Chapter one: baking cakes.

Hello again! This is my first Hunger Games story and unlike 'Charling Oneshots' this will actually end.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING EXCEPT MY MANY OCS IN THIS STORY.

Eve's POV:

I woke up to the sun shining in my eyes and birds tweeting harmonically...

And my brothers arguing. Again.

"IT'S NOT FAIR! WHY CAN'T YOU BE THE ONE TO CLEAN IT UP?!"

"BECAUSE IT'S YOUR MESS!"

Oh, how I love my brothers. I actually do, they can just be really annoying. I just remembered. It's reaping day tomorrow. Yay! Also the last day of school. YAY! I eventually got out of bed and brushed my aurburn and plum hair before twisting it into a French –braid-into-a-ponytail. I then got dressed and went down the stairs for breakfast. For some strange reason, Peeta suddenly ran up to me and hugged me tightly.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"It's reaping day tomorrow." He answered. "And I'm scared."

"Why? You're not in the reaping for another two years yet." I knew exactly why. For the last two months, not many people were coming to the bakery so I (being the oldest) had to sign up for tesserae. I wasn't that worried though. I'm only 13 so I have my name in twice already, plus the extra two times for tesserae, meaning for a grand-total of... five times. See. Not that much, is it?

"But you're in there. I just don't want you to get picked." He replied. Peeta's sweet and all, but he worries too much.

"Oh, grow up Peeta! Eve's gonna be fine!" taunted my oldest-younger brother, Matthew. (If that made sense!)

"Matthew is right, Peeta. Evangeline is going to be fine," our mother called from across the room. As much as I hate to admit it, I'm pretty sure mom likes me more than Peeta, Matthew and Owen (our other brother, the middle one of my 3 brothers) combined. I don't even know why. Evangeline is my full name but no one ever calls me that except mom and everyone else only calls me that if they're annoyed with me or I'm in trouble. "Now, Evangeline. Help Peeta bake some cakes when you get home from school."

Oh, right. School.

"Okay, mother," I replied as I kissed my parents goodbye, waved goodbye to Owen and Matthew and hugged Peeta goodbye before finally walking out the door.

I walked about 3 metres away before someone tried to scare me.

"Gale, I know that's you," I said as he revealed himself, laughing.

"Okay, Eve. You caught me!" he tried to hold back a laugh. But failed miserably.

Gale is one of my best friends. Well, is my best friend. We've been in the same class and known each other since we were about 8 years old. Now he's kind of a criminal. I say kind of because he crosses the border of District 12 almost every day, just to provide for his family. But he still needs tesserae and me to give him some extra bread every week or so. Even though he won't admit about the bread.

We finished walking to school after a... um... interesting five minutes. Gale and I walked into the classroom and took our seats at the opposite sides of the classroom. The rest of the school day was an uneventful blur. To be honest, what school day isn't? After we finally got dismissed, Gale told me to follow him. Granted, I was a little nervous knowing what he's like. Weirdly, he took me to the border of twel... oh no.

"Eve, we won't get caught. I promise."Gale Pleaded. "I just need to show you something really pretty. Live you."

Okay, I'm gonna be honest. We both blushed at that point. Gale then took my hand and gently pulled me under the border of 12 and into the woods. Our next stop was a beautiful valley filled with emerald green grass and flowers all of the colours of the rainbow.

"Wow," I whispered. That was all I could manage as I was stunned with the sheer beauty of the place. "Are you sure it's not magic?"

Gale laughed softly at my joke. At least, I hope that he got that it was a joke. Well, there's no magic in District 12 so he must have. Bizarrely, Gale stepped really close to me. The thing he did next really shocked me. He kissed me.

I'm pretty sure I kissed back but I was so surprised and overwhelmed, I'm not 100% sure. We then just stayed together, talking for a while until it hit me.

"Gale, I just remembered something. I've got to go and help Peeta make some cakes." Gale, being Gale, said I should go home and do it and he even walked me up and through the fence then even took me home. I waved goodbye then quickly ran into the kitchen. Apparently, I got there right on time as mom and dad were about to go looking for me.

"Ready to get started on those cakes, Peeta?" I asked. You could see his face light up from a mile away. So I spent the rest of the night baking with my brother. At least it was a good day. Shame about tomorrow, though.

So, did you like the first chapter? I know this will sound really crazy, but I'd planned this entire story out this afternoon while watching a Hunger Games marathon of the first 3. Well, I don't get my username for nothing! 3