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Summary: Katniss Everdeen is a head strong student who pretty much doesn't even bother about love but when a new boy comes, why does that all change? How exactly will this tale end in a war of ninjas, evil masterminds, careers and the Capitol, the school snobs?

-HG-

Chapter sixteen: Complications and Warnings

Peeta laughed as he threw his head back at something Johanna said as he couldn't stop gagging. Finnick laughed along with him as may Capitol girls surrounded the trio. "You know, if you're going to spy on him, don't wear a bush for your hat." I practically jumped out of my own skin, which was not very Katniss like of me. Annie was sitting on my right while Gale was on my left, he had a binoculars to his eyes.

"Annie's kind of right, Katniss," He says as he casually focuses his eyes elsewhere.

"Says the guy who's checking out Johanna's behind…" Annie adds, I look at Gale who's blushing like crazy. "Yeah, I know what you're looking at." Annie murmurs as Gale tries to deck her with his fist. "You should ask her to the Winter ball next week, Gale…" Annie says as she sends me a glance.

I look away. Winter ball? "That's next week?" I exclaim, Annie's hand comes out and forces my head down along with hers and Gales's.

Annie glares softly at me. "Not so loud, they can hear you." She whispers as we crawl on all four of our limbs into the next shrub before popping our heads out and scaring some freshmen students. "Man does Johanna's butt look big from this angle," I stare at her blankly but Gale frowns deeply at her. "What?" She says. "We were all thinking it, I just had the guts to actually say it." She says in a huff this time.

I shake my head. I wasn't even thinking about Johanna, maybe Gale was, but not me. "The things you say, Annie." I tell her before I hear the morning bell ring. "Duck." We all dive our heads down as the Peeta's group passes by, as soon as the coast was clear I rolled out of the shrub and straightened myself out for class. Annie simply stood up and Gale crawled out of the shrub. I sighed. "So much for Ninja style." I muttered to myself before we headed to class.

-HG-

"Okay, I need to know which suit looks better," Cinna says as he brings out a gold suit and compares it to a silver suit.

"Isn't it called the Winter ball?" I asked him. Cinna nods before tossing the gold one back into his sparkling luggage bag that he rolled to school.

"You're right, Katniss, the silver one would look better with the theme and besides," Cinna says and bats his eye slashes and clasps his hands together. "It brings out my gold eyeliner." He says as he mimics Glimmer's voice.

Gale choked on his sandwich as Annie nodded blankly at him before beginning to laugh randomly. "That's funny." She says to Madge who had said nothing. "What a good joke, Madge." She told the girl before heading over to the vending machine. Madge looked around at everyone. Nobody really knew what happened.

"Is it me or did Annie just hear me make a joke which I'm pretty sure I didn't," Madge asked. "Did I?" She asks suddenly.

I shrug and look over at the girl who had bought a can of soda before tossing it in the bin and began softly giggling to herself with a smile on her face. "It think it's just Annie." I told her.

"And is that Finnick Odair making his way to Annie?" Cinna says as we all turn to see the bronze haired boy strutting his way to Annie. "Pfff, I can walk way better than you, fish boy." Cinna says as we all turn to give him a silencing look. "Okay, I get it." He mutters before frowning to himself.

I think everyone in the cafeteria were watching Annie and Finnick as they smiled and laughed before they parted ways. Annie smiled as she sat back down at our table. "Hey guys," She said as if nothing had happened.

"Well?" Gale asked her. Annie cocked her head to one side blankly and stared at us without a clue about what he was going on about. "What did Finnick want?" He asks her.

Annie smiled. "He just wanted a soda," She told us as we rolled our eyes and brushed it off before we returned to what we were doing before: snacking. "Oh, and he asked me to the ball." She added after a moment of munching.

"What did you say?" Madge asked her as she held onto Annie's hands, stars sparkling in her eyes. This was finally the kind of thing she had always wanted to talk to people about, no hunting, plotting or blood involved. Just gossip. Girly, teenage, dating gossip.

"Me? Oh, I told him to go with his own balls," Gale and Cinna burst out laughing. Madge practically hit the table with her head. I was just amused. "But then he said he wanted me to take me as his date so I just okay." Madge's head shot back up as she gleamed.

"So you have a date to the Winter ball?" Madge asks her with an excited tone. Annie nodded.

Cinna smiled at Madge who had turned to him and nodded. "Dibs on making you over," He told her as Annie smiled and turned to me. Why did I not like that smile for some reason?

"You shouldn't be fussing about me, Cinna, focus on Katniss since she has something to do before the ball," Annie says as she winks wickedly at me. She didn't. Cinna and Madge gasp. Yes she did. Annie did just mention that I was going to ask Peeta. Indirectly anyway. Time to pass on the spotlight.

"Yeah, but so is Gale." Madge and Cinna gasps again and look at the boy beside me who was flustering like mad. Opps, not.

Gale gave me a look that I ignored as I heard the break bell ring, It was time for my Literature Class, with Peeta.

-HG-

Peeta was already there by the time I got to class, which was early. He smiled at me as I sat beside him. "Hey, Peeta," I greeted him as he smiled at me. After the whole past events, I guess you could say we got closer. "So what do you think we're going to be doing today?" I asked him.

