"You sure you don't want me to drop you off," Mum said handing me a slice of toast.
"Its okay we can catch the bus I don't want to make you late," I said wishing Prim would hurry the hell up.
"Primrose," my mother said buttering another slice of toast. "You're going to make your sister late."
"Can you do my hair mum?" Prim rushed into the room.
"I'll do it," I grabbed the brush and started to quickly running it through her hair. Then there was a knock at the door.
"I could still be in bed if you hadn't pissed Gale off," Prim said.
"Primrose don't say that," my mum said.
"Its true," I don't think she realized that I was holding her hair.
"Mum she pulled my hair," Prim said, as there was a knock on the door.
"Don't be a baby you just had a knot," I said.
"Katniss don't pull your sisters hair, Prim don't pick on Katniss's failed relationships," mum said going to answer the door.
"Ha you have failed relationships," Prim laughed.
"You have really knotty hair," I said tugging on it.
"Mum!" Prim screamed.
"Katniss its for you," Mum said coming back into the room followed to Peeta.
"What are you doing here?" I stopped doing Prim's hair and hugged him.
"I though you guys could use a lift to school," he said quickly running his lips across my cheek as we parted.
"That's really nice of you Peeta," Mum said.
"Didn't want them catching the bus," he said taking my hand in his.
"We should talk about you getting a car," Mum said.
"Its okay we cannot afford it, I'm good taking the bus" I said.
"It won't hurt to look," Mum said kissing Prim on the head.
"I'll see you guys tonight, nice to see you Peeta," Mum said grabbing her coffee cup and running out the door.
"Hey you," as soon as my mum had left I put arms around Peeta's neck and kissed him.
"Good morning," he said smiling.
"I'm still here," Prim said speaking up.
"Good morning Prim," Peeta laughed.
"Hello Peeta thanks for driving us," she said.
"My pleasure," he said pulling me into a hug.
"You smell amazing!" I said grabbing a handful of his jumper breathing it in.
"I was at work," he laughed.
"Peeta it is 8:30 in the morning," I pointed out.
"Yeah I start at four bake and then finish at eight," he laughed.
"Four in the morning?" Prim said looking disgusted.
"Yeah," Peeta laughed.
"Aren't you tired?" she asked.
"I'm use to it I guess do it everyday," he shrugged.
"Everyday," that really was disgusting.
"I am a morning person," he said.
"I think we need to break up," I said I can't do mornings.
"I am very quiet when I get out of bed," he said kissing me.
"Looking forward to it," I said playing with the buttons on his shirt.
"Ew ew ew ew," Prim said closing her eyes and covering her ears.
"Lets go," I mouthed to Peeta as Prim continued to cover her ears.
Peeta turned around and quickly and quietly moved out of the room to the front door.
"This is mean," he said smiling.
"She will realize in a minute," I said smiling back.
"Hey guys," I heard Prim say from the kitchen. "That's not funny." Prim stormed past us throwing open the front door and crossing her arms.
"It was a little funny," I said putting my arms around her covering her face in kisses.
"Ahhh I don't know where those lips have been," she said pushing me away.
"I don't know if I should be offended," Peeta said unlocking the car.
"Its okay I know exactly where my lips have been," I said running my thumb across Peeta lips.
"You two are going to make me sick and late for school," Prim sighed from the back seat.
"Eat lunch with me," Peeta said as we arrived at my class. He had insisted in walking me to my locker and then to my class, I had made it very clear to him that this was the first and last time I was going to make him late.
"Who else am I going to eat with," I joked.
"I hear you have a million friends," he whispered in my ear.
"Yeah to bad they are all your head," I said tapping his forehead.
"So I'm taking that as a yes," he said taking my hand and kissing it before bowing.
"Get to class you idiot," I laughed as he stood up and winked at me.
"I'm looking forward to seeing you again," he said laughing.
"I will eat lunch by myself if you don't go to class this instant Peeta Mellark," I said sternly.
"Okay I'm leaving," he said smiling and quickly kissing me before running off.
The classes until lunch, until I got to see Peeta were the slowest of my life. It didn't help that Gale was in all of my classes and him ignoring me really annoyed me. I wanted to jump up in the middle of class and scream the big speech I had about him being a lying bastard and the fact that I hated him. Then it hit me that I didn't hate him, I hated what he did to me and how he made me feel but I then I realized that I just missed him more than anything.
