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The school looked like a huge cube. It was kind of dirty white colour and there were people everywhere. It was first day of school and everybody seemed excited. Katniss, Peeta and Finnick were huddled together waiting for Effie to come back to them. She had gone to get their schedules and instructions and maps. Katniss had rolled her eyes at that. They came from a school much bigger than this one and she was fairly certain she could find her way around, which later that day, turned out to be correct.
The first class was math (oh yay) and she sat down next to a blonde, blue eyed girl with a bright pink jumper and a ponytail. She smiled shyly at Katniss and then stared at the teacher as if what he was saying would save her life. No one spoke to her during the whole class and when she saw Finnick later, he told her the same thing had happened to them. Apparently either Finns were rude or just really shy. Or maybe a little bit of both. The class rooms were like small auditoriums with long lines of seats in a half circles. The first day went in a blur and after the most discusting lunch she had ever had, Katniss was more than ready to go to her last class of the day, English. Most of the day the teachers had spoken English, some better than the others, but everytime a student asked a question, they had done so in Finnish and the teacher would answer in Finnish also, which led to the fact that Katniss was more than confused about their topic.
The English teacher was a strict looking elderly woman, who told us to call her Tarja, which was yet an other name she couldn't pronounce correctly even in her head. And it was clear that Finns called their teacher by their first names basically always. Some of the teacher even had nicknames that the student would use talking to them. Katniss' heart sank as the theatcher told them to tell a little bit about themselves in English for the whole class and when a nerd looking guy in front of the class started, Katniss tried to think of something to tell about herself. There really wasn't much to tell. The students would tell about their familys (no thank you) their hobbies (Oh great) or their summer jobs or the countries they had visited. She began to really listen again when she heard Peeta starting to speak. "Hi. I'm Peeta and I'm from Los Angeles, California. I'm an Art major and my hobbies are baking and painting." Katniss could see the girls in the class looking intently to him and one girl, who had red hair and a lot of freckels, smiled at Peeta for a long time after his time was up. Finnick had even more girls smiling at him after he was done and Katniss would swear one girl with wavy platinblonde hair gave him her number on a little paper slip. Then it was Katniss' turn. She smiled nervously and looked above everybodys heads so she wouldn't have to look at anyone in particular. Especially into those blue eyes she knew were wathing her. "Um, hi. I'm Katniss and I'm from LA. Umm, my hobbies are archery and hiking aaaaand umm I have a little sister called Prim." She could feel the stares of the other students as her face grew hot and she stared at her hands on her lap. She could feel herself deflate as she sighed in relief as the girl next to her (again the same girl from math) started talking. Her name was Merituuli (Seriously, who came up with these ridiculously difficult names?) and she had been working in an office the whole summer. After that, Katniss solely consentrated on the names of people. Some were quite easy (Anna, Hanna, Niina) and others were almost funny hard (Kristiina, Tuomas, Tero) but the difficulty was solely the pronounciation.
When finally everybody in the class had told about themselves, the teacher started telling what this course would consist of, which was the lessons, some talking excercises in small groups and a lesson being held with a partner at the end of the course. Katniss sihghed. Perfect. Public speaking was really one of the thing she couldn't stand. She was always blushing and stammering and stuttering and one time she hat fainted during a speech in high school. It was different talking to kids who were younger than you than your same age. To her suprise, a lot tof people looked uncomfortable at this and she felt a little better. At least she could do it in her native language, unlike all the other people in the class. When the teacher told us to take a pair, everything happened very quickly. The girl next to me turned to face the person behind her, Katniss saw how the platinblonde haired girl who had given Finnick her number, pounced on Finnick and claimed him as her partner. Peeta looked amused, until he ralised that everybody arond him already had a partner, and started looking around the class. It was obvioius Katniss didn't have a partner yet, since she was looking around too, and as their eyes locked, he rised his eyebrown at her, and she shruggerd. Peeta smiled and walked to her, since the now were adviced to sit next to their partners. Peeta looked excited which Katniss couldn't understand and when he sat next to her, all blonde hair and gorgeous blue eyes and smelling again of something sweet and yet manly, Katniss could feel herself tense up. Tarja the Teacher was making rounds in the classroom and handing out a hat full of paper slips that had their assignment on them. When she came to them, Peeta took a paper slip and read it. His face went totally red and he started laughing so hard that every body around them turned to look. Katniss tried to take the slip from him and after a while she got it. Make a lesson plan for health class. Topic is safe sex and first time. Katniss' face felt hot and she was sure she was as red as a tomato and she startid fiddleing with her shirt hem. She couldn't look at Peeta who was now looking serious. How was Katniss supposed to do this?! She hadn't even had her first time yet! She knew that most people think she had, since she had been dating a guy named Gale almost for a year as a freshman, but they never had because she hadn't been ready and Gale had grow tired of waiting.
For the rest of the lesson Katniss avoided Peeta's gaze and didn't listen much to the teacher. They had been told that they wouldn't take any time in the classes to do the project so it had to be done in their free time. Great, Peeta and her alone talking about sex. It can't get better than this, Katniss couldn't keep the sarcasric statement out of her head. When the English class ended, Katniss bounced up and started pretty much sprinting to the grocery store so she could get as far away from Peeta as she could. She bought the ingredients for their dinner (steak and fries) and she ran home. Johanna wasn't home and Katniss put the groceries in their fridge and collapsed on her bed. Arter about five minutes of stareing in the selaing, Katniss heard a light knock on the door. She got up and opened the door excepting Johanna who must have left her keyes home, but instead she was face to face with Peeta, and she made the mistake looking him in the eyes and she felt a little shudder go through her. "I thought we could start the project today." he stated and Katniss must have looked terrified, because he started chuckling again and stepped inside nevertheless. "I don't remember inviteing you in" Katniss was relieved her voice sounded strong and Peeta looked at her sheepishly. Peeta took his shoes off and walked in to the living room. Katniss sighed and followed him. She sat down to the green plush sofa as far away from him as possible. Peeta looked around, their living room was really plain. TV, she green sofa and a small table she suspected came from IKEA. The walls were white and the weren't any paintings on the walls. Peeta looked at her and she averted her gaze.
"Maybe we should do this now and be done with it." Peeta suggested and since Katniss really didn't have any good reasons not to, she nodded.