Can You Keep A Secret? (Clato)*ON HOLD*

Chapter 2.

Beep beep beep

I let the alarm run a few more seconds but it's the first day of school in Mockingjay High for me and Sage so I get out of bed and wear, a pair of jean shorts, an elegant black tank top that says 'New Yorkie' on it, and my new purple sneakers.

After I brush my hair up into a high ponytail, I go downstairs and grab an apple. Sage comes downstairs after a while and grabs an apple as well. She's wearing jeans, a blue top, and her new blue sneakers. "You ready to go?" She asks. I nod and we walk outside to my new car. I can't wait to see what Mockingjay High looks like!

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When I park the car and get out, everyone's looking. When Sage gets out, more people are looking. I guess it's the fact that we're the 'new kids'.

We go to the main office-which isn't hard to find-and the receptionist, Ms. Trinket, gives us our locker combinations, textbooks, and schedules. Period one is located in room D8. One problem, I don't know where it's located. "Um, Ms. Trinket, I don't actually know where room D8 is. May I have an escort?" She nods while smiling and walks over to the phone. "Hi, this is Ms. Trinket from the main office. Could you send down Cato Hadley for a moment?" Cato Hadley? Is he the Cato that I talked to yesterday?

I was right, when this 'Cato Hadley' person walked in the office, it turns out to be the one I talked to yesterday. He looks happy to see me, "Hi! It's you again!" Ms. Trinket interrupts the silence by saying, "Cato, dear, will you be a gentleman and show Clove where everything is for the next two weeks?" He nods and grabs my wrist dragging me out of there.

"How are you liking Mockingjay High so far?" That's an easy one, "I adore it!" There's a long pause. Then I say, "So, you have textiles first period too?" Cato glances at me and says, "Yes, I do." He then glances at my schedule and adds, "We basically have everything together." I simply say, "Oh." But really, in my head, I'm celebrating.

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We're finally at room D8. I can't even believe the bell hasn't even rung yet. Isn't that kind of impossible though? Cato opens the door and let's me in first-what a gentleman. "Oh! You must be the new student. I'm your textile teacher, Twill. We make outfits for our peacekeepers..also known as our hall monitors," she just keeps talking so I take an empty seat in the middle of the room, "They make sure everyone gets to class on time or there will be serious trouble. It's basically curfew." I'm pretty sure Twill is still talking. Everyone else is just talking to each other, except me and this boy at the front.

Where's Val when you need her? I think to myself. But what do you know-Val literally appeared. "Clove..that's him." She appears to be looking at the boy who is the only other quiet person in the room. "Who is he?" I try to get a good look at his face. I think Val is tearing up. "He's Chase..my brother." My heart is beating. I finally found Chase.

I walk up to him-it's not like I'm going to get in trouble though, Twill is basically the only one sitting and working while Chase is just sitting there looking on his phone. I'm hovering over his shoulder and he appears to be looking at pictures of...Val. "Chase, I'm assuming?" He looks up at me, startled while I'm looking at him like he committed a crime. "Yeah, I'm Chase. Do I know you from somewhere?"

My mouth is open but words can't seem to come out easily. "Chase, do you have any siblings?" He pulls his chair out in an angry way. I totally understand though, I'd feel the same. "Yeah, I used to. One older sister. Why would you want to know?" We were both tearing up right now. "Chase, if I tell you something, will you tell someone else?" Chase shakes his head like, are you kidding me? "As if I have friends to talk to. I'm just a creep ever since my sister died."

Maybe things will go better at lunch which is basically two periods later..

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Lunch time. The only place where I'm surrounded by a lot of strangers. I try to find Chase but instead, Cato finds me. "Hey Clove. Do you want to sit with us?" I couldn't find Chase and I wasn't planning on waiting in the middle of the cafeteria this whole time. "Sure! Maybe you can introduce me to the squad."

As Cato and I arrive at a table with all the 'popular' kids he starts to speak. "Hey guys! So, this is Clove Kentwell. She just moved from New York and I must say, she's pretty awesome. She's Sage Kentwell's older sister." I received a lot of smiles. "Clove," Cato starts, "this is Katniss, Peeta, Gale, Marvel, Thresh, Madge, and Jackie-but we all call her Foxface."

I take a seat next to Sage. In lunch time, the number one thing I hate doing is talking with people. But that's just impossible if you're the new kid. "So, Clove, did you have any friends back in New York?" Katniss asks. "Yeah, of course. I had quiet a lot of friends but, to be honest, I can only remember a few." She nods with approval and says, "Name me some." To be honest, the only person I can think of is Val. "One of my friends are Val Hewitt."

Katniss almost chokes on her french fry. "Val Hewitt. The girl who died last year? Chase Hewitt's older sister, Val." She's laughing stupidly while I'm there tearing up, as usual. As soon as Katniss is done laughing she says, "Sorry, I just..she died last year. How did you guys meet?" Val suddenly appears, and she's angry. "Don't tell her Clove! It's almost all her fault that I'm dead!" She looks directly in Katniss' eyes. Everyone else is just confused.

"Katniss. Can we talk somewhere private?" Katniss raises an eyebrow and shrugs. Once we were out of the crowd I start talking, "Katniss, did you have anything to do with Val's death? Just tell me what happened that night at the camp." Katniss is just a mixture of anger, confusion, sadness. "How did you even know about that?!" Well, Chase was in the same period as me so I guess that's an excuse. "Chase is in the same class as me so I was able to talk with him." She relaxes a little. "Well, we were playing truth or dare that night-me, Val, Thresh, Viyella, Marvel, Madge, and some other people. We all set up a prank for Val that whole day. It was just a joke though. We never meant for her to die. To be honest, I never liked Val. I only liked her a little because she taught me what a blut Glimmer is." She then walks away.

I see Val looking directly at this blonde figure. "Who is she?" I ask. "She's Glimmer." She responds in an angry tone. Glimmer looks directly at me. It's hard to read the emotions on her face but I get a chilly feeling it has something to do with guilt...

Hey guys! I may not be able to post often (wifi problems) By the way, Chase is the boy from 3. Hehe.