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This can be a boring chapter, but I needed to post this one up to build the plot.

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Chapter 8

Katniss' eyes were wide open as she realized she was about to reveal herself that she knew Cato before this. She did not want him to know that she was the girl who he had tormented her childhood life till she was 9 years old. She was thinking to herself how could she cover up and her mind quickly flipped to the events which she had with him ever since she saw him in the university.

"From the selection," she told him and she was trying not to show any emotions.

Somehow Cato looked disappointed with her answer but his face changed to into an evil grin, "Well well well, does that mean you are checking me out?"

His words made Katniss choked on her own saliva. She was about to tell him off not to flatter himself so much but she thought about what Peeta told her,

"Katniss, if he's a jerk, don't let him influence your emotions. Based on your character, he must be the typical jerk who is an empty can and a bullock."

She smiled to herself and breathed in deeply, "You can think anything you want. Whatever makes you happy."

Cato looked at her, puzzled by her reaction. He would have thought his words would make her go over the top, but she took it lightly.

Throughout the class, Cato would try to steal some glances of Katniss. Katniss could feel it and felt irritated. She felt he did it on purpose to annoy her and sabotage her concentration. The class ended after an hour from the break. Katniss quickly packed her things up till Cato stopped her, "So, about the assignment…"

"About the assignment, don't worry about it. I will do it," Katniss snapped at him.

"Woh woh woh, what gives you the authority to make this decision?" Cato folded his arms and leaned his back against his seat.

"I don't know, maybe my hunch told me that you're just unreliable and you and I are better off without your participation," she was already standing up from her seat.

"Oh no you don't. Likewise, I don't trust you to be fully hands on for this assignment," Cato gripped her wrist tightly and pulled her back down to the seat.

"Ouch, that hurts. What's your problem? Having your input means my grade will drop drastically which would affect my entitlement for scholarship and I am not allowing this to happen," she growled at him.

Her remarks made Cato furious as she belittled his intelligence, "Look Miss Tough and Smarty Pants, do you think you're the only one with scholarship, huh? This is equally important to me as well."

She stopped reacting after listening to him and thought to herself, "He? Scholarship?! This is something new. Perhaps, he is not that stupid Cato Ludwig I knew back when I was young."

Cato grabbed Katniss' phone which was on the table, and started to key in something in it. Moments later, his phone was ringing.

"Shit! He got my number?" she thought to herself, feeling stupid.

"Now I have your number, so I'll text you later on the venue to meet up. The time will be tentatively at 10 in the morning. If we are not in this together, I will just report this to Miss Wiress and both of us will fail in this assignment," he warned her.

"Jerk!" Katniss yelled at him.

"Or maybe a bullock?" he replied her and she was startled by the choice of word he used. It was a real spot on and she couldn't help it but to burst out laughing. Cato was intrigued with the sudden outburst which was the perfect opportunity for her to escape from the class.

It was free time for Katniss till lunch, so she headed to her room to get some rest till lunch break. She did not bother to call Gale about his absence. Before she got her cat nap, she texted Madge to meet her at cafeteria for lunch after she was done with her class.

Time passed by pretty fast, and it was already lunch break for Madge. Katniss re-braided her hair and exited her room. She saw Johanna standing by the door clad with sleeveless embellished blouse with high-waisted jeans. Very rock n roll style which suited her personality. Katniss asked her whether she would want to join her for lunch with Madge and others. Johanna agreed.

On the way to cafeteria, they met Madge who was walking with another girl. She had a girl next door looked, tall and slender. She was wearing a flower printed dress which looked really good on her. Some guys were ogling at this new girl.

"Hey Katniss. Hey Johanna. Meet my new-found friend, Annie Cresta," Madge introduced the new girl to them.

"Nice to meet you, Annie," Katniss greeted Annie while Johanna just looked at her and said, "Sup!"

They bought their food and settled in at a place near the sink area. They had no choice because the cafeteria was full.

"Hey girls, I just gotta know from my lecturer that they will be having an alumni dinner," Madge paused while looking at Katniss and Johanna. She did not bother to look at Annie because she knew about it already as they were in the same class.

"For freshman, our attendances are compulsory. They will take the attendance and check your student id. So, no escape," Madge winked at Katniss as if she knew Katniss was not interested.

Annie interrupted, "Our lecturer informed us the theme will be masquerade."

"Yeah, so if you are worried that people will notice you, fret not. Your face will be covered with mask. Awesome," Madge said while fanning herself using her left hand.

