Cloves pov

WOW! Now I know what all those girls meant about Cato being energetic! I mean he made sure he got his point across. Very, very thoroughly. And for TWO whole hours! "Wow… that was…" I say not being able to finish for lack of words. "Amazing? Blew your mind? Yeah I get it a lot." He says as we lie there breathless. "You know you're really flexible. That is really hot." He says grinning widely while getting up and putting his clothes on. "Well I am a dancer and we are trained gymnasts us Victors Village girls. We don't just have music and dance lessons on top of the 6 hours training we get at the training centre." I say finally looking at my watch. "HOLY SHIT! 6pm! My dad is ssoo gonna kill me! And I have my final rehearsal for tomorrow in 30 minutes." I say, rushing around getting dressed and ranting about how much I have to do.

"Clove. Calm down. Just breathe." Cato says grabbing my shoulders and forcing me to stop. "I DON'T HAVE TIME! I NEED TO GET HOME!" I yell, struggling to free myself from his iron grip. "Alright. But can I at least get a kiss first?" he asks looking cute as ever. "Fine" I say going on my tippy toes to kiss him. He really needs to shrink a couple centimetres. I know I'm short but if he's not careful people might start calling him 'mount' Cato. "Good. Now… you may go." He says bowing while opening a gap in the flowing vines of the willows surrounding our little clearing. "I'll see you tomorrow." I giggle as he continues to bow while I walk through the gap onto the top of the hill or as Cato now calls it 'the mountain of exhaustion'. "It really is beautiful when you look at it don't you think?" I ask as he makes his way out of the clearing. Once he's standing next to me I lean into him grabbing his hand and slinging his arm over my shoulders. "Yeah it is I guess" Cato says looking down on me lovingly. "Clove I need to ask you something" he asks removing his arm from around my shoulders. "What is it, Cato? What's wrong?" I ask worryingly watching him while he paces the small edge that we stand on. "It's just. I love you, Clove. So much that I would die if you died. So much that I want to marry you. So… Clove Jasmine Knight, will you marry me?" he asks on one knee holding a small but beautiful ring. "W-what? Where did you get that?" I ask giving me time to think while he explains. "Well when I stormed off I thought about some stuff, then the Reaping, then you and how much I loved you. As I was passing the jewellery store I saw it and thought of you. It's small but beautiful and so I walked into the jewellery store and bought it. I was going to ask you after the VC concert tomorrow but then we came here and I decided 'Why not!?' So will you, Clove? Will you marry me?" he says looking at me expectantly waiting for me to answer. "Cato… of course I'll marry you. I love you" I say racing to him and kissing him. "AWESOME! Here give me your hand." He says holding out his hand. I give him my hand and giggle as he slips the small gold ring onto my finger. "It's gorgeous! I love it! And I love you" I say and kiss him for the umpteenth time today. I get up still gawking at the engagement ring that now sits on my finger. "Give me a sec, babe. I need to call someone" I say pulling out my phone and hitting the speed dial. "Hello?" The velvet voice of my sister Persephone answers "Sephy? It's me." I say rolling my eyes at her through the phone. She should have known who it was cause I'm the only one that calls her. "CLOVE! You need to get home now! We've been looking everywhere! We called but you didn't answer." She says, worry seeping into her velvet voice. "Sephy! I need to talk to dad. Can you put him on?" I ask. "Ok… just give me a sec…" she says. I hear ruffling as she passes the phone to my father. "Clove, what's wrong? Are you in trouble? Where are you? I'll come and get you if you want?" My father asks in a huge rush of air. "I'm fine dad! I'm at mum's clearing. I just wanted to know if I could stay at Andy's place tonight?" I ask hoping that he'll let it slid cause he knows that Cato's her brother and so I'll be in the same house as my boyfriend. "Alright. But you have to be back here by 9am for the concert. Ok?" he asks clearly 'forgetting' that by staying at Andy's I'll also be staying at Cato's. "Ok dad. I'll be there. I'll see you in the morning. Love you, Dad." I say trying to hold back a giggle cause I know that he knows what I'll most likely be doing. I love my dad because I know he trusts me to know what I'm doing and what I'll be at risk of.

