100 Tales 73
You'll Never Know
"Let's play a game!" Firepaw decided, one sunny afternoon in greenleaf, while he and Greenpaw were hunting. They were on a journey with their friends.
"Sure!" Greenpaw agreed happily. "….What? What do you want to play?"
"Let's play a quiz game! Let's see what you can remember about our forest and Clanmates back home," Firepaw challenged, sitting down, and wrapping his tail around his paws.
"Sure!" Greenpaw declared, her eyes sparkling. "You may now begin, and ask me a question."
"All right." Firepaw chuckled. "Who is the medicine cat?"
"Goldenleaf!" Greenpaw laughed. "That was easy!"
"Right." Firepaw nodded. "Who is the elder, Greenleaf's, eldest daughter?"
"Redheart, the deputy," answered Greenpaw, easily.
"That's right!" Firepaw laughed. "Wow, you really do seem to know quite a lot about your home…."
"Of course! I was just there! Of course I know, stupid-head!" Greenpaw laughed, swatting him with a paw. Firepaw ducked.
"Ooh, missed me!" he taunted.
"Not for long!" Greenpaw hurled herself at him, and was pretty soon pinning him down, her weight pushing him to the ground. He struggled to get upright, but Greenpaw was holding him quite tightly, so it was no use."
"Ah, okay." He sighed dramatically. "I give up."
"Great!" Greenpaw leaped off of him, her eyes sparkling. "What's the next question?"
"Umm, right…. Hmm, this is a really hard one; which she-cat did I have a crush on before I met you?"
Greenpaw thought for a second. She realized that she didn't know. Firepaw had liked another she-cat, that is, but only until she was born. Then, he was all for her. "Give me a hint, please!" she begged.
"Nope." Firepaw shook his head. He was laughing.
"Please????"
"You'll never know." Firepaw's eyes sparked with amusement as Greenpaw tried vainly to guess.
"Dogpaw?"
"Nope."
"Is it…. Hmm…. Is it Amberheart?"
"Nope."
"Errmmm…. Leafpaw?" Greenpaw guessed.
"Oh, you got me!" Firepaw laughed.
"That was a wild guess!" Greenpaw chuckled. "But…. I guess that I got it! Wa-hoo!"
"Heheheh." Firepaw laughed.
They both laughed, and decided that, with their current hunting catches, that they would go back to their friends' camp.