From far, Katniss could see Peeta and Gale were entering the cafeteria. She stood up and waved both of her hands. They saw her and signaled her that they would want to grab something to bite before joining the girls.

Not long after, they joined the girls' table along with another new guy. He was extremely handsome, has broad shoulders, almost as tall as Gale, muscular, athletic with tan skin, bronze-coloured hair, and has an incredible pair of sea green eyes.

"Hey everyone, this is Finnick Odair. Met him at the pool," as Gale introduced him to the girls.

"Katniss"

"Madge"

"Johanna"

Annie did not introduce herself. Finnick went to Annie's side and pecked her lightly on the cheek, "Opps, sorry if I broke any of your heart. She's my girlfriend." He smiled cheekily while Annie was blushing.

"Great, seems like everyone know each other. Let's eat!" Gale announced.

Katniss looked at Gale, "Seriously Gale, you missed class for some swimming session?"

Gale munched his tacos and answered her with his mouth full, "Ah, no worries, I actually went to the class earlier to sign on my attendance."

He continued, "So why did I screw you up?"

"Nah, I'm just messing with you," Katniss withheld herself from talking about her encounter with Cato.

Peeta was sitting beside Katniss and pulled his seat closer to her, "Bullock?"

Katniss smiled at Peeta's word. She did not realize how much has she been smiling because of Peeta.

"Katniss, the sports selection is delayed to next week. Apparently the coach has some emergency or something," Gale interrupted.

Suddenly the Madge was squealing in the background.

"Oh my god, let's go shopping for alumni dinner!" Madge suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement, even Johanna. But before Katniss could shake her head in disagreement, Madge who was sitting opposite her, placed her hands on Katniss' head and forcefully made Katniss nod.

"Cato!" a sharp seductive voice was calling Cato from behind.

Katniss looked over her shoulder to see Glimmer was running her long fingers through Cato's blonde spiky hair. She did not realize Cato was looking at her all the time. When her eyes met with Cato's, she quickly looked away and continued eating her lunch.

"Hey I think the next class is common class for freshmen. Academic writing?" Peeta claimed.

Everyone nodded. "Let's roll," Gale announced and led everyone to the next class.

They reached a tad early, so they chose an empty row which was the second row from the back.

"Excuse me, I'm going to the washroom," Katniss stood up while making her way to the washroom.

As she was walking towards the washroom, she saw someone just posted something on the bulletin board. She stopped and saw something which drawn her attention.

Attention Students!

For our upcoming alumni dinner, we welcome volunteers to perform.

As a token, we will be offering you something special.

For further enquiries, please drop by our administrative office.

That's when Katniss decided to make a detour to the office. As she entered the room, she saw Miss Portia was sitting at her desk. She saw Katniss was approaching her and she gave a beaming smile, "Hello dear, how I can help you?"

"Hi, Miss Portia. I saw the notice on the whole volunteer thing, I just want to know what is this something special you're offering?"

"You're Katniss Evergreen right?" Miss Portia was trying to recall her name while searching for something in her computer.

"Katniss Everdeen," she corrected her.

"So, you're doing a double major, law and sport science. Well, if you are volunteering, we will arrange an interview session as an intern in New York's well known law firm, Pearson Hardman," Miss Portia moved her attention from the computer to Katniss.

"What? You're serious? I'm volunteering," Katniss' voice was cracking.

Miss Portia smiled as she could feel Katniss' happiness. She wrote Katniss' name in a list which contained the names of students who would be volunteering.

Katniss was happy as it was her dream to have a change to work in Pearson Hardman. Pearson Hardman is a market leader in each of its core practice areas and they serve their clients around the world which excite her even more as she would love to broaden her horizon by venturing to different parts of the world.

Katniss returned to the lecture hall but the class has not started yet.

"Katniss, what took you so long?" Madge asked Katniss.

She leaned in closer and whispered to Madge's ear,"Don't you ever squeal or scream. Just act normal," Katniss paused for a moment and looked at Madge.

Madge nodded quietly and Katniss continued, "I'm volunteering to perform during alumni dinner. I know right now you are about to stand up to show how shocked and surprised you are. But look, I really do not want people to know, the reason I'm volunteering because they have a catch to it, a good catch. Plus, I remembered you mentioning earlier that it will be masquerade theme, so I could cover myself with a mask and no one will recognise me."

Katniss saw Madge was trying to churn the news broke by Katniss, "What's the catch?"

"An interview for internship in Pearson Hardman. You interested?" Katniss answered.

