Here is chapter five I hope you like it!
It's been twenty minutes since we are locked in this basement with Cato. Just twenty minutes and I already feel like dying. Cato refuses to talk to me and I don't blame him, I treated him like a plastic bag all this time and he already said sorry to me. I'm tired of sitting on this old couch. I should be taking more shots and dancing with my friends, but no I'm stuck in here with Cato.
After a few minutes i see that he is moving around the room like if he was looking for something. He takes an old box and starts to take everything it has inside. "What are you doing?" I ask to him but i know he won't answer my question. After two minutes i see i was right he won't talk to me. He now is looking on a bigger box this time. "Can you at least tell me what are you looking for? You are making me nervous!" He does not even looks at me. "Cato…".
"You said you didn't want me to talk to you." I'm cut off. "Make up your mind!" He shouts taking his two hands to his head. After he takes a deep breath he says. "I'm looking for something to do, since you won't talk to me, at least i should do something until we get out of here." Well he has a point. But i feel I should leave him alone until we get out, I don't know why but he makes me nervous without even trying that hard. "Found them!" I jump out of the couch getting the scare of my life. "Look" He says while he shows me a game of cards.
"Really? We are at one of the best parties of all time and you want me top lay cards with you?" There I go again treating him like crap.
"Well we can't go up, and since we don't know each other we could play this game." He looks at me waiting to see if i understood his idea. I don't so he continues. "Well i take one card but i don't show it to you, and you try to guess if the number is even or uneven. If it is even you win and you take a card, but if you are wrong you have to answer one of my questions or take a shot" He says while he shows me a bottle of Vodka.
"So that is what you were looking for" I say.
"So you are going to play? He asks me and he knows I don't have other choice. Or i play with Cato or I die of boredom. We sit on the flor and he places the cards between the two of us and the bottle next to him.
"So i start!" He says like if he was a five year old boy with a new toy. "So try to guess." I look at him with a "I can't believe I'm doing this" look on my face.
"I will say even." He looks at me with a big smile on his face . "It's an uneven number right?" I ask even tought I didn't care about this game.
"It's a five. Tell me how old are you?" He says leaving the card out of the deck.
"Such a kinky game dude." I say before answering. " I'm sixteen" And after I answer his question he takes another card. "Even" I say when i notice he is waiting for my guess.
"Sorry but it's a five again." He laughs at me.
"How many fives you have there?" I ask with my face going red. "Go ask me again."
"Well i know you are new and I heard you live with your brother and your dad." He scratches his head. "What's up with your mother?"
"Give me a shot." I say without taking another second to think about it. Cato gives a shot of vodka and i take it. It burns my troath because i have nothing to mix it with. I take a look at Cato and he looks sorry about the question. "It's not your fault let's move on." He takes the third card. "I swear to god if it is not an even number I'm killing me right now."
"And you are right this time. I think it's my turn now." He says with a smile on his face and I can tell he is nervous. I wonder why. "Even" He says and i show him that is a nine so he has to answer my question.
"Why did you blame me the other day? And you can't say because I'm new!" I was tire of that excuse.
"Well i think I did it because you were new." I'm going to kill him. "But maybe because i tend to bother and make jokes to some kind of people."
"What kind of poeple?" I ask. "Hold on just one question per card dude." I take another card on my hand. "Uneven i think." He is right and show him the card with the number seven on it.
"Even" I say when he shows me a card between his fingers and he looks at me with a confient smile on his lips. "Don't look at me like that." He makes me nervous every single minute.
"Number five hates you bro." He shows me he has another five on his hand. "Do you like someone?"
"Yeah i think I do…" I say looking at the floor because I feel my face going red.
"Don't blush babe." He says on a flirting tone sending chills down my spine, and i bet he must have guessed because he then looks at the ground. "Sorry for that one." He takes another card and i fail again, i hate this game already. "What's the name uh?" I don't even say a Word I just take the full shot into my mouth, he takes another card but this time I win, so it's my turn to ask. I pick a card and Cato looses this time so I think to myself that is time to make him feel akward for a change.
"Well since you asked, do you like someone?"
"Yeah i do." And there he is without even a hint of red on his face. How do I make this guy feel uncomfortable? He holds his confident look on his face. "I'm Reddy for the next one." I bet he is. How can someone be so confident with this things. I knew what I wanted to ask, but he wins the round and now he is the one asking. I was about to kill myself when another five shows on his hand and now I was afraid because i knew what he was going to ask.
"So tell me, Peeta" He says with that hateful smile on his lips. "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Taking a shot would mean it was a boy, I could lie and say is a girl but he would notice it. Where on Earth was Claire!? I need someone to get us out of here. I start to sweat and my face is red, my hands are shaking so i look at him and I give him the answer.
"It's a boy…" He nods. "Are you going to tell everyone else? Are you going to make fun of me?" He just stares at me with pain on his eyes. Was I really misunderstanding him? I Could hate this boy but when he looks me with those eyes i could say he was a nice guy instead of the jerk i tought he was.
"Why would I?"
"I been there before, trust me."
"No. I won't" He just takes another card and I miss again. I was so tirad of this.
"Why do you hate me?" That questions knocks me out. My mouth is on the ground and i don't know what to say. "Why can't you see i want to get to know you better?" He shouts at me. "What do I have to do for you to stop hating me and treating me like crap?!" His face is turning red with every question he makes. "What are you afraid of?" We both get up and he starts to walk over me. "Why can't you see that i like you?" And with the last one I hit the wall behind me, Cato is so near my body that I could feel his warm. "Why do you hate me?" He asks me once again touching the tips of the fingers of my hand with his. He locks his eyes on mine but after a few seconds he can't take it anymore and he looks at the ground.
"I don't hate… you." His eyes are back on mine. "I just don't know what to do…" He takes my chin on his hand and he gets closer to my face.
"I don't know either…But we can figure it out together. Don't you think?
I don't say anything. Instead I close the gap between us and i lock my lips on his. At first he is taken by surprise but after a few seconds he responds to the kiss and i feel on arm holding from behind me. And now all I could think was how much I liked him, I had kissed boys before but this kiss was nothing like those kisses. He breaks the kiss and holds my hand. "I think this is a good start. Right?"
We spend some more time on the basement, but I don't mind. We sit on the couch and talk about different things, learning about each other more and there are some kisses between words. It takes another hour for Clove to find us down there, she looked really sorry and said she was searching for Cato the last fifteen minutes until she found us. Claire went home with some boy I still don't know, so Cato took me home before leaving his car he asks for my phone number and gives me another kiss. When I'm already on my bed ready to sleep my phone sounds and i turn to find a text from him.
"Would you like to go out tomorrow?"