Katniss and the Rebels
Chapter 7: Annoying Friends
AN: Hello my lovely readers How is everyone on this fine summers day? It's Friday so I decided I'd update as I thought we needed to see more of the great Finnick Odair and his friends so they are in this chapter here to annoy and tease Katniss and Peeta about their friendship (future relationship I promise) while Madge sits and watches like the brilliant friend she is. I hope you enjoy this chapter this is in Katniss POV again but I will do more Peeta POV if you want.
This chapter is dedicated to: bmdrwho12 and DayDreamer1018
Updated: 24/12/2013 (Merry Christmas!)
Disclaimer: I had a dream last night where I owned The Hunger Games but sadly it was only a dream. So no I don't own The Hunger Games... or Josh Hutcherson :(
Katniss POV
"Hello ladies! Isn't it a lovely, gorgeous, fantastic day?"
Madge and I look at each other and each raise an eyebrow then we look up at Finnick Odair (aka the most popular guy in our school) puts his lunch tray down beside me and sits himself onto the chair next to me.
Madge and I look at Finnick silently asking him
'What the hell are you doing here Odair?'
But we don't ask him that because that would be rude. No townies ever sit with us…well ok Madge 'technically' is a townie but she is cool and none of the townies talk to her because she is the mayor's daughter. We were just waiting for Gale, Darius and Thom when Finnick comes along armed with his 'group'
"It's raining Odair" I point out to him answering his question that he asked before he rudely decided to join us as if he owns the place.
"My dear dear Katniss why do you always have to look upon the negative sides of life? Because darling without rain there would be no water and without water we would all die of dehydration. In conclusion today is a beautiful day because it is the reason that we are alive"
Yeah Finnick usually acts like this and I don't even know him that well. Another reason why he shouldn't be sitting beside me is that Madge and I barley know him.
"Finnick stop annoying people!" Annie Cresta says crossly and I am surprised when she hits him on the head then sits beside him. I think Annie is his girlfriend they act like it anyway you never see one without the other except for the classes in which they are not together for.
I look at Madge again who is sitting across from me and her face is showing the same shock that I'm sure my face is wearing as well. But Finnick and Annie apparently aren't the only ones that will be joining us today.
"Finnick you have a girlfriend why do you insist on flirting with every girl you see?" asked Thresh.
"Hey that's unfair Thresh I haven't flirted with Undersee yet!" Finnick said in mock astonishment then faces Madge, "Which remind me, hi" The way he says it reminds me of Flynn Ryder from Tangled (which Prim and her friend Rue forced me to watch with them). Madge just blinks and her cheeks flush and Finnick grins. I frown at him and again wonder why they are here.
That's when, from the corner of my eye, I see Peeta with his tray of food looking around the cafeteria for his friends who are coincidently sitting with me. I'm not surprised that he is confused Finnick and them always sit over in the middle but Madge and I like to sit in the corner by the windows near the other people from the Seam. Madge and I are the only exception in our school of Town and Seam folk sitting together. And that's only because I have been told that I don't have the friendliest attitude and like I said Madge is the mayor's daughter so they feel intimidated by her for whatever reason.
"Peeta! Over here" Finnick yells across the room.
Most of the school had been staring at our table before but after that everybody is staring at us. I try to slide down in my chair. I hate attention, I don't mind it when I am on stage in the Hob because I know everybody there. But in school I am 100% fine with staying under the radar. I can feel the glare that the Careers are giving me right now. I am silently begging that none of the Rebels come in while the townies are here.
I don't realise that Peeta has been making his way over here until he sits beside me. It is obvious from the look he is giving Finnick and Thresh that he had no idea they would be sitting with Madge and I today even though I suspect the rest of them knew from the way they are grinning at Peeta.
"Hi guys, hi Madge, hey Katniss" Peeta frowns when he looks at the guys but his face quickly brightens when talking to Madge and I.
