" 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." Emma quipped.
" 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?"
Blackie flicked his tail nonchalantly, not even sparing Mia a glance. "You left the bag open, genius. The forest critters had a feast while you were busy dreaming about whatever nonsense you humans dream about."
Mia groaned, slapping her forehead. "Oh, for the love of—Blackie! You were right there! Couldn't you have scared them off or something?"
Blackie finally looked at her, his green eyes gleaming with sass. "Do I look like a watchdog to you? I'm a cat. We observe, not intervene."
Emma burst out laughing despite herself. "Well, he's not wrong. Cats don't really do teamwork."
Mia shot Emma a glare. "Not helping, Em."
Annie, meanwhile, was pacing back and forth, her blonde hair glinting in the dim cave light. "Okay, okay, everyone chill. We need a plan. We can't stay here without food, especially now that it's snowing in summer. Something weird's going on, and I don't like it."
