Oh God, I feel so bad I haven't updated in Forever! This is no excuse but I just want you guys to know that I want to do this story justice by being factually correct to the film and making it fun to read so a lot of work goes into watching scenes from the film and then me trying to put them down on paper. I really love doing this so please don't give up on me, I going to try to add another chapter tomorrow or Thursday so watch this space!
I would also like to say that I decided to set it in the 1950's like the film and so there will be things like teenage drinknig and smoking, and I am In no way endorsing smoking or drinking at a young age I just want to be as i said before factually correct to the film/time period it was set in. Also the characters may be a bit OOC, if anyone doesn't like that they don't have to read it :)
Disclaimer: I do not own the hunger games or Grease, unfortunately :(
Chapter 3
Katniss P.O.V.
Out of all the schools in the area he had to go to this one. I want to be angry, which is totally not right as he did nothing to me, I after all was the one that didn't tell him I was staying in America. But, I'm not mad at all, all I feel is joy. Joy that I am seeing Peeta right there in front of me.
"Wh- what are you doing here?" He asks, I laugh, giddy with the excitement of seeing him.
"We had a change of plans! My Mum got a job here." I say and he smiles, actually I think a grin is a better word to describe it. Then his smile falters and a cocky, arrogant one takes its place. He looks around at his friends and starts to laugh,
"Well that's cool honey, you know how it is." He looks at his friends, and laughs. I can't believe this is the same Peeta I met a few months ago he is just so different.
"Peeta?" I question. He and his friends crack up laughing.
"That's my name, be careful don't want to wear it out." he jokes again, I force back the tears and continue to question him.
"Who are you? What happened to the Peeta Mellark I met in the summer?" I scream. He continues to laugh with his friends and I start to remember why I wasn't going to let him into my life in the first place.
"I don't know, maybe there are 4 of us, try goggling my name?" he laughs and turns to his friends to receive high fives. I scream in frustration.
"You're false and a sham and I wish I'd never met you!" I scream and run off before he can see the tears.
Peeta's P.O.V.
Why the hell did I do that?! What kind of shit was that Mellark?! I just embarrassed the love of my life in front of everyone. Errugh, I love my friends but sometimes they can be complete jerks and I turn into a jerk when I'm with them. I can't believe I hurt her that way, I never thought I would hurt her. I'm still laughing, when Katniss is screaming that she wished she never met me. It hurts beyond belief to hear her say that but she has a right to I've been horrible to her. She runs off and I know it's so she doesn't have to cry in front of me. Annie follows her, but Clove, Delly and Johanna stay where they are. Clove and Delly give me dirty looks but Johanna still has that unnerving sly look in her eyes. After a few minutes of standing in an uncomfortable silence, Johanna stalks off Clove and Delly following suit. As soon as they are out of sight Gale and the others burst out laughing again.
"You my friend," Gale says slapping me on the back, "Are a legend!" Then all the others chime in, saying how funny it was and how cool I was. I can't stand to hear it any longer I walk slightly forward and try to block them out. I scan the crowd trying to find the direction that Katniss went in, I really need to apologize. Unfortunately I can't see her and the guys are shouting at me to hurry up because they want to go. I walk back to the car and jump in. Gale looks over at me and rolls his eyes.
"Don't look so sad Peet, she's just a chick." He says, I want to scream at him that she was not just a chick but I know better than that so I just mumble something and he leaves me alone. He looks over at me again a few minutes later and sees me still sulking,
"Oh for God's sake Mellark, look Jo told me they're all going to a sleepover to night at Annie's house, we'll go over their later and you can apologise to your little girlfriend, okay?" He asks, and I nod. Now I just have to prepare how I am going to apologise to Katniss, who is fully prepared to kill me.
Katniss P.O.V.
I run until I can't breathe. I lean against Johanna's car and I cry. I cry until there are no more tears to shed. Not long after I reach the car, Annie joins me. She rubs my back and whispers soothing words. I push myself away from the car, turn around and sit down against the car; Annie slides down the car and joins me on the floor. She hands me a tissue.
"This summer was the best, he was so nice to me." I sniffle,
"Look at me Katniss." Annie says sternly, but edged with a soft tone,
"Men are vermin, no worse than that; they're even too disgusting for even a fox to bite! You know the only man a girl can truly trust in this world is her dad." She says handing me another tissue, I look up at her and give her a sad smile.
