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Lionblaze's P.O.V.:

I stared at the burning house. My mind was blank and numb. Hollyleaf had burnt hair, and my jacket was scorched. And Jayfeather was gone. I glanced over to my dad- no. My guardian? Whatever. I looked at Brambleclaw. He was watching as the firemen were dousing the flames. He was hugging Squirrelflight.

I grabbed Hollyleaf's hand. She pulled it away and, like Jayfeather, ran. I wanted to cry. Everybody I loved was leaving me.

My sadness turned to anger. Why? Why me? What did I do to deserve this? And who does Hollyleaf think she is? And Jayfeather too, for that matter. Would I leave them? No. But they left me.

They left me.

I woke in a cold sweat, fear penetrating from me. It was only a dream. I told myself, relaxing. The house was fine. It was a Thursday morning and I was going to school.

I took in my surroundings and felt my heart shatter. It wasn't a dream. I was at my Grandpa's house. I wasn't okay. Nothing was okay. Hollyleaf was gone. Jayfeather was gone. Apparently, Hollyleaf had gone on WOC yesterday. Whatever. I'm still mad at her. She left me with our 'parents'.

I closed my eyes and sighed. Someone knocked on the door. "Lionblaze…?" A voice muttered from outside.

I sat up. "Hollyleaf? Is that you?"

"Y-yeah." She murmured, coming in to sit on the bed. Her face was wet from tears. She looked terrible. "I'm sorry."

I wanted to turn away and ignore her. But right now that was a stupid thing to do. I looked her in the eyes. "Hollyleaf, why'd you run away? Do you know how much that hurt?"

She looked down, grief clouding her gaze. "I'm sorry…" She repeated. I came closer and hugged her, not letting go.

"Did you find Jay?" I whispered.

"No. I looked at Leafpool's. I looked at Briarlight's. I even checked with Ivypool and Dovewing, since Jayfeather knew Brightheart. He's…" She stopped, curling up on the bed, sobbing. I sighed and pulled out my phone.

I dialed Jayfeather. The phone buzzed. I waited.

I heard a voice. "Jayfeather?" I yowled at the screen.

"Lionblaze," Jayfeather muttered.

"Jayfeather, where the hell did you go?!" I screamed. "You freaked us all out!" I was pacing the floor, waiting for an answer.

"Jeez, am I not allowed to get a little space?" He growled. "I needed to get far away from… that."

"Well, where are you?" I was ready to jump into Brambleclaw's light brown truck and drive to Jayfeather. Hollyleaf was still sobbing. Why I don't know. Jayfeather was found. Other than the house and Ashfur… Oh. Right. Ashfur.

He died. Hollyleaf watched it happen.

"I'm at Flametail's. I'm not going home. Wherever home is." He told me, sounding as if he was about to hang up.

"Wait! Please. Come back. We need you! We all need you. We need to find our parents." I whispered into the phone, not wanting Brambleclaw to hear.

"We could be fricking orphans, for StarClans' sake! And whoever our parents were obviously didn't want us. So why would we want them?" He replied. "Bye, Lionblaze."

"Wait, no!" I exclaimed. But it was too late. Jayfeather had hung up. I growled and slipped the phone back in my pocket. "Then I'll find out."

Today was the day. The day of pain and torture. The day of ugh. The day I had to look at my cousin, Tigerheart, in the eyes. Tigerheart was the worst. He thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. No, scratch that, before bread. Even before water!

But one good thing about today? Jayfeather was coming home. Flametail is our cousin, and since he's coming, so is Jayfeather. I stepped down the stairs, hearing a knock. Firestar opened it, letting the family in. I searched them for Jayfeather, and when I saw him, I practically covered him in hugs.

Tawnypelt rushed over to her brother and apologized for her son. "Great StarClan Brambleclaw. I'm so sorry, you must have been terrified. Flametail didn't tell me Jayfeather was staying with us, and knows that he will have some sort of consequence." She looked back at her son, obviously feeling awkward. She smiled at her brother.

Brambleclaw chuckled and shook his head. "No, there's no need for that," He smiled warmly at Jayfeather, who's blind eyes were staring blankly at me."Jayfeather's home. Flametail was just trying to help his cousin, nothing else." He hugged his sister back and led her to the kitchen where a very tired Squirrelflight was frying some fish.

I watched Hollyleaf, who looked almost as tired as Squirrelflight, walk down the stairs. She grabbed Jayfeather tightly and ruffled his hair. "Please. Never ever do that again. Please." She repeated.

I shook my head. "How about we all promise not to do that ever again?" I say with a glance at Hollyleaf. She looked away and sighed.

"Yeah, that… that was terrible… we shouldn't have done that." She smiled weakly, and it was obviously forced. "Sorry, Lionblaze. Really."

Jayfeather nodded. "Yeah, sorry 'bout that. I just had to get out of there." He watched as Flametail came over.

Flametail was a tallish redhead with glasses. He was only a couple years younger than Hollyleaf, Jayfeather and I. He had freckles like his uncle, and he was very sheepish. He sighed and gazed sadly at me.

"I-I'm really sorry, guys… I should have called you, I-I would have, but Jayfeather told me not to-" He stopped mid-sentence, and adjusted his glasses.

I hugged him and laughed. "It's alright. You just wanted to look out for Jay. I get it." I smiled and sniffed the air as Tawnypelt exclaimed, "Dinner's ready!"

I smiled reassuringly at Flametail and raced to the table, hungrily staring at the fish, and momentarily forgetting the drama with the fire. Sandstorm, my grandma, sat down and smiled at me.

I picked up my fork, and for the last time had a normal meal with my "family".

I really hope Ashfur was lying.

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