I walk into the cafeteria with Glimmer and go into the lunch line for burgers and fries. After we both get that, we head over to get a drink and walk over to a secluded lunch table, made up of about 3 tables already half full. "Hey everyone!" Glimmer says in a loud voice. "This is Clove." She points at me and I wave the all say hey and she says "Ok this is Rue (who is sixteen), Foxface, Thresh, Gloss, Gale, Finnick, Johanna and as you already know Marvel. I sit between Rue and Glimmer. "Rue, explain how things work here at NYCA." Glimmer says.
"Well here everyone has a clique. We are the popular clique, but, not that popular. Over there are the Jocks that aren't with us, and then there are the losers, idiots, glee weirdoes and the other cheerleaders. Are enemies are the other popular group." She points to a table. "That is Katniss (the leader of the group), Annie, Madge, Peeta, Delly and Leevy." Two new people come sit down with us. One is Cato. "Hey Clover." He says.
"It's Clove." I say with my annoyed tone.
"Sorry, Clove" He puts emphasis on the "Clove" part. "This is Cashmere." He motions to a very pretty blond girl who could be related to Glimmer. My stomach does flip flops, maybe because I have a slight crush on Cato and also because that girl is really pretty and Cato likes her I can tell. "Hey Cashmere." I had a forced smile.
"Hey Clove!" She gave me a toothy smile and a wave, maybe she wasn't bad. The rest of lunch I talked and got to know the rest of the people I learned that Finnick has a crush on Cashmere too and Marvel likes Glimmer. Foxface and Thresh are going out as well.
The rest of the day went like a breeze. Katniss gave me looks like daggers but I always had someone to talk to. I got to know Cashmere, Glimmer, Rue, Foxface and all of the boys pretty well. Soon enough it was time for detention. Glimmer is going to meet me at my locker. When she got there she said "I know you like Cato?"
"What?" It probably would be less obvious if I hadn't started to blush." Ok, I do but it doesn't matter he probably likes Cashmere." At this she burst into hysterics.
"You think he likes Cashmere?"
"Yeah he looks at her adoringly."
"YEAH BECAUSE SHE IS HIS SISTER!" She keeps laughing and I vaguely remember Cashmere saying something along the lines of "My brother treats me like I am so much younger than him, he was only born seconds earlier." But I was to distracted by the board to hear her. Now I feel relieved and like an idiot. Glimmer keeps laughing as we head to detention in the gym. I worry because this will only give me a hour to get ready for the dinner. We head in and Marvel and Cato are already there along with Cashmere and Rue. "What did you guys do?" Glimmer asks them.
"Played a prank on the teacher." They high-five. The detention teacher walks in and says, "Today you will be cleaning gym mats." We all groan. "Here are your gloves and sponges and sprays. Great this is not going to be fun.