Chapter 4: I Dreamed A Dream
Dawnpride lay down, refusing to believe what had just happened. Stupid Mistdawn.. She couldn't blame it on her though, it was all Reedheart, her mate's fault.
"I dreamed a dream in time gone by.. When hope was high, and life worth living.." Dawnpride softly mewed.
"I dreamed that love would never die! I dreamed that Starclan would be forgiving.." Her green eyes looked up at the twinkling stars that were coming out now.
"Then I was young, and unafraid.. And dreams were made, used, and wasted. There wasn't a kit I had to feed! No song unsung, no fresh-kill uneaten.." The tabby wished she could back to that life, before her little kit, when she was only friends with Reedheart.
"But the foxes come at night... With their voices soft as thunder!" She hid her yellow paws as she remembered the warriors rejecting her.
"As they tear your hope apart.. As they turn your dream to shame!"
"He slept a green-leaf by my side.. He filled my days with endless wonder!" She said, remembering the way she felt whenever their pelts brushed.
"He took my innocence in his stride! But he was gone when leaf-fall came!" Dawnpride said, remembering the day he left.
"And still I dream he'd come to me, and we would live the moons together! But there are dreams that cannot be! And there are storms we cannot weather!" She pushed the terrible memory away.
"I had a dream my life would be... So different from this hell I'm living! So different now, from what it seemed.." She yowled, flicking her tail for no reason.
"Now... Life has killed the dream... I dreamed.." She softly meowed, once again.
She wrapped her tail around her paws and then closed her green eyes. I hope tomorrow's better.. She thought before drifting off to sleep.