My hands are still numb from Cato's vise-like grip as we ride back up to our floor. We have the back half of the second floor, which means that we'll have to go past Elaina and Avarus' rooms so that we can get to our rooms.

I lean back in the elevator to grab the railing, but jump when I find a warm, strong hand. I look back and see Cato smirking from behind me. "Nervous, Andy?"

I want to punch him square in his stupid, cocky face. The bringing up of my nickname reminds me of Helena, and I can't help but wonder where she is right now, and what she's doing.

Grinning at him slyly, I respond with, "Not at all, Cate." I smirk at his reaction, satisfied that for once, he's the one that looks stupid.

…...

Sleep doesn't seem to find me. It seems like all my bad memories, all my bad thoughts have come flooding back to me.

I shudder when I see a pair of blue eyes staring back at me. I freeze, hoping that maybe I'll be left alone.

"No, mom. I think I'm just hearing things."

I cover my ears with one of my pillows and bite down hard on my blanket, but they won't stop. The worst memories, the worst ideas and thoughts are flooding through my mind, so hard and fast that I want to scream.

Helena's silent, her bowl of cereal sitting untouched in front of her. Her eyes appear to be glazed over, and it seems like she's in her own miserable little world.

I can't help but start sobbing. The tears just start flowing out of my eyes, and my vision is blurred. I sit up in the darkened room, so terribly alone and cold. Not exactly sure of what I'm doing, I get out of bed and slowly start walking towards the clear, glass door that leads to a balcony looking over the Capitol. I shiver as I step outside, only in a tank-top and shorts.

Lost in my thoughts, I sit down on the ground and look out over the Capitol. Even at night, when it all looks so glorious and beautiful, I find myself filled with hatred and disgust.

I don't even notice that someone has joined me until I feel a warm hand on my knee. I tense up immediately.

"Can't sleep, Andromeda?" He says mockingly, drawing patterns on my knee with his fingers. I feel him leaning closer to me, but I say nothing. I'm usually silent after I've had one of my "attacks", and not even Cato could get me to respond right now.

I hear him chuckle lightly, but my attention's still on the glowing lights of the Capitol. "Why so silent?" I don't move as I feel his lips brushing up against my cheek. I'm not in the mood for his little games.

I feel goosebumps creep up my arm as he brushes the hand that's not on my knee on my back slowly, obviously trying to get me to cave. Despite the cold feeling creeping up my body, I stay still.

"You want to know why I picked you?" He says against my ear, his breath warm, but at the same time cold.

I don't respond, but he answers anyway. "I guess you're just... enticing to me." I feel him smirk up against my ear.

Breaking away from my trance, I inch away from him, shivering in the night time air. "Don't you lie to me." I say angrily, glaring at him.

Releasing me from his grip, he leans up against a white chair on the balcony, looking at me with mischievous eyes.

"Who said I was lying?" And with that, I got up and walked back into my room, locking the glass door behind me. Only Cato could piss me off enough to slip me out of one of my episodes.