The following night, Cloversplash had made up her mind. She'd meet Pineheart at the border, but only once.
As she padded out of the warriors den and into the open, she noticed that only Mousewhisker was out, guarding the camp, but snoozing off. Resisting the urge to wake him and scold him about it, Cloversplash padded through the entrance and towards the ShadowClan border.
Making her way through the forest, she jumped at every small crack of a twig or the crunch of dead leaves on the ground underfoot. It had started to snow again, making it harder than it already was to meet Pineheart.
"I can't do this."she muttered, starting to turn around and leave, but it was bad timing, because Pineheart emerged from the bushes.
"Hey, wait." He called.
"I can't." She meowed.
"I know it's scary, but I will protect you." He replied.
She didn't know exactly why, but she started to feel a little annoyed. "I don't need protection."
"I think you do."
"What makes you think that?" She growled.
"Well, you came here during the night to meet me." He meowed.
"So?"
"Do you think that I don't know you? I know you better than you know yourself. It's easy, you aren't that complicated since your not too important."
Well, that sure narrowed down her choices. Turning around, she bounded through her own terriotory towards home, family and Foxleap. She felt Pineheart's glare on her back but she didn't turn around.
How could she ever have been so stupid? The choice was obvious the whole time. Pineheart was an arrogant, loathing, self centered ShadowClan flea brain, and she didn't need him.
When she returned, she found Foxleap standing guard outside of the clan. She ran up to him and nuzzled his shoulder, missing his company. This was where she belonged, with him.
"I missed you." He meowed.
"Me too." She replied, looking into his gleaming emerald eyes.
"Will you stay with me tonight?" He asked, purring and watching her with such love and passion in his eyes.
"Of course." She licked his cheek, then settle down next to him.
Soon Icecloud and Bumblestripe came to replace Foxleap on watch, and Cloversplash headed back towards the camp.
"Wait. It's a beautiful night, there are no clouds," Foxleap meowed quietly, "do you want to take a walk with me?"
"Of course." She meowed silently, brushing against him as they walked into the night.
"I'm glad you came." He muttered, then wrapped his tail around her.
She didn't reply, but just nodded and buried her face in his pelt. She was glad that she found where heart lay at last.
The next morning Cloversplash woke up next to Foxleap laying on the lake shore underneath a holly bush. Foxleap was still asleep, so she cuddled closer to him, inhaling his sweet scent. Pinebreeze smelt like ShadowClan's deep pines, but Foxleap not only smelt like ThunderClan, but also had a scent underneath him, love.
As she shifted closer to him, he stirred, and lifted his head to see Cloversplashlaying beside him.
"Cloverspalsh," he murmured, "we should head back to camp."
"Not yet. There's something I want to do first..."
Hey, just wanted to thank y'all for all the positive reviews.
since I am so busy with school, the next chapter won't be posted for a while UNLESS I am motivated, so, if I can get 20 reviews, I'll post the new one.