Chapter 6

Cato POV

It was the first time I saw her after four years and she still had the power to make me breathless, my heart started beating faster and I can't quite describe the mix of emotions inside of me, anger, happiness, sadness, joy and those butterflies in the stomach that thing called love, because yes of course I am still in love with her.

She was still small and skinny, her bright green eyes were even beautiful or maybe is that I had been wishing to see them so badly, but there was a hint of sadness in them but other than that she was still the same maybe just her hair had changed, it was longer and felled past her waist, I was standing looking at her through the window for almost the entire class, when the students started to come out I went to the hallway that leaded to the office; when I saw her walking towards Enobaria's office I grabbed her wrist and I felt a strange tickling in my hand.

-Clove-I had been thinking a lot what I would say to her and now that was all that came out of my mouth- You are here.

She didn't say something but her eyes were avoiding me, then all the sadness and anger from the past years hitted me.

-Why? Why did you left? Do you have any idea of the hell that I've been living in? You broke me Clove- the days, months, years after she left had been the worst of my life.

Flashback

It was Monday morning and I hadn't seen Clove since last morning so I woke up and walked right to her bedroom, I had to talk to her, to explain some things that I had been hiding for the last few weeks but only to protect her, Brutus told me that it would be better for all of us that way.

I knocked the door softly but nobody answered, after waiting for a while I opened and walked into the room –Clovely? Are you here? - No answer, her bed has made which was weird since it was 8:00 am and she usually slept until 11:00 am or so, I closed the door and went to the dining room hoping to find her there, but only Brutus was there drinking black coffee sitting in a chair.

-Morning- I murmured while drinking some orange juice.

It tooked him a while to answer me but I had just assumed that he was in a bad mood or just hangover.

-Morning kid, you better hurry up because we have some things to do today, now that the tour is over you will have to start your duties as a victor-

-Okay but what about Clove? - I asked- I haven´t seen her and she is not in her bedroom either-

Brutus face changed immediately, he looked worried and nervous, -Do you know where she is? - I asked getting nervous too.

-Cato, she is gone- gone, gone, gone his words made echo in my head but I still didn't understand, I immediately ran to her bedroom and opened her drawers, they were empty, her closet, empty and lying in the middle of the bed was the ring that I had gave to her during the victory tour.

The next months were a blur, I don't remember most of the things, it had been just me and a bottle until Enobaria came to my house one day and slowly convinced me to stop drinking, I looked myself at the mirror and couldn't even recognize me. That was the last time I drink, I tought that Clove wouldn't want me that way and she would never come back if I stayed like that.

Time passed and I started to recover, I came to training again and started giving classes at the academy.

End of flashback.

And now she was here, I saw her face change from sadness to anger when she heard my words and just when she was about to start yelling at me, I can tell it by the way her cheeks turned red, I saw a little hand pulling her shirt, when she turned around I got a better view of the person behind her. It was a little boy maybe three or four years old, blonde with green eyes he was familiar to me and I tried to remember from were, but then I heard the words that froze me…

-Mommy, I'm hungry can we go home now? - He said to Clove, mommy he just called her mommy that means that she has a kid, but who was his father? Why? , all of this questions in my mind in one minute; my eyes were glued to the little boy while I was trying to understand all of this.

Clove was pale and her eyes went from her son to me, and then the boy saw someone behind me because he yelled happily;

-You are heeeeere! - He ran towards a tall man with light brown hair and green eyes, green eyes, his green eyes.

-Hey kiddo, how are you today? I was near here and tought about taking you guys to grab a bite, how about that?

-Yes mommy is there come we'll go tell her- both of them walked toward us and he hugged Clove tightly.

-How does that sounds to you Clovers?- she quickly recomposed herself and smiled warmly at him- Of course I just have to finish something, can you wait for me outside?

-No mommy come now I'm really hungry, please?- he looked at her with puppy eyes and just when she was about to say something to me Enobaria got out of her office and called me.

-Cato can you come? Now?- She didn't wait for my answer and dragged me into the office while I saw Clove getting out, both of them were holding the kid hands, that was it, she was happy now, she had moved on, she has a son.

And just that easily my heart broke into even smaller pieces than last time, because I knew that I wasn't able to get her back, I had lost her.

Sorry I know that this isn't such a good chapter but I promise next one will be better I just tought that I should update soon because all of your reviews make me soooooo happy! So Cato thinks that Alex is Caden's father but next chapter he will see certain blue eyed little girl again and he will start to wonder some things. I will also be including flashbacks for you to understand what happened before, don't get anxious you will find out what happened very soon.

Love, Mariane