Tuesday

Asparagus was still in a bad mood and refused to talk to anyone in the yard. He hid away on top of a junk pile and ignored Admetus' calls for him.

"Serves that oblivious idiot right", Asp grumbled.

"Serves what oblivious idiot right?" An unknown voice said and Asp jumped high up in the air. The voice giggled. "Sorry I did not intend to scare you."

"Who are you", Asp asked looking around in every direction, even up for some reason. He heard giggling again and looked down and came nose to nose with Exotica.

"GAH!" he exclaimed and jumped back. She giggled and climbed up and sat down and looked at the sun shine through the light grey clouds. Asp sat up and followed her gaze.

"Isn't it strange", she said.

"Huh", he asked. "The sun looks like a flower shining through the clouds like that." Asp looked closer and had to agree. The 'flower' he saw looked like one of those Mattias' nieces would draw. Exotica went on talking:

"It's a good thing since the earth hasn't come alive yet and the snow is still lying in piles everywhere. Hopefully the sun will soon bring the spring to us."

"Hopefully", he grumbled. "I'm tired of the weather… it's always mixed rain and snow or just big heavily and wet snowflakes… And the wind is hard and cold and never let up... I hate March!"

She smiled. "But March is the first month of spring. The start of new things… and I am aware of that your life is new from now on."

"No shit Sherlock. And you know this how?"

"Elementary my dear Watson, you have no collar and Jelly told me and of course… Admetus trying to act as Freud is proof enough."

"Stupid jerk."

"Au contraire I am not a jerk."

"Not you… Ad."

"He only tried to cheer you up."

"It didn't work."

"I am aware of that. But what our leader sent him to say was-"

"Deuteronomy sent him?"

"No, no, not that leader."

Asp looked at her oddly. "Okay you've lost me."

She giggled again. "Well you see there are housecats and stray cats. Us strays spend the winter out in the city and here at the yard and during that time we have a leader of our own."

"Who?"

"Not important. Anyway our leader sent him to tell you that you are now one of us."

"I'm not stray material…"

"But you are… you did say so yourself my dear. You said: 'I can fight if I must, I can hunt better than most housecats and I have thick fur. What more is there to be able to do?'."

"Maybe I did, but I still can't swim."

"Don't worry you'll learn in the summer. Now tomorrow night our leader has decided that the stray/alley/street-cats are going to meet in the northern clearing to welcome you into the family."

"Who's in this group?"

"Well you know I am so is Ad, Tanto, Cori, Alonzo, Plato and… now you are too."

"Should I be honored or scared?"

She smiled. "Both. Now see you tomorrow night." She ran down the pile, head first and Asp looked after her in shock, not even Munk did that.

"Maybe there is truth in what they say… Street/stray/alley-cats are crazy", he said and looked down and saw Admetus pace back and forth and smiled softly.

"Den store, dumme, velmenende idot", he said in the language he'd learnt from Mattias. He sighed and climbed down the pile.

"Where is he", Admetus said. "I must apologize. I was such an idiot."

"True", Asp said as he walked up to his best friend. "But you're my big, dumb, well-meaning idiot." (A/N: This is what Asp said in Danish, forgive me all dansih people for my bad danish)

"ASPY!" Ad yelled and threw his arms around his smaller best friend and hugged him as close as possible. "I was an idiot!"

"Couldn't have said it better myself."

"But you must… please tell me I'm an idiot! Please tell me I'm a jerk! Oh but add that you forgive me." Admetus backed away and closes his eyes and crossed his fingers. Asp laughed.

"Du er en idiot, men du er min fjols, og jeg tilgiver dig, fordi du var en idiot. Satan jeg savner dig når vi er oppe at toppes."

"In a language I can understand!" Admetus whined.

"You didn't ask for it."

"Aw…" Admetus pouted. "Pretty please?"

"Okay. I said: You are and idiot but you're my idiot, and I forgive you for being an idiot. Hell I miss you when we are arguing."

"Aw", Admetus hugged him so hard he gasped. "I knew you wouldn't stay mad at me!"

"Who can?"

"True… So…" He just dropped Asp. "What made you change your mind?"

"Oh it was", he saw Exotica shake her head. Then he sighed. "Well I just needed time to cool off and think."

"Oh… okay." Ad rubbed his neck and then his eyes widened. "Oh I forgot to tell you!"

"Tell me what?"

"The leader sent me to welcome you to our little family and to tell you that we are going to have a meeting in the northern clearing tomorrow night."

"Okay." Asp sat down and in confusion Ad did the same.

"You… you aren't surprised?"

"That you guys have an internal leader in your group? No." He lied. "So who is it?"

"I can't say", Admetus said and grinned. "But it's someone who's looking out for us a lot even though it may not seem like it. Any guesses?"

Asp looked back at Exotica who was now talking to Alonzo.

"Two guesses actually", he said. "All that's left is to see if I'm right." He looked up at the sun that still shone through the clouds.

"I love sunflowers", he said and Ad stared at him as if he'd lost his mind.

TBC Okay this chapter jumped into my head after watching the sun yesterday :P And the description of the March weather is the weather here during this week.