YAH! I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS CHAPTER! WHY, YOU MIGHT ASK? BECAUSE KATNISS GOES TO SCHOOL AND GUESS WHO IS THERE! **COUGH-PEETA-COUGH** ALSO, I'LL BE INTRODUCING SOME MORE CHARACTERS AND PRIM GOES CRAY-CRAY! ALSO THIS IS AFTER THE WEEKEND SO IT'S MONDAY IN THEIR WORLD.
LOTS OF FUN IN THIS CHAPTER! :D
ALL SUZANNE COLLINS!
I braid my long dark hair and check my outfit for school. Plaid button-up shirt and shorts. I'm good.
"Prim, five minutes!" I shout from the bathroom.
"Got it!" Prim yells back. I head down the hall to the kitchen and clean up mine and Prim's cereal bowls. I go back down the hall to Mom's room and knock. When she doesn't answer I let myself in.
Mom is still in bed. "Mom, are you driving us to school?"
She moans and rolls over. "I don't feel all to well." She replies.
"Mom. Seriously?" I sigh and lean on the door-frame. "Please?"
Mom stays silent.
I don't want to have to do this, but she is making me. "Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mother. Mother. Mother. Mother. Sarah. Sarah. Sarah. Sarah. Moooooooooommmmmmmm."
"What!" Mom sits up straight and grabs her glasses off her nightstand and puts them on.
"Can you drive me and Prim to school. It's hot outside." I tell her.
Mom plops back into bed. "Kat, I'm sick. I called the office and said I don't feel well so I'm not coming in."
"Okay. We'll walk." I say and under my breath, I mutter, "Like always." I go to Prim's room and open the door without knocking. Prim doesn't mind, though. "Are you ready? We got to go."
"Yep!" Prim grabs her backpack and we head out to the hall.
When we get to the sidewalk Prim grabs my hand. We don't always walk. Mom usually drives us to school on her way to work and we walk home. We only walk to school if Mom is working early or, like today, she is sick.
Prim and I go, technically, to the same school. We are on the same campus but we are seperated by a fence with two school buildings on either side. Panem Elementary School and Panem Middle School. I drop Prim off at the elementary school entrance and head over to the middle school.
I am not late. Praise the Lord. I go over to the lunch tables where everyone hangs out before school. My usual group of friends is Madge Undersee, of course. Johanna Mason, we've been friends since kindergarden, Clove Cresta, she is nice but a little obnoxious, And Tarissa Quinner A.K.A. Foxface, my favorite ginger and nobody knows her real name except for our group, her parents and I guess the teachers but I've never heard one teacher call her Tarissa.
We always sit at the luch table closest to the gym because it's farthest from the other tables.
I perch myself on top of the table next to Johanna. "Oh my God! Johanna, your hair is actually curly!" I say in surprise.
Johanna sighs and bats at a tawny curl that is flopping in front of her face. "Lauren borrowed my straightener and 'accidently' broke it in half. Right down the middle." She makes air quotes around 'accidently'. Lauren is Johanna's eleven-year-old sister who is extreamly devious. She even scares me sometimes.
"Why'd you let her borrow it?" Madge asks.
"Good question. She said, 'Johanna. Dearest, beautiful sister. May I pretty please with sugar and cherries on top borrow your straightener?'" Johanna bats her eyelashes and flips her hair from side to side in impersonasion of her sister. Then she sighs, "I really wanted to say no, but I knew she would just sneak into my room and steal it. So I thought, why not?"
"That child is posessed, I swear by it!" Clove says.
Johanna pulls at her curls. "I can't get a brush through my hair with out tearing a chunk out."
"Johanna you have the prettiest hair when it is naturally down and curly. I would do anything for your hair." Foxface assures her.
This makes Johanna snort. "Yeah, I would love your straight hair, even if it does make me a ginger."
"I have curly hair. I don't straighten it everyday." Madge says and pulls her curls over her shoulder.
"Yeah, but your is more soft while Johanna's are like phone cords." I say. Then I turn to Johanna, "Want me to braid your hair or something. It'll keep it out of your face." Johanna nods so I take a hairband off my wrist, I have like twenty so It's good, and set to work.
"Do the Dutch braid. You know, the one that starts at one end of the head and ends at the other." Clove tells me.
"Or the waterfall braid with feathers. I like that one best." Foxface says.
"Whoa, new kid." Madge grabs my chin and turns my face in the direction of the school's office. I see a flash of blonde curls and the door closes.
Clove shrugs. "Nice face but too blonde for my taste. I'm into burnettes."
"Only because you are one." Foxface says. "I like blondes." She looks across the yard to stare at Marvel.
"Paws off, sweet-heart. Glimmer's been all googley-eyed on him since preschool." I tell her.
She sighs. "You're right, The Plastics would ruin my life if something like that were to happen."
