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PLEASE REVIEW. IT MAKES ME BEYOND HAPPY! THIS CHAPTER IS A VERY FUN CHAPTER BECAUSE IT'S SOMEBODY'S BIRTHDAY AND THAT MEANS EVERYONE WILL PARTY 'TILL THEIR PURPLE! :D
AGAIN, NOT MINE. THANK YOU SUZANNE COLLINS. AND DON'T OWN ANY OF THE MOVIES, SONGS OR CLOTHING/SHOE BRANDS EITHER.
Ring. Ring. Ring. Rin-.
I pick up the phone, "Hello?" I ask.
"Hey, it's Clove."
I mentally sigh. Prim's doctor has been calling non-stop since Tuesday evening. Talking about medications. Mom says that she doesn't need medications and that things like this happen to everyone. Right. "Hey," I say.
"Guess what day it is tomorrow?" Clove asks. I can hear that sound in her voice. The kind that says 'I'm beyond excited'.
I know what day it is but I just want to mess with her. "Friday?"
Clove groans. "It's my birthday! I'm having a big pool party. Remember?"
"How could I forget." I tell her.
"Just calling to make sure you're coming. I'm turning thirteen. It's a big deal."
"Yeah, I'm coming. What movies do you want me to bring?" Clove's party is at her house and everyone in our grade is coming. Even some other people in other grades and yada yada yada. But our group is having a slumber-party. I'm always in charge of bringing movies. Alphabetical order.
"Warm Bodies and Willow." Clove says. "Can you believe we're already onto W's?"
"Yeah, it was impossible to find a movie that starts with Q." I laugh. We decided to just skip Q and go start to R. Which we watched Ratatouille and Race To Which Mountain. "What about Z?"
Clove is silent for a moment. "Probably a movie about Zebras or something. Then we have to start all over agian. Back to the A's. I already got a few movies in mind."
"Good." I say. "And are we going to the mall?"
"Yes. Please come to my party dressed like a girl. No plaid or you can't come in." Clove teases.
"Is Annie going to be there?" I ask.
Clove sighs. "Yes, and Finnick. They are all, 'Let's watch Safe Haven, Clove. It'll be fun, Clove.' So I grabbed the phone and locked myself in my bedroom."
"I saw Safe Haven. It was mind-blowing. I think you'd like it." I can literally see Clove's face when I say this.
I hear Clove mumble something. "Really?"
"Yes." I tell her.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Clove, the girl shoots some guy in the face. It's awesome." I assure her.
"Okay. I'll call you back when it's over. It better be good." Clove says.
"The house lights on fire." I say.
"Awesome. I think it sounds okay. Bye."
"Bye." I hang up and go back to my room and set out what I'm wearing to the pool party. Pool party. So I don't have to wear anything exactly girly. And then we're going to the mall... Fine. I can do this.
For the pool party I grab my green bikini and a white cover-up dress to go over it. Then I add my tan sandals. Girly enough. Now for the mall. Fudge. I take my blue and white striped sweater from Forever 21 and coral pink shorts. For shoes I will where my black lace Toms.
Done.
"Thanks for helping set up." Clove thanks us after we have set up the buffet table with the chocolate fountain. Clove's house is rather large for L.A. and her back-yard has an out-door kitchen and pool that goes up to nine feet deep with a diving rock. Of course Clove's dad is a lawyer and her mom is a personal trainer.
"No problem," Madge says. "Has anyone seen Foxface?"
"She's helping Annie with the cake," I say.
I really want to jump in the pool but I know I have to wait fifteen minutes for the guest to arrive. Just wait until five. I've been here since school ended. Clove's mom picked us up and my mom picked up Prim so she wouldn't have to walk home alone.
Johanna groans. "I'll get her so we can change into our bathing suits."
"What if no one comes?" Clove asks us nervously.
"They will come." I promice.
"Yeah, they'd be stupid not to." Madge agrees.
Johanna and Foxface come back. "Alright, let's go." We head upstairs to Clove's purple bedroom and change into our bathing suits. We all have differrent colors. Mine is green, duh. Foxface's is red. Clove's is dark purple. Madge's is white and Johanna's is bright blue.
I take my hair out of it's braid and it falls into loose curls. Then I put on my cover-up and carry my sandals since I don't really need them. We head back downstairs to the pool. No guest have arrived but Finnick and Annie are setting the cake down on the table and Clove's parents are setting bowls of chips and fruit out.