Madge closed both of her mouth with both of her hands, "Wow Katniss, that's great. But you know, I've no talents to show our uni-mates. Guess I shall pass this opportunity. So, there is more reason for you to shop for your stage performance. Let's do it this weekend."

Katniss shook her head slightly, "But I can't show everyone what I'm about to wear to avoid them recognizing me."

Madge winked at Katniss, "Leave this undercover business to me."

Katniss smile disappeared when she turned to her back for a while. It was Cato…again?

"Why are you following me?" Katniss hissed at him.

Her actions caused some attention with her group of friends, especially Peeta.

"Public place, common class. Do you need me to say anything more?" Cato smirked.

"Yes, missy. Please don't think highly of yourself," Glimmer continued Cato's sentence. Along with them, there were a skinny guy with short light brown hair and green eyes, and another girl with dark hair and eyes.

Out of the blue, Johanna who sat beside Katniss, turned behind and told Glimmer menacingly, "Careful there, bimbo. Try not to let your mouth goes overboard."

Class started and it was a pretty dry subject. Katniss could see Gale was nodding off. His head looked as though he was fishing for something. Madge noticed Peeta was trying to steal quick glances at Katniss. Somehow Peeta noticed Madge was looking at him, and Madge did not hesitate to mouth to Peeta, "Quit looking."

The class was pretty dreadful, two long hours without any break in between. It ended at 4 o'clock. As Katniss was packing her bag, Johanna asked, "Katniss, since the selection has been delayed, want to go for a run?"

"Yeah sure, why not. Gale are you on?" Katniss looked at Gale.

He waved his hand to her, "I'll pass, and I'm so dead tired after the swimming session with Finnick."

"Can I join?" Peeta asked which surprised Katniss. Although Peeta was a muscular guy, but she wouldn't think that he's the type of person who would go for a jog.

Johanna replied Peeta, "See you at Central Park at 6. And probably after that we could get some hot dogs for dinner."

Katniss was about to make her way out till someone blocked her way, "Excuse me, you're blocking my way."

As the guy turned around, she realized it was Cato.

"Katniss, about our assignment…" Cato looked at Katniss and saw she was holding her schedule on her right hand. He grabbed the schedule and started to scan through her schedule.

Katniss was angry at how rude he was to just snatch her schedule and went through it, "Give it back!"

Cato held the schedule high up, beyond Katniss' reach. She was jumping to grab the schedule but she failed.

Suddenly, someone just pushed Cato to the wall and grabbed the schedule from his hand. It was Peeta, Katniss' eyes bulged. The last thing Katniss could imagine Peeta as a person was him being angry.

"Stop it will you?" Peeta's voice was scary, his normal sweet voice was replaced with his anger.

But Cato just ignored him and pushed Peeta aside in order to lean in closer to Katniss, "So, based on your schedule, you're free on Friday. 10am and I will text you the venue later, be there or be square. Remember, Miss Wiress?"

Katniss just stormed out from the hall, and Peeta was about to chase her till Gale stopped him, "Hold your horses, Peet. It's better for you to leave her alone."

Peeta looked worried while seeing Katniss slowly disappearing from his sight. Madge just pulled Peeta, "You need to control yourself. Your action is so obvious. You're totally into her and you will scare her away. She told me she's not into any relationship, so please keep the funny thoughts of being with her to yourself."

Madge's words made Peeta stunned; he asked her with voice shaking slightly, "What do you mean by that?"

"Katniss told me that she is not interested in being in love, ever since her father passed away. I shouldn't be telling you but I don't want to lose her as a friend again. So, if you really like her, I beg you to start controlling your emotion," Madge's voice was quivering.

"You get me wrong Madge. Never in my life could I ever imagine her being in love me. It's the last thing in the world to see her hurt. I just want to protect her, that's all," Peeta's bright blue eyes darken.

Both of them went on silence, not knowing what to continue.

Days went on till it reached Friday morning.

Katniss' body was flinching in her bed and screaming in terror. Different images of her father's death began flashing in her mind. She felt herself suffocated, and then she jolted up from her sleep.

She heard someone was knocking frantically at her door, "Katniss, Katniss? You're alright?"

Katniss was still catching her breath and did not answer. Suddenly the door broke open. It was Gale, Peeta and Johanna.

Peeta ran straight to Katniss' side and sat by the bed. His hands were touching her face, "Katniss, are you okay?"

Katniss looked at Peeta, his blue eyes were sparkling and she could see his eyes were pretty damped. She realized he was touching her and it felt so right when they were on her face. She felt a warm sensation and comfort in his touch. But she brushed the feelings off and pulled herself back.

