I KNOW ITS A BIT LATE, BUT IVE BEEN REAL BUSY THESE PAST WEEKS, ANYWAY, HERE IT IS:D
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Silver was practically undressing Cato with her eyes, but he couldn't care less, his attention was fixated on Clove, and what he thought was her ex who dumped her.
The song wasn't slow, it was a fast song that the girls would just whip their hair on and the boys would just watch them do so.
While Clove did so, she glanced over at both Silver and Cato smirking, both seeming pissed off.
Cato because Clove refused to dance with him, but willingly agreed to do so with her ex who he thought she hated.
And Silver because no matter how much she tried getting Cato's attention, she couldn't because he was preoccupied with Clove.
It didn't seem like Aaron wasn having the time of his life either, no matter how hard he tried to make conversation with Clove she would keep it choppy and return to not talking and glaring at the couple next to them. Silver ran her fingers up and down Cato's chest trying to get his attention, but she was failing terribly.
"Silver, stop that!" Cash ordered as she approached the two annoyed pushing her hand off Cato, this caught his attention.
Silver was glaring at Cash. "You're going to ruin everything, don't be such a slut!"
She said wide-eyed like shes trying to convey a message to Silver without Cato finding out, and it was working.
He had no idea what they were talking about but he intended to find out.
"Clove, what is it with you? I am trying to talk to you but you're tuning me out!" Aaron yells stepping away from her.
Her eyes move away from Silver and Cato and focus on Aaron.
"You want the truth? I haven't forgiven you! I was heartbroken that you were leaving. But you on the other hand, you went and slept with a random whore you didn't even know! I spent that whole day crying Aaron, I clearly didn't mean as much to you as you meant to me. And it's going to take a whole lot more than an apology to fix that." She replies stomping off through the miniscule gap between Silver and Cato, and towards Peeta and Marvel near the railing of the patio.
"Hey, what happ-" Peeta started concerned with Cloves red face and heavy frown. "Ill tell you later" she cuts him off. He nods knowing Clove wouldn't want to be pestered. Though Peeta has always been there for Clove, he knew that she was more than capable of handling her own problems, she wasn't the sister that needed a brother's help; he had Annie for that. Cato listened to Silver hit on him for the rest of the night, but watched Clove sit and laugh with her friends giving Aaron a dirty look from time to time. "It's getting late! We should leave!" Annie yelled from a window on the first floor, overlooking the patio where the rest of the crowd was.
"What are you doing up there Annie?" Clove and Peeta asked Annie simultaneously, Cato shortly walking up behind Clove looking up at the girl in the window.
Annie was going to say something before the three of them noticed Finn behind her buttoning his shirt and fixing his auburn hair through the glass.
The trio smirked at Annie who bluntly slammed the windows shut, though they couldn't hear her shouting at Finn, they knew she was.
Clove, Peeta, Cato and Annie soon got into the car and Peeta drove off towards Effie's.
There was an awkward silence for a while, but it was soon broken.
"So Annie, what was Finn do-" Clove started foolishly grinning at the girl in the front seat, next to Peeta.
"Shut up. Just. Just shut up!" she stammered sliding her face into her palms. All three of them chuckled.
"Clover, I saw you dancing with Aaron, care to explain." Annie asked, diverting the conversation. Cato turned towards Clove who was sitting beside him in the backseat.
Clove shrugged and looked out the window, pretending to not care.
Annie wasn't satisfied. "Fine, be that way." She replied.
"So we are not doing anything tomorrow, are we?" Cato asked.
"Nope, Effie's got people coming over so we have to stay at home." Annie replied.
"Oh and that reminds me, Cato, when Effie has people over, it is always a black tie event! Remember that!" Peeta warns him.
Cato nods and laughs a little. Annie stuffs her hand into her bag and grabs a granola bar.
"Anyone want?" she asks. The boys plunge towards her and practically grab their halves out of her hand.
"Clove?" she asks offering her a bit. She shakes her head, and tries to quickly change the topic since she was positive Annie would question her since Annie knew Clove loved granola bars.
