The Story of JetraClan

Chapter 19

"You're Kaitlyn." I meow slowly.

Sweetstar is startled. "I...uh...you know my name?"

It's...true?

It's not a coincidence, is it?

But this means...

She's in love with me...

I'm in love with her...

"Yes." I lean in closer to her.

"Huh? W-w...how?"

"I...I'm Ember."

Sweetstar looks like she's gonna flinch away from me for a moment. Her eyes widen.

"...Then we have a lot to talk about, don't we?"

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The rest of my time there goes as planned. Even some JetraClan cats like Sunspots and Flashbreeze come and help.

It's nice.

Then I wake up.

Sweetstar-Kaitlyn, told me to call her.

After breakfast, I ask my parents if I can go for a walk again. Just to the park. Luckily, they say yes. So, I grab my phone.

And walk.

There's nobody at the park today. Nobody but me. I walk up to my tree. Because I'm tall I can easily reach the first branch. Best thing is; it's positioned in a way we're I can sit in a somewhat comfy position.

So I sit in that somewhat comfy position, then I call Kaitlyn.

"Hey, Ember."

"Hey. Said you wanted to talk?"

"Yeah. You at home?"

"Nah. Got out. No way they'd let me talk to a girl."

"'Kay. Gonna be a while getting out, though. Got some homophobic assholes protesting cause my parents are really against the conversion therapy thing."

I hesitate. Huh. "Well, get here as soon as you can, okay? You're gonna be alright getting your...uh...little cousin out of school, yeah?"

"Nobody would hurt me or Danny."

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I wait for Kaitlyn.

It takes a while, but she arrives.

"Why are you in the tree?" She asks.

"This is my tree." I say.

Kaitlyn looks the tree up and down. Then she smiles. "Huh. Okay, can I come on?"

I nod. She jumps to grab the branch and pulls herself up, getting comfortable by sitting in front of me.

"So...what did you wanna talk about?" I shuffled on the branch.

"Uh, well..." Kaitlyn shifts her gaze from me, "you're Redstripe, huh?"

"Yeah."

"This is kinda weird."

"Yeah."

"Is that all you're gonna say?"

"...Yeah."

An awkward silence falls over us. I hug my legs.

A cloud blocks out some sunlight, making it seem more like dusk than morning. 

"So..." Kaitlyn began.

I wait for her to say something, then her phone whistles.

She pulls it out, the notices that I'm staring.

"It's just my mom." She reassures me.

She starts to read whatever's on her phone - a text. However, as she reads it, her face...

I can not explain the terror on her face. She goes pale, as if every drop of blood has been drained from her body by a very hungry vampire.

I don't want to ask what's wrong. I really don't.

I don't have to.

"It's-its Danny," Kaitlyn chokes out, "she's been shot!"

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Ay.

Angst.

About a smol that you will know soon enough.

(Also, Random-Rengeki and ImTooLazyToMakeAName, no talking about what I discussed with you both...it will happen soon)