Lionblaze has a Shadow: Part 3. McCat
"Hollyleaf."
no reply.
"Hollyleaf, wake up."
Hollyleaf rolled over and blinked open her eyes. Lionblazes face stared down at her.
"Come to McCat with me and Jayfeather," he whispered. Hollyleaf irritably looked over at her clock.
"it can't be morning already, what time- FOUR IN THE MORNING? WHAT THE HELL LIONBLAZE!" Hollyleaf yelled.
"Stop screaming! Heatherpaw just broke up with me!" Lionblaze sighed. Hollyleaf stopped yelling at once.
"What?"
"She called me twenty minutes ago and said we shouldn't see each other anymore."
"I'm ... so sorry," Hollyleaf said after a long pause. Lionblaze shrugged. "It doesn't matter. i don't care," Lionblaze said. He didn't meet Hollyleafs eyes as he walked out of the room. He met Jayfeather outside in Hollyleafs car. he was shivering even though he had two sweaters and a coat on.
"Its freaking cold in here," Jayfeather said through his chattering teeth. Lionblaze didn't even feel the cold.
"Your being silly," he muttered. A few slow minutes dragged on then Hollyleaf opened the car door and got in.
"Turn the heat on," Jayfeather chattered. Hollyleaf turned the switch and Jayfeather sighed a sigh of relief. Then he realized freezing cold air was blowing out of the vents.
"It's getting colder!" Jayfeather snapped. Lionblaze grinned. "I bet you ten bucks you can't smoke a cigarette right now," Lionblaze said.
"I bet i could," Jayfeather could barely get the words out of his mouth. Lionblaze passed him one and Jayfeather spents a good five minutes trying to light it while his hands and body were violently shaking. Then the spark lit and Jayfeather threw the lighter at Lionblaze. Lionblaze watched in amusement as Jayfeather dropped the smoke on the floor.
"Goddamn," Jayfeather hissed.
"Pick it up. it's gonna burn the floor," Lionblaze said.
"Im too cold."
"Pick it up! for gods sake i can smell it burning the carpet!" "IF you're so enthusiastic about it then pick it up yourself!"
"If one of you doesnt pick it up im making you both walk back home," Hollyleaf threatened from the front seat. Lionblaze cursed under his breath and picked it up.
LATER
"Lionblaze, chew with your mouth shut," Jayfeather snapped. Lionblaze had his mouth full of pancakes and was trying to talk to Hollyleaf at the same time. Lionblaze ignored him, and sent a spray of chewed up pancakes across the table.
"She made me feel worthless and im not," Lionblaze said. He was describing how earlier Heatherpaw had broke up with him. "SHES the stupid one, not me," he said, packing more pancakes into his already full mouth. "Asg ewtuhiun iwjo, SRGSEEGAH ERYY!" Lionblaze shouted.
"Swallow for gods sake," Hollyleaf sighed. "No one understands what your saying." Lionblaze finally swalled his food.
"I was saying that Heatherpaw isn't worth it and i shouldn't be sad about it."
Jayfeather rested his head in his hands. He was so unbelievably tired. It was nearly five in the morning now, and he, Lionblaze and Hollyleaf were sitting in McCat listening to Lionblaze deny his feelings that he "never" loved Heatherpaw. The cashier kept giving them dirty looks and Jayfeather didn't blame him. Jayfeather was woken up out of his thoughts from a loud crash. Lionblaze had knocked over his pancakes on the floor. Hollyleaf sighed.
"Great, Lionblaze. now can we please leave?" She snapped.
"Yeah, just let me clean this up," Lionblaze looked around to make sure the cashier guy wasn't watching before kicking his broken plate under the table, making Jayfeather smile for the first time all night.
THE NEXT DAY
"Hollyleaf, can i use your laptop?" Lionblaze asked.
"Go ahead. And where's Jayfeather? i havn't seen him since this morning," Hollyleaf said, flipping the pages to her book absentmindedly.
"He went to the store because apparently there wasn't enough raisons for his oatmeal this morning."
Hollyleaf laughed. "That's Jayfeather for you."
"You didn't see it happen. The way he was yelling was unreal, i thought the house was on fire," Lionblaze turned on the computar. Then he noticed Hollyleaf looked hesitant.
"What?"
"Remember the other day when we came home from my book meeting?" she said at last. Lionblaze had a sinking feeling he knew what this was about.
"...Yeah i do. why?"
Hollyleaf sighed. "I don't know if i was imagining things, but Jayfeathers face was really red when we were joking about him and Ravenpaw."
Lionblaze made a big show of typing in his password and looking at the computar. "I thought i was just imagining it," he said at last.
"Well, you didn't cuz i was sitting up in the front and i could see Jayfeathers face turn beet red in the mirror. Not to mention it was dark in the car too."
"You don't think he's actually... you know.."
"Don't say it. Jayfeather CANT be gay, don't you remember he had a girlfriend once?"
Lionblaze snorted. "Yeah right, you mean Half Moon? Jayfeather went out with her for a week. I remember one day he told me they broke up because she kissed him."
"So?"
"He said she wasn't his type and he felt confused and scared with her."
"That doesn't sound like something Jayfeather would say," Hollyleaf said flatly. Lionblaze scratched the back of his neck. "Well, he didn't say it in those exact words, but that was the general idea."
Hollyleaf irratably shook her head. "You know, we're probebly blowing this way out of proportion. Jayfeather was probebly just embarrasessed that we were kidding around about him."
"Oh really? and i supose he was also just embarrased when he refuses to answer questions about his attractions."
"Probably."
"Now your just in denial!"
"Lionblaze, even if he is... you know... it's none of our business," Hollyleaf said. Lionblaze sighed. She was right, he knew. But he was still finding it hard to believe that Jayfeathers red face and silent answers were nothing but embarrassment.