Hi guys, Ciara here! How are you guys? Good I hope. This will be another short chapter like he last one! I hope you enjoy it all the same though :-)

BTW. The last Chapter, Chapter 3, was set two moons after Chapter 2

Cinderheart POV

The forest was alive with the sharp ring of bird calls and rustling of leaves, but Cinderheart stayed silent. Anquish was what she felt. Deep deep anquish.

Lionblaze had forgotten her. He had just chosen Icecloud then forgotten about her.

And nothing anyone said would cheer her up.

Poppyfrost, her sister, had tried- as had her father Brackenfur... But it hadn't worked.

She was so deep in thought that she didn't realize a mouse that scurried into her paws.

"Hey!" It was Toadstep. "Catch it!"

Cinderheart was so shocked by his sudden appearance that she froze and the mouse ran out her paws and into a mousehole by a nearby birch.

Toadstep chuckled and sat down by her. "That was interesting."

She scowled and whacked him in the face with her tail.

The black and white tom looked at her with his piercing amber eyes. "Why are you so annoyed?"

Cinderheart growled and turned away from him. "None of your business."

"Thats not a very nice thing to say to your Clanmate."

"Do you think I care?"

"You used to."

That made Cinderheart jolt upright and swirl round. "What did you say?"

Toadstep didn't flinch. "I said; you used to."

Hurt stabbed her body like a million claws. She tried to let out a snarl but the snarl didn't come. She wanted to yowl at him to go away but the words didn't leave her mouth.

Instead she whispered to herself. "The reason it hurts so much is because it's true."

Toadstep blinked. "The whole of ThunderClan knows what you really are like inside. You've been acting weird for the last few moons but we all know that wasn't really you."

"Thank you Toadstep."

"It's alright."

There was silence for a moment in which Cinderheart and Toadstep looked at each other right in the eye then Toadstep mewed.

"Do you wanna come and hunt with me. We might make up for that mouse I lost."

"You didn't lose it." Cinderheart mewed. "I did."

Toadstep shook his head then carried on "Anyways, I think we should hunt near the WindClan border but you can choose."

"Nah, the WindClan borders good. We might catch a stray rabbit."

The tom laughed. "Yeah! Maybe!"

Cinderheart smiled aNd joked. "I bet I get there before you do!"

"I bet you don't!"

"Is that a challenge?"

Toadstep grinned. "You're on."

"Ready.." Cinderheart smiled.

"Steady.."

"GO!" They both yowled together.

And as they raced through the trees to get to the WindClan border, Cinderheart felt something she hadn't felt for moons...

Happiness.