Nine reviews already? That has got to be some sort of record. When y'all read this, please don't judge me. You will understand by the end. This chapter is more laid back to open the story. I felt it would be nice to have some easy going stuff to begin with. I also felt like a fast update is something you all wanted :)

TanaAndBritt-Britt: First reviewer! You rock :) I'm glad you like the concept.

MeaganOneDirection: Their lives were sad, but not so much right now. They'll get a lot more intense stuff as the story goes on. I'm glad you're excited and I love writing this ensemble of characters.

Alexandra Jackson rocks Hades: I'm glad you are interested! I am looking foward to future chapters as well.

pumpkinking5: We are about to see Gale's story, I'm so excited for it. I like that everyone is loving the outline. That makes me really happyy as an author and want to update faster. :)

MiaBelles: I want to hug them all too... Finnick and Annie is also one of my favorite couples of all time, so I'm glad you think the same way :)

Guest: I honestly didn't think a prologue like this would work from any of the other characters POV's. I am also a fan of incorporating stuff and thought those were the best things for me to add in. I'm glad you like it!

axes tridents and snares: I love johale too! They are so cute and I can pair them in my own stories :) I will add some angst in later chapters, no worries, but I already had an idea of how Gale and his family would arrive at Graceland, even though I like your a lot. If you have any other ideas please tell me :)

StayAlways: I am very glad you are excited. I am excited as well hope you enjoy it.

TheWomanWhoCodesAndWrites: There will be eventual 'ships... no worries! I am very excited to be writing those parts. There is a little cameo of one relationship in this chapter, but it appears to be sort of nothing... I'll get there. I promise. I wanted to do backgrounds that I thought would fit with them in the actual books too. Annie's came from being captured by the Capitol and Finnick's from being a prostitute. I know Jo is a strong character so I wanted to give her something to be strong on and I know Katniss would do anything for Prim. I was very sad about their pasts while writing the chapter. Here are two more of the other five POV's. I will be having two peoples perspective each chapter.

Chapter 1- A New Face

Gale

I hate the way they are treating me. I can understand treating us like this if it was just Rory, Vick and Posy, but I am seventeen and a senior in high school. I don't want to leave the last week of summer vacation just to move to an entirely new place. I can't say I am sad to leave my house though.

Mother was always on drugs. She would take some because they were prescribed to her, but she would wash the pills down with a beer and burn something else to inject into her system. It was disgusting to watch and I hated having to live with it. It wasn't as if she was doing it my entire life. She only has been for about four years, as long as Posy has been alive, as long as my father has been dead.

I am glad to get out of there to get away from my drug addicted mother. She never did anything for me, even when I was young. It was always dad. I refused to do anything that would disappoint him; taking up smoking or sinking into the pits if depression, like mom, would just disappoint him. I knew he would want me to watch after my siblings. I still want to make him proud.

People say I look just like he did. I have the same, easy looking dark brown hair and the same olive skin. I also got his gray eyes that could always pop, no matter what I wore. The only difference is I am leaner. I am strong and muscular, but my dad was even more so.

Rory, age twelve, looks more like our mother, before she went crazy. He has her jet black hair, cut in the same way as mine, and olive but freckled skin. His eyes are shaped just like mine but they are a blue that one couldn't look away from. I know because I couldn't ever look away from moms eyes. I always looked there while begging her to stop the drugs.

Vick, age ten, was a combination of mother and father, receiving mother's raven hair but father's skin tone and eye color. He was built exactly like our father too. He is going to be handsome when he gets older, that is a fact.

Posy, age four, looks so unlike the rest of us. She has blonde hair that is always pulled up in high pigtails, tied with pink ribbons, mostly because pigtail are the best hair style I can do and pink is her favorite color. Her eyes are like our mothers, a deep blue but there is friendliness in there that cannot be ignored. This little girl is the reason why I let Haymitch Abernathy, one of the employees at the house we are staying at, take us away. I know she will be better taken care of there, rather than here.

I still am not happy about having to leave everything behind to start a new life for myself. I know nothing about this place and I know no one here, except for Mr. Abernathy. Apparently him, and a woman named Effie Trinket, stay at the house with us kids at all times to make sure we are taken care of.

