Cato held the cream colored invitation to Katniss and Peeta's wedding in his hand. It had come in the mail this morning after Lilly had woken up. He finally had her on some sort of schedule, or at least Embrosia, the nanny he had hired did. He looked back at the invitation was coming. Yet Katniss getting married had been something Cato had shoved towards the future. In high school Katniss had loudly proclaimed to anyone who could hear it that she would never get married. Now she was, then again Cato had also proclaimed that he wouldn't fall in love and look what happened to him. Cato hadn't forgotten about the marriage of his friends, he had more shoved it to the back of his head, in the the light of recent events.
Lily cooed in Cato's arms, Peeta and Katniss had asked if Lily could be the flower girl and Cato had been hesitant to agree, but they had done so much for him, that he couldn't reject this simple request from him. He also didn't want his daughter to walk down the aisle quite yet. He did demand that it would be him to hold her while she was the flower girl, not we stranger. Peeta happily agreed.
Two weeks later
Peeta's bachelor party.
"Last night of freedom!" Finnick Odair said from across the table. He picked up a shot, "to Peeta's limited days!" He raised his arm to Peeta and threw the shot back.
Peeta smiled and Cato laughed and rolled his eyes.
"So when are you planning on popping the question to Annie?" Cato asked. The actor and his leading lady had been secretly dating for six months, a long time to keep a secret in Hollywood.
"Dude, don't rush me, it's only been six months. We aren't exclusive. I'm a lone wolf. Who knows what will happen." He rolled his head back and howled like a wolf.
"Don't let Annie hear you say that, apparently she madly in love with you." Peeta said.
"Who isn't" Finnick waved his eyebrows at a pair of blondes passing by. They giggled, and both Cato and Peeta sook there heads.
Peeta's phone rang on the table.
"I've got to answer this, it's Katniss." Peeta took and phone and headed to the the back of the bar.
"What happened to you not speaking to the bride to be before the wedding?" Finnick shouted at Peeta. Cato rolled his eyes.
"Give him a break Finnick, he's madly in love. He'll have plenty of time to avoid talking to Katniss later."
"You and me Cato, bachelors forever." He threw his arm around Cato and did another shot. He was the only one drinking and was undoubtedly drunk. Otherwise even Finnick Odair wouldn't have that lack of tack.
Cato tensed under Finnick's arm. He thought back to his days as a playboy, sometimes when Lily would go to sleep,or would stop crying he wished he could go back to them, but then Lily would look at him with Clove's green eyes and he realized he was happy.
"Oh god sorry Cato, I forgot." Finnick realized his mistake when he saw his friends face. Cato's loss was still relatively new, and Clove was a touchy subject.
"It's okay,". It was Cato was used to his friends lack of tack when he was drunk. He smiled wickedly. He had Finnick's hangover at the wedding tomorrow to look forward too.
The next day...
"Oh man kill me now, I feel like I got hit by a bus. Remind me never ever EVER to drink again." Finnick said coming up to Cato with his sunglasses on even inside.
The wedding planner, Madge, had outdone herself. If he hadn't ever been to The Capitol hotel he would have never recognized it. Orange and yellow roses were everywhere, and everything wasn't too girlie. It was exactly like Katniss wanted.
"There you are . I've been looking for you everywhere, you in Lily need to get in the procession. Hurry hurry, where already behind schedule." Madge came out of no where and starting shoving Cato and Lily down the hall.
"And for heavens sake, take those sunglasses off, . We are at a wedding, not a rock concert."
Finnick groaned.
The wedding was perfect. Peeta almost tripped out of nervousness on the aisle but caught himself. Prim Katniss's only bridesmaid, looked beautiful in her tea length orange dress. Lily got many awes from the old ladies in the audience, when Cato walked her down the aisle in her orange flower girl dress. She smiled and cooed and got several more awes.
When Katniss walked down the aisle all eyes where on here. Her dress was cream colored with a v-shaped was all Cato knew about Wedding dresses, but regardless, Katniss looked beautiful. The dress was sophisticated but it didn't make her look old. The dress was beautiful on its own, but Katniss made it sparkle. For a second he could see himself in Peeta's place, as Clove walked down the aisle. He shook his head as Katniss climbed up to join Peeta at the alter.
The ceremony passed by quickly, halfway through Lily started crying and Cato had excuse himself to change a dirty diaper, when he got back he had missed the vows and the kiss. The crowds where know moving towards the ballroom for dinner and dancing and Cato joined them.
"Now introducing for the first time Mr. and Mrs. Peeta Mellark!" Katniss coughed and the announcer corrected himself after Madge whispered something in his ear.
"Sorry about that folks, Now introducing, Mr. Peeta Mellark and Mrs. Katniss Everdeen."
The couple walked onto the floor for there first dance as a married couple.
"They look so happy together," Cato thought I wish that was me and Clove. He let himself think about marrying Clove before he remembered she was dead and buried.
"Ah love," Finnick said beside Cato. He had already given up on his vow to never drink again, and now had a full glass of wine in his hand.
"There's a 50% chance of divorce in every marriage now, but who knows, they look really in love. Maybe they will beat the odds." He took a big gulp, and continued.
"But you know me Cato. I don't believe in love and hell will freeze over before I get married."
"I'll remind you of that in 20 years, I'm sure your future wife will be happy to hear that." Cato teased. Finnick just laughed into his glass of wine.
Love, Cato hadn't thought about love in a long time. He was like Finnick, he'd given up on love after his parents had divorced. Thinking about it know, he realized, maybe love was real, and he loved Clove. He didn't know how she had felt about him, she was probably just a jerk who had gotten her pregnant. He had never know truly how Clove had felt and know she was dead and he would never find out.
A.N- so next chapter Clove is back! Yay! I would be posting for awhile because I still have no wifi. I wasn't expecting being able to do this, but I'm at a house that lives in 21st century. I won't more like can't update until maybe next Friday but after then you can expect regular updates. Still guys review please! Don't make me beg! I am working on a bunch of stories so be sure to check out my authors page every now and then to see if they've been updated. If enough people show interest I will upload (if I can figure out how to,) Katniss's wedding dress picture.
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