I woke up when my phone went off, reminding me to wake up for swimming. Finnick groaned and pulled me closer to him, sighing.

"Turn it off, I'm trying to sleep."

"We have swimming."

"I'm still ill. I want a lie in." He snuggled into my neck and I laughed.

"We have to go, you're teaching."

"Nope. I'm staying here with you."

I sighed. "Well, I'm going swimming. So guess you'll be here alone." I tried to get out of his bed, and he was too exhausted to hold onto me.

"Nice ass." He stated as I went by, picking up my clothes which were thrown everywhere from the night before.

"Thanks. I grew it myself." I grinned, turning around a little to smirk at him. He was grinning at me, rubbing one of his eyes.

"Mmm...if you want, I could show you what I grew myself, but it requires you in my bed."

I rolled my eyes. "Come on, we'll be late otherwise." I slapped his face with his shirt and he groaned.

"You...were amazing last night."

"So were you, now stop buying time in bed." I grinned, putting on my slightly damp bikini and putting my clothes on over it. "Going in one minute, whether you're there or not. And no teasing me in the pool, keep it professional while there's others there."

"Yes ma'am." He chuckled, and I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth.

5 minutes later we were gathered around the outside of the pool, and Finnick told us today we were to learn how to swim in deeper waters.

"You've all stuck to shallow waters right now." He glanced at me. "And not all water is shallow. I want you getting past your comfort zone, but not deep enough that you couldn't swim back to shallow water or touch your feet to the ground. Practice the strokes I've taught you."

As soon as that was over, he swam over to me. "Hey."

"Hi Finnick." Clove giggled next to me. Finnick laughed and kissed my lips, and Clove's giggle came up short.

I groaned. "What did I say about being-"

"-professional? Er...I gave up trying." He smirked, and I rolled my eyes at him.

"When did this happen?" Clove's eyes were wide, and I smiled at her.

"Er...last night."

"Are you dating?"

That I couldn't answer. We hadn't discussed that idea in the frenzy of the bedroom earlier. I looked to him and he was smiling. He gave my hand a squeeze.

"Yeah, I guess we are, as long as, Katniss wants that." He turned to me and I grinned at him, nodding. Was this for real?

"Awh, that's so sweet. We wondered where you had gotten to at breakfast."

"Well I would've slept in my own bed but it seems that our room already had two people."

"Glimmer slept with someone?"

I glanced up at Finnick. He was frowning, and he decided to help someone in his class. When he had gone, I nodded.

"Yep. Finnick knows, of course. He was there, and so I had to distract him somehow."

"You distracted him too well." Clove raised an eyebrow. "I hope you know what you're getting into."

My mouth fell open. "What do you mean by that?"

Clove shrugged. "He's dated many girls. Over the past year when I came to this school he's left a trail of broken hearts on the ground."

I started to feel a bit vunerable. "How many?"

"A lot. So don't fall for him too quickly."

I raised my chin. "Don't worry about it. I can handle him."

She sighed and whispered loud enough for me to hear. "That's what they all said."

My conversation with Clove really unnerved me. I kept thinking of situations between me and Finnick. Most of them me seeing him with another girl, him too afraid to dump me himself. But Glimmer said he hasn't had many girlfriends. But technically he didn't say 'will you be my girlfriend?' so does that mean that he let me think we were in a relationship when we're not? I was so busy thinking about throughout the whole lesson that I got scared when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I jumped forwards and spun around.

Finnick smirked. "Sorry, did I scare you?" He walked forward and put his arms around my waist. "You okay? You looked a bit distracted today."

I shook my head. "I'm fine. I just forgot something." Forgot your reputation, that is.

"Did you remember it?" He grinned, and when I sighed his smile fell. "What?"

"I...I want to make sure I know where I stand." I stepped away from him, and his arms fell to his sides. He was still topless, which was a big distraction.

"What? I thought we got past that. If you don't want to be my girlfriend then that would really...suck." He smiled sadly.

I gasped. "No, I do want to be your girlfriend. It's just that I've heard things..."

"Did Clove tell you these things? For fucks sake... I didn't sleep with the girl."

I shook my head. "But you've had over the average share of girls, right? You've moved on pretty quickly from one the the next, right?"

