Morning, Upper East Siders. Today is brunch. I love brunch, the strawberry pancakes and freshly squeezed juice. But you know what's best? The daily gossip. That's my favourite thing at brunch. Every Upper East Sider put together in harmony. But why do I see a smuggled Lil C in the pack? Get out of there child, you're playing with fire. But on further news, with P sticking with his darling M it leaves K all alone with no one but Mommy dearest to buddy to. Here-here. Where was Big C last night? Word is him and that G was on a raunchy night out. Sorry G. Sucks to be you.

XOXO – Gossip Girl

"Katniss, could you please try a smile for the brunch." Katherine gripped her daughters arm as she stood in the corner watching Glimmer talk with a group of her flock. As she got pulled away she grabbed a glass of juice as they reached the dinner table. "Mom, I don't want to be here. You know that." Katniss muttered sipping her juice.

"Yes, but I'd rather you remove that hope from your head and realise that we are here now and we don't want to attract any more negative thoughts on our family. After your brother then your Father leaving us and my marriage to Haymitch we aren't their best friend right now." Katherine told Katniss quietly.

"What are you two whispering about?" Haymitch asked a drink in his hand as he took Katherine's hand.

"Oh, just the face my daughter can't even try to seem happy." Katherine gave look at Katniss that look her to show some cheeriness.

"Come on dear, your fight with your friend won't be forever." Haymitch patted her shoulder, Katniss moved away.

"For your information, it's more than a fight," Katniss caught Glimmer's eye from across the room, "It's ending, from now." Katniss walked away to sit down.

"Here, have a drink, darling. I need to find my son." Haymitch pecked Katherine's cheek as she sighed. He walked off toward Gale.

"Katniss." Clove run up to Katherine catching her by surprise.

"Clove, what are you doing here? Is your brother here?" Katniss looked around quickly only to be disappointed when Clove answered,

"No, just me. Glimmer invited me."

"Oh?" Katniss asked.

"Yes, of course I had to work for it, I had to deliver some dresses to her house in two hours from the West Side." Clove said.

"God, Clove." Katniss sighed, "What did I tell you?"

"Yes, I know. But let's ignore that for a moment." Clove took her hand and walked to the bathroom with her.

oOo

"Glimmer," Cato walked up to her and her friends who discussed their latest scandal on Katniss and Peeta and what happens next.

"Wait a minute." Glimmer muttered idly carrying on.

"No! Now!" Cato grabbed her arm and pulled her away from her friends stopping by the balcony and walking out with her. It was empty so it gave them time to talk.

"What is wrong with you?" Glimmer hissed pulling her hand from him.

"I know what you did to Katniss! That wasn't nice. Peeta was innocent he didn't need to be dragged into all of this!" Cato argued.

"Yes, he did! And you can't say I'm not nice. I read this morning's blast." Cato's face fell dramatically to a point where his cheeks fluttered red. "Yes, so don't you say that about me again! How could you?"

"No, how could we?" Cato shook his head. We had it coming for doing the same to Katniss. You had it coming. So maybe now I'm worth your time." Cato glared at her. She searched for words as her eyes stung with tears.

"Cato… I never… I understand. We can put this behind us." Glimmer pleaded.

"Maybe." He shrugged before turning and leaving her stood on the balcony. She couldn't cry, she was Glimmer Waldorf. She never cried!

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"What is it?" Katniss asked Clove as they stopped inside a cubicle Clove pulling out her IPad and turning it on. Katniss watching carefully wondering what she was meant to be looking at. Clove finally got an image which was a video.

"This." She lifted it to show Katniss the video. It was very familiar were she was filming it in fact she also thought it was Glimmers bedroom door. Then the camera moved in and through the edge of the slightly open door she saw it. There was Cato on top of Glimmer kissing. "Turn it off."

"What?" Clove move the IPad away as Katniss felt a tear slide down her cheek.

"Turn it off!" She ordered Clove. Clove quickly turned the video of and put the IPad back into her back as fast as she could.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't do it to hurt you. Just to give you easy pay-back on Glimmer for what she did to you and Peeta last night." Clove told her.

