Author's Note:

Here's the 2nd chapter! Summary: I'm Katniss Everdeen and I'm 16 years old. Until today, I was home-schooled. Then, it was good-bye District 12, and hello high-school. Disclaimer: I don't own anything from the Hunger Games. The entire amazing trilogy belongs to Suzanne Collins. I don't own anything from Mean Girls either. All of it belongs to Paramount Pictures Corporation. I've also used the same dialogue as the film. Enjoy!

Katniss Everdeen's P.O.V.

When the bell rang, since I couldn't run, I walked as quickly as I could to class. I needed a good seat. "Don't wait for people to ask you to be their friend, you go to them," Prim had said. I sat next to the boy who sat behind the nice girl yesterday. Maybe I could be their friend. I started putting my books down and taking my jacket off. They were staring at me.

"Is that your natural hair colour?" the boy asked me.

"Yeah," I said.

"It's gorgeous."

"Thank you."

He took my hair and put it against his head.

"See, this is the colour I have."

The girl spoke. "This is Marvel. He's almost too gay to function."

"Nice to meet you."

Some guy I don't know comes up to the girl and says, "Nice wig. Annie," Oh, this girl's name was Annie! "What's it made of?"

"Your mom's chest hair!" Annie yelled. Then she turned to me. "I'm Annie."

"Hi, I'm Katniss." I smiled. Prim was right. "Do you guys know where Room G14 is?"

Marvel and Annie looked at my schedule. "Health, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, G14," Marvel said.

Annie said, "I think it's in the back building."

Marvel looked at me, "Yeah, it's in the back building."

"We'll take you there," Annie told me.

I smiled. "Thanks."

After class was over, we rushed through crowds of people and walked outside. There was no back building, or any building.

Marvel was still looking at my schedule. "Health, Spanish…you're taking 12th grade math?"

"Yeah, I like math," I told him.

He looked disgusted. "Ew. Why?"

"Because it's the same in every country," I explained.

"That's beautiful." He sat down with Annie.

"Where's the back building?" I asked them.

Annie was grinning. "It burned down 30 years ago."

"Won't we get into some sort of trouble for this?"

Annie looked confused. "Why would we get you into trouble? We're friends?"

I took a deep breath and sat down. I knew it's wrong to skip class, but Annie said we were friends. And I was in no position to pass friends. I guess I'll never know what I missed on that first day of health class.

"Why don't they just keep home-schooling you?" Annie asked me.

"They wanted me to get 'socialised'. And my sister, Prim," I said.

"How do you spell your name again, Catnip?"

"It's Katniss. K-A-T-N-I-S-S."

"Yeah, I'm going to call you Catnip."

"Look at Foxface's gym clothes!" Marvel said.

Annie rolled her eyes. "Of course, all the Careers are in the same gym class." The what?

"Who are the Careers?"

"They're Team Royalty," Marvel said.

"That one there, that's Foxface." Annie gestured to a girl with a face much like a fox, and long red hair. "No one knows her last name, or first name; everybody calls her Foxface. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Marvel sat next to her in English last year."

"She asked me how to spell orange," he said. I giggled.

"That little one," Annie pointed to another girl, with long dark brown hair, "that's Clove Thomas."

"She's totally rich because her dad invented hovercrafts," Marvel told me.

"Clove Thomas knows everybody's business. She knows everything about everyone."

"That's why her hair's so big, it's full of secrets," Marvel whispered 'secrets'.

Annie continued. "And evil takes a human form in Glimmer Ryerson," There was a girl, being carried by a bunch of boys. I'm guessing that's Glimmer. She had curly blonde hair that fell past her shoulders and was very, very pretty. "Don't be fooled, cause she may seem like your typical selfish back-stabbing slut-faced bitch, but in reality, she is so much more than that," Annie warned me.

"She's the Queen Bee," Marvel said, "the star. Those other two are just her workers."

"Glimmer Ryerson, how do I even begin to explain Glimmer Ryerson?" Annie asked.

She handed me a sheet of paper. There were many anonymous comments about Glimmer on that sheet of paper. It had things like:

"Glimmer Ryerson is flawless!"

"I hear her hair's insurance for $10,000!"

