Life In The Nursery {Open}

He sighed. "Yeah. She told me not to go boasting to younger kits." He paused for a brief moment. "Ima' do it anyway, mind you!"

"Heh, what would you be boasting about!" She laughed. " Oh! I'm Heronkit the good kit! Oh! I'm the laziest cat here!" She mocked, twirling in circles as she spoke.

He smirked and began mocking Shallowkit. "Look at me! I'm Shallowkit and I know everything about Heronkit! I'm so dumb and I never do things correctly! My mother says I might be brain-dead!" He chirped, making circle-like movements with his left paw.

" Hey! That's mean!" She wailed. "I'm not dumb! And my Mistyeye doesn't think Im brain-dead!" She flattened her ears and lashed her tail, obviously not liking this sudden turn, as they were joking just a moment ago, but now it seemed to take a sudden turn.

He chuckled, but then remembered his mother telling him if he upset 'the poor divil' again she'd get his father to deal with him, so he shook his head and worked out "I didn't mean it, y'know." While trying to keep a straight face.

" Yeah, but it still isn't nice to say that! Say that to the wrong cat and they'd claw your face off." Her tail lashed from side to side, not exactly wanting sympathy from Heronkit, but took it anyways.

"True, true." He flicked his ear thoughtfully. "But if you got the right cat you could have great fun insulting eachother!" He beamed at Shallowkit.

" True! I suppose that's what makes us friends!" She purred, then stopped. " Am I annoying to you?" She had no idea why she asked this herself, but did it anyways.

He paused. "Hm.." He tried to find a suitable answer to say that wouldn't hurt her feelings. So he decided to go with the white lie. "No, no! What makes ya' think that? Y'ain't bad in the slightest!" He had copied the last bit from his mother. He cocked his head to the side and smiled.

" R-Really..?" She couldn't believe what she had just heard. " Mistyeye said that I might be annoying to some cats because I'm too excitable.."

"Ah, yer' talkin' nonsense. You're decent. " He broke into a hearty laugh. He somewhat laughed at his own joke. "Well. Not decent. Better than decent. " He wanted to say she was barely tolerated.

" Thanks!" She smiled the biggest smile she could manage. " You're not half bad yourself! A good friend to me!" Her ears twitched as an expression to her happiness.

He started to feel bad for the she. He'd just spewed out endless lies and she bought it. He decided to return to his boastful personality again. "I know, I know."

She was going to say something else, but she heard her mother call her from the nursery. "Oh! Sorry Heronkit.. I have to go, I'll be back later! Mistyeye is rather strict about nap-time.." She flicked her tail to the tom-kit, and trotted off.

She mewled a greeting to her mother, who told her something and she lay down. Mistyeye licked her over the ears, and she eventually fell asleep.