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Everlark-THG

This is a Everlark coffee shop au, which was requested by my friend DivergentFan2006.  𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦 y𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵!

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Katniss yawned as she woke up, stretching her arms. She picked up her phone, which displayed the time as 9:44 in large numbers.

Wait. 9:44?

Katniss froze up. She should have been at work already! She checked her contacts. There were three missed calls and twenty-seven texts from Gale. There were also a few texts from Madge, Glimmer, and Marvel. They all went something along the lines of this:

Gale:

𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘱, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘳 𝘶?

𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦.

𝘴𝘳𝘴𝘭𝘺. 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯, 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘱. 𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩'𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.

𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘱. 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺.𝘎𝘌𝘛 𝘖𝘝𝘌𝘙 𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌.

i'm getting worried. i've been covering for u the past half hour.r u okay?

CATNIP

and so on.

Katniss hurriedly texted back, i'm fine, dw, i overslept. get me 15 more minutes? Immediately, Gale texted back, fine. you owe me for making me worry and bc i covered for you. Katniss texted, yes, okay, whatever you say. thx.

Seven minutes later, she was out the door and driving at full speed towards her workplace. She seriously needed coffee, so she parked next to Gale's car and ran towards Rue's Coffee. After placing her order, she sat at one of the booths, waiting for her name to be called.

"Katniss!"

As she walked towards to counter, she bumped into a extremely good-looking guy- who spilled his coffee down her white blouse, making it mocha-colored instead of white.

"Oh my god! I'm so sorry!" The stranger immediately exclaimed.

"It's fine, it's fine," Katniss said hurriedly. "I have a change of clothes at work. Speaking of, I'm actually going to be late, so I have to go."

She grabbed her coffee and brushed past him- unsuccessfully.

"Wait." His hand wrapped around her wrist. "I actually am sorry. At least let me make up for it."

He handed her his business card. She murmured her thanks and dashed out the door, and into the lobby of her office building. She went up the elevator, towards her cubicle, snatching an olive shirt from her change of clothes and went to change in the women's bathroom, unaware of her coworkers staring, nor of Gale picking up the business card that had fallen out her purse.

Five minutes later, she sat down in her chair and let out a long exhale of  breath, only to see Gale leaning against her cubicle, smirking. Katniss immediately groaned.

"So... What's this, Catnip?" He waved the business card up in the air, out of her reach. Out of the corner of her eye, she clocked Madge, Glimmer, and Marvel watching. Katniss felt her ears go red. "That's nothing. Give it back, Gale."

"Won't give it back until you explain."

Katniss, seeing no other way out, explained what had happened at the coffee shop with the handsome stranger.

"How romantic," Gale said, still smirking. "Call him."

"What- no!" Katniss immediately hissed "Are you crazy? We're at work!"

"So? Haymitch is lax about this stuff, and we've all been waiting ages for you to get together with someone! Besides, Madge, Glimmer, and Marvel are the only other ones here, and they won't tell. Will you?" Gale addressed this last question to said people, and Madge immediately shook her head, giving Gale a soppy look, which he returned just as soppily.

"Of course not!" Glimmer said cheerfully.

"Nah," Marvel said, having lost interest and was currently texting someone.

Gale turned back to Katniss, smirking. "See? Your secret is safe with us!"

Katniss scowled at him, but entered the phone number into her phone anyway. He picked up on the second ring. "Hello?"

"Um. It's Katniss-the girl you spilled coffee on." Katniss would have preferred not to introduce herself like that, but she'd realized they hadn't told each other their names during the chaos at the coffee shop. 

"Oh! I'm Peeta Mellark."

There was an awkward silence.

"So would you like to go out, then?"

Katniss paused. "Oh. Um, sure."

"Great! I'll pick you up at the coffee shop from the morning, if you're free today. Are you?"

"Yeah."

"How about at seven? Casual wear?"

"That sounds good." Katniss wasn't sure how the conversation turned out this way, but she didn't really care. Though everything that happened at the coffee shop was a blur, she remembered that he was definitely hot. And sweet.

"See you later then." Peeta's voice rang through her thoughts.

"See you."

Katniss hung up the phone, determinedly ignoring the laughs and 'Ooh!'s of her coworkers.

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First chapter! If you liked it, great! If not, too bad for you. Go find another fanfic. Again, requests are welcome! Thanks to DivergentFan2006, and i'm-mary-poppins-y'all  for being my first followers!