Hey people! Hope you like the second chapter. This chapter is in Peeta's POV. It's about what the guys were talking about at lunch. Please review. Criticism is also alright, it means you bothered to read the story! N I could understand how to improve the story too.

P.S If I did own the hunger games I wouldn't be posting this on a fan fiction site. I would get it published as part of the story! …. Or maybe not

Chapter 2

Peeta's POV

"So how was it with Madge, Gale? Did you ask her out?" Marvel asked enthusiastically. Gale shook his head sadly. "I just chickened out." He said. "I kept tapping her to ask her but then I got extremely nervous so I just looked away. All of us patted him sympathetically. "The rest of us didn't have much luck either." Cato told him sadly.

"Man, these girls are tough nuts to crack!" Finnick exclaimed. "I mean , I can even charm Lindsay Lohan till she falls head over heels in love with me, but I can't get Annie to talk to me at all except out of annoyance !"

"Clove totally hates me and I have absolutely no idea why." Marvel told us. "I tried to talk to her but she kept snubbing me, and when I sent her a paper plane note saying that I loved her hair and I wanted to know when she had dyed it, she came to me and threw the note at my face!"

"You actually wrote that?" Cato asked, surprised. "And I thought the poem I wrote for Glimmer was bad!"

"I don't get it guys! According to 'the sacred book', all the ways we have been using so far, except for Marvel's of course, should make the girls go crazy over us." Finnick stated as he reached into his duffel bag and pulled out a copy of '101 WAYS TO WOO GIRLS', which was decorated with hearts and 'my little pony' stickers, and set it on a deep purple cushion in the middle of the table. "You know guys, we have already tried almost two thirds of the methods mentioned here and none of them have worked." I said thinking. "Do you think the book might be containing some um, you know, misinformation?" All of them gasped in shock. "Never question the knowledge contained within this heavenly object!" Gale said angrily.

Suddenly Cato jumped up in excitement. "What happened?" asked Finnick. "I think we should read another chapter of the book!" he said beaming. "You're absolutely right." Gale agreed. "Let us now choose a reader."

All of us tore small pieces of tissue paper and wrote our names on it. We gave the pieces to Gale who put them in Marvel's hat. All of us then held hands and Gale began to chant. "Oh! All the great girl charmers in this world. Tom Cruise, Elvis Presley, Zac Efron, Christopher Columbus….." "Christopher Columbus?" all of us asked in disbelief. Gale shrugged. "He's an adventurer. Girls like that." "Gosh, let's just continue already!" I said impatiently. Gale's hand dived deep into the cap and resurfaced clutching a tiny piece of paper. "Peeta Mellark!" he cried triumphantly. "Way to go Pete! You get the honor of reading way 72!" Finnick said happily, thumping me on the back. I dragged the cushion toward me and opened the book carefully, taking care not to damage it in any way, and opened it to chapter 72.

Way 72: it said. Act in a way completely different from how you want to act toward the girls. Below it was an elaborated version of the way but we never bothered with those.

"Well that's easy!" Cato said. "We want to act loving and sweet towards the girls, so we act rude and bossy towards them." All of us nodded our heads in agreement. Just then the bell rang and we got up to go to class. "So are we going to get together after school today?" I asked. "I have wrestling practice, but we can meet up after that." The others all shook their heads. "Cato and Marvel have spear throwing practice and I'm going hunting with my grandfather" Gale replied. "And my uncle's dropping by today so you know what that means! More trident lessons!" said Finnick ecstatically. All of us stared at him. "Umm Finnick, don't you think you're kind of taking the Percy Jackson thing a bit too far now?" asked Cato. Finnick had been obsessed with the 'Percy Jackson' novels for months, and when his uncle mentioned that he knew how to throw a trident, Finnick begged him to give him trident lesions. He was absolutely amazing at it too. Finnick would make a brilliant Percy Jackson if they ever decided to make a movie on it. Oh, wait! They already did. Damn. I remember watching it on DVD with the guys. Finnick was screaming like a girl every time Percy came on screen. Well, Logan Lerman was a pretty awesome Percy Jackson.

"Peeta!" Marvel said shaking my shoulder and interrupting my daydream. "Let's go to class or we'll be late!"

All of us walked to class and sat in our seats as Mr. Heavensbee, the English teacher, entered the class. "Hello students!" he chirped brightly. "Today, you will pair up with the person sitting on the seat beside you and together you and your partner will write a book report of the book 'To kill a mockingjay'.

Katniss looked at me and sighed. "Let's just get this over with", she said in an irritated voice. "So you tackle the first half and I'll write the second half and then we'll fit it together somehow, okay?" she asked. "Whatever." I replied in my best 'bossy and attitudy' voice. She raised her eyebrows, surprised at my answer, and then looked away in disgust. "Yes the book worked!" I thought happily. "She's totally into me!"

Hope you liked it! By the way , I am a huge, HUGE fan of Peeta, Finnick, and Cato and I don't mean to insult them at all. I'll probably write one more chapter on just their high school life, before I plunge into the main plot. Please tell me if you liked this chapter and if there is anything I can improve in the story.

Thnx for reading!