"So Cato, what do you plan on doing after college?" Clove asks abruptly.
"Oh, um, I haven't decided yet? What about you? he asks.
"and Annie and Peeta?" he corrects himself before Peeta starts suspecting again. "I really wanted to be a photographer but you know, haven't decided yet." She replies. "Oh, lawyer" Annie replies flipping her hair. "Chef" Peeta replies focusing on the road. Cato nods.
"What about your gymnastics." He asks Clove. "Oh, that's just for fun, not on a serious level, then it becomes way too much work!" she replies. He nods.
He didn't know what it was about Clove that got him so hooked? She wasn't the prettiest person he had laid his eyes on, she wasn't the nicest either.
He kept telling himself that he only wanted her body, but was it true?
They soon reached Effie's, and poured out of the car. They dashed towards the porch and rang the bell several times before Effie answered, flustered.
"I've got dinner ready for you kids!" Effie says leading them towards the dining room where Effie laid out a plate of braised pork, jacket potatoes and salad.
The children almost jerked towards the plates and grabbed their food, since none except Cato touched the pizza served at Cash's house.
Effie's children weren't brought up consuming food like pizza's, burgers, and beer they were brought up consuming surf, turf and rosé.
While other kids may hold keggers, the children at Effie's were to always have an option of serving wine; though it was never consumed.
Other children may come home everyday and play video games, but Effie made sure her children weren't one of them.
Peeta had football practice, Clove had her gymnastics, and Annie was head of the debate club.
Effie had standards, and those standards were not to be declined by her children's behavior. Thats why Annie would do literally anything to make sure she didn't find out about Finn and her, she will never hear the end of it. Effie was anticiptaing the day Cato got comfortable so she could lay out all her rules on him.
Cato didn't quite like these standards, but there wasn't a lot of shit he could do about it.
After they were all served, they began eating like hungry pigs until Effie shouted at them.
"Clover dear, you're not eating?" Effie asked taking a seat opposite her. "Um, no, I ate at Cash's, that pizza was surprisingly decent." She replied playing with her napkin. Effie nodded somewhat shocked "Uh, Clove, I didn't see you eating any pizza?" Cato said cutting into his pork.
"You may not have seen me, but I did." She replied glaring at him. "No, I remember and I really don't-" he started.
"I said I did, you're not always looking at me you know?" she cut him off angrily. he wanted to tell her that he did have his eye on her all the time, but it was pretty creepy.
"Sweetheart eat something! It's been a while and I'm sure you're tired!" Effie said passing her the bowl of salad.
Clove sighed angrily and put very little of the salad onto her plate and started chomping.
After everyone was done Clove practically ran up to her room slamming the door behind her.
Cato followed shortly and entered his room. He heard Clove enter her bathroom and slam the door behind her. He entered her room wanting to make sure she was fine. Clove locked the bathroom door and sat on the floor again facing the toilet.
"It was just some salad Clove!" she said closing her eyes breathing in and out. After a few seconds of steady inhaling and exhaling she shook her head and stuck her finger down her throat hurling out whatever small remaining bits of food she had left in her. She flushed and immediately hit her wall crying.
Clove is a perfectionist, She is an over achiever, she isn't a quitter. But going to these heights to achieve perfection isn't something she wants, but she cant stop herself. Cato knocks on the door as he can hear Clove softly sob. She wipes her tears on her pink towel and opens the bathroom door with a straight face.
"What?" she asks him bluntly. "Hey, um I heard you crying, are you okay?" he asks her concerned. "Yeah I'm fine." She replies walking out the bathroom door.
"Clove, I heard you. I don't know how to say this without sounding creepy," he hesitated. "I heard you puking, and I-" he started.
"Just mind your own fucking business Cato! I barely know you! You have no right to tell me what or what not to do!" she yells.
