Summer classes are over! So what do I do? Work on my fanfic that takes place at University! :) Yay! :D
Rue and Prim visited the other girls on their hall. Johanna was a third year forestry student and the RA. Tammy and Erica were both biology majors and Prim spent an hour gabbing with them about her premed courses. Soon it was time to go to the dining hall. "Hi, Ladies!" A red haired girl named Lavinia said as she scanned their ID cards. Her name badge designated her as the student manager. "Enjoy your first meal at Panem University!"
"Ooooooo!" Prim gasped as she took a tray. "Everything looks good!"
"Yeah. The food looks real. Thresh said sometimes it doesn't!" Rue giggled. After piling their plates high with grilled chicken, a slice of meatloaf, mixed vegetables, and a buttery roll, they looked for their hall-mates. Suddenly the dining hall erupted in cat-calls and whistles.
"FINNICK! PUT YOUR SHIRT ON!" Johanna called looking at the entrance to the dining hall.
"Aw, but no shoes, no shirt, but I still get service!" Finnick sang trailing his hands up and down his pecs and abs. He indeed was shirtless and wearing obnoxiously short shorts and flip-flops.
"Not here, sexy." Lavinia laughed before Finnick threw on a skimpy Panem University tank top. Sauntering in to flaunt his very short running shorts, he waved at the other students.
"Hello, Freshmen!" Finnick called.
"How do you know Finnick?" Prim asked Johanna.
"We both played intramural sports. Actually, we both won a Panem University swimming contest. Unlike Finnick, that doesn't go to my head." Rue and Prim laughed. "He's a good guy and really does enjoy helping underclassmen. He's also just a big flirt."
After dinner, the girls joined their fellow dorm mates in the main courtyard of the university for the Student Clubs Carnival. "So Thresh is on the basketball team?" Prim asked. Rue nodded. "Katniss is president of the archery club. Which clubs do you want to visit?"
"I dunno. We can just walk around." They stopped at a table where they could finger-paint a mural about Panem University. The students manning the booth both wore dreds and torn clothing.
"It's so awesome, man. Look at the colors." The boy said grinning before nibbling on a brownie.
"Way out job girls!" His clubmate cheered as Rue drew a small heart. "Hey, come to the art club!"
"Ok." Rue and Prim giggled before the art students continued laughing and painting their mural. "I think they were stoned." Prim whispered in an undertone to Rue who laughed.
"Uhh - yeah." Rue agreed as cheers erupted from one of the fraternity tables. "Is that the frat Peeta is in?" Prim nodded.
"YEAH! LISTEN UP!" A burly blonde haired senior called as he stood up on the table. "ALPHA! KAPPA! DELTA! YEAH! Ok, to prove how cool we are, we'll do STUNTS! I'm Cato Harrison and I'm the president of this frat!"
"Don't break your junk!" A girl called laughing. Rue and Prim looked at a girl wearing a sorority t-shirt. She was short with bushy dark brown hair.
"Yeah, I won't, Clove!" Cato called. "ANYWAYS! Uh - I have this BEER BONG!" Cato held up a plastic funnel attached to a long hose.
"Root beer bong, mind you." Peeta called appearing with a baking sheet in each hand. He was dressed in t-shirt and jeans with a black apron bearing the frat letters over his clothes. The apron was dusted with flour and frosting indicating the baked goods he delivered were fresh.
"Whatever, breadboy!" Cato called. "Now, I need a volunteer!" A freshmen boy in the front raised his hand. "You! Open those four cans of beer."
"Root beer." Peeta corrected again as he set the baking sheets far away from Cato who was kneeling on the table.
"BREADBOY, GET UP HERE!" Cato called. Peeta shook his head and stood on the table with Cato.
"BEER BONG! BEER BONG! BEER BONG!" The crowd chanted as Cato drank all four cans of rootbeer poured into the funnel. "YEAH!" Cato stood up and fist-pumped the air before letting out an almighty belch. "ALPHA KAPPA DELTA RULES!"
"Wow." Prim muttered shaking her head as she and Rue walked by the table.
"Cupcake?" Peeta asked holding his baking sheet out to the girls who took two frosted cupcakes with the fraternity letters in the center.
