Chapter 1
Katniss's pov:
Ugh! Why is mom sending me and prim away to this stupid boarding school in the capitol! I don't want to be around those freaks for an entire school year! Let me explain where I live a little bit. I live in the city of panem. It's split into 13 neighborhoods. There are districts 1-12 and the capitol. There used to be a thirteenth district but it burned down. Anyway, I live in district 12, which is the poorest of them all. The capitol is the richest, then district 1, district 2, and so on. I used to go to school here in district 12 but my mom thinks me and my little sister prim need a better education, so she is sending us to CBS, or capitol boarding school. We leave today, so I better get packing.
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Me and prim boarded the train that was heading to the capitol. I saw Madge and called her over.
"Hey Madge, over here!" She saw me and prim and came over to us.
"What's shaking, bacon?" I rolled my eyes.
"So Madge, you're going to CBS too. That's so exciting."
"I know"
We spent the rest of the train ride talking about how much we hope that we're going to be in the same dorm. When we got to the capitol we grabbed our bags and hopped into a taxi to take us to the school.
"Capitol boarding school please."
The taxi ride was silent and when it was over Madge paid the $14.75 we owed. We grabbed our bags from the trunk and began to walk to the office where we would get our dorm numbers and time tables. We walked into the office and I was immediately blinded by all the pink. There was pink wallpaper, pink carpeting, pink chairs, pink everything! The only thing that wasn't pink was the mahogany desk that sat in the middle of the room. We went up to the desk and even the secretary was pink. Pink clothes, pink shoes, pink hair, even her eyes were pink. Prim spoke up. "Um, excuse me, Ms." She looked at the name plate that sat on the desk, "Trinket, we are here for our room numbers and time tables."
"Names." She replied in a high pitched voice.
I responded with "Katniss Everdeen, Madge Undersee, and Primrose Everdeen."
She typed something into her pink computer and printed something out. She handed us the sheets of paper and I looked down at it. It read, 'Katniss Everdeen, dorm number: 364' I skimmed over my time table. I had homeroom with Mr. Haymitch Abernathy, first period was fashion with Mr. Cinna Black, second: math with Mrs. Wiress Corte, third: English with Mr. Beetee Corte, fourth: panem history with Mr. Coriolanus Snow, and fifth was music with Mrs. Portia Black. I guess Portia and Cinna were married and so were Beetee and Wiress. We all walked out of the office once we had skimmed our time tables. When we were out of the bright pink room, Madge said "I was surprised the paper wasn't pink."
We all burst out laughing. I turned to prim and asked her what her dorm number was.
"It's 457"
"Great little duck, now go waddle off to find it"
She started waddling off and threw a quack over her shoulder. I turned to Madge and said, "What's your room number?"
"364. What's yours?"
"Same. Let's go find our dorm."
We walked off to find our dorm and we looked at each other's time tables. Turns out we have homeroom, first, fourth, and fifth together. We walked around for almost half an hour until we finally came to our dorm. We walked in using our key cards and surprisingly we were the first ones there. The dorm had 3 bunk beds, light purple walls, a dark blue couch, and three large wardrobes. It also had a mini fridge with a stove and microwave beside it. "Hey Madge, you wanna share bunks?"
"Sure, but I get the top one." She tried to look at me with a menacing look but failed completely. I tried to hold back my laughs, but I couldn't do it. When I was finished laughing, I told her I was fine with that while trying to catch my breath.
We were setting up our beds on the middle bunk when a girl with long black hair, brown eyes, and freckles burst through the door. She looked around the room, before choosing the bottom bunk on the one to the right of our bunk. She threw her bags down on the bed before turning to us and introducing herself.
"Hi, I'm Clove Crowell. I'm from district 2. Nice to meet you."
"Hey, I'm Katniss Everdeen. And that is Madge Undersee. District 12"
She waved to us then we went back to making our beds. After about five minutes a blonde girl with emerald eyes walked in. She was really pretty. Clove turned to see who was at the door and immediately rushed to give her a hug. "Glimmer! I haven't seen you since last summer! How have you been?"
Glimmer returned the hug before turning to Madge and I. "Hey. My name's Glimmer Sparks. District 1."
Wait. If she was from D1 and Clove was from D2, how did they know each other? Madge spoke the words that were on my mind. "If you guys are from different districts, how do you know each other?"
Clove answered before Glimmer had a chance. "Glimmers dad worked for a diamond company that sold diamonds to my dad's company. One time when he was bringing diamonds to our house he brought her along. My dad told her to go up to my room because their meeting was going to a long time. We just hit it off and ever since she always comes to my house whenever her dad does."
Madge and I both made an oh sound then returned to our beds. I had finished mine so I went to put my clothes in the wardrobe that I would share with Madge. I didn't have many clothes so it didn't take long. Glimmer noticed how my clothes only took up a fourth of the closet and immediately said we were going shopping tomorrow since classes didn't start until Monday and it was Saturday. Madge said that I could also borrow her clothes if I wanted to. I thanked them and laid down to take a nap on my bed.
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This is the first chapter of this story. Hopefully there will be an update tomorrow, if not, there will be one on Tuesday or Wednesday.
-RedheadedGodess