Disclaimer: The idea to writer this story goes to Darco-Harry-Lover1 who wrote the original story Revenge is best served cold. I loved that story and all credit goes to her! She is amazing writer and I admire her story and her as a writer so much!


Katniss and Cato are seated at a table in the back of the classroom, as the other students move around to try to find a partner. Katniss sees Delly and Madge pair up, and Glimmer ended up pairing Annie and Johanna paired up with some dude named Thresh.

Katniss avoids talking to Cato by getting up eagerly to get the list of topics for their French paper. Katniss makes sure to swish her hips to make sure she has Cato's full attention.

'She notices a couple of guys staring at her, including (to her displeasure) Gale Hawthorne. As Gale stares in her direction, Katniss gives him a glare. She picks up the papers and she quickly returns to the back of the class. When she returns to Cato, he's eyeing her in a shocked way, his mouth slightly open. His eyes traveled down her body, taking in every inch of her. Katniss scowls and ignores him, sitting down.

Cato smirks, raising his eyebrows. "You should look a little more thrilled, Everdeen. You are partners with Cato Ludwig after all."

Katniss scoffs, pushing the paper towards him. "I shouldn't have agreed to this. You might pass me your stupidity." Katniss says shaking her head and rolling her eyes.

Cato just chuckles. "I knew you couldn't resist me."

His eyes settled on her glossy lips, as she bit her bottom one. "Please. I wouldn't kiss you with my cats lips." Katniss says reframing from vomiting. Katniss takes off her leather jacket, displaying her tight blue spaghetti strap crop top. She notices Cato's eyes travel down her body. Before biting his lip hard. He cleared his throat. Katniss's lips curved upwards.

"Is there a Problem?" Katniss asks innocently.

Cato grabs his paper. "W-what? No problem at all." His eyes were basically glued to her body. Luckily the push up gave Katniss more cleavage, something she usually lacked.

Deciding to give Cato a little show, she leans down and places her jacket neatly on to her backpack, making it only too easy for him to stare down her shirt. Katniss straightens up to look at him. Cato visibly swallows and his eyes darken. All Katniss does is smirk, arching her back slightly and tossing her pin-straight hair over one shoulder. Cato just watches this movement with great interest.

"Everyone quiet!" Madame Jean-Aux announced from the front of the room. "I want all of you to talk to your partner and get to know each other better! I will come around to give you guys the topic your essay will be on." Katniss groans, causing Cato to chuckle, with amusement.

Katniss crosses her arms, glaring at Cato defiantly. "Well there's nothing I want to know about you." Katniss says coldly.

Cato raises an eyebrow. "Fair enough. I'll just ask questions about you then." Cato states with a smirk evident in his voice.

"Wonderful." Katniss says sarcastically as she examines her pen.

"What is your family like?" Cato asks curiously.

"Fine." Katniss says shortly.

"Your life?"

"Fine."

"Friends?"

"Fine."

"Sex life?"

Katniss chokes on air and Her cheeks grew hot as she stares incredulously at Cato. "Excuse me?" Katniss finally says.

"You heard me, Everdeen."

Katniss's eyes narrowed. "Non-existent."

Cato smirks with his eyes glinting. "I Knew it."

Katniss resists the urge to smack him across the face. Instead, she huffs at him angrily. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"You just seem so...innocent, cute stuff." Cato says winking.

Katniss's face turns pink. "Do not call me that." Katniss says scowling.

There was a smile playing on Cato's face. "You're a feisty little thing, aren't you?" Cato says biting his lip.

Katniss continues examining her pen. "So?"

"Nothing. It's cute." Cato says chuckling.

Katniss glares. "Well I'm about to get very cute then!" As Madame Jean-Aux went around to each group, Katniss notices Cato staring again. Katniss wonders if she should flirt with him. Sure she looked good, but insults wouldn't get him to fall for her. Her eyes met his, and she swallowed nervously. They were a blue icy color she hasn't noticed before.

Katniss smiles smugly. "Take a picture, it will last longer."

