Hey again.
I try to update every Friday but I might change it to Saturday now. Grammar is probably terrible here but oh well! ;D
Thanks to everyone who has read it and if you do PLEASE REVIEW!
Nancy :D
Flo's POV
'I want you to make friends with Katniss'.
'What? NO! Why don't you just talk to her?'
Peeta blushes. 'You know I cant! She'll just brush me off and think I'm teasing her'!
'Well it'll be the same for me then!'
'No cos you're girls. You can talk about cloths and boys and stuff'!
Do you really think Katniss Everdeen will be interested in stuff like that?'
'…. no. But please try! You've got biology with her'.
We sit down in our form room. My other friends join us on the table, chatting and laughing about some boy with a monobrow. Peeta looks at me with puppy eyes.
'Fine' I snap. He smiles gratefully and rolling my eyes, I turn to join my friends' conversation.
I walk into biology and choose the table with Madge and Katniss on. Giving them a small smile, I unpack my books and sit on the lab stool.
'This month we're gonna do a project on plants and their antiseptic properties. I think it's easier if you work as a table….'
I end up working with Madge and Katniss; Peeta would be pleased. Neither of them talks much, but they don't seem shy. I suppose its because they're together. I spend most of my time talking to Madge. She was really smart and I always had to compete with her for top of the class.
Katniss was quieter but she knew a lot about plants, like Gale. She was kind of dreamy, like she didn't notice anything going on around her except her own life. It was actually really annoying. You had to say her name twice before she answered. Most of the other girls called her 'Kreepy Katniss', (okay, I call her that too. But she is pretty creepy)!
'We need to finish this off as homework' Madge says.
'You could come round my house tomorrow?' I suggest.
'Sure'. Katniss nods.
'That's settled then. My house, Saturday, 11am'.
Madge looks embarrassed.
'Err… where exactly do you live?'
'Oh! Above the sweet shop. My dad owns it'.
Gale's POV
'So, what base have you got up to'?
I whack Robb on the head with my folder.
'I've met her twice'!
'That's longer than you normally take', he winks and I hit him again.
'Is not!'
'You just keep telling yourself that, darling'. He slumps into a chair and start eating his lunch. I sit opposite him and we're soon joined by the rest of the crew (Mick, Jamey and Archie) as well as Sienna and Maria.
'What does Gale have to keep telling himself'? Archie asks.
'Don't worry' I say.
'I wanna know now'!
'That he doesn't get really far with girls on their first date'. I kick him under the table. Wincing he rubs his shin.
'Man up' I mutter.
'But what about Tasha?' Archie asks.
'And Zoey' adds Jamey.
'Luce'? Mick joins in.
'Kirsty'?
'Sammy'?
Sienna and Maria add to the list.
'Angie'?
'Pippa'?
'Can people please stop naming my exes!'
'The trouble is they're not all your exes. You didn't even go out with some of them' says Mick smugly.
I storm out the room, hitting him my folder as I pass.
'That just proves its true!' he yells at me as the canteen doors close.
Peeta's POV
I knock on the door, hoping no one will notice the basket of bread vibrating in my nervous hands. It was Saturday, 11.23am. Flo and I had decided that I would come round at this time and 'help' them with their project. I was excited at first, but now I feel like thousands of butterflies are bombarding the inside of my stomach. I knew I was being silly. I saw Katniss everyday at lunchtime. But this was different; this was face to face.
Flo opens the door and says in a really loud fake voice 'Ah Peeta! You bought the rolls'! She winks and leads me in.
Katniss and Madge are sitting at her dining room table. They have loads of books and sheets of paper spread around them and a folder full of dried plants. Katniss doesn't even look up. She's too busy writing something. Her long braid falls past her shoulder, her grey eyes dark with concentration.
'Peeta! Can you put those in the kitchen please'? Flo shoves me through the door and into the kitchen.
'Pull yourself together! You have to act normal or she'll be scared of you!'
'I know, I know'.
We go back through and I sit down next to Flo, opposite Katniss. She still doesn't look up.
'Peeta's really good at art! He can help us with some of the drawings'
Flo introduces me, and Madge asks me to help her draw some plant. I kneel down between her and Katniss and start drawing. Katniss and I are almost touching yet she still doesn't look at me.
