The rising opposition against Capitol elitism has led to the establishment of an Academy which provides District children with the opportunity to have a life of comfort in the Capitol. In a world where getting chosen for the Hunger Games is an annual threat, there is nothing more a District teen can hope for, than to be accepted into the Academy. However, these chosen few soon find out that, the entrance test was the least they had to do in their journey for a better life. [Multiple pairings. 1st of possibly 7 stories.]

One month later

Katniss was woken up by a pounce on her bed and the voice of her sister.

"Wake up Katniss! Wake up!" Prim exclaimed while shaking Katniss's shoulders.

Katniss groaned but opened her eyes slightly to look at Prim.

The room was dark with only the light from the rising sun peeping in through the windows.

"Yeah, I'm up. What's the matter?"

"You need to check the mail."

"Prim, the mail don't come until 7." Katniss explained in her sleepy voice, while attempting to rub the sleep out of her eyes.

Prim looked towards their bed side clock. Katniss followed her, and did the same. The long hand of the clock was slightly in front of the 12, and the short hand was at 7.

Katniss sighed and slowly got out of bed, knowing that she could not return to sleep.

Katniss made sure that she was decent, before putting on her slippers and walking to the front door.

Prim followed closely behind.

Katniss unlocked the door and felt the cool morning air on her face. It felt refreshing to her.

Katniss spotted the local mail carrier a few houses below hers. If any mail came for her, he would have delivered it already. She also spotted a few schoolmates on their pouch waiting anxiously for the mail carrier to arrive at their house. Katniss shook her head. She pitied them.

Prim squeezed herself through the doorway, from behind Katniss. Her eyes caught something on the steps, and ran towards it.

"Prim, be careful…" Katniss warned going after her sister.

It was a letter package. Prim picked it up.

"It's for you." Prim announced.

Katniss took the letter from Prim hands and observed it. It was addressed to her and on the top-left corner it had a coats of arm with 'Capitol Academy' written under it.

Katniss blinked a few times and observed it once again to make sure that it wasn't her sleepy eyes tricking her.

"I told you, you would get in." Prim exclaimed blissfully.

"It could be a rejection letter." Katniss replied, without looking up from the letter.

"They did not send you a rejection letter the last two times." Prim argued.

She was right. The last two times, Katniss knew she did not get accepted because she simply did not get a letter. Katniss figured that since this was her last time that the Academy just wanted to be polite in telling her that she failed three times, instead of letting her come to that conclusion once September hits and no letter arrived.

"Open it." Prim demanded.

Katniss tore her eyes away from the title head on the letter and turned the letter around to open it.

Prim waited eagerly as her sister opened the letter.

Katniss took out a paper out of the letter package, although there was something else inside.

Katniss started to look over the paper. She then froze.

"What does it say? What does it say?!" Prim asked, stretching her neck to look at the paper, but she was too short.

"Congratulations, Ms. Katniss Everdeen for your acceptance into the Capitol Academy…" Katniss started.

Prim started to jump up and down. "I told you, you could do it! I told you!"

"Mom!" Prim shouted as she ran back into the house.

Katniss, however, was frozen on her porch, eyes stuck on her letter.

She got accepted into the Academy.

Katniss did not know how to feel about her acceptance.

She was shocked, outraged, and proud at the same time. She was overwhelmed, she just did not know with what.

Her mom was another story. After Prim woke her up, telling her about Katniss acceptance. She ran out on the porch to hug a frozen Katniss. She then went to tell the neighbors. By 8 o, clock, Everybody in District 12 knew about Katniss acceptance.

Word around town, was that she was one of the two teens accepted into the Academy. The other was the Mellark's youngest son, Peeta.

There was so much excitement around town that the mayor decided to throw a celebration that night for the accomplishment of having two future Capitol Academy students from District 12. They did after all make history.

Katniss did not say much that day. Her mother and Prim did most of the talking. When people came by to offer their congratulations, and asked Katniss how she felt, the answer was always the same; good.

At that night's District celebration, Katniss and Peeta was the center of attention. Katniss hated being the center of attention. She felt that everyone was sucking up to her because she got some stupid acceptance into some stupid school. It was pathetic.

Peeta felt different. It was the first time that he was at the center of attention of anything. Being the third son in a family of five, attention did not come easy to him. He was ok with this, but that did not mean that he is not going to enjoy it when it comes to him, especially if it meant getting the attention of Katniss.

Peeta, like most of the boys in District 12, had a crush on Katniss. He didn't think she notice, and if she did, she hid it very well.

She was nice to him, just like she was nice to everyone. She was just a nice girl, Peeta thought. In the back of his mind, he hoped that them being the only two accepted into the Academy might bring them closer together, and that she might come to notice his feeling towards her, someday in the future.

That night after the celebration, Katniss laid in her bed exhausted.

Today, was an emotional roller-coaster, for her. She felt too much emotions in one whole day.

She still had doubts about going away to the Academy, but after tonight, Katniss did not think that she could dare refuse to not attend. She saw the excitement of her acceptance in so many eyes tonight, as if they themselves got accepted. They were all counting on her to go. No pressure.

Well, at least they have Peeta, she deliberated.

She looked over to Prim, who was fast asleep in her outfit from earlier.

How can I leave her behind? , Katniss thought.

The night lamp was still on, and as Katniss looked at her bedside table, she glanced the letter package. She remembered that it had something else in it, and reached for it.

Grasping something thick inside the package, she pulled it out. It was a book. A guide to be exact.

There were some children on the cover, who looked about Katniss age, wearing a sort of uniform and smiling while embracing each other.

A Guide to Capitol Academy.

Katniss skimmed through it in seconds, glancing pictures of buildings, people, and words. It was late and she was in no mood for reading. She told herself that she will look through the book tomorrow as she placed it in her bed table drawer and switched off the night lamp.

I know that I might be boring the crap out of you, but please stay with me here. Next chapter will be about their trip to the Capitol, where the Academy is.

P.S. Just because Peeta has a crush on Katniss does not mean that they will be together, maybe for a short time, I don't know, depend on where my writing goes, if it happens, it happens. But, I am more of a fan on non-canon pairings, not anything too crazy but I like interesting dynamics and fascinating romantic relationships and friendships, and I will try to express this throughout this story.

Review telling me what you like, what you don't like – about the story; unless you want to tell me personal stuff too, that's cool - and what you personally would like to see happen in the story for the future.

I have 7 stories planned out so there is going to be a lot of stuff going down. Things might turn to M in the later stories. But for this story, I just want to introduce characters and relationships which might blossom into more later on. There is still going to be drama, since the Academy is a pretty competitive school and people are sneaky, LOL, but most of the main characters are just 15, so I won't put them into strangely, unrealistic awkward positions. Please feel free to ask me any questions and don't forget to give feedback. Thanks for reading!