Panem high

Chapter 1

Katniss POV
It's finally Friday and I had no nightmares last night.
I jump out of bed exited for the weekend. I hop in to my shower and wash my body and hair.

When I get out of the shower I toss on a pair of light skinny jeans and a white top. I look in the mirror while I part my hair into a side braid. I get out my mascara and concealer from my makeup drawer and add them to my face.
When I'm done getting ready for school I walk down the stairs and go into the kitchen to see my little sister eating breakfast. "Hey little duck" I say happily. "Don't call me little duck anymore, I'm 12 years old. that's not little." she complains. "Well it's little to me." I answer back while kissing the top of her head. "Yeah yeah whatever, bye kat!" She says while I walk out the door to our house shoving a banana in my mouth. "Bye!" I yell out with my mouth full.

I jump into my car and start my short drive to school. I sometimes walk but today I felt like driving. As I'm driving I admire the scenery. I love California. It's sunny 90% of the time and it never gets to cold here.

I pull up to the school and step out of my car. I walk up to my friends under the willow tree and sit down. "Hey kat" my boyfriend Peeta says while pecking my lips. "Hey" I say smiling. Peeta and I have known eachother since we were 5 but we started dating sophomore year. We are both 17 now and in our senior year.

Right now it's just Peeta, annie, and I. Annie is one of my best friends that I and Peeta have known since we were 7. She use to live in Florida before she moved here to California.

"Hey Annie" I say while hugging her. "Hey Katniss, did you get my text?" She asks. "Ya, I didn't understand number thirteen ether on the math homework." I reply. "Oh that's ok" she says nicely. Annie has never been mean to anybody. She's such a sweet girl. She's never sworn in her life. I remember Peeta dared her to say a bad word one time when we were thirteen and she yelled out "damn" and then started crying. Peeta felt bad after but myself and our other friends were laughing so hard. I mean 'damn' isn't even a bad word.

When I'm done daydreaming I notice my other two best friends Finnick and Edan are walking over to us.

Finnick and Edan have known Peeta and I since we were 6. They are very close to each other because they are cousins. Edan lives with Finnick and his parents though because her parents died a long time ago. She has never told us what happened to them. I wish she would but I don't push her. I think she's waiting for the time when she's finally ready to tell us. Finnick and Edan both moved to California when they were 6. They used to live in England, but were born in France. When they first moved here they went back to England every summer, but they stopped going back when they were 12. There first language is French. They speak it fluently. When they don't have company over there family speaks in French instead of English. Finnicks parents have an English accent though when they speak English. Finnick and Edan only have an English accent for some words or when they get nervous or mad. It's really funny. They grew out of there full English accent over the years.

When Peeta and I first met them we were in his family bakery one day and they ran into the store and were speaking in French. They went to the counter and started arguing about who knows what and Peeta's father and his two brothers who were 13 and 15 at the time just stared at them in confusion. While Peeta and I tried to copy what Finnick and Edan were saying. After arguing Edan said "Fine! can we please have two cheese buns" in her English accent. When she said that all of us kids started laughing our heads of because we all thought they didn't speak English. Mr. Mellark then got them there order and they payed. When they were done they went and sat down at a table and Peeta and I went over there and introduced ourselves. We became friends instantly. We then found out that they were arguing about who would ask for the cheesebuns.

But they haven't spoken French since then. Or at least they haven't spoken French infront of us since.

"Hey guys, sleepover at my place tonight" Finnick says when our whole group of friends are all here. We all say ok. Our group consists of myself, Peeta, annie, Finnick, Edan, Johanna, glimmer, marvel, Cato, and clove. The couples of the group our Peeta and I, Annie and Finnick, marvel and glimmer, and Cato and clove. Edan and Johanna are the single ones. Finnick tells us that Edan's lover is back in England. Whenever Finnick says that Edan will get mad and tell him to shut up.

We all walk into the school and go to our first period class and wait for it to began. I have this class with Peeta, Annie, Finnick, marvel, and Edan. I sit next to Peeta and Finnick sits next to Annie in the row behind us. Edan sits infront of us with marvel next to her.

When class starts I go into a daydream. It's of my father and I in the meadow when I was about 4. he's throwing me up in the air and then catching me. Oh how I wish he was still here. he died when I was 8. He and I got in a car crash one day and he died while I survived. Barley. Oh dad how I wish you were still here.