Hey Warriors! What's up? Here is the next chapter! I hope you all enjoy this chapter! Read and Review! I'd like to know your thoughts about what is happening and what you think should happen! It was hard to write this chapter because I was tearing up and it hurt to continue to write as it continued on. So let's move on! Here is Chapter Twenty of Scarclaws Story! ~ Scarclaw

It took Scarclaw a few minutes to find where Scarlegs had gone. She smelled the air and followed his scent to the dirt place. The trail lead out of the dirt place into the forest. Scarclaw slowly caught up to him. She stayed behind to watch him, the wind was blowing in their direction so her scent was blowing behind her. The tom grunted and dug his claws in the ground.

"Why am I so stupid?" He growled. Scarclaw watched him. He attacked a tree and scratched the bark. "This is all my fault!"

Scarlegs continued to walk and Scarclaw followed close behind him. The tom walked past the pile of rocks that Scarclaw had helped dig Brightmask out of. Scarclaw cringed when she saw it. It hadn't even been a whole day since the poor warrior had lost her life. She bowed her head quickly before she continued to follow Scarlegs. She followed his scent but didn't catch sight of him.

"Where did he go?" She questioned herself. She continued walking but soon lost his scent. Confused as to what happened she turned around to back track but only ended up being pounced on from the side. She hissed and spat to get free but only ended up being pinned.

"You should learn to be stealthier." Scarlegs grunted.

"I was being stealthy!" Scarclaw hissed at him.

"So why'd I know you were following me from camp?"

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Because I could hear you sliding out from the dirt place." The tom snorted and got off of the she-cat. "She were as loud as a badger."

"No I wasn't! You probably only heard me then. The rest of the time I was a quite as a mouse. You didn't even look back." Scarclaw snorted and sat up.

"If I didn't know you were there then how come I was easily able to lose you?"

"Uh…"

"And then attack you from the side?"

"Because… you… um…"

"Exactly." He snorted with a grin. "Because I knew you were there the whole time."

"Shut up! Why are you being such a jerk?!" She hissed.

"Because I'm still a better warrior then you are and I wasn't even born in the clan."

"You're only this good because I helped train you!"

"Yeah right!" Scarlegs hissed; "Why are you following me anyways? Shouldn't you be back at camp sleeping?"

"I could say the same about you! You're the one who left camp!"

"I asked why you're following me." The mottled brown tom stared at her.

"Because we haven't spoken since Emberfang was banished."

"So?"

Angry started to boil inside Scarclaw; "So? Is that really all you have to say! SO?" she hissed. The tom was taken aback by her sudden angry and soon got angry himself.

"Yeah that's all I got to say! You are the reason he got banished in the first place!" He spat.

Scarclaw felt hurt. She knew it was true but to hear it come from him was horrible. A mix of angry and pain welled up inside her.

"You don't think I already know that! He was protecting me and I was going to admit it but he wouldn't let me! You should know that! You were right there beside me!"

"You are the one who wanted to go see Brownie and got caught!"

"Well you put me on the spot! Plus she's your mother! You should want to go see her too!"

"Put you on the spot? What does that mean? Because I told you I love you?" The tom looked at her a bit confused.

"Well what do you think?" She spat.

"So instead of trying to talk about it, you run off to see Brownie?"

"What was there to talk about?"

"You could have told me how you feel?" The tom grunted.

"I don't know how I feel." The brown she-cat looked at the tom. He looked hurt and upset. She turned away and stared at the ground. They were both quite.

"I'm sorry, Scarlegs. I don't know how I feel and I need to focus on other things right."

"Don't be." Scarlegs grunted in anger; "I know what that means. You don't love me back. That's all you have to say." He got up and started walking away.

"That's not what it means!" Scarclaw got up to follow him; "Scarlegs! Please! Don't be mad at me!"

"What makes you think I'm mad?" He continued walking. Not looking back at her or slowing down.

"You know what! Fine! Be mad! I don't care anymore!" She ran in front of him so he would stop and look her in the eyes. She could feel the sadness start to flow and she began shouting; "I was honestly going to tell you how I felt! Bumblejaw told me he knew what love looked like and that he could see it happening between us! I believed him! I thought that I truly had feelings for you and I would have liked to be mates with you but now you know what!"

She stopped and took a breath before she continued. She could see Scarlegs was confused and surprised; "You are nothing but a flea-bag, dungface, fox-hearted kittypet! I hate you!" she turned and ran off not wanting to talk to him anymore.

"Scarclaw! Wait!" She heard him call after her. She didn't stop. She slide back into the dirt place and when she came out instead of going to the warriors den she laid next to Tangletalon.

"Scarclaw?" He whispered; "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing Tangletalon. I'll tell you tomorrow." She choked back a sob. The golden warrior nodded and moved closer to her. He warped his tail around her body to show her he was all ears if she wanted to talk. Scarlegs came out of the dirt place and saw this. He was angry and upset and didn't know what to do. He stalked past the cats who were in the middle of the camp and into the warriors den. Scarclaw keep quite. Good! Be mad you jerk! You deserve it! She thought to herself. If only he were more like his brothers!

I may be free to update most of all this week! Normally it is only on Fridays because of all the school work I have but my English course involves making a movie trailer so I can't start to film until the weekend, SOOOO I'm free to write for both my afternoon periods! So you all might be getting short little updates for chapters all this week! HURRAY! Thanks for reading my book and I will see you all tomorrow hopefully! Love always ~ Scarclaw