Lightpaw fluttered open tired eyelids. 

"Lightpaw! Are you okay?" Bramblefang bounded in, fake worry glinting in his eyes.

"You know what you did," she hissed softly.

And as Bramblefang returned to his usual cruel demeanor, he smirked softly, "It's for the best. Watch out, Tattlepaw."

"Petalflower!" Bramblefang looked up to her, "She's okay!"

"That's great news! What a good brother you are!" purred Petalflower.

Huh? Good faked brother.

"What a great young cat he is," Petalflower mused.

"Huh?" asked Lightpaw.

"When you were knocked out and pained by thorns falling off the sky," she explained. "It was a new place that twolegs built."

What kind of story is that? wondered Lightpaw scornfully.

"He did n-!" she started to say.

Suddenly she remembered what he had told her. Watch out, Tattlepaw.

"He did! He's such a good brother!" she faked enthusiasm.

Petalflower beamed. "It's good to see you two getting along so well! I don't want you to go out quite yet. Perhaps stay in camp."

As if we get along well.

She padded out the medicine cat den, seeing a couple friends. 

"Hey guys!" she meowed.

"Let's leave this weakling alone," sneered one.

The others chorused in agreement, stalking away from her.

She held back, stung. First her brother, now her so called 'friends'.

Sadness drowned over her. Probably everyone except Petalflower hates me.

She watched them call, "Hey Petalflower! We need some herbs!"

"Coming right up!"

"Nevermind!"

"Apprentices these days," Petalflower pretended to be annoyed. "Run along. I have to sort these herbs!"

She suddenly felt a twinge of envy in her heart. Kind, brave, loyal, intelligent, reliable, popular, Petalflower. She shook the envy off, guilt worming her belly. I haven't learned any herbs yet! I just became a medicine cat apprentice yesterday! she scolded herself.

Sighing, she padded back to camp, laying down in a moss bed, painful memories flashing in her mind in her dreamless sleep. Her 'friends' and her brother was all that filled her head that cruel, wrathful night.