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Abnegation Ravenclaw (Ily)

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*Katniss POV*

I hear Peeta shout my name but I don't respond. My truck's headlights flash signaling I've unlocked it, so I step in and drive off school property. My truck smells of cigarette smoke and alcohol but I won't clean it out because it comforts me somehow. Probably because it smells like the complete opposite of my house which is always clean and smells of roses due to my stepfather who -for some reason- loves the scent. Shaking my head, I pick my phone up again and dial Cato's number.

"Hey Kat. What's up?" he answers immediately. I don't know why I'm still dating him. We met right after my father died and started going out a little while after. He's not exactly the nicest person ever, but I assume I'll just stay with him long enough to get to D.C.

"Nothing much. I just left school and was wondering if I could come over." I say, turning to head to his house anyway. "Snow would have my ass if I came home this early."

"Probably," he chuckles. "And yeah you can come over. Marvel just gave me a shit ton of powder for only a couple hundred dollars so we could hit that if you want." no matter what I say I'll end up doing it anyway so I agree.

"Cool. I'll be there in a few minutes." I hang up and continue to his house.

I know that tomorrow if I come back to school I'm probably going to have detention for weeks and then I Snow really will kill me. My mom married the awful Coriolanus Snow just a few months after Dad died. We had known him for a year or two before, and after Dad died, he swooped in and offered to help our family with whatever we needed. I hate him. Prim hates him. And Mom doesn't even really pay much attention to him because she often falls in and out of depression spells and will be confined to her bedroom for weeks on end. I almost hate her too. Soon I'm pulling into Cato's driveway and just in time too. He opens the door for me and leads me inside.

*Next day*

I don't make it to school in time for first, second or third period. It's not until English, which is during fourth period, that I decide to show up. Cato convinced me to stay the night at his house last night to have 'some fun'. Which really wasn't a whole lot of fun to me. Plus right before I left for school he also convinced me to do one more line, so now I'm shaking and jittery. During class, I'm tapping my foot rapidly and drumming my fingers on the desk. About halfway during the lesson I'm starting to scratch at my desk which makes Mr. Templesmith turn and look at me.

"Katniss Everdeen can you please stop fidgeting." he asks kindly.

"Can you please shut the fuck up?!" I screech then widen my eyes and shrink back into my desk. The entire class goes silent and stares at both Mr. Templesmith and me

"Miss Everdeen please go to the to the Principles office immediately. I grab my backpack sheepishly and slowly walk out of the class. Right before I let the door shut, I see Peeta looking at me sympathetically. Like I've done in the past when I've been called to the office, I consider just ditching again and going out. I'm already in a lot of trouble as it is. Plutarchs door is already open when I get to the office, so he silently ushers me inside and points me to a plastic chair in front of his desk.

"Katniss," Plutarch sighs. "You really haven't been doing very well have you?"

"What are you my new therapist or something?" I snipe.

"Miss Everdeen I'm not trying to...demote you in anyway. I just don't think you've been acting normally lately." he says. "First your grades begin dropping and now cursing out teachers?"

"I know, I know." I wave my hands. "It's just you know about my Father and everything's been hard and-"

"I understand that," Plutarch interrupts. "But Mr. Templesmith was just going to ask you to be quiet. That's no reason to cuss him out."

"He was pissing me off!" I shout

"He did nothing wrong Miss Everdeen." Plutarch looks down at me fidgeting hands and furrows his eyebrows. "Are you alright?" I quickly draw my hands back and fold them together.

"I'm fine," I snap. Plutarch shakes his head then picks up his phone. He dials some number and asks for whoever he's on the phone with to come down. Only a few minutes later a female cop walls in holding a plastic bag with little thigs inside.

Oh shit. I'm getting a drug test.

My hands begin to shake even more when the woman hands me a little container that she tells me to pee in. My plan of bolting out of the school are foiled when she escorts me to the one person restroom and waits outside the door. I pee into the cup and say a quick prayer that all of the drugs have left my bloodstream, but it's impossible because I'm still shaking and jittery and lightheaded. When I exit the restroom, the lady takes the container but grabs me wrist to stop me. I consider pulling away but I might as well get on her goodside.

"Miss, I can already tell this is going to come back positive I can see it in your actions." surprisingly the cop, who's nametag says Lavinia, doesn't seem very angry. In fact she almost seems upset about it.

"I don't do drugs," I lie. Lavina shakes her head and puts a hand on my shoulder, which I shrug off.

"I've heard a lot about you Katniss. I know you smoke and I know you skip classes so this really wouldn't surprise me, sweetheart." she smiles sadly.

"Don't call me that." I bite. The only person that has ever called me that is my Dad so no one else is allowed to.

"Alright well obviously you aren't very cooperative so what I'm going to do, is tell Plutarch that the test came back negative but your still shaken up so I decided to drive you home. How's that sound?" Lavina asks.

"I don't want your pity." I frown.

"And you're not getting any. I'm driving you home but I will be telling all of the other police in my station to watch out for you alright?" before I can answer she walks into Plutarchs office and comes back out a minute later.

"I have my own car. I can drive it," I tell her as she leads me to her cop car.

"You can come get it tomorow." She says. I'm put into the back seat of the car and driven home where certain hell awaits.

A/N So I know I left it on a minor ccliffhanger, not very big but still. I will try and post the next chapter within a few days. And I know the plot is kinda slow right now but unfortunately I don't want to reveal to much in the first few chapters. So yeah. Thank you so so so so so much for reading! Ily and DFTBA!

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