CHAPTER TWO

Katniss' POV

I could feel his stare, but I didn't want to look. I waited until he looked away to talk to some girl, from his fraction probably, before I took a good look at him. He was tall, muscular, had blonde hair and was really good looking.

I started to turn away, before he realized I was looking at him… but too late, he caught my eye for just a second. So I gave him a cold, not-so-friendly smile before leaving for my room.

"Dinner is at 6:30 sharp, so don't be late!" Effie called after me.

"Okay!" I shouted back to her but not really meaning it.

I hated this place; the only reason I'm here was so that my sister didn't have to be. But since I'm from District 12, we're on the twelfth floor, which means I have to ride the elevator all the way up. I stepped into the elevator, thanking god I had it all to myself, but just as the doors were about to close someone stuck the hand in the way and opened the door again. GREAT! I thought now I'm going to have to ride in this thing with other people.

The door opened wide enough for me to see two people waiting to step inside. The girl from district two and the boy who had been staring at her. The boy's face flushed as he realized who was inside.

Cato's POV

DAMN, I thought as I saw who was in the elevator. It was her. As Clove and I stepped in she moved as far away as she could in the small space. I turned and saw Clove shooting her daggered looks.

"Clove, stop!" I said.

Clove turned and said with tons of cold acid, "Why don't you get a room."

My face burned red as I looked to see what the girl's response was to all of this but she just looked confused as ever. I was surprised to see that she didn't get it.

"The names Cato and yours?"

She looked at me like I was holding a gun, "Katniss," she replied.

Katniss. Katniss. Well that was a name I would not forget. The elevator dinged bringing me back to reality. It was our floor. As Clove and I stepped out I turned and said, "Seeyalater."

Cato's POV

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock. I rolled over to see the time, 6:30. What? Who set the alarm so early? Wait, I had training.

I rolled out of bed, got ready and headed to the elevator. I was greeted by like twenty other people trying to get downstairs for training. There was a lot of pushing and shoving to try to get in, that I just gave up and went to look out the window to wait for the next elevator. Most people had gotten on and those who didn't just waited… that was when I noticed that Katniss was among them. She was arguing with a boy smaller than me, probably from her district.

I sauntered over just as they were finishing. The boy turned and looked at me like I stole something from him. I glared at him.

Katniss stepped in then and said, "Cato this is Peeta, he's from district twelve, he came here with me."

Peeta, "Hey, what's up?"

I was surprised by how friendly he was all of a sudden. Just a moment ago he was shooting daggers, now he was playing nice. It was too good to be true.

"Hey, I'm from district two…"

I realized after that what I had said probably sounded dumb, but then again I never said the right thing when I was around Katniss.

I was saved by the buzz of the elevator as we stepped on. When we reached the basement/training room floor, I said goodbye to Katniss and walked over to where Clove was standing. That was when training began.