Forever Stay With Me-Clato story

Chapter 2

Cato and clove:

Chapter 2-Forever Stay with me

It just was like then. When the 7 year old Cato looked at me .’Clove? Is that you?’ he asked while he looked at me. He came to sit next to me. He looked in to my eyes but I didn’t look back because I won’t let him see my weakness. ’Clove…I’m sorry. I shouldn’t scream to you .’ I looked at him a second. It seemed like he meant it. ’It doesn’t matter ….I’m used to it.’ I said quiet. I saw him look confused in the corner of my eyes. I bitted on my lip .

’What do you mean?’ He  asked    .                                                                                                     ’Do you really think I would go to the hunger games for bringing proud or honor to my district? I don’t do it for myself. I do it  for Travis!’ I said thinking of my little brother. He was quiet a  minute. ’Your brother?’ He asked.

I nodded.

’I don’t want him to grow up like I did .My father has… drank problems ’I look at the water that ripples . ‘You don’t need to tell me this if you don’t want to. ’                                      I look at him for a long time. He smiled at me. ’I  want to tell you, I don’t want you to think that I have a perfect life. The reason why I go to the hunger games is  because of my brother. When I…’’I took a deep breath’ …If I come back, then I will be rich and then he never will live with my dad. He…’s in the hospital now. My dad got angry yesterday and…’

My eyes were hazy I tried to stop the tears so that Cato wouldn’t see my weakness. But I couldn’t stop them. It was the first time in in 10 years I had cried. The first time in 10 years that I let see my weakness. Of all those years that I lived with my dad ,I turned into a monster with no feelings. A monster who was destroying herself. I’m the perfect career. A career with no heart, no feelings and no heart. This was were I was born for. Born to kill.

I hoped he didn’t see the tears. But he did. He laid his arms around me and wiped away my tears. For just this time I didn’t care how  weak I was. I felt me safe ,happy .Something I didn’t feel for years. Something a career shouldn’t feel.

‘It will be okay, I promise’ he whispered, his arms still around me. I smiled at the thought of my memories. ‘What’s wrong? ’he asked,  while he saw me smiling.’ Do you remember that day by the lake ten years ago?’ I ask. He smiled and said: ’I do, I thought you forget it. That’s how I found you. I remember that I brought you home that day’ He grinned

‘Can I take the lady home?’ he said grinning in his most fake charming voice. I laughed. ’Sure’ He took my hand and we walked away of the lake. Normally I would hit the person in the face when someone touched me like that. Because I became scared after all those years. I became scared of loving someone. In a blink of an eye the person could be gone. Gone forever. I never touched anyone like that except my brother. But I just let it happen today .’I don’t want to go home’ I said ’let’s go to the hospital’

‘Your will is law, Madame’ he said it what looked like a butler in an old movie. I laughed. It was strange who he could make me laugh while no one else could.

The whole way he tried to make me laugh. He told all his funny stories of his trainers of the past years. When we stopped by the hospital I asked him;’ Do you want to meet Travis? ’He look at me. ’It would be an honor’

I walked through different hallways.  Until I was with Travis’ room I watched him through the little window in the door. His little body was full of scars and wounds. He was only 12.Tomorrow it would be his first reaping. It hurt to see him look that. I bited on my lip. If I came home faster he wouldn’t be like this. I hated my father. I hated him what he had done to our family. He had ruined everything. It was his fault that my mother killed herself. He made her life so miserable that she couldn’t life anymore. She had loved us. But she was killing herself inside. She couldn’t handle it anymore. I had start to learn that feeling. But I couldn’t give up. Because I never wouldn’t leave Travis.  I opened the door of his room. A smile appeared on his face when he saw me. I walked to him and gave him a hug. ‘How are you?’ I asked. His tiny hand who was in the plaster