Cato POV
Tennessee could translated to hell, or so Cato thought. He might not be able to judge all of the state from his current location he wasn't feeling to happy with the volunteer state. Peeta had called Thresh and now he was expecting Thresh to meet him at the "airport" in truth it was a strip of cement and was scary. Cato put on his sunglasses and expected the microscope town. It was tiny, he was quite lucky to have found someone who lived here otherwise he would never have been able to find Clove. He spotted a big burly black man in the distance. Cato picked up his small duffle bag and headed towards him.
"You must be Thresh," Cato said.
"That I am." The surely black man with a thick southern accent said. "You must be Cato, we don't get many big city boys here." A small girl peeked out from behind Thresh. "This is my cousin Rue, it's because of her I found your girlfriend."
"How so?" Cato asked.
"I'll explain on the car ride. It's about an hour away." Thresh said.
"You mean this isn't Diamond Runs?"
"Heck no! This town is Sugar tree, its the closest big town with a airport."
"That's an airport!" Cato asked gesturing to the airstrip behind him.
What kind of town is this Cato thought as they headed to Thresh's beat up blue pick-up truck.
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"So how did you find Clove" Cato asked once they were on the road.
"Well we don't get many new folks in the Diamond, it used to be a mining town, but once the coal went away so did they people. After the people went away businesses started to go bankrupt and more people were forced to leave for big city. there's only about 100 people left in town. I run a stone cutting store, so I get a decent amount of income. So anyways as I was saying there ain't many new people in town so when too white girls show up news travels fast. I automatically knew something was up with them one being pregnant in all. So anyway, my little sister is a bit of a runaway, so one day she ran away, without me know and all, and thirty minuets later that new pregnant white girl shows up with Rue here. She asked me if I had lost something and looked at my sister and said yep! This ones mine. I thanked her for finding her and asked her her name, she said Clove, but she corrected herself after that saying her name was Nora Eliza. I knew that wasn't her real name so I got to thinkin. Clove, where have I herd that name before. I remembered your friend Peeta had mentioned her name, I couldn't remember why he was talking about her. I called him up and told him I found this Clove and a day later here you are."
"Yep" Cato said. The rest of the ride went slowly and quietly. Cato didn't really peg Thresh or Rue for big talkers and Cato wasn't really comfortable talking to strangers.
45 minuets later Thresh pulled of the main road and onto a rocky dirt road. There wasn't much in Dimond runs. Just a couple of abandoned stores a Walmart and a curch. That was basically it. There was also a run down motel. Thresh pulled up in front of the Walmart.
"This is where Clove works, I'll drop you off. I have to get to work." Thresh said.
Cato got out of the pick up truck and shut the door. Thresh waved and drove off. Cato waved back and headed to Walmart.
In the distance he saw a black hair girl in the distance.
Clove, Cato though. Clove!
Cato started walking towards the girl. Slowly at first but faster as he got closer. When got close enough to identify Clove as Cove he called her name,
"Clove" the girl must not have heard him so he called again. "Clove!"
This time the girl heard her and turned to the sound of her voice just in time for Cato to see the black car come out of nowhere and hit Clove.