I smile back at him and reply with a, "Hey"
We all sit there in an awkward silence before Finnick (who else?) breaks it,
"Oh Peeta you are probably wondering why we are sitting over here today with Madge and Katniss. Well here I shall explain. We were all talking this morning before you arrived and we decided that we didn't know anything about your girlfriend Katniss here. So we came up with this genius idea to sit with her and her lovely friend Madge here and get to know them." Peeta tries to say something but Finnick interrupts him.
"No no Peeta ad your best friend I insist that I get to know her. Now Katniss tell me about yourself. Your name is Katniss Everdeen obviously. We are aware that Madge is one of your best friends and my best friend Peeta is your boyfriend. Oh and we also know that you cannot cook at all Peeta may have let that slip to us. Now tell us all about you. What is going on in your life right now?"
Finnick takes out an imaginary notebook and pretends to write in it while looking at me intensely. I look at him in shock and I hear Madge and Thresh laughing. Annie is just shaking her head in despair.
I look at Peeta and we make eye contact. He is rubbing his head and looks like he is trying extremely hard not to kill Finnick. I decide to mess with him so I glare at him and whisper,
"You told them I can't cook?"
Peeta grins softly and shrugs. The nerve of him! He hasn't even seen my cooking and is already judging me. Well ok I have told him that I was rubbish but he doesn't have to believe it. If I poison him it is his own fault.
"Katniss! You never told me that you were dating Peeta now I feel so left out." Exclaims Madge. I glare at her and kick her under the table.
She cringes and glares back at me but she shuts up.
"It's alright Magde. Peety never told us that they were dating either" says Delly Cartright who comes and sits beside Madge.
Peeta glares at Delly and asks her
"So do tell us why do you lot think that we are dating? If neither of us told any of you that we are."
That seems to be the breaking point for them and they all burst out laughing (Peeta and I are still glaring at them). Thresh is the one who calms down first
"It is kind of obvious Peet you just have to look at ye"
"Yes it's the way you two look at each other." Annie says wistfully as her and Delly sigh happily.
Peeta and I blush and try our hardest to avoid each other's eyes which of course none of the others fail to miss. This oh so happens to be the moment that Finnick Odair decides to sing,
"When I look into your eyes it's like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise there's so much they hold. And just like them old stars I see that you've come so far to be right where you are how old is your soul?"
I roll my eyes at him and thankfully the bell rings just as he finishes. I look around at everyone else at the table and I realise that somehow everyone has managed to finish their lunch except for Peeta and I. Great I am going to be so hungry at the end of the day.
We all get up and make our way out. Finnick places one arm around my shoulder and the other around Peeta's shoulder.
"By the way we all know that either you two are dating or you two want to date. And it has to be one of them because neither of you denied it but I shall figure of this quest because I am the great Finnick Odair!" He marches ahead of us with Annie by his side. Peeta and I have English together next class so we walk there together.
"I am so sorry about all of that. I had no idea they were planning of sitting with you." I smile
"It's fine really I just don't know how you can stand being friends with the 'great' Finnick Odair. I mean it seems like he means…well?" Peeta laughs
"To be honest I don't know how I stand him. I mean yeah he is annoying 99% of the time but he is a good friend as well. What about you? How are you friends with Darius Homesway?" I shrug. Most people do question my friendship with Darius but Peeta asks it in a friendlier way unlike others who just ask, "What is he doing with her?"
"Like you I'm not sure surprisingly we have a lot in common" I answer him "Like Finnick he is annoying most of the time, he flirts just as much as Finnick but again like Finnick he is a good friend and he has helped me through some really tough times and of course the most important thing is that he is brilliant at playing the drums."
We are walking into the English room when I finish talking. The teacher isn't here yet so we sit beside each other. Well he sits down but I sit on the table because well I have this weird thing that I like to sit on tables, I'm not very tall so I guess I like the height. Prim does the same thing
"Darius can plays the drums? Do you play any instrument?" I nod,
"Yes I play guitar and the piano. My dad played them and he thought me how to play them when I was very young. I like playing both but I prefer guitar as I'm probably better at it." I look at the ground great he probably thinks I'm weird now because I learned from my dad but as always he surprises me.
