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The sunlight shines through the open window of Mellark's Cafe. Peeta squints through the sunlight and looks at the clock; its big hand and small hand both pointing at twelve. Peeta realizes it's noon and leaves a set of dough to rise. He claps his hand, getting rid of the flour, and checked his phone on the counter. It shows a message from Marvel. "This guy should just transfer schools," he says, infuriated, and reads the message. "I'm a few minutes from your shop. I'll be there in a few," the text says and he replies with a simple okay.
He removes his apron and dusts of the flour coating his hands. He takes a small cup from the cupboard and gets some water from the tap. He drinks it slowly as the door opens revealing Marvel. Marvel shows a small smile at Peeta and goes over to the counter.
"I'll take a decaf coffee and a cinnamon bun," he smirks arrongantly to Peeta who just rolls his eyes. He takes what Marvel ordered and gave it him. "Here," he hands Peeta the money. "Can we talk?" Peeta nods and they head over to a seat.
"Look man, I'm really sorry about Katniss," Marvel says and takes a sip from his coffee.
"I'm not the one you should be apologizing to," Peeta says.
"Look, I didn't mean what I said to Katniss," Peeta eyes him cautiously and he raises an eyebrow. "I'm very impulsive," Marvel tells him, and he nods, shocked.
"Well, you better tell that to Glimmer. She was pretty upset," Peeta informs Marvel. It's true. Glimmer was pretty upset.
"I know man. I just want a second chance with her," Marvel tells him and eats the cinnamon bun with one bite.
"Wow, you're chewing that like it's your job," Peeta says in shock.
"I'm just really hungry," there's a pregnant pause between them until Marvel speaks up. "Any ideas?" He asks.
"On what?" Peeta tells him, confused.
"On how to get back with Glimmer. How I could make it up to her," Marvel says to Peeta who gives it some thought.
"You know what, I think I know just the thing," Peeta tells him with a mischievous smile.
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"Argh!" Glimmer shrieks in annoyance as she brushes her unruly hair. She gives up trying to comb her hair and sighs. "That's the last time I'll ever use that hair spray," she mutters under her breath and looks at herself in the mirror.
What she stares at is the least of what she is expecting. Instead of the pale girl with blonde hair and with dark mascara and red lipstick, she sees the opposite. She's beautiful, she thinks. Instead of pale face, she sees a girl with a light coloured skin tone and red cheeky bones. Her cheek bones are noticeable in her face, she only realizes now. Instead of dark mascara, she sees a light shade of blackish brown on her eyebrows and someway, somehow, it makes her eyes even more beautiful than it seems. Her lips which is usually oily from the red lipstick she wears, is now a pink coloured flawless lip without any match.
"You always were beautiful," She hears a voice behind her. Glimmer turns back and is surprised to see a new and a first that her line of vision will ever come to see. It was her father.
"Thanks," Glimmer mutters lightly and sweetly as the father walks over to her.
"I'm sorry Glimmer," This took Glimmer for a shock because her father is usually too drunk to even care if she's alright. "I know I've been a horrible father to you. It's just that ever since your mother died, I can't take it," He says.
"But why-,"
"Why take it out on you?" Her father continues for her after cutting her off. "You look like your mother," he tells her. "The blonde hair. The high and reddish cheek bones. The lips which looks endearing. The only thing that isn't your mother is your eyes. Those are mine," he tells Glimmer and grazes her cheek.
Glimmer was speechless. For the first time in her life, her father has actually said something from the pit of his heart. It wasn't forced or even because her father was drunk, it was really from his heart. Glimmer could tell whether her father was lying, and no doubt about it, her father is not lying.
"You want me to drive you to school?" Her father asks her and switches the light in her room. Right now, Glimmer could really see her father. His dark chocolate coloured hair. His tall and slender figure. His blue eyes which seems out of place. Everything.
"Sure," Glimmer smiles at him and grabs her bag.
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The drive was silent. Until now, the soliloquy of her father is still in her head. She still doesn't know what made her father open up to her like he has never done before. Glimmer ponders on this and decides not to push the topic. She has her father now. Even if it's abrupt, she realizes how much she really needs her father. She grasps the thought that all those time she was looking for a boyfriend, she was really looking for someone to take care of her. Her father has never taken care of her, now she doesn't even feel the need to have a boyfriend. Turns out, her need for a boyfriend was rooted from her father who has not given her any love when she was young. Ever since her mother died, her father has been crueler. Now, she doesn't even know what made her father confess, but she decides not to ask anymore.
They reach school in a few minutes. She looks at her father who smiles at her.
"Here, some lunch money," Her father tells her and hands her some bills. She was never really given lunch money personally. It was usually just left at the counter for before she leaves for school.
"Thank you," She says and kisses her father on the cheek. She opens the door and walks towards the doors of her high school.
She hears the car's sounds as she walks towards her school. She walks by and immediately everything goes quiet. She notices everybody staring at her and decides to not let it get to her. She walks to the gates of her school where kids are still staring at her with wide eyes. She goes inside the gates and walks to her locker where she sees a rose with a note pinned to it.
"I'm really sorry. Please forgive me. Please go to the gym at four to tell how sorry I am, -M," The note said and Glimmer shook her head.
"I don't want this anymore," she mutters under her breath and throws away the two objects. She then takes her few books with her and heads over to her first class with Annie and Clove.
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"Did you see Glimmer today?" Clove asks Annie who was doodling on her notebook.