"I'm sorry, Katniss. I was just worried," Peeta apologized as he thought his touch made her uncomfortable.

"It's okay. It's just nightmare everyone. Gale should be used to it by now," Katniss explained while forcing a smile.

Gale sighed and walked in closer to her while touching her hair, "Catnip, after all these years, I'm still not used to it. Everytime you had nightmare, it freaks me out. It seemed like you will never wake up from it."

"Yeah, Katniss, you looked like you were having a spasm," Johanna shrugged her shoulders while leaning her back against the wall. She was always the person who didn't know how to express her concern, but Katniss understood her pretty well.

"Okay, okay. Quit worrying about me, next time I will not lock my door when I sleep alright?" Katniss looked at everyone for approval.

"Wow, what an improvement Katniss. You're finally opening up to accept help from others," Gale patted her back lightly.

That remark made by Gale led to Katniss' next words, "That's to avoid you guys damaging my door again."

"Yeah right," Gale rolled his eyes.

"Katniss, you better get ready for your so-called assignment," Johanna pointed at the clock and it showed 10 in the morning.

Katniss panicked as she knew she was late for the meeting with Cato. She jumped into a quick shower and quickly slipped into a pair of denim shorts matched with a coral tone button-down boyfriend shirt. Since the library would be a bit chilly, she grabbed her forest-green cardigan which was given by Prim.

As she headed to the library, she got a phone call from an unknown number,

"Hello?"

"Are you coming or what?" a familiar male voice on the other line.

"Erh, going where?" Katniss asked.

"Maybe you suppose to meet me at the café outside our campus," he replied her.

"Wait, who's this?"

"Your so-called bullock?"

Katniss laughed at those words and she knew it was Cato but she stopped as she felt disgusted to even allow him to hear her laughter. She cleared her throat, "Café? I thought we are going to the library?"

"Says who?" Cato questioned her diligently.

"Says you!" Katniss answered him right away.

"No, I told you I will message you the venue right?" Cato exclaimed.

Katniss went silent as she knew he was right.

" I'm here already, I actually texted you yesterday night on the venue but you did not reply." Cato continued.

"Okay, I'll be there," Katniss mumbled.

She ended the call and saw her phone indeed had one text message from him. She paced herself quickly to the café.

At the café, everytime the door opens, the chimes made a serene sound. And everytime anyone entered the café, Cato stretched his head out to check whether Katniss had arrived. After several random strangers entered the café, Cato became restless and started fiddling his cell phone. Not long after, Katniss entered the café but Cato did not realize it. She was looking around and saw Cato was sitting on the couch at the corner of the café. She turned to the counter attendant and ordered herself a cup of black coffee.

Cato heard some whistles from some random guys sitting near his place. He looked at them and saw their eyes were looking at the same direction. As he followed the direction of their eyes, he saw it was Katniss who stood at the counter. Her denim shorts complimented her long legs and her long dark hair was not tied in her usual braids. She looked different.

"Miss, here you go. One black coffee."

Katniss grabbed the cup and headed towards Cato's direction. When she was walking to the seat next to Cato's, almost every guy in the café let out a low whistle and their eyes were flitting up. She was wondering why they were whistling, so she looked around and so happened, there was a redhead who wore a white bandeau mini dress entered into the café.

"Ah, so that's why," she whispered to herself.

Cato was observing the guys and he did not know why he felt a bit agitated. Katniss placed her coffee on the table.

"Why are you looking so uptight?" Katniss said awkwardly.

No answer from Cato. He was still looking at the guys who kept on staring at her. He gave them some killer stares as he found them very disturbing. After a while, they stopped staring at her.

"Hello," Katniss was waving at him which startled him.

"What?" he snapped.

She looked around saw the redhead was still there and she thought he snapped at her cause she disturbed his eye ogling session.

"Okay, sorry that I disturbed your dirty thoughts with that redhead over there, but we're here for our assignment. If you keep on staring at any chicks coming into this café like any other guys here, we should just do it in the library or better still, we can split," Katniss said sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

Cato smiled to himself and shook his head as he thought to himself that she had no idea what was really going on, "I'm not looking at that plastic, it's a waste of time. Why are you late?"

"Oh about that…I was having some nightmare and I just couldn't wake up till my friends woke me…" her voice fainted towards the end as she felt that she made a mistake by revealing too much to people and especially to Cato.

Cato leaned in closer to her and he looked eager to know what she wanted to say next, "Go on."

