A/N This story is an AU. Glimmer is Katniss's older sister. They are in modern times. Rye and Glimmer are seniors. Katniss and Peeta are sophomores. Katniss is a bit OC. This is my first fanfic so go easy on me please. Happy reading :)

Peeta was an unremarkable student. While being basically in shape, he would never be taken as an athlete. He was too bookish to fit in with the cool crowd, but not nerdy enough to be accepted as a nerd. On the whole, he went mostly unnoticed as he went through his classes.

Katniss was also an unremarkable student. Although not unattractive, she eschewed long hair and skinny jeans in favor of more girly choices. She didn't try to fit into any of the cliques, but neither was she ostracized by high school society either. On the whole, she went mostly unnoticed as she went through her classes.

They would probably never have known each other if the teacher of the history class they shared hadn't decided to assign partners in the group project randomly. Everyone's name went into a hat and pairs were drawn out. Peeta and Katniss were paired up.

The two knew of each other, in that way that you sort of know who is in your class, but had never really talked before getting together after class in the library to start work on their project.

They both found each other quite easy to get along with. Peeta liked the fact that Katniss was uncomplicated and straight forward. Katniss liked that Peeta actually seemed to listen to her and cared about her input. Both of them liked that they actually cared about this assignment and were both relatively good students.

The two worked quite late into the afternoon. Peeta noticed first, "It's getting a bit late. I hope you didn't miss your ride."

"I live nearby," Katniss replied. "I was just going to walk home."

"Me too. I think football practice is getting out soon. Why don't we ask my brother for a ride?" Peeta suggested. Only seniors are allowed to have cars at school.

"That'd be nice," Katniss replied as they packed up their stuff.

When they got to the parking lot, several members of the football team were already there. "Hey, Rye," Peeta called out to his brother. "Can we get a ride?"

"Buzz off, twerp," was Rye's reply when he saw Peeta.

Peeta stood stunned. While his brother was never the model of politeness, he'd never gotten this reaction from him before. He saw the cheerleader Rye was helping into his car ask something and heard him reply, "Oh, nobody important."

Peeta took another step towards the car when a 300 pound lineman blocked their path. "When the boss tells you to leave, you leave," he thundered, standing between them and his brother's car. His stance was clear that he was ready to pound Peeta into the ground to enforce his edict. And equally likely that he wouldn't have any idea how to spell edict, if he even knew what it meant.

"OK, OK…" Peeta said as they backed away. He turned to Katniss, "I'm sorry. Maybe I can walk you home instead."

"Sure," Katniss said quietly.

"I'm sorry about my brother," Peeta explained as they walked down the sidewalk. "He's never done that to me before. I know he's a dumb jock, but he's usually not that rude. I guess he just wants to look cool for the dumb blonde he picked up."

"You don't know the half of it," Katniss said, with a bit of fire in her voice. "That dumb blond is my sister, Glimmer."

"You're sister?" Peeta said. "Um… sorry."

"Don't be," Katniss said. "She is just as dumb and self-centered as she looks. She could have said something when she saw me, but didn't."

"Figures," Peeta said. "Sorry if this come out the wrong way, but she didn't really look much like you."

"That's because she's fake," Katniss said proudly. "Her hair is the same light brown as mine, but she dyes it blonde. I suspect that she pads her bra a bit too."

"That's stupid," Peeta said. "Whomever she makes out with is going to uncover that deception pretty quick."

"Well, it hasn't stopped her in the past," Katniss quipped back. "This is my house right here."

"Just a few blocks from my place," Peeta said. "Since we're going to be spending all of this time together working, why not spend some of it having fun instead. Do you want to catch a movie this weekend?"

"Sounds great. Saturday?"

"Saturday it is."