Nettlesplash padded outside the clans boarders, lifting her nose every once in awhile, taking in Oakstorm's scent.
She then saw him looking at the sliver of the moon. Oakstorm turned around looking at her.
"You came!" Oakstorm meowed happily.
Emotions flooded her as he walked toward her; emotions of joy, sadness, of guilt.
He touched her cheek with his muzzle.
"Was this a mistake? Should I have come?" she asked not realizing that she had said it out loud.
"There isn't a cloud in the sky is there? You think EverClan would send some kind of sign, like clouds over the moon if they disapproved?" he asked looking down at her his green eyes soft and full of love.
Nettlesplash looked back up at him and couldn't help but purr. His warmth next to her was amazing. She didn't want to miss anything, wishing this moment would last forever.
"It's cold tonight!" Oakstorm meowed "there is no better way to heat us up then moving."
Nettlesplash nodded and an idea came to her head as she looked around the area.
"Beat you can't catch me!" she meowed and sprinted off.
"We will see about that!" Oakstorm meowed and ran after her. She leaped over a log and looked to see Oakstorm close behind her. She was surrounded by trees there was no way out, we except up a tree! Nettlesplash leaped and began to climb a tree.
"Hey!" Oakstorm called from the bottom of the tree "What are you doing?" He purred "That's cheating" he meowed.
"Well you just going to have to come up and get me!" Nettlesplash called purring.
Suddenly the branch she was sitting on mysteriously split and sent her falling out of the tree. She landed on Oakstorm. Nettlesplash looked at Oakstorm they were both panting. She laid down on her back and looked at the stars, her pelt close to Oakstorm's.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Yep just fine wouldn't be the first time I climbed a tree and fell out of it" she meowed "I'll live."
"Well in that case." He meowed and touched his paw to hers "got you."
"You took your time!" she purred.
She could feel something she had never felt before. "I wonder what one is Shadowpelt…" Her voice drifted off.
Oakstorm shifted closer to her.
"I don't know but that star there." He meowed pointing at the brightest star in the night sky "that one is ours" he meowed "always follow it and it will lead you to me." He meowed.
Nettlesplash purred "okay great and wise Oakstar" she meowed purring.
"You have no idea how long I have waited for this, us" he meowed purring. Nettlesplash laid her head close to him. Half on his neck, she was drinking in his scent.
"I wish this night could last for a lifetime…" Nettlesplash purred. "Everyone is telling me I need to find a mate; they want me to pair off with Nightwing." She meowed "but, I don't want a mate, I want you…"
"I understand, I've spent moons thinking about you; ever sense that day when you caught that squirrel, and then when we fought that fox together." He meowed and Nettlesplash pushed closer to him, but there wasn't closer.
"I wish this could happen but it can't…." Nettlesplash commented her voice coming out hurt and flaked with pain.
"Why not?" Oakstorm asked his green eyes looking hurt.
"The warrior code forbids us!" Nettlesplash meowed upset. She tried to push closer to him breathing in his sweet scent. Trying to remember it forever, "if I where StreamClan this would be so much easier" Nettlesplash meowed.
"No StreamClan cat has ever made me feel this way." He meowed "We should stay the night" he added.
Nettlesplash sat up looking at him. "You're one of a kind no one has ever made me feel this way." she ignores his other comment.
"Well I have been told I am quite charming." He meowed puffing his chest out.
"Wow" Nettlesplash meowed. "You're quite cocky now." She purred.
"Oh I'm always cocky!" He purred "you're just never around to see it!"
Nettlesplash purred and yawned.
"Come here" he meowed and Nettlesplash laid down with him.
Nettlesplash looked at the ground seeing ghostly looking paw steps walking through the forest. I'm sorry Shadowpelt and Streamfur….
"Good night" Oakstorm meowed laying his head on her shoulders. His big jaw covered all of her shoulders.
"Good night" Nettlesplash purred. She blinked her eyes and drifted off into a fuzzy warm sleep.
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Nettlesplash was awoken by a gentle nudge.
"Time to wake up" Nettlesplash recognized Oakstorm's meow but it was softer now.
Nettlesplash blinked her eyes open and slowly got to her paws. She turned her head to look at Oakstorm.
"That was the best night of my life." Oakstorm admitted "Mostly because I got to spend it with the one cat I love."
"I wish we could do it all over again." Nettlesplash meowed her tail twining with his.
"We can…" he meowed "I'll meet you here again when the moon is just a sliver full." Oakstorm meowed.
"I'll be here" Nettlesplash meowed. She nuzzled him one last time, breathing in his scent.
"Nettlesplash…" Oakstorm meowed looking into her eyes. "In the battle…" he meowed but was cut off.
"Robinstar wants to wait a moon, or a half a moon before he attacks… we have apprentices that are very close to being warriors." Nettlesplash meowed.
"Well then we will figure out something to do in that time." He meowed.
Nettlesplash knew it was getting close to dawn and that meant she had to leave.
"We should leave." Oakstorm meowed. "The clans might wonder where we are if we don't leave now." He meowed.
Nettlesplash nodded she looked at Oakstorm one last time, before heading back along the border, stopping along the way at a stream where she jumped in and jumped back out to make sure Oakstorm's scent was gone.
Nettlesplash walked back into camp thankfully no one was on guard. She padded into the warriors den not making a sound. She settled back into her nest next to Nightwing and Rainfur.