"Are you ready to go?" Cato asks walking up to me from where he was. "Yep! I'm ready to go!" I say eagerly grabbing his hand and leading him down the steep walk that runs the whole side of the hill. "So! Who are we gonna tell first? I think that either we should tell Christian and Andy or they might guess and bust us." He says helping me over a particularly rocky part. "Yeah we probably should tell them. They might get it in the middle of training and bust us." I say thought creasing my brow. "OK! So Andy and Christian first, then who? I think we should tell your brother and sisters, and then tell our parents." He says looking at me for approval. "Sounds like a good plan to me. But I think we should just tell Christian and Andy then get married before the Reaping 'cause if one of us goes in and dies then we'll at least have been married in the first place" I say waiting for his reply. "Ok… how about we do it tonight then!? We could do it! But who would be willing to help us out? Other than Andy and Christian" he says with a worried look on his face. "LYME! Victors can do it! I'll call Lyme and get her to meet us and we'll have her do it! She'll understand. She'll do it if I ask her." I say knowing that she will. Lyme is one of the top victors in the Village but she is also kind and like a sister or aunt to all us Victors Village kids. She's been like a sister to me for years. "Ok. Well, why don't you call her now and get her to meet us in the clearing and we'll do it there." Cato says looking ahead. "I'll do it now." I say and pull out my phone for the second time tonight.

"Hello?" Lyme answers in her usual hard, victors voice. "Lyme. It's me. Clove. Listen I need your help. Can you meet me at mum's clearing 1 hour? Me and Cato need your help. Please Lyme?" I ask basically begging her. "What do you need help with?" she asks her voice softer. More mum-like than sisterly. "We need you to marry us. We want to get married before the reaping and you're the only one we could think of that would help." I say putting everything I had into my please-help-me-cause-you-love-me voice. After what felt like ages she replied with one word. "Alright." "Thank you, Lyme! You're the best!" I say laying on the suck up really heavy. "Yeah, yeah whatever. But just know, I am doing this for you because I never got to. If you screw this up I'm not gonna help you fix it. Ok?" She says turning into my aunt. "Yep! I understand completely. I'll see you in an hour. Bye!" I say and close the phone.

"I'm guessing that she's gonna do it?" Cato asks as we reach the bottom of the hill. "Yep! Now we just need to hurry and get to your place tell Christian and Andy then get back here in time." I say grabbing his hand and stared walking to the road that leads to the Victors Village and to Cato's house.

Well this has been an eventful night! First I watch as the local slut tries to suck my boyfriend and soon to be husbands face off, then I lose my virginity in my mum's clearing. The place that she was when she met my dad when they were my age. Then I get engaged and become one of those girls I heard about in history at school that got married at young ages. I was going to be a child bride!

Oh god. My mum would kill me if she was here. She was always telling me, Persephone and Brittni to wait till we were at least 21 to even think about getting married. Thinking of my mum brought on the usual wave of pain it always did. Thinking about how mum died always kills me.

I was 9 when they started happening. At first it was just small things like thinking I saw a girl in the pond in mum's clearing. Then when I was 11 my teacher held me back after class and told me about this camp thing for people like me. I just thought he was crazy and thought nothing of it. But then I turned 13 and all these things that I could only describe as monsters started hunting me down and trying to kill me. Luckily I was in my second year and the training centre and so I knew how to fight but they would always call me a half-blood or demigod. It really freaked me out.

She died 2 years ago when I was 14. I was in her clearing thinking about stuff and then this thing tried to kill me. I was about to be killed when she just appeared. But she wasn't like she usually was. She was dressed in this really weird thing that looked like ancient Greek amour. I remember watching her as she moved with grace and accuracy as she killed the thing but as she was walking over to check on me when it happened. She was only an arms length away when the monster stabbed her. I finally killed it in a rush of anger. I held her as she died. My father and other siblings arrived 2 minutes later, just in time to watch her die.

"What's wrong? You haven't said anything the whole way here. Are you ok?" Cato asks pulling me out of my little world. "Yeah. I'm fine just thinking about mum. I wish she was here. I miss her." I say, a small tear rolling down my cheek.