Yay! Thanks to my first follower, als909! :D So this is my first story and I'm still learning how to use this site so forgive me for any mishappenings and mistakes.
I'll also apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes, for English is not my mothers tongue. Hope you enjoy my story, and please review!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games
The plane had been flying for 12 hours now and Katniss was trying to sleep. She was sick of the 20 + 50 questions Peeta had asked before starting to sleep himself. She had only answered about half of them and even those just with nods or head shakes. So Peeta had gotten tired of her not speaking and started to nod off. She couldn't stop wondering why he had been so interested in her, but then again maybe he was just bored. So Katniss closed her eyes and for some stupid reason, all she saw was gorgeous blue eyes.
"We wll be starting landing in about 30 minutes. Please buckle your seatbelts and lift your benches to upward positions.." started the stuert and Katniss jerked awake. Her neck hurt, but the seat was warm and comfortable. And it was moving. Katniss looked up to see Peeta grinning at her, since she had been using his shoulder as a pillow. "Good morning" he said and Katniss couldn't sit straight fast enough. She could feel her cheecks turning pink and she looked away. "Morning." she mumbeled quietly and started to listen to the stuert who was telling the weather. "It is 20 degrees celsius and sunny in Helsinki, we will be landing on time. Thank you for flying with Air America." Huh. She had thought it would be cold, but apparently it's not. The plane stopped and people stood up and started to gather their belongings and a girl a couple rows back of Katniss was crying. Probably nervous or her ears had started hurting during the landing.
After what felt like forever, all Katniss, Peeta and Finnick had gotten their luggages and started walking to Helsinki-Vanta airports mainlobby, where there would be someone from University of Tampere to greet them and to take them to their apartments. Tampere would be about 2 or 3 hour drive from Helsinki and Katniss was glad she got to stand and walk a bit before sitting down again for hours. There was a woman waiting for them, who smiled and looked so excited that Katniss had to smile. "Welcome, welcome!" the woman chanted and hugged all of them. "My name is Effie and I'm here to escort you to your apartments and tell you a bit about our school." she started babling and they started walking towards their car. Eventhough it was almost 9 p.m local time it was still quite light out. It was the very last day of august and Effie told them that it would start getting darker soon, but not all the way dark the whole night. We all must have looked shocked, because she started to explaine how during summer, it's never actually dark in Finland. "It's a shame you missed Midsummer. That day the sun never goes down." Yet again all of us just stared at her, as though she had gone mad, and her smile wavered for a while, but then we arrived to the car and yet an other couple of hours of sitting could begin.
Effie told them about the school and Finland in general and about our living arrangements and so on, and asked us a lot of questions, but the guys did most of the talking and Katniss just listened. Staring out the window all she could think about and see was green. So much green. The road was black, but no matter where she looked outside of cities, all she could see was trees and forests and grass. Soon enough they were arriving to their apartment building which was only for students and they were taken to their own apartments. Peeta and Finnick were sharing one and she too had a room mate. Effie left, reminding them that she would pick us up at 8.30 am the next morning, and Katniss sat down to a couch in her new living room. The room looked nice and tidy, but she could see that it had been cleaned in a rush. The girl she was living with was tall and a tad skinny and had short brown hair. She told Katniss that her name was Johanna, but the pronaunciation was way different from our way of saying it. Katniss tried a couple of times to say Johannas name right, but she just smiled and said it was fine. Eventhough Katniss had had some sleep in the plane, she realised that she was too tired to do anything, but too hungry to sleep. She told that to Johanna and Johanna told her to help herself in the kitchen, if Katniss promised to cook the next evening. She promised. So when she finally fell to her bed, her belly was full and she was happy. The bed was comfy and she didn't feel at all nervous. Until the dreams came.
Peeta was laughing at her. They were in the class room, and it was full of tall, skinny blond Finnish girls who all wanted a taste of the American men. The Finnish men just stared at her looking dissapointed and said that it was no fair the girls got such a treat but us guys, we have to settle for this scrawny little thing. Katniss was sure she could see Glimmer in the pool of girls trying to get closer to Peeta and Finnick. What was that bitch doing in Finland? Katniss thought and scowled to her biggest bully in high school. Glimmer got to Peeta and started making out with him and Peeta dissapeared into a pile of girls. And then the Finnish guys came, who apparently wanted to talk about learning difficulties but started pushing her and shaking her. She told them to stop but they wouldn't. She yelled Peeta for help.
"Katniss!" Katniss woke up. Jo (they had agreed that it was easier for Katniss to call her that) was shaking her awake and looked annoyed. "Who is Peeta?" Jo asked and Katniss looked at her confused. "You were yelling Peeta for about five minutes." Jo explained and gave her a tired smile. "Sorry, a nightmare" Katniss said quietly and Jo nodded and said:"It's going to be time to get up anyway. See you later, noicy." Katniss rolled her eyes and hoped that Jo wouldn't hate her already. Katniss stood up and decided to treat Johanna a good dinner tonight and apologize for disturbing her sleep. But now she would have to get ready, so she walked into a ahower and washed her hair, braided it and put on her usual clothes. She looked into the big mirror in her room and she looked alright. Her olive skin looked good against the white shirt and her skinny jeans were black and she would put her boots on. That was a weird thing about Finns, they never wore shoes indoors. It makes sence, since the floors are warm, but she had been lost for a while why Effie had looked in utter terror when she had walked into her living room wearing her boots. "Abhorrent manners" she had mumbled when she had walked away. She was ready to go, but the klock was just 8.10 so she sat down onto her bed and thought about this morning. Why had she been yelling for Peeta? He had been alright.. She was the one in trouble. Like Peeta would ever come help her when he could be making out with Glimmer (even the name made her feel nauseous). Stupid Glimmer and stupid Peeta.
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