Playing with Knives

Chapter 13

   I start to cut the edge of Cato's neck.

  "How you like that?" I whisper in his ear.

  "You know Clove I know your perfectly capable of hurting me. No need to prove it." Cato says.

  "Then why did you say you didn't believe I could?" I ask.

  "Maybe I just wanted you to feel the need to prove it."

  "So you want me to hurt you?'' I ask while smiling.

  "Go ahead. I can take it."

  I start to do what he did to me. I grab his arm and carve my name into it. Now he'll know what it feels like.

  "Now I have to live with your name on my arm huh?" He says.

  "Call it revenge. Does it even hurt?" I ask hopefully.

  "You know I don't feel pain. Gonna have to do a lot more than that."

  He starts to pull me in and take off my shirt.

  "Cato what the hell! Stop."

  "Don't you want to?" He asks.

  "Not like this, I'm not ready, now please let me go."

"Come on." He says as he grabs my hips.

  "I said, Let Go!"

  I grab his arms and throw them off me.

  I get off of him quickly and exit the room. When I leave I see Enobaria in the living room.

  "So, what happened in there?" She asks.

  "Ew shut up. Stop what your thinking. Nothing happened, I told him I wasn't ready and got out "
I say.

  I hear a door open behind me. Cato walks out.

  "Don't listen to her, we definitely did it." He says rudely.

  "Your being serious!? We did not!" I say annoyed.

  "She's just embarrassed. And not thinking clearly."

  "Know what, I'm done I don't know why you suddenly wanna have sex with me when just yesterday I tried to kill you. But leave me alone perv." I say and walk out of the apartment.

  I don't know where i'm going to go but I won't be in the same room as him.

  I walk down a dark hallway. It's night and no one's around. I keep my knife for self protection. I keep looking back because I feel someone's following me . I just can't quite figure out what the feeling is, but I don't feel safe. Maybe I should go back? But then I'd have to be by Cato and I don't want to be around him. I turn the corner and I heard a loud noise down that hallway. I run towards it, I start hearing screaming. It sounds familiar, as I get closer I hear voices.

  "We'll have you kill you if you don't kill her first!"

  "You won't kill me!" I hear someone that sounds like Cato shout.

  "Sure, sure but we won't hesitate to kill her."

  Are they talking about me? I peak in the room, I see Cato and this man, he looks like a victor. I don't know why he would be here. Cato is held against the wall and the man has a knife to his neck.

  "You know what you have to do. Have it done by her birthday, or we will."

  I hear him release Cato and they start walking out. I quickly look around for someplace to hide. I decide to hide down the hallways I came from, just around the corner.
  I watch Cato come out, he turns down the direction I am. I sit down so maybe he will look over me. When he turns the corner he stops.

  "Clove!" He whispers, bending down.

  "Um hi?" I say awkwardly.

  "We need to get back to the apartment!" He says hurriedly.

  "I'm not going anywhere with you till you explain what just happened."

  He reaches for me and picks me up.

  "Stop! Put me down now!"

  "Will you be quiet! We're not supposed to be out right now."

  I stop talking and let him take me.

"I can walk you know."

"Okay then."

  He drops me, and I fall on my side hitting the ground.

  "Ugh rude!" I say as I'm getting too my feet.

  He grabs my wrist and drags me to the apartment.

  "Okay we are here. Now tell me what the hell that was about!" I say angerly.

  "Snow threatened me. He told me I have to kill you so there is only one victor. If I don't they will kill you anyways." He said.

"But why me. Why cant you die?"

  "Why would you even ask that?" He says.

  "I don't know, because I find it unfair I die either way." I say rudely.

  "My deadline is your birthday. Which is in a few days."

  "What do we do?" I ask.

  "I don't know."

  "I don't want to die."

  "I know Clove. I don't want you to either." He says sadly.

"I knew you couldn't kill me." I say to lighten the mood.

"Okay whatever your right. Its not my fault that I love you." He blurts out.

"Y-you love me?" I ask.

Cato looks shocked that he had said that.

"I cant lie anymore. It's true I love you Clove, I have loved you since I saved you in the training center back home." He admits.

"Wow." I say.

"Do you actaully love me back?" He asks.

"It's complicated. Just earlier today you tried to get me to have sex with you, and you know I'm sensitive about that. Then in the games you tried to kill me first. You held me by the neck and threatened to kill me."

"I'm sorry Clove. I wasn't in my right mind when I did those things. I was pissed you stabbed me trying to kill me. So I wanted to hurt you." he says.

"I cant forgive you." I say disappointed.

"I understand, just know I'm truly sorry." he says.

  "You knew how traumatized I was but you still did it anyways." I say.

  He looks down at his feet, he seems like he regrets what happened. I just can't be around anyone right now.

   "I just want to be left alone okay." I say.

  "Alright i'll leave you alone." He replies.

I will be writing more chapters but it may take a while, please let me know what you think so far.