private happiness begins ~ sunfreckle

[Flamestar]

( ★ ) After Mousepaw's little outburst when Sunfreckle announced that he was expecting, she had made a mental note to check in on her best friend. She hadn't been sure how to handle the situation...it had surprised her to say the least. Why had his daughter thought her and her siblings were being replaced? If her mother had had more kits, would she had felt the same? She would never know...When her and Flycatcher had more kits, would Stormpaw and Falconpaw feel like that?

She spotted Sunfreckle sitting near the Warrior's Den, so she would pad over to the fresh-kill pile and pick him out a mouse. Flamewhisker could remember the early stages when everything disagreed with her stomach...she had found it easier to eat several small meals than one big one...less puking that way. The mouse hung limply in her jaws as she trotted over, her plume-like tail raised in greeting. As she arrived, she would set the mouse down, and nose it towards his front paws. "I got you something small..." she said shyly, deciding to not add on I hope the kits let it agree with you. That was probably something that should stay in her head.

"I'm so happy for you. I can't wait to have more kits running around." If it didn't mean having to stay in the nursery for five months, she would have more kits in a heartbeat.

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@Sunfreckle ​

( WHEN I FIND MYSELF ; I'MA BRING IT ON HOME )

 

[Sunfreckle]

The mind of a child was a lot more complicated than that of an adult, they were messy and unsure of themselves; emotions run rampant and quick to make assumptions and lose their cool generally. He knew this, he had dealt with many a temperamental apprentice before and he wasn't so foolish as to take it personal when one of them got a little uppity; normally. Normally he would just smile patiently and laugh in the face of such outburts, normally he could take it in stride but he would not deny that Mousepaw's comments had gotten to him slightly. More than he expected even. She was just jealous, she'd always been somewhat possessive and quick to feel left out, but hearing it all the same hurt more than he'd ever admit. So he had excused himself, wandered off and settled outside the warrior's den facing into it as he waited for his own rampant feelings to roll over him and receed but they didn't. He only got more worked up about it, more fretful, more harried, that by the time Flamewhisker wandered over to check on him he was not put together enough to greet her and when he turned to try and say something it came out as only a choked, strained sob of a noise.
"Th-thank you! I'm...I'm sorry, you caught me at a b-bad time..." A paw raised, he rubbed at his cheek and began to anxiously groom an ear as he willed himself to stop crying. "I don't know what's come over me, haha, the kits...probably....you know how it is..."
And they might have been part of the reason he was struggling so hard to remain composed, but the other was genuine heartbreak. Was he going to lose kits again, was Mousepaw right and he was trying to fill some void? It was not entirely planned but a part of him wanted them. Another part didn't. Sunfreckle had no idea what to feel and he felt ridiculous sitting there at the mouth of the den bawling like a kit.

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[Flamestar]

( ★ ) There were several things she did not miss about pregnancy. Constantly being sick, being tired all the time, being hungry, the hormones, staying in the camp...now that she thought about it, there wasn't really anything she had enjoyed about it..the only thing that made any of it worth it was meeting their kits. As Sunfreckle looked up to meet her gaze, his voice was strained and he nearly choked it out. Her eyes rounded in worry, she couldn't recall the last time she had seen her friend cry...

Leaving the mouse without a second thought, Flamewhisker padded to his side, and pressed her pelt against his. For now, she remained quiet, trying to decide what she wanted to say. She watched as he started to clean his ear, it was similar to her chest fur licks that she did when she was anxious. Mousepaw's reaction to the kittens had been shocking to her, so it wasn't much of a surprise to see that it had rattled Sunfreckle so bad. He blamed it on the hormones, and while she partially agreed, she wondered there was more to it than that. "Oh...don't remind me. My mood swings are bad enough without kits." she joked, hoping to maybe lighten the mood a bit. "Everything will work out alright...I know Mousepaw will come around, she was just surprised..."​

( WHEN I FIND MYSELF ; I'MA BRING IT ON HOME )