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The warrior nodded, thinking about the medicine cat and how she did her duties alone - whilst Sparrowpelt was young, Teaselface imagined that she must get tired with all that responsibility and it would probably be quite a relief for the medicine cat when she did get an apprentice. Of course, Teaselface couldn't know for sure and it was just her guessing; either way, Sparrowpelt was a great part of the clan and without her, they would definitely struggle. ShadowClan was lucky to have her and she was someone to admire. "Yeah," she mewed.

Thinking about the medicine cat took Teaselface's concentration away and she almost tripped over a trailing bramble when she looked down and saw it just in time before she did. Her eyes sprang up onto the tom accompanying her, trying to work out if he had noticed or not and truly hoping that he hadn't. Things were already proving awkward as it was and it wouldn't help if he was thinking that she was a mouse-brain. She gave a little shake and continued on, her thoughts on Smokeheart and trying to work out how he was feeling about her, worried that he wasn't going to like her anymore, if he had ever done in the first place.

His next words made her turn her head to look at him once more, her mouth open as if she was shocked and frantically she tried to think of something to say in response. Maybe it had just been her after all and he was fine with her. "Sorry," the brown tabby said and stopped walking, thinking about his words and wondering if it would be best if she left so that she wouldn't be embarrassing herself. Yet a part of her didn't want to and she decided against it. "I do want to carry on hunting with you and I do want to go and get a drink with you. I just... I thought you were cross with me, that's all." Teaselface paused. "You're not, are you?" she asked, beginning to continue walking once more. "You didn't do anything wrong, don't worry."

It wasn't much later when Teaselface noticed the water and she stepped into it, leaning down to take a drink. "This is lovely on a day as hot as this," she purred after a couple of moments, smiling as if to say, 'are things okay between us?'

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At his assurance that she had done nothing wrong, Teaselface let out a deep sigh of relief, although she felt the urge just to check one last time. "Are you sure?" she asked him, seeing as if she had annoyed him she would rather know than not. 'If you had don't something wrong to make me angry at you, you would know it. trust me.” She nodded at this; Teaselface believed the tom and didn't feel as if he was lying to her. "Okay, thank you," she said to him with a little grin.

As she continued on, every so often she found herself glancing at Smokeheart still, trying to work out how he was feeling. She noticed his deep breath, his sigh when they stopped and she wondered what was wrong - she knew she hadn't done anything for a fact this time and so began to puzzle over if something had gotten to him or not. Had something happened earlier on in the day which he was hiding away from her? Teaselface would liked to have told him that he could talk to her but maybe he didn't want to and she didn't want him to feel that she was trying to intrude on his business. They didn't know each other that well and there was a chance that she could be seen as being nosy and not helpful like her intention would be.

"It's okay!" she told him as he pointed out that he hadn't heard her. "I was just saying how beautiful it is to be here when the weather is as grand as it is," Teaselface informed him, lapping at the water some more before raising her head again. Droplets fell from her muzzle and she gave her head a little shake to get rid of the rest of them, chuckling at the same time despite it not being particularly funny. "I could stay here all day," Teaselface commented, attempting to splash him playfully with water, hoping that he wouldn't mind it and would just see it as a bit of fun.

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notes: not the best post i'm afraid!

The tabby watched as Smokeheart too had a drink, sitting down in the water and gazing around for a few moments. It was not until she heard Smokeheart splutter that she began to pay attention once more and it took her a moment to realise that she had splashed him with water and she giggled yet again at his reaction to it but then quickly stopped as she looked to see if he minded from his face expression. Teaselface realised that he didn't mind by the grin that appeared on his face and relaxed when the next thing she knew, he had splashed her back. She let out a loud shriek and ran out of the water and onto the grass, giving her pelt a quick shake.

She stood there for a few moments, smiling, mostly out of relief that the awkwardness from before seemed to have been forgotten about. She was glad about it really and even more glad that they were enjoying themselves whereas a few moments ago she had been on edge, thinking that she was constantly getting on his nerves. Maybe she had been too anxious around him but either way, it was best to forget about that and carry on getting along like they were doing.

Teaselface eventually jumped back into the water where she began to bounce up and down, not even caring that she was going to have to groom her pelt when she got back to camp as she was having so much fun. It wasn't very often that she would play like she was doing now and it made her a little nostalgic to think that playing was all that she had done when she was a kit. Back then, even a game of mossball had been exciting as all that mattered to her was that she was with her friends. Nowadays she didn't talk to many of them and it made her quite sad to think that as she had grown older, she and those she had grown up with had drifted apart.

Growing tired, Teaselface walked onto the grass once more and lay down, her fur soaked though she did not mind. "I haven't had so much fun in ages," the beaming she-cat told him, lazily stretching one of her paws. When she left the camp that morning, she had not expected to run into Smokeheart but she was rather glad that she had done now. Especially since it meant that she may have found a new friend, which was always great.

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