Peeta shrugs before he replies. "I hope it's play reading," Of course he did. "I really love acting out the parts, some of the parts make me feel special." He admits to me for no reason as I nod along with it.

"Hey did you hear who Finnick asked to the ball?" I asked him.

Peeta nods. "Annie, right?" He asks me unsure as he says it. "I heard that she said something really weird to Finnick at first."

I chuckled at that. "Yeah, she pretty much told him to go with his own balls." I told Peeta as he laughed. "No, seriously." I told him.

"Annie's hilarious." Peeta says with tinted cheeks. Wait a dang minute.

"Do you like Annie?" I ask him as Peeta tenses up.

"No, why?" Peeta asks a little too quickly for me.

I raise a brow as I point out his tinted cheeks. "You're blushing." I tell him, Peeta brushes my comment off as the teacher comes in for our class.

For that entire class, I felt a bit jealous that Annie was getting all the guys. But I guess I couldn't blame her since she was more … feminine than me, and prettier I guess. Maybe guys liked the sweet looking girls and not the hunting type, like me. I sighed when the class ended.

"Well, it was nice talking to you, Katniss," Peeta says as he grabs his bag and leaves the classroom as quickly as he came in.

I watched as he left. "Yeah… it was nice talking to you too," I murmured and dragged my feet to my next class, Biology.

-HG-

"I mean, I don't get it, why would Peeta hide his feelings for Annie if he knew that Finnick was going to ask her?" I complained to in murmurs Blight, my Biology partner. "I know I'm being a tad annoying but what do you expect me to say? 'How can you like her? I like you!' No that's so not like me." I whispered as I stabbed my scalpel into the frog in front of me.

A cough was heard as I looked up to see Gloss, my teacher looking at me with a disapproving look. "I understand that you like to complain about you personal life, Katniss, but please try to keep it for after my class." He says as Blight sighs from beside me.

Before I could even stop myself, I said it. "Yeah, like you and Cole making out after school." I say as I suddenly cover my mouth after I said it. "I'm so sorry." I told Gloss but I could already see the pink in his cheeks rising.

"May I have a word with you outside, now," He says fiercely as he opens the door and glares at me to follow.

"I may have over did it." I tell Blight who slightly nods. I sigh as I once again drag my feet outside.

What was wrong with me today? I was so out of character!

-HG-

"I don't know how you found out about me and Cole, but I would like you to keep it a secret." Gloss says in a low voice from across me before he shakes his head and runs a hand through his hair. "I don't even know what's gotten into me?" He tells me before he sinks down against the wall.

"Are you okay?" I ask him.

Gloss shakes his head before looking at me. "Have you ever felt this attraction to a person before?" He asks me. I nod. "Well that was how I felt when I first began teaching, Cole, I didn't know why but I just felt this attraction to her. And when she started doing badly in my classes, I thought why not? A few extra hours after school could help her but then things led to other things and yeah…" He trailed off.

"So you really love her don't you?" I ask him.

Gloss nods. "Yeah, I do." He admits with a chuckle. "But I might as well hang up my tie if the school finds out about us." He tells me before looking back up at me. "How did you find out about us, Katniss?" He asks me.

I laugh to myself and sighed. "Well… I left my book behind and …I thought 'why not get it?' since I really needed the book for my homework and then I passed the Biology lab on my way there, and I heard some noises… so I looked through the gap in the door and there you two were. Kissing and stuff…" I said as Gloss slightly blushed. "Am I in trouble?" I asked him.

"No… but please don't tell anyone about this." Gloss tells me as he stands up and straightens his dirty blonde hair and looks at me with dark hazel eyes. "You may return to class, Katniss." He tells me as I walk back to class.

-HG-

It was lunch, and Cole knew that I knew about them.

"Katniss," I turned around to see the brunette beauty as she had a frown on her face. "Can I like talk to you for a few minutes…" She says as her eyes flash over my friends. "In private." I nod as I got out of my seat and followed her to Gloss's Biology lab.

Gloss was at his desk as Cole locked the door behind her and pulled the blinds down. "I thought we talked about this," I began as I took a seat. Cole tossed her bag on the ground beside Gloss's desk before she sat on his desk beside him and crossed her arms.

"You guys did, but not with me, Katniss." She tells me as her blue eyes bore into my mine. "Listen, if you tell anybody about 'us'," She says as she indicates Gloss her and her. "Word is going to get out fast and if my parents find out, they are going to ship me off to some boarding school in the UK and this school will lose one of its top honour students. And it'll be all your fault." She tells me as she points at me.

That was weird. "I thought you were doing badly in Biology?" I ask her.

Cole shrugs. "I'll do anything for some extra time with Gloss," She says before she places her lips on his for a quick kiss. I furrow my brows and shudder at the public display. Cole turns to me with a frown. "Got it?" She asks me seriously with a warning tone.

"Yeah, I got it." I told her as I left the Biology lab to leave those two alone to their business. "Love really makes people do some crazy things…" I tell myself.

I wonder…