There will be lots of Jaypaw next chapter!


The next morning Lionpaw was woke up by his alarm clock buzzing annoyingly. 7:30 am! He groaned and got up, going to the shelf and turning it off. He looked out the window, and since he was on the second level of the house, the morning mist looked quite thick. Going over to the closet he picked out jeans, a camouflage T-shirt, and put on his usual Converse sneakers before going downstairs and joining his siblings for breakfast.

"It's supposed to be in the low 50's when you kids get out of school today, so take your jackets." Squirrelflight reminded them, serving them eggs.

"I wish it would either stay summer forever or we'd just have a blizzard already." Jaypaw muttered, Hollypaw and Lionpaw murmuring agreement. Within 20 minutes they had all ate breakfast, and Lionpaw was rushing upstairs to put gel in his hair, with Hollypaw fretting over which pair of sneakers went best with her skinny jeans and purple plaid shirt. Lionpaw was just coming downstairs with his backpack as the familiar honk of the school bus caught their ears.

"Love you, have a good day!" Squirrelflight waved goodbye as they groggily went out the door, deciding to put their jackets on, and hurried to the bus. 3 steps down the aisle and Cinderpaw had jumped in front of him.

"Why wait until this afternoon? We've been friends for a while now…wanna just say we're boyfriend and girlfriend?"

Lionpaw grinned. "Of course."

"Okay!" Cinderpaw kissed his cheek, which caused Brackenfur to yell "Hey hey, settle down!"

Cinderpaw giggled and waved goodbye to him as she went to go sit with Honeypaw and Poppypaw in the back.

"Mom and dad are gonna kill you!" Hollypaw breathed.

"Not if they don't know. Remember our deal."

"Our deal was that you could date Cinderpaw if I could date 'He who shall not be named.' " Hollypaw joked.

"Pllleeeaassseee don't tell them! You said it yourself, we're totally old enough!" Lionpaw pleaded, finally taking his seat.

"Fine. But you had better explain this situation with Cinderpaw. She's had boyfriends before and she likes them to be…around. A lot."

"No problem. We hang out all the time. I'll tell mom and dad I'm gonna go hang with one of my friends Cinderpaw and one of her sisters."

"Just be careful. F they find out they won't let us out of their sight ever again!" Hollypaw shuddered. Lionpaw snorted. A few minutes later the bus stopped and everyone got off. Lionpaw stood outside and talked with his friends for 10 minutes until the bell rang and Lionpaw went to his locker, picking up his trapper keeper and social studies book. He turned around to see Cinderpaw.

"Walk to class together?"

"Sure!" She grabbed his paw into hers and they smiled sheepishly at each other.

They were almost to class when , the music teacher, was coming at the,. They released each other's hands.

"You should know PDA is the most enforced rule here at Lakeshore middle school. You both have 4:00 detentions tomorrow night." He scribbled onto the detentions slip the reason and their names and handed it to them before walking off.

"Oh no! Detention! My parents are gonna kill me!" Cinderpaw fretted, almost in tears.

"My parents are gonna kill me more for the reason!" Lionpaw groaned.

"Truth is Cinderpaw…they said I couldn't date but I wanted to be with you so I ignored them! We better get t class!" Lionpaw waved bye and ran off down the hall, the bell ringing just before he got into the room.

"Mr. Conner. You're late. Do you have a pass?" asked.

"Well, er, no, but was giving me this slip for detention and it's what was keeping me." Well, it was partially true.

"Okay, you're excused, take your seat." He sat down and began another boring class.

Lionpaw had now survived the day all the way up to lunch without getting into trouble. After getting in line and getting chicken nuggets, he ran over to Hollypaw.

"You've got to help me tonight!" He whispered. "I was holding hands with Cinderpaw and caught us…." He trailed off. Hollypaw knew what that meant.

"No way! You're DEAD!" She snickered.

"PLEASE Hollypaw! I'll owe you big time!"

"You'd better be glad you're my brother…she walked over to Mousepaw and whispered something in his ear. He nodded and they grabbed hands, and a lunch lady saw them about 3 minutes later and gave them both detention slips. Hollypaw walked back over to Lionpaw.

"There. Problem solved."

"Thanks a blillion!" He hugged her and she scowled and shoved him off.

"Just what we need, to actually get a detention for us actually showing PDA!"

The rest of the school day went by slowly, and as the last bell of the day rang, Lionpaw dreaded going home. His parents were going to flip either way, but if they found out the truth they'd explode. He put everything in his book bag, put on his hoodie, and waited out front for Hollypaw. Just as she was approaching him he groaned. Ever since he had taken an interest in romance his whole life had been a disaster.

"Let's go." The bus pulled up and they got on, Lionpaw sitting with Toadpaw and Foxpaw, Hollypaw with Cinderpaw and her sisters in the back. After Lionpaw explained his situation to Toadpaw and Foxpaw they shook their heads.

"You're dead! There's no way that's gonna work!" Foxpaw snorted, Toadpaw nodding along.

"Why couldn't it!?"

"I dunno man, I but bet it wont." Toadpaw meowed.

"Just wait and see, it will!" Lionpaw vowed, getting up as the bus took the last turn and stopped at the curb. Lionpaw exited with Hollypaw.

"Stick to our story. We were messing around in the hall and the teacher says it's PDA." Lionpaw rehearsed.

"Got it."

As they walked inside they found Squirrelflight in the kitchen.

"Mom…uh…we kinda got detention." Lionpaw mumbled.

"WHAT!? Why!?" She exclaimed, turning to look at them.
"We were messing around in the hall and the teacher sad it was PDA."

Squirrelflight sighed. "Okay..just go on upstairs. We'll talk about this later."

They played it off and trudged upstairs until they got to the hall.

"YES! She totally bought it!" Hollypaw whisper-squealed.

"I know!" Lionpaw grinned and they separated into their rooms.

Downstairs, Squirrelflight washed her hands from preparing onions to go with hamburgers for dinner and walked over to the phone and dialed the school's number.

"Hey dad…Lionpaw and Hollypaw got detention Today for something really screwed up. Can you phone me to whoever is in charge of detentions for tomorrow?"

"Okay…" Firestar meowed and clicked her over to Spiderleg.

"Hey Spiderleg, I would like to know why my kids Lionpaw and Hollypaw Connor got detention for PDA? Their siblings, you know.."

"Mrs. Connor. Lionpaw was caught holding hands with Cinderpaw Lawson. Hollypaw was caught holding hands with Mousepaw Jefferson." Spiderleg advised.

"No, they were messing around in the hall…"she trailed off. "Sorry for your time. I think I know what's going on here." She hung up and yelled.

"KITS GET YOUR BUTTS DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!"

The two gingerly trudged downstairs.

"You both have some explaining to do and your in HUGE trouble."