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Chapter 1

-Clove's POV-

The sunlight unceremoniously shone through my window as if telling me that my window as if telling me that my eyes were to be blinded and head clouded by today's events. I needed to hurry so my mother wouldn't barge in and wake me up, it's easier to awaken on your own in situations like this.

Today was my first day at Capitol High.

I would be shoveled in with about a hundred other boys and girls my age expected to thrive off of paper-cuts, drama, and mystery meat. Fair enough.

I threw on a black tank top with blue jeans and darkened boots that my sister had handed down to me. I wasn't a girl who was obsessed with fashion so I usually went simple but thoroughly brushed my hair so it had some bounce to it. Slipping on a black roped necklace with a silver broken heart on it's end, I have myself on last glance in the mirror and noisily clomp down the stairs, not caring if I wake my sister Jessy.

"Hi Clovie!" My mother exclaims as she flips a pancake like the pro chef she is, a brith smile on her face.

"Hey mom." I respond dryly as I slump down at the kitchen table.

"Are you excited for your first day of school?"

"No."

She scrunches up her face as she prepares to temporarily scold me.

"Awww Clovie, your gonna love school! Didn't you say your friends Jackie, Katniss, and Annie were gonna stick with you throughout the year? You've been best buds since first grade."

I shrug thinking of my three friends. Like my mom said, the four of us have been BFFS since we all walked in together by coincidence on the first day of first grade. Jackie with her sly attitude and fiery red hair, Katniss with her outdoorsy skills, and Annie with her sweet yet bewitching nature.

We always seem to tag along with a group of boys considering Annie and Katniss's boyfriends are part of it. The guys are named Finnick Odair, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne, Marvel Quaid, and Cato Morgan. We're all the best of friends.

I haven't seen the boys in awhile, though I don't forget them. They're a rather vague part of my hectic memory though.

"Here you go, sweetie." My mom says as she sets down a plate of pancakes with chocolate chip eyes, a banana nose, and a whipped cream smile.

I cringe as my stomach does a flip, I've lost my appetite. Can't eat anything that looks like a clown or even looks AT me for that matter.

"What's wrong my little Clovie?"

I glance up at my mom with a heavy look in my eyes. "Nothing."

"Okay. Better not miss your bus!" My mom glances at the kitchen stove's digital clock. "Oh lord better to wake up Jessy!"

As my mom runs up the stairs I hear my bus pull up outside and grab my black backpack with the skull keychain on it that jingles when I walk. I sling it over my left shoulder and head for the slim double doors that fly open in front of me, making me jerk backwards in surprise. It's still early and I'm not 100% awake yet.

"Clove!" Jackie cries as she snaps her head upwards, Katniss and Annie quickly follow suit with smiles on their faces.

I plop down next to Jackie and she puts an arm around me, smiling as we look across the aisle at Katniss and Annie in the opposite dull grey bus seat.

"Have you talked to the boys at all, Clove?" Katniss asks.

"No, I miss them. Kinda." I respond halfheartedly.

My brunette friend is lucky, of course she's talked to Peeta over the summer because she'd be a terrible girlfriend if she didn't. We swerve around a corner causing Annie to fake a fall into the aisle dramatically as we laugh at her. Oh how I've missed these girls.

After recovering from our laughing fit, Jackie decides it's time to get down to business. "So Clove have you missed any of the boys especially?" she says slowly as she carefully pokes my forearm but she can just cut the crap right now because I know what she's getting at.

"Jack, stuff it. I haven't had any contact with Peeta, Gale, Finnick, Marvel, any of them!"

All three of my friends stare at me with ravenous and sly eyes, which Jackie has undoubtedly mastered. "What's up you three?" I groan as I stretch out as much as I can between the cold wall and my auburn haired friend.

"You forgot to mention someone!" Annie taunts in a sing song voice.

Crap, big mistake Clove. These girls pick up anything and everything that I say like they carefully analyze every single word that comes out of my mouth.

"Cato okay! I forgot to mention Cato!"

"Does this mean you SAW him?!" Katniss gasps. "No! Don't jump to conclusions!"

The three of them are now clutching their stomachs laughing as I cross my arms and fume. It's been a running gag apparently that Jackie, Katniss, and Annie think I have a crush on one of the boys and they've been trying to find out forever. The three of them, like I said, are so in tune that they even picked up the fact that I coincidentally left out Cato.

"Okay okay that's enough! We don't want to embarrass her!" Annie gasps between breaths. "Too late." I cut in which only makes them laugh more.

