Peeta came by around five to give me the most expensive thing I had ever seen. I must have stunned him by hugging him, and he smirked.
"Want to take a walk?"
"Sure?"
We headed in a direction which I was unfamiliar with, and he had a arm around me as we walked. I tried to keep up with conversation, asking about his home here and what classes he would have, but neither of us knew the lessons yet as we hadn't received our timetables yet.
"My room's in here, wanna come in?" He unlocked his door, and I nodded shyly before stepping inside. "My room mate is over at his girlfriend's dorm or out with his mates, so I don't see much of him anyway."
I took a long look around his room. It was slightly bigger than mine, with more electronics around the room. A laptop at his desk, and also a television. His walls were more plain than Glimmer's side of the wall, but I guessed that was because he wasn't like Glimmer. I took a seat on his couch, and he sat next to me, turning the television on. I was surprised at the images that formed so clearly on the screen, like we were in the screen itself. Peeta put an arm around my shoulder.
"You know, when I first saw you the other day, immediately I was just like...wow." Peeta laughed nervously, and I turned to look at him.
"Yeah, well. I guess I'm not like the other girls."
He sat up, closer to me, and whispered in my ear. "You're really not." He brushed a hand along the other side of my jaw and then began kissing along my jaw, down my neck. I didn't know what to do but go along with it. The girls said he did like me. So I kissed him back. We didn't do anything else but kiss, and I broke away after a few minutes.
"I better go." I smiled, out of breath. This was further than I'd ever been with a boy. Even Gale didn't push this out of me, and I guess I was glad at the time, but when Peeta kissed me, it felt good. Like I felt wanted. After Finnick completely humiliating me, treating me like crap, I guess I needed reassurance that I was still important.
Peeta walked me back and gave me another kiss and began sucking on my neck as he kiss down it again. It felt nice. He kissed back up to my lips and grinned at me.
"I'll see you tomorrow, I already programmed my number into your phone."
"Thank you, for the phone." I laughed.
He smirked. "No problem."
As soon as I shut the door behind me, questions were thrown at me.
"Oh my gosh your neck!"
"Was he a good kisser?"
"What about Finnick?"
"Yes, I know, and yeah, I think so, and Finnick? Last time I saw him he basically told me I was the equivalent to dog shit, so...I don't think so."
Glimmer looked down. "He came by when you had gone, wanted to apologise, and we told him that you were with Peeta."
"I don't care, he wouldn't have to apologise if he hadn't said it in the first place. You're right, Glim, your brother is a dick."
Clove giggled as she went back to her room with Johanna about an hour, and Glimmer huffed at me.
"Kat! I thought me and you were trying to get my brother back on the right track?"
"Your brother is a lost cause, Glim. He insulted my district, and has been acting like a dick since he first met me."
"But he actually looked upset that he had said it, seriously! He has a big mouth."
"You didn't see it, Glim. The way he looked at me, was as if I'd murdered someone. I've never been treated like that in anyway before. Probably because I only knew people from my district, but you didn't treat me like dirt."
She sighed. "I don't know what to say. I doubt Finnick does, either. He never likes giving bad news, like 'breaking up' with a girl. His way of letting a girl know she's been dumped is to have her see him with another girl."
"Dick."
"...I guess." She turned off the lights and we settled into bed.
The next morning I had to be up early again for swimming lessons. The school say that if you get the swimming over and done with before school actually starts, then you have more time to concentrate on the work at hand.
To say it was interesting was an understatement.
As soon as I entered the room Finnick bolted to me and apologised profusely.
"I'm really sorry. My mother dropped me on my head as a child, so I don't know when to shut up." He began talking really quickly and looked very uncomfortable so I accepted his apology. Doesn't mean I have to like him.
He lay off me today, but the love bite which had formed from Peeta had become darker, and I had no way to cover it. When Finnick saw it, he looked hurt, but looked away and began the lesson. I felt a little bad about it, seeing as he did say he liked me, and now he knew for definite that Gale wasn't my boyfriend. Well, Gale wished. But everyone knows that 12's couldn't afford to visit here just to see a girlfriend. The only time he came near me was when I got bored and started helping Clove. As soon as he took over Clove's leg managed to swing up and hit the side of his head. Hard. I gasped as he looked around, dazed, before landing in the water. I saw Clove come up from the water, wondering what she kicked as I dived for Finnick. Bubbles left his mouth as he went underwater, and I grabbed his arm and yanked him up, then pulled him to the shallow end, then used my strength to get him onto the side of the pool.
