim has grown heaps, she's nearly taller than me. It hasn't even been that long, but I still call her little duck. It gets up her nose, but I don't think I'll stop. Oh, who am I kidding? It's never gonna happen.
I reverse out of the driveway, knowing Prim would be flinching. She still isn't used to my driving. I'm an okay driver, it's not like I'm a lunatic.
"You excited?" I ask Prim.
"Why would I? The holidays are over", Prim says a matter of factly.
I frown and say, "But you're usually excited to go to school."
"Not anymore", Prim states bluntly. I don't know what's gotten into her lately, she's been acting strange. Maybe it's just teenage hormones. Probably.
I'm going around the roundabout, really alert. I get nervous going around roundabouts, I don't know why, but I'm very cautious. Then suddenly, everything goes in slow motion. One minute, I'm being very cautious, and the next...
"Shit Katniss!" Prim screams.
A white car pulls out when he's supposed to give way to me. I swerve and I drive the car right up in the middle of the roundabout. That's my only option, otherwise Prim and I, would probably be dead now. I honk the horn at the person. We stop with a sudden halt.
I don't say anything, I'm just breathless. I'm shocked, and I can't move. It happened in a flash but it feels like that had taken forever before it finished.
"Katniss, are you alright?" Prim asks. I don't look at her as I nod my head. I notice my hands are shaking, I try to stop them, but it doesn't stop. Calm down, Katniss. Calm down.
I look out the window to see if I hit the light post in the middle, but I've only squashed the bunch of flowers. I'm like a millimeter away from it. I was so close of hitting it. I watch as a car goes around and looks at me as if to see if I'm okay. I smile weakly as the driver waves a hand to me.
"Look", Prim says. I look to see her pointing at the white car. It's parked on the pathway, just sitting there.
"Should we go and have a go at them?" Prim asks clenching a fist.
"Let's follow them", I say in answer.
"What?" Prim ask wide-eyed.
"What? So he gets to nearly kill us and we can't follow him? That's ridiculous", I say shaking my head. Finally able to get words out.
As soon as the words leave my mouth, the white car starts to pull off the pathway. Whoever it is, I'm going to find out.
"What do we do about the flowers?" Prim asks looking out the window.
I don't answer because I wait to see for the right time to get off the middle of this roundabout. People must be nice in this neighborhood because fortunately, a guy waves his hand to let me go. I wave a hand back to know that I appreciate, before getting of this thing.
I look to see the white car already has disappeared. I groan in frustration as I head down a random road, not sure which way he's gone.
"Can you see him?" I ask Prim. I give a quick glance to Prim, to see her squinting to find the car. It's a Mazda I think.
"Yep, I see it. Just keep going straight, about to turn right up ahead", Prim says.
I try to follow her gaze and see a car turning right. "Oh, yep."
I turn right at the road where it's heading. But I try to make sure that he doesn't know I'm following him, but why do I care? Anyway, he probably has already noticed that I'm following him, from the bright yellow.
"Have you-
"Yep", I say knowing what she's about to say. They're taking the back way to the school. Maybe they had a kid in the car. But I'm not sure.
But as I thought, they do end up at the school. Oh well, I have to go there anyway. They turn left, going into the school. I enter the car park of the school, parking opposite to the white Mazda. I put the car in park, and quickly get out of the car.
"Katniss!" Prim hisses at me. I look to see Prim getting out the car, and rushing to me.
"What?" I ask getting annoyed.
"You can't just go and barge at him", Prim tells me.
"What makes you say it's a he?" I ask her as I feel my cheeks go red from anger. Prim looks taken back, and looks down.
"What?" I ask quietly. Prim looks over at the car, and I look too. I gasp, looking there with surprise.
Snow, is the one in the stupid Mazda. He's helping out his daughter, granddaughter? I don't know, but I'm pretty mad.
"He tried to kill us!" I say loudly to Prim.
"Katniss", Prim says calmly. "There could be another explanation. Maybe he wasn't trying to."
"But he knows me!" I hiss at Prim.
"But does he know your car?" Prim asks trying to keep her voice steady. I look over at Snow, he's not looking at me at all. He just walks up the path to the main building, obviously not giving a shit that he nearly killed two people. But maybe Prim is right, maybe he didn't mean to. But wouldn't he of come over and apologized? Not just pretend we're not here and walk off like that?
"Katniss, come on. We're okay, let's go", Prim says grabbing my wrist and trying to pull me along. I pull away, but stay close to her anyway. I can't believe Prim's so calm about what had just happened. I'm furious, while Prim doesn't seem to have one bit of anger in her.
"Hey, Prim!" Someone calls out. It's a boy calling and waving his arms in the air, to get her attention. I raise and eyebrow at Prim, who just blushes.
"I better go", Prim says barely audible. I smile and nod my head, not that she's looking at me anyway. She rushes over to the boy and gives him a big hug, while he's picking her up and spinning her around. Prim squeals in delight and the boy smiles at her. But not just a smile, a more meaningful smile.
I can't help but smile wider. That's my sister, not so little anymore. But I still can't get my head around of how much she has grown. Maybe that's what mum and dad thought about me when I was her age. I look away from the boy and Prim, heading around the main building. If I run into Snow, I'll probably lose it. Definitely not the best choice.
I walk around the big building, heading for the biggest tree in the school. The group have decided to meet there this morning, maybe even hang around there from now on. Luckily, we don't have PC so we get extra time to hang out, but not that long.
