Panem Academy

Chapter Five

  My friends and I went downstairs to living room and were greeted by Annie and her new roommates.
"Hi guys! What took you so long?" Asked Annie.
"I'll give you this," Said Johanna sarcastically. "Glimmer plus too much luggage. What does that equal?"
"It doesn't matter." Said Autumn, speaking for the first time. "As long that you are down here, we can have some fun."
Just at that moment, Cashmere and Enobaria sashayed down the stairs.
"Hiya little sis, how are you and your playmates?"
Glimmer clenched her teeth. "We're doing fine. What's it to you?"
Cashmere took a step back, looking offended. Well, pretended to be offended. "There is no reason to be rude little sis, I was just being friendly."
Johanna turned to Enobaria. "I do hope you aren't going to bite anyone this year Enobaria. I didn't get my rabies shot."
Enobaria scowled while Cashmere really did look offended. "Johanna I'm ashamed of you! How dare you call Enobaria an animal!"
Johanna shrugged. "It's true, has she every growled at you before?"
Enobaria bared her teeth. "How dare you?"
"I rest my case." Muttered Johanna.
Cashmere tugged at Enobaria's arm. "Come on, let's wait until little sis has calmed down."
As the two girls left, Cashmere turned around and smirked to all of us.
"Honestly, I don't know how you can leave with her." I said.
"Me too." Agreed Glimmer.
"C'mon, let's explore the campus." Said Clove, getting up.
All of us girls left the dorms and went outside.
The campus was large, it included the school (obviously), the boy and girl dormitories, a small mall which was about a 10-minute walk from the dormitories, a small café right next to the school, a large lake behind the school and an another small forest for survival classes.
"Let's check out the mall!' Squealed Glimmer.
"We can't" I said, "we need our student credit cards. And we have to wait until tomorrow to get them."
"Besides," Added Clove, "You already brought too much luggage."
I noticed a small café. "Let's go to that place instead."
We entered the building, but we all groaned. "We need a student credit card."
"I'm starving." Complained Johanna.
Sadly, along with an empty stomach, we headed back to the dorms.
"Hey! Where are you girls going?"
Cato, Gale, Peeta, Marvel and Finnick were running towards us.
"Were you trying to avoid us?" Asked Gale when they caught up with us.
I laughed. "No, we were trying to find some way to get food that doesn't involve paying with a student credit card."
Peeta opened a sack who was carrying and pulled out a loaf of bread.
"Oh my god, you're a lifesaver!" Exclaimed Johanna.
We all sat down on some picnic benches and Peeta broke the loaves in 10 pieces, one for each of us.
"Okay, from now on, I'm gonna call you Bread Boy." Said Johanna. "This tastes like heaven!"
"Do you have a nickname for me?" Asked Annie.
Johanna thought for a moment, "How about Water Girl?"
Annie nodded. "I like that. That means Finn here can be Water Boy, since we are part of the swim team." She stared at Finnick lovingly which made Johanna roll her eyes.
"I want to be called Knife Girl." Said Clove.
Cato nodded. "That sounds like a pretty good name. It really suits you."
Clove blushed. "Um, thanks."
"Glimmer, you can be known as the Shopaholic." Said Johanna.
Clove laughed. "Yeah, that's totally you Glimmer."
Glimmer scowled. "I prefer my own nickname Glim."
Johanna shrugged, "fine, that means Katniss can keep her nickname we call her: Kat."
"But only I get to call her Catnip." Said Gale with a smile.
"You guys can all me Jo as a nickname." Said Johanna, finishing off her slice of bread.
We ate in silence until Marvel looked at his watch. "Look, it's almost five and we need to start unpacking."
Glimmer stared at him. "You didn't start unpacking?"
Cato shrugged. "None of us did."
"Oh come on, I brought more luggage than all of you and I finished unpacking !" Laughed Glimmer.
"In that case then," Said Cato, "we need to get going. See you girl's tomorrow."
When the guys left, my friends and I went back to our dormitories.
"Clove, you and Cato should totally date." Said Annie. "You two are perfect for each other."
Clove snorted. "We're just best friends, there is no way I'm going to date."
"We saw you blushing when Cato complimented on your nickname." I said nudging her.
Clove didn't speak to us when we went into our dormitories for supper.
Supper was great, a large turkey, along with a large rack of ham, mashed potatoes, large bowls of fruit salad and large pitchers of drinks.
I completely forgot the taste of porridge when I took a bite of the turkey.
"Oh my god, I forgot that the food tasted great here!" I exclaimed.
"I know, even District 1's food isn't even this good!" Said Glimmer.
We all ate and talked until Effie came around and announcing, "We should have desert! How about large desert pastry buffet?"
Everyone cheered as two servants wheeled in a huge buffet table with any kind of desert you could name.
It took a while for me to reach the desert table and when I finally did, I took a handful of everything.
"Man, this is so good!" Said Clove as she helped herself to some jello. "I've never ate this much since the of the school year feast last year!"
I bit into a red velvet cake slice, "I forgot how sweet these deserts can be!"
After we finished desert, we had about two hours before curfew to just hang out.
"Let's make this night a good one," said Clove, "tomorrow is the first day of school and I really don't think I would want to waste tonight dreading tomorrow."
"How about we can do Truth or Dare?" I suggested.
Glimmer shook her head. "It's not as fun doing it without the boys."
"There is a game that my friends and I play back in District 4." Said Annie.
"What is it?" Asked Johanna.
"Well, it's similar to truth or dare. We write a bunch of topics and put them in a pile. We then write everyone's name a slips of paper and put them in an another pile. Then, someone randomly picks a topic and picks someone's name. We just call it The Game of Truth."
"Let's try it." I said.
We wrote our names on slips of paper and put them in a pile. We then wrote a bunch of topics like: Who is your best friend or If you had to date someone, who would it be.
"Who wants to go first?" Asked Annie.
"Me!" Exclaimed Glimmer. She closed her eyes and buried her hand into the pile with topics and picked up a slip of paper.
"What is one secret that your parents don't know?"
Glimmer then put her hand into the pile of names and pulled up a slip of paper.
"Omg, Clove, you have to answer that question."
"Oh that's easy!" Exclaimed Clove, "my mom doesn't know that I throw knives!"
We all stared at her.
"What do you mean?" I asked. "Everyone who knows you knows that you throw knives."
Clove shrugged. "Well, my mother doesn't exactly pay attention to my talents. She knows that I have knives, but she doesn't know that I can throw them professionally."
"Okay then," I said. "Pick a topic Clove."
Clove dipped her hand into the pile of topics and pulled one out and read it. "Who was your first crush?" Clove then pulled out a name from the name pile. "Okay Katniss, answer that question truthfully."
I sighed. Everyone stared at me eagerly. "Well, first, I want to tell you that it's not Peeta.
Several of my friend's faces fell slightly.
"Well, who is it?" Asked Annie.
I didn't answer for a while. Literally, I think my friends would've died waiting.
I waited a little bit while longer until I said his name:
Gale.