A/N: A couple of you seem to be intrigued by the friendship that might begin between Marvel and Gloss, but you'll have to wait to find out...

Chapter 9- Science With Cashmere

Peeta-POV

Marvel and Katniss left the cafeteria, followed by Annie and Finnick before I stood up myself.

"Any of you have Science?" I asked, grabbing my books as I got up from the table. No body moved or put up their hand.

"Really?" I asked.

"Apparently you're a loner this block man," Gale noted.

"Gee, thanks for the wonderful comment Gale."

"No problem." He said waving me off with a smirk.

I shook my head slightly and laughed.

"Well next block I've got PE," Madge suggested, glancing around the group to see who she would be with during the next period.

"I do too," I said.

"Same here," Cato stated. "Oh! And same for Marvie."

"I do," Clove put in. "And so does Katniss."

Once I reached my Science class, I walked to the back of the room and sat down, placing my books on the counter in front of me.

A girl with blonde hair stuffed in a pony tail entered the room.

She was all dressed up and looked spoiled. As she looked around the room, she smiled once she noticed the empty spot beside me and marched over.

When she reached the table, she thrust out her hand and said, "I'm Cashmere."

Stiffly, I shook her hand and replied with a solemn, "Peeta."

She nodded and fluttered her eye lashes at me, in what I presume, was supposed to be a flirtatious way.

The rest of the class flew by with Cashmere flirting with me and the two of us mixing substances to create chemical reactions.

As soon as the bell went to signal end of class, I rushed out the door, trying to get as far away from Cashmere as possible.

I side stepped to the right as soon as I exited the room and flattened myself against the wall. Cashmere came out, looked both ways and turned left, hurrying down the hall.

I the made my way to Gym safely and headed into the change rooms.

My gym clothes were a lime green muscle shirt and knee length black shorts.

After I closed my locker, I made my way back in to the gym to find Katniss and Clove already changed and looked around the room and see Marvel talking to...Gloss?

I made my way over to the girls and asked them, "Since when does Marvel hang out with Gloss? I didn't know he even knew him."

Katniss looked down shyly and walked away, mumbling something.

"Uh…" I looked at Clove with a questioning look.

She shruged her shoulders and said, "She won't tell me."

I walked over to Marvie and tapped his shoulder.

He turned around after he said "See you later Gloss." Gloss waved a hand goodbye and walked away.

"What's up?"

"Since when do you hang out with Gloss?" I asked completely dumbfounded.

"I met him in Math and he seems like a nice guy," he replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

"Why aren't you over with Katniss and Clove?"

"That's none of your business." He sounded defensive.

I backed up and put my hands up in surrender. "Woah, there Marvie. It was just a question,"

"Yeah, whatever," he mumbled and walked off.

I stared after him for a moment, slightly confused, then headed back over to Clove.

"What's up with him?" Clove asked me.

"He seems sort of defensive, I don't know. Let's go talk to Katniss again."

Clove nodded her head and we marched over to Katniss.

"Katniss."

She turned around to face us.

"Katniss," Clove repeated, "What happened between you and Marvel?"

She took a deep breath before responding. "I think he likes me."

"What did he do?" I asked.

"We were just talking about what happened with Gloss and then he started saying how fun and cool I was." Katniss gave a small smile at that, obviously appreciating the compliments. " I guess he kind of got lost in his words and he started to lean in. I was sort of shocked at first and then he suddenly snapped his head back and apologized, but I just kind of took off. He sat beside Gloss in math and they seem to be really good friends now," She explained.

I let it all sink in before both Clove and I said, "Oh."

Cato strutted in to the room, waving at every girl he saw, and made his way over to us.

"Hey guys!" He stopped when he noticed our faces. "What's wrong?"

Nobody answered.

"What?" Cato asked.

"Katniss thinks Marvel likes her. Something happened between the two of them in the hall and now he's friends with Gloss," Clove said.

Cato's face suddenly turned from worried to angry.

He turned around and stalked across the room to where Marvel and Gloss were standing, chatting away.

This can't be good.

Hmm... What's going to happen now?

-mellarkfan121 :3