Thanks for all the reviews everyone! I've been having a weird sleeping schedule lately, and this here chapter I started at 3:00 in the morning! So if something doesn't make sense, that's probably why. xD Now to some review responses…
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Oh, and for those of you asking about LionxCinder, the kids going back to school, if anyone will find out about Ashfur, and if Breezepaw will be included anywhere- Yes, I have decided to put in LionxCinder! And yes they are going back to school, and YES Breezepaw will be included! :D But as for if Anyone will find out about Squirrelflight killing Ashfur… I'm not quite sure yet. I would have to think up a way as to how they would find out, and then she'd get taken to the police for interrogation, and that means the secret about the kits being Leafpools will come out, so if anyone does find out she killed Ashfur, it will be a very big thing, and probably an entire chapter! So thanks for all the reviews, keep 'em coming!
It had been 3 days since the birth of Bumblekit and Featherkit, and much to the kits dismay, school ahd begun early.
"This totally blows!" Lionpaw grumbled in his seat next to Hollypaw on the school bus.
"I know." Hollypaw said with a sigh.
The bus stopped and they both hurried into the house, the mid-September air making the temperature 53 degrees.
"I don't know which is worse. That school has started again, or Life Skills today." They both shuddered, remembering 'The talk' today in Life skills. They were only doing it because some 8th grade kid had gotten pregnant with a highschooler. Hollypaw really thought it was dumb. Who would want to do…that with boy! Ugh!
"Well hello to you too." Squirrelflight purred, holding Featherikit in the chair.
"Where's the Bumblester?" Lionpaw asked. Hollypaw rolled her eyes. He had SO many nicknames for those new kits!
"Taking a nap in the nursery. "
"Then where's Jaypaw?" Hollypaw asked.
"Leafpool took him to LMA for Herb & Poultice Studies."
"When will he be back?" Lionpaw asked.
"Not until later."
"Why's he staying so late?"
"Will he have homework?"
"STOP asking so much! I'm honestly getting tired of how all 3 of you act like you can't do anything without each other!" Squirrelflight exclaimed.
"We're siblings of course we're gonna wonder about each other." Hollypaw muttered.
"Try to not spend quite as much time together. You do know that in 6 years you're gonna be separated."
"Yeah, when I'm a racecar driver slash secret spy agent, Hollypaw's a fashion designer and Jaypaw is the best medic on the planet." Lionpaw meowed.
Squirrelflight rolled her eyes. "Well, anyway, hurry and do your homework your dad will be home in a half an hour, and we're going to LMA's Benefit."
"Benefit? What do you mean?" Hollypaw frowned.
"Well there's gonna be games, raffles, things to buy, food, you know, fundraiser type things. And all the proceeds go towards things for the school." Squirrelflight explained. "You can invite some of your friends but tell them to bring some money because we can't pay for everyone. And only after your homework."
They nodded, seeming slightly happier, and went upstairs to do their homework.
20 minutes later, both kits ran downstairs, fighting over who got to use the phone first.
"Hey! Stop it! Hollypaw was here first so she can use it! Just tell her who you want to come!" Squirrelflight yowled from the living room.
"Fine!" Hollypaw yowled back.
"Poppypaw, Honeypaw, Cinderpaw, Toadpaw, and Foxpaw." Lionpaw meowed.
"Exactly what I was thinking." Hollypaw meowed, and dialed the numbers. She walked back into the living room.
"Okay, Poppypaw, Honeypaw, and Cinderpaw, are being driven by their parents, but Can Toadpaw and Foxpaw get a ride with us?"
"I suppose."
"Good because I already told them they could."
Squirrelflight rolled her eyes. "Did you tell them to wear something nice?"
"Yes."
"Alright, well, your father is home go get dressed."
Brambleclaw came in the door just as they were running upstairs. They came back 10 minutes later, Lionpaw dressed in a blue polo with a long john undershirt, jeans, and dress shoes. Hollypaw was wearing a purple blouse, a pink skirt, and beige sandals. Squirrelflight was wearing a yellow dres, and Brambleclaw was dressed much like Lionpaw.
"Oh, Brambleclaw, a couple of the kids friends are riding with us to the benefit."
He nodded, and sat waiting.
