As they both admired the sparkling stars, they seemed to be winking at them. BirchTail just wanted this perfect moment to last forever, but sleep had other plans. Soon her eyes began getting more groggy and she stifled a yawn. When she positioned her head more comfortably on CedarFur's muscular russet shoulder, then slowly closed her eyes. CedarFur noticed this and chuckled "I better get you off this branch before you fall off." "I-I'm fine really..." she murmured groggily.
"Come on!" CedarFur nudged her head softly. Then she got to her paws ungracefully. Cedar fur took the lead as they descended the large oak. Once they had made it to the bottom, BirchTail flopped on the ground in exhaustion. "Okay, so you definitely need to sleep and it's too dark to go back to camp..." CedarFur sounded as if he was talking to himself instead of BirchTail. "We could make a nest here..."BirchTail mumbled. "Okay, good idea here I'll set things up" he meowed before dashing inside the bush. He emerged a few moments later with a slight limp, He tried to hide this, but clearly BirchTail had noticed.
"Show me your paw." BirchTail meowed. "W-what paw?" CedarFur meowed nervously. BirchTail sighed and grabbed his injured paw swiftly from underneath him. While examining it. She found a long thorn stuck deeply in his pad with some grit surrounding it. "Come on let's go inside. It's pretty chilly out here." CedarFur nodded and they both shuffled their way in. CedarFur winced a few times in the process.
Once they were inside, BirchTail fought the urge to curl up into the mossy nest. Then she grabbed his paw gently and began licking the grit from his pad. She felt him growing intensely hot. BirchTail couldn't waste this opportunity. She suddenly looked up mischievously and licked his cheek seducingly. CedarFur's pelt was literally on fire. And his eyes grew to the size of an owl's. Then he smirked and pressed his nose to her's without warning. BirchTails pelt burned with the strentgh of a whole forest fire.
After a few heartbeats she took a step back and flopped on the ground. Her exhaustion now remembered. CedarFur then wrapped himself around her warmly and wrapped his tail around hers. He leaned in and his nose touched her ear, and whispered "I love you" before he rested his head on top of hers.
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BirchTail woke to the feeling of a warm tongue stroking her head. "Morning." CedarFur meowed lovingly. BirchTail purred and pressed her muzzle to his. "I wish we could stay here forever, but we have to go back to camp. He sighed. "Not looking like that you won't!" She joked before grooming his untidy fur. Once she was done he did the same for her.
As they made their way through the gorse tunnel, (their tails were twined) DawnBreeze ran full- pelt towards them. "WHERE WERE YOU?!" She exclaimed. When she noticed their tails. Her worried face soon turned into mischievous smirk. "Oh I see" she purred. Before booming to the now growing crowd surrounding them, "BirchTail and CedarFur are mates!" BirchTail smacked her playfully. When a speeding mass of fur burst out of the warrior's den
"Ooooooooh myyyyy StarClan!" CloverShine yowled lashing her tail "They're mates?" She hissed "He was MINE! Then BirchTail went and ruined everything for me!" her voice was drowned by all of the cheerful congratulations from their other clanmates. However BirchTail couldn't ignore the fury in her eyes.