Cato's POV

Next evening

We're eating at Clove's old house tonight for dinner. Rose is cooking, and according to Clove's raves, Rose is amazing at cooking. There's a knock on my door, I open it and see Clove, standing in the doorway, wearing blue turquoise silk shirt with a leather belt around her waist, along with leggings and combat boots. Clove told me to wear something nice, or Rex might gut me alive, she seems surprised that Rex is now an over-protective older brother. I'm not that surprised, I mean he did just have to watch his little sister go into a fight-to-the-death Game, thank the gods that's not happening again.

"You look amazing," I tell her.

"Well duh," Clove smiles. "You do too."

"Of course I do," I smile. "You ready to go?"

Clove nods, I put out my arm for her. "It's not prom you know." Clove points out.

I lower my arm, "But, hey, I never said to put your arm down." She smiles, I am completely in love with this girl.

-0_0-

Rose made sushi for dinner, which is raw fish with rice and seaweed wrapped around it, it's actually really good. It's also very awkward, since the 5 of us are all just sitting around the table, eating in silence.

"So, Cato," Clove's mother says, breaking through the silence. "How's your family these days?"

"Um, they're good," I say awkwardly.

"Cato, how's your house in the Village? Are you enjoying staying in it? Or do you get kinda of lonely since you're by yourself?" Rex asks, the tone of his voice says, you'd better be by yourself or I will personally rip out your guts and feed them to the crows.

"I kind of miss living with my family, so yeah it's pretty lonely." Not.

Rex nods in approval.

"Rex," Clove says sweetly. "Do me and favor and shut up."

-0_0-

Next day walking to the Training Center

"Are you sure you want to go back?" I ask Clove, I already know the answer; Clove has that determined look on her face.

"I have to show Glimmer- excuse me, Amara, that she has no effect on me." What Clove says is true, Amara is A LOT like Glimmer. "I hope someone drops a tracker jacker nest on her too." Clove grumbles, obviously Amara does have effect on Clove.

The big glass doors to the Center slide open, Clove and I walk to the elevator, stepping in it, I lean forward to press the 4 button.

Clove crosses her arms.

"What did I do this time?" I ask.

"I wanted to push the button," Clove complains.

"What are you? Five?" I ask her incredulously.

Clove's grumpy face breaks into a grin, "And a half."

-o_o-

I'm with Amara again today.

"So then, I was like, this was on clearance last week, I know this isn't one of a kind…" All Amara talks about is shopping, nails, and other people's fashion, it bores the hell out of me, then looking over at Ethan and Clove, and they're smiling and laughing all the time, why couldn't I have gotten Nick or even Rex to train? I inwardly groan.

-0_0-

"Alright guys! Training for today is over!" Deus shouts so everyone can hear him. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Every starts to leave, I find Clove in the crowd and walk over to her. "Ugh, kill me now." I groan.

Clove smirks, "Amara sickening you?"

"With talk of shopping," I inform her.

"Now you know what my life is like with Joce 24/7." Clove tells me.

"What? I heard my name," Jocelyn and Shawna walk over to us.

"Yeah, I was just telling Cat about your shopping problems." Clove tells her two best friends.

"Speaking of which we need to hang out," Jocelyn says. "We don't have to go shopping, let's go get dinner together."

"Well Cato and I-"

"C'mon Clove you never hang out with us anymore," Jocelyn wines, it's kind of funny seeing a 17 year-old wine to a 15-year-old. "Shawna help me out here."

Shawna looks apologetically to me and Clove and says, "It's true, you're always spending all your time with Cato and none with us these days, it's like you've replaced us. Remember? Friends before boyfriends."

Clove looks at me for permission, we had plans for dinner tonight, but her friends need her, I can understand that. "It's fine," I tell Clove, "We can have move our first date to another time."

"Are you sure?" Clove asks me.

"Yeah, I'm sure, I'll see you later, and if not, tomorrow."

"See you then."

"Yay!" Jocelyn squeals, grabbing Clove's arm and pulling her to the elevator with her and Shawna, Clove looks back and smiles at me, mouthing thank you.

Clove's POV

Shawna, Joce, and I sit in our favorite restaurant, Paradisus. They serve all different types of food, but today, I just get a hamburger, a large serving of fries, and a large vanilla cookies 'n' cream shake. Shawna got a serving of orange chicken and a coke, and Joce got pesto pasta, a salad, a soup bowl, and a large caramel shake. Once our food is served, I look at Shawna and Joce, who sit across from me in the booth. We are sitting in 'our' booth; it's near the back, where we aren't very noticeable so not many people will lean into our conversations.

"So," Joce says, "how's Cato?"

"He's good?" I say it as a question.

"Give us some details for god's sake!" Shawna exclaims. "Like you didn't even know hi m before the Games, then you two decide to almost strip in-front of the cameras, then you do strip in-front of the cameras, and then you two decide to kill yourselves if you can't be together, we're your best friends, tell us what happened!"

"Where do I start?" I ask my two friends, smiling weakly.

"How about when you and Cato first met." Shawna advises.

"Yeah," Joce agrees, "That sounds good."

"Ok…." This is weird, this is defiantly weird. "Well, you see, our mentors were Chelsey and Brutus-"

"What? I thought Enobaria was your mentor." Shawna says confused.

"Shut it," Joce says. "She's telling a story."

"So Chelsey and I didn't exactly get along, and the first time we met I kind of stuck a butter knife through her hand."

Both Shawna and Joce groan, they know my temper well enough.

"Anyway, afterwards, I ran off to my room, where I discovered a laundry chute entrance, like the type they used back in the 21st century."

"Wait," Shawna interrupts, "On the train?"

I nod. "So I grabbed a blanket and slid down the chute, I was down there for about 5 minutes, when something flew out from the chute and landed on top of me, that was Cato, it turns out he was looking for me because he was worried about me. I didn't know at the time, but Cato had a big crush on me, and that's why he volunteered to take Rex's place, so I didn't have to kill my own brother, and to make sure I was safe."

"Aw that's so sweet." Both Joce and Shawna say together.

"So we had a conversation, and I immediately trusted him."

"Letting your guard down…" Shawna says.

I ignore Shawna and continue, "So anyway we made an arrangement to go to my room and watch the reapings together." I smile at the memory.

Next few chapters are going to be memory lane, (some scenes from Clove's POV and such)

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