Cato blinks confused. "Excuse me?"

Katniss giggles, glancing mischievously at him. "Nothing…" She was going to have a lot of fun with this, knowing full well the power she had over him. Katniss slowly crossed one leg over another, placing her black-painted nails on her bare leg. Cato's face colored slightly, and he shifted in his seat. He looks a bit flustered as Katniss started playing with the hem of her shorts.

"Don't think I don't notice you staring."Katniss says watching Cato look at Her.

"I wasn't staring. I'm just surprised that Everdeen actually has a body underneath those clothes." His voice lowered. "And a very nice one at that…"

"Mmm, so you like my body?" Katniss questions attempting to flirt.

"I'd like it a lot better if it was a little less covered" Cato flirts back.

Katniss's eyes grew cold. "Well think again, Ludwig. Is sex all you consider in a relationship? If so then I think I can do better than a wannabe-jock, who thinks money can get them anywhere, and a Player who use girls like napkins." Katniss says with venom evident in her voice.

"You…you flatter me, Katniss."

"Well It's true!" Cato looks taken aback. He frowns. She saw a flicker of something in his eyes that she couldn't quite name, before she could figure it out, it was already gone.

"Well I can do better than an annoying, nerd, who dresses up like someone she's not." Cato replies apathetically. He didn't even look angry, his face devoid of emotion of any sort.

Katniss was insulted. She looked down, taking a shaky breath. Even getting along with Cato was going too be much harder than she thought. Sadness washes over her. She hates Cato.

Katniss realizes that she was going to get nowhere with Cato if all they did was fight. She takes a breath.

"Cato…I'm sorry." Katniss says trying her best to sound sincere.

"Don't be." Cato says shrugging. Still very apathetic. "You were just telling the truth." An almost pained expression crossed his face.

Katniss meets his eyes and her eyebrows lower. "I'm sorry…I really am. I think you're a lot more than that."

Cato sits up slightly, his eyes widen a bit. "You do?" Cato asks quietly.

'Crap Everdeen think fast.' Katniss twirls a lock of hair around her finger, smiling. "Of course I do." Katniss says trying to sound convincing.

Cato gave her what looked like…was it a smile? No, it couldn't be. "What do you like about me?"

'Crap. Crap. Crap.' "Um…"

Luckily, Madame Jean-Aux appeared at their table. "You two are following the rules, correct? Only speaking in French?" Madame Jean-Aux asks looking at the two suspiciously.

"Oui oui!" Katniss announced, with a grin.

Madame smiled.

"Well, you two are the last pair I have. Luckily, there's still two topics left."

"What are they?" Maya asked, as Miles looked disinterested.

"Property and school lunches." Madame tells them.

Katniss's heart almost skipped a beat. "Oh."

Cato scoffs. "School lunches? That's a dumbass topic."

Madame looks at him, warningly. "Was that appropriate language Mr. Ludwig?"

Cato gives her a fake-sincere smile. "Of course not." He turned to Maya. "I think we should write the essay on Poverty."

Katniss takes a shaky breath. "I…um…but…the school lunch thing doesn't have too be bad. Like, we could make it cool."

"There is nothing remotely cool about uncooked meat and hardened pears." Cato says rolling his eyes.

Katniss looks down. The last thing she wanted too be thinking about now was her father, but it was almost impossible not to. She willed herself not to cry. She couldn't. Not in front of Cato, and the class.

She looked up at Madame Jean-Aux, smiling. "Poverty it is then!" She says in a hollow voice.

As Madame left, Cato's eyebrows lowered, as he looked confused. "Hey Everdeen…Are you okay? You look like you've seen a ghost."

Katniss sits up, taking another breath. "I'm fine. But why would you care?" Katniss says impulsively.

Cato sits back in his seat, shrugging. "I don't. So where are we going to work on this essay?"

Katniss shrugged. "I would say my house, but I wouldn't want you contaminating it. How about the library?"

Cato smirked at her. "Library it is, cute stuff."

"Don't call me that!"