Panem High

Chapter Four

Madge's Pov

Cato leaned in and to everyone's surprise she kissed back. He looked so happy. But after a few seconds she pulled away tears in her eyes. She bolted up the stairs and slammed a door behind her. "I'll get her," I told them. This was usually my thing, being the optimistic one of the group. Johanna would probably just say, 'Man up honey, you like him, he like you, just go out already!" everyone nodded but Cato stopped me. "I'll go."

Cato's Pov

What did I do? Man, I just ruined two years worth of friendship. I slowly opened the door and saw Clove lying on the bed, face down. "Clove.." I whispered. I flopped down making the bed bounce and rubbed her back. "I'm sorry, maybe I should go." she grabbed my hand and squeezed it, allowing me to explain myself. I told her about my crush on her and every wonderful detail about her. She looked up. "Really?" I nodded and she smiled. She rested her head in my lap and I played with her hair. "Why did you run off?" I asked. She looked away. "Sorry you don't have to." She shook her head. "No, I'll tell you. Before in eighth grade I was forced to date him, Brady. He hurt me and forced me to kiss him or whatever."She showed me a scar running along her shoulder and I gasped. "What kind of freaking-" she shushed me with her lips and I freaked out. I stumbled off the bed and fell thinking she kissed me! Clove Kentwell kissed me! I was utterly shocked with joy, but not in her eyes. She turned away, tears on her face. "Sorry Cato. I-I just t-thought that-never mind." She startled to cry silently and I mentally kicked myself. Stupid! why did I pull away? "Hey," I grabbed Clove's arms. "I'm sorry," she wailed. "I just thought t-that we could y-you know l-" This time I kissed her and she did back.

Katniss's Pov

We got nervous since they were up there a while. Finnick set up a movie, a scary one which was a good excuse to cuddle with Peeta. We cut cake and waited. We heard crying then silence. Peeta made kissy sounds and I smacked him. We thought they were probably making out when I heard a crash and crying. Uh-Oh. Clove could get pretty feisty. There's was faint crying and then silence and whispering. Then they came down, Clove's eyes red and puffy. We all gathered around the couch and ate the chocolate cake, creamy and rich. Mmmmm. During the murder parts I buried myself in Peeta and he stroked my hair. We ended up kissing and Johanna yelled, "Eeeww! Get a room!" Peeta pulled away and playfully glared. "We do,but you're in it!"

"Ooooh!" I crowed. Peeta and I are the best comeback couples. I'm usually just the ooooh person. Cato then pulled an all guy move by yawning and putting his arm around Clove. "If scared be free to cuddle with me." Clove laughed. "I'm not scared!" It was true. Clove and Johanna were the only people not scared. Blight and Cato looked disappointed. When it was over the guys played some violent video games while we girls did many petties. After we painted Clove's nails purple and Johanna's red they joined the boys. We painted our nails the boys' favorite color. "Beat that losers!" Clove yelled from the other room. "Taste my sword while you're at it!" Johanna added loudly. The rest of us girls rolled our eyes. "Such ladies," I laughed. Glimmer had Madge paint hers pink, even though Marvel hated pink. I painted Finch's blue with green polka dots and red as well. Annie did mine sunset orange with red dots. We all ate the rest of the pizza and lemonade and gossiped jokingly. It was pretty fun although we got interrupted by Cato yelling at Johanna that they were on the same team and she almost killed him. She yelled at him and soon the rest of the girls were laughing. When Cato and the others fell asleep we did operation pretty boys. We all got out makeup and prettied up the guys and laughed. Their fault they slept in front of a bunch of teenage girls. The boys ended up getting us back by covering us in syrup. Cato went extra hard on Clove,because, well, they play hard. We just had it on our hair and face but she had it on her face, hair,neck, and ankles/legs. She slept without a blanket and her arms were covered in syrup. She screeched loudly and they came in laughing and posting pictures in Panemgram. I felt bad and helped her up. She was so sticky that her feet stuck in the ground and my hand got stuck to her sticky arm. "Peeta!" I screamed. He laughed. We had no way to get us out and I had to pull my hand from her arm hard. She wailed and I glared at the guys. "See! I just got stuck to Clove, her feet are stuck on the ground, Annie's head is stuck to her pillow, and Glimmer just went to the hair salon! And Madge's hair is usually so soft and now it's sticky and hard!" they looked guilty and Marvel cheekily grinned. "So I guess this was a bad idea..?" I glared. "No kidding!"

Marvel's Pov

I guess we felt bad. Glimmer, Katniss, and Annie took the three guest showers and Madge and Finch did as well, after they shot us nasty glares. They were in there for an hour, using all of Finnick's conditioner. They dried off and wore cute little outfits. Clove and Johanna, still mad, wore their swimsuits and brought out bottles of shampoo and conditioner. They hopped in the pool, scrubbing of the syrup. Finnick was begging them to come out but the sat on floatable chairs in the deep end and scrubbed away. Glimmer was in my arms and we were all laughing so hard. The girls scrubbed hard and there were syrup and strawberry smelling bubbles in the pool. Finnick, as rich as he is, doesn't even have chlorine in his pool. It was like a big bathtub. We were laughing even harder when Clove put a handful of soap in her hair and went down the mini zip line. She fell in a pile of fluffy bubbles and Johanna went down a bubbly slide. Darn they're hilarious.

At the mall we all hung out at Starbucks, drinking coffee and eating pastries. Peeta kept talking about bread and how he made the dessert Finch was eating and how he made his taste just as good. The girls wandered around girly shops and we just hung out at places like the arcade and blew out over forty bucks. We met up later and we planed trips to the beach and park next week. On the way out Finnick yelled to buy him sugar cubes when we go the chance. Weird. He had like fifty packs.

Glimmer's Pov

On Monday morning, two weeks later, I wore a pink tye-die shirt and skinny capris with pink slip ons. Cute. I met up with the gang for home room and Miss Trinket was extra peppy. "Attention!" she squealed. "We have Prom this month on the twenty fifth! Remember to get a date and have fun!" I squealed with every other girl present. Prom!! Perfect! I was peppy all day, even at gym. Although we had to run a mile in the freezing air, I was still happy. After school I went with Marvel, and I texted the girls.

GlimmerGlam💕: who's excited?

AnnieBannanie🐬: Meee

KitKat🔥: Omg I'm so excited

Madgey🌺: Me too let's go shopping on Saturday

Clovergirl🍀🔪: Ok where? I wanna go to Winterday especially.

Johanna💀: ok whatever stupid dresses, as long as I where tights under I'm fine. Ttyl.

When I looked up I didn't see Marvel. I walked to his balcony and looked down. He was there and in the grass he had spray painted 'Prom?' In bubbly letters. There were rose petals all around.

I ran down squealing and jumped on top of him. "Yes!" I squealed in his mouth. Oops.

Gale's Pov

My hands were sweaty. Today I decided to ask Madge. I needed a head start before Ryan Ritcherson, her admirer, could ask first.

Madge loved the meadows, so I set up a picnic and called her. We met up and she happily squealed. I packed her favorite: ham and cheese from Peeta's bakery and lemonade. When she grabbed her sandwich the words 'will you be my prom date?' were carved in. She got misty eyed and hugged me. "I would never miss the opportunity."

We spent the afternoon laughing and tickling each other. I put a yellow daffodil in her hair. "You are so beautiful."