Sugar blinked at the morning sunlight and yawned tiredly. Her two kittens were snuggled up to her belly, sleeping. The she-cat could remember her first litter of kittens like they were born yesterday. They were her only other litter of kittens and had been taken by her owners when they were two months old.

"Sugar!" Her female owner yowled. "I didn't know you were having kittens again! We really need to take you to the vet." And with that she filled up the brown tabby and white cat's food dish and ran out of the garage. Sugar rolled her eyes in annoyance. She was considered a pet to her owners, but she didn't consider herself one. She lived in a garage and could come and go as she pleased. They gave her dry food in her food dish, but most of the time she caught her own prey. She had a bed with a heating lamp above it, which was nice, but she always felt like there was more to life than trying to please her owners.

"How are your kits?" Her brother, Max, meowed from her pet door.

"Oh they're fine. I have a boy and a girl." She replied nonchalantly.

"What are you going to name them?" He probed, padding over and leaning in to sniff them.

"I don't know. The girl is white so probably Blizzard. How's that?"

Max shrugged, he didn't have any kits so he didn't really understand the excitement of naming them. "Actually, I don't think you should name them. Won't they be taken away in two months?"

Sugar's eyes opened wide in realization. "Oh no! I'm going to have to find a way to hide them."

"Will your owners will find out eventually, so I would leave if I were you." Max advised. Sugar shook her head, she liked it here. "I guess I don't have any other way of keeping them."

Max nodded with satisfaction and began to leave. "You should name your son Ice, for his ice-blue eyes." He called as he passed through the pet door. Sugar gasped, her kit had opened his eyes and she missed it!

"Who are you?" He asked, his blue eyes opened wide with curiosity.

"I'm your mother, Sugar." She meowed gently. Ice looked around wildly, trying to take everything in at once. "My name is Ice, but who is the one beside me?"

"That's your sister, Blizzard, and the cat that left was your uncle, Max. You look like him."

Ice tilted his head to the side. "How?"

Sugar laughed quietly. "You're both gray."