It had been two moons since Tigerpetal and Wingfrost left Streampaw in the apprentices den alone. Lilystar had let her take the last two moons off from training together, only to focus on the meeting that would take place tonight. "Streampaw, come along we're taking you out hunting." Tigerpetal and Wingfrost still did as much as they could with the apprentice. Stormkit still had another moon to wait until she became an apprentice. Streampaw felt her pain, being the only cat her age in the den. Who knew when Brindleflower and Firefoot's kits would be born? "Okay where are we hunting?" Streampaw bounced outside of the den with her friend and Wingfrost explained that Stoneclaw wanted more hunting to occur beside the border to just make sure WinterClan wasn't stealing any. The border… Rainpaw ruined my chance to be a warrior! She hoped to see the tom once again so she could let him know how she felt about him ruining her chance to become a warrior along with her friends.
They padded through the forest, Wingfrost lead the group of three to the border and turned around with a happy look on her face. "Let's make a contest out of this!" She shouted happily. Tigerpetal looked to Streampaw puzzled and then to her gray and white sister, "what do you mean?" Wingfrost challenged both she-cats to a hunt-off, and Streampaw accepted it quickly along with Tigerpetal. "Ready, set, go!"
With that Streampaw raced through the bushes and waited for the scent of WinterClan to fill her nose. She really wasn't looking for any prey; she was hoping that Rainpaw was going to show up once again. Heartbeats passed and there was no sign of the young tom showing up, what am I doing? She thought before standing up and padding over to the stream. I should be hunting not looking for Rainpaw to snap at him. The young feline leaned forward and started to lap water, her mind wondering about things that didn't seem very important. A pelt brushed against hers and Streampaw turned to look over her shoulder, the spotted gray pelt of Rainpaw was pressed against hers. "Hey!" He purred happily as if the two were the best of friends. "R-Rainpaw!" She spun around completely but slipped and her muzzle pressed against his. The two looked each other in the eye; Streampaw blushed heavily and jerked away.
Rainpaw chuckled, "How've you been?" he mewed lightly as he inched closer to her. "I'm fine Rain-" the tom tackled her down playfully and smiled, "Before you call me Rainpaw I think you should know my actual name now." He touched his nose to hers "Rainflight." He was a warrior! Streampaw pushed the tom off of her and folded her ears back as she stared at him. "So what is your warrior name?" Rainflight meowed happily. Streampaw felt her heart break, as she explained that she was still an apprentice because she failed her test that day and that her friends Tigerpetal and Wingfrost were the only ones that became a warrior. Rainflight lowered his head, "I'm sorry Streampaw, I didn't mean to do that to such a-"The tom stopped himself from finishing his sentence and looked away.
Streampaw pricked her ears and padded forward to look in the toms eyes, "Such a what?" she meowed softly before sitting in front of him. Rainflight's face fur turned bright red as he looked at the she-cat and then to him paws, "Such a beautiful she-cat like yourself." He thinks I'm beautiful! Streampaw couldn't look at him anymore; the feline looked away and blushed. Her heart pounded powerfully in her chest, what was this? Why did it feel like she had butterflies in her belly? "Streampaw!" Tigerpetal's voice rang out from the distance and the apprentice snapped back into reality. "Rainflight you have to get out of here before Tigerpetal or Wingfrost catches you." The tom nodded and raced back across the border, leaving Streampaw to watch him run. Wingfrost padded behind the silver she-cat and purred.
"Looks like you did good for chasing off an intruder Streampaw." The gray and white warrior licked her paw and turned around, "You pass your test. Now lets get home." I passed the test?! What test?