I woke up early in the morning, one day later, to my brother poking me. His only chore in this house is to find a way to wake me up for school in the morning. He even gets paid for this.

I groan and push his hand away from my body, hoping that he'll just leave me be.

"Jasmine, get up," He pokes me again. "Jasmine, get up," He keeps repeating over and over again before I eventually give up my fight. I throw my covers off me and get out of my bed. Jake smirks at me and then retreats into his room.

First I go into my bathroom to quickly take a shower. Then, I find my flat iron and straighten my hair because my hair is a complete mess. My brother knocks on my door once again.

"Twenty more minutes, then you have to go open the bakery for dad," He throws me the keys. He exits my room again hurrying to finish up. I quickly put together an outfit and slip it on. I put my laptop into my bag, and head downstairs to the kitchen. Jake gets his skateboard to use for transportation. Hopefully when I get my own car, I won't have to walk to school anymore. Walking isn't a bother for me, but if I'm late I have to practically run to school to make it on time. When I get into town, I walk to the bakery quickly and see one of Dad's workers walking towards it.

"Hey, Josh!" I wave towards him while opening the door for him.

"What's up Jas?" He walks into the shop. I hand him the keys and in return he hands me two cheese buns.

"Josh, you spoil me," I laugh to myself. He gives me a quick smile.

"No problem," He starts to wipe down the counters. I exit the bakery and continue my journey to school, which is a few blocks away from the bakery. The walk to school is now short and it gives me time to eat my cheese buns before classes start.

I walk into the high school section of the building. My brother is still in junior high, so we are in separate buildings. I'm glad I won't have to see my brother in the hallways this year. Next year when he's a freshman and I'm a junior, it's going to be pretty interesting.

I walk up the stairs to my first class while trying to shove the cheese buns in my mouth. It's pretty unattractive if you caught sight of me doing this action.

"Jasmine!" I hear my name being yelled out from down the hallway. I look over and see Lexi rushing towards me at full speed with a magazine in her hand.

"Whoa," I hold out my arms in front of her, hoping to slow her down. "Calm down, I'm not going to disappear."

She shoves the magazine in my hands. "You're on Panem Weekly! Why haven't you told me this?!" She asks excitedly waving her hands in the air.

I take a look at the cover and I see my self portrait of my gymnastics pictures from last year. My hair was down and I had on my beautiful gymnast outfit on. I'm surprised that I'm on a magazine. I didn't ask for this but I guess The Capitol wants some entertainment.

"This is a surprise," I murmur to myself.

Lexi takes the magazine out of my hands, examining it again. "Jasmine, you're like even more famous now. You'll have more followers on Twitter than me,"

"I already had more followers on Twitter," I point out

"That's not the point!" She groans.

"I think the point is that Jasmine is just trying to show off," I hear Melissa Andersen say loudly walking her way towards us.

I roll my eyes. "Actually, I didn't know I was going to be on here," I tell her the truth, but the truth never satisfies Melissa.

"News Flash, nobody cares about you," She smirks. "You're just another little face that longs for attention,"

Jamie, comes out of the crowd and grabs Melissa's arm. "Melissa, just leave her alone. She doesn't do anything to you," Jamie defends me.

"Um, excuse me Jamie, but perhaps you need a lesson or two. Back off, or you're secret's out," Melissa threatens her.

I hope Jamie can see that I'm ok with her backing out on this one. I don't want Jamie to get hurt. She's too kind for that and whatever Melissa has over her is not worth for her to be exposed.

"Now anyway, what I was saying," Melissa talks to herself out loud. "Jasmine, you always thought you were something, but you're nothing. Doesn't matter how famous your parents are, they could've done a lot better but they ended up with you," She looks at me with disgust.

"Listen Melissa," Lexi speaks up. "I know a jealous bitch when I see one. Leave Jasmine alone before I break your face. I'm not afraid of you," Lexi clarifies.

Melissa rolls her eyes. "Come on girls," She calls out to her little minions and Jamie. "It's time for class," She walks away and they quickly follow her. Jamie shoots me a sad look and I can't help but wonder what Melissa knows about her.

"Melissa's a bitch,"


"Jasmine," I hear a deep voice call out

I turn around and see Chris smiling at me. Why would he want to talk to me?

I brush my hair out of my face. "Hey, Chris," I say stopping in the middle of the hallway

He leans against the wall and looks at me. "I was at your dad's bakery the other day. His food was really amazing," He tells me

I nod. "Yeah, that's my dad, always satisfying the customers," I mentally berate myself noticing how stupid that sounded.

He, surprisingly, laughs at my words. "You're pretty funny, Jasmine. We should hang out sometime," He says walking away. He looks back and smiles at me, almost making me melt.

I walk home, shaking from talking to Chris. We never talked that long ever and I'm kind of freaking out right now. When I enter the house, my mom is sitting in the kitchen working on one of her many books. When she sees me, she beckons me to come over by her.

"Hey honey," She hugs me. "Listen, you might have to miss a few days of school this week because my friend Annie and her son are coming to visit," She tells me. "I don't think you remember them that much, you were young when you last saw them,"

I shake my head telling her that I don't remember anything about them.

"Well Annie is a good friend of mine and we never had the chance to visit much because of how far it is to travel to District 4. So, she and Syrus are coming to visit. They're staying here with us,"

"Cool, I get to meet one of your friends and also gain a friend myself," I smile

"When you and Syrus were little, you two were really great with each other. I'm sure you'll easily be fast friends," She nods. "We have to wake up early tomorrow to pick them up from the station so I would advise you to go to bed early tonight," She informs me

I nod. "Alright, I'm going upstairs to do homework," I grab a glass of water and trudge upstairs excited for tomorrow.

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