Larrykit woke with a start. He didn't understand who this 'Shadymaple' was, but she seemed like a really cool cat. He hoped that she considered him a friend. He shook his pelt and began to clean himself. Suddenly he heard a girlish squeal from his sisters' nest.
    "Oof." Beautykit said. "Get off me, Problemkit."
    "Me too," Catkit agreed. "wow, Mom was right when she named you Problemkit. You really are a problem!"
    Problemkit hissed at the two kits. "I don't care if you're in pain. That's a good thing, so just leave me alone and let me sit on you!"
    Kitkit let out a small mewl. "Shut up! I'm trying to sleep!"
    Then Happykit woke up as well. "Hi guys! Isn't it such a nice day! Look through the nursery branches and you can see the sky! Oh, it's so blue and there's so many pretty white clouds! Wait, are you guys mad at something?"
    Larrykit frowned. This was how it was every morning. His sisters always argued and whined until everyone in the Clan either woke up, or died a sad death. Well, nobody had actually died yet, but Larrykit didn't assume it would be long, because a few of the cats were in the medicine den complaining of ear-aches, and headaches. Larrykit himself was surprised he wasn't dying of Annoyed-itis. Happykit was the only of his sisters' that actually acted nice to him, so therefore, she was his favourite sister. All the others were useless pieces of fox-dung for all he cared.
    Larrykit could hear Penciltail screeching from the Warriors den. "Oh! Grapetail, so sorry, didn't see you there! Eviltail, my sister, I didn't mean to yowl in your ear! I just need to see my son! He should be up by now!"
    Larrykit could sense Doodlekit rolling her eyes from behind him as she drew on the ground with a stick.
    "What?" He asked. "Sorry Penciltail loves me. I didn't asked him too. I'd rather all nine of you love me instead. After all, you are my sisters!"
    "Oh whatever." Said Bokit. "Come on guys. Let's go bug the elders."
    "Are you sure?" Carefulkit asked. "It's not nice to bother cats . . . "
    "Oh, come on." Beautykit insisted. "You need to have some fun sometimes! Loosen up!" She swirled around, all eight others following and Carefulkit looking the least happy.
    Soon after they had left, Penciltail pushed his way through. "Hello, son! How are you? You do know, I risk my special eartuft every time I come to see you so early. You should be so happy."
     "What's so important about your eartuft, and why is it risked everytime you come here?"
    "Eartuft's are very fashionable at the moment, my dear son. Don't make fun of it. And it's at risk because Raisinstar threatened to push me into a fire if I wake cats up before patrols leave . . . "
    "And you're worried about your ear?!"
    "Yah. Who wouldn't be? Fashion is a really important part of life. Ok? Anyway, I brought you a shrew." Penciltail magically produced the small brown rodent in front of his son. "Eat up."
    Larrykit swiped his tongue over his jaws and bit into the succulent prey. "Thanks dad." He mumbled from around his giant bite. "It's really good, did you catch it?"
    Penciltail blushed. "Uh . . . I may have taken it from Crazytail and called it my own. . . . But don't worry son! It's fine! Don't be telling her or you're grounded!"
    Larrykit gulped. He definitely, for sure did not want to be grounded. He already had to stay in the camp, and if he became grounded he'd be forced against his will to stay in the nursery. And by the way, that is not fun. "Ok." He agreed. "I won't tell her."
    Penciltail immediately looked happy again. "It's fine! I'm going to go organize patrols now, you know, since I'm like, deputy. Bye!" Then the scraggly brown tom left.
    Yikes . . . I hope I don't look that ugly. In fact, I hope I look more like Raisinstar or something. I'll never be purple like her, but I should at least be pretty. . . . Smooth fur and sparkling eyes . . . yeah, that'd be nice.
    Beautykit stormed in with the kits following her. "How was it?" Larrykit asked, trying to suppress the multiple laughs that wanted to spill out of his lips.
    "Great!" Problemkit said. "We got in trouble, just like I wanted. And guess what? The elders were really mad! Isn't that awesome?"
    Doodlekit cut in. "No, Problemkit. It wasn't awesome." She turned to Larrykit. "We're grounded. Have fun with the camp all to yourself."