Cato was surprised at how Clove wants her perfect body more than Cato does. Bulimia isn't something new to Cato; in Chicago he went to a school where every other girl was bulimic. "You have been all up in my grill since the day you got here, and I said nothing. You keep hitting on me and I said nothing. You even tried to flipping rape me and I said nothing!-" she started. "Clove I didn't mea-" he interrupted. "No let me finish! And this is most definitely none of your business, so stay the fuck away!" she yells pushing him out of her door. But before she could small the door on his face he shoved his foot in the middle stopping the door. "Clove, please, I want to help you." He said sounding concerned. "Please I know guys like you, you're pretending to care now. But you only want sex, and don't deny that, because you know its true. And the worst part is, if that does happen, I'm going to have to see your face everyday after that, and I cannot live like that. If you want to sleep with someone so bad, go ask Silver; I'm sure shed be delighted, and with her you don't have to pretend you care." She said kicking his foot from door; he was too disoriented to stop her.
"Oh and i'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone about this." She said shutting the door on Cato's bewildered face. It took a while for him to take in everything she just told him. No girl ever talked to Cato like that, and he wasn't going to let it be. Though parts of what she said were true, he was astonished at how she was able to gather so much information on him just by looking and talking to him. He angrily walked to his room, and started punching random things. Clove was trying to sleep in her room but could barely do so over the loud slamming and grunting coming from the other room. The sounds soon stopped and Clove fell asleep, still guilty for doing this to her body, still scared that Cato would tell, and still absolutely stumped about what to do next. Cato quickly rushed down the stairs and through the kitchen doors. He mentally thanked god no one was there. He grabbed a granola bar, a carton of orange juice, and quickly made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich putting all of these on a tray. He grabbed one of the metal covers Effie just loved and shielded the food. He ran back upstairs very quietly. Crossing Peeta's room he could hear him talking on the phone to someone. It really wasn't that late, and he was pretty surprised Clove had fallen asleep. "I'm really sorry Kat, Silver isn't nearly as pretty as you" he pleaded. Cato laughed and walked back to his room. He placed the tray on his bed and hastily tore out a sheet of paper from a notebook and scribbled down a sentence.
He taped the paper onto the metal cover and quietly tip toed through the door connecting Clove and his' room that she conveniently forgot to lock. He, quietly trying not to wake her placed the tray on her study table. Before he exited he walked up to her bed and crouched down to get a better look at her face. She looked so harmless when she was sleeping. Cato grinned before exiting her room and dozing off.
Every Saturday morning at 10 Clove would take Lilac, Madge's dog for a walk because Madge lived right next door and wouldn't wake before noon.
Clove hustled out of bed and snatched a tank and denim shorts before stumbling into the bathroom still drowsy.
she didn't bother taking a look at her desk. She took a quick shower and did her hair before finally setting her eyes on her desk.
Lying on her desk was one of Effie's metal food covers with a paper stuck to it. She approached her desk and tore the paper off the cover.
'Eat, or I am going to tell,' the note said. Clove tore the paper frustrated and threw the remains into the dustbin.
"Cato" she whispered irritated with the guts this boy had.
She angrily sat on her bed squinting at the tray of food. After a few minutes she picked out a plastic bag from one of her cupboards and threw all the food into it.
She then tied the bag and threw it onto her bed. After grabbing a sheet of paper from she scribbled down a few words and shoved the paper under the cover onto the tray. She lifted the tray in one hand and opened the door leading to Cato's room. The light streamed in from his curtains and made his hair look like it was sparkling.
Though he looked like a spastic with one leg on one far end of the bed, and the other leg on the other.
Clove couldn't help but giggle even though she was infuriated with him. She quietly placed the empty tray holding only the note on his desk and walked off.
She grabbed the plastic bag with the food and threw it over her shoulder and hurried down the stairs.
"Hey sweetheart, want breakfast?" Effie asked from the kitchen.
"I've already eaten." Clove yelled from the front door and run through it. After she was near the gate of the house she threw the bag into the nearest trashcan.
She jogged towards Madge's house, which was only a few blocks away and rang the bell.
"Hey Clover, Lilac is inside, hold on I'll just call her." said opening the door. She whistled melodiously and the Great Dane appeared seconds later.
