Love and The Hunger Games don't mix

by laurennnlee01

Clove, Cato, Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Madge, Rue, Thresh, Annie, Finnick, Glimmer, and Marvel are best friends and in relationships! . However, their high school is having their own Hunger Games, and they're all in it! Only one school will win, and they're competing against 3 other schools with the same number of tributes. Will they make it out together...or maybe not at all?

1. Curse you, Principal Higgins

CLOVE'S POV

I wake up to the sound of my phone. Someone just sent me a text... let me see who it is...
Oh, it's Cato, my boyfriend.

CATO: Hey clover
ME: It's Clove, not the stupid herb plant thingy...
C: How are things with your dad?
M: Not that good... He took me by my hair last night and threw me across the room... My back has a scar now because it scratched against the floor a little too hard...Didn't look 2 good.
C: U sure u ok?
M: Yeah. C u l8r
C: Love ya
M: Who doesn't? Love ya 2

Then I remember... it's the last day of school. I quickly put on a shirt and a pair of skinny jeans. I head downstairs for breakfast, and I receive another text message. I take out my phone. Weird, the text is from school...

PRICIPAL: Hello, fellow students. We, H. Dixon High School, will be having our own Hunger Games. Since everyone is so absorbed in it, we will be choosing these following people from 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.

Clove Anderson/ 10th

Katniss Everdeen/10th

Peeta Mellark/10th

Finnick Odair/11th

Rue Lawrence/11th

Annie Crestar/11th

Cato Diamond/12th

Gale Hawthorne/12th

Thresh Vince/12th

Madge Glithens/10th

Glimmer James/11th

Marvel Indigo/12th

We will be competing against another school. Only one school will win. Happy summer break!

I let the words sink in. That wasn't possible. Was it?
Being in charge of 23 people's deaths would be an awful lot of paperwork...
I eat some pancakes for breakfast and hear the doorbell. Was it Katniss or Cato? Didn't keep track. Sometimes Katniss would send me, Rue, Madge, Glimmer, and Annie to school in her convertible. But twice a week, we would walk to school with our boyfriends. Sounds awkward, but, seriously, we all only live houses away.
I peek through the window. It's Cato. I open the gate and walk out. He greets me with a light kiss and a 'hello'.
"Hey, Cato."
"Hey, babe. Did you receive the fuckin' message from the school this morning?"
"Yeah, I wanna kill Principal Higgins. I mean, we don't even get to choose who are the tributes. She knows we're all best friends and stuff. It's just for her and her damn entertainment, you know?" I put my head on his shoulder and he slips his hand into mine until we reach school.
"Love ya. See you at... Math, right?"I ask.
"Yup. Bye!"
"Bye!"