This thought stayed with me all the way until lunch how I always pictured in my head what I was going to say to Gale but never had the balls.
"Missed you," someone whispered in my ear and wound their arms around my waist.
"We shouldn't do this here my boyfriend might see," I joked.
"Oh that guys an idiot we will be fine," Peeta said kissing my neck.
"What do you want for lunch?" I grabbed a tray and handed it back to him.
"It all tastes the same," I said turning around in time to see his make the most adorable face and I had to kiss him.
"People want to eat Peeta," someone said from behind us. "So either get her to take her top off or do that somewhere else."
" Put your pants back on Wyatt," Peeta laughed grabbing some food and piling it onto this tray.
"Do you know him?" I asked as Peeta's food started to get piled on my tray as well.
"Its just Wyatt he was only joking," Peeta said smiling.
"Are you hungry?" I asked as Peeta as he put something else on my tray.
"Oh we share," Peeta said.
"Shouldn't that have been can we share?" I asked.
"No my friends we grab as much as we can and then share the food," he laughed.
"Oh nice," we are sitting with his friends I wanted to die.
"What wrong?" he asked the disgust of other people must have been all over my face.
"Nothing," I smiled. "I just thought it would just be us."
"My friends are cool you will like them," he said kissing my cheek.
"Oh they better be," I warned him.
"Come on," Peeta said shaking his head.
"Guys this is Katniss," Peeta said setting down our trays on the table.
"Katniss this is Wyatt," Peeta said pointing to big broad shouldered guy that had yelled at us.
"Bran," the dark skinned massive pile of muscle that I actually knew because he caused such a stir when he transferred here from a school in 11.
"Rose," he pointed to a blonde haired cheerleader that looked me up and down and then went back to eating.
"Dana," he pointed to another cheerleader but she smiled and waved at me.
"Tyler," I kind of remembered him from the party the other night.
"And Gaspar," Peeta pointed to the last person sitting around the giant table. Everybody waved or nodded or said something as Peeta sat down.
"Kat," Peeta said pulling on my arm. "Sit down."
"Right sorry," I said sitting down beside Peeta.
"So Katniss what did Peeta do to finally convince you to start dating him?" Bran said before stuffing a whole sandwich in his mouth.
"By just being him," I said putting my arm around his shoulder and playing with his hair. I wanted to kiss him but I was they were already all staring and I didn't want to start a riot.
"Aww that's so cute," Dana said grinning from ear to ear.
"He bought you a cupcake didn't he," Bran said with a mouthful of food.
"A chocolate one," I laughed looking at Peeta.
"A classic Peeta move," Gaspar laughed. "The only reason I am friends with him is because he bought me one of those.
"Me too," said Bran.
"He bought me a cookie," said Tyler.
"Yeah I got a cookie," Dana laughed.
"It's the only reason I am friends with him," Rose said poking her tongue out at Peeta.
"Well anyway its about time," Tyler said. "He has been obsessed with you since I met him and I met him in 2nd Grade," Tyler laughed.
"Why didn't we just eat by ourselves," Peeta joked.
"Because your friends are amazing," I laughed from what I could tell they were just like Peeta and I liked that.
"Why thank you Katniss, I like you. Peeta you can keep her," Tyler announced.
"Yes," Peeta said. "I was seriously freaking out that you would say I had to throw her in the trash," Peeta said sarcastically then getting a grape thrown at his face.
"I'd start eating if I was you Katniss because I have seen Bran eat a whole cow and then order more fries," Gaspar warned.
As soon as I started eating everyone seemed to ignore me Tyler and Gaspar were constantly throwing stuff at each other, Rose and Dana started talking about the latest fashion from the Capital and Peeta and Bran went through a play by play of the soccer game on Saturday.
"So Katniss," the whole table stopped and looked at me. "I heard you were dating Gale Hawthorne," Rose said with a smile.
"I was," I think she expected me to be intimidated.
"So what happened?" she asked.
"A bit personal don't you think," Peeta said.
"No its okay," I smiled back at her. "I found out he slept with someone else so it ended."