I spot the tall tree, with the group standing and talking. But then I see him, my heart melts. Peeta's talking to Finnick, but he notices Madge waving and smiling to me. Peeta follows her gaze, and his eyes find mine. We lock eyes for what seems like forever, before I give a smile and walk over to the group.
"Hi Pissy Kat!" Johanna teases. I don't bother reacting, I just continue walking until I get to Peeta. After what had just happened this morning, it's a relief seeing Peeta.
Peeta pulls me into a hug, and I breathe in his scent. I let go a breath before saying, "I missed you."
Peeta chuckles and says, "It's only been two days."
My cheeks feel hot, but I say, "Yeah, two days of torture." Okay, maybe I over reacted, but that's how much I miss Peeta when he's not around.
"I don't think it was that bad", Peeta says, pulling out of the hug. I stare into his blue eyes, imagining it's only him and I.
"I nearly got killed this morning, actually", I state.
Peeta's eyes widen and says, "What? What happened? Are you okay, are you hurt? Katniss are-
I chuckle as I interrupt Peeta. "Peeta, calm down. I'm fine, Prim's fine."
"Wait, what do you mean Prim's fine?" Peeta asks worryingly. I love it how much Peeta worries over nothing, but I suppose it's not something you want to be joking about.
"Prim was in the car with me-
"Wait, you were in your car when this happened?" Peeta asks.
"Yes, but-
"Who nearly killed you? If it was Gale I'm going to-
"NO PEETA!" I say loudly so he will shut up. "It wasn't Gale." Peeta hasn't exactly gotten over the whole scenario with Gale kissing me. They talked, but it wasn't much of a talk apparently. I wasn't there, but Madge and Johanna were. I remember Johanna telling me how she had to stop them from a punch on. I haven't seen Gale for a week since then; apparently he had a bruised nose...that's what Madge told me. But it was obviously more than a bruised nose.
I don't know how I'll be when Gale arrives. It's going to be weird, no matter what. But I don't want it to be. I just want to forget that the kiss ever happened. I know that's never going to happen, but it's worth trying, isn't it?
"What happened then?" Peeta asks quietly, finally more calm.
I tell Peeta what had happened, with Peeta's face turning a shade of red. Anger washes over him when I finish.
"I told you I didn't like him", Peeta mutters angrily.
"You think I like him?" I say shaking my head. "I hate him."
"It must've been his granddaughter", Peeta says, changing the subject a bit.
I frown and ask, "Why?"
"Because his son/daughter must be in their 30's by now, think about it", Peeta says crossing his arms. He has his concentrating face on, that I treasure dearly.
Peeta notices me staring at me, so he asks, "What? Do I have something in my teeth?" Peeta tries to lick his teeth but I stop him.
"No, you don't. Nothing is wrong with you", I say with a laugh.
Peeta looks a bit embarrassed when he asks, "Then what?"
I pull his head down so it's only centimeters away from mine, I rest my arms around his neck while his hands are on my waist. "You're so charming." Peeta smiles before his lips are on mine...
"Err hello? We're right here you know?!" I hear Johanna call, turning everything back to reality. Peeta and I pull away blushing.
"Nothing to blush about", Finnick teases. This makes us blush even more. Everyone burst out laughing; except Peeta and I of course.
"Oh, hey. Did you hear about another new girl is joining one of us in classes from now on?" Finnick says breaking the laughter. "Probably as annoying as the other one." Finnick gives a cocky smile to Johanna who slaps his arm in return.
"Hey!" Johanna says before crossing her arms. This time we all burst out laughing at Finn's joke. The bell rings, interrupting our good moment.
I groan and say, "Come on guys, we better go."
We all head down the corridor to our first class with our books. Peeta has English, while I have Math. I'm not sure what the other have, though.
"I'll see ya guys at recess!" I call to the others.
"See ya!"
"Bye girl!"
I get in return. Peeta follows next to me though. "I'm right opposite your class room", Peeta tells me when I raise an eyebrow. I smile at him.
"I wonder who has the new girl", Peeta says thinking out loud.
"Who knows? Probably Johanna",I say shrugging.
"Why'd you say that?" Peeta asks.
"She's pretty new...the girl's new. Perfect match", I answer.
"Maybe", Peeta says simply.
We stop at the classrooms. "Bye", I reach up and give Peeta a hug.
"Good luck."
With that, I walk into my classroom. I take a seat at an empty desk. There's only a few of us in the classroom. None of my friends are in this class, so I just sit by myself. The rest of the students gather in the room, taking their seats.
"Settle down, everyone", the teacher tells us. When everyone is listening, he turns to a girl sitting in the front row. "Stand up, dear", he says with a smile.
The girl stands up. I haven't seen her around before, but I recognize that purple dress. I feel like it wasn't long ago when I've seen it. The thought is hurting my brain, so I try to stop thinking about it.
"Class, this is Melissa Snow."
I feel a jab of pain in my stomach when I hear that name. Melissa Snow? So she's the granddaughter that was in the car. No wonder I felt like I saw that dress.
Melissa smiles nervously, looking around the classroom. Her eyes land on mine and I glare at her. She looks a bit surprised.
The teacher smiles and says, "Oh, yes Katniss?"
I clear my throat before answering, "Yes Mr A?"
"Make Melissa at home, will ya?"
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