-Cato-

She was one of the many girls I was hoping to avoid coming home with Rose. It was a bad idea, bringing her here, because the District was literally crawling with girls I've messed around with. I was lucky enough to avoid them all while walking here. Hopefully now, I could avoid one more fucking disaster that I've caused and keep Rose happy for at least another hour.

I have never seen Rose smile so much. It was insane. Rose finally seemed happy to be with me, and of course, I love it. If she's happy, then so am I.

"Molly, you have to leave."

Molly ignored what I told her and stared out at the darkness that surrounded us. "I'm really glad you're okay, Cato," Molly said with a small smile. "You know I always worried about you."

"Molly, what the hell are you doing here?" I asked as low as I could, ignoring what she said. I didn't allow her entrance into my home. Rose did not need to see her and Molly did not need to see Rose. She would probably get jealous and say something she didn't need to.

Molly frowned and tried to step in but I blocked her. "Mom made these treats for your Mom and Charlie and asked me to drop them off to her," she explained, not even taking the chance to look me in the eyes. She was scared.. good.

"Okay," I nodded, taking the wrapped plate out of her hands, "thank you. Now leave."

Molly sighed and bit her lip. Shit.. that used to turn me on. "Can I at least talk to her, or Charlie, for a little?" she asked with irritation in her voice. "Mother would think it very rude if I just dropped them off without even a simple hello."

"No," I almost yelled, "you need to go-"

"Pumpkin, let her in for a second! I haven't talked to her in a while!" Mum yelled from the kitchen. I glanced quickly at Rose, who was too occupied with Charlie to pay any attention to us at the door whatsoever. Maybe I could sneak Molly in without her noticing and get her out the back door.

"Shit," I mumbled, finally stepping aside. I tried to block her view of Charlie and Rose.

Molly took a step inside and immediately looked to where she heard Charlie and Rose playing. She smiled when she saw Charlie, who looked up at her with his playful grin, but at soon as she saw Rose, her smile immediately dropped.

Rose looked up at her and smiled, completely oblivious to who Molly was and what she could potentially do.

"Oh," Molly mumbled, "I didn't know you guys already had company." She stared at Rose, ready to give her the death glare. Molly definitely knew who this girl was. I had outed myself to the whole world about Rose.. why wouldn't she know? Molly hates her. I know her well enough to see the boiling water cooking in her body right now.

This was bad. Really, really bad.

I heard Mum walking toward us and soon she had a hand placed on my waist.

"Hello, Molly," she said with a smile. Mum was betraying me right now! She should probably know that I do not, under any circumstance, want this girl here right now, yet she's trying to start conversations?

Molly turned to Ma and gave her a fake smile. "I'm so sorry, Mrs. Hadley. I had no idea you had company," she said politely. She was being completely phoney.

Mum waved her hand, dismissing her comment. "It's okay. I was just getting dinner ready anyway," she answered. "Have you met Primrose?"

Shit, Ma.. I didn't want them to talk.

"No, I haven't," Molly mumbled with that fake smile. She sighed softly and stared at Rose, who was still smiling, oblivious to all the thick tension. Rose is way too innocent for all this drama shit.

Rose stood up and extended her hand. "Hi, I'm Primrose. Nice to meet you." Damn, why does she have to be so nice? It's moments like these that I wish she was a bitch so that I can see a girl fight and so that Rose can defend herself. The girls I've been with were total bitches and made sure everyone knew that when they were sleeping with me, another girl better not get in the way.

But, I haven't slept with Rose, and she's not a bitch.

Molly took Rose's hand, but she barely held onto it. "Yeah. I'm Molly," she nodded while snatching her hand away.

Rose's face fell and she turned to look at me. I shook my head slowly.

"She's Cato's girlfriend," Mum opened her mouth to say to Molly.

Molly crossed her arms and glared at Rose. "Really?" she sneered. "Well, so was I."

"No the fuck you weren't," I snapped.

Molly gaped and I saw Rose's face change. She was already sad, just by that one statement.

Mum noticed that she caused something and turned to walk away slowly.

"Cato.. what's going on?" Rose asked, staring up at me with huge doe-like eyes. Shit, she's giving me that look.

"Nothing," I said, trying to dismiss the problem that will never go away.

Molly scoffed and crossed her arms. "So that's what I am now? I'm nothing?" she asked.

"Yes, you're nothing. You never were!" I yelled.

I saw Charlie flinch and stare up at me. He hated when I yelled, no matter who it was and for what reason. "No yelling, Cato," he told me, shaking his head.

"Sorry, buddy," I mumbled, rubbing the creases that formed on my forehead.

"Did you date her?" Rose asked me, pointing to Molly.

I was about to tell her no but Molly interrupted me. "We were together for six months," she answered, rolling her eyes at the two of us.

Rose pouted a little and stared at me with disbelief. "You said you never did the 'relationship' thing," she said with a frown.

"I didn't," I sighed, trying to get her to understand what I was trying to say.

