Just by the sound of his voice, I felt safe. I forgot all about him lying to me. "Peanut..." I barly muttered before a ripple of pain went up my spine. Peanut ran up to my side. "Breath, ok? Deeply." I did, but stopped every once in a while because the pain was unbarible. "Where is Vine?" I asked. "She went back to her den. She said she wanted to be surprised by the kits 'fluffiness' when she sees them." Peanut responded. I nodded. After what seemed like forever, I heard Peanut cry, " A head! I can see a head! Push Dots!" I pushed and heard leaves crunching and something soft went up to my...

The next few months were painfull. I got bigger and bigger. I was angrey all the time. I was hungrey a lot, too because Peanut never let me teach him how to hunt, so he never caught anything. My best friend, Vine, caught some food, but she lived on the other side of the forest. So I never saw her a lot. One day, Peanut was out hunting, or trying to anyway, when I went into labour. "Peanut!" I yelled. No answer. "Peanut!" I cried again, and this time I heard footsteps thundering towards me. "Dots!" Someone yelled back, but it wasn't Peanut. I focused my eyes and saw Vine running towards me....

I ran up to him, breathlessly calling his name, "Peanut, wait up!" He turned around with that big goofy smile I fell in love with. "Peanut" I whispered softly. He rubbed his head against my cheek. "Hello, darling. What should we do today?" He said in a quiet voice. I stepped back, and a confused look went across Peanut's face slowly. "What's wrong?" He asked. I sighed softly before saying, "I'm expecting." This time, Peanut stepped back. "M...mine?" I giggled,"Who elses whould they be?" He came back up to me and licked my cheek. "We'll make this work." He looked into my eyes, and I knew what...