Chapter 16: In My Life/A Heart Full Of Love
While the two cats were on their way, Larkwing was laying down in a tree that had cracked and made a den sorta thing. She couldn't get the pale ginger tom that she had seen the other day out of her mind.
"How strange, this feeling that my life's begun at last.. This change.. Can people really fall in love so fast?" She asked, her voice down to a whisper.
"What's the matter with you, Larkwing? Have you been too much on your own? So many things unclear.. So many things.. Unknown.." The light brown she-cat meowed.
"In my life, there are so many questions and answers that somehow seem wrong.. In my life, there are times when I catch in the silence the sigh of a faraway song.." Larkwing continued.
"And it sings, of a world that I long to see, out of reach.. Just a whisper away, waiting for me!" She finished, smiling.
"Does he know I'm alive? Do I know if he's real? Does he see what I saw? Does he feel what I feel?" She questioned, wondering if he did.
"In my life, I'm no longer alone now the love in my life is so near... Find me now, find me here!" She sighed.
"Dear Larkwing, you're such a lonely cat... How pensive, how sad you seem to me! Believe me, were it within my power, I'd fill each passing hour! How quiet it must be, I can see, with only me for company." Her father surprised her, coming back from hunting.
"There's so little I know that I'm longing to know of the child that I was in a time long ago..." The words flowed out of her mouth.
"Starclan.." Her father whispered during the short silence.
"There's so little you say of the life you have known.. Why you keep to yourself.. Why we're always alone! So dark! So dark and deep... The secrets that you keep!" She finished.
"In my life, I have all that I want, you are loving and gentle and good.. But papa, dear papa, in your eyes I am just like a child who is lost in a wood.." She confessed, she really wanted to know why.
"No more words, no more words. It's a time that is dead! There are words.. That are better unheard, better unsaid." The black tom refused.
"In my life, I'm no longer a child and I yearn for the truth that you know.. Of the moons... moons ago!" She cried, eyes wondering what had happened all those moons ago.
"You will learn, truth is given by Starclan to us all in our time.. In our turn." He meowed before whisking away.
Meanwhile, Rainbrook and Sparkheart were on their way to where Larksong's den was.
"In my life, she has burst like the music of angels; the light of the sun! And my life seems to stop, as if something is over and something has scarcely begun! Rainbrook, you're the friend who has brought me here! Thanks to you, I am one with the gods, and Heaven is near! And I soar through a world that is new that is free!" Sparkheart beamed.
"Every word that he says is a claw in me!" Rainbrook bitterly mewed.
"In my life, there's been no one like him anywhere.. Anywhere, where he is... If he asked... I'd be his." She murmured.
"In my life.. There is someone who touches my life.." Both cats said.
"Waiting near.." The pale ginger tom smiled.
"Waiting here.." The blue-gray she-cat whispered.
Sparkheart started to pad off to the cracked tree, leaving Rainbrook close behind.
"A heart full of love, a heart full of song.. I'm doing everything all wrong! Oh Starclan, for shame! I do not even know your name! Dear she-cat.. Won't you say? Will you tell?" He asked her, and it caught her attention.
"A heart full of love! No fear, no regret.." Larkwing replied sweetly.
"My name is Sparkheart!" He dipped his head.
"And mine's Larkwing!" She nodded hers.
"Larksong, I don't know what to say!" He finally knew her name.
"Then make no sound!" She purred with excitement.
"I am lost.." He whispered.
"I am found!" She meowed back.
"A heart full of light!"
"A night bright as day!"
"And you must never go away! Larkwing, Larkwing!"
"This is a chain we'll never break!"
"Do I dream?"
"I'm awake!"
"A heart full of love!" Sparkheart meowed.
Rainbrook whispered, "He was never mine to lose.."
"A heart full of you!" Larkwing smiled.
"A single look and then I knew!" He purred, nuzzling her cheek.
"Why regret what cannot be?" Rainbrook softly cried.
"I knew it too!" Larkwing twined their tails.
"These are words he'll never say.. Not to me!" Rainbrook meowed.
"From today..." Sparkheart's brown eyes met Larkwing's and they stayed that way.
"Not to me... Not to me..." Rainbrook sighed.
"Everyday!" Larkwing rested her head on his shoulder.
"His heart full of love.." Rainbrook mewed as Sparkheart and Larkwing meowed, "For it isn't a dream!"
"Not a dream, after all!" They meowed as Rainbrook let a tear slip down her cheek, "He will never, feel this way!"
She watched the two lay there, side by side, tails twined, pure love. She was padding away when she saw a cat; a cat she knew oh-so well.
A/N: Oh gee, who is it?