"I hear she does car commercials. In Japan!"

"Her favourite movie is Harry Potter."

"One time, she met the President on the plane. And he told her she was pretty!"

"One time, she punched me in the face. It was awesome!"

We walked down the corridor for lunch and Marvel told me, "She always wins Spring Fling Queen, she always-" Annie cut him off. "Who cares?"

"I do!" Marvel protested, "Every year the seniors throw a dance for their classmates called The Spring Fling. And, whoever is elected Spring Fling King and Queen automatically becomes head of the student activities committee. I am an active member or the student activities committee and I would say, yeah, I care!"

"Wow, Marvel, you truly out-gayed yourself," Annie said sarcastically. "Here." She handed me a piece of paper. "This map is going to be your guide to high school. Now, where you sit in the cafeteria is crucial because, you got everybody there. You got your freshman, preps, J.V. jocks, Asian nerds, cool Asians, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, sexually active band geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and the worst. Beware of the Careers!"

After I bought my lunch, I was walking over the Annie and Marvel's table when a guy stopped me.

"Hey!" he said, "We're doing a lunch time survey on new students. Can you answer a few questions?"

"Okay," I said. I loved helping people.

"Is your muffin buttered?" He asked.

"What?" I didn't get it. Lots of people around us were snickering.

"Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?"

"My what?"

"Is he bothering you?" I turned around. It was Glimmer who spoke. Uh oh, Annie specifically warned me to stay away from the Careers. "Cato, why are you such a jerk?

"I'm just being friendly!" Cato claimed.

"You were supposed to call me last night!" Clove scoffed.

"Cato!" Glimmer said, "Do not come to a party at my house with Clove, and then scam on some poor innocent girl right in front of us 3 days later. She's not interested." She turned to me, "Do you want to have sex with him?"

I was shocked. "No thank you," I said, a little too quickly.

"Good, so it's settled," Glimmer agreed, "So you can go shave your back now. Bye Cato!"

Cato walked away but I swore I heard him call Glimmer a bitch.

I continued walking to Annie and Marvel's table, but Glimmer stopped me.

"Wait!" she called, "Sit down!"

I looked at Annie and Marvel, they were waving and gesturing that I keep walking.

The Careers were giggling. "Seriously, sit down." Glimmer repeated.

So, I was pressured and sat down in front of Glimmer.

"Why don't I know you?" Glimmer asked me sweetly and smiled, her G shaped necklace dangling.

"I'm new, I just moved here from District 12," I said.

"What?" she asked. How could she not get it?

"I used to be home-schooled."

"Wait, what?"

"My mom taught me at-"

"No, no, I know what home-schooled is, I'm not retarded!" Glimmer exclaimed. "So, you've actually never been to a real school before?"

I shrugged, feeling ashamed.

"Shut up!" Glimmer said. The Careers were giggling. "Shut up!" Glimmer repeated.

Why did she tell me to shut up? "I didn't say anything." I said.

"Home-schooled, that's really interesting!"

"Thanks."

Glimmer examined me. "But you're like, really pretty!"

"Thank you!" I was surprised. No one ever said that to me before, except for my father.

"So, you agree." What? Did she say anything else?

"What?"

"You think you're really pretty."

"Oh, um…"

Glimmer touched my bracelet.

"Oh my god, I love your bracelet, where did you get it?"

I looked down. "Oh," I said, "my sister made it for me."

Glimmer smiled, "It's adorable!"

"So fetch!" Clove agreed.

As if she read my mind, Glimmer asked Clove, "What is 'fetch'?"

"Oh, it's like cool, from England."

Glimmer rolled her eyes. Foxface spoke. "So, you're from District 12. Why are you pretty?"

Clove gasped. "Oh my god, Foxface, you can't just ask people why they're pretty!"

Glimmer leaned in. "Could you give us some privacy for like one second?"

I nodded, "Yeah, sure." I looked over at Annie and Marvel. Annie was mouthing 'what?'. I shrugged.

The Careers were whispering. Glimmer looked at me. Clove and Foxface were smiling. "Okay," Glimmer said, "you should just know that we don't do this a lot, so this is like a really huge deal."

