Umm…too short? But I'm just churning out ideas and I'm tired, so deal with it. :)

"But I love you!" His protest rang in my ears.

Longtail and Purdy were sunning, no one around.

He had offered to clean the elders' den, again, just so he could be with me.

"I'm too old, too worn out, too broken down. You're young and strong,"

And kind and brave and handsome and thoughtful and- I cut my thoughts short.

We couldn't be together any longer.

"Think of your family, of your clan."

He stared at the ground, trailing his gray and white tail across moss.

"I don't care. I just want to be with you."

I stared into his frantic eyes; they flickered with love and secrets, and most of all, hurt.

"No," I brushed past him, to go lay beside Longtail and Purdy.

"I can't be with you anymore. I won't be with you ever again."

I felt his eyes burn into me, full of pain, and ignored them.

It's the right thing to do. The right thing to do for him and the clan.

For him. And the clan.

But I know, from the aching in my heart, that it wasn't the right thing for me.

Yeah, Mousefur and Mousewhisker, eww…

But I thought it would be funny to put the two "mice" as a couple, so here you go!

Please review and suggest!