I do not own any of Suzanne Collin's The Hunger Games characters.

Hey everyone! So, I'm thinking that I am going to end this story in chapter 26. I really love this story, but I think that it has sort of run its course. I might do another Hunger Games story as my next one, but I am not sure. I really love Harry Potter, but I don't think that I am good enough to write a story for it, let alone what I would write it about. Anyways, this chapter is going to be another split POV chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 24:

Annie's POV

When I woke up on Sunday morning, I immediately hear my phone chime. I roll over groggily and check it. It is 6:30 and I already have twenty-six messages from Clove and Johanna and two missed calls, one from both of them. My ringtone plays through the room as Johanna calls me again. I pick up the phone and sit myself up against my pillows.

"Why are you calling me already?" I ask, rubbing my eyes groggily.

"Clove is in love with Cato!" Johanna shrieks loudly.

"I didn't say that. I mean, I think I am," Clove responds.

"And now she is moving out of Catos."

"Also not what I said. My mom is back and she wants a relationship with me. So she asked me to move in with her. But I haven't decided yet."

"Have you told Cato any of this?" I ask.

"No. I mean, he knows that my mom called me and stuff, but I haven't told him that she wants me to move in once she gets a house."

"Do you want to?" Johanna asks.

"I don't know!" Clove screams exasperatedly. "Sorry, I didn't mean to yell. I just-I don't know what I am going to do."

"Oooo. So you don't want to move out? Cause you love him," Johanna teases.

"Shut up Jo."

"Why would you not want to move out?" I ask curiously.

"Why oh why indeed," Johanna says.

Clove lets out an angry sigh. "Why not? Maybe because if I move in with my mom then Cato can't just come into my room and sleep with me,"

Johanna and I gasp simultaneously.

"Not like that!" She shouts into the phone.

"Then like what?" Johanna asks.

"Like, sometimes, if I can't fall asleep, he just comes into my room and lays in bed with me and we sleep. Just sleep."

"Aw. That is so cute," I say.

"Shut up," I can practically feel Clove's glare through the phone.

"Hey, do you guys want to meet up later? Cause I just realized that we all have boyfriends, or, well, Clove and I do and Johanna has, whatever she and Marvel are. So maybe we could all just do like an unofficial group date."

"Sure," Clove and Johanna say.

"Meet you at 11?"

We all agree and hang up.

Finnick picks me up at eleven, Cato and Clove already in the back of his car. Clove is snuggled up into Cato's arm, as close as the seatbelt will allow her. He looks so in love. I look over at Finnick as he pulls out of my driveway and can't help but smile. Because I am so in love with him. It has only been a few months since my first day of public school and looking back now I could never imagine that it would turn out this way. For one, I never could have imagined that Finnick O'Dair, the boy whom I had once found impossibly annoying, would be the boy I fell in love with. I also never would have thought that after everything that I went through as a child would have disappeared so quickly after I met him. I am so lost in thought that I don't even realize that I am still staring at him until Clove mentions it.

"I get he is gorgeous and all, but seriously girl," she jokes. Cato lets out a playful scoff at her remark about Finnick being gorgeous, but I hear her whisper something unintelligible in his ear. I do however hear what he not so quietly whispers back.

"You're pretty damn sexy yourself," Cato says to Clove.

Finnick and I exchange bemused looks before I make a fake gagging sound. Clove reaches over the back of my seat and hits my arm.

The chatter on the drive to meet Marvel and Johanna is light and easy. I have never had this before, even with my friends back at my all-girls school. Something about them just never really clicked with me. They were nice and all, but carrying a conversation was never exactly easy. Now though, I find myself effortlessly jumping into the conversations, laughing at things that everyone says. This is nice.

When we reach the mini-golf place that we decided to meet at, Cato and Clove get out, but Finnick holds me back a minute.

"You okay?" He asks. I know that he can tell that even though I was very bright on the way over, I was also deep in thought.

"I'm great. Really."

He smiles and nods his head and I can tell that he believes me.

"I love you," I say, leaning over the console to kiss his lips.

"I love you too," He says, kissing me back.

We pull away and get out of the car, walking towards where our friends are waiting for us. Clove, Cato, Johanna, and Marvel are laughing together already and their smiles widen as we walk over. A smile wider and happier than any that I have ever smiled before sits comfortably on my face. Today is an amazing day.

What did you all think? I am trying to start wrapping up the story in this chapter. There will be a little bit of new plot stuff in the next chapter, but it will be very minor. Thank you so much to everyone who has made it this far in reading this story. It means more to me than you could possibly know!

Stay happy, healthy, and safe,

-Jewel