Disclaimer: Hia! Very sorry for the late update, and the horrible A/Ns I do feel really horrible, and guilty. But this one is finally here. I might have to change my update day anyways. Volleyball starts on Tuesday, and I have been pressured into doing it. I am rambling so ill see you at the end of the chapter…

Cross Country Fun

Chapter:5 P2

Third Person POV

"Yeah, it is," Johanna said.

"What are we going to do if we cant get the money?" asks Madge.

"Lets not go there right now. Why don't we meet up again in a few hours so we can collect all the money we can get. We will meet back here, and count how much money we have," Katniss says.

"Okay bye then," Madge says leaving, dragging Gale with her.

Everybody else leaves except Clove, Cato, and Peeta.

"What are you guys still doing here?" asks Katniss.

"I want to spend a little more time with you," says Peeta, who starts to nuzzle Katniss's neck.

"I'm here because I don't feel like leaving yet," Clove says laying her head on Cato's shoulder.

"I'm still here because Clove is, I want to go to her house. Her parent aren't home so I'm allowed," Cato said. Cato and clove are together secretly. Well everybody but Clove's parents know. Her parents don't approve of him, by how he looks. If they knew the real him, they would probably start calling him 'son-in-law', even though they aren't married. Cato gets almost all A's, is very sweet under his bad boy look, and never gets in trouble. His parents died in a car explosion 5 years ago. He lived in foster care for a while, but when he turned 18 he left as fast as he could. He got a small apartment, and lives with his dog Spike, Clove, and her cat, Blade. Cato says that Clove is the best thing that ever happened to him. She doesn't believe him, saying that there are probably way better things that have happened to him that aren't her. He always just shakes his head. It's a mystery why her parents don't like him. He only looks scary, but under his stony expression is a big softy.

"Oh, okay," Katniss replies getting up causing Peeta to frown a bit. "Come on Peeta follow me," he gets up quickly And follows her to her room.

Cato's POV

Katniss and Peeta go upstairs to do god knows what.

"Hey Cato," Clove says softly.

"Hmm?" I ask.

"Can we go lay on the bed again, I didn't sleep much last night?" she asks.

"Sure," I say standing up. She yawns and starts to get up.

"Nope," I say picking her up. She doesn't fight me, so I know that she really is tired. She doesn't even move. I walk out of the kitchen, and walk over to the pull out bed. In the 3 seconds it took me to walk over to the couch she fell asleep and is snoring softly. I chuckle a bit and lay her down carefully. She stirs a bit and curls into a ball. I pull the blankets over her, and kiss her forehead.

"Night my little Clover."

A few hours later in Cloves POV

I open my eyes slowly. Why am I on the bed? I could of swore I was just talking to Cato a second ago. I must've fallen asleep while getting over here. How did I get on here? Cato must've carried me. I guess I was too tired to even notice. Speaking of Cato where is he? I sit up and look around and see him on one of the mattresses on the floor next to the couch thingy. He is tucked in a tight ball with his eyebrows creased, and fists in balls with the covers thrown off. I have only seen him like this 3 times. Once when I first met him and I came to his foster care home to work on a project we had together, and he looked like he does now back then. I walked over to him, and poked his shoulder, he didn't move. I tried a soft push and he still didn't move. Finally I pushed him with all my strength and he rolled over, eyes snapped open, and sat up right in one swift motion. He looked around and saw me, he relaxed instantly.

The second time was when the 'rebels' all were at Katniss house, and were having one of our sleepovers. I woke up in the middle of night in Katniss room, and had to use the bathroom. I went to the one that was down stairs, because I didn't want to walk over the other girls to get to her bathroom. I start to walk over to it, when I see Cato again that same position. I walk over to him, and go straight to the hard push knowing that the little pushes weren't enough. He does the same as before, awakes with a start, and when he sees me he relaxes. I walk over to the bathroom, do my business, and walk out. This time is different though, before I can get to the stairs he whispers my name.

"Clove!" I turn around, and see him standing in front of me.

"Hmm" I ask

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"Waking me up, this time and that one time last year."

"Welcome," I say before heading back up the stairs.

The third time was the first night we spent together in our apartment. I had gotten up early, and had taken a shower. I came out to get my clothes, and saw him again. I walked over did the whole 'I push him, he wakes up, looks around, and relaxes thing.' I get my clothes and walk back to the bathroom to finish getting ready. Later that day I ask him what he was dreaming of. He said he doesn't remember but it was a nightmare

When we sleep next to each other he never does this. So when see him on the floor in his ball I roll of the bed and land next to him. I shove him and he doesn't wake up. This must be a bad one. I shove him harder, and he still doesn't wake up. I roll him so he is on his back, his legs are down, but his eyebrows are still knitted together. I straddle him and kiss him with a fiery passion. This wakes him up. His eyes snap open as per usual, but he doesn't sit up. Instead he starts to kiss me back. I pull away after awhile, breathless.

"Would you wake me up like that every day?" he asks with a mischievous glint in his eyes. I shake my head and get off of him.

"It was bad this time. Like really bad," I say. I think of how yesterday Katniss had the same problem. Well, close to the same. She was standing there frozen and would come back to reality. Cato had that problem a few seconds ago.

"What?" he asks confused.

"Your nightmare Cato. This time I could get you awake with a shove. I was a little worried. I had thought kissing you would get you up, and it did. But I don't usually have to do that. Why didn't you come sleep next to me? You never have you nightmares when you sleep with me," I say. He sits up.

"I wasn't up with you because I didn't want to bother you. You looked so peaceful when your sleep. I didn't want to wake you. I forgot about my nightmares, because I have been sleeping with you for so long, and it totally swiped my mind when I decided to sleep on my own. I'm sorry," he says looking down.

"Don't be sorry," I say crawling back down to the bed with him.

"M'kay," he says as he nuzzles my neck, the starts to lick.

" No Cato, not right now. You had your fun last night," I say firmly. He pouts a bit, then smiles probably remembering what he did last night.

"M'kay," he says getting up.

" Where are you going?" I ask him getting up also.

"I'm going…"