Chapter 2
"Where's Gingerkit?" asked Dewkit.
"I saw her stay in the den to talk to Shimmerpaw," answered Applekit turning around to look at the den door.
"I wonder why she's staying?" asked Dewkit.
"I don't know," answered Applekit, "maybe she just wants to talk to Shimmerpaw."
"Maybe."
Applekit turned around to see Wovenstar, their clan leader, watching them talk.
"Anything interesting happening around lately?" He quickly turned to Sootfur so he wouldn't be found out, but Applekit new better.
"Hey, Dewkit," she whispered, "Wovenstar was just watching us."
"Really? Wow, the clan leader watching us?" she exclaimed, "maybe he's thinking what good apprentices we'd make," she strutted proudly around in a circle with her nose up in the air.
"Nah, it couldn't be that," she teased.
"It could too!"
"Could not."
"Could too."
"Well, it could, but probably not"
"Okay, fine."
Then Gingerkit came out of the den and walked over to Dewkit and Applekit, "Hi, guys, I need to talk to you, secretly"
"Okay" Dewkit answered, "We'll talk in the thorns near the entrance gate."
"Okay, here we are, what do you need to talk to us about?" asked Dewkit.
"I wonder why she looks so nervous,"thought Applekit.
"You have to promise that you won't tell anyone, okay?" pleaded Gingerkit.
"Okay, we won't tell anyone" Dewkit whisked her tail over her mouth beckoning Applekit to copy her.
"Well at the last gathering at Sky Rock that Shimmerpaw went to she met an apprentice that was the older sibling of some kits from Waterclan and when she described each of the four kits, one of them sounded exactly like me to Shimmerpaw and they thought we should meet each other and so they brought him too meet me and well, well, I, I really, really like him. Really." She sighed, "His name is Reedkit."
"But isn't he in WaterClan?" asked Applekit.
"Yeah, isn't he?" seconded Dewkit.
"Yes" she replied, "Oh, I feel like such a traitor."
"It says in the warrior code that you are not allowed to be in love with a cat from another clan so you probably won't be mates with him and get over it! Life's too short to get aggravated so much over something so small," Dewkit lectured.
"But you don't understand, he loves spending time with me and I love spending time with him. He never gets mad if I make a mistake, like trip over his foot or anything," Gingerkit was lost in thought, "I knew you wouldn't understand," she left in an unhappy mood, "I just felt so bad I needed to tell someone."
Later, Applekit was thinking about what Gingerkit had said.
"What's wrong Applekit?" asked Marshkit.
"Oh nothing, I'm going to go to the apprentices den to see if Shimmerpaw is there," she replied.
"Why?" Marshkit countered but Applekit was already out the door.