He sighed, shaking his head. "That was all in the past."

"I bet you tell all the questioning girls that."

"No, I don't actually. Because unlike all the other girls, I really like you." He folded his arms defensively. "But if you're just like the rest of them...then I don't know what to do."

I scoffed. "Breaking up with me already. I get it." My throat felt tight, like I was about to cry. "Guess I was wrong about you."

"No, Katniss. I'm not saying that." I turned back around and stormed out of the room. "Katniss! Let me speak!"

Tears crawled down my face as I ran to my room, and shut the door behind me. I then jumped under my sheets and cried. It wasn't meant to be like this. I thought he had changed. Glimmer told me so. After a few minutes I heard voices, and I recognised Glimmer's.

"No, let me talk to her first. She's probably just on the time of her month. Or Clove made it look like you were going to dump her anyway. Stay here." I heard the door open and shut, and Glimmer sighed.

"What are we going to do with you." She groaned and I felt her hand stroking my hair. I looked up at her with a tear streaked face. "You know, I think he has definitely changed. When he came to me saying you'd freaked out, he looked so gutted. He really thought you were going to dump him."

I sniffled and sat up, blowing my nose and wiping my eyes.

"I really like him." I hiccuped. "And Clove told me all these horrible things. Made me feel as if I was going to be another one of his girls that he fucked. Last night..."

"Last night you saved my ass. He was too worried to mention it just." She grinned. "I lost it last night, too. I would be like you if it was Marvel."

"You would?" I breathed out, trying to relax myself. "Oh God, he must think the worst of me. Weak. Emotional."

She shook her head. "Actually he's pretty desperate for you himself. I think you should go talk to him."

As soon as she said that, I heard shouting in the halls. We both jumped out of bed and put our ears to the door.

"What are you doing here, Finnick?" Peeta chuckled. "I'm sure she doesn't appreciate a stalker outside her door."

"I could say the same thing to you." Finnick growled.

"Well she didn't reply to my texts..."

"She's not interested. I'm her boyfriend now."

"Yeah, which is why you're hanging outside her door." Peeta laughed and knocked on the door, making us jump. "Katniss? You in there?"

I put a finger to my lips to Glimmer. She got the message and stayed quiet.

What almost made me fall over was the musical tone on my phone that came when someone rang me. Fuck. The tone went after a few seconds.

"I guess she left it in her room by accident. You waiting for her to get back or something? Weirdo. See ya." After a minute another knock on the door was made, and I opened the door.

Finnick looked shit scared.

"Is he gone?" I whispered.

He nodded, eyes wide.

"Babe..babe what are we doing here? I need to know where I stand." His eyes were pleading, his voice vulnerable. It reminded me of a lost puppy. I pulled him into a hug and he tucked his face into the crook between my neck and shoulder. "Please don't leave me babe."

"I won't." I soothed him. He hugged me even tighter.

"You're different, Kat, I swear. I'm not going to treat you like those other girls. I promise you."

I chuckled. "Okay, now man up, you're gonna make me cry again."

"I'm sorry."

Glimmer scoffed. "He's smiling now, Kat. A full on cheesy grin."

I let go of him and his face was bright and cheery. A wide grin was plastered on his face.

"I can be cute when I want to, Glimmer. Unlike you, you always has that scowl in place." He winked, and I scoffed.

"So you didn't mean it?" I raised an eyebrow, and his eyes widened.

"No, of course I meant it." He cupped my face. "I mean it. You're different. I love it." He caught my lips in a kiss, and he pulled back too soon. "So...will you officially be my girlfriend? My one and only?" He smirked at the last bit.

"I guess so. Yes." I grinned and kissed him again. "Even though you stalk me and wait outside of my room for me to get back." I winked at him, and he chuckled.

"That boy needs to know when a girl isn't interested." He smirked. I smiled back at him.

"Who says I wasn't?"

"Are you?"

"Not any more. I have set my bar higher." I kissed him again. All was well. I just hope that next week when we started school officially that I didn't have any awkward bumps with Peeta, if I didn't share classes with the other girls.

What did you think? :D I tried to make sure we didn't lose Finnick's coolness to everything around him. I didn't want him getting too emotional, cause he's a stereotypical guy :P