A/N: Yayy happy update day! :) I hope you all had a good week! Guys, I just realized this is chapter 20. It's insane I can't believe I have written so much. I can't thank you all enough for being along for the ride with me and still reviewing and reading. I am feeling a little ambitious this weekend so you may have another chapter up this weekend.

I am changing things up a bit and putting the shout outs in the first A/N and then the bottom will have the info for the contest!

Shoutouts:
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Clove

Cato and I walk downstairs in silence. He keeps a firm hold on my hand like he has been doing all day. Almost like if he let go he would float away and I am like his anchor. Once we reach the dining room Cato leads us over to the end of the table that is farthest from his mother. He sits in the chair on the right of his dad, who is sitting at the head of the table, and I take the empty seat next to him.

"So, Cato tell me. How is football going?" Charles says

"Good. We have two games of the regular season left before we go to the playoffs." Cato says, barely moving his eyes from our dinner that was just placed in front of us

The plate is filled with a piece of fish- salmon maybe?- grilled vegetables, and a spoonful of mashed potatoes. It looks delicious. At the other end of the table I hear a muffled argument between Courtney and her mother.

"Broccoli makes Cam sick. He doesn't like broccoli." Courtney hisses through her teeth, clearly annoyed

"Of course he does. I'm his mother I would know a thing like that." She snaps back at Courtney

"Clearly, your definition of being a mother must not be written in English." Courtney says under her breath, I somehow was able to hear it and stifle a laugh

Out of my peripherals, Cato eyes me with curiosity. "Later." I whisper and rest my hand on his thigh

"How did you two meet?" Charles asks, clearly trying to distract us from the commotion at the other end of the table

"School." I answer him

"She's best friends with Finnick so we hang out in the same group of friends." Cato adds

Charles eyes furrow together as he stares at my face intensely. I feel Cato tense up slightly next to me. His dads face suddenly relaxes and a smile spreads across his face. It's the same crooked smile that I associate with Cato so well now.

"Clove, any chance your father is the same Ryan Calloway that was on the poster on Cato's wall?"

Cato and I both look up at the same time from our plates in utter astonishment about what he had just said.

"Yeah, that's my dad." I tell him smiling

"H-How?" Cato splutters

"You may not think I listen or care son, but I do." He gives us a satisfied smile before returning peacefully to his dinner

Cato and I sit next to each other in silence while we eat, both of us still a little shocked about what just happened.

"Cato." His mothers voice makes every vain in my body run cold.

"What?" Cato replies tersely

"Have you talked to Glimmer recently?"

Cato scoffs, "No."

"Why not? Her mother said she is devastated about your break up. I could see why." Her eyes travel towards me and stare at me in disgust

I feel my anger starting to bubble up inside of me and Cato is turning the familiar shade of red he turned before when we first came here. If only she knew that damage I could do with a knife.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Cato looks directly at his mother, his eyes have turned from his usual blue to black pits of fury

"I mean look what you are dating now. Glimmer was beautiful."

"Mom, Clove is a person not a thing." Courtney snaps at her

Next to me, I hear a faint cracking of glass and it's too late for me to do anything before the crystal class grumbles under Cato's grip. The delicate stem of the glass stood no chance under Cato's strong grip.

"Shit!" Cato hisses, shaking his hand and I watch as two drops of blood spill from his hand onto the tablecloth

I stand up quickly from the table and grab Cato's shoulder, "Cato come on." I whisper as calmly as I can in his ear, but he doesn't move.

"Excuse us." I tell Cato's dad, he shakes his head in understanding, but is face is pained with disappointment

"Cato now!" I tell him with more urgency

He stands up and starts to follow me, his hurt hand cupped and gradually filling with more blood. He quickly kneels down beside Cassi and whispers something in her ear, she takes Cam's hand and the two of them disappear through a door. I am not really sure where I am walking, all I know is I need to find a bathroom and some medical supplies.

"Well, that was a little unnecessary don't you think?" We hear his mother say

"Wait!" Cato says in a hushed tone, and I have no time to protest before he grabs my waist, pulling me close to him as we hide against the wall just around the corner from the dining room.

Cato's forearm is long enough to reach around my whole torso, his thumb rubs idly on my stomach near my hip bone.