"Should I spike my hair more?" Lionpaw wondered, already jogging upstairs to do so. The doorbell rang and Brambleclaw let Toadpaw and Foxpaw in, both dressed like Brambleclaw and Lionpaw.
"STOP PRIMPING AND C'MON!" Hollypaw yowled up.
Lionpaw ran back down and stuck his tongue out at her.
"Kids grab your jackets, its 43 degrees out, I'm gonna go warm up the car." Brambleclaw called to them.
They got them off the coat rack in the living room and reluctantly put them on. They heard a honk from outside and everyone got into the van. The ride to the school was embarrassing, Brambleclaw as singing 'Help'by the Beatles, and he was failing miserably at it, although he thought he was great.
When the car finally stopped the 4 kits greatfully got out of the car and away from Brambleclaw's singing,
"You guys can wait for the others at the entrance, and then go inside and play around, but meet us in the cafeteria for dinner in an hour." Squirrelflight meowed and walked inside with Brambleclaw. Only 5 minutes had passed before the trio of girls got out of the van, all three wearing matching blue and purple dresses.
"There's a corner in the gym where we can all just hang out, wanna do that for a bit?" Hollypaw suggested.
They all agred and went inside and to the corner.
"There's this game we sometimes play in Science. We send a couple of people outside, and we change something and then they come back and have to try to figure out what it was." Toadpaw meowed.
"Okay, who wants to go first?" Hollypaw asked, both Cinderpaw and Lionpaw raising their paws.
"Okay, go outside and we'll come get you when we're ready." Toadpaw meowed, shooing them away. There was a door behind them, which led to the back of the school. They sat on a bench together.
"You look prettier than usual tonight." Lionpaw said sheepishly.
"Lionpaw Connor, are you hitting on me?" Cinderpaw smirked.
"No! If I said you look pretty tonight it would indicate you look ugly the other times, and you don't." Lionpaw defended himself.
She giggled. "Well, thanks. You look handsome too." Lionpaw smiled and they sat in silence for a moment before it was all a blur. They leaned in and shared a passionate kiss on the lips-the first kiss with anyone for either of them. Just as soon as they pulled apart, the door whipped open, it was Foxpaw.
"We're ready!"
"Okay, give us a second!" Lionpaw mewed.
"Why did you do that? D….do you like me?" Cinderpaw asked, wide eyed.
"Yes, well no, well…" Cinderpaw kissed him again.
"Okay, yes! But my parents would never let me date." He mumbled, starting to blush.
"Mine neither..but for the record, Iike you too, I have for a while." She blushed too.
"Well…maybe we should talk to our parents, I mean, we're almost teenagers, and teenagers date." Lionpaw declared.
"Yeah, your right! Maybe we could go hang out, alone sometime, get to know each other better." Cinderpaw nodded.
"Well lets go back inside now, before they get suspicious. Our story can be we were looking at a weird bug. And let's try to act the same, I have to talk to Hollypaw about this, ya know, her brother dating her best friend."
Cinderpaw nodded.
"Jeez, what took you two so long!?" Poppypaw asked.
"We were looking at this HUGE bug!" Cinderpaw exclaimed.
"Yeah it was like, mutant or something!" Lionpaw shuddered.
"Well, okay, Dora and Diego. Can you tell what we changed?" Hollypaw asked.
"Uhhhhh…" Lionpaw looked around.
"Nothing?"
"Yeah, we couldn't find anything to change." Hollypaw laughed.
"Let's go check out some of the carnival type booths."The went over and threw darts at balloons, and Lionpaw made a mistake by winning a stuffed mouse and giving it to Cinderpaw.
"I was just being generous, and she was closest!"He defended himself.
"She was in the very back! If you like her just admit it!" Hollypaw laughed.
"I don't."Lionpaw meowed, It's just nice to give someone a present after you kiss them! He thought.
"Well, we've played for 45 minutes, it'll have been an hour in 5. Let's go over to the cafeteria now."" Hollypaw meowed, and they all met their parents by the cafeteria doors.
"We met Jaypaw over by the Medical Classes."Brambleclaw said.
"He's teaching them."Squirrelfight said proudly.
"Cool."Lionpaw mewed.
"Let's hurry and get in a line before it's too long."
