A/N: Here you go, Striker! The first chapter for your contest - I hope that I did okay? I've never participated in a contest before, hahaha. :D
"Honeypelt?" the name comes out shaking and trembling, like a leaf caught up in mid-summer's storm. I cannot take my eyes off of the pale golden she-cat before me, nor the white tom crouched beside her.
They smell like fear and guilt and anger, and my once sweet angel is staring at me with nothing short of hate in her eyes.
"Redstorm!" she spits out, and why is she mad at me? Why is she treating me like I'm the traitor, when she is the one that has taken my heart and crushed it? "What are you doing here?"
I came to ask you to be my mate, I want to say, but the words are lodged in my throat like a spoiled piece of prey. I can't say that now. Not when she has so clearly been grooming this other tom, this foreign tom, this cat that is not from ThunderClan.
Not when she so clearly doesn't love me the same way that I love her.
So I lie.
"It's late, and I was worried something might be wrong." I tell her, and I'm glad that my words aren't trembling as badly now. My heart is still aching though, and I feel sick. Like my prey will come up to join in on the conversation soon.
Honeypelt raises her hackles, light blue eyes narrowing in disbelief. She stalks towards me, and there's so much anger in her eyes that it actually hurts me. So much hate.
"Liar." she hisses, and I don't know how she knows or what she thinks I was doing out here.
I don't stay to find out either, just turn around and run, as fast and as far as I can. Briars snag at my long, russet fur and I can feel blood begin to pull around one of my pads. Something is lodged there, inbetween my toes, and I cannot get myself to care enough to stop.
All I can do is run and think and hurt, because that is my life that I'm leaving behind. That is my love and the only thing that I have worth living for.
And she's gone now, with another tom, with my heart, with my life. And Honeypelt is taking my happy-ever-after with her, because how can I be happy without her? How can I ever make it through to the end of my fairy tale now?
Honestly, I don't know how.