Welcome to Panem Private (Clato, Katniss/Peeta)

Chapter Nine

Glimmer POV:

I walk into school, looking for my group or what's left of it. They're not in our usual meeting spot.

"Clove. Just think about it." I hear Finnick say from around the corner. I sneak behind a door and listen to the conversation.

"No. I don't want Glimmer to have to go though what I did." Clove says. What are they talking about?

"Clove please. You have to. Just manipulate her, act like you're her friend! That's all. Then tell us her secrets and we can reveal them to the whole school." Cato says. I can't believe they would betray me like that!

"You know what? If you guys are like that, I don't want to be friends with you. We're done, Cato." Clove says and walks away. I stop her in a place the others can't see me.

"Clove, I'm so sorry." I apologize.

"Apology accepted. I think I could really like you." Clove says with a smile.

"Me too." I smile back.

"Want to get some coffee quick?" She asks.

"Yeah, sounds great."

We spend the whole day together, talking, laughing, and gossiping. Who knew she was so much fun, and such a good friend too.

"Clove, I just wanted to thank you for not going by their little plan. You're really the bigger person and I admire you." I admit.

Clove's face goes bright down and she looks at the ground before regaining her color and smiles at me.

"No problem. I'm so glad we can be friends." She says.

That was weird, but I won't question it.

(Two days later)

We're on the bus to the championship. I'm sitting by my new best friend, Clove. It's so weird, having someone so close to you and to be able to tell someone your secrets is even weirder. I feel like we're going to play twenty times better now that we get along because let's face it; we're the best on the team.

"Ugh, Cato and the others are coming." Clove says looking up from a tweet written by Cato. That's another thing we bonded over. We both hate him and the others.

"Wow, stalker much?" I laugh. She joins in right after.

"Just pretend the ball is his face." She smirks.

"Great idea. What a douche. Did he ever try to pressure you?" I ask suddenly.

"Into?" She asks.

"You know.." I gesture.

"Oh, no."

"Good thing we got you out of there. He's a creep." I say. No, he never pressured me into anything. He was sweet and gentle, but I can't tell Clove that. I want her to turn away from him as much as possible.

"Okay ladies. We're here!" Our coach announces. I take a deep breath.

We pile off the bus and head to our locker rooms. I change into my jersey and spandex.

"Can you braid my hair?" Clove asks me.

"Yeah of course." I smile and sit her down so I can do it.

After I'm done she thanks me and we walk to the gym. I see our student section filling up awfully fast. Of course Cato is right in the front. I can't let it distract me.

(During the game. The score is 20-22. Panem is down.)

Fuck! They're winning! We need to get our shit together real quick.

I look at Clove and I can tell she's thinking the same thing.

"Ladies. C'mon. It's not over!" I shout at the team.

"Let's go Panem, let's go! Let's go Panem, let's go!" The student section starts to cheer as the other team serves and misses! Hell yeah!

Now it's my serve. C'mon, I can do it!

"Let's go Glimmer!" Clove encourages. I serve the ball and it gets passed, but the setter shanks the set! Yeah!

23-22!

I serve an ace next. Haha I got this.

I serve and the ball goes straight into the net! Shit!

24-23.

The other team serves and Enorbia passes it to me.

"Clove." I call, saying I was setting it to her.

She does her approach and...bam!

It hit the back corner perfectly!

25-23! We win! The student section goes crazy!

We all scream and get into a group huddle. We actually did this.

I look at Clove and she runs and gives me a huge hug. My best friend and I. That has a nice ring to it.