The Plastics, who we affectionatly named after our favorite slumber-party movie, Mean Girls, are top of the top when it comes to popularity. Glimmer Halloway and Cashmere Allecker are the Queen-Bees while there are a few Wanna-Bees who trail behind. The Wanna-Bees stay for awhile until they relize their attempts are worthless. One has stayed faithful since fifth-grade when it all started who is named Enobaria Karena Zdenilwa.
I have, sadly, known Enobaria since kindergarden. She was normal then. She had light brown hair and dark brown eyes. Then in thrid grade, when everyone, even the people you're closest to, start to see your faults and hate you, was when Enobaria became an outcast. I don't exactly remember how it happened. I guess after her only friend, Lavinina left and the everyone started to blame everything on her. It's a sad story. She cut her long hair short and only came to school twice a week.
Lavinia came back in fifth but she was different, too. She wore glasses and collared shirst. She was labled 'nerd' and hung out with Wiress and Mags. So Enobaria started to hang around Cashmere and Glimmer all the time. On the outside, you'd think they all were best friends but if you see them talking to each other, they are cold and hatefull towards Enobaria who takes it without a care.
Sorry for the long flashback moment. But everytime I hear 'The Plastics' all these thoughts run through my head.
"Brainless, snap out of it and finish braiding." Johanna tells me. I finish her Dutch braid quickly. Johanna runs her hand over her hair, careful not to mess up her braid. "What about you, Kat. Got any crushes."
I shrug. "No, wait yes. Josh Hutcherson." We all sigh as a mental image of Josh Hutcherson appears in our thoughts.
"He's hot. But... You know how I feel about Cato." Clove says.
"Eww! Gross, that boy will give you every disease possible. You don't want Cashmere's left-overs." Foxface whisper-shouts.
Clove laughs. "Maybe." Then she turns to Madge. "Madge?"
"What? Oh, um... Gale." She lets out a small laugh.
"He has abs. I saw them at Johanna's Fourth of July pool party." I tell her.
"Hey guys." Foxface says and her blue eyes light up with excitement.
"What?" We all say in unison.
"Okay, guys this is crazy serious- oh! Look, a butterfly." Foxface gets distracted like a kitten. It's funny.
The bell rings and we head to our classroom and line up. Waiting for our teacher, Ms. Coin.
Clove taps my shoulder. "You watched the new Walking Dead, right?"
"Yeah," I say. Me and Clove watch Walking Dead all the time. Best show ever.
"Annie and Finnick wanted to watch some stupid romantic movie or whatever. So I couldn't watch it last night." Annie is Clove's big sister who is nineteen. She's is very nice and she is dating a bot named Finnick. Clove sighs. "Could you fill me in?"
"Okay," I am about to start but Ms. Coin calls us into the classroom.
I sit at my seat and listen to Ms. Coin drone on and on about our schedule today. "We have a new student," Is the only things that doesn't come in one ear and out the other. It stays rattled in my brain.
Mrs. Trinket pokes her head through the door and in her scratchy annoying voice annouces, "The new student is here."
"Bring him in." Ms. Coin says in her monotone voice. The door opens wider and guess who walks in. The boy Prim scared in the elevator. I slouch down in my seat and hope that Cato's fat head will hide me from view. "Class, this is Peeta Mellark. He is our new student. Say hello, class."
"Hello." The class says awkwardly.
Peeta smiles in a shy way and keeps his eyes on the door. He is nervous.
"Peeta. You can take the seat in the back next to Katniss." Ms. Coin says.
What? Who is this Katniss you speak of? There is no empty desk beside me. What is this crazy lady talking about? He walks down the aisle, ignoring the stares.
I'm glad I'm not in the back row by myself. But I share the back row with Cashmere, Marvel, Gale and one no longer empty seat. I guess having more people in my row makes it less awkward. I hate awkwardness.
Peeta sits down in the desk beside me. I pretend I don't notice. I'm actually surprisingly good at this.
I pull out my math notes and half-way listen to Ms. Coin's lecture about blah-blah-math-blah-blah.
The whole class almost jumps out of their seats when we hear a very loud, but distant, scream. Afew minutes later, Mrs. Trinket yanks open the door. "Katniss Everdeen. You are needed immedietly in the Elementary School. It's about your sister.
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I'M SORRY FOR ANY MISSPELLINGS. ALSO, I MADE CLOVE AND ANNIE SISTERS BECAUSE I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT ANY OTHER WAY TO ADD HER INTO THE STORY. ALSO, I LOVE THE WALKING DEAD! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT DOESN'T COME BACK ON UNTIL OCTOBER! I KNOW IN THIS IT IS AUGUST BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD IN MY FAVORITE T.V. SHOW THAT ISN'T A CARTOON.
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