Standing outside of Nadyeyat Sya dormitory was Clove. She was standing there, staring in marvel at the building before here. It was a huge building which looked like a castle, there were 4 turrets made out of dark grey stone and she would late find out that the 4 turrets were called North turret, South turret, East and West; which just helped the dormitory supervisor spilt the whole building into 4 parts. To Clove's left was a huge mahogany brown door, and to her right were a bunch of woods - which were forbidden to all students. Clove walked up to door and pushed it lightly and entered a room full of teenage girls and the first thing that came to Clove's mind was noise. Noise that was quite surprising from the fact hat she had just walked through a empty, quiet campus to get to her new dormitory. None of the girls even looked her way, all wrapped up in their own conversations; the languages varied from Russian to Spanish (none of which she could speak). At the corner of the room stood a woman who looked to be in her mid-thirties reading a fashion magazine not noticing the ruckus in front of her. Clove walked up to her hoping that she was her dorm supervisor.

"Erm, excuse me, I looking for room 36, can you point me in the right direction?" Clove asked. The woman stared back at her blankly like she could not comprehend a word that Clove said, she then removed her ear buds and winced at the level of noise.

"Aaah, you must be Clove Vanderbilt, welcome I'm Annie Odair," she said with a Texan drawl that Clove picked up straight away. "I will show you to your room."

Clove followed her down the endless corridors and it seemed like every room Annie and Clove passed there was giggling which just reminded Clove on how friendless she was.

"You'll be sharing your room with 2 other girls, you know," said Annie, breaking into Clove's thoughts. "One's from Texas like me, that's Katniss Everdeen, and the other is a Russian born and bred, and that's Glimmer Charkov." Annie was surprised at the girl's lack of conversation, it seemed like she didn't even care. Annie tried to start a conversation again: "My husband is dorm supervisor of the boys' dorm, his name is Finnick Odair - by the way you don't have to call me Mrs Odair, I prefer Annie."

"Okay." was all Clove could be bothered to say.

"Well we're here!" Annie exclaimed as she stopped in front of a hugely decorated door, full of pinks and purples, Clove smiled to herself - her 2 favourite colours.

"Thank you." Clove replied.

"You're welcome. By the way breakfast is at 8:10 and classes start at 9:05. You'll get your schedule tomorrow." then Annie left not even looking to see if Clove got into her room alright.

"Here goes…" Clove whispered.

As Clove entered the room, the giggling which she could hear before, stopped. And the 2 girls just stared at her. The one girl that was staring at Clove intently was gorgeous. She had pale, unblemished skin; long blonde hair that ended at her waist and emerald green eyes which when hit the right light could look like emeralds. The one sitting next to her was also pretty she had olive skin; shoulder length brown hair and grey eyes which looked silver. Compared to the blonde girl, Clove looked like a frumpy mess.

"Can we help you?" the blonde girl said with a thick Russian accent which made her "w"s sound like "v"s.

"Excuse her," said the brown-haired one. "But are you lost or something?"

"No…I'm your new roommate. Clove? Clove Vanderbilt? Didn't Annie tell you I was moving in?" Clove said awkwardly.

"No, she did not say anything about another stupid roommate!" said the blonde.

"Glimmer, don't be so rude!" the brown-haired whispered in a clipped tone.

So that was Glimmer, Clove thought, as she left the 2 to their whisper-argument.

"I do not want another girl in our dorm, Katniss!" Glimmer shrieked.

"Well, it's not up to us, Glimmer! And why are you being so rude you've known the girl for 30 seconds!" Katniss shrieked back.

"They were 30 seconds too many! She can't just walk in here and expect me to welcome her in open arms can she? Did you not see the way she came in? Like she bloody owns the place!"

"I still think you're making something outta nothing!"

"I don't care, she can get her sorry ass out of our room and go and ask Annie for a different dorm!"

Clove coughed. "Erm, guys, I'm still here you know and wondering where the wardrobe is as I need to unpack!"

"The wardrobe is over there, hun," Katniss said, pointing to the left where the window was. "My name's Katniss, by the way, Katniss Everdeen. And this here is my friend Glimmer Charkov," Glimmer scowled at Clove. "Just ignore her. Want any help unpacking?"

"Sure, thanks." Clove gushed. She was starting to like Katniss Everdeen even if her best friend was a total bitch who seemed to think Clove was deaf.

All unpacked and ready for sleep, Clove was actually kind of excited about tomorrow - it was her 1st time at a boarding school, and who knew how long she was going to be there?- but also worried about how she was going to act. At Clove's last school she was known as the popular girl which everyone was afraid of but it seemed like that position had already taken by Glimmer. She wanted to hang with Katniss but she knew that Glimmer would be sending her glares all the time, she could make friends with some Russian girls and guys who would be so fascinated by seeing an "actual American!" the thought made her laugh, she loved it when tourists came to LA; Patricia, Leah and her would always have a laugh about how they knew nothing and about their accents. She missed them. Even they were sell-outs she missed them, they were the closest things she had to sisters for 2 years. She knew Patricia for longer, though. It wasn't until 9th grade that they met Leah.

First day of high school. Enough said. One of the most daunting things any teenager would ever have to go through but Clove felt lucky at least she had to someone to share this intense moment with, her best friend Patricia; joint at the hip since '99 (their first year of kindergarten) and ever since. They were inseparable and couldn't do anything without the other, it drove others mad - especially their parents who wanted them to make other friends because they knew one day one of them would get hurt. They were correct.

"Are you nervous, Clo?" asked Patricia, who always seemed to be able to read her friend's mind.

"Of course not." said Clove, who always felt like she had to be the one to put on the bravado between the 2 of them. Patricia just raised one eyebrow, she knew her Clove better than anyone and could tell whenever she was lying. "Fine," Clove said with a sigh. "I'm a little nervous but we have each other so I have no need to be worried."

Clove had just left chemistry class, flushed. She had met the "CUTEST boy ever" in her words, also known as Kyle, they were to be lab partners for the rest of the year and it seemed like every word that came out of her mouth made her seem like the dumbest girl ever. Whispers. Were they whispering about her? Did she have period stains? Nope, she hadn't even started yet.

"I heard that she set her last school on fire." said a girl.

"Well I heard that she strangled another student with a skipping rope!" said another.

What are they talking about, Clove thought.

"Have you heard?" Patricia exclaimed frightening Clove with her sudden appearance.

"Sweet Jesus! Don't ever jump out at me like that again, Trish!"

"Sorry, but have you heard?"

"Heard what?"

"You know the new girl, she came today at 2nd period; apparently she's an arsonist."

"You cannot honestly believe that, Trish!"

"Every rumor has to have a hint of truth."

Clove yawned as she woke up from her dream. Every time she thought of that day it made her wish she could wipe the slate clean.