Authors Note: Yesss! Next chapter ! Whos excited!? ... No one? Well pshhh okay than. I hope you enjoy this. I looked through my prologue and I noticed I left some things unclear. So sorry about that. Its modern day just so you know. Peeta works in the bakery cuz' they own the bakery obviously. (incase you were unsure) His brothers are Rye and Dill. Dills the oldest and Ryes the middle child. Making Peeta the youngest. Also if in this chapter the characters act a little different it's cuz' there older. This is getting really long so im going to say bye and let ya' start the chapter. Sooooo. Yeah.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Hunger Games. Which means I am not Suzanne Collins. );


Chapter One: 9 years later


You know how people say they can't imagine life without their best friends. Well I beg to differ.

"No Delly,stop!" I yell as she shoves me toward the one and only Katniss Everdeen.

" Come on just ask her. Whats the worst that could happen? She says no?"

"Yes! I don't think my ego could take that kind of shit." She glowers at me and pushes me forward. As soon as I'm in front of Katniss I freeze. Delly, like the great friend she is, runs off. Katniss looks at me with her signature scowl. Shes had that scowl since her dad had passed away. I missed her smile ...

"uh. H-hi" I wave awkwardly. Dammit why'd I wave she's right in front of me.

"Hi Peeta." She says calmly. How does she know my name?

You've had the same classes since kindergarten. What do you think?

Oh. "Did you need something?" Aright it's now or never. Well not really I could always ask later or-no! Pay attention.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to go to Johanna's party. I had no one to go with and well uh yeah. So would you want to go... with me?" Her eyebrows furrowed and she bounced on her feet uncomfortably.

"Sure. I don't have anything else to do any how." Wait did she say yes? There was no way she had said yes ,but there she was giving me a hint of a smile. "Just pick me up at 8." she turned on her toe and left. Holy Hell! I, Peeta Mellark had a date with Katniss Everdeen.

My mom was going to kill me. I leaned against the locker with a loud sigh.

If my mom found out I had a date with one of the girls from the "seam" I'd surely get a slap to the face ,probably more. I didn't think people from the seam were so bad . Not to mention I didn't think the nickname for the poorer side of town was very nice.

"I didn't say you could go to a party!" My mom snapped. Rye and me sighed at the same time.

"Dad said we could." He replied.

"Without asking me?!"

"Yup." Rye says bluntly.

Before I could even blink my mom snatched Rye by his ear."Do not disrespect me!"

He squirmed out of her grasp and glared at her. " I'm not 8 any more! "

Dad came out of nowhere. "Whats going on?" he said wearily. I assumed he was talking to mom but he looked straight at me. I looked at dad for a long time before answering. Dad barely acknowledged me let alone talked to me. He looked tired. His dull blue eyes looked bored as he stared back expectedly.

"Mom wont let us go to the party Rye asked about." I felt wierd ratting out my mom when she was in the same room.

"Let them go Anne their teenage boys. They got to have some fun."

"Theres too much to do around the bakery!" She replied indignantly.

"They've been working the whole week." He than turned to us "You can go" Rye tried to hide his smug smile with no avail. If dad wasn't there I was sure Rye would have got hit.

I watched curious as my mom tried to hide her anger when Rye and I left. Rye got picked up by some friends and I of course slid into my baby. I loved my car. It took me forever to save up for it but I did. It was old yes ,but i liked to think of it as vintage. All in all it was running.

I wiped my palms against my jeans when I pulled up in front of the small house. It was well takin' care of that was obvious ,but not as nice as a town house.

Slowly I made my way up to the porch. With one quick breath I knocked.

"Hi" A beautiful voice said softly. I look up and meet big silver eyes.

"Katniss."


Some More Of An Author's Note: Well I hope you liked it. Its longer but I still think its short . Trust me ,the next one will be very very very long because that's the fun stuff. ^.^ haha. But some reviews again would be nice haha. Just tell me if you like it or what you thinks going to happen or what you WANT to happen. I might fit it in the story haha. I like to please people so if there's something you don't like about the story please tell me. Any who bye. Come on review. I'll bake ya' some fake Pita bread ;)