"Nice car bro!" Cato exclaimed almost giddy over Peeta's Porche 911.
"If you think this is cool you should see Finn's Ferrari, he got it for his sixteenth birthday last year."
Cato nodded stroking the sides of the car.
"Let me tell you something about the people here, their all shit rich. Some act like it, some don't." Peeta said getting into the driver's seat.
Cato nodded opening the door and getting into the driver's seat.
"So tell me about your family" Peeta asks starting the engine.
"I told you everything yesterday, my mother died giving birth and I still don't know who my father is" Cato said leaning back into the seat.
"What about you? You didn't tell me much about your family?" Cato asks.
"My parents died in a house fire when I was nine." Peeta responds backing out of the driveway not really shedding much of a tear or seeming sad.
"Any siblings?" Cato asked.
"Um, I have a half sibling. I don't know if it's a boy or a girl because after my dad got the girl pregnant she left him and moved to Alaska.
This was a year before my parents got married. Sometimes I feel like the only reason my dad married my mom was because they had me."
Peeta said coming clean with the still very much of a stranger sitting in his passenger seat.
"Oh, what about Clove?" Cato asked fiddling with the strap of his navy blue back pack.
"Clove?" Peeta asked smirking turning to the other boy.
"And Annie! Uh, What about Clove and Annie?" Cato asked stuttering slightly and taken back by Peeta's reaction.
"Oh" Peeta replied chuckling at the boy's nervousness.
"Well, Effie is actually Annie's aunt. Annie's mother died when she was three and her father was sent to rehab because he started using after her death." Peeta replied picking up pace.
Cato nodded. "And Clove?" He asked not wanting Peeta to smirk again but people don't really get what they want.
"Clove's parents died in a car crash when she was eleven." Peeta replied smirking.
He nodded slightly frustrated at the other.
"So wear something decent tonight?" Peeta said completely out of context.
"Tonight?" Cato asked confused at Peeta's random change of topic.
"Oh, Annie didn't tell you? Well every year she has a neighbourhood get together.
So she basically calls all the kids near the coast and we just enjoy ourselves and get to know each other, because there are always new kids moving in every year." Peeta said eyes on the road. Cato nodded bored.
"Don't worry, there will be drinks and music and some really hot chicks." Peeta said laughing at his boredom.
"Don't you have a girlfriend?" he asked laughing faintly.
"Hey! I'm not gonna be the one hooking up with them!" he said defensively.
Both the boys chuckled and turned on the radio.
"What do you have now?" Johanna asked slamming her locker and tugging at her tight grey halter top that ran way at the back, and showed too much of her stomach for her to even be comfortable. She paired this with pin striped blue and white micro minis and grey flats.
She then pulled her straight brown hair into a high pony tail. Johanna had a certain style; a style that Clove would never be caught dead in but still respected and liked.
"Math, I think." Madge replied.
Madge on the other hand protested that she would not go outside with Johanna if she continued to wear that kind of clothing, she looked like a prostitute she would say.
The time when Johanna got her navel pierced, Madge didn't talk to her for a week.
Madge would always wear the most decent and frankly boring things.
Today she was wearing a grey tank top with jeans.
Though the one thing that always lit up her boring attire was her face.
She had to be the prettiest girl in school, she had perfect wavy blonde locks, warm blue eyes, skin perfectly tanned.
No one could compete with that.
"You and I have English, Madge." Jacqueline said to the girl sighing.
"Clove we have math, am I right?" Katniss asked walking leaning against the locker next to Cloves.
Jackie and Kat had to be the most normal out of the 'clique' some might call it.
Neither of them had much of a style or a distinct personality but they were both charming in their own little ways.
Clove nodded answering Kat's question.
"Do you have to go to the gym today?" Annie asked Clove.
"um yeah but Peeta's picking me up so I'll be home in time for the get together thingy." Clove replied shoving her books into her bag.
"You guys are all coming right?" Annie asked the girls.