"There's the birthday girl!" Finnick shouts while picking Clove up and spinning her around. We all laugh as he flips her upside down. Annie, Finnick and Clove could all be siblings by their looks. Dark hair and green eyes. But only Clove and Annie are sisters while Annie is dating Finnick.
"First guest!" Foxface squeals while clapping her hands.
Mrs. Cresta laughs. "Don't act weird, girls. I don't want them to see us acting crazy and turning around and leaving." She teases.
People begin to fill in after that. Cato and his friends brough squirt-guns and are having a war or something. Our group is having fun doing back-flips and diving in off the diving rock when guess who shows up? Cashmere and Glimmer waltz in wearing tiny, barely covering bikinis with their hair perfectly curled. They lay their towels on some of the chairs you can lay out on.
I hop out of the pool and walk up next to their chairs. "Hey, what do you think of the party?"
"Ugh. We didn't really want to come. We were going to go to Hamilton beach but it was packed. My mom forced us to come here. So we though, might as well get a good tan." Cashmere informs me.
I begin to feel very evil. Maybe Johanna's little sister Lauren is rubbing off on me. "So you don't plan on getting wet?"
"Are you kidding me? We just got our hair done." Glimmer is probably rolling her eyes behind her over-sized sunglasses. "Not everyone is born with natural platinum blonde hair. We have to get it colored just right at least every three weeks."
"Hmm... Hey, Cato." I shout over at Cato and his group.
"What?" Cato says and drops his squirt-gun from his fighting postion.
"Glimmer and Cashmere here look like they need a little refreshing bit of water." The look on the boys faces is definatly what I was expecting. Malice.
Cashmere looks at me like I'm crazy. "What does that mean-" She didn't get to finish her sentance before the boys did a sneak attack on them. I turn and jump back into the pool.
"They deserved it." Clove tells me as we watch Cashmere and Glimmer run around the lawn trying to get away from the squirt-guns.
I do another dive in the pool and relize that I am starving. "I'm hungry. I'll be back in a few."
"Got it," Madge says. Her and Gale have been talking a lot. They'd be a cute couple because they are opposites. Gale is loud and dark haired while Made keeps to herself and is blonde.
I walk over to the buffet table and dunk one of my chips into the hummus.
"You're not going to double-dip, are you?" A voice comes from behind me.
"Eww, no." I scrunch up my nose and turn only to be face to face with none other then Peeta Mellark. Just peachy.
He grabs and chip and puts a little hummus on it. "Good, because I saw about twenty kids double-dipping in the salsa." He tells me. "I'm just making sure that the hummus is actually edible."
I snort. God, why can't I laugh like a normal person. "Nice to know." I feel extreamly uncomfortable. I don't usually hate talking to people, but this is very awkward. I try to come up with an excuse but all I can come up with is, "Well, I got to go. See you around."
"Bye," Peeta says and I get away from there and I plunge into the pool.
"Aww, Kitty has a crush." Foxface comes up next to me.
"What? N-no, w-what are you talking about." My voice comes out squeaky and scared.
Foxface rolls her eyes. "You were blushing the whole time. Not kidding."
"Were you the only one that saw?" I ask.
"Yeah, at least I think so." She says. "I won't tell anyone, though."
"Tell anyone what?" Johanna pops up put of the water.
Foxface quickly covers. "Tell anyone what Kat got for Clove."
"Oh," Johanna looks deep in thought. "Oh, right. I came to ask you if you brought the movies."
I snort, again. "Yes. I brought them."
We all turn our heads in the direction of the jumping rock. "Alright, everyone!" Cato is standing on the top demanding everyone's attention. "I am about to attempt the most amazing, most incredible quadriple back-flip into the pool." He stands back and the water in front of the tall rock clears. He has a running start and jumps.
Everyone counts out loud how many flips he does. "One, two, three, four, five!"
SMACK! Cato lands on his back with the most painful sounding splash I've ever heard. He appears a few seconds later. Everyone's voices jumble up, telling him he did five flips. When he gets stiffly out of the pool his whole back is bright red.
"Ouch," Madge mumbles.
"Little idiot deserved." Johanna says.
Clove giggles. "That sounded very painful."
I watch as Finnick walks up to the DJ station and grabs the microphone and screams, "Happy Birthday, Clove!" Then he switches the song to We Can't Stop by Miley Cyrus and turns on the colored lights that switch colors in the pool.
Looks like this party is getting very weird.
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