Abnormal chapter time! Yay! This was actually really fun to write so I hope you enjoy it. I'm sorry for any spelling or grammer errors, I REALLY do stink... But I try, thanks to word. PLEASE review! I really would appercate some feedback on my work! Now, chapter 12, the abnormal chapter

Chapter 12

Clove

The anger started burning with in me. Fire Girl got a stinking eleven, and I only got a ten. No one beats me at anything.

I pulled out my knife and chucked at the wall, not caring about Maybell's screams of horror. I was on the war path, and there was no stopping me now. I heard something else brake and saw the coffee table on the ground in pieces, and Cato standing over it.

He stepped in front of me, I saw anger in his eyes too, but it wasn't all consuming like mine. "Please don't Clove, it's not that bad."

"Yes it is! You know it's the only way I'll come any where near to calming down."

He sighed, but let me pass. I nodded for him to come with me and he followed me out of the apartment. I completely ignored Maybell yelling at me to get back in the apartment. I slammed the door behind me and ran down the hall to the stairs.

"Do you have any idea where you're going to find it?" Cato asked me.

"No, but I wont stop until I do."

"I know you won't, but would you please listen to me for a second."

I turned to face him. He pulled me into a tight hug and I let him. "Not your room," he whispered to me. "I have a better idea."

"Where?"

"Just follow me."

He grabbed my arm and pulled me down the stairs. I let him pull me down the hall past the training center. I stopped when I saw what I was looking for first of all, a supply closet.

I pulled a bobby pin out of my hair and used it to pick the lock. Once I heard the familiar click of a lock opening, I pushed the door open. There was a mass of things inside, but I didn't pay attention to over half of them. I was there for one thing and one thing alone. Then I saw them, all lined up nice and neat against the wall. I walked over to them and picked up the color I wanted, red.

I nodded to Cato and we continued to where ever he was taking me. I hoped it was some where public, some where everyone in Panem would see.

We turned a corner and came to a door. This door wasn't locked, and led out onto a stage, a stage everyone in Panem would see tomorrow.

"The interview stage, brilliant," I told him. "How did you know it was here?"

"A little birdie told me."

I punched him lightly, knowing he probably couldn't even feel it. "Good thing I got the stuff that you can't wash off. They ether have to cover it up, or do nothing."

I handed the paint can to Cato to open, I wasn't that strong. He opened it with ease and I dipped my finger into it. I had to pick the perfect place to start, somewhere that would be obvious. The floor, right in front of the seats where Caesar would talk to the tributes. Yes, that would do.

I worked for the rest of the night on my red masterpiece. The point of the red paint was so it would look like blood. I was successful with that.

When I had done everything I wanted, I stepped back to admire my work. Bloody words were scrawled across the floor. All of them had to do with killing and fighting in some way or another. War, fight, kill, blood, wound, gash, knife, sword, gun, bomb, and rebellion were only a few of the words. I made five words stand out above all the rest. They were the last words I wrote, but the most horrible, and my personal favorites. You will die Fire Girl. I couldn't wait until she saw that tomorrow.

"Nice work Clove, it's much better than writing in your room, where only five people will see them. Here, the whole nation will," Cato congratulated. I smiled deviously, that was the whole point of writing them out here. "Plus, no one will know it was you."

He had a point, only the two of us, and possible Brutus and Lyme, would know who'd done it. All the better for me.

We left the stage and went back up to the room. Brutus and Lyme were waiting right at the door for us. "Where in the world have you two been? I was worried sick!" Lyme yelled at us.

"Throwing," I said, before pushing past her. I headed into my room and threw my head down on my pillow. Today was the most humiliating day of my life. No one would want to sponsor the girl from 2 who got beaten by 12. My district must have been humiliated, I'd let them down. I should have done something better, but what? I could have hit some of the dummies in the head, I could have shot farther targets, I could have used a sword.

"Clove don't make it so hard on your self, there's nothing you could have done," Cato said, entering my room.

"Yes there is! I could I done better! I could have…"

"Clove," he interrupted me. He came over and sat next to me, draping his arm around my shoulder. "I'm mad too, she beat me as well. If it makes you happy I'll kick her out of the alliance."

"Yes, please do."

"Now go to sleep, we've got interviews tomorrow, wouldn't want to look like you didn't sleep."

"I can't go to sleep, there's no way."

"Then come with me," he said, getting off the bed. He grabbed my arm and lifted me so he was carrying me like a baby. He quietly took me out of the apartment and into the stair well. Only, this time instead of going down, we went up. We climbed about ten flights of stairs before we reached the top, the very top. He opened the door and I immediately felt the wind hit me full force, it was a cold night.

He carried me over to the edge of the roof and sat down, still holding me. I snuggled up closer to him, his body was a like a heater it was so warm.

"If your not going to sleep, we mite as well stay up here, where no one can find us. So we can talk all you want," he said.

"How do you think she did it?" I asked him.

"I don't know, but we'll find out sooner or later."

"How? If we're kicking her off of the alliance."

"The boy, he should know. We'll ask him."

"Again, how?"

"We could let him be a part of our alliance."

"What has gotten into you? Wanting people from the outer districts to be in the career pack? Not normal behavior from you," I asked.

"I think it's because I'm spending too much time with the tough Clove," he answered.

"What? You like the non killer me better?"

"I like the Clove that I asked, when was that? Only a couple of months ago? Feels like an eternity."

I nodded; it did feel like an eternity since that night under the stars, the night I made one of the biggest decisions of my life with ease. Just thinking about it made my hand automatically go to the ring finger of my right hand. Where my engagement ring was.

"Is it you token?" he asked me.

"Of course, you never know if we'll get separated. Plus, I couldn't bear to go in there with out it. Or to not have it with me if I die."

"You're not gonna die Clove," he comforted me, pulling me closer.

"I know, as long as I have you, I'll never die."

"Feel better?"

That feeling of calm I only thought I felt when I was throwing washed over me. I nodded, "Much better, because of you."

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