A/N: Surprise! I know it's Monday and I said I wouldn't be updating until the weekend but I got this idea late last night and had to include it! I hope you like it! Make sure to check out the POV for this chapter!
And as originally planned in my head the trivia questions will come on friday! I am sooo sorry I keep pushing them back! I just want to have enough time to be able to set a side to figure out that whole thing! :) Thank you all again for all the lovely reviews for last chapter!
Courtney
Beep. Beep. Beep.
"Yay! My popcorn is ready!"
I run over to the microwave, yank the door open and grab the steaming hot bag to empty it into the big blue bowl on the counter. The opening credits of Bring it On start playing in the living room, I run back to the couch to start watching. Since Cato is out and the twins are already asleep I decided to have a movie night by myself.
Once my favorite part of the movie comes on I hear the front door slam shut and my brothers large feet start bounding up the stairs.
Ughhhh here we go.
"Hey!" I yell up to him, from the bottom of the stairs
He doesn't respond.
I watch as he disappears through his bedroom door and slams that shut, too.
"Is he really going to make me do this?" I groan inwardly
I bound up the stairs after him and go to open his door. I wiggle the door handle and it doesn't budge.
Dammit he locked it.
"Cato! Open this door right now!" I bang loudly on the door
After a few minutes of repeated knocking, he finally opens the door and walks back to sit on his bed. He has a white t-shirt and blue gym shorts on now and he is resting his elbows on his legs just staring at the floor.
What the hell happened?
"What Courtney?" He barks
"Umm...How was the party?" I ask as casually as I can
"Fine." He says looking up at me
If looks could kill I would already be dead. The one thing to know about my brother is his eyes are always a dead give away to how he is feeling and only a few people know that, myself included. Right now his eyes are such a piercing blue that I can see an angry fire dancing behind them, but his face is a mix of anger and guilt.
"Cato," I say as calmly as I can "What happened at the party?"
"Nothing. It was perfectly fine, I had the time of my life." He sarcastically snarls at me
"Well that guilty look on your face says another thing. Was Clove there?"
He gets up from his bed and storms at me, stopping right in front of me.
"Yeah so what if she was there. It's not like she wants anything to do with me anyway."
It's a sad thing when you have to look up to your little brother because he towers over you by a good four or five inches. And, right now I am looking up into his firey blue eyes and watching the anger just ooze off of every pore of his being. He thinks because he is bigger than me he can try and scare me into leaving him alone.
"Look," I poke him in the chest "This whole macho man thing might work with the other kids in school. But, it's not working with me. You don't scare me Cato! You will always be my little brother and no matter how much you want me to leave right now, I'm not going to."
"You have no clue what the hell happened tonight!"
"You're right I don't and by the sounds of it I don't want to know. Can I take a guess though?"
"Suit yourself." he says throwing up his hands
"Something happened with Marvel and Clove, in a fit of anger you decided to do something stupid, which your regretting now. Whatever stupid thing you decided to do it got between you and Clove and she doesn't want to talk to you right now."
"Good guess." He snaps
He abruptly turns away from me and slams his dresser drawer shut. I grab his wrist before he can do anything else stupid.
"The more you keep slamming stuff, it's not going to change what you did. And you're going to wake Cam and Cassi." I hiss at him
His eyes soften slightly and he sits back on his bed again. I sit next to him and wrap my arm around his broad shoulders the best I can.
"I screwed up, Court. I screwed up big time!" He sighs leaning his head against my shoulder
"Can I say something?" I ask
"That hasn't stopped you before."
"I think you are so frustrated by the fact that it has taken you longer then what you want to get Clove as your girlfriend. Any other girl falls at your feet and will do whatever you want them to. You have to fight for Clove. You have never had to fight for a girl before and that bothers you. She has too much respect for herself to act like a Glimmer. That's what you find so intriguing about her." I tell him
We both sit there in silence for a while and Cato's breathing starts to become more even now that he is calming down.
"Cato?" Someone says sleepily
He and I look up and see Cassi standing at the door to his room wearing her pink nightgown and carrying her purple stuffed bunny by the ear. She walks as fast as her tired little feet can carry her and climbs onto Cato's lap hugging her bunny close to her.
"What are you doing up kiddo?" He asks
"You sounded sad and Mr. Bunny wanted to see if you were okay?" She yawns holding up her bunny to him
Cato gives a light laugh "I'm okay Cassi don't worry! Don't you worry either Mr. Bunny!"
Cassi turns around and wraps her small arms around Cato's neck and rests her head on his shoulder.
"Isn't that the bunny I got her for her birthday?" He whispers to me, pointing to Mr. Bunny who has now fallen on Cato's dark blue comforter
"Yeah, she loves it!" I whisper back to him
He gives Cassi, who has quickly fallen asleep on his shoulder, a kiss on the head.
"Cato, do me a favor. Really think about what you're doing before you do something so bad you can lose Clove forever. She's good for you I can tell you that right now." I say putting on my best older sister act
He just gives me a faint head nod and gets up to bring Cassi back to bed. I go to stand out in the hallway and watch Cato's large shadow slip Cassi back into her blankets.
"Good night little sister! I love you." He whispers to her
Cato walks back into the hallway, gives me a hug.
"Thanks Court!" he whispers in my ear, then disappears back into his bedroom
I stand in the hallway, smiling with my arms crossed staring at the bedroom doors of all three of my younger siblings.
"It's been a successful night of being an older sister. Now time to finish my movie!" I clap my hands and walk backdown the stairs
A/N: Soo what do you think? A little different right? lol
I just wanted to clear something up about why Cato is acting the way he was in the last two chapters because some people seemed confused. Don't forget in Ch. 8 when they were all at Finnicks swimming Cato found Marvel and Clove together in Finnicks room and as far as Cato knows Marvel still likes Clove and now Cato doesn't know about Marvel and Jackie. Soo I could add something else here but that would blow a part of the story! haha so I will leave you at that!
Now we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Friday! :)
As usual comments, questions, concerns, suggestions welcome :)
xoxo
Shout outs:
Ch. 9
Guest- I hoped you liked after the cliff hanger! :)
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Ch. 10
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