"Huh?" She asks, being knocked out of her daze. So far, she's drawn a sun with a huge goofy smiley face on it with rays that looks like pasta.
"She's so pretty," Clove tells her and sits beside her.
"Clove, I already know that she's pretty,"
"Annie, there's something different with her. She seems so natural," Clove says and takes out her book just as Glimmer goes in the classroom.
"Hey Glim!" Annie says and gestures for her to sit beside her. Glimmer sits beside her and she shows them her book.
"Hi Glimmer! You look really pretty," Clove smiles at Glimmer and she tucks a stray hair from her face.
"Thank you," she says just as the teacher goes in.
Their teacher, Mr. Bell, entered and started to write a long equation on the board.
"Okay, so the quadratic formula states that x is equal to the negative of b plus minus the square root of b squared minus four a c all over 2 a and..." Annie tunes him out and starts doodling again.
She can't wait to go back to Finnick. Unfortunately, Finnick was chosen to represent at the swim meet. He'll compete against other schools in a lot of different swimming events. She doodles off without interest in the lesson and she realizes that she has drawn a miniature ocean. She hasn't even realized that she changed pens.
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Marvel is fidgeting uncontrollably at his seat.
"Bro, will you calm down, you'll do fine," Cato assures him and he settles down for a while and starts fidgeting yet again.
"I can't. I'm going to sing in front of the whole school. What if she hits me or if she's still mad at me. She didn't even bother to throw the rose and note well. It was just near the trash. She doesn't care," He yells the last three words and Cato slaps him.
"Snap out of it! She'll love you. We'll make sure of that," he says and gestures to him and Peeta.
"Yeah man, just sing your heart out later," He says and reads a message from his phone. "I have to go, Katniss says she needs my help with something," he says and leaves.
He jogs towards Katniss' location which was at the cafetorium and he spots her immediately. He walks over to her and sits beside her.
"Hey," Peeta says and Katniss looks at him, teary-eyed. "What's wrong?" Peeta asks, his eyes knotted in confusion.
"I got a D on my math test," she says and Peeta snickers. "It's not funny!" Katniss tells him.
"I know it isn't but why are you crying?" He tells her and wipes a stray tear away.
"I'm not allowed to date if I don't maintain at least a B average. My parents asked me to take a break from dating," she says and her words strikes Peeta like a knife.
"Why?" Peeta asks her, with the water works threatening to spill from his eyes.
"I'm not allowed to date, simple as that, but I told them, I'll do my best to make it higher," Katniss informs him and he wraps his arms around Katniss' waist. He kisses Katniss' forehead and mutters in her ear.
"I love you. I'll help you, I promise," he tells her and he looks at her eyes. When their eyes meet, there's still that spark that was lit a few months ago.
"I love you too," Katniss says and they kiss passionately. But not too passionately, not unless they want a detention, which is another bad thing for Katniss' case wherein she needs to get at least a B in her grade which is like a ninety in numbers.
They break off the kiss and Peeta smiles. "Let's go, Marvel's performing for Glimmer," he says with a smile and they walk to the quadrant where Marvel will sing his heart out. At least, that was what Peeta hoped.
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"No Clove, I won't watch!" Glimmer yells at Clove and locks her cubicle in the washroom.
"Please!" Now it's not Clove's voice but Foxface's.
"No! Not after what he did to me," Glimmer yells at the two of them and she sits down and waits until the two gives up. But that wasn't the case.
She's surprised when the doors immediately opened.
"How'd you open that?!" Glimmer demands in shock.
"Magnetism. Never fails," Foxface smiles and tucks in an object which looks like a magnet. Before Glimmer knows it, she's being hauled away by the two to the quadrant.
Glimmer fidgets and fights though thanks to Clove, she doesn't get away. She is pinned to a chair and is forced to watch Marvel on stage. A crowd gathers along the huge area of the quad and Glimmer tries to move, but fails. Marvel holds an electric guitar and in front of him was a microphone.
The light dims and he walks forward.
"I'm really sorry Glimmer. Please forgive me," he says and the music starts. It's "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing" by Aerosmith.
"I could stay awake just to hear you breathing
Watch you smile while you are sleeping
While you're far away and dreaming
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender
I could stay lost in this moment forever
Where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure
Don't wanna close my eyes, I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you baby and I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you the sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you baby and I don't want to miss a thing
Lying close to you feeling your heart beating
And I'm wondering what you're dreaming
Wondering if it's me you're seeing
Then I kiss your eyes and thank God we're together
I just wanna stay with you in this moment forever, forever and ever
I don't wanna close my eyes, I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you baby and I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you the sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you baby and I don't want to miss a thing
I don't wanna miss one smile, I don't wanna miss one kiss
I just wanna be with you, right here with you, just like this
I just want to hold you close, feel your heart so close to mine
And just stay here in this moment for all the rest of time
Don't wanna close my eyes, don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you baby and I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you the sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you baby and I don't want to miss a thing
I don't wanna close my eyes, I don't wanna fall asleep
'Cause I'd miss you baby and I don't wanna miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you the sweetest dream would never do
I'd still miss you baby and I don't want to miss a thing
I don't wanna close my eyes, I don't wanna fall asleep
Yeah, I don't wanna miss a thing"
Marvel stops singing and Glimmer walks over to him. To his surprise, Glimmer slaps him, and kisses him, in front of everyone.
People start to join in. Starting with Peeta and Katniss. Figures. Foxface thought. She looks to herself and sees Clove already kissing Cato.
Foxface sighs as couples around her starts to kiss.
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