"How would this be pay back if it hurts me?" Katniss sniffed the tears back.

"Because it justifies how right you are and how wrong she is as you did nothing bad but got cheated on with your best friend." Clove said to her rubbing the side of Katniss's arm.

"Wait, it's not the first time?" Katniss frowned looked away disgusted at not only Glimmer and Cato but herself.

"Well, we were told not to say but. A few months before you left when you were still officially with Cato it began." Clove told her.

"Oh my god." Katniss put her head in her hands as Clove put her arm around her shoulder comfortingly.

"I'll get rid of it. Don't worry consider it gone." Clove said.

"No, give it to me. This bitch is going down." Katniss spoke through the tears looking at Clove. And slowly, Clove gave her the memory stick.

oOo

KAT: Pete, I know we aren't allowed to see each other but please, come to my mother's show tonight. We need to talk. Urgently. Then it's goodbye.

Peeta sighed standing from the couch catching Madge by surprise, she stood with him frowning as she walked toward him. "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, well, I mean… I need to run an errand for a friend at school. He seemed to have lost his phone at some club so…" Peeta turned to grab his coat but Madge stopped him.

"Can I come?" She asked him.

"No, best not. It's a rough place so… just stay here. I'll be back in a bit!" Peeta kissed her before turning out the door leaving Madge on her own. She let out a sigh and walked over to the counter to grab a apple.

Evergreen Fashion Show.

The Fabulous Mrs. Hawthorne makes me mark on New York's fashion gurus

With her new winter line!

Madge stared down at the leaflet and saw the image of Katherine on it. She knew in her heart that he was going to see Katniss. She just knew it.

oOo

Cato and Glimmer sat beside each other dressed to their best, Glimmer in a long sparkling dress that was studded in emeralds. Cato in a French tux that was gleaming to the lights of the fashion walkway. "I'm glad you agreed to come and put this behind us." Glimmer whispered in Cato's ear giving his a small peck as she did.

He childishly wiped the lipstick from his cheek and turned to Glimmer murmuring, "I never put it behind me." He turned back around but Glimmer stared at him bitterly for a moment or two before the music catching her attention.

"I hope you know, when this is over, so are we." Cato told her.

She tried to hold back to increasing tears that threating to fall past her eyes. But it was hard. She closed them tightly and crossed her arms. Why was she weak to the pain her enforced on her? She opened them to see the flashes of the cameras and the dressed, slim women walking up and down strutting.

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"Mom, one of the models just threw up so I think you should check on her." Katniss told her Mother who fussed over one if her models. Her mother turned around looking furious at what Katniss just said.

"What? Oh god! This can't be! Dear oh dear!" Katherine ran passed Katniss urgently. Katniss stood in nothing decent as her Mother did. Just casual tight jeans and a loose lilac top with her hair brushed back into a lazy bun. But her Mother and everyone were dressed up to the nines. It made her feel under dressed and pathetic.

"Katniss." She turned to see Peeta stood behind her.

"Peeta!" She gasped and pulled him into a hug sending his stiff. She knew it meant that hugging wasn't a good idea. She moved off him and sighed.

"I came, what did you want?" Peeta asked her miserably.

"Listen, yesterday was unfair and stupid. But we can move past that right? I mean… she can't just do that and get away with it!" Katniss said to him.

He rolled his eyes and answered, "She can, Katniss, she is a Waldorf."

"No. That doesn't mean anything to me." Katniss told him looking at the techs who work the lights and music.

"Oh yeah, cause you're a Everdeen and I'm just a Mellark. Thanks for reminding me." He muttered stopping her in her tracks.

"What? What is wrong with you? Are you deluded! I was insisting that! Why are you trying to argue with me, because it's easier to cut me out then?" Katniss asked him.

"No!" Peeta yelled.

"Then what is it, Peeta? You still hate me for that night? I have three words for you, 'Get-Over-It'." She snapped at him.

"I can't!" He shouted at her.

"Why?" She shouted back.

"Because I still love you!" Peeta hissed catching her and everyone by surprise. She felt her cheeks flush and looked away.

"Um… we better get ready. Mike." She looked over to tech who nodded and turned the video on for her. She looked away from Peeta. She was risking a lot here but it was what she must do.