"I lost my dad in a lab accident when I was 12." I say, she returns my sad smile,
"Well then I guess I'm going to have to be the only one you can trust now." She says, and I genuinely smile,
"Annie is that your way of asking me to be your friend?" I ask.
"Yes I suppose it is." She replies and I smile and she knows I have accepted.
"You know what you need?" She asks and I shake my head.
"To have a night with the girls, the others are going to a sleepover at mine after the pep rally, want to come?" She asks and I nod. She smiles, pulls me to my feet and we jog off to find the others.
"Haha look at Delly!" Jo exclaims, as she catches Delly pulling silly faces at the advert on TV.
I sit in the corner of Annie's room, I feel immediately intimidated by Johanna, but Clove and Delly are being friendly, but that could be because they feel bad for what happened at the pep rally. I feel really out of place, I'm wearing my floor length white night gown, I love it because it is comfortable and covers everything nicely however the others don't seem to be as pure as me and are less covered up. All Jo has on is a shirt and a pair of knickers, Annie and Clove are wearing nice flow-y tops and frilly shorts and Delly is wearing a sweat shirt and pyjama bottoms.
Jo and Clove throw to stuffed toys on Annie's bed at Delly and tell her to turn it off. Jo looks around clearly bored and then her face perks up like she's just remembered something.
"Hey hand me a cigarette." She says to Annie, the others chime in too and she takes one out the packet and hands a cigarette for each of them saving one for her-self. I watch them light up and try to hold back my cough. I'd never been one to try smoking my mother had always told me never to touch a cigarette. Just as I was hoping they wouldn't offer me one, Annie asks if I'd like one.
"No thank you, I don't smoke." I try to sound firm and polite, but it comes out just as pathetic as it sounded in my head.
"You don't?" Annie, Clove and Delly shout, shocked in unison. Jo cackles,
"It won't kill you, try one!" She says and so against my better judgement I tentatively reach out and pick a cigarette from the packet. Annie lights it for me and I put it in my mouth. My first instinct is to gag and then consequently violently cough. Jo laughs,
"Oh no, I forgot to say you shouldn't inhale until you're used to it." She says, her voice dripping in sarcasm. I hand the cigarette back to Annie and she stubs it in her ashtray. Everyone sits silent for a moment after my embarrassing first try at smoking, then suddenly Jo's face lights up again.
"I know!" she exclaims pulling out a brown paper bag, "How about some of this stuff to get the party going?" she says as she pulls out a bottle of wine from the bag. Delly snatches the bottle from her hands, and Annie rushes to close the door, presumably so her parents won't hear us. Suddenly, an uneasy feeling comes in my stomach. They're going to get me to try some.
"Wow, look this is imported from Italy!" Delly exclaims. Clove and Jo snatch the bottle back and take it in turns to take giant swigs straight from the bottle.
"I brought some cookies, I can share them if you want?" Delly says,
"Cookies with wine?" Clove questions, "That's real classy!"
"You get desert wines!" Delly retorts.
I sit there uncomfortably, tugging at my night-gown. Jo's mischievous eyes scan the room and land on me, her un-nerving smile settling into place. She picks up a magazine off Annie's bed and uses it to slap Delly round they back of the head.
"Hey, Katniss didn't get any wine!" She says. I knew this would happen I knew they were going to offer it to me, oh god I don't want to drink it, I'll just have to try and politely decline. Not that it worked last time.
"Actually I'm okay thanks." I say shakily,
"You've never had a drink before either, have you?" Jo chimes in.
"We don't have cooties Katniss!" Delly says as she shoves the bottle of wine in my face.
"That's not true, I had some champagne at a wedding one time." was the first response that came out of my mouth and now I deeply regret it. I sound like such a naive idiot. To stop myself looking more like an idiot, for the second time today I give in to peer pressure, grab the bottle off Delly and take a big swig. The taste is vile but I am determined not to let my disgust show, I finish my mouthful and shove the bottle back in Delly's direction.
"Oh Katniss!" Annie exclaims, "Would you like me to pierce your ears for you?" Jo, Delly and Clove burst into fits of laughter, obviously doubting their friend's beautician abilities. Oh god, this sleep-over is turning into the sleepover from hell. I swallow nervously, I can't say no can, I look she's so happy. Oh what am I going to do? I decide on a safe answer.
