Dedicated to Holly, and Courtney. Thank you.

Disclamer: I do not own The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, nor do I own any characters from there.

PS. I hope you feel better Courtney!

Since Rosie had had her surgery in Cali, the Stone family decided to make the best of it. They went sight seeing, and ended up liking the place a lot. In just one week, they decided to move to Cali, officially. Cato was to start school tomorrow.

Cato hated waking up. Everyone was just so damn chipper. When he got to school however, the minute he saw a blonde cheerleader, his face perked up. His mother seeing this, dryly remarked, "I'll have to hire her to wake you up, and not end up looking like a living zombie."

"Now would you really want her in my room, mother?" Cato smirked.

Cato walked to his locker. Girls stared after him, while boys glared at him for taking their girlfriends attentions, nothing that Cato wasn't used to. Smirking at all, and girls would blush, boys would glare even harder. What a joy school was. Not.

After depositing his supplies, he had to go to English. Room 203. He didn't know what room that was, so he simply winked at some girl, and asked her if she could help him out. Same routine, every time. When he got to the room, the freaking teacher just had to make him introduce himself…But, it wasn't so bad when he got to sit to some girl…Glitter? She was some good eye candy.

Catching a ride with some other school bitch, his next stop was Spanish…However when he got in the class, he stopped dead in his tracks. Sitting in the back, talking with some guy, was Katniss Everdeen. They were talking in fluent Spanish, and the guy got a laugh out of her. He was frozen in place, how different she looked without a scowl on her face. Her hair was still in a braid. She was wearing a dark blue shirt and black leggings.

When the bell rang, Cato was five minutes early, Katniss and that guy were still talking, just in lower tones. He narrowed his eyes at them. They looked like they could be related. They both had dark hair and eyes, and they were both lightly tanned. It seemed like they were poking fun at the teacher, or saying something funny, for all the students in the back row were giggling at what they could understand. Then once the teacher called on Katniss. He asked her to repeat what he just said. She replied word for word, she had proved the teacher wrong. He wondered how she knew. He noticed when Katniss, one time, leaned on her partner for support, what he had said was so funny.

Then Cato heard a snippet of their conversation. The boy murmured, "Bet you can't do as many sit-ups as I can."

"Psshh, you needed to lean on me after we each did 500."

"But, do you have a six pack?"

"I bet my one pack is bigger than your six pack," Katniss smirked.

"Oh shut up."

"Ooh, remind me to get you a book of comebacks."

"Ah, sarcasm, such a lost art."

The bell rang, and they laughed. Cato still didn't know who her companion was, and he was curious. Katniss didn't know he was here. Thankfully, the teacher didn't make him introduce himself.

Cato stood in the cafeteria. He was claimed by the same girl from before, apparently her name was Glimmer not Glitter. She brought him to her table, the cliché popular table. There were four girls and three guys. Marvel, Brutus, Gloss, Enobaria, Cashmere, Glimmer, and Clove. They called themselves the Careers. Apparently, they were waiting for a fourth guy, which just so happened to be him. 'Yay for me', Cato thought…'not'….

"Oh Cato!" Glimmer simpered. "I'm just, like, so glad that you, like, came!"

"Yeah, dude. After we got betrayed, it was pretty rough. You know, the school thought that they could resist us, the Careers, after that," Marvel commented.

"As if! That, like, betrayer Finnick, left us for, like, that piece of, like, scum, Katniss," Cashmere hissed.

Clove squealed, "Like, totally!"

"Dude, do you play a sport?" Brutus, cracked his knuckles, eyeing Cato.

But, Cato wasn't paying attention. He was staring at Cashmere. "Katniss?" he asked, his voice incredulous.

"What about her? She's not pretty at all you know, she, like wears t-shirts from, like, Goodwill!"

"Guys, here she comes now!" Gloss broke through.

The lunch doors opened, and Katniss walked through. She was laughing, and she pushed someone beside her. It was the same guy from Spanish.

"Who's that?" Cato queried.

"Oh, that's Gale. He's, like, Katniss's best friend, they both, like, bonded over their, like, dead fathers, or something like that. I mean, like, bo-ring!" Clove separated 'boring' as if 'bo' was one word, and 'ring' was another.

"Yeah, both of their fathers died in some sort of train crash," Marvel put in.

Cato watched Katniss and Gale walk over to another table, only two away from theirs. There was only boys there.

Then Cashmere said, "We should totally like, do something to them!"

Gloss smiled, "Hell yeah!"

"C'mon newbie!" Brutus smirked, "We're gonna kick some ass!"

Glimmer tossed her hair, and led the group over to the separate table. "So Finnick!" Glimmer smiled widely, "How do you like the new group? I mean, like, I didn't know how you could stand being with such, like, low life!"

Clove sniffed, "I mean, do I smell trash, or what?"

Katniss stared at Marvel and raised an eyebrow. "What, princess?" Marvel smirked. "See something you like?"

"Marvel dear, it's my reflection in your spoon," she smirked pointing to the spoon he held in his hand.

"Like, whatever!" Cashmere simpered. "Finnick, you can join us now, or you can forsake our presence forever. Like, otherwise, like bring it on!" She giggled as if she had said the funniest thing ever.

"Oh mi gosh!" Katniss squealed, impersonating Cashmere. "She actually said a sentence without using the word 'like'!"

"Darling," a bronze haired, well built, Finnick paused. "I would love to-"

Glimmer squealed, "Oh, that's like, great!"

"-see you bring your pathetic on!" Finnick smiled brightly at the group.

"Look," a blonde haired boy stood up. "anorexic bitches and steroid takers, please leave this table, because some people are trying to eat!"

"Like we didn't know that!" Brutus cracked his knuckles, and rolled his eyes.

"Wow, do you have to do that every single second?" a dark skinned, tall and muscled guy spoke up.

Clove growled, "Let's go guys. They like, totally disrespected us. They, like, don't deserve to be in our presence!"

Cashmere sniffed, "Like totally!"

But before they could, Gale said quietly, "Oh, but you've already found someone to replace Finnick, didn't you. It's the same guy who-"

He was silenced by Katniss who threw him a quick glare, and continued, "-whom we met in English class. Such a charming fellow!" she sarcastically put in. 'So Katniss knew that I was in English class,' Cato thought. Katniss continued, "It's really too bad you got your claws sunk into his back already…Well, I guess we'll just have to let this one go! By the way Glimmer, being a bitch doesn't suit you…Maybe you should try to write it out of your calendar. Well, by for now, and don't forget to join us next time!" And with that, Katniss turned her back on the careers.