I finally managed to create another one-shot to put here! I've realized I've slacked off when it comes to this… so… here you go. I'll try to be better. X3
SwiftStar1: Indeed, I was Graypool. In a Clan full of annoying, stupid, role players. And I even knew Moonkit the blue tom. D: Why does everything hate me so much…?
Yes(Guest): Yes, because I am planning out a whole story for Whisperpaw, her one-shots here will be limited. :D Pewdiepie fans make me smile…
ShadowRide1313: It was not Hecobiza. It was Batmangum. And you are right, someone like you would not have put up with that nonsense. :P
Erin Hunteress: Heh heh… our cowrite. We should probably talk about that. .-. And yes, thank god it was Roblox. X3 I don't go there much anymore, so don't expect any random stories from there.
"Oh, come on, Lilypaw! Won't you just relax a little?!"
"Who said I wasn't relaxed?!" She shot back shrilly."I'm perfectly relaxed!"
He placed his tail over her shoulders, and she jerked away, tail puffed out to four times its normal size.
"Come on Lilypaw!" The gray tom whined. "I brought you out here to have a good time! Stop being such a stick in the mud!"
"I'll be a stick in the mud if I want to!"
"Sticks in the mud are no fun!"
"I don't want to be fun!"
"Well you obviously haven't met me!" Lilypaw had had enough. She stormed away from the other apprentice, so angry she could hardly see straight.
He followed her as she carved a straight path through the forest, trampling undergrowth and making birds scatter.
She whipped around. "Don't follow me, Cragpaw! Just leave me alone!"
"Lilypaw…"
"I mean it!" Her tail lashed from side to side as she glared at him. "Just leave me alone!"
"I can't do that." He mewed, sounding hurt. "I like following you around, even when you are angry."
She looked at him. "Go away before I give you a few marks you won't forget anytime soon."
"Than I'll remember you every time I feel them." He offered his shoulder willingly. "Go ahead."
Lilypaw rolled her eyes. "You know I can't hurt you when you do something like this!"
Cragpaw smiled. "You're pretty when you're mad."
She rolled her eyes again. "Would you stop that? I'm trying to be angry with you!"
"Stop what?"
"All your… compliments and everything."
"Oh." He blinked. "Did I say that out loud?"
"Yes."
"Oh. I-" He stopped. "I was going to say I was sorry but I'm not."
"Of course you're not."
"Really, I'm not."
"I know." Lilypaw started walking away.
"Where are you going?"
"Back to camp."
"Why?"
"Why not? You obviously didn't take me out here to hunt."
"No…"
"So I'm going back to camp to do something productive."
Cragpaw frowned. "I brought you out here to have fun! Won't you come have fun with me?"
Lilypaw sighed. "How could you possibly think the world is such a happy, fun-filled place?"
"Because it can be."
"Alright." Lilypaw stopped walking and turned around. "What sort of fun would you have in mind?"
Cragpaw's eyes glittered with joy. "This!" He crowed, leaping on top of Lilypaw and knocking her to the ground. "Tag!"
He turned and sprinted off into the forest.
Lilypaw got up slowly, a small smiled forming on her face. She ran into the forest after him.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Lilypaw and Cragpaw trotted into camp, pelts brushing ad eyes glowing. Two mice swung from Cragpaw's jaws, but he and Lilypaw skipped by the fresh-kill pile to lay near the apprentice den. The fading sun hit them, casting their pelts in muted colors.
"My mentor will be mad I didn't hunt for the elders today." Lilypaw admitted.
"Nonsense." Cragpaw mewed. "Your mentor is always telling you to relax."
She shrugged and took a quick bite of mouse. She began to pull trampled bits of leaf and undergrowth out of her long belly fur.
"Great." She groaned. "It'll take me forever to get all this stuff out of my pelt." But her complaining was half-hearted. She really couldn't care less.
Cragpaw reached over and snagged some of the bits of grass in his teeth.
"Somebody's feeling brave." Lilypaw commented.
"What do you mean?" He asked, one ear flicking to the side self-consciously. "I always act like this."
She mulled this over for a minute, brief flashes of memory catching her attention.
Cragpaw, pulling his nest over to hers when he thought she wasn't looking. The hurt look when she kicked it away.
Cragpaw, letting his pelt brush hers as she jerked away. How he apologized as if it had been an accident.
Cragpaw laying his tail across her shoulders as she shook it off, worked into a fury by his false motives.
"This is just the first time you haven't pushed me away…"
A pause.
"You have a crush on me." Lilypaw said dully.
Cragpaw blinked back, obviously at a loss for words. "That's what Swanpaw has been telling me." He admitted finally.
"I never noticed it until now." She seemed dazzled by the whole situation.
"Nope." He sighed. "No matter how much I tried to get you to notice me."
His sadness snapped her out of her daze.
"Sorry." She murmured.
Cragpaw laid his tail over her shoulders, and this time, she didn't pull away.
"I'm not." He said slowly. "If it had been easy, it wouldn't have been real."
"If what had been easy?"
"Letting you know I like you." He touched his nose to her cheek.
"Why wouldn't it have seemed real?"
"Because you always seemed so…" He paused. "How can I put this… Up in StarClan. You were always so immersed in your studies that you hardly ever noticed anyone besides yourself."
Lilypaw drew away slightly. "So you like me cause I'm hard to get."
Cragpaw gasped. "No! No, not at all!" I liked how you were always so fiercely determined, but also so sweet and kind to everyone. It's much easier to be mean than to be kind. And, I always thought you were really pretty."
Lilypaw flushed. She really couldn't help it. No tom had ever said such nice things to her. She didn't know how to react, so she just froze and stared at the gray tom.
"What did I say?" Cragpaw asked, panicking. "Did I say something wrong?!"
Lilypaw shook her head slowly. "No, you didn't do anything wrong at all. I'm just not used to being complimented."
"Well, you will be soon enough." Cragpaw smiled at her as Lilypaw smiled back.