I lean my head against the shotgun seat in the black van with white lettering spelling the name of the house where we are staying. Haymitch told us just to call it Graceland. That's what everyone else calls it. I have my headphones in so I can drown out the Disney Princess music we are listening to in order to make Posy happy. I'd do anything to make her happy, even sacrifice my rights as DJ to let her get the music she wants.

When we pull into the driveway of the house, I am shocked. From the outside it looks like a modern day marvel. I pull out my headphones as Haymitch stops the car. "Well, kids, welcome to Graceland." He opens the door on the van so Vick can jump out while Rory helps Posy with her car seat. I go the back of the van and allow myself to pull the suitcases out.

I cannot say I am not impressed, because anyone would be looking at this building. Maybe it won't be so bad living here for a year. It seems like the perfect place for Rory, Vick and Posy to get a fresh start. I pass everyone their suitcases and let Haymitch show us the way to our rooms.

Posy will stay on the second floor where infants to kindergarteners stay. As we start to walk away Posy latches herself onto me. "Don't go big brudda. I'm scared." I look around the room and see no reason why she should be scared. Everything she would ever want is here.

I crouch down so I am eye level with my baby sister. "Now why on earth would you be scared? I thought you were a big girl now? Do big girls get scared?" Posy is carrying a little bear under one arm and has her other thumb in her mouth. She is so cute, especially when she shakes her head, her pigtails going every which way. "There is nothing to worry about, baby girl. I'll be back down soon. I need to go find the big boy room. By the time I'm back down, do you think you could make a friend?" Posy nodded and smiled. "Go for it, girly. I'll want to meet your friend when I get back." Posy smiled and ran off to join a little girl playing dress up. I know this was the best choice for Posy now.

We soon discover all of us will be split up onto different floors, because the arrangement is designed by age. Infants through Kindergarten lived on the second floor. The third floor housed all the kids in first through fifth grade, where Vick would be. The fourth floor housed sixth through ninth graders, where Rory would be staying. I was shocked when I saw the first girl he made his way to was a pretty blond with blue eyes. She seemed to be waving him over. I chuckled and followed Haymitch up one more flight of stairs.

There was a group of five sitting around a television where an X-Box was connected. Two girls, a girl with short dark red hair and a girl with dark brown hair seemed to be playing Call of Duty. A blond boy was sitting on the arm of the black leather couch they occupied. On two blue bean bags close to the couch, in perfect sight of the television, there was a handsome guy with bronze hair playing an old Nintendo DS Lite with a lovely dark haired girl. I chuckled with the realization they were playing Pokémon against one another. I think I am really going to like it here. "Odair, Mellark! Come over here and meet the new guy, Gale Hawthorne, and show him around!" With that everyone looked up. The brown hair girl actually paused the X-Box to get a better look at me.

The boys got up and came over to me, both with smiles on their faces. The bronze haired one with green eyes introduced himself first. "I'm Finnick Odair. Call me Finnick, Finn, Odair, Sex God, whatever floats your boat." I let out a chuckle and shake hands with the guy.

"I'm Peeta Mellark. Most people just call me Peeta." I shake the guys hand as well. The group of girls by the television waved over at me. Peeta pointed them all out to me. "The girl on the bean bag is Annie Cresta. Call her Annie or Ann. Either one works. The brunette on the couch is Katniss Everdeen. She'll respond to Katniss or Kat, but we typically stick to Katniss. The redhead beside her is Johanna Mason. You call her Jo or Johanna. You will only make the mistake of calling her Hanna once." The boys then lead me down the hall into a room with two beds, and assume one of them is mine.

"Welcome to the family, Gale." Finnick says as he pats me on the back.

Katniss

While the game is paused I get up and stretch. I'm really not sure if I want to finish this round of CoD. Annie has sunk back into her white ds and Jo is pulling out her black one. "Hey, I'm going downstairs!" I announce to them.

Annie looks up from her game, the look of complete concentration on her face breaks. "Why are you going downstairs? Don't you want to stay to meet the new guy?"

I shrug. "I want to meet him, but we're going to be living with him and we'll get to know him during the tradition tonight." Annie shrugs and goes back to her game.

"Brainless, tell Prim I said hi." I do a one handed wave as I go down the stairs, acknowledging I hear her. I can hear them saying they are going to beat one another in a battle as I head down the stairs.

