A/N- Hey guys! Sorry for the late update again. I was pondering what to do for this chapter to make it good and long. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Hunger Games, all the credit belongs to the amazingly talented Susan Collins.

Chapter 4- The Victors

Peeta POV-

I ran after Katniss all the way to my floor and decided to walk the rest of the way there. When I reached my dorm, I walked in on Katniss and Gale hugging.

"Is there something I should know about here?" I asked in a calm yet teasing tone.

Katnis POV-

I reached the door to the room Peeta had mentioned and knocked on it softly. Moments later, it opened and Gale stood before, seemingly just as shocked as I was.

"Katniss?"

"Gale?" I asked, perplexed. "What are you doing here?" I threw my arms around him in a hug.

He squeezed me within the hug then stopped and looked at me with a big grin on his face.

"Surprise!" He yells.

I was taken aback for a moment.

"I wanted to tell you earlier but I wanted to surprise you," He said, still smiling.

'When did you get here?"

"About twenty minutes ago."

"I can't believe you're here!" I exclaimed, engulfing him in another hug.

"Katniss, you're like a sister to me. I can't stay away from my sister can I?"

"Well-" I was cut off by Peeta entering the room.

"Is there something I should know?" I detected a him of teasing in his voice and chuckled to myself, before letting go of Gale and turning to face Peeta.

"Peeta, this is my best friend, and practically brother, from home," I explained, grinning.

Peeta nodded in understanding and smiled.

"Come on. Let's introduce Gale to the 'Victors'." The Victors are the popular group consisting of Peeta, Madge, Johanna, Glimmer, Annie, Finnick, Marvel and Cato. I just met them today so I obviously don't consider myself a Victor.

I grabbed both of their hands and dragged them to the cafeteria.

"So…" Gale starts "Who's the…Victors?"

"The popular group," I replied solemnly.

"Are you one Katniss?"

"No."

"Yes," Peeta said at the same time.

"What do you mean yes and no?" Gale asked, confused.

"Well, I'm not. I mean I just met them all like ten minutes ago," I said laughing slightly.

I looked over at Peeta who had a look of humour on his face.

I gave him a questioning look, but he just shook his head laughing.

We reached the Cafeteria and the whole room fell silent. Probably because we're with Peeta.

Finnick saw us and waved us over. Gale was walking slowly as if he wasn't sure what to do. "Come on," I dragged him along.

When we reached the table I sat down beside Madge again, and patted the spot next me, informing Gale to sit down.

"Everyone, this Gale." I pointed to Gale.

"Gale, this is Cato, Marvel, Glimmer, Madge, Clove, Johanna, Annie, and Finnick and Peeta, who you already know," I introduced, gesturing to each one as I said their names.

"Hey Gale," Everyone said in unison.

"Do you guys always do that?"

"Do what?" They asked together, again.

"Say everything together."

"No." Again? Really? They finally noticed and burst in to fits of hysterical laughter.

The whole room fell silent and everyone was staring at us like we were freaks, but then joined in with us.

The laughing lasted ten minutes and eventually it turned in to a contest of who could laugh the loudest at each table. At our table, I ended up the winner.

"Who's up for a game of football?" Peeta asked.

"Sure," We all said at once. Seriously?

We grabbed our stuff and raced each other out the door, but this time Cato won. Followed by Peeta, Gale, me, Madge, Marvel, Clove, and Johanna. Glimmer came in last screaming, "The winds going to ruin my hair and make-up! Do you have any idea how long it took to look like this? Two hours!"

We reached the field and grabbed a football from the bin. Finnick and Peeta were the team captains.

"I choose Cato, Clove, Annie, Gale and … Katniss." Peeta said.

"Really?" Finnick whined. "Fine. That means I get Glimmer, Johanna, Marvel and Madge."

Each team got on one half of the field and Cato started with the football. Once the game began, Cato handed the ball to Peeta, who was our quarterback.

Finnick chased after Peeta down the field, but got tripped by Gale.

Finnick stuck out his tongue at Gale and Gale faked an expression of hurt.

I was running after Johanna, trying to stop her from reaching Peeta when she stuck out her foot, making me face plant, laughed at me and kept on running.

Looking up, I couldn't see anything since my vision was obscured with black dots, but I heard cheering and assumed we won.

I was still on the ground a couple minutes after the game ended, waiting for my vision to clear.

"Catnip?" Gale called, I moaned in response, but it wasn't loud enough.

"Katniss?" Peeta called.

I moaned louder and got their attention this time.

Gale ran over to me and helped me up, but I still couldn't see very well.

"You okay?"

"Just peachy," I chirped like Effie with a big grin on my face.

Gale laughed. "Well then, what happened?"

"Nothing much. I'll be fine," I said, waving him off.

"Okay."

My vision was clear now and he let go of me. I staggered for a second, but then caught myself and walked towards the group.

We all decided to go and watch the sunset, so we walked over to a hill and lay down looking at the horizon, turning pink, orange and purple.

We talked of school, team sign-ups and dinner.

"I wonder what it's going to be..." Finnick pondered, stroking his imaginary goatee.

"Well, I'm hoping for burgers," I sighed.

"Yeah..." They all agreed.

We ended up having burritos instead and finished them at around 7:15. We then decided to all go to bed since we were all tuckered out from football.

After we waved good-bye, Madge and I headed for our dorm.

"So…" She started. "Are you and Gale dating?"

I laughed. "Me? And Gale? Never! We're close, but our relationship is like brother and sister. Not love. Never."

Madge laughed along with me at my ramble.

"Whatever. I'm tired" She said as we reached our door, searching frantically for her key. "Do you have your key? I think I left mine inside."

"Yeah." I took my key out and opened the door.

As soon as I walked in the room, I noticed I hadn't finished un-packing yet.

"Crap," I muttered. Grabbing a fistful of my clothes, I threw them carelessly into a draw, and put all my toiletries in the bathroom before deciding to finish the rest tomorrow.

I flopped on the bed, not caring to change and let sleep take over me.

A/N- Sorry for the wait! It took me 2 days to write this one. Review!

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