Just Tell Me You Love Me Already

Chapter 6: The Rights and Wrongs in Love

Cato's POV

I follow Clove out of the room, and into the elevator. Since Brutus and Enobaria aren't here, I assume she lied about that part. We ride the elevator up in silence, what can I say? I'm sorry you saw some other girl lying on me; I was trying to cover up our relationship? No, I don't know what to say to her, so I stay quiet, I don't want to do anything else damaging to our relationship. As soon as we get to the second floor, Clove leaves to go to her room, without saying a word to me.

Brutus and Enobaria are sitting on the couch with Ellen, Lorena and Alair. "That was great, Cato." Ellen says standing up.

"Whatever," I say going off to my room. I take off my clothes and toss them on the bed, then I go to take a shower. After I get out of the shower, I wrap a white fluffy towel around my waist and walk into my room to find some clothes to wear. When I get into my room, I walk to my closet and I'm about to get some clothes out of it when Ellen walks into the room. She's wearing a very low-cut dress. When she comes in, I realize that all I have on is a towel. Ellen walks towards me, leaving the door open. "What are you doing here?" I ask, I sound like an idiot.

"Well," Ellen says in an odd voice, she's still walking towards me. "I saw you left the room upset, so I came to check on you." She is disturbingly close to me now, I begin to back up, but she just follows me. I back all the way up into the wall;

Ellen is standing about an inch in-front of me. "Are you okay?" She asks; I realize then what her voice is, it's seductive, she's probably like 25-28 and she's trying to seduce a 16 year old, there's something very wrong with this.

"Yeah," I say, "I'm, uh, fine."

"That's good," Ellen comes closer, I wasn't even sure that that was possible.

"Uh, yeah, could you, um, back up now?" I ask her.

Then Ellen kisses me, she kisses me on the lips, and of course that's when Clove decides to appear in the doorway. She stands there, looking shocked. I push Ellen off me, she turns around and sees Clove, and I'm assuming that she's smirking. Clove just glares at Ellen, and then at me, it breaks my heart, really, to have her look at me like this. All she says is, "I thought you were better than that." Then she leaves, taking my heart with her.

Ellen turns around at me, "Oops." She's like in her 20's and she's acting like a 13 year-old.

"Get out." I tell her.

"But-"

"Get out, or I'll throw you out." 

Ellen huffs, and leaves the room. I then go and sit on my bed, and put my hands on my face. I'm sitting on my bed for who knows how long, when I start hearing a bang in the wall. It's the wall connected to Clove's room. I pull on a shirt and some pants; I don't even know or care what I'm wearing. I walk out of my room and try to open the door to Clove's room, it's locked. Of course, so I go out to the dining room and pick up a silver butter knife, then I return to Clove's room. A trick I learned from one of my friends- picking locks. When I get the door open to Clove's room, I find her throwing what look like steak knives at the wall, there are a pile next to her, and like 6 in the wall already.

Clove looks up when I step into the room; she's still wearing her dress from the interview. "Clove I –"

"I don't want to hear it." She says, throwing another knife that the wall.

"But-"

Clove turns to me, holding another knife in her hand. "I said, I don't want to hear it." She's holding the knife rather menacingly.

"Clove," I try to say in a calm voice, but seriously how calm would you be if your girlfriend was pointing a knife at you? "Can you please put the knife down, so we can talk?"

"You want to talk?" Clove asks angrily.

"Well yeah-"

"Okay," She's interrupting me again. "I trusted you, Cato." She throws her knife into the wall; all the knives in the wall are in a straight line. "I trusted you," bang, another knife is in the wall, "and then I find you in a dark room with another girl." Bang, "then when I come to hear your side of the story I find you kissing someone who is like ten years older than you!" bang, bang, bang, three new knives join the line. "I let you in," bang, bang, bang, bang, "and all you do is destroy my trust." Bang, bang, "I came here planning to just kill everybody, and show no emotion towards anyone." Bang, damn how many knives does she have? She still has a pile of knives next to her. "Then I meet you, and I let you in, I talk to you and I end up liking you." Bang, "then we're happy," bang, "and the next thing I know," bang, "you're cheating on me with two different girls."

"Clove, that's, that's not what happened." I'm kind of stuttering now, now I see how it was from her perspective, and yeah, I do seem like a big ass.

"Oh yeah? I bet Glimmer just happened to snuggle up against you and you didn't notice, and Ellen just tripped and fell on your lips?" Clove's voice is dripping with sarcasm.

"What happened," I have to keep my voice from rising, I don't want to lose her, I can't. "Is Glimmer rubbed up against me, and I wanted to push her away but I couldn't and-"

"And why couldn't you?" Clove sneers, "Because it felt so right?"

"WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN?!" I see Clove flinch away. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I say taking a step towards her. She points one of her knives at me, I stop; I know that she's just as good with her left hand throwing a knife as her right. "I shouldn't have yelled, but can you just listen to me and not interrupt?"

Something about my expression must've said something, because Clove's hardened face softens a little bit, "Fine."

"Thank you," I sigh. I sit on her bed, and Clove perches on the end. I notice that she still hasn't taken the steak knife from her hand. "What happened is Glimmer brought me into the room, and I wanted to tell her to get off me, but that would cause suspicion." Clove looks like she's about to say something, but closes her mouth, remembering that she said she'd be quiet. "And then I had just gotten out of the shower and I was about to get dressed to go and see you, but then Ellen came into my room, before I could even get dressed. She kept stepping towards me, and I kept backing up, until she had me against the wall, and then she kissed me I swear that I didn't kiss her back. You were in the door as soon as she kissed me, I had no idea that she was going to kiss me, none at all." My eyes plead with Clove to understand, but her face is blank, devoid of emotion. "After you left I made Ellen leave and I swear that nothing was purposeful, and neither of them meant anything to me. I love you, Clove. I'm in love with you, and I'd never cheat on you. So, I know it might be a little far, but could you please forgive me?" It's quiet for a long time. After a while I say, "Oayk, I get it." I stand up to leave. Before I can walk away, she grabs my wrist.

"Did you just say what I think you said?" She asks me quietly.

I sit back down on her bed. "That depends," I reply, equally as quiet. "What did you think I said?"

"Did you just say that you-?"

"Yes, Clove, I love you, I'm in love with you and I know that there's no one else that I'll ever feel the same about."

Clove looks at me for a while; she seems to be studying my face. Then she leans forward and up, and kisses me, lightly on the lips. "Yes." She says.

"Wait- what?" I ask her.

"Yes, I do forgive you."

"Clove I- "

Then she kisses me again, this time it's fierce and it's not a short one either. The next thing I know, my shirt is off and we're lying on the bed, kissing. Between kisses I manage to say "Are you sure about this?"

Clove smiles at me, "I've never been so sure of anything in my life."

Okay so I realized after skimming over my younger self's writing that I was seriously into the whole romance tensions. I mean I still am.... Sorry if there's a lot of that in my writing! -Bookfanic