Brambleclaw, Squirrelflight, and Lionpaw went to the line for pork chop sandwhiches, and Hollypaw went to Hamburgers with Toadpaw,Poppypaw, and Honeypaw, and Cinderpaw and Foxpaw went to Hot dogs. They all met up at a table and ate together.
"After this we can go over to the area where there are things to buy, and then you guys can go to a medic class if you want."Brambleclaw meowed. They hurriedly finished up, and Lionpaw and hollypaw went with Poppypaw, Honeypaw, and their parents to the buying area. Foxpaw, Toadpaw, and Cinderpaw went off to the carnival grounds.
"OMG mom! They have hamsters! PLEEASEE!"Hollypaw and Lionpaw pleaded. Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw looked at each other.
"Okay."
"YES!"They yowled, and ran over to pick some out. Lionpaw picked a black and white one and named him Oreo, and Hollypaw picked out a white and golden one and named her Buttercup. Altogether they payed $80 for them, with food, bedding, toys, and furnishings for the cage.
"Okay, let's take them to the car for now."Brambleclaw meowed, taking one of the cages, Squirrelflight taking the other.
"You're sooo lucky. My parents would never let me!"Poppypaw sighed. "Well, I still got this snowglobe thing."She shook it and snow fell onto a pretty town type of scenery.
"Let's go try to get in on the medical class."Hollypaw meowed, and they walked towards the area. Unfortunantley it was just closing, and it was the last one. Jaypaw was the last to come out of the room, and much to their surprise, he was wearing a tuxedo.
"Jeez, dressed up much?"Lionpaw laughed. Jaypaw rolled his eyes.
"They wanted me to dress up."
"Guess what, Mom and dad let us get hamsters!"Hollypaw squealed.
"I want one!"Jaypaw whined.
"Then hurry before the place closes!"Lionpaw meowed. Jaypaw ran down the hall, and outside, dragging Brambleclaw behind him when he came back.
"I got one!"Jaypaw said happily as he came back.
"What did you name it?"Lionpaw asked.
"It's a he, a brown he. And I named him Cocoa Puff. Cocoa for short."
Brambleclaw laughed as he joined them. "Are you three away you named them all after food?"
They all three laughed, realizing they did.
Poppypaw spoke up. Ï'm gonna go find my sisters, it's getting later."She ran off.
"Yeah, it is late. Where are Toadpaw and foxpaw?"
"They parents are coming for them."
"Ökay, then lets head home." They all walked out to the van and got in, all gripping the hamster's cages for dear life.
"Änd if you guys let them mingle, keep a close eye on them please. Since you have a female and males…ya know…" Brambleclaw hinted around.
"Ökay, we got it!" They exclaimed. Tey stopped at walmart to get more food for them, and by that time it was 8:00. They finally got home and the kits hurried inside to set up the new hamsters in their rooms. After that they came downstairs, after changing into regular clothes.
"Hollypaw, I need to talk to you…"Lionpaw drug his sister into the nearby closet and shut the door.
"uh…"
"Cinderpaw and I like eachother…and after I persuade mom and dad to let us start dating, could I date her?"
"Only if I can date Foxpaw."
"Deal."They shook hands and walked out to find their parents at the kitchen table.
"We need to tlak to you…"Lionpaw mewed.
"We're almost teenagers, and stuff so can we date?"Lionpaw asked bluntly.
"Absolutely not! You're 12 years old! Your children, and need to live childrens lives, not dates!"Squirrelflight exclaimed.
" I agree with your mother! Absolutely not. Not until your 14 atleast."
They trudged upstairs angrily, but Lionpaw had another plan. He tiptoed downstairs and called Cinderpaw's cell.
"Hey, my parents say I can date you! Wanna meet up at like the park tomorrow at around 4:00? Okay, sounds great."He hung up the phone and went upstairs.
"What did you just do?" Hollypaw asked in his room.
"Let's just say I think Im ready regardless of mom and dad."
"You know what, your right. I'm gonna tlak to Toadpaw tomorrow."Hollypaw declared and stomped off to her room. Lionpaw shut the door and laid back on his bed. Tomorrow he'd have a girlfriend. He grinned and began to play on his Nintendo DS.