This is basically the plot for the entire bus rude to school, only their cackles get older and older with each passing second and I'm relieved that we're finally pulling up at school. The various cliques scattered around the courtyard are the first thing I notice as we pull into the bus lot. Cato and the boys are popular and so is Katniss so Jackie, Annie, and I just usually hand around them so the popularity will rub off on us. There's one girl who will always have the power though:

Glimmer Dimandis. This girl is the classic blond bombshell with curls in her hair and makeup on her face along with miniskirts in the wintertime, that's sure to come soon. There's always been that one thing about Glimmer that rubs me the wrong way and that's how she tries to act like an angel around teachers and boys but really she's a demon in disguise. As it plays out in most stories, the mean girl gets away with it all.

"Clove!" Jackie's voice snaps me back to reality, we're the last two on the bus which means Katniss and Annie are probably waiting outside.

"Sorry Jack, kinda got lost." She smiles and helps me up.

As we walk off the bus I see my hunch was right as my other two other friends get up from the grass they were sitting on to meet up with Jackie and I.

"C'mon, Peeta told me that the guys and him were out front sitting underneath the overhang near the school's main entrance." Katniss relays the plan to us as she stares at her texts from her boyfriend.

I can already feel the goosebumps brewing on my skin and I haven't even seen the boys yet but still I'm quite nervous considering that I haven't seven them in a couple of months over the span of the summer makes me clammy. Have they changed? Do they still like me? Do they even remember me? This'll be fun.

I tune back to reality to hear Annie telling a story of how her and Finnick joined swim club over at Colorfield Country Club during the summer. Annie and Finnick were always doing stuff like that together but I wasn't jealous or anything, how stupid would that be? The thing I was most envious about was that I've never been to Colorfield and I heard it was petty nice.

The girls at this point seemed more awake than I did. Katniss was leading us around the campus like we were lost little ducklings, Annie was cheerfully bouncing around and talking to herself with wide eyes, and Jackie was carefully examining a summer science project she had assembled in the three months, but me on the other hand, I was like a zombie.

"Annie!" A voice joyously cries from nearby. As we look over we see lucky Mr. Odair walking towards us.

"FINNICK!" Annie screams as if she hasn't seen him in centuries. The poor guy obviously wasn't ready for the full blown force of Hurricane Cresta because she literally jumped on top of him, making him topple over like a lego house.

"Oh lord!" Jackie laughs. "You two good?" Katniss asked cautiously as Finnick slowly tries to stand up which must've been hard considering Annie was wildly kissing his face as he tried to stand.

"Odair'll be fine, Catnip, don't worry." Gale's voice comes into play as him, Peeta, and Marvel walk up to assist their previously attacked friend, Finnick didn't seem to mind much though.

I've always admired how much Annie and Finnick love each other, ever since fourth grade too.

While holding Peeta's hand near-possessively, Katniss conducts a minuet long secret handshake with Gale. Jackie and Marvel find this rather impressive and try to do it themselves but you know when the auburn girl's head ends up in the boy's armpit, they have failed.

"Jeez Marvel! Ever heard of deoderante!?" Jackie spat as she purposely mispronounced deodorant to make it sound spanish or something.

I watched all the action from a few feet away, trying not to come across too eager to get caught up with the boys but it seems like we didn't even need to catch up. We just picked right up where we last were three months ago on the last day of school. Now comes the full on regret of not communicating with the nutty guys over the summer. What was I thinking? Isolating myself so I only had Jessy to hang with!

I met up with Katniss, Annie, and Jackie, about two times over the summer for swimming and a mall day but mostly in was just texting between us.

As I find myself drifting into la la land for the tenth time today but a cutting familiar voice pulls me back onto the campus of Capitol High.

"Heya Clovely, whatcha been up to?" Cato smirks as he puts his heavy hands on my shoulders, potentially scaring me. I whip around, flying free from his grasp, and look at him standing there.

"Cato! Don't scare me like that!" He laughs and says: "Clove, your just too easy."

Before I can spit an insult back I hear a peal of laughter from behind us as I see the rest of our friends laughing and pointing at us like we're zoo creatures.

"It's great we're all getting reacquainted for the school year!" Peeta smiles cheekily as he squeezes his girlfriend's shoulder affectionately.

Cato and I maturely stick our tongues out at each other, obviously in a playful manner considering we're all friend's here and he called me 'Clovely', his cutesy little nickname for me sorta like how Annie calls Finnick 'Finny'. Except Cato and I aren't dating and Finn and Annie are they're actually in love and Cato and I aren't and okay this is very different. STOP CLOVE.

So we're mostly just a bunch of normal high school students stuck in my useless la la land, my make believe dreamscape, my life that hasn't even started yet. I glance at the doors that lead to the lobby of Capitol High. My life officially starts once I walk through those doors.

No pressure Clove.

Done the first chapter! If I get that burst of adrenaline, chapter two will be up sometime this week! PLEASE REVIEW IF YOU READ! Thank you! ~PurpleKittyFangirl