"What?!" The warm feeling her chest that had began to thaw the ice that had so long surrounded her heart immediately vanished. There was no way she was making friends with a gang members sister!
"Wait!" Hollyleaf reached out a hand.
Ivypool brushed her off, rage gleaming in her eyes. And to think they could have been friends!
"You don't understand! My brothers not really one if them! All that stuff you heard about him? It was just rumors!"
"Hollyleaf! They killed my mother!"
Hollyleaf shoved her face into Ivypools. "Think what you want about me, but my brother had nothing to do with your mothers death! They killed our parents too! Look, come to my house and I'll explain."
"You'll probably slit my throat! I'm not going anywhere with you!"
Hollyleaf stared at her pleadingly. "Please Ivypool. It's a dark time and I need all the ally's I can get!"
Ivypool glared at her. "Fine, but I'm going to search you before we talk."
Hollyleaf shook her head and smiled.
That night Ivypool was seated in a threadbare chair, the only piece of furniture in Hollyleaf's small home. She could see two dirty mattresses on the floor, but that was it.
Not like my house is any better.
"So what do you want to know?"
"Everything."
"Well for starters my brother is not evil. And I kinda lied. Our father is an addict, he been since when we were young, and we are half siblings with Breezepelt."
"What?!"
Hollyleaf sat down on the floor and sighed.
"So anyway Breezepelt hates us. Crowfeather, our father, treated him like shit. He would beat him, he struck him, and his mother suffered domestic abuse. Well of course our mother wasn't going to stay with a man like that. She left and he was furious. Brokenstar had come here to make a deal with someone, White something, and he ran into Crowfeather. You can guess what happened. Anyway, one night, in a drunken rage, Crowfeather shot Breezepelt's mother Nightcloud. He yelled at his son and tried to shoot him to. Apparently Brokenstar saved his life. Hawkfrost and him became allies, and then maybe more than that. That's my story."
"No." Ivypool was chocked at this. Birchfall disgusted her because he ruined his life. But he was so sad and pathetic, never scary, and he'd never kill anyone!
"What about your brother? The other one, Jayfeather?"
"Dead."
"I'm so sorry."
"Don't be, it wasn't you fault."
After all they had been through, why was Lionblaze a friend of Hawkfrost's? But of course she couldn't ask that.
But Hollyleaf seemed to read her mind.
"Leafpool, our mother, should be dead. She had an affair with that monster after he shot Breezepelt's mother."
Ivypool decided never to feel sorry for herself again.
"And why is Lionblaze...?"
"He's like a ...spy. No one will ever have to see what drugs do again. When we find out where they are, and what they are doing, and how they are smuggling them in, we will tell Firestar. They'll get arrested. No blood, no bodies, simple."
Hollyleaf's glared at her, daring her to disagree. But Ivypool knew these gangs wouldn't give up that easily. There would be blood.
But having the police on their side wouldn't help. Though they weren't much help on December 19, the night her mother was shot.
But Hollyleaf's was right. The gangs needed to be stopped. And as she gazed at the defiance in the others girls eyes, she felt like she had found an ally. Or maybe even a friend.
But the future would come, full of blood and pain, and she wanted someone to stand there with her. Latter she would see how right she was.
So I think I'm gonna try to update once a day, cuz I have a trip coming up, and there is no wifi on the ocean. So yeah. This too was written on my iPad at the mercy of Auto cucumber. Thanks to everyone for the support!
See you all in I think 15 minutes