The floors melt into one another, even though each floor looks very different. The living and kitchen areas are bright and happy yellow colors with pale blue and brown furniture, letting it feel warm, welcome and safe. The second floor is a lot of bright and happy basic colors that little kids love. I don't get how they love it, it is too bright for me, but they enjoy it. The third floor is a subdued version of the little kid's room, with more activities that they would love on it. I know Toby likes it there a lot. Annie said when she lived on that floor she liked it a lot too. The room I'm standing in now is very modern looking with a lot to do. There are still a ton of colors, but they are very subdued, often pastel colors. It isn't bad at all and has a ton of things they would enjoy. I loved the living room of this floor when I lived here. The top floor of Graceland is my favorite though. The living room is white, except for the bottom third of the wall, where it is dark blue. The furniture is all black or blue but it isn't depressing looking in there at all. There is an entire wall that is just a window and since Graceland has an amazing location, on a beach –often tourists come in here thinking it is a hotel- we have a great view.

For now, I am lacking that window view since I am on the fourth floor where I see Finnick's twin sisters spread out on a table comparing their Summer Reading assignments, which they both did last minute. If I am not mistaken, they had to read The Giver. I don't see why they were complaining; The Giver was a great book. "Hey girls!" The two girls look up at me, their caramel colored hair each pulled into a side ponytail. The way they look at me right now, I cannot tell them apart. "Have either of you seen Prim?"

One of them shrugs and goes back to her assignment. I assume that one is Daisy, since she never seems to know where anyone but Eloise is. Eloise smiles at me. "She is showing the new guy around with Rue. They should be back in a couple of minutes."

I nod and sit down at one of the chairs where the girls sit. Daisy seems to be struggling with a question and I help her out. I am proofreading her assignment when they come up the stairs. Prim runs up to me and hugs me from behind. "Hey Katniss!"

I smile and hug my sister back. "Hey there, Little Duck." I see Rue standing behind her and give the girl a hug as well. "Is this another Hawthorne?"

The boy sticks out his hand. "I'm Rory, Gale's brother. There are four of us all together."

I'm amazed. There are seldom more than two siblings in a family. Finnick and his sisters were the biggest family we had until now. "How old are your other siblings?"

Rory smiles. "Vick is the second oldest and he is ten. Posy is the youngest and she is four. I'm sure you'll meet them at some point."

I nod in agreement. I am about to walk back up the stairs when I remember Jo told me to tell Prim hi. "Prim, Jo says hi."

Prim smiles back up at me. "Tell her I said hi too!"

I nod and run up the stairs where Annie and Jo are finishing an obviously heated battle. I plop down onto one of the beanbags behind them and watch. I smile as I realize Johanna doesn't stand a chance. Annie is down to her beautiful blue dragonair she loves so much, and Johanna is down to her treasured wailord. I know Annie's dragon knows electric moves and is typically undefeated anyway. Johanna throws down her DS in defeat as Annie delivers the winning blow. "No fair!"

Annie sticks out her tongue and smirks at Johanna as she simmers in defeat. "Both of you need your practice, the tradition is tonight."

The girls smile as they prepare their DS for the battle of the century.

So I know it makes no since at all for Posy to be blonde, but I always pictured her as a blonde, so I am sticking with it. Now, if as a child you didn't play Pokemon, I pity you. I still think the games are a ton of fun to play and decided to incorporate that. I know I have a lot of friends my age who play the games still as well, so I know I'm not the only teenager who plays them. I thought it would be fun to add that in as a normal thing they would do, but in a sense that makes them more of a family. The tradition will come up next chapter and I am very excited for that. I have already thought of some aspects of it, so yay. I am still reading over every ones ideas and trying to add them into my story. I think it would be a lot of fun to add what everyone wants into the story (to the best of my abilities). If I could also get someone who knows how to play Call of Duty to pm me and tell me how the game works, it would be appreciated. I have never played and would like to include some other video games scenes, if I can... I jsut know nothing about my game of choice.

Special thanks to: MeaganOneDirection, MiaBelles, Mikey Jacquez, Natura Nature, SecretsandSugarCubes, SibunaChika1227, StarBright18, StayAlways and axes tridents and snares for adding this story to their favorites! That is already nine people for one chapter! Wow!

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Thanks to everyone who has read too!

-Juliet