"So, what?" Molly started. "The six months of us fooling around meant nothing to you?"

I shook my head, telling her no for the millionth time. I swear, when it comes to girls, I feel like I'm a broken record. "You are, and have always been, nothing to me," I stated for what I hoped was the last time.

"Well then what is she?" she asked with disgust, staring at Rose like she wanted to hurt her.

"She's everything," I told her with a straight face.

I heard Rose sigh next to me. I was hoping that she was taking everything I said to heart. I don't do fucking relationships, except when it comes to her. I called her my girlfriend, a word I never use to refer to any girl.

Molly nodded and sucked her teeth. "How about we get together tonight? I can show you just how much you remember I meant to you," she asked, reaching out a finger to touch me while trying to be seductive. Honestly, she was grossing me out. Instead of it being tempting, it did nothing but make me want to puke.

I stood there silently for a while, just trying to get all of my thoughts together, but I guess Rose took that as something else because before I knew it, she was covering her mouth and running up the stairs, leaving me alone with Molly.

Molly started laughing, clutching her stomach as if hurting someone's feelings was the funniest thing in the world. What she doesn't know is that she hurt someone that I love, and that no one should ever do something like that unless she truly wanted to die.

I turned to Molly, holding in as much of my anger as I could before I pounded her into a bloody pulp. I couldn't risk killing her and scaring Charlie.

"If you don't leave, and I do mean right now, I will fucking kill you, and I will make sure that your family gets whatever will be left of you," I told her, gritting my teeth to be as silent as I possibly could. Mum would kill me for being rude to a girl, and Charlie didn't need to hear what I was saying.

Molly stopped laughing and frowned. "Come on, Cato. You can't be serious about that little cry-baby bitch, can you?" she asked me.

I clenched my fists and took a deep breath. Molly really wanted to be choked. "Leave, now. Before I do something that I would want to regret, but I most definitely won't," I repeated, breathing in and out slowly to stay composed.

"Really?" she asks again.

"Did you hear my damn mouth stutter?"

"No."

"Then get the fuck out!"

Molly chuckles and turns to leave. "Don't worry, you'll come running back to me sooner or later."

"I swear to God, say one more word-"

Molly walks out of the door and slams it shut.

"God dammit, Ma!" I yell. "Look at what happened now?"

I take the stairs two at a time, running after Rose who was most likely packing her things back up to leave. The only thing that would make this whole situation worse would be if she was crying.. I can't fucking take it when she cries. It makes me want to kill the whole nation.

I finally reach my door and push it open, searching for the crying ball that would be Rose.

I found her sitting on the ground in front of her bags with her face in her hands and her body shaking as she cried.

I locked the door and walked toward her. I couldn't risk Ma or Molly coming in and making everything much worse than it already is.

"Shit, Kitten," I mumbled, reaching down to take her arm and pull her up off the floor.

She stared up at me with tears running down her face as I sat her down on the edge of the bed.

"Why did you even bring me here?" Rose asks, wiping her face with the back of her sleeve.

"Because I want you here to meet my family."

"But why? Why are you bringing me here to your family when you could be bringing someone like Molly back here?" Rose asks. "She's better looking than me, and she has much more experience. It's obvious that I'm not the right one for you. You need to be with someone that will let you be as wild and crazy as you want to be."

"That's the point," I told her. "I don't want a girl like that. I want a girl like you. If I wanted her, I would have taken her up on her offer and sent you packing."

Rose shakes her head. "You don't want me here with you. You're lying. I could see it in your eyes, and the fact that you hesitated to answer her when she asked you. You wanted to go with her, but you couldn't just leave me here all alone."

"No, I didn't."

"Yes, you did."

I sighed and rubbed my forehead, feelng the headache coming on. "If that were the case, I wouldn't have even brought you here. I would have killed you during the Games and that would have been the end of it."

"Why did you even choose me?" she asked, staring at me with puffy eyes and tear-stained cheeks.

"I've already told you why," I said, feeling like a broken record once again.

"But I'm just not understanding."

What more does she want? I've done anything and everything to prove to her that what I feel for her is real, things that I never do, but she still doesn't understand.

"Can't the fact that I told you I love you be enough?"

Rose shrugs and wipes her eyes. "I don't even fully believe you sometimes," she mumbles, turning away from me.

All of the anger growing inside of me was trying hard to push out of me. I tried to contain it for as long as I could. Being home, I couldn't risk yelling at any girl, especially not her, because I didn't want her to cry anymore. But hearing everything she is saying, I don't even care. I have been busting my ass to make sure that Rose is okay, that I'm not hurting her in any way. And of course, she doesn't want to listen. This relationship is hard as shit already, and her doubt is only making it worse.

"What the fuck more do you want from me?!" I yell at her, causing her body to jump. "What is it that I'm not giving you, huh?"

Her lips tremble. "I don't.. I don't-"

"What is it?!"

"Cato-"

"Tell me!"