Clove crouched down to pet her but instead got slobber all over her face. "I have a feeling she liked you a lot better than she does Madge" laughed offering Clove a towel. Clove laughed wiping her face, after which she bid goodbye to Madge's mother and walked towards the beach the dog pulling her.
Cato woke up around half hour later, the rays immediately reflecting on the silver tray making it shine and catching Cato's attention.
He scurried towards the tray and lifted the cover. 'You happy?' the note said. Cato smiled thinking Clove had eaten what he left out for her, if only he knew.
Clove had dropped Lilac back to Madge's and entered her own house to find Cato, Annie and Peeta on the table eating breakfast.
"Clover, there are some pancakes lying on your plate," Effie said sitting on the couch reading the newspaper.
She took a seat opposite Peeta and looked intensely at the pancakes.
"I've already eaten Effie" Clove replied. "Clove are you sure you don't want to eat? You were running for like an hour!" Cato asked her.
"No Cato, I'm stuffed." She replied bluntly shooting him daggers. Cato didn't want any more trouble so he backed off.
"So as you know, The CEO of Newport Enterprises, Richard Tyle, his wife Emilia and their son Ryan are coming over for lunch today. The four of you will be on your best behavior, understood?" Effie warns. The four of them nod cohesively. "New Port enterprises?" Cato asks Peeta.
"Oh, it is the biggest company in Newport, Richard practically owns everything being sold here!" Peeta exclaims. Cato nods impressed.
"They will be here in an hour, and I expect you four to be down here in half an hour, appropriately dressed." Effie declares. Annie nods and shoves the remains of her pancake into her mouth bolted out of her seat, grabbed Clove's arm and ran up the stairs. "Why is she running?" Cato asked. "Well, Someone told Annie that Ryan is quite the 'hot fudge cake', as Johanna would say." He replied chucking.
"But Annie's with Finn" He asked confused. "Oh, she isn't rushing up to do her hair and makeup, she's rushing up to do Clove's." he said chewing the last pieces of his breakfast. Cato nodded, like he always does; hiding the jealousy raging inside him.
"Clover, I have picked out what you are going to wear" Annie said tossing Clove a full sleeved tight baby pink dress with lace sleeves.
"This is mine!" Clove yelled.
"Oh yeah, I had borrowed it, sorry" Annie giggled.
"Annabelle, why are you doing this?" she asks annoyed. Clove only used full names when she was annoyed.
"Oh, well, Johanna told me Ryan is quite the hottie, and I really think you could use a boyfriend" she said putting her arm on Clove's shoulder concerned.
"And you're choosing to believe what Johanna tells you after what happened last time?" she asks smirking. "Well, she made one mistake in misjudging Cato, it doesn't mean she's wrong about everything." She said shrugging. "Now put this on!" she commanded pointing towards the bathroom. Clove obliged, rolling here eyes. Within seconds she was out of the bathroom already tugging at her dress. "You beautiful girl" she said in a terrible accent.
"Come here, let me do your hair. Annie pulled the a few strands of Cloves front hair on the right and braided it, after which she did the same for the left and pinned it at the back. "perfect" she said shoving Clove in front of the mirror. Clove sighed and took a look at herself, she never saw herself as beautiful as others saw her, and that was just because she was friends with the prettiest girls in school. "Ok now my turn" Annie said pulling a plain a strappy grey fitted dress. She threw it on her; it fit her like a glove. Annie tied her straightened hair into a high ponytail and applied light makeup on both her and Clove. She tossed Clove a pair of beige flats and took out a pair of strappy one-inch grey heels for herself.
The four children assembled down stairs in the living room right at the time Effie wanted them too. Both boys wearing shirts; Peeta in plaid and Cato in white.
Effie spent the fifteen minutes she had before the Tyle's got here lecturing Cato about his table manners. She was forced to teach him which spoon he should be using for his soup, entrée, main course, and dessert. Cato on the other hand wasn't concentrating at all as he was too busy staring at Clove who spent those fifteen minutes curled up on the couch flipping through the pages of us weekly. The bell rang right when Effie finished teaching Cato about his cutlery.
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