disclaimer: i don't own The Hunger Games or Footloose.

Seam Barn Dance

I looked at Clove as she hauled herself onto my truck with a little help from Thresh; I watch her scramble up until she is on the top of the hood. If it were anyone else but her, Kat, or Annie, I would shove him or her off the top of the truck but since it's Clove so I let her.

She crosses her legs on the top, causing her shorts to rise up on her leg even more. She undoes her buns and shakes her hair out, full and voluminous. Kat hands Clove, her hat and clove places it on her head. She looks down on us where we are sitting in the truck/bumper area.

Katniss wolf whistles at her making Annie laugh and almost fall off the bumper.

I smile and roll my eyes at the other guys at my neighbor's antics. We all smirk, this is normal.

The girls are such flirts around us because we all grew up together. They feel comfortable enough to act like this.

I glare at some guys who are checking her out, but no guy will make on move, not as long as I'm here or the other boys for that matter.

"Like what you see?" Clove suddenly calls out.

I can tell that a bit of her wall has come back up.

I look up to see them.

The Goldenness and the Golds.

The rich boys and girls of our school. They earned their nickname due to their blonde hair.

The one Clove is talking to is Cato.

He's a tall blonde hulking boy with a vicious streak and a player reputation being the captain of the football team.

Next to him is Glimmer, his something. She's tall, leggy, and sexy. She flaunts her body.

On the other side of Cato is her.

Madge Undersee.

The mayor's daughter.

Golden curls, pretty dresses, the richest girl. Student President. She doesn't talk, thinks she's better than anyone.

Cato has one arm around her waist. The other arm on her waist belongs to Peeta.

Peeta is the baker's son and wrestling captain and best friend of Madge. He's also Kat's crush.

On the other side of them flashing the girls' next to me smiles is Finnick.

Tall, blonde, bronze, swim captain god. The so called Sex God.

Cato walks up to us and he looks her up and down and I ball my fists. Peeta and the boys touch the tip of their hats and we do the same.

Katniss sees this and places a hand on my shoulder. I notice Peeta tense and I find this interesting. Madge hugs both boys tightly and gives them a look as if warning them.

We are all tense.

Then music begins to play and we all turn to look at the band-The Victors.

Then we all look at each other and the silence is uncomfortable.

Then Bristol jumps off the truck, and flips her hair over shoulder. She smiles a saucy smile and grabs Rye Mellark's hat and places it on her head.

"Come on handsome. You're on our turf. Let's put you to good use."

We watch her drag him to the dance floor and the crowd parts.

The two are two of the biggest flirts and they hate each other, or so everyone thinks.

I know for a fact that Bristol finds him very attractive.

Judging by the looks he has given her, the feeling is mutual.

This brings a brief smile to my lips and I see that Undersee is smiling too.

Finnick then sighs and hold out hand to Annie.

"Do you want to walk by the beach?"

Annie bites her lip and then nods.

They set off.

This seems to break the ice.

Delly grabs Thom's hand and pulls him to the dance floor.

Thresh to my surprise offers his hands to the only non-blonde member of the Goldenness – Jackie or Fox as everyone calls her.

Fox seems surprised but lets him pull her away.

I see Thresh lead her to the line where people were waiting for the hayride.

Peeta gives me a wary look but asks Katniss if she wants to dance.

Clove shoves her off the truck and Katniss stumbles into his arms. I see Madge smile.

Wait, when did she become Madge?

The once crowded truck now only had one girl- Clove, her protector- me, and two Goldies- Cato and Madge.

We stand around watching some of our friends dance.

Then Cato clears his throat.

"Clove, do you want to ride the mechanical bull?"

Clove's eyes widen and she scrambled off the truck.

Then they both walk away, leaving M-Undersee and me alone.

"Princess."

Something flashes in her eyes- pain or anger.

"Hawthorne."

We stand there in silence until I can't take it any longer.

"What are you doing here?"

She blinked at me.

"I came to have some fun."

"At a Seam barn dance?"

She placed her hands on her hips, her face angry.

"Believe it or not, yes. Just because we are from Town doesn't mean anything. We like to get down and dirty too."

My eyes trail up and down her body and I smile.

"I'll believe it when I see it."

Madge rolls her eyes and stomps away and I watch as a local Seam boy snatches her up.

I watch her laugh and her dance from person to person and feel a bit jealous when I see Rory, my younger brother, and her having a good tim

I grit my teeth as Darius spins her around and she throws her head back, blonde hair flying.

Then I walking towards her, and I cut in smoothly.

Her laugh dies and her smiles dim.

"Hawthorne."

I don't say a word as we launch into a fast pace dance, one that leaves her laughing and smiling and breathless, and sexy.

The next dance is slow and I can tell she doesn't want to dance this song with me but I pull her close so that my lips are near her ear.

"I like watching you dance, it's sexy."

I nip her ear and I feel her shudder.

"Gale."

I smile and bite her ear again. I love the way she says my name.

We somehow have ended up dancing in a dark corner of the dance floor.

I pull away and look at her in the eyes.

"I'm going to kiss you, unless you tell me not too."

Madge smirked.

"Not if I kiss you first."

My eyes widen as she wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me down and stood on tiptoes and kissed me.

I kiss her back, letting her know how much I actually like her.

My hands grip her hips and I don't realize we have an audience until water is thrown over us.

I jerk away and I see all of our friends smirking.

"It's about damm time!"

I look at Madge and I realize that her shirt is see-through. I unbutton my shirt and I quickly button it over her. Clove picks my hat and I place it on my head.

I look at them all.

Annie is wearing Finnick's jacket. Bristol still has Rye's hat and her lipstick is smudged. Jackie has on Thresh's hat and he has an arm around her. Delly has a hickey on her neck and Thom seems smug. Katniss has on Peeta's hat and I see Clove has Cato's belt buckle on her waist.

I wrap and arm around Madge and I place my hat on her head instead and I fee Clove and Katniss gasp.

"Let's liven things up."

Finnick points to where I can see and older girl and boy getting down and dirty on the dance floor, shaking things up like this is Footloose.

I laugh and I recognize the girl, as an old neighbor.

"Isn't that Ava?"

"Isn't that…?"

"Our brother?"

"I thought they hated each other."

Clove sighs and throws her hands up.

"Who cares? Let's bring this place down, ya'll!"

Everyone rushes to join the growing crowd of people getting down but I pull Madge back.

"Princess, can I say something?"

She nods.

"Later on, do you want to go for a drive in my truck and look at the stars?"

She kisses me and then laughs and rushes to the dance floor and I join her, smiling.

AN: So I am back!

Sorry that I have been MIA, junior year is crazy. But I am done, and all yours for the summer.

So anyone of my Wallflowers know that I get bad writer's block and they know that I get rid of it by writing out one shots.

I'm a huge GADGE shipper so this will be mostly Gadge with sprinkles of everyone else.

Ava is my OC.

I promise to update emy other stories and for those of you who don't know. I Will Survive is now a one-shot with the rest of the chapters in a new fic called JabberJay.

Thank you.

Love you Wallflowers!