Five months later

I yawned. "This is so boring." I sighed. "But we play it all the time and it isn't boring to us!" Blackkit mewed at me. "Well you guys are two moons younger than me. I should be an apprentice any day now!" I retorted. "What are you doing guys?" I turned and saw sugarkit waddling out of the nursery. "Nothing." Blackkit grumbled. I was the oldest kit in the nursery now that skykit ,flowerkit and their siblings moved out and became apprentices a moon ago. I never thought how boring it would be now. They are always busy with training or duties around camp and never have time to talk to me anymore. I laid down on the ground on my belly with my paws stretched in front of my muzzle. I stared at my silver paws. Over the past few months I had lost my kitten fluff and now I had sleek smooth short fur. It was still silver like my mothers fur though. My eyes turned from a bright green to an amber color like my father. I wasn't full-grown like a warrior but I was taller than blackkit, sugarkit, and leafkit. I only reached up to skypaws neck if we stood next to each other. I let out a frustrated sigh. I hated that I was still being treated as a kit. The only cats that didn't treat me as a kit was the elders. They really liked me after that day they told me about the beginning of the clans and always welcomed me when I would sit down next to them. Then sooner or later they would be telling me a story about waterclans past. "Starrykit?" I pulled out of my thoughts and looked up to see leafkit looking at me with a worried look on her face. "Whats wrong?" I asked as I sat up slowly. "Are you alright you seem depressed these past few days." She asked. 'mouse dung I forgot how perceptible these guys are!' I thought bitterly. "Nah I'm fine." I said walking past her towards the elders. When I arrived In front of the den patchpelt noticed me and smiled. "Haven't you grown? Your fur is so pretty now. Every time I see you walking towards us I think its waterstar coming to take me to starclan." Poppyleg said. "I don't think I look that much like her. " I replied sitting next to patchpelt. "Not yet but you will." Crookedtail assured "You both got those determined amber eyes that can make any cat freeze in their pawsteps." Before I could respond flowerpaw camp stumbling over with a mouthful of moss. "Thorry m let!" "What? For goodness sake child spit out that moss and speak clearly!" Flowerpaw dropped the moss in front of her and repeated "Sorry I'm late!" "Hi flowerpaw." I sighed. "Hi starrykit long time since we last talked huh?" "Yeah ever since you guys became apprentices I've been bored out of my mind!" "That's got to stink worse than mouse bile but at least you're the oldest in the nursery and your growing just as fast as me so we look like were the same age." She glanced at her mentor spidertail. Ever since he had rescued us from that fox flowerpaw looks up to him a lot now. Now don't get me wrong we all have always looked up to spidertail but flowerpaw is in eternal debt or something so she practically does his every whim without even blinking. "I have to go fix the elders bedding." She said picking the moss up and heading inside the den. "Something bugging you starrykit?" I looked at crookedtail. He gazed back waiting for me to answer. "No its nothing." I said looking out across the camp. On the other side of camp my father stripestar was talking to dirtclaw ,sandear ,and hornfur. Sandear was dirtclaws apprentice but when he caught a snake that almost killed his mentor he became a warrior for his bravery. "I'll bet its because shes not an apprentice yet." I heard poppyleg say. "Sort of." I replied still watching my father. As if he knew I was looking at him he turned and saw me staring at him. I watched as he said quick good-byes to the warriors and padded over to me. I didn't say any thing as he sat down next to me. "Hi starrykit how are you today." I looked forward and watched the warriors as they completed their tasks. "Starrykit?" He asked. I ignored him. "You can't do this forever." Silence. "Your so stubborn." He sighed. "I get that from you." I said curtly. The elders watched in silence as we sat there talking. "Okay all done!" Flowerpaw exclaimed as she walked out of the elders den. My ears laid flat and I slouched forward when she walked out of the den. "Starrykit what's wrong?" She asked. "Nothing I'm just Peachey!" I Exclaimed sarcastically. I trudged off not even flicking my tail goodbye. "Starrykit wouldn't act like this if it was about being an apprentice." Patchpelt said. "Yeah something's really getting to her." Stripestar agreed. "What if its because of me and skypaw?" Flowerpaw asked. "What do you mean?" Poppyleg asked. "Me and skypaw were avoiding her because we didn't want her feeling bad about us becoming apprentices and her staying a kit." She explained. They watched starrykit disappear into the nursery. Before continuing. "I'm sure she just misses you guys." Crookedtail suggested. "If that's what you think is wrong ask her about it you wont find out until you confront her about it." Patchpelt nodded her head in agreement. "Okay I'll try it." Flowerpaw said.

As I walked in the nursery I noticed it was empty. No cat or kits were to be found. I sighed as I sat in the nest me and my mother shared. The nursery seem dark and uninviting. I heard a rustle in the ferns and looked up to see flowerpaw pushing through the ferns. "Don't you have apprentice duties or something?" I muttered. "You seem lonely." Flowerpaw said as she sat next to me. "I'm sorry starrykit. I thought we weren't causing you pain but I guess we made it worse." " What are you talking about?" I sniffled. "I'm sorry for leaving you alone." She said as she leaned into me. I shifted away from her. "You guys left me by myself. I thought you were my friends but you didn't even care if I was left behind." I tried hiding the fact that I was on the verge of tears but my voice cracked. "Starrykit I-" "Shut up I hate you both!" I shouted as I jumped back. "No you don't." I looked at the nursery opening and saw skypaw entering the den. "How would you know?" "I don't but I do know your afraid." He looked me straight in the eye "Your afraid of being alone." I'll admit I didn't attack him I didn't mock him for that cheesy moment either. I just broke down and cried right in front of my two bestest friends in the whole wide world. And it felt good. Skypaw and flowerpaw helped me vent out my feelings and it felt a lot lighter inside. A few seconds after I started crying flowerpaw was next to me trying to get me to stop crying. "Don't worry we wont leave you alone."