Clove told me, "We want to invite you to have lunch with us, every day for the rest of the week."

"Oh, no, you don't have to." I protested.

"Cool," Glimmer said, "so we'll see you tomorrow."

Foxface smiled dumbly, "On Wednesdays, we wear pink!"

After lunch, I went to the bathroom with Annie. Why did Marvel come with us? I will never know.

I told Annie what the Careers said. Annie laughed. "Oh, god, you have to do it, and then tell me all of the horrible things that Glimmer says!"

I was so confused. "Glimmer seems, sweet."

Annie gasped. "Glimmer Ryerson is not sweet. She's a scum-sucking whore! She ruined my life!"

Marvel came out of a stall, "She's fabulous but she's evil."

A girl noticed him, "Hey! Get out of here!" she cried.

"OMG Danny DeVito! I love your work!" Marvel said, as he chased the girl out of the bathroom.

I asked Annie why she hated Glimmer.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Glimmer, you seem to really hate her!"

She nodded, "Yes, what's your question?"

"Well, my question is why?"

Marvel tapped my shoulder. "Glimmer started this rumour that Annie was-"

"Marvel!" Annie yelled. "Shall we not?"

She turned to me. "Look this isn't about hating her," she told me, "I just think that it would be a fun little experiment if you hang out with them and then tell us everything that they say."

"What do we even talk about?" I asked.

"Hair products!" Annie suggested.

"Ashton Kutcher!" Marvel said. Who's Ashton Kutcher?

"Is that a band?"

Annie grabbed my shoulders. "Just do it, please?" she begged.

I sighed, "Okay, fine. Do you have anything pink?"

Annie looked disgusted. "No!"

Marvel looked happy. "Yes!"

By 8th period, I was so happy to get to math class. I mean, I'm good at math. I understand math. Nothing in math class could mess me up.

The guy sitting in front of me turned around. "Hey, do you have a pencil I could borrow?" I stand corrected. This guy had the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen, and his hair, was blonde, and just perfect. "Here." I said, giving my pencil. He grinned. "Thanks."

I only had one other crush in my life. His name was Andrew and we were five.

Flashback

I walked up to Andrew and hugged him. "I like you," I said.

He pushed me away. "Go away!"

End of flashback

It didn't work out. But this one hit me like a big yellow school bus.

"Katniss, what do you say?" Ms Trinket asked me.

He was "So cute." I hadn't realised Ms Trinket asked me a question. Everyone stared at me. "I mean 12 over 8."

Ms Trinket nodded in satisfaction. "That's right! That's good! Very good! Alright, let's talk about your homework…"

After school, I went home. Again, my parents were waiting for me.

"Hey!" my dad said again. "How's your second day?"

"Fine," I shrugged.

"Were people nice?" my mom asked.

"No."

"Did you make any friends?" my father asked.

"Yeah." I walked inside, leaving my confused parents sitting there.

Primrose Everdeen's P.O.V.

Rue and I got our school bags and started to walk outside. "Hey!" Rue said, "Do you want to come over tomorrow?" I nodded. "Yeah, that'll be great!"

Rue smiled. "Alright! See you tomorrow! Bye!"

"Bye!"

When I got home Mom and Dad were sitting outside, just like yesterday.

"Hey! How's your second day?"

"Normal."

"Were people nice?"

"Yeah."

"Did you make any other friends?"

"Yeah. And, Rue invited me to go to her house tomorrow after school, is that alright?"

"Sure, just be home by 9." Dad said and winked.

Katniss was sitting inside. "Hey, Kat!" I cried. "So, did you make any friends?"

Katniss nodded. "Well, there's Annie and Marvel, and then the Careers." Who?

"The what?"

"The Careers. They own the school. They asked me to have lunch with them every day. Annie told me to do it and then tell her everything that Glimmer says."

"Glimmer?"

"The Queen Bee."

"Oh. So, have fun."

I can't help think that Katniss is going to be half spy, half Career. From what I heard, Glimmer seems, I don't know, like a mean girl, if Annie wants Katniss to spend time with them. I'll reason with Katniss tomorrow. Right now, I got to do my homework.

So, my 2nd chapter! What did you think? Please review! Thanks! :)