"yes" the group responded in a chorus.
"Oh and listen, when you come could you get the DVD play-"Annie started before she was interrupted.
"And who is that?" Johanna asked pushing the girls aside trying to get a better view of in her opinion a god like structure walking towards them.
Cato didn't miss the group of girls looking in his direction, he winked at them and waved at Annie and Clove.
"You know him?" Johanna said looking at the two girls dumbfounded.
"he moved into Effie's yesterday." Annie replied.
"Oh, Effie's house is definitely going to be our new hangout place." Johanna said smirking at the boy walking towards them very slowly while Peeta kept slowing his pace by making him meet people.
"Wasn't Effie's always our hangout pla-" Annie started before she was interrupted, again.
"Shut up and let me watch him walk." Johanna said shoving Annie.
Annie was clearly offended and pushed her back as the two boys drew closer.
"So this is Madge, Kat, Jackie, Johanna and you already know Clove and Annie." Peeta said pointing at each one when introducing.
They all smiled at him not saying much.
"Kat I'm so sorry! Please talk to me" Peeta started.
Katniss kept turning his face away from his but he found a way to keep shoving his face in front of hers.
Soon Katniss started walking away from the lockers annoyed with Peeta's insistence. But he followed her around like a little puppy apologising every two seconds. Katniss soon got fed up and barged into the girl's bathroom slamming the door behind her. But never the less, Peeta didn't give up.
He was going to stand outside and apologise till the bell rings and she's forced to get out.
The group laughed at the two, this was usual with the couple since Peeta forgot almost every anniversary and Kat would always ignore him for a few days.
"It's Margret, not Madge" Madge said to Cato after the group was done laughing.
"Don't call her Margret, no one does." Annie butt in before Cato could respond.
Madge stomped off annoyed with them.
"Don't worry she'll be fine, she's kind of moody." Jackie said. Cato nodded.
"Where's Finn?" Annie yelled at Peeta who was around thirty feet away near the bathrooms.
"he said he's not coming today because of some swim meet?" Peeta replied.
Annie nodded turning back towards the girls and Cato.
The group asked Cato a few questions here and there, nothing Clove didn't already know.
But she didn't talk a lot, she still needed her answer.
"Hey Clo-" he started "Who's this?" a tall boy asked patting clove's shoulder.
"Oh, this is Cato. He's just moved into Effie's." Clove replied.
"The name's Marvin Tanner" the boy said extending his hand smiling.
"It's Marvel" Johanna corrected him.
"Call me whatever you want" Marvel said shaking his hand laughing.
"Sure" Cato replied laughing a bit.
Then the bell rang. Katniss came out of the bathroom and headed towards her class which Peeta followed her too not caring if he's late for his own.
Clove was thankful she didn't have any classes with Cato since he was a year senior.
She regretted the conversation she had with him in the morning and did not want a repeat until she was sure of who he was.
The day went by swiftly until lunch.
Since it was Cato's first day and he had been hanging with Marvel and Peeta the whole day he sat with them for lunch and as usual the rest of the posy came piling in.
Clove took a seat opposite Cato anticipating Jackie and Kat who were still yet to come.
"Hey Glim! You can come sit here!" Marvel shouted across the cafeteria.
Cato took one glance at the girl and knew she came from money, lots of it.
The girl was wearing a tight pink dress with diamond earrings and her hair was in a side pony tail.
Clove was confused as to why Marvel was asking his ex to come sit with them but soon figured it out.
The rest of Glimmer's posy was caught up in choir practice and ever since she dumped him, he has been trying to get her back.
Plus he didn't want her to sit alone. None of the gang really liked Glimmer, and she gave them no reason to.
She was a bitch, to everyone, especially Clove for reasons Clove didn't like discussing.
But she didn't argue when Marvel asked her to sit with them because he didn't want to seem like a loner.
She took a seat next to Cato and then turned towards him.
"And you are?" she asked Cato seductively.
