I've had this on my computer and on 3/8/08 I finished everything I had to do and then thought, "Why don't I update? I haven't in two months!" I thought I had already posted this, so I started Chapter 6, then came back and found this…

Anyway, why should you care? You just want the update. Well here you go!

Nightpaw yawned. He had taken Harefoot's advice to heart and had decided to go talk to his parents the next day. He padded towards the Warriors Den looking for his mother.

"Oh she's in the Medicine Cat's Den," Birchclaw meowed.

Nightpaw padded off to the Medicine Cat's Den wondering why his mother would be in there.

"Maybe she's sick?" he thought.

"Goldenbark?" he asked.

"Shhhhhh!" he replied loudly, "There are sleeping patients you know."

Goldenbark led Nightpaw out of the Medicine Cat Den with his tail.

"Have you heard the good news?" Goldenbark asked excitedly.

"No," Nightpaw answered.

"Your mother's pregnant again!" Goldenbark announced.

This was the last thing that Nightpaw expected to hear.

"My mother is… with… R-really?" he stuttered.

"Yes," Goldenbark answered, "And by the looks of it, one healthy kitten."

"One?"

"Yes one," Goldenbark meowed, "Oh and I bet your father doesn't even know! Why don't you go do your mother a favor and tell him!"

"Okay," Nightpaw answered knowing there was no getting out of it.

"See you later!" Goldenbark meowed padded away.

"My mother is pregnant," Nightpaw thought, "My father doesn't know. I didn't know. My siblings don't know. And I have to tell everyone?" He sighed, "Okay. Goldenbark told me to go tell Springstorm so that's what I'll do first."

He waited until noon for Springstorm's patrol to come back.

"Springstorm?" he asked.

"Yes?"

"Can I talk to you?"

"Yes."

Nightpaw led him to the stump on the other side of the clearing.

"So? What is it?" Springstorm asked his eyes impatient.

"Goldenbark told me that Meadowleaf is pregnant again," Nightpaw meowed slowly.

"Meadowleaf is… this is better than eating a wood thrush on a Green-leaf day!" Spirngstorm raced away and Nightpaw could swear he heard him say, "Maybe the kitten will be white this time!"

"This is exactly what I was afraid of," Nightpaw thought.

"Hi Nightpaw!" Mintpaw meowed, "You look down."

"Meadowleaf's pregnant again," he meowed with a sigh.

"Really?" Mintpaw's eyes became interested, "White or black?"

"Springstorm wants white, and everyone else probably does too."

"If she's black, then she can be with us!" Mintpaw meowed excitedly.

"How do you know it's a she-cat?" Nightpaw asked.

"I just know."

"Listen," Nightpaw explained, "I tried to go and talk to Meadowleaf but Goldenbark wouldn't let me in. He told me to go tell Springstorm about Meadowleaf…" he trailed off.

Springstorm was leaping around the camp meowing, "A white kitten! I'm going to have a white kitten!"

White cats stared at his behavior. "Springstorm please calm down." Goldenbark meowed.

"I'm going to have a white kitten!"

"On second thought," Mintpaw meowed, "If she is white, we lose two overly excited parents. If she's black, we lose two disappointed parents."

"See where this is going?"

"Yeah," Mintpaw meowed darkly, "We're going to be forgotten."

"This BlackClan meeting has begun!"

"Are you sure we should call ourselves BlackClan?" Lilacpaw asked with an afraid tone in her voice.

"Sure," Nightpaw answered, "Who cares?"

"Anyway…" Mintpaw began.

"Meadowleaf's pregnant…" Nightpaw started.

"And we're going to be forgotten." Mintpaw finished.

"Wait, Meadowleaf's pregnant?" Spiderpaw asked, "And we're going to be forgotten?"

"Yeah," Mintpaw recalled the afternoon's events, "… and that's what Nightpaw told me."

"Snowleaf's the only one I'm close to anyway," Yewpaw meowed darkly, "I don't need parents."

"Listen to yourselves," Lilacpaw meowed accusingly, "Don't need parents? We're forgotten? These two cats have loved us our whole lives and they are our mother and father. We can't just assume they'll throw us away like that!"

The other eight apprentices looked as her with a 'really?' look on their faces.

"Really!" Lilacpaw meowed, "I bet they'll love us just like before!"

"And boy was she wrong," Nightpaw thought a few sunrises later. Their parents had ignored them, forgotten them and practically didn't see them at all. Everything was about the new 'kitten'.

"I'm kind of hoping she'll be black," Mintpaw meowed watching their parents near the nursery sadly.

"Me too," Nightpaw agreed.

It's not my best chapter… I don't really have time to go and redo it… Chapter 6 will be much better than this one is. –shudder-

Luv,

Grassy