"Hey Everfat!" Ugh, I knew that voice anywhere. It was Cato Hutcherson, quarterback of the football team and son of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. I turn around and the Careers are walking my way. I roll my eyes and shut my locker after I get my books and try to go to Math. Cato stops me and slams me up against the lockers, "Where do you think you're going? Surely not to get those idiots you call friends." He says with a smirk. I keep a straight face while I say "No, the bell is going to ring soon, we all need to get to class." Marvel started to panic, "Shit! I can't get another detention, my parents will kill me! See you guys after!" and he leaves, Glimmer following him. Clove rolls her eyes and asks Cato to go with her to physics. "Fine Efron, but I'm going to deal with Catpiss later." He gives me one final shove and goes off to class. I go to the classroom and no one is there yet, thank goodness. I sit at my desk and pull out my homework when Madge comes in and sits next to me. I smile at her and she scribbles on a piece of paper and passes it to me.
Give up the shit, what happened? I roll my eyes and glare at her; she just motions to the note. I write back, Cato, what's new? I pass it back to her and her eyes widen as she looks at me, What!? Tell me the details! Nothing physical, right? She passes it back and I smile at her concern. Madge is one of my best friends, along with Annie, Johanna and Gale. He just pushed me up against the lockers. It wasn't anything I'm not used to but thanks for the concern. I pass it back just in time for class; I like math but sometimes it's really boring.
After class, I get my books and head straight to History. I have that with Johanna and Cato, it's one of the classes I hate because Ms. K picked our seats and Cato sits next to me. When he sits down, he leans over and whispers, "You know, I'm not done with you yet. Watch out at lunch, Everfat." I ignore him the best I can, just to annoy him. I look over at Johanna, who sits on the other side of the room and she gives me a thumbs up. I smile to myself and pay attention through class, which goes by pretty quickly.
The morning passes and we all go to lunch, I sit with Annie, Madge and Johanna. All of my friends are really pretty. Annie has black hair, tan skin and green eyes. She's kind of tall and she's super skinny, the only reason she isn't dating anyone is because she's a misfit. I wish I could tell her to stop hanging out with us and make some better friends, but I'm too selfish and want Annie to be my friend. Johanna has short brown hair and brown eyes, she's the same height as me and has tan skin but paler than Annie's. She's an orphan like me and has a lot of fire in her, mostly fueled at Cato and his crew. Madge is the quiet one in our group; she has blonde hair and blue eyes. She's the shortest but only by like an inch and her dad is the principal; she's nicknamed Daddy's Girl by Glimmer. None of us are dating anyone, not that we really want to. I really like having them here because they don't care about my weight; they took the time to find out who I was. Everything was going well, until Cato showed up with his posse.
"Hey Everfat!" he said as I tried to ignore him. "Aww, are you ignoring your best friend Cato? Well, I don't do well with being ignored." With that he pushes my head down into my lunch, it was tomato soup day. The whole cafeteria started to laugh. "You bitch!" Johanna called and tried to punch Cato. He blocked it and as soon as they started to fight the PA came on, "Katniss Everdeen please report to the office." Everyone stopped while Cato kept talking, "What'd you do this time Seam slut, eat over the limit you're allowed to?" everyone (excluding 'the misfits') started laughing while I walked away, Madge following with a napkin. She pulled me into the bathroom and told me to go put on the shirt she had in her bag, "How do you-" she pushed me into the stall and sure enough it was the shirt I forgot at her house last Tuesday.
When I walked into the office, I saw a golden retriever with a harness strapped onto him. He sat next to a boy, my age, and I almost forgot about the other people in the room. He was really attractive; he had blonde, shaggy hair that went a bit over his eyes, when he stood up he was a couple inches taller than me and he was really built. I snapped out of my thoughts when Principal Undersee started talking, "Katniss this is Peter Mellark, he's new to the school. You've been selected to be his aid and to help him since you two have the same schedules." Aid? Then I realized it, the dog was his and it's supposed to guide him, I was selected as his aid, it makes sense. He's blind.
"Hi, I'm Peter but most people call me Peeta." He held out his hand to shake mine. "Katniss," I reached my hand to shake his but his dog started barking at me. He knelt down and took River's face in his hands, "Hey, River. River, this is Katniss okay?" River kept barking at him and he sighed, "Pete, why not try the treat trick. It worked on Andi," I look up and see, I'm going to guess, Peeta's brother. He smiled at me and took my hand to shake it, "Rye Mellark, the handsome and told to be annoying older brother of Peeta Mellark." I smiled and turned back to Peeta, "Ok, this is going to be weird but I need you to lick this dog treat." Peeta says. I give Rye a confused look while he just raises his eyebrows, "Memory trick, River will remember your scent and know that you're safe. I had to do it once, I ended up eating it…" he trails off as Peeta nods at his memory. I do it and give it to River; he immediately calms down and even lets me pet him for a minute. "Okay, lunch should be up and you have free period next, right?" I nod at the principal who gives Peeta all the things he'd need and he ushers us out.
I led him outside near the benches, I usually spend free period out here. River guides him over to where I am and sits next to the bench. "So Katniss, can you describe yourself for me?" at first I'm confused with what he means, then I remember that he can't see me. "Well, I have brown hair that I put in a braid and grey eyes. I'm a little shorter than you and I'm, uh, not skinny." I didn't look at him when I said the last part; he must know that because he made me look at him. "You don't need to worry around me, although I can't see I still know beauty." I raise my eyebrows at what he said, "You make me sound weak," I started but he finished it, "Having an eye for beauty isn't the same as having an eye for weakness." And with that I smiled, a real one and not one that I'd do to make someone feel good; I haven't smiled like that in a long time,
but my blood goes cold when someone shout, "Hey Everfat!"
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