"I just want to make sure that I'm not being played! That you're not using me, and that you actually love me!" she jumps up and yells back, startling me. It was nothing like I've ever heard before. Her voice rose and trembled. She's never yelled at me, not like that, at least.

"I fucking love you, okay?! I don't know what else to say to make you listen to me! I've tried everything that I know, and you know I don't give a shit about anyone or any of this damn mess!"

Rose drops back down onto the bed, the tears welling into her eyes again. "Everyone tells me that this is wrong.. that you're going to hurt me beyond compare and I'm never going to be able to cope with it all. They say that we won't last, and if that's true.. if you are just going to hurt me, I don't want to waste my time waiting for it to happen. I'd rather just get it over with now and go home so that I can learn to let you go," she explains, her eyes trained on the floor.

I kneel in front of her, letting her words seep in and make sense. I took my fingers and placed them under her chin, forcing her to look at me. I wiped her tears away as they fell silently.

"Why do you listen to them?" I ask.

Rose shrugs. "Because you said it yourself, you don't do these things. You sleep with girls and then leave them," she tells me, restating what I told her once before.

"Have I done anything to make you believe I just want to sleep with you?"

Rose shakes her head.

"Exactly. All I've done is try to keep you safe and make you as happy as I can."

"I know."

"Then why do you doubt us? If I think this will work, then you should, too. Am I wrong?"

She shakes her head again. "I want it to work, too. But it's just that I see girls like Molly.. beautiful, smart, experienced. I'm none of those things for you."

"You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen in my entire life. Your beauty is natural, not hidden behind a mask of fake and mean. You care about people, and you think about everyone else before you think of yourself," I tell her, meaning every word. "I don't want someone that I doubt every second of the day, and I don't want someone that I can figure out within two seconds of meeting her. You've told me everything about yourself and I'm still trying to figure you out."

Shit, that took a lot of my strength to say.. this is all so new to me.

"Really?" Rose asks, wiping her runny nose with her sleeve again.

I take her face in both of my hands. "I want you Kitten,no one else."

She takes a deep breath and nods her head. "Okay."

"You trust me?"

"Yes."

It goes silent for a few seconds before Rose leans forward quickly and kisses me, taking all control. She tightened her arms around my neck and clings to me with all that she can. Her nose kept rubbing into mine, sending familiar shivers down my spine.

If only she wasn't so pure, I would take her and just.. I would fuck her to the ends of the earth. I know she's not ready for something like that, but in that cave in the Games, when I pulled her shirt up, aside from the bruise, her skin was a perfect shade of cream. I wanted to do some bad things then, stuff that she probably wouldn't even imagine. I've done things with multiple girls, some of it things that were unspeakable, but I've never felt a stronger desire than I do right now.

Rose's smooth velvet tongue slides along mine with so much force. It was like she was giving me hints that she wanted something.. different. I couldn't do that to her, but I really, really wanted to.

I stood up and gently pushed her down onto the bed, crawling on top of her and securing her hips with my hands. Her arms stayed wrapped around my neck like a vine. Her smell was so fucking intoxicating.. it was like a drug. Shit, what I wish we could do.

I ground my hips into her and she surprised me by letting out a small moan into my mouth. Rose gripped onto the small pieces of hair on the back of my head and she pushed her hips up to meet mine.

Holy fucking shit.

Rose is a fucking maniac.

I groaned and pushed down harder onto her, letting my hands travel from her hip up to her hair where I removed the elastic that held it in place. Her hair smelled like roses and felt like silk. I buried my nose into her hair and trailed wet kisses down her neck, tracing my nose up and down her jaw. Her fingernails dug into my arms as I kissed down to her chest.

I reconnected my lips to hers and reached down to the edges of her top, ready to pull it off and do sinful things to her.

I pulled her sweater up to her chest and stared at the beautiful porcelain pigment of her skin, a little flushed red from the heated session we were having. My fingers traced from her navel to the bottom of her chest and I felt her body shiver.

"I love you, my beautiful little Kitty," I mumbled, reaching to kiss her again. I was surprised she was letting me go this far.

Rose moaned in response as one of my hands caught her chest.

"I.. I love you," she breathed onto my lips.

Shit..

Holy mother of all god damn pearls in the fucking ocean.

Someone knocked on my door and I almost cursed whoever it was to hell.

"Pumpkin, Rosie, dinner is ready!" Mum called from the other side of the door. Rose blushed a deep red and sat up, running her fingers through her hair and trying to fix her shirt. She tried hard to compose herself, but she was way too flustered to evenn fuction properly.

She wanted me.. just as badly as I had wanted her.

"Looks like we're gonna have to finish this later," I sighed, sitting up on the bed.

Rose coughed and nodded, looking embarrassed.

I don't know what she would be embarrased of.. that was sexy as shit. The way her hips pushed into the apex of my thighs..

Holy fuck.

Think of old people, Cato. You can't go to dinner sporting a massive boner.

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