Panem Summer Camp *ON HOLD*

Chapter Nineteen

CATO POV  - ͟͟͞☆

Breakfast was basically Cato staring at Clove the whole time, Finnick teasing him about it, Cato staring at Clove some more, and for a small sliver of their time in the mess hall they talked about the play. 

After breakfast concluded, Cabin 28 went back to their cabin for further instructions. They all gathered around Haymitch outside and Cato noticed that all of the other cabins did the same with their counselor. 

"Today," Haymitch began in a gruff voice. "We are going to play capture the flag with the whole camp." There were some cheers and a few groans that came from the fifteen year olds but overall, everyone was excited, especially Cato. 

"Everyone go inside and put on a blue t-shirt and meet me back outside so we can go over to the playing area." Everyone did so and Cato raced inside and changed into a dark blue shirt. He met the rest of his cabin outside where Haymitch had face paint that they used to decorate themselves. 

Cato noticed that they were not on the same team as Clove and the rest of her cabin. Instead, from the fifteen year old cabins they were with two other cabins, one a girls' and one a boys'. 

The fifteen year olds walked in a large group over to where they were scheduled to play, a section of the forest. They then split up to their respectful teams and waited as everyone trickled in. 

Cato took the chance to meet the rest of the fifteen year olds on his team. From the girls' cabin there was Delly, a girl with blonde hair that went halfway down her back, Sophia, a tall girl with super curly blonde hair, Kinzley, a girl red hair a little darker than Annie's, another Sofia, this one was short and had long black hair, Khloe, a tall girl with black hair, Julia, a girl with blonde hair and was about the same height as Delly, and Madison, a short blonde girl. 

From the boys' cabin was Walker, a boy with curly blonde hair, Max, a short kid with dark hair, Dylan, a guy with dark brown hair, Timothee, a tall boy with dark curly hair,  Louis, a guy with brown hair and dark eyes, and a tall boy with light brown hair named Thomas.

The rest of the age groups joined them and Cato thought his team was pretty loaded, but then again, so was the red team. Snow stepped into the middle of the area they were all gathered and sent a shrill whistle into the air.  

"Attention!"  Everyone slowed their conversations to a stop and turned to the white haired man. "Welcome to Capture the Flag!" Everyone cheered. "So here are the rules." That's where Cato cut him off.

Even though he knew he should probably should be listening, he just couldn't help himself from getting lost in his thoughts. Especially when his eyes found the eyes of the dark haired girl from Cabin 29. 

After staring at each other for a solid minute, Clove flipped the blonde boy off and turned back to Snow. He sighed, louder than he wanted and a moment later a voice spoke from next to him.

"Ah, young love," Sophia, the girl from Cabin 30 said to him.

"It is not young love-" he started, only to get cut off by the curly haired girl.

"Oh yeah it is. If you ever need help with trying to get her," she gestured to Clove who was watching the two curiously. "I can help."

"And have you even had any boyfriends?" Cato questioned.

"Duh, I've had so many," she said. The girl with the dark red hair, Kinzley, came up to them.

"Um, no you haven't," she said.

"Wow, way to expose me," Sophia huffed, rolling her eyes. 

"She does have her eye on all the boys from Cabin 32 though. Except Max," Kinzley stated. Cato nodded unsurely as the girls walked away rambling about something he didn't understand. 

During their whole conversation, Snow had finished talking. Cato followed the rest of his team to where they were hiding their flag. 

After they hid the flag, they waited for the second four whistle sequence before they were able to start. Cato, Marvel, Finnick, Walker, Sophia, Julia, Kinzley, and Max formed a group and started making their way to the spot they were to look for the flag (an eighteen year old had taken charge and had ordered everyone around). 

The group skidded to a stop when they saw a flash of red bolt through the trees but they all shook it off. It was probably just a bird.

At least, that's what they thought until Clove and Johanna jumped out from behind a tree and tagged all of them except for Julia and Sophia who bolted as soon as Finnick squealed like a girl.

"Gotcha," Clove smirked as her and Johanna laughed their heads off. They then ran off in the direction Julia and Sophia had went, leaving the rest of them to wait for someone to come unfreeze them. 

They saw Thresh walk by but he was too absorbed in feeding his Skittles to the birds to notice them. They eventually got unfrozen by two twelve year olds named Prim and Rue and were then on their way. 

About an hour had passed before they heard loud cheering and screaming coming from someplace in the woods. The group ran and followed the source of the sound and arrived to find the red team placing the blue flag next to their own.

Cato huffed, frustrated that they didn't win but resulted to teasing Finnick about how he sounded like a girl when he screamed. 

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"Hey," someone said, walking up next to him on his way back to the cabin. Cato was by himself because Marvel had pushed Finnick into he lake and they had both gotten in trouble and were currently in Snow's office. 

He turned to see Clove standing there in all her glory, looking as gorgeous as ever.

"Oh, hey Clover," the blonde haired boy said. Clove rolled her eyes at the nickname.

"I just wanted to say, good game," she said, reaching out her hand to shake his. Cato smiled and shook the girl's tiny hand.

"Yeah, you too," he said. Clove glanced up at him and gave the smallest smile Cato had ever seen. He wasn't even sure it was a smile at all. Then the girl ran off to go talk with Johanna. 

Cato stood in place with a stupid smile across his face until someone came up and jumped on his back.

"I TOLD YOU SO!" Finnick screamed. Then Cato felt even more weight on his back when Marvel jumped on. The blonde haired boy's knees buckled and then in a matter of seconds, they were all on the ground in a heap, laughing their heads off. 

⋆⭒˚.⋆ SOPHIA SPEAKS ⋆⭒˚.⋆ Aloha my friends