Credit to xXJayfeatherXx for the new title.
In a cold, littered alley, there were some rays of scattered sunlight. A cardboard box was at the very end of it. Inside, a longhaired torbie with green eyes sat in there quietly, her only kit sleeping at her belly. The torbie looked at it, and smiled. The kit yawned and blinked at her mom, with dark green eyes.
The torbie sighed, "You're lucky you survived the cold…"
She could remember her two other kits, which had both died. Just then, the box flaps opened. A golden tom with black rosettes looked at the torbie and her kit.
He asked impudently, "So what's the kit's name, Flora?"
Flora glared at him furiously, and growled, "I already told you, her name is Maple!"
The tom glanced at the kit, and snorted, "Well, at least it looks like me…"
Flora snarled, "Will you stop thinking about yourself for once, you self-indulged, fur brained-idiot?"
The tom narrowed his eyes, and stared at her. He padded off, leaving his mate and kit behind.
Flora mumbled, "Stupid tom. I don't even know WHY I was bothered enough to become his mate."
She laid her head down, and fell asleep. The kit mimicked her mother, and did the same.
"I bet you can't catch me," Maple laughed.
The sun was shining in the bright blue sky.
A white kit with blue eyes was chasing after her.
The kit leaped onto Maple, and they both wrestled.
Maple jumped away from the white kit.
"I told you, Snow! I told you," Maple giggled.
Snow frowned.
"That's not fair," she whined.
Snow's brother, Tiger, came bounding up to her.
He asked, "What are you guys doing?"
They both looked at him.
"Nothing," Maple purred.
Tiger gasped, "The greatest idea in the whole wide world just popped into my head!"
Maple and Snow exchanged glances at each other, and then looked back at him.
Snow exclaimed, "What is it?"
Tiger meowed, "It's called a game Chase the rogue! One of us is the rogue, and the rest of us are clan cats. The rogue has to run past the 'border', say…"
He looked around, until he saw a white box.
"That white box! If he does, he wins! If the cats catch him before he makes it, they win."
Snow and Maple shouted simultaneously, "Let's play!"
It was dark and cold outside. The day had ended, and all of the cats In FearClan were getting ready to go to sleep. Inside their cardboard box, Maple and Flora were preparing to go to sleep.
Maple asked quietly, "Mommy? Guess what I played today?"
Flora looked at her kit, and whispered, "What did you play, dear?"
"I played Chase the rogue… with Snow and Tiger," Maple responded, her voice becoming fainter.
Flora chuckled.
She asked, "Did you have-"
But to her amusement, her kit had already fallen asleep.
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