I´ll be by your side.

Cato pov.

Age 12 –

I was just walking around town.

It was still very early in the morning, probably just five a clock. But I couldn't sleep anymore so I just got dressed and got outside to wander through town. My parents didn't really care where I was, as long as I was alive. As I was walking I was kicking some little rocks that lay on the ground with my right feet. Then al sudden I heard a little sobbing noise. It came from an ally a little further down the street on the left side. I walk toward the sobbing noises and see a little girl sitting on the dirty cold ground crying her eyes out. I walk towards her and sit next to her. She notices me and snaps angry 'go away'

I just ignore it. 'What's wrong?' I ask.

'None of your business. Go away'

'Why are you crying?' I ask, just ignoring what she just said.

'Why do you care? You don't know me'

'True. I'm Cato' I say and softy put my hand on her hand that is resting on her knees.

'Clove' she says trough sobs.

'Well Clove, I know you now. Can you now tell me what's wrong?'

Usually I'm never this friendly to anybody. I'm not really a people person. But Clove seems so upset, and there is really something different about her. She had dark short hair but very bright blue eyes – but maybe that was just because they were filled with tears.

I don't know what it is but there is just something about her.

'It's a long story and I don't want to talk about it' she just says.

We sit in silence for a while but then I have an idea and stand up. I stick my hand out to her and she looks at me confused.

'Come on let's do something fun' I say.

She grabs my hand and I help her stand up. 'Come, I want to show you something'

As I lead her out of town we walk towards the woods. A little part of it is free to go to, but then there's a high fence that's separates us from the rest of the woods. I look for the hole in the fence I ones found and crawl trough it to the other side of the fence. Clove just stands there on the other side. 'I don't know Cato, that's not safe.' She whispers.

I laugh 'Awh, is little Clove afraid of the big dark woods.'

'No I'm not. I just don't think this is illegal' she says.

'Well duh. But there is really something that I want to show you' I answer.

She quickly looks around and then crawls through the fence. We walk for a while until she asks ´where are we going?"

'You'll see' I say en walk further. I hear her mutter to herself 'walking through the woods with a stranger. Very smart Clove' I chuckle.

After a while we're there. 'Look' I say.

Her eyes widen and she smiles. This is the first time that I actually see her smile and I like it. It's cute and she looks so innocent.

'Wow, did you build it?' she asks.

'Yes, come on'

Not long ago I thought it would be nice to have my own place. Not really my own, I was too young to live alone, of course, but a place where I could go to and do my own thing. So I secretly grabbed some tools en started to build a three hut. And apparently I was pretty good at building stuff, because the hut was big and firm.

The hut was a couple meters from the ground but I hadn't had a ladder so we had to climb to get in. I started to climb en then I help Clove to get in.

'Wow, it's so big' she said. There wasn't a lot inside. A table two chairs and there were a couple of picture's hanging on the Wall. But the room was pretty big, so it looked very empty.

She walked around and looked at the pictures. Then she sat down on one of the chairs and looked at me. She smiled a little 'thank you for cheering me up' she said. And here tone was so sweet en the look in her eyes showed so much love that I couldn't help but smile too.