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Glimmer frowned at the music stopped and the models ran off stage clearing the stage so people could see as a video came on. "Is this meant to happen?" She asked Cato.

He shrugged, confusion on his face as well, "I don't know."

"Wait…" Her eyes widened as the video of her and Cato appeared on the screen causing everybody to let out a gasp. She stood and marched on the stage, Cato chasing after her embarrassed by the eyes watching them.

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"What are you doing?" Glimmer screamed at Katniss as she marched back stage pushing the models out her way. Cato stopped behind her looking as angry as Katniss's mother was when she ran on to the stage to apologise.

"Destroying you." Katniss screamed back at her walking toward Glimmer, Peeta stepping forward to manage the situation.

"How dare you! That is a private tape and is too far Everdeen!" Glimmer pointed at the screen furiously her arm shaking.

"No! What was a step to far was getting an innocent trapped in a crossfire like that! Peeta and Madge did nothing to you! I deserved yesterday but he didn't!" Katniss shouted.

"Woah. I don't want to be part of this but… that's true." Peeta said.

"That's what I thought." Cato mentioned.

"And you! How could you do that to me?" Katniss shook her head.

"Do what? That was last week after you left me remember?" Cato frowned.

"No… it was months when we were together wasn't it?" Katniss asked him.

Glimmer looked at Cato wide eyed as if to warn him not to admit it. But Cato had a conscience, everyone knew that. "I'm sorry. Yes. That's true." Cato sighed.

Glimmer closed her eyes tightly as her voice croaked from the tears raging in her eyes. She refused to let any drop for Katniss.

"Who told you?" She asked Katniss. "Who told you!" She screamed out.

"Gossip Girl." Katniss lied. As Glimmer opened her eyes she knew Katniss was lying. Katniss could tell she knew too by the look she gave her.

"God. I shouldn't be here. I'm sorry but I have to go." Peeta muttered walking off.

"Peeta!" Katniss called him but he shook his head.

"This was a mistake… all of it. I shouldn't have come." He muttered before leaving them. They looked at each other.

"You took yourself down too." Glimmer felt a tear run down her cheek. "I mean, lost him and me and nearly everyone. Ruined your mothers night all because of a stupid fight."

"Yes, rub it in, G." Katniss muttered.

"I'm past that now, K. It's getting too much. I can't do this anymore without you knowing what happened when you left me. Because then we forget and it's pointless." Glimmer sniffled, "You disappeared and I had no one. I needed you the most and you just left. I understand you didn't want that life anymore and you felt depressed but. You could've told me."

"I couldn't you were too interested in screwing my boyfriend and taking me over." Katniss shook her head, a tear escaping her eye.

"I was selfish. I didn't know, K. You should have told me! I would've of stopped in a heartbeat! It was because you had everything that I wanted and I was too damn blind to see." Glimmer looked down at the floor. "I pushed you away when you needed me the most! And… that's what hurt. You never said goodbye."

"I couldn't, G. Not to you. It would've broken my heart ten times." Katniss let out a small sob. She could sense her mother walking in on them but there was nothing but silence.

"Talk to me, please, K." Glimmer looked up at her holding out her hand. Katniss looked around. She was right, Glimmer was right. She had lost everything and returned to her old self in a week of being back. Ruined her Mom's night. Ruined Peeta and Madge's relationship and Peeta and her friendship. Got Clove in future trouble and made a mess of herself.

"I can't." Katniss ran out, Glimmer ran to go after her but Cato stopped her.

"Let her go." Cato told Glimmer, "You owe her that freedom."

Glimmer sunk to her knees crying and sobbing. She wanted her friend. She didn't cry for nobody. Unless it was Katniss. She, to her, was somebody.

I smell victory, but was it in G's place or K's? Nope. It was in the place of Lil C. Congratulations Lil C you conjured your first level of bitchiness. Manipulating and helping the enemy? Good job. Your officially 'insider'. As for the remains, K and G of course, rumour has it amends were made but left unmade. Where's our it girl run too now? Let's hope it's not on the next train to cowardice.

XOXO – Gossip Girl