User blog:Clove1999/Nightengale

Chapter One
My blue grey eyes opened as the scent of coal wafted to the abandoned house I lived in. The locks of light brown hair were once a gorgeous gold, but had faded and colored due to the tainted air. I sat up and looked around, making sure that no one was here. Sighing, I pulled on my skin tight boots and and old jacket that I had found in the streets around the Hob, probably some drunkie...... Anyways, I looked out the window, which was basically a glass wall out to the forest behind me. Spruces, pines, and oaks laid behind that barbed fence, and the one place that I could live. Suddenly, the door creaked behind me and someone put their hands over my eyes. Before punching them in the gut, I took a deep breath, if it was who I think it is...... Pine, and bread.

"Hey, Cato," I said as I turned around. His blue eyes were soft and caring, unlike my grey ones, that were constantly hard and emotionless. He kissed me and slipped somthing into my hand. A handmade necklace. "How much did it cost you?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter what the price was," Cato murmured. "As long as you like it, it's priceless." I shook my head and grabbed his strong, hard hand, determined to hang on to it untill I die. I opened the door and pulled Cato to the forest, where we could gather and hunt. Retrieving a bow that Katniss had made for Cato, and my basket, so that we could finish harvesting the apples in the woods, I followed Cato as we made our way to the ridge. The birds chittered and the squirrels rustled, making it seem like an ordinary day, but it wasn't. When I had looked into Cato's eyes, I knew that to day was the one day that might seperate us forever. The reapings were here again.