Meeting Scarletpaw

"Come on, Skypaw! Border patrol!" Oceanwinds' voice rang into the apprentice den. Skypaw moaned and turned around, drawing her tail over her nose. "Skypaw!" Oceanwind screeched again. With a sigh, the apprentice called out: "I'm coming! Keep your fur on!" Skypaw sat up, yawning. She stretched her joints, and still blinking sleep out of her eyes, she walked out to see Oceanwind waiting for her with Oaksand and Snowfire. "Sorry." She muttered and twitched her ears. Her mentor smiled at her. "It's alright. I was like that too." Without waiting for them, she sped off into the direction of the ShadeClan border. The two warriors exchanged an amused glance before pelting after her, leaving Skypaw to curse and try to follow them as quickly as she could. When she finally reached them, she was out of breath. "Wow. You guys are fast." Skypaw gasped and laid down near Oceanwind. Snowfire smiled but then pricked her ears. "Border patrol!" She hissed and Skypaw scrambled to get up. "Hello Oceanwind, Snowfire, Oaksand." An unknown cat greeted them. Oceanwind dipped her head. "Daybreak, Grayecho, Lightclaw, Thrushpaw. And who is this?" She cocked her head at a red-brown tabby she-cat that was standing near Daybreak. "My name is Scarletpaw." The she-cat meowed. "And who are you?" The gray-brown tom named Grayecho asked Skypaw. She fluffed her chest up. "Skypaw, Oceanwinds' apprentice." Lightclaw smiled. Soon, the six adult cats began to converse and the apprentice Thrushpaw kept trying to talk to Scarletpaw. But Skypaw and her were staring intently at each other, the beginnings of a small friendship already forming. Skypaw smiled and Scarletpaw smiled too. Skypaw flicked her right ear, Scarletpaw flicked her left ear. They continued to play mirrors until Oceanwind meowed: "We need to get going. Have a nice day." She said politely and dipped her head to the ShadeClan cats. They did the same and Skypaw cast a last glance at Scarletpaw. The ShadeClan apprentice was sticking her tongue out at her. Skypaw did the same and vanished behind her mentor in the dense forest.