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Chapter 3:What?

Fallenpaw's POV

Geez, I thought, Silentpaw is going to run me across the forest! I ran as fast as possible. I heard him up ahead. All of a sudden he was right in front of me! I bumped him.

"Ooof" Silentpaw said.

"Sorry. Didn't mean to. You ran off quickly. I wanted you to stop and tell me what's wrong" I explained quickly.

"Oh. What did you see?" he said

"You were having a fight with yourself. Do you like some cat? I know you do, you just don't want to say so. Let me guess!" I said.

"Whatever" Silentpaw said with downcast eyes.

"Hopepaw?"

"No"

"Solemnpaw?"

"No"

"Wait, there are no more cats. Unless..." I said disbelievingly.

"Uh-huh" he said.

"Me?" I said quietly.

"Yes. Please don't hate me!" he said, then ran off.

I chased after him.

"Silentpaw, stop! How do you know my answer?" I called to the distance.

"I don't" I heard from close by. Silentpaw stepped out from beside the tree.

"So? I'm guessing you are going to tell me you hate me or you only want to be friends." Silentpaw said grimly.

"No. Actually...same with me" I mewed. Silentpaw looked as if someone had whacked over the head with a stiff rabbit.

"What did you say?" he mewed disbelievingly.

"I said, same with me" I meowed. Silentpaw then promptly fainted.

"Silentpaw! Are you OK?"

"Yah, I think so."

Hopepaw's POV

I stared disbelievingly at what I had just witnessed. After Fallenpaw had left, I had followed her. I listened to Silentpaw argue with himself. I saw him admit to liking Fallenpaw. Then I saw a most surprising thing. Fallenpaw had said she liked Silentpaw back. I couldn't believe my best friend liked some apprentice. Then again, she and I are still apprentices. But still. I will never like a tom. They are just to weird. I looked back to notice they were gone. Then I heard something behind me. I turned.

"Eavesdropper!" Fallenpaw mewed with a hint of a hiss to it.

"Hopepaw... why?"

"I wanted to find out what happened."

"Whatever" Fallenpaw meowed.

"Come on, we need to get back to camp." I meowed responsibly.

"Come on. Tell no one about this" Silentpaw said. We walked back to camp. About a moment after we got there, a patrol burst into the clearing. I turned and saw Grayfur, Tigerheart, Silentsong, and Twilightpaw burst into the clearing with what seemed to be a prisoner in between them.

"We found this loner at the Talltree!" Grayfur huffed.

"Leave me be!" the loner yowled. After further inspection, I found that it was a tom, a brown tabby tom. He had golden amber eyes, and seemed to be looking around the crowd. He stopped on me. Why oh why did he have to stop on me? His glare seemed to soften, but only for a few mere seconds. Then he was back to glare at the crowd gathered.

"Would you stop staring at me? And if you must know, my name is Mud. Yes, my name is Mud. Now stop staring at me!" Mud growled. Most cats ignored him, but I didn't. I looked away then back. I seemed to be the only one to have not kept staring at him. He looked at me and seemed to brighten. Why did his gaze keep falling on me? Every time he looked at me, his expression softened.

"May all cats old enough to catch their own prey gather beneath the Highledge!" Duskstar called the summons. Those cats not out already began pouring out of the dens. This was probably about the loner.

"Now, as most of you have seen, the night patrol found a loner. May I ask what you were doing?"

"Yes, actually. I was coming to ask you Duskstar if I could join LifeClan. That is what I wanted. Now, do what yo want with me." Mud declared.

"Hmmm. You wish to join. I shall consult the medicine cat, senior warriors, and my deputy. Come if you are any of those. Until then, Silentsong and Tigerheart, please watch Mud." She stalked into her den with those she mentioned following.

Wow. What do you think? Should Mud join? I already know what I'm doing with him but it would be fun to find out. Does anybody have any predictions? Stay tuned for the next installment to: LifeClan!