Katniss' POV:
Cato leads me to his white sports car and before I can open my door he opens it for me.
"Thanks"
"No problem, who wouldn't be so polite to the most beautiful girl in the world?" That comment makes me blush.
"You think I'm the most beautiful girl in the world?" I ask, he's probably just lying to be nice. I'm definitely not the most beautiful girl in the world!
"There's no doubt about that" He says. I'm about to argue but Cato realizes this before I can speak. "Don't try to deny it Katniss, you don't realize how pretty you are. Maybe you can't see it but everyone else can."
I get into the car and he gets in next to me. Cato starts the car and zooms away from the hotel. He doesn't crank up the radio, which is good right now I just want to embrace the silence. Cato just takes his warm hand in my cold looks at me and gives me a smile, then turns his head towards the road. I keep my eyes on him even though I can't see his beautiful blue eyes.
There's just something special about Cato, I've dated three other boys and none of them made me feel as special as Cato does. I always feel warm and safe around Cato, but with Gale I felt like he didn't actually love me, he just had me there, for no reason, to be his toy.
Cato pulls up to a fancy restaurant called Baton Rouge. We both don't get out, we remain silent but I feel his presence.
I rest my head on his shoulder and we stay like that until Clove starts knocking on car window. I jump a bit, but not high enough to hit the car ceiling. Cato opens his door and he gets out I follow Cato out of the car,I was practically sitting on his lap.
"You guys we've been waiting ten minutes for you and Annie sent about a gazillion text messages." Clove yells. "Whatever we're going in now so don't get all mad" I roll my eyes a bit.
Cato puts his arm around my waist and follows Clove and Peeta into the restaurant And the walk to our table.
"Look who I found, they were here the whole time, 'snuggling' in Cato's car." Clove tells everyone. Marvel and Finnick wolf whistles and Cato just rolls his eyes. Marvel pats his back. "Cato's finally got a girl, and she's pretty too." That earns him a slap on the arm from Marissa.
Cato slips into the booth after me and starts looking at the menu. I peek at his menu, there was none at where I'm sitting. Cato realizes that I want to look at the menu too so he opens it wider so it covers our faces.
Marvel and Finnick probably think we're making out or something. Whatever, let them think what they want to think.
"So what do you want to get?" I ask Cato.
"The linguni primavera" He says pointing to it.
"Oh that looks good, I want to get that too."
"Get whatever you want" Cato kisses my cheek and he closes the menu. Marvel gives Cato a look saying 'Good job'. Does Marvel always have to think of everthing that way. Apparently Cato is thinking the same thing as me.
"Marvel we weren't making out behind the menu" Cato explains.
"Oh really then what we you doing behind the menu?" Marvel says trying to out smart Cato.
"Looking at the menu" Cato says in a obvious tone.
Marvel stays quiet and Marissa scolds him for thinking that.
A waitress comes and takes our orders, and gives us a curt nod before she goes off to place our order.
I put my feet up on the booth and scoot closer to Cato who has his arm around me. I rest my head on his shoulder, just like in the car, it was just so peaceful.
I hear Clove telling the others something.
"This is what they were doing when we found them in the car, they were just sitting there for ten minutes" I can practically feel Clove pointing at me. Annie and Marissa 'Awwww' and say that we're so cute. I happy they like Cato.
The waitress comes quickly with our food which is good because I'm starving. The waitress sets my plate down in front of me and I grab my fork and dig in. Mmmmmm! This is delicious. I see Cato is enjoying his food too.
"You like it?" He whispers, his breath tickling my neck.
I nod my head. "Do you like it?" I ask.
"Yeah, but not as much as I like you" he replies. I feel the heat rising in my cheeks, what's up with all the compliments?
I scoop up the last of my pasta and shove it in my mouth. I take a sip of my water and push my plate away from me. Cato has finished devouring his pasta too. He puts an arm around my waist and I scoot closer to him and rest my head on his shoulder again.
"What's with all the cuddling?" An annoyed Clove asks.
"So you don't to cuddle with me?" Peeta asks giving her puppy eyes. She rolls her eyes and gives Peeta a smile and scoots over to him and she goes in the same position that me and Cato are in.
The waitress comes after Marvel finished his third serving of shrimp. The waitress asks what we want for dessert and me and Cato order the triple chocolate cake to share. Annie, Marissa, Clove and their boyfriends order some other things, I wasn't really paying attention.
Ten minutes later the waitress comes with four plates and places them in front of everyone. Cato picks up a fork and takes a piece of the slice of cake. He doesn't eat it though.
"Open wide" Cato says holding the fork close to my mouth. I immediately open my mouth and he feeds me the piece of cake. I grab my fork off the take and cut of a piece of cake. Cato notices what I'm doing and he opens his mouth and eats the cake off the fork.
"You like it?" Cato whispers. Oh so now he's going to repeat what he said to me at dinner. I decide to follow along.
I nod my head. "Do you like it?" I whisper back bringing my face inches away from his.
