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Chapter 9

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We shuffled onto the train and sat down on the couch. Cato still hadn't said a word. He just kept hold of my hand while I lie across the couch, my head in his lap while he played with my hair. Brutus and Enobaria walked in.

"The cameras are gone, you cans top now." Brutus offered, but I didn't pull away. I just nestled my head and closed my eyes.

"Ah. Let's give 'em some time Brutus" Enobaria, with that knowing twinkle in her ye, left the room with Brutus close at her heels. I noticed Herb Monasterio, our escort, tiptoeing after them, hoping we wouldn't see her. I guess all the tributes she'd ever been with scared her. But when Cato and I were finally alone, I decided to break the silence. I sat up and looked at him closely, and he just gave me a quizzical glance.

"Say something!" I demanded, a little frustrated.

"Clove, what do you want me to say? I'm ecstatic on the inside, a little shocked on the outside, but overall I'm just grateful. Good enough for you?" he said.

"Sorry" I lie back down. "I''m just paranoid."

"I know" he leaned down to kiss my forehead, a tingling sensation that I hadn't felt in forever.

"Do you think we can ever be the same?" I asked.

"I'm sure we'll find a way. And even if we don't, I'm sure the new us will be better than the first."

"Yeah" he always knew what to say. Always. I peered at thee clock. "So we'll be in District one in about an hour. What do we do until then?" I questioned.

"Well" he raised his eyes suggestively. "I know something" he winked and I just bit my lip, trying to hide the fact that I was smiling. I just gave a quick nodd. He swept me into his arm, carrying me off to the bed room. It still looked the same way it always did, littered with Capitol merchandise and ugly colors. He pushed me up against the wall and I wrapped my legs around his waist, messing his hair up a bit, giggling. "You messed up my do" he frowned. "I guess I'll have to get even." he latched onto my neck, giving me a huge hickey and making me have a big fit of laughing.

"Stop- haha- Cato!- Stop- Hahaha!" he finally pulled of and met my lips, silencing my laughter. It was a deep passionate kiss. A wanting kiss. A longing kiss. A needing kiss. A kiss I had never had before. A kiss that made my stomach flip and my head pound. A kiss that just makes your heart go wild.

He carried me over to the bed, dropping me and then climbing on top, kissing my lips, my neck, my jaw bone. I finally tugged at the bottom of his shirt and he smiled against my lips as I helped him pull it off. I did my best to wriggle out of my dress without losing Cato's lips for too long. He loosened his belt and dropped it on the floor and pulled off his pants.

"Clove" he mumbled. I put my leg behind his back, bringing him closer to me. "Clove" he demanded.

"What?" I pulled away, concerned. "What's wrong?"

"I just- I don't think now's a good time. We were apart for a couple months. I don't think we can really start where we left off. I think we could use time" no matter how much I agreed and how glad I was he had said it, I as still a little disappointed. I nodded and he gave me another kiss and pulled me towards him.

"So... are we jusst gonna sleep the whole ride?" I questioned.

"I was planning on it" he smiled.

"Well I'm gonna go get something to eat" I started to pull away from him but he pulled me back closer to him than before.

"No you're not" he whispered in my ear, kissing my cheek before closing his eyes and drifting into sleep. It was weird going back to sleep so early in the morning, but I obliged my brain. But when I closed my eyes, I really wish I hadn't.

I was scrambling up the Cornucopia, I was getting struck by lightning and falling out of a tree, I was getting hit in the head with a rock, I was being posioned by tracker jackers. You name all the ways I almost died in the games, and I relived those moments in my dreams. I remembered the pain, but in my dreams the pain was magnified. Intensified. I'm pretty sure I died twelve times in that one hour sleep. I finally woke up after the mutations had successfully ripped apart my corpse limb by limb and screamed.

"Shhh" Cato whispered. I started to cry. "It's okay, it's just a dream."

"i died. I died so many times." I sobbed.

"You're alive Clove, I promise."

"I was so scared" my whole body shuddered with sobbs as I cuddled closer to Cato's body. I suppose it was the first time I had ever admitted I was scared, because Cato looked so shocked.

"I know Clove. You're safe now" I kissed my forehead, wiping away the tears. When the bedroom door opened, I shoved my face into a pillow. I heard Enobaria's voice, with the slightest sound of pride in it.

"Well, sorry to walk in, um. Both of your outfits for the gala tonight are hanging in the bathrooms. We'll come back for them after the ceremony. Be ready in three minutes" she walked out, shutting the door.

"C'mon Clove, let's get up." Cato offered. I slid to the end of the bed, pulling my dress back on and doing the best to cover my puffy eyes

The ceremony we terrible. I saw Marvel's parents, a man and a woman both with the same elfish features, the man built with muscle, and the mother seemed graceful. And they both had green eyes. They just quietly cried, giving us a couple appreciative nods, knowing we hadn't been the ones to kill their son.

Then there was GLimmer's family. Her mother was tall and blonde with blue eyes. She had made up her face with red lipstick and a glittery eyes shadow, with her hair in an up swept bun. Her father was a big burly man. He looked like he could almost be from two the way his muscles bulged with that angry look always in his eyes. And then I saw her husband and daughter off in the crowd.. Her daughter was probably two by now, really small. A little girl that would never know her mother. So when the ceremony ended, I walked up the Glimmer's husband and child.

"Hi, I'm Clove" I shook his hand. "You mus be Glimmer's husband"

"As a matter of fact I am."

"Nice to meet you..."

"Sheen"

"Nice to meet you Sheen. And this is?" I asked, tickling the feet of the little girl, causing her to let out a delighted squeal.

"Price"

"Hi Price" I said in a baby voice.

"Clove, thank you so much for putting Glimmer out of her misery when the tracer jackers got her. It means so much" Sheen looked on the verge of tears.

"'I couldn't bear to see a friend suffer"

"Thank you" he said again.

"No problem Sheen. And if you ever need anything for little Paige, you call me. Or Enobaria. Someone who knows where to find me" I smiled, handing him a list of all the possible ways to reach me.

"Okay." he gave a pitiful smile and I hugged him. He started to cry and I felt my heart drop. GLimmer was really gone for him. When he saw he victors in real life, he would know that Glimmer was gone.

The victors tour went on like that for a couple of days. The galas were just lavish parties with ridiculous amounts of food. And for Cato and me, we weren't spending as much time together as we used to, which I guess could be a good thing. I did fee smothered sometimes. We would talk to different people at the ceremonies and at the galas, and we only really saw each other at breakfast. We didn't really sleep in the same bed either. He had advertised us taking it slow, and I had agreed, so I guess I'd have to livve with it. Sure, he would come give me a good night kiss, but I just missed his arms around me while I slept. While the mutations tore me apart time after time. While I died continuously.

The victors tour was very bland like that until we reached District four.