"That's really cool."
I look at him and he's smiling, "Really?"
"Totally all I learned from my dad is baking and cooking. I love painting but he paints worse than you cook." I shove him, hopefully hard
"You haven't even seen my cooking yet! I could be just modest. I might be the best cook in the world for all you know." I tell him grinning
"That is true but you already used up your secret talent of playing guitar so I'm guessing you are not the best cook in Panem."
"I could have more than one secret skill you know!"
"Yes but I would bet cooking isn't one of them." I glare at him before sighing
"Yeah you're probably right." That's when our English teacher Miss Longwood comes in but she asks us to call her Portia. She's nice and rumour is she's dating Mr Flame, our Art teacher who also asks us to just call him Cinna who is also really nice (but you didn't hear that rumour from me)
The class is half over and I am writing an essay about Romeo and Juliet (don't get me started on them two) when Peeta slides a folded up piece of paper over to me. I look up and see that the teacher to distracted correcting tests so I carefully open the note.
"Is it still ok that I come over to yours to try out your 'awesome' cooking?"
I try not smile but as usual I fail so I glare at him. But unfortunately he is carefully focusing on his essay but I can see that he is grinning.
I roll my eyes and write underneath
"Are you want to come? You may get poisoned you know by accident or not by accident…"
"I am willing to take that risk but I'm a baker so I have very good cooking senses."
"Cooking senses?" What the hell are cooking senses?
"Yeah you like to hunt right? So I am guessing that you have very good hearing to sense the animals and their movements."
"Yes I do have good hearing and you are extremely loud by the way."
"What? No I'm not!"
"Yes you are Mellark! I have accepted the fact that I can't cook so you have to accept you are very very loud."
"Fine then I will accept it so when can I come over?"
"Are you free after school? I do have to work later but it isn't a long shift I am just filling in for somebody it is only from five o' clock to six. You could come over after school and practise at mine and then you could come to work with me and we could organize the folder there. If that's alright with you. I will get you free food"
"Are you trying to bribe me Everdeen?"
"Maybe..."
"Well it worked"
"Yes! I knew I would win! So we can cook the starter before we have to go and then fix up the folder in The Hob. You can help me cook for Prim and I if you want? You can stay for dinner too of course I mean you might as well cook for yourself as well as us. If you don't have other plans"
I pass the note back to him but refuse to look at him. Ok I am acting ridiculous why am I nervous. I shouldn't be nervous. I doesn't matter if he eats with me or not. Right Katniss focus on your essay
God he is taking a long time
No don't look at him back to the essay
Romeo's character is... Ok I can't concentrate he probably thinks I'm a freak who is obsessed with him now.
Katniss breathe no he doesn't think that you are a freak. Stop over reacting! You only asked him if he would eat dinner with you and your little sister. It's not like it is a date or anything. Relax!
Finally Peeta slides a note back to me it takes me awhile to get the courage to actually read it. When I do I am glad I did
"I'd love to thanks Katniss and of course I'll help but now I have to get back to "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo" Seriously couldn't they speak normally back then? I'll meet you at your locker after school I can't wait"
"I think that was normal for them they were pretty odd during the Renaissance time thingy. Hey you're the artist not me so you should know more than me. I'll see you then and me too."
I pass the note back to him and while he is reading it the bell rings we quickly put our stuff in our bags and as Peeta and I leave the room we have big smiles on our faces.
IMPORTANT AN:
So what did you think? I'm thinking of writing the next chapter the same as this one but in Peeta POV. What do you guys think of that?
If I do that then the next chapter after it we see Katniss try to cook and I wonder how that will go?
The song Finnick sang is 'I wont give up' by Jason Mraz.
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