The high school games
Katniss POV
"Guys come on!" Johanna screamed. We ran outside quickly because Johanna isn't one to be messed with when she starts to get impatient. Madge and I squeezed into the front seat of Johanna's sleek black convertible while Delly, Annie, Clove and Glimmer managed to fit themselves at the back. Johanna started the car and all of us started chatting about how the new school year would be like as we drove to school.
"I can't believe we're actually juniors!" Annie exclaimed. "I'm sure it's going to be a brilliant school year"!
Johanna drove into the school parking lot and spotted a perfect parking spot. She started to drive the car into the spot but just as she was turning, a fancy dark blue Mercedes pulled into the spot where Johanna was about to park.
Finnick Odair's famous sea green eyes popped out of the window.
"I'm sorry were you about to park here? We can totally move if you want because you know we're such gallant gentlemen." "Oh shut up freaking Odair!" Johanna yelled cursing loudly. "My oh my that's not very ladylike now is it miss Mason." Finnick retorted smirking. "Relax Jo, he's not worth it." said Madge calming Johanna as she searched for another spot to park.
I looked at all the boys piling out of the Mercedes. There they were , the most arrogant and naïve group of boys in the history of life. I watched as Finnick Odair , Gale Hawthorne, Cato Luvwig, Marvel Romero and lastly, Peeta Mellark, got their books out of the car and walked toward the school.
Suddenly Peeta's piercing blue eyes stared back into mine and I looked away. Peeta was kinda cute… but that didn't matter, I still hated him.
We walked into the school and looked at our class lists. Yes! We were all in the same classes. All of us cheered except Glimmer who groaned. "Aren't you happy we're all together this year Glimmer?" asked Delly confused. "Yes" she replied. "Only, the guys are with us too!" I looked at the list and indeed, all the five morons we saw in the parking lot were in the exact same classes as we were. Now it was our turn to groan. "I wish we were allowed to bring weapons to school." Clove said angrily. "Then Katniss could shoot them and I could chuck knives at them." "And I could chop their heads off with an axe." Johanna said with an evil grin. All of us laughed. "Come on guys." I said. "Let's go to torture land."
When we entered the classroom there were just a few seats left. All were scattered next to atleast one of 'the guys'. Typical . All of my friends went to the bearable seats and started deciding who should have them. In the end there was only one seat left. The one next to Peeta Mellark. Oh great! He just had to ruin my entire life. I sat down praying that he would spare me.
"Hey Katniss" he said tapping my shoulder. "What?" I answered coldly. "Listen, I know you guys think we're real jerks but I'm not actually that bad you know, so do you think we could start afresh?" He asked. His blue eyes shone with genuine warmth and kindness so I nodded. "I'm Peeta" he said. "Katniss" I smiled. "Pleasure to meet you Katniss" he said shaking my hand. I sighed in relief. Maybe the school year wouldn't be that bad after all.
"So, Katniss?" he said smiling. "Yeah?" I answered. "Do you believe in love at first sight, should I walk past you again?"
"Ughghghggg" I groaned angrily. So much for everything being alright. Peeta Mellark was still the arrogant jerk he'd always been.
At lunch all of us sat and compared our torments. Madge and Delly both had to sit next to Gale, who kept tapping Madge and looking the other way. That was bad enough, but the worst part was that he glued the end of Delly's jacket to the seat with superglue so when she tried to get up after class she was stuck and, in the end she had to tear out the bottom of her jacket. Annie and Johanna both sat next to Finnick who kept humming the song 'I'm sexy and I know it' just loud enough for Johanna and Annie to hear .He also stuck a piece of chewing gum in the lower part of Johanna's hair and when she lost her temper and tried to slap him he laughed and said that it was the perfect level for a trim which she desperately needed as her hair was worse than a crow's nest. Cato wrote a limerick for Glimmer, who sat next to him. It went like this:
Hey dudes, the name's Cato
I'm so cool, yeah I'm super greato
This poem's for Glimmer
Coz she looks much slimmer
Since she stopped eating ice cream and tomato
"I mean, when did I ever eat ice cream with tomato! It's totally gross!" exclaimed Glimmer, taking the tomato slices out of her sandwich and putting them on her ice cream.
"Marvel was super annoying!" Clove stated. "He kept trying to tickle me till I got so angry that I took a pair of scissors and stabbed at his desk, barely missing his fingers. All of us applauded her when she said that. "But he still didn't stop" she continued. "He threw a paper plane with a message written on it at me. I looked at the message and it said 'Love your hair! When did you dye it?'
"How was Peeta?" Annie asked me. "As pathetic and conceited as ever." I replied. "He acted friendly at first, and, just when I thought he wasn't too bad he started saying random pick up lines to me. The worst one was 'If people could get arrested for being beautiful, you'd have a multiple life sentence'." They all groaned. "I mean, we know they're complete idiots, but couldn't they act at least a little more mature! We're sixteen, not five!" Madge said angrily. Just then the bell rang for classes. Oh gosh! More Mellarkism !
We walked into class slowly, trying to make the brief peace we had last longer and trying to gather up the courage to survive the rest of the day.