Cato and Clove

Chapter 14

The elevator opened. My lungs started hurting. I wasn't breathing, I realized. I gasped. I heard someone laugh. Enobaria stepped towards me. She had a blue glass with red wine in it. The way she moved, let still show her pride and power.

''You were with Cato?'' I didn't answer. I glared at her. She laughed again, this time harder. The alcohol was in her system.

''Such a drama''. Her golden tooth shone in the light. She grabbed my hand hard and it could feel that her nails cut into my skin. She smiled.

''Why are you doing this? You can't force people to do what you did with Cato.''

''I can. Didn't you like it? Glimmer was so happy when she heard what we were planning. Cato too.'' ''Let me go'' she let her nails go of my skin and inspected the blood under her nails.

''Don't be naïf. You are smart, little Clove.''

I felt my cheeks burn of anger. ''I'm not little'' I spat in her face and I could see how she waved it away and balled her hand together, before I even could dodge her, everything turned black.

I heard soft voices and with every breath I took I could hear them grew louder.

''What did...''

''I don't kn...'' ''Maybe, but it is..''

I flutter my eyes and I blink slowly. I rubbed over the painful place above my eyes. I moaned.

''I hate her'' I said quiet, they probably even couldn't hear it.

2 faced turned to me. Claudisa and Cato. My head felt light when I tried to stand up.

''How long was I out?'' I asked Cato.

He looked on his clock. ''About 20 minutes,''

Claudisa looked worriedly. ''Enobaria told me everything.''

I raised my eyebrows. ''She did?'' I said surprised.

''Yes, she found you. In the living room. You must been fall and hit your head to something.''

I smirked. ''Now I remember,'' I said sarcastic.

''I'm going to Brutus and Enobaria and can you two come in five minutes to the living room? They are going to announce the training scores. ''

Aren't you exited?!''She exclaimed happy.

She left the room. I looked around and saw that I was in my own room. Cato sat next me and pressed gently a sack of ice against the painful spot.

''Does it still hurts?''. I shook my head.

''It wasn't an accident, right?'' I looked at the ground, and avoid his gaze. He held my face so that I was forced to look at him.

''Was it Enobaria?'', I didn't answer. I don't know why, maybe because I was ashamed.

''I swear if she did this, I'll kill her. ''

I decided to tell the truth. This was Cato. He wasn't going to gossip about these things. I took a deep breath

''Who else would it be? She is the one who hurts people all the time, remember?''

He balled his fists.

''That is it. I'm going to kill her.'' He dropped the ice sack and walked towards the door.

''Cato, don't do it.'' he stopped .''She is our trainer. Don't you remember the rule? She is our trainer. She is able to kill us in the arena. We can't do anything. She wouldn't even help us to get sponsors.''

''That isn't fair''

''The games are never fair'' I replied. There was an awkward silence between us. Cato went through his hair and said: ''We better go. The scores can be every second on TV.''

Enobaria, Brutus and Claudisa were already in the living room. When Enobaria caught sight of me she smiled arrogant. I felt Cato freezing. I laid my hand on his so that he wouldn't explode. His eyes lit up. I quickly removed my hand. I was still mad on him. A sort of. First he was surprised but then He realized that we weren't together anymore. I got a sting in my stomach but I ignored it and walked to the sofa.

The capitol sound started playing and a white rose appeared in the screen followed by the huge red letters. 'The hunger games'

Caesar appeared and the blue of his hair fitted perfect with the capitol colors in the background. He was sitting on a desk and in his hands he had a list with all the scores of the tributes of this year.

''District one, Marvel'' he read. Marvel appeared on the screen next to Caesar. ''With a score of 9''

He had quite a good score. Marvel was replaced by a Glimmer. An 8 appeared.

What ?! I thought. She got an 8? It wasn't that good for being a career but she couldn't even hit the target. Well better for her. Cato appeared and I could feel the stress in the room everyone was at the top of their chair.

''Cato with a score of 10'' the whole room smiled and celebrated Cato's score, but I barely heard them because my own picture was already on the screen. Everyone was still holding their breath.

''Clove Kentwall , a score of...' My heart pounded hard in my chest. I did well, right? So why would I be afraid.

'10'

Everyone was relieved and filled their glasses again. Claudisa hugged me tightly .''Well done, dear! I'm so proud ,on the both on you. ''

Brutus came over me. Thought, I found out about him and Enobaria he didn't act different.

''I knew you could do it, sunshine.'' Brutus felicitated Cato. I felt a cold hand on my back. ''Congrats, sweetheart'' she said cold. She smiled when she saw the red streams on my arm, where she grabbed me.

The male tribute from district 5 was already on the screen, as expected he got a weak score, 4. Brutus and Enobaria looked bored when the other tributes came. They all received scores between the 2-6. The last 2 districts came, 11 and 12. Thresh's score was higher than we thought he would get. He got a 19. The same score as Marvel I. It was scary because he never trained and Marvel did. ''Will he be a risk in the arena?''

Brutus blue eyes flickered. 'He may be''

He puzzled the situation. ''We need to ask him as an ally. That's the only solution.''

He would never go in an alliance with us. He has too much pride and is too protective with Rue. Caesar read his papers. ''Rue, score of 7.'' he said smiling and surprised.

It was kind of a good score for how little she was. She must have climb for the game makers. During the trainings I saw it.

''Peeta, with a score of ...8''

Brutus squeezed, ''this is going to be a difficult year''

Just when he said it the score of Katniss appeared. My mouth dropped, just like the others.

''11''Caesar said choked. He explained a few things over the interview of tomorrow but after that the screen turned black. No one dared to speak.

Katniss had an eleven. Higher then us?. She was from the weakest district and she got an eleven?! I felt so mad and jealousl at the same time. Cato's face was red and he was about to explode. ''I'll kill her''

''This never happened before'' brought Enobaria out.

Brutus was the most calm of us all. ''What did she train all the time?''

I paused. But I squeezed. She didn't train something in particular. ''Nothing special. She was in the survival skills most of the time.''

''She must be good in a weapon.'' Brutus asked

I shook my head. ''I saw her training with knives, but she never hit the target.''

Cato agreed. ''She was bad with the swords too. ''Maybe she hid her talent?'' .Claudiasa said. Everyone stared at her. That was probably the smartest thing she ever said .

'You might be right. It isn't the first time. Johanna for example.'' Brutus filled his glass again.

''Maybe you two should go asleep, the interviews are tomorrow and we don't want you to get bags.'' For one moment Claudisa didn't sound anymore like a capitol people, but more like a protective mother.

Before I fell asleep. I thought of Katniss everdeen, the girl on fire.

Hi so here is chapter 14 I hope you liked it. Normally I was going to write the interviews too in this chapter. But I am sick from Wednesday so I didn't have time for it. But It will be in the next chapter.

And I want to thank you all for the support in the previoust chapter. THANK YOU THANK YOU! It really helped! And I think I just didn't want to write farther because the capitol thing is so boring but I think I'll end the next chapter when they are in the arena!

Love always, Sarah.

(Sorry for that;)) I just watched the perks of being a wallflower again. xD

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