Chapter 1
Acorn's stomach growled a her, she was starving.
Her littermates were probably starving too, living in up-walker place was hard, they couldn't find any food! None! There were big, huge cats with scars, and twolegs, and their monsters everywhere!
"Do you guys want to try going back to where mama left us? Maybe she's back by now," Acorn said, her mother had left them all in the Up-walker's place a while back, mama had said she would be right back, apparently she wasn't, it had been 3 sunrises since then and she wasn't anywhere to be found.
Rosey shot her a glare, "You know as well as I do that she left us, she isn't coming back Acorn,"
"Don't say that Rosey," Tiger said, "Mama would never lie, she got lost, or our up-walkers won't let her come because they don't understand. She is definitely coming back! Which is why I said we shouldn't have left to find food in the first place, what if she is back there right now and doesn't know where we are?"
"Yea, let's go back, I don't want to miss her if she is there now!" Max said.
Acorn smiled at her littermate's hopefulness, they would get through this. And what did Rosey even mean mama wasn't coming back? Of course she was! Even a doubt of that was ridiculous!
The four siblings slowly walked back to the area where their mother had left them, a little weak with hunger and tiredness, after all they hadn't eaten in 3 days. And sleep had been hard to come by, the large cats chased after them a lot at night, they never slept.
"Do you think she'll be there this time for real? She wasn't yesterday," Max asked, his voice quiet.
"Hey, you guys said, she was lost, it makes sense this place is big, she going to have to be here eventually," Rosey said
Rosey had been on and off about whether mama was coming since the end of day one, she said mama was coming sometimes, but other times she thought the opposite.
"She'll be here," Tiger said, sounding sure.
The rest of the trip they were silent.
When they finally reached the place, by the larger red and white up-walkers sign whith strange markings on it, by the dark alley with the large metal poking out of the garbage can, they found nothing, no mama at all.
The littermates were silent for a few seconds. Not knowing what to say.
"What do we do now?" Asked Rosey softly,
"Should we try and sleep here again? Mama could come at night," Tiger said stubbornly refusing to give up hope that mama was coming.
"That's what we did since we got left here, monsters keep coming on the black path and we got chased by the big cats a lot too, we can't make the same mistake again can we?" Max asked,
"But mama might come," Tiger said sadly, and unsure.
Suddenly, rain started drizzling, just a few drops at a time, but it was clear it would soon become a harder rain. One that the littermates did not want to be under.
"Shoot," Rosey said
"We can't stay here, let's try to find some shelter, none of us want to be sick. Let's try the alley maybe we can find some shelter in there, plus it's close to here so in the morning we can check right away for mama,"
"Fine.."Tiger muttered.
The cats left toward the alley. They found shelter under a large garbage bin turned sideways.
"What if other cats come and make us leave?" Asked Max as they laid down to sleep.
"We hope that doesn't happen, and if it does then we look for another shelter," said Acorn simply.
"I miss mama," Tiger said, everyone else did too obviously.
"Me too, I miss how every night she used to groom us before we went to bed," Max said
"I miss how we got to eat everyday," said Acorn dreamily, thinking of her stomach.
"I miss how after she groomed us one of us would ask how old we were and she used to know the exact number always," Rosey said.
"How old are we again?" Asked Acorn
"Last time mama told us she said we were 57 sunrises old," Tiger said
"How long have we been here?" Asked Max
"3 days," Acorn said
"So we are 60 sunrises old?" Max asked
"I guess," Acorn said
"I wish mama was here to tell us that," Rosey said
"Me too,"
The littermates fell silent, and the only noise was the sound of rain as it fell, soon they were asleep.