"Cato, Cato Reed." He replied taking a bite of his ham sandwich. She nodded turning back towards the rest of the table.
Clove just sat there pretty disgusted. If Cato was a rapist, she was hoping Glimmer would be his first target.
"Clove dear, I heard you're going to be training at the New Port gym? I thought it was only for professionals?" she asked sneering.
"It is" Clove replied fake smiling.
"I'd love to see how long you last there." Glimmer replied rolling her eyes.
Cato could sense some tension between the two, and since Cato's well Cato, he was determined to find out.
"Take a break you two!" Marvel said exhausted. Lunch was awfully awkward.
It was only her, Marvel, Glimmer, Annie and Cato, the others had to finish some work so they skipped lunch.
Annie and Clove spent most of the time trying to block out Marvel and Cato's dim-witted conversation while Glimmer just sat there gawkily eyeing Cato and being a bitch to the girls. Clove and Annie got out of the cafeteria as soon as they finished lunch and caught up with the others.
"Why is Marvel making us go through with this? The girl's a whore!" Annie exclaimed rolling her eyes. Clove just shook her head clearly pissed off.
"Hey, so did you see her eyeing Cato?" Annie asked her laughing. Clove shook her head and gave Annie a confused look.
"Well she was, I for one think that she deserves to date a rapist." Annie says spotting Jackie and the other's a few feet away near the lockers.
"he is not a rapist!" Clove replied defensively. "how do you know?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"I just know, you'll see!" Clove replied running her hands through her high pony tail walking faster towards the group.
"Yeah we will see" Annie replied smirking at Clove.
"See about what?" Madge asked as they approached the rest of the group.
"Nothing, where's Kat?" Clove asked looking around.
"Oh um, she and Peeta are in the library? I think she needed to 'talk' to him?" Madge replied.
"Ooooo, that can't be good news?" Annie says chuckling a bit.
"Well, you know them? One day they love each other the next they don't. But in the end we all know their soul mates." Jackie says shrugging and shoving her books into her backpack.
The girls laughed and agreed with Jackie. Clove then made her way to her chemistry class, she sat there listening to go on and on about a whole lot of shit Clove wasn't paying attention too. When the bell finally rang she literally ran out of class and to the parking lot.
"Hey Clove!" Peeta yelled from across the lot, Cato standing next to him.
Compared to Peeta, Cato had quite a build. Peeta and Cato walked towards Clove's car.
"Were gonna be in school for a while, Cato got detention on the first day because he just wouldn't shut up."
Peeta said giving Cato a sigh and laughing a bit.
Clove laughed at the boy who smiled back at her.
"I heard you and Kat hit a bump in the road, again." Clove asked.
"I mistakenly over heard their conversation because they were talking really loudly! And I have found out that no, they have not broken up."
Cato says giving Peeta a look.
"oh I see" Clove says chuckling.
"Why are you staying back then Peeta?" Clove asked raising an eyebrow.
"oh well, um, because when according to some people" he looked at Cato.
"Kat and I were talking too loud, so Cinna gave me a detention." Peeta said shrugging.
"And Kat?" she asked. "All the teachers love her! she never gets detentions! Its not fair!" Peeta says pouting.
Clove laughed. "Okay, so I'll pick you up from the gym when I leave, yeah?" He asked tossing her a bag Effie asked Peeta to give to her.
Clove nods and gets into her car driving off to the gym.
Once she got there she parked her car and enters.
This wasn't the first time she had been here.
She came here often for meets and monthly conditioning, so she knew the place.
She went straight to the changing room and pulled out her leotards.
She greeted a few of her friends she knew from her old gym and headed straight for the stall.
Clove adored the new leotard Effie bought for her. It was a strappy and the base colour was metallic silver.
Though the border was black and it had waves of black and pink running at the sides near Clove's hips.
She wasn't a typical girly girl, but she liked being spoilt too.
Once she finished changing she headed out through the doors and into the gym.
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