"Wow that's bad," Dana said frowning.
"Its okay I have Peeta now," I said.
"Wow," Bran said then pretending to throw up.
"I know that was a bit like that," I laughed.
"Come on I am a catch," Peeta said. "Any of you would be lucky to date me."
"I have been asking you to date me since I moved here," Bran said.
"And I told you man I love you but your just not my type," Peeta said laughing.
"I didn't know if you were driving me home," I said as Peeta approached his car. I had tried to find him after class but couldn't so I decided to just wait by the car.
"Of course I am taking you home," Peeta said smiling taking me into his arms and giving me the most amazing kiss.
"Mmmm," is all I could say when we parted.
"I know," he said smiling kissing me again.
"We are so good at that," he announced as we parted.
"I know," I said quickly kissing him again.
"So are we picking up Prim?" he asked opening my door for me.
"Your amazing," I said quickly kissing him before getting in the car.
"I know," he said smiling and poking out his tongue.
"So you really liked my friends?" Peeta asked as we pulled out of the car park.
"Yeah they are amazing," I had never really had many friends but Peeta seemed really amazing.
"They seemed to like you," he said smiling.
"Who wouldn't," I joked as Peeta pulled up in front of Prim's school.
"Hey," I said turning around in my seat to face her. "What's wrong?" As soon as I saw her face I could tell that she had been crying.
"I hate you," she spat as tear rolled down her face.
"What?" I was shocked Prim had never said anything like that to me. She was my world and hearing those words come out of her mouth crushed me.
"Prim what's wrong?" Peeta asked as I turned around almost crying.
"I hate you too," Prim said kicking the back of Peeta chair.
"What did we do?" Peeta asked putting his hand on thigh.
"I'm not talking to either of you," Prim spat.
"Primrose talk," I said.
"Gale told Rory that he couldn't be friends with me and it is all your fault," she screamed.
"Prim I am sure you will make more friends," I said a when I was her age if Gale stopped talking to me I would have been exactly like her.
"I have more friends I am not like you," she yelled kicking the back of my chair. "He was my best friend and you ruined it."
"I will talk to Gale," I said angrily.
"You can't talk to Gale you hide behind a stack of chips to get away from him. How are you going to talk to him?" she sobbed.
"I will talk to him," Peeta said.
"No," Prim screamed. "None of this would have happened if you had never come along."
"Prim that was rude apologies to Peeta," I snapped.
"No," she yelled crossing her arms.
"Katniss its okay," Peeta said pulling into our driveway.
"No say sorry none of this is Peeta's fault," I yelled.
"I hate him," Prim yelled getting out of the car and running inside.
"I'm sorry," I said turning to Peeta.
"Its okay really go after her," he said quickly kissing me.
"Let me know if you need a lift tomorrow."
"Okay bye," I kissed him again and got out of the car.
"Primrose," I yelled and slammed the front door.
"Katniss what is going on?" my mother asked. Prim had her arms locked around my mothers stomach and was sobbing.
"She was being rude yelling at Peeta for something that wasn't even his fault," I yelled.
"If you had never met Peeta you would still be dating Gale and I would still be friends with Rory," she yelled.
"And I wouldn't be happy do you want that," I yelled.
"Well I'm not happy now is that what you want?" she yelled back.
"Of course not," I yelled. "But I can't control what Gale does."
"Both of you stop and sit down," mum yelled over us.
"Primrose what happened?" Mum asked then Prim explained that Rory had told her that Gale had said that he had to stop being friends with her. He said that he didn't want to but Gale had said that she was a bad influence and he didn't want to make Gale angrier than he already was.
"Now Katniss what happened?" he she asked and I told her what happened in the car.
"Now Prim you know that this is neither Katniss's or Peeta's fault," Mum said.
"But it wouldn…" she started but mum cut her off.
"No Prim come on Katniss didn't want this to happen," Mum said calmly. "And just because Gale said that he couldn't be friends doesn't mean that you have to listen right."
"Right," Prim said.
"So maybe you need to talk to Rory tomorrow and tell him how upset you were that you can't be his friend anymore. Then maybe suggest that you could be friends when you're at school so that Gale doesn't find out. Katniss will promise to talk to Gale right."
