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Cato's POV

Okay so maybe love was a strong word. A person like me, a killing machine, will never love. I can't love Clove and she can't love me. It's just understood that Careers only have one job...to win.

Something about Clove makes me feel different though. When I see her my heart beats faster. Even though I've only spoken to her at the most five times. They range from a casual hello to threats of killing each other in the games when training against one another. How can I feel so strongly for someone who I barely know? All I know is that I've never felt like that for another girl. That doesn't mean I love her, right?

No of course it's not love...

It could be though...

It's not...

God I need to just get her out of my head and train. I stand up and head over to the dummies they set up after clearing the ones I destroyed. This time I decide to work on my spear throwing. The spear throwing is right next to the knife throwing. You see, the academy is organized into three sections.

The weapons section which includes: knives, spears, maces, swords, bow and arrows, tridents, slingshots, blowguns, axes, or any other weapon you can think of.

Then there's the combat section which has: Hand to hand combat against a trainer, hand to hand combat against an opponent (where Clove and I threaten each other while fighting), or they have a large stimulation room where you can pick the tribute's skill, size, district, and arena environment. That's where our trainers usually test us.

The last section is physical training. That's pretty self explanatory. There's weight lifting, treadmills, and all types of machines to test your physical abilities.

I pick up a spear and walk back about fifty yards. I pull my arm back and throw. Thump. Bulls-eye. As I walk to the rack to grab another I catch Clove throwing out of the corner of my eye. I turn more to watch, but not too much. I don't want to be too obvious about watching her.

She looks in the zone when she throws, as if she's in her own little world. She looks so beautiful when she's like that. Her straight raven hair's in a high ponytail like always. I wonder what it would it would be like to run my fingers through her hair when it's not in a ponytail. That didn't sound creepy at all.

After she hits five bulls-eyes she glances up. She looks right at me. Shit. She saw that I was totally checking her out. I quick turn back to the rack and try to hide my blush. Pull yourself together Cato.

I grab another spear and go to throw. This time I go sixty yards. As I position myself to throw I see Clove, arms crossed over her chest, staring at me. She knows I see her and gives a smirk. I'm suddenly nervous. God if I miss she'll never forget it. I take a deep breath and throw.

Thump. Bulls-eye again. I grin and look over at Clove and she looks impressed. She then turns and grabs seven knives, looks at me, then throws them. They all get perfect bulls-eyes of course. She makes it look so effortless. Then she turns and smirks at me as if saying 'try and beat that'. Well challenge accepted. I grab another spear and go back sixty five yards. If I hit this it'll be the farthest I've ever gone. I pull my arm back, deep breath, throw. Thump. Bulls-eye. I turn and give her a smirk as if taunting her back to try and beat me.

This goes on for a while until I'm at eighty yards. Then my spear goes just a little to the right off the bulls-eye. I'm so pissed that I'm about to take my sword and slaughter the target until I see Clove walking over.

"Hey, that was some pretty impressive spear throwing" She says smirking up at me since I'm at least a foot taller than her.

"Ha umm t-t-thanks" I stutter. I sound like an idiot. I try to recover "You're knife throwing was great" I say in a sure tone giving her a lazy smirk.

"Thanks, well maybe you could try to train me in spears and I could try and train you in knives?" She says lightly blushing. I've never seen Clove look so beautiful. She looks at the ground trying to hide it.

Then she quickly looks up at me and say "Well I need to go, bye" and turns and takes a step in the direction of the exit but not before I grab her arm. She involuntarily cringes before I turn her back to me and let go.

"I'd love to train each other. How about we start tomorrow?" I suggest praying she says yes.

"Ok" she says as her face lights up "I'll see you tomorrow" she says as she turns and jogs out of the academy's doors.

I smile to myself as I realize that's the most I've ever talked to Clove. To add onto that she agreed to train with me tomorrow. I do a little happy dance before I spot my trainer giving me a strange look and quickly stop. Talk about embarrassing. I don't even care, I'm too excited for tomorrow to let anything ruin it. One question I keep thinking as I finally walk home is...

Does Clove feel anything like what I feel for her?

I might not be able to say I'm in love with her but I'm falling. Falling hard and quick.

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