"Yeah it's sweet, but not as sweet as you" I knew after I would ask him if he likes it he would make another compliment. I pull my face away from his and Cato starts feeding me cake again.
"Here's the bill" The waitress places the check on the table.
"Marissa how much?" I ask after she looks at the bill.
" A hundred and fifty six dollars and twenty-three cents" She says. I take out two hundred dollars from my purse and hand it to her. When she sees the money she pushes it away.
"No Katniss you don't have to pay, we'll all pay our share." She hands me the bill and find what I ordered. Linguini Primavera. $23.69. Triple chocolate cake. $4.00. So if me and Cato each pay half of the dessert I owe $25.69. I take thirty dollars out of my purse and place it in the middle.
We pass around the bill and place all the money in the middle. The waitress comes to pick up the money and we leave the restaurant. Me and Cato head in the opposite direction as the others and I get in the car. I buckle up my seatbelt and Cato drives off. Again he takes my hand and I suddenly feel safe, like nobody can hurt me.
Cato pulls up into the hotel driveway and we get out of the warm car into the slightly windy evening. I shiver a bit because my dress has no sleeves. Cato sees me shivering and he puts his arm around me and I feel so much warmer.
We enter the hotel, where it is much warmer but Cato doesn't remove his arm from my shoulders. Mags the lady at the front desk, the one I met the first day I came here notices Cato's arm around my shoulder and she gives him a thumbs up, and Cato smiles at her.
We get into the elevator and sit down on the bench.
"Get changed and come to my room in ten minutes" Cato says when he gets off the elevator.
"I will" I kiss his cheek and the doors close. One minute later the doors to my floor open and I get off and open the penthouse door. Annie and Marissa are already in here.
"Hi guys" I greet. They look up at me, taking their eyes off the TV.
"Hi" I smile at them and walk to my room to get changed.
I put on a pair of black yoga pants and a purple t-shirt. I grab my blue sweater and slip it on. I put on my white flip flops and tell Annie and Marissa where I'm going and they tell me Finnick and Marvel are coming up.
I decide to take the stairs instead of the elevator, since we're only three floors apart. I quickly down the stairs and find Cato's room. Before I can knock on the door Finnick and Marvel come out.
"Hey Katniss" Marvel says.
"Hi guys" I reply.
"You going to make out with Cato?" Marvel asks.
"No!" I slap his arm and walk in the room. "Catoooo?" I ask in a sing song voice. "You in here?"
Cato comes out from around the corner and grabs me around the waist and twirls me around. "Hey beautiful" He whispers.
"Hey handsome" I greet and I kiss his cheek. Cato picks me up bridal style and runs to the balcony door. He puts me down and grabs my hand. He drags me onto the balcony and he sits down on the bench. I sit next to him and rest my head on his muscular arms.
"Cato?" I ask.
"Yeah babe?"
"What happens when we go back home? We'll never see each other again." I ask concerned. I sigh. "I mean your my boyfriend..."
"Wait boyfriend since when?" He interrupts.
"Well I just thought you were my boyfriend since we went on that first date." I explain.
"Well I never asked you to be my girlfriend." He states. "But know I am" I'm shocked. For a minute there I thought he didn't want to go out with me. "Katniss Everdeen would you be my girlfriend?" He asks.
"Of course!" I say and I hug him. Cato turns to face me, he lifts my chin so I can look at him in the eye. We're both leaning closer and closer until our lips meet. His lips are soft and warm. I put my arms around his neck and he slips his arms around my waist. We stand up and I deepen the kiss.
Cato's the first one to pull away. He rests his forehead on mine and we're both breathing heavily. I smile at him and he smiles back. He gives me another kiss, but it was a quick one.
I can feel someone looking at us. I turn around and Marvel is standing in the hotel room with a smirk plastered on his face.
"What?" I ask.
"You should know" he says. I stare at him, I have no idea what he's talking about. "I guess you guys don't know. Little miss Katniss over here told me she didn't come to make out and what do I see when I come in the hotel room? You guys making out on the balcony." Marvel laughs again then walks away.
Cato just ignores him and he pulls me over to sit on the balcony again.
"So before that what were we talking about?" He asks.
"How in a few days, spring break is over and we have to go back home, and I'll never see you again." I say hugging my knees.
"Well, we've never talked about this but where do you live?" He asks, putting a comforting arm around me.
"Boston" When I say that Cato's face lights up.
"Boston? I live in Boston."
"Really? What high school are you going to?" I ask.
"Well I'm transferring to Capitol High after the break, so are Peeta, Finnick and Marvel, our parents all work for the same company and the building their working in is moving so we have to move.
"This is great, I go to Capitol High and it's even better that you're going there to!" I exclaim.
"I guess there's nothing to worry about then" Cato kisses me one more time and we enjoy the silence again.
A/N: When I was writing this chapter I felt so much more inspired! I hope you liked it, please review and Happy Halloween!(Kind of, tomorrow's halloween)