" Human! Wake up!"
Mia rubbed her head and groaned as she sat up. " Yes, Blackie?"
Blackie shook his fur annoyingly. " Look."
Mia blinked at the white thing on her sleeping bag. " It's..... Snowing?"
" What do you think?"
Mia gasped, then crawled to the other side of the cave. " Emma, wake up!" She whispered urgently. " It's snowing!"
The black haired girl rubbed her eyes. " MHmmmm??"
" It's snowing outside!"
Emma opened an eye. " Don't be silly. It's the middle of summer!"
Mia furrowed her brow, and she went out. Emma sighed and closed her eyes again.
But suddenly she was hit with a ball of coldness.
" Wha.... what was that?!" Emma yelped.
Mia smirked. " Surprise."
Emma rubbed her eye and sputtered, " B... but.... How......?"
Mia shrugged. " I dunno."
Then she turned to the Blonde haired girl. " Annie! It's snowing!"
Annie squinted. " Huh?"
Emma shot Mia an annoyed look. " Yeah. She hit me with a snowball to wake me up."
" There's more where that came from."
" No thank you!" Annie yelped as she jumped out of her bag.
Emma rummaged through their supplies, her brow furrowed in confusion. "Uh, Mia?" she called, her voice edged with concern. "We've got a bit of a problem."
Mia, who was busy trying to coax Blackie into helping her gather a few more things, looked over. "What kind of problem?"
Emma held up an empty bag that once held their food. "We're out. There's nothing here."
Mia's face fell. "What? We had plenty of food last night. What happened?"
Without missing a beat, she turned to the ever-annoying cat, crossing her arms as she turned "Blackie, do you know what happened to our food?"
Blackie licked his paw. "Your food was taken due to one simple reason."
The girls leaned in, listening closely.
Blackie yawned as he continued, "Because you're stupid."
Mia's eye twitched. "Excuse me?"
Emma and Annie burst out laughing, almost doubling over as the cat's voice rang in the cave again, unphased. "Stupid. As in lacking intelligence."
Mia groaned loudly. "I did not need a definition, Blackie!"
Mia stood there, rubbing her temples in frustration, as Blackie stretched lazily and gave her a smug look. "Humans," the cat drawled, "always so oblivious to the obvious. You didn't think to guard your food in a cave? In the wilderness? During winter? With animals around?"
Emma and Annie, still snickering, exchanged amused glances. Annie wiped a tear from her eye. "You know, Mia, he's kind of got a point."
Mia shot Annie a glare. "Don't encourage him."
Blackie, of course, wasn't done. "And now you're all standing around like you expect the food to magically reappear. Truly fascinating. It's like watching a group of squirrels who've lost track of their acorns."
Annie and Emma were now leaning on each other, trying to suppress their laughter. "He's relentless!" Emma gasped between fits of giggles. "It's like he's been waiting for this moment!"