"Don't you think that's quite dangerous?" I ask Annie,
"Oh not at all!" She beams, "I'm going to become a beautician you know!"
Jo smirks "What's the matter Katniss, are you scared?"
"No I'm not!" I say defensively. Clove picks up a pin off Annie's bed side table.
"Here An, you can use this!" She says as she hands over the pin.
"Oh this is perfect!" Annie says, panic begins to set in, and I run off a string of flimsy excuses as the pin nears my earlobe.
"Oh come on An, my mother won't like an- OW!" I screech. Annie's face goes dark.
"Um Katniss, follow me to the bathroom, my mom will kill me if we get blood on the carpet." She says it calmly but there are panicky undertones. Normally I can handle a bit of blood, just not when it's my own, the panic subsides and a sick feeling is replaced in my gut. She pulls my up and leads me to the bathroom that is connected to her bedroom.
Jo's P.O.V.
"Annie, I'm not feeling too good." Katniss says as Annie leads her to the bathroom.
"Don't worry, it'll only bleed a little bit!" Annie sympathises.
I can help laughing, "Don't worry Kat, if she messes up, she can always style your hair so you can't see your ears." I say, Annie shoots me a look and closes the bathroom door. I take another long swig of wine as we hear Katniss' screams from the bathroom. Suddenly Annie pokes her head round the door asking for some ice cubs, I'm guessing she is going to try and numb princess's ear lobes. I don't think she needs to though; her head already seems to be quite numb if you ask me. Clove comes up the genius idea of just shoving her ears under the cold tap and Annie retreats back to the bathroom. Clove shows us her silk dressing gown that her boyfriend in the marines brought back for her. She shows us a picture, turns out she has more than one boyfriend if all those pictures were anything to go by.
"Guys!" Annie says as she bursts out the Bathroom, "Katniss threw up; I did the first ear she saw a bit of blood and then blergh!" She exclaims.
Delly Chuckles "I'm never letting you touch my ears!"
"Yeah well, you're not the one that's been accepted to beauty school!" Annie says.
"You mean you're quitting Rydell?" Delly asks, shocked. Annie shrugs.
"I don't like to think of it as quitting; I just think that it's a good career move!" She says as she gets Katniss' toothbrush. I stalk over to the dressing table and pick up a long, mahogany coloured wig off the table. Annie opens the bathroom door slightly and hands Katniss her toothbrush.
"I'm sorry An, you must think I'm a right pain!" She says,
"Oh don't worry about it Katniss." Annie says as she re-joins us. Thanks to little old Katniss this night has been a complete drag! I think everyone could do with a little laugh and I know the perfect thing that will get them laughing.
"Eurgh, little miss perfect makes me feel vile!" I grumble as I put on the wig I picked up earlier.
"Ohh look at me, I'm Katniss E! All Pureness and Virginity, I'm not going to sleep with someone until my wedding night, I can't I'm Katniss E!" I say in a sickly sweet voice. The others begin to giggle and they each pick up a wig from the dressing table.
"Watch it!" I say as I push Delly on the bed, "I'm just like Doris Day, I wasn't brought up this way, I don't like to drink, or to swear, I don't even rat my hair, and I get sick from one little cigarette!" I continue as I flounce around the room pretending to be Katniss. I run over to the pictures on Annie's wall and take up my act again.
"And you Troy Donahue, I know what you would like to do, but I'm no object of desire, I'm just plain Katniss E, Elvis, Elvis, please leave me be and keep you pelvis away from me, I'm just plain Katniss E!" I was fully prepared to go on, however the girls had gone suspiciously quiet and Clove was discreetly trying to point over her shoulder at something. I whip around and see that Katniss has returned from the Bathroom. She looks at me and humiliation is clear in her eyes. I quickly rip off the wig and toss it aside.
"Were you mocking my Jo?" She says, hurt deep in her voice,
"God no!" I exclaim in what I hope is a sincere voice, "Some people are just really sensitive!" I say sarcastically under my breath. Although I'm sure they all heard it.
Thanks for reading! Please review and let me know what you think, if you like the different P.O.V.s, etc. :)