"I'll try," nothing I say to Gale was going to change anything.
"Okay now I think you two should apologies to each other," Mum said.
"Sorry Prim," I said.
"Sorry Katniss," Prim said without looking at me.
"Good now Prim what are you going to do the next time you see Peeta?" Mum said.
"Say sorry for yelling at him and kicking his car," she whispered.
"Good girl," Mum said.
The only thing I could think about since Prim had told me what happened with Rory was what I was going to say to Gale when I saw him. Unfortunately Tuesday was the only day in the week when Gale wasn't in any of my classes. When I saw him at the end of the day everything exploded.
"You have no right," pushed my hands into Gale's chest causing him to fly back and hitting the lockers.
"What the hell Katniss," he yelled.
"How dare you tell Rory that he couldn't talk to Prim!" I said trying to push him again but he knew I was going to do it and grabbed my wrists.
"I don't want your sister anywhere near my brother," he said still holding my wrists.
"You don't get to tell Rory whom he can and can't be friends with," I snapped trying to get my hands back.
"Yes I do and don't want my brother hanging around with bad influences like your sister."
"You love Prim! How is she a bad influence," I yelled. People were starting to gather around up.
"She has you as a role model," Gale yelled.
"Your going to let what happened between us ruin their relationship," the Gale I know or thought I knew would never let that happen.
"If your going to date Peeta I don't want anything to do with your family," he said tightening his grip on my wrists.
"Your hurting me Gale," I tried again to get out of his hold.
"Hawthorne man I think you should let her go," One of the guys that Peeta and I had lunch with stepped up.
"Fuck off Wyatt," Gale yelled letting go of one of my hands to out of the way.
"Let her go now!" Tyler another of Peeta's friends stepped out of the crowd grabbing Gales arm.
"Get off me," Gale said jerking his arm to get out away from Tyler while doing to twisting my wrist.
"Gale your hurting me," I tried to get out of his grip but whichever way I went it just made it worse. Then all most out of nowhere Peeta was there in a second he pushed Gale up against the locker with his arm pushed against Gales neck.
"Let her go," Peeta spat.
"Mr. Hawthorne, Miss. Everdeen and Mr. Mellark my office now!" I had been so pre occupied that I hadn't even noticed that the crowd had scattered and Principle Undersee had replaced them.
Gale instantly dropped my hand that had already begun to develop a nasty bruise where it had been twisted. However Peeta hadn't moved an inch it looked like Gale and Peeta were in one intense staring competition.
"Mr. Mellark Now!" Principle Undersee repeated but Peeta still didn't move.
"Peeta," I said putting my hand on his face and forcing him to look at me. "Its okay come on," I said.
"Are you okay?" let go of Gale and took my face in his hands.
"I'm fine we should go," I said taking his hand and letting him lead me to the principles office.
"Sit down you three," Mr. Undersee immediately moved behind his deck and sat down. Peeta moved in and took the first chair in the row positioned in front of the desk, before I could even sit down Gale had planted him self on the other end and I was left in the middle. Before I sat down I tried to get Gale to look at me I wanted to sit on his lap and bury my head in his chest and tell him that I miss him so much it hurt and that all I want to do every second of everyday was just talk to him.
"Now explain to me what happened," he said.
"They attacked me," Gale spat and in a second that feeling went away.
"I pushed you Gale you use to be able to handle that without flipping your shit," I snapped.
"And you use to ne a decent person instead of a slut," Gale said without looking at me.
"Don't call her that," Peeta said calmly before I could say anything.
"Really what are you going to do about it?" Gale spat.
"Stop!" Principle Undersee said.
" I don't care how it started I want to know why two of my best Baseball players and a student that has never been sent to this office decide to fight each other in my school." There was a pause did he want us to answer.
"Any of you," he said looking from Peeta to Gale.
"If his mother taught him that you don't touch women like that I wouldn't have had to do anything," Peeta said.
"What did you say about my mother?" Gale said standing up towering over us.
"All I'm saying is that I will admit I have a pretty shitty mother but she at least taught me that you don't touch women," he said getting up into Gales face.
"Peeta sit down," I said pulling in his arm.
"Both of you sit down," Principle Undersee slammed his hands down on the desk.
