Okay so I just want to give some warnings. In this Katniss and Gale are the same age, Katniss is a different age when her dad dies in the book. And there are honestly a lot of different things. But the characters are very true to who they are in the book and its my story so if you dont like it you dont have to read it. But I like constructive criticism so please leave some...also i need shipping ideas if anyone wants to leave some of their ideas thatd be great.

My name is Katniss Eveerdeen. I am sixteen years old. And my life is confusing as fuck.

Okay so why don't I tell you a little about myself? As you know my name is Katniss and I'm sixteen. Also, I go to Panem High, a newly built public high school in Chicago. My dad was a construction worker when he died, I was eight years old. My best, and one of my only friends, Gale Hawethorn's dad was working with my dad when a frame for the building fell, crushing them both. I met Gale the next week at my fathers funeral. He was eight too.

FLASHBACK

"Who are you?" I looked up at the boy standing next to me. He had grey eyes, black hair, and olive skin.

"I'm Gale, my dad died too." He looked down at me. He didn't look like he was about to cry, like I was, he look like he had accepted his fathers death.

"Oh, well I'm Katniss."

"Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too."

END OF FLASHBACK

It hadn't seemed like much, but ever since then we have been inseparable. Gale has three younger siblings; Rory, Vick, and Posy. I have one, Prim. Gale and I work part time at the local grocery store to help our mothers bring in some money. Gale's mother and my mother have also become inseparable since the deaths of our fathers. Before we knew it our families were having dinner together almost every night and our mothers had gotten the same job as nurses in the local hospital.

So anyways my old high school, Seneca High, had been….. Destroyed thanks to some stupid seniors and some illegal fireworks. I really hadn't known anyone at my old high school, freshmen were considered absolute losers and no one had liked me except for Gale and Madge. Madge's father was a big political guy, I don't even know what for, and no one really liked her. On the first day Gale and I were just sitting together at lunch and she just came up and sat with us. We didn't really have any objections so, with time, we all became friends. We were all going to attend Panem High in the fall. See, in Chicago we don't just attend the closest school. We apply to a school that could cultivate our talents. Fashionistas would probably go to Cinna's Beauty School, people interested in political and military would attend President Snow's Military Academy, and people interested in the theater would attend Ceaser Flickermans Acadamey For The Theatrical Arts. My school was for the kids who really didn't have any special talents, but now, since it was gone some of us were going to attend the snooty rich kid school. Panem High School. Gale, Madge, and I had all been enrolled over the summer, during which time Gale and I had worked five days out of seven and, on the weekends, Madge and I would sometimes hangout and go see a movie. I have no idea what everyone's obsession with Twilight is…. If I was the vampire guy I would've killed that annoying bitch and been done with it. But I'm getting off track here. Back to my life story. My sister might be the sweetest girl I've ever met and I will do anything for her. She had barely known my dad because she was only three when he died. She was going to go into sixth grade at Trinket Middle School. And that's really all you need to know about me and my family for now.

Today was one day before I started school at Panem and Gale and I had to go to work.

"Mom! I'm going to work now I'll be home at nine!" I looked at myself in the mirror before I left. I was wearing a tight fitting black t-shit with a 3Oh!3 logo on it. It was the first concert I had ever been to and Gale had snuck me in. I was also wearing black jeans and tie up boots that went to the middle of my calves. I grabbed my hoodie and my keys and ran out the door of our apartment.

I met Gale at the L station near our apartments and we got on the train.

"Hey Catnip." Gale side-hugged me as I ran up. He called me Catnip because when we first had dinner together my mother was so tired that she had taken our cat food and put it on our plates. And of course, I ate some of it. (Prim has a stupid cat and, trust me, if you get me going on that thing I will not stop)

"Hey Gale, are you ready for work?" I looked up at him. Lately I've been feeling strange when I'm around him. Like my heart beats faster and I just want to hug him and…Yeah for some reason he's been giving me girly feelings. I never have those.

"Oh totally, I just can't wait for Greasy Sae to freak out at every little thing I do." Gale said it in such a sarcastic tone that I had to giggle at him.

"Oh come on Gale, you know how sweet it was of her to give us this job, plus it's not her fault you somehow manage to fail at almost everything." I smiled at him and elbowed him in the rib. He pulled me closer and bear hugged me.

"Gale! Gale, get off! Hahaha!" I yelled into his arm.

"Oh shit, Katniss, we've got to go." Gale started running, pulling me along.

I looked up and saw the train was here. Gale and I sat on the train for about five minutes until it stopped at our stop. We got off and ran to the grocery store.

"Hey Greasy Sae we're here!" I yelled as I put on my apron.

"Oh hi Katniss and Gale. I know you guys have school tomorrow so I'm letting you two off at six today." Greasy Sae came out from behind a stack of boxes of new shipment.

"Oh come on, you just got this new stock. We're going to help you." Gale said, putting on his apron.

"Okay then, we'll close at five and get these boxes unpacked by six, sound like a plan you two?"

"Okay."

"Sounds good."

Work went by slowly. No one unusual came around and I just made the same sails that I usually made. One candy bar, chap stick, the newest People magazine, milk, etc. It would have been unbearable if Gale had not been there, our shift usually went from noon to nine, and it sucked. But we needed the money and Greasy Sae was willing to help us.

After we unpacked the boxes Gale and I went home and I got ready for school.

"Good night, Catnip."

"Night, Gale."

"I'll be at your place at six thirty, okay?"

"Okay, I'll have my mom make some breakfast."

"Sounds like a plan." Gale hugged me goodnight and i breathed in his scent. He smelled like chocolate and axe body spray.

"You smell like shit by the way." I said with a smile.

"Shut up." He turned and smiled at me as he walked away.

Then, a realization hit me.

I was not excited to go to school.

Not. At. All.

So what did you guys think of chapter one? I know it's leaning towards Galeniss but it might not for the whole story idk yet i still have to write chapter two. But yeah i need shipping ideas for the other characters! Help me out?:)