"Nothing, I just overslept. That's all," Katniss cut the conversation short which made Cato rather pissed by her words. He flung his back to the seat and folded his arms.

"Shall we just start?" Katniss suggested but she looked confused at Cato's response.

"Yeah," he mumbled.

Both of them were discussing about the pointers for their assignment. They were needed to come up with a thesis and to create a short power point slides for presentation purpose. Miss Wiress gave her students the freedom to choose their desired topics as long as it was under the sport injuries. They laid out few topics like hamstring pull, sprains, concussion but they couldn't seem to agree on anything.

"These are just too common and boring. It's like maybe 2 or 3 teams will surely choose one of these," Katniss sighed.

Cato nodded in agreement and sipped his ice blended mocha, "Okay, since you and I are into sports, let's think the injuries we have experienced before. Maybe something that is still bothering us or bothered us for a very long time. Sounds good?"

Katniss was amazed with his idea but she did not want to show it because it came from Cato's brain, so she just answered him quickly, "Ok."

Few minutes later, both of them seemed to have decided on their topic. Cato broke the silence and said, "Judging by your look, I think you have something on your mind already. And I have mine too."

Katniss nodded lightly. Cato continued, "Let's write them down on a piece of paper and see the brilliant ideas we have on our mind."

They scribbled something short and revealed their idea at the same time. Both of them looked at each other's paper and it was,

Sciatic Nerve Injury

"O…kay, that's just plain creepy," Katniss' eyes were still on the two pieces of paper.

"Damn, Katniss. You have that too? It's irritating right? Felt it at my lower back whenever I stretched my body," Cato's blue eyes were staring into hers.

She was staring at his eyes and began to think to herself, "Cato the cold-hearted bullock is looking friendly and there's warmth in him. Bleargh, warm? Shut it, Katniss. He's still the same old Cato. He is just pretending to be nice."

"Yeah, I have it too," Katniss answered coldly.

Her short answer put Cato off, "If you are just going to continue to shut me off with your rather unresponsive feedback, we can't get any pointers for our assignment."

That statement made Katniss straighten her back. She knew that she wanted to excel in this assignment. So, she lied, "Okay, sorry. My mind was just thinking about all the possible pointers for our new-found topic."

They exchanged conversation and shared their experience. Katniss realized they spent almost two hours discussing about their assignment because she finished her coffee. She looked at her phone to see the time while Cato was observing her.

"Let's take a break and grab something to bite for lunch?" Cato looked at the counter.

Both of them went to the counter and were looking at the menu. Katniss was looking at the pies in the display and she was eyeing on the shepherd's pie. Right before she ordered her food, the door chime made the serene sound and she couldn't help it but to look who was coming into the café.

To her surprise, not one but there were two kids, maybe at the age of 6 or 7 entered the café. They looked like they were homeless because they were wearing shabby clothes. It was quite a rare sight to see kids in this area to clad with such outfit. Katniss saw one of them, a little girl with dark brown skin and eyes was carrying a donation box. The little girl approached Katniss with a beaming smile, a smile that melted Katniss' heart instantly.

"Donation to Hope and Faith Orphanage, pwease?" the little girl's brown eyes were full of hope when she asked Katniss.

Without hesitation, Katniss took out all the money from her purse and donated 50 dollars.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" the little girl jumped with joy.

Katniss was smiling at her the little girl's reaction, she lowered herself to be at the same level as the little girl, "What's your name, sweetie?"

"Rue," she smiled sheepishly.

"Well hello there, Rue. What a lovely name you have," Katniss played with Rue's thick dark hair.

Rue giggled at Katniss' compliment but she stopped when she heard her friend was screaming.

"Don't stop," a boy was screaming and laughing hysterically.

Katniss turned to the boy and saw Cato was carrying the boy. He started to turn him around and made the boy even more excited. Cato was laughing happily too which was quite an odd sight for Katniss. She would never imagine Cato was very ecstatic with a kid in his arms. All she could remember was him torturing her when they were young.

She thought to herself, "How could he possibly love kids, but he doesn't look like he is being pretentious. He looks as if he is almost content with the boy."

Katniss stopped her thoughts when she felt someone was pulling her hand.

"Miss pweety, are you willing to follow us back to the orphanage? Miss Mags will love to see you," Rue's voice was full of enthusiasm which made Katniss' heart moved by her pleading. Katniss turned to Cato who was already looking at her and he answered Rue on behalf of Katniss, "Yep, we would love too!"