"Unnecessary? You're kidding right?" Courtney snaps

"He should really get help for his anger. Emma, look up the best anger management professional in the city."

"Emma don't you even think about it!" Courtney yells "This really has to be some sick joke."

"The boy has problems. As his mother I think it is only right that I do something to try to fix it."

"His mother?" Courtney shrieks "I have been more of a mother to those three kids than you ever have."

I am stunned and my feet seemed to be glued to the ground the only thing that is keeping me from breaking down Cato's warm and comforting grip around my waist. Courtney has never lost her cool, she was always the easy-going and relaxed one. But, I guess when it comes to her siblings that's when she looses it.

"I will always be their mother."

"To the twins, maybe. But, to Cato you are long gone to him. If you were truly his mother you would know that Glimmer isn't the perfect person that you think she is. Were you there when she broke Cato's heart? No, I don't think so."

"You're lying. Glimmer is a nice girl and would be perfect for Cato. If he only broke up with that thing."

"That thing! Mom you have completely lost your mind. If you only took a minute to see what was really going on, you would see how good Clove is for him and how much of a man he has become in the last two months since they have started dating. But, that's right all you don't care about us at all."

"Courtney." Charles says in a warning tone to 'calm down'

"No, Dad. I'm not done yet. You don't know what it means to be a mother and you never will." Courtney says

"Courtney, that's enough. You need to go cool off." Charles bellows

"Come on." Cato whispers in my ear

After a few minutes of walking through the hallways, to find a bathroom with the proper supplies to fix Cato's hand. Cato sits down on a stool by the sink and I open the first aid kit and examine what we need.

Cato lets the blood that pooled in his hand drain down the sink and take a pair of tweezers I found and pull out the few pieces of glass that embedded themselves in Cato's hand.

"This is the worst part. But, I have to put the antiseptic on." I say giving him a small smile

He closes his eyes and takes in a deep breath like he is mentally preparing for the pain, "Just do it."

I pull his hand over the sink and, as gently as I can, pour the antiseptic onto his hand. He hisses in pain and his face puckers like he just ate a lemon. I slowly rub my thumb on the inside of his wrist hoping to help the pain. I repeat the process one last time and after I am done I large square bandage on his palm covering up all of his cuts.

I lean in a quickly kiss him on the cheek. He quickly grabs my hips and pulls me onto his lap, I wrap my arms around his neck and he rests his head on my chest. I rest my chin on his head and we both just sit there together in silence for a while. He is exhausted, I can tell, both mentally and physically. We really need to get this weekend over with.

"I am sorry about everything. I told you my family was horrible." He says in a broken voice

If I didn't know any better I would say he was about to cry.

"Shh..." I tell him as I run a hand through is golden blonde hair "You didn't do anything wrong. Your sister has to be the coolest person I have ever met thought."

We both let out a defeated chuckle.

"Cato, Can I ask you something."

"Anything." He says looking up at me through red eyes

"Would you ever go back to Glimmer?"

"That's not even an option, Clove. You are mine and I am yours. That's how it works."

He takes his uninjured hand and wraps it under my chin closing the gaps between our lips closer together.

This time when we kiss. I get a new feeling I have never felt before. Like the warmness that radiates on your body when the spring sun hits you for the first time on a still cool day.

I think I may be in love with Cato.

A/N: :O Thats a big bombshell at the end! lol Thoughts? The wedding is absolutely next chapter. This chapter would have been really really long if I included both events. lol

Comments, questions, concerns welcome as always :)

CONTEST:

Okay to celebrate 300 reviews I am holding another contest! There will be three questions and by popular request from my last contest the questions will be a bit harder. You can PM me your answers, or put them in your review.

If you win, you will get to create an OC that will come into play as a person from Cloves past.

1) What age do you think I am? 15-17 18-20 21-24

2) There are going to be quite a few surprise guests to appear at the wedding. Two of them I have mentioned quite a bit in my story and two are from the Hunger Games series that I have not mentioned. (HINT: They are one of the tributes from Catching fire!) And the other guest I am keeping a surprise! Guess two out of the four.

3) Choose two songs that could go with any chapter that I have written so far. It could be any chapter you want.

May the odds be ever in your favor ;)

xoxo
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