Crap. What do I do.
I knew you had to clear the airways, so I pinched his nose and blew air down his throat. Yep. Does that count as a kiss? As soon as I did that the top half of his body seemed to jerk forward and he spluttered and choked, gasping for air. I jumped up immediately. Was he okay?
He tried to get up but was shaky so he sat on the ground. I bent down to see the damage. My mother and sister had a vast knowledge of first aid and different ingredients that healed different things, so I tried to remember what they did when someone from the coal mines had hit his head or something.
"Are you okay? Can you hear me? See me?" I felt where the impact was, and he rubbed his eyes.
"Er, yeah. I see you. What happened?" He squinted up at me, and I smirked.
"Clove is a hazard to everyone, including herself." I pressed against the bump that was forming. "She kicked you."
"Ouch. Erm, everyone. Class dismissed." People sighed and began grabbing their towels, and Clove walked up to us.
"Sorry, I had no idea." Guilt was written on her face.
"No, it's okay. I had Doctor Everdeen come to my rescue." He chuckled, and Clove walked away, glancing back behind her to us questioningly.
"You know my full name?"
"Er, yeah. Glimmer told me."
"Well I think you should be okay. Go to the school nurse to make sure you don't have any concussion or anything."
He nodded, and I helped him stand up. "Do you mind walking me there? As you're a girl I feel a bit asking you to...walk me somewhere, but I don't want to collapse on the way."
I nodded. "Er, I'll get my towel." I wrapped it around myself and Finnick put on around his shoulders and we headed in the direction of the nurse. Just my luck for a bunch of boys to burst through the corridor which was round the corner, in good hearing distance, laughing and joking.
"Peeta, tell us how your date went!" As soon as I heard that, I froze, and Finnick stopped as well. I put a finger to my lips, silencing him.
"It wasn't a date!" Peeta groaned, laughing.
"A good fucking session was in order for you, Peet." A deep voice chuckled.
"Yeah, well I didn't fuck her, I'm not like that dude. She's a tough cookie, but that Finnick is going to be some competition. I heard he told everyone he's getting in there."
The boys 'ooh'ed, and I blinked back tears. The boys stopped when they came round my corner, and Peeta gulped. I walked past him, shoving his shoulder as I walked by. Finnick smirked as he followed me.
"I didn't say that, but could you blame me?"
"Finnick!" I gasped. "I am not an object!"
Finnick wrapped an arm around my waist, chuckling. "Not my fault you're so hot."
Peeta shouted out to me. "Hey, babe, had a good night last night?"
I turned around and he was grinning at me. My eyes narrowed. Was he peeing on his territory?
"Yeah, was okay I guess." I shrugged my shoulders, and Finnick burst out laughing.
"Dude, find someone in your league." Finnick was grinning ear to ear.
I smacked Finnick's chest. "Hey, I'm not any league. I don't belong to anyone, douchebag." I rolled my eyes and they fell on Peeta. "I'll text you later, I gotta take this idiot to the nurse." I nudged Finnick with my shoulder. "He got beat up by a girl." I grinned wickedly at him, and Finnick frowned.
"She kicked me in the head, Kat. I'm all...wobbly." He then put all his weight on me and I laughed, gasping against the weight.
"Get off me you fool!" I pushed him against the wall, and he opened his eyes, laughter inside them. He nodded to the direction we needed to go.
"Come on, lets go. See ya, kids." He put his arm around me and I smiled at Peeta before walking away from him. That could've been more awkward.
oh my gosh, thank you so much for your reviews its really made me motivated to post like everyday :'D and this chapter was going to turn out differently but after sleeping on it I decided to not make Peeta mega mean. Finnick and Peeta are both nice guys, but are opposites, besides both being very hot in their different ways :D
So what do you think of this chapter? Are you beginning to see a nicer side of Finnick or a territorial Peeta? I can't wait to post the next chapter! ^_^