a/n hello fanfiction I'm going to Boston (my fave city) soon so I'll be doing a lot of writing in the car. I would like to acknowledge my first reader (for this story), ohmygodpeeta thanks for reading!

Chapter 1

First Day

Katniss POV

(I'm skipping everything until she's walking to school)

I knocked on the front door of Gale's house and impatiently waited for him to come out. If he didn't hurry up we were going to be late for our first day back to school. After what seemed like an eternity he finally came out.

"Hey Catnip! Ready for the new school year?" he asked cheerfully.

"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" I screamed at him. When we first met and he asked my name I had whispered it so instead of Katniss he heard Catnip. It had officially become my name when this ugly stray cat started following me looking for food. The worst part was my little sister insisted on keeping the cat which she named Buttercup, saying that his gross yellowish color was the same color as the flower.

We joked around as we made our way to the school and got our schedules.

Name: Katniss Everdeen

Grade: Sophomore, 10

Locker #: 20334

Homeroom: 1250, Mr. Haymitch Abernathy

1st Period: History

2nd Period: Science

Locker Break

3rd Period: Music

4th Period: Geometry 2 (a/n I don't know what math class you take in 10th grade)

Lunch

5th Period: P.E.

Locker Break

6th: Study Hall/Free Period

7th: English

(a/n yes I am aware I didn't put any teacher names or classrooms but I didn't feel like it so DEAL WITH IT! Thank you)

As I was studying my schedule I failed to notice that Madge had come over to me to compare schedules.

"Oh look we have Math, English, and home room together!" she said excitedly.

"Cool!" I replied. We quickly went to our lockers and headed to home room. When I closed my locker I saw that my locker neighbor had arrived and recognized the tall, muscular, blonde haired boy without seeing his face.

"Hello Peeta" I said politely. I had only spoken to Peeta Mellark a few times before but he seemed nice and he was District 12. His dad's a baker. He's a junior but that's pretty much everything I know about him. (A/n I know Peeta and Katniss are the same age but it's part of the plot)

"Um, hi Katniss" he mumbled seemingly nervous. I don't know why he would be nervous around me, I'm nothing special. He must have been nervous about the new school year.

Madge and I scurried into home room right as the bell rang but it turned out it didn't matter. We could have danced in late wearing nothing but grass skirts and coconut bikinis and our teacher wouldn't have noticed. We had Haymitch Abernathy for home room. He was a Victor in his day and is a known drunk. We took seats in the back and surveyed the room. Home room isn't really organized in any specific way so there were all grades and all districts there. There was Finnick Odair chatting with a few Capitol girls who were hanging on his every word like he was a genius. I recognized Gloss and Cashmere Tanner, both Victors from 1. Annie Cresta, a junior, was quietly sitting in the back of the room and I could have sworn I saw Finnick looking at her every once and a while. I couldn't help but wonder why there were so many Victors in my homeroom after I saw Johanna Mason, junior, arguing with another District 7 girl. I saw Peeta with some of the other non-Seam District 12 kids sitting in the front. I heard the door creak open and my friend Cinna and his girlfriend Portia walked in. I waved to them and they came over to sit with us. Cinna is amazing; he's one of the only not snobby Capitol kids. He's also an amazing designer. He made me promise to let him design my prom dress next year. Portia is the same way, they design together a lot which is actually how they met.

The bell rang. I collected my books and headed towards History