"Thanks, Peeta." Prim said smiling.
"Prim!" Prim looked over as her RA called to her. "Primrose Everdeen! You're sister's gonna light the school on fire!" Prim and Rue laughed as they walked over to the wall of the student center. A crowd had gathered behind a lone archer. A wooden target was hung on the wall.
"Yeah, Kat!" Prim called before Katniss dipped her arrow in liquid. At her sign, Gale strutted into the dim lights that glinted off his bare chest and abs. He lit the arrowhead on fire seconds before Katniss drew it back aiming for the bullseye. The arrow hit the target setting it on fire.
"Join the archery club! It's awesome!" Gale called to the crowd. Pulling Katniss close, he smirked at all the girls who were shamelessly staring at his muscles. "Talk to my Katniss here for more info!"
After an hour of wandering the campus courtyard munching on free candy and gathering pamphlets on various student activity clubs, Prim and Rue decided to call it a night. "Hey girls. Want to come to the Tri-delt sorority?" Glimmer, the girl they had spoken to earlier in the day, asked smiling at them.
"No." Prim yelped and whirled around. Katniss stared at Glimmer with her bow and arrows still in hand. "My younger sister - and her roommate have plans."
"Guess we're going to Kat and Gale's." Prim muttered to Rue. "Katniss, how did you know she was going to ask us?" Ignoring her sister's eye-rolling, she giggled. "Did Peeta tell you?"
"Shut up, Prim!" Katniss snapped feeling Gale tense next to her at the sound of Peeta's name. "No, I knew that airhead had her eye on you and Rue since you both moved in. You're not going Greek."
"Why?" Prim asked. Katniss sighed.
"Because. Just trust me." They walked several blocks to the off campus housing where Gale and Katniss shared a one bedroom apartment. "Hi, Wire." Katniss said to a wide-eyed young woman who appeared to be a graduate student.
"Hi, are these girls -" The graduate student Prim and Rue assumed was 'Wire' asked in a soft voice.
"Neighbors?" Katniss finished as 'Wire' gazed at Prim and Rue. "No. This is my sister Prim. She lives in Nerd Hall." The grad student smiled.
"Oh, I'm Wiress Carpenter and I am the tutoring coordinator -"
"For the aptly coined 'Nerd Hall.'" A man who looked like he was a professor said coming out of one of the units. He smiled and put his hand on Wiress' shoulder. "I'm Professor Beetee." He said. "Pleased to meet you ladies."
"I'm Rue." Rue said shaking the professor's hand.
"I'm Prim." Prim made introductions with both of them. "I think both of us are in Physics for the Biological Sciences." Beetee smiled at them as he adjusted his glasses.
"Oh good. I teach that class. Well, Wiress certainly knows her physics if you need a hand." Beetee smiled sweetly at Wiress.
"Nice to meet you." Rue said smiling before Katniss and Gale led the girls into their unit.
"They live together." Katniss announced after they closed the door and flopped down on the couch.
"We figured that out, but didn't say anything." Prim pointed out. "So what did you want to do over here?"
"Just get you away from the Greek idiots." Katniss muttered. Gale chuckled causing Katniss to slap him in his abs as he was sitting next to her with his arm around her.
"OW! So, Peeta is a Greek Idiot? Good ta know." Gale muttered grinning earning himself another slap.
"Oh, here's a box of Cheezits. Gale bought the wrong kind." Katniss said going to the kitchen and returning with a box of flavored cheese crackers.
"HEY!" Gale protested from his place on the couch. "I would eat them!"
"Shut up, Gale! I have to watch out for my baby sister now! Buy your own damn box if you like this kind so much!" Katniss snapped as she handed the box to Prim.
"Maybe I will." Gale said seductively before picking Katniss up and kissing her on her neck.
"Oooh! Gale!" Katniss moaned before wrapping her arms around her boyfriend before they began kissing passionately.
"And that's our cue to go." Prim muttered thoroughly embarrassed. "C'mon, Rue. I think we can find our way back. And we have some snacks." Rue laughed.
"Yeah, your sister and her friends will make this place great." Rue commented as they walked back to campus.