Cato and clove

Chapter 10

His eyes met mine. I could see that familiar sparkle in his eyes. Every second he came one bit closer to my lips. I could feel his warm breath in my neck. I lean forwards him and or lips finally met each other. First it was gentle and sweet. His warm lips moved against mine and I could taste a salt taste. We both caught our breaths.

'I love you too'

We kissed again but now our kisses were faster and with more passionate. My whole body filled with happiness. I wrapped my arms around his neck and held his blonde hair between my fingers. He had a strong grip on me, like he never wanted me to let go.

He was mine and I was his and in some way I felt that we belong together. I knew it already the first moment I met him. To me he was the boy that cared. The only one where I could forget everything with him.

I loved him. When I was younger I never thought that I would ever say those words to someone. I was taught not to care. But Cato let me did that. He let me feel love. Love that I never had.

I don't know how long we lay there kissing each other, but it felt like hours, days. The sun went down and it left a pink color behind. I stared at him while he moved my hair out if my face. 'What? ' he smiled. I curled me more up in his shoulder. 'I wish I could stay here forever' I sighed.

He gave me a kiss on my forehead. 'You can' for a few minutes we didn't say anything to each other. We didn't have to. It was perfect. A half hour later he Cato started grinning in the nowhere. I smiled it was my turn to say 'what'.

'What are you thinking of, peasant' I relieved out his grip smiling.
He smiled secretly. ''We are going to play a game. I ask you something and you need/answer it. It's kind of Truth or dare, okay?''
I nodded playfully. 'Who starts?' I asked.
'You can start'
'Okay, Cato...What was the most embarrassed thing that ever happened to you?' I laughed.
'That's a hard one' Cato smiled and thought for a few minutes.

'There are so many moments. But once I had this really embarrassed situation. It was the year were you need to show how good you are for the trainers and I was fighting at an height and 'he started laughing already ' I slipped over my feet and ' I could barely understand him because of his laughing 'and the…my pants was pinned on a nail and when I reached ...the ground I only had my underwear ... on and every trainer was just staring at me . '

I started laughing so hard that my stomach hurt of it and I cried of joy. We laughed together and I did those weird sounds when I laughed so Cato started laughing harder.
Finally we stopped and Cato asked me: 'Truth or Dare?'
'Dare'
'You've got some nerves guuuurl, I dare you tooo...' he looked around him and a smile crossed over his face when he looked at the end of the roof ' jump of this building'

I stared at him like he was crazy, what he certain was. 'Do you want me to die?' I looked at his face.
'No!' he kissed the top of my nose and moved to the end of the roof ''come here'' so I step towards him

'' It's a protection field. The capitol doesn't want that tributes throw them self of the roof so they made a field that reject them back if they jump. Did you never heard of it? A victor of our district told it me.'
Cato took a pen and threw it of the roof. For a few second it kept falling. I started to raise my eyebrows at Cato and say 'told you so' but then there was a green glow and it threw the pen back at us.

' Omg that's cool!' I exclaimed.

Cato smiled. 'I told you so ' he teased. 'So what are you going to do? Jump? Or not?'
I smiled. 'What do you think I'm going to do?' I step closer at the edge of the roof.

' Wait a sec, if you die, I want a kiss just to be sure' he grinned. And grabbed my waist and kissed my lips long. Butterflies flied trough my stomach. I pulled him closer to me. And when he was close enough I took a step behind me, so that we both fell of the roof.

I laughed. We fell for a few seconds and then there was a hard bang and we flied back to the roof. I landed on Cato.

'That wasn't fair! He said childish.

'You didn't say anything about taking you with me' I said while coming closer to his lips.

'Do you forgive me?' I'll ask. I Gave him a kiss on his lips. 'Now I do. You should do more some things.'

It was already midnight, so Cato pulled me over his shoulder and brought me to my room. He threw me in bed and went lying next to me. I wrapped my arms around him and lay my head on his chest.

When I almost fell asleep Cato called my name.
'Clove?'
'Mmhh' I mumbled, my eyes still closed. ''Can you promise me something?'' his voice seemed serious.

I opened my eyes and saw his eyes black in the dark.
'of course' I said with a puzzled look. He smiled lightly. 'Promise me to...stay with me'
I tasted the words on my lips. Did he mean in the arena? Or just that I never broke up with him?.

'Forever' said.

He took me closer in his arms and his breath went regular. My eyes felt heavy and I closed them and soon enough I fell asleep to.

I woke up in a wood with green trees and I could hear the mockingjays sing. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the tones they sang.

The sound got cut off by a loud scream. And a canon fired. I looked chocked around; I saw hundreds of birds fly over the trees. I heard footsteps behind me. I turned me around and I saw Cato running to me, taking my hand.

''We need to run, Clove. They are so close !'
'Who?' I screamed terrified. He pointed at the black shadows behind us. We kept running and suddenly. I felt something grab my ankles. Cato lost my grip on me. I fell and I feel something sting in my chest. Right at the place of my hearth. Cato looked at me with big eyes. I thought he would kneel next to me. But he didn't, My heart started beating slower and I felt my veins getting cold. Cato did the opposite, he started yelling at me.

'WHAT ARE YOU DOING, CLOVE?! YOU PROMISED ME TO STAY WITH ME. YOU LIED!'
I stared at him. 'I'm sorry' I brought out weak but he disappeared in some sort of dust and then I was alone, my vision got black.

Tears flew overmy cheeks and I made loud sobbing sounds. I was back in my room and I still felt Cato's arms around me. As the minutes past my sobbing got louder, I didn't even know that I could cry that much.

'Hey, what's wrong?' Cato asked when he noticed my sobbing sounds. 'I...you..' I could barely talk ' nightmare' I said in one breath

'Shhhhh, it's okay. I'm here. I'll protect you' I heard his heart beat against my ear and in a way it calmed me down. It made me forget everything.

'Why?' I replied.
'Isn't that obvious?' he smirked, 'I care for you. I admire your courage and...,'
'My courage? I'm weaker than that stupid district twelve girl.' I interrupted him.
'Don't say that. I saw you fighting that day for the selections. You are a true district 2 tribute. I promise.'

I smiled at Cato and remembered that my mother used to sing songs for me when I had bad dreams. I looked at Cato.
'I know that look' he smirked. 'what do you want?'
'Can you sing for me ?' I did my puppy face. He said 'no' for ten minutes and I finally could convince him when I gave him a kiss on his cheek.

'I can't sing, just to warn you. Uhm which song should I sing?' he thought deep. 'O I know. Do you know to song we used to sing when our tributes were in a bad situation. The song called 'safe and sound''
I nodded and lay back my head on his chest and focused me at the rhythm of his heart beats.

'Just close your eyes.

The sun is going down,

Come morning light .

You and I'll be safe and sound'

and with his sang and the beat of his heart I felt in a deep dreamless sleep.