They quickly packed up their things and followed the kids to their orphanage. On the way to the orphanage, Rue was trying to ask for donation and it broke Katniss' heart to see kids at Rue's age were having a tough life.

Cato pulled Rue and looked at her, "Rue, right?"

Rue nodded lightly.

"Here, 100 dollars. Stop asking for donation alright?" Cato gave her a warm smile.

Rue smiled from ear to ear, "You are so kind!"

Cato held her hand and continued the walk to the orphanage. It was not a long walk, they reached the orphanage in 20 minutes. Rue let go Cato's hand, handed the donation box to the boy and ran straight to a room. It looked like an office and there was a name hanging by the door which said "Mags Cohen".

When Cato and Katniss entered the room, they saw an old woman with paper-white hair and Rue was standing beside her. The lady introduced herself, "Hello young ones. I'm Mags Cohen but you can call me Mags. Rue told me both of you are nice people."

There was a silence in the room. Mags told Rue to leave the room for a while in order for her to have a small chat with Cato and Katniss.

"So, I'm not exactly sure what brought you here. What did you do to make Rue said that?" Mags was frowning.

Katniss felt angry because she did not like the idea of using kids to beg for money, especially when they were under the care of a children's home. So, she answered Mags with brassy tone, "What kind of caretaker are you to ask the kids to ask for donation across the street? Aren't you supposed to take care of them instead of using them as free labour to get money?"

Cato was stunned by Katniss' words but he did not say anything. He looked at Mags, and her face was surprised and hurt.

"Do-nation?" Mags stammered.

Katniss was taken aback with Mags' reply as she felt that Mags had no idea about it, "You didn't know?"

Mags shook her head, "These kids are not even allowed to roam outside freely. For them to actually go outside and asked for donation, that is a shocker."

Mags called Rue into the room and questioned her with a concerned look, "My dear, I heard from this young couple that you were out at the streets, asking for donation."

Katniss' eyes widen at Mags description of she and Cato being the young couple, and she couldn't help it but to scoff.

Rue started to sob a little, "I'm sorry. I was just trying to help…"

Mags hugged Rue and whispered to her, "Don't be silly, dear. It's too dangerous outside. You are lucky to stumble upon this young couple. Now, give the money back to them."

The boy who was peeping outside the door, walked into the office. He looked guilty and hurt while carrying the donation box.

Cato quickly told Mags, "No, we are not accepting the money back. Take it as an official donation to this home."

Mags' eyes litted up as if she heard the greatest news, "You are so generous. No wonder Rue mentioned that you two were kind."

Rue and the boy went to Cato and Katniss and hugged their thighs.

"Okay, kids, time for lunch," Mags announced.

She turned to Cato and Katniss, "I would love to bring you around but I'm pretty tied down with my chores here."

Katniss couldn't help it but to ask her, "There's no one else here to help you?"

Mags gave her a sad smile, "In this home, there is only one volunteer and me. Lately, the fund has stopped coming in and we even have to fork out our own money to sustain this home."

She paused and looked around the room, "But I really not sure how long more can we sustain. I just love these kids and it breaks me if this home shut down. The kids will be separated and send to other homes. It will make them devastated as they grew fond of each other."

Cato and Katniss felt sorry for her and couldn't find the right words to comfort her.

"Anyway, do drop by when you are free. Rue and the rest will love you here," Mags broke the sappy atmosphere.

When they exited the home, Katniss' stomach growled which was loud enough for Cato to hear it. He chuckled, "Someone's hungry. Aren't we supposed to grab something to bite? … Oh right, we are broke now cause we were being 'robbed' by those small 'thieves'."

Katniss blushed because Cato heard her stomach growling, "But I forgotten to bring my ATM card. Can we return to our campus in order for me to get my card from my room?"

"Nah, I don't think it is necessary. I can buy you lunch. Just need to withdraw some money," Cato was flashing his ATM card.

"I don't take charity," Katniss answered quickly.

"Take it as a loan then," Cato walked away and headed towards the nearest ATM.

The rest of the day was spent in Mcdonalds where they could continue their discussion and they called it a day around 6 in the evening.

"So, next Monday?" Cato asked.

"Yes sure, and this time it will be library," Katniss exclaimed.

"Around 5?" Cato asked further.

"Deal!"

Katniss packed a double quarter pounder with cheese set for her dinner before headed back to the campus. When she reached her room, she looked for her ipod. She slipped the earphones into her ears and searched her playlist to The Fray. As the song "How to Save A Life" was playing in her head, she thought about how eventful her day was.