Peeta and Gale both sat down staring off in different directions.
"Now Katniss you seemed to be the one that started all this," he said. "Without out bursts and in put from either of you tell me what happened."
"I broke up with Gale," I started.
"By getting drunk and throwing a wine bottle through my windshield," Gale spat.
"I am going to ignore the under age drinking and destruction of property because it happened off school properties and just say; Mr. Hawthorne shut your mouth and let Miss Everdeen talk," Mr. Undersee said.
"Well because of that he told his little brother that he couldn't be friends with my little sister," it sounded so petty when I said it out loud.
"And explain to me where Mr. Mellark comes into this," he said.
"He is my boyfriend," I almost whispered.
"I am very disappointed in all three of you. Each of your name had been forward for a very special opportunity by numerous teacher and after what I have witnessed today I don't even know if I want any of you representing our district." This really confused me but I still felt guilty.
"Three amazing students fighting over something so petty now there is nothing I can do to resolve what caused this. All I can say it that I don't think it is fair that you are taking this out on two young people that have nothing to do with this. Now detention all three of you and I would be on my best behavior or I will remove opportunities before you even know you could have been a part of it."
By the time we exited the office the corridors were empty.
"I'll get my stuff and meet you at the car," Peeta said moving off in one direction.
"I'd put some ice on those," Gale said without looking at me and moved off in the opposite direction. Leaving me standing all alone wishing that I could just leave all the drama behind and have my best friend and my amazing boyfriend. Then I realized that if I had one there is no way I could have the other.
"Katniss, Peeta can I talk to you for a moment," Mr. Cinna said as the class was filing out of the classroom. My mind went a million miles an hour trying to think of something anything he would want to see us about. Now that we are dating he probably want us to switch partner, or give us a lecture about the fight.
"Don't worry it is nothing bad," he said smiling. "Take a seat," he motioned to two seats at in the first row and began to search through the papers on his desk.
"So," he said handing Peeta and I a sheet of paper.
The Capital District tour!
To celebrate the ever expanding connection
between the districts of
PANEM
Central Capital High school
and
President Paylor
Wish to extend an invitation to a select number of
exceptional student to take part in an
educational tour of each district that
makes up our extraordinary country
A lucky number of students from each district shall be chosen
to take part in this once in a life time opportunity.
Student who are chosen will be placed in tour groups
made up of students from each of the districts
of Panem. With this group students will spend
3 days in each district attending school,
learning about everyday life and of course
taking a closer look at the specialty of each
district.
The tour will end with students having the
opportunity to spend a week in the capital.
Before they return home hopefully with a deeper knowledge of the districts and the capital but also great memories and great friends.
Once I had finished reading I looked over at Peeta hoping he could make sense of it, but he just shrugged and went back to reading.
"Now Principle Undersee has given Mrs. Trinket and myself the job of picking the lucky people to have this opportunity. Now after what happened last week it took a lot of convincing but I was hoping that you would consider being one of the lucky ones," Mr. Cinna said.
"I would love to," Peeta said instantly looking at me with a big goofy smile on his face.
"Katniss," Mr. Cinna turned to me. "You can have some time to think about it if you would like."
"No I don't need anytime I know that I would never be able to afford anything like this," with mum turning down the job opportunity and me not working that much lately there was no way.
"You didn't read all of it Katniss," Peeta said smiling taking the sheet of paper off me and flipping it around. "The Capital is paying for it all."
He was right on the back it explained further that the capital would be covering all expenses including spending money. That we would be placed with host families that would receive a small grant so that they can accommodate students from other districts.
"I will still have to talk to my mum," I still don't think that I would be able to go.
"Of course but I am afraid that I will have to know by next Friday if that is okay," Mr. Cinna said. "Just keep in mind that this really is a once in a life time opportunity Katniss and it may even help you decide what direction you want to take in the future."
"I will let you know by next Friday," I said smiling.
"So I want both of you to go home and talk it over with your parents because a condition of you going will be that you may have to host a few students at your house. If they have any questions just get them to give me a call," he said clapping his hands together. "Now get out," he laughed.
"Isn't that an amazing opportunity," Peeta said.
Hope you like this one XD! Please please tell me what you think
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