Childhood Memories

We had arrived on Tattooine when I was only five years old, I could still remember bits and pieces of our arrival, sights and sounds, a certain blonde hair blue eyes boy.

The flight to Tattooine was long, in a smugglers ship from Alderan, my fathers home planet. Both me and my mother were born on Tattooine, my parents met when my mother went to Alderan to work for the royal family. They had instantly fallen in love and gotten married, having me shortly after. When my father died my mother no longer wanted to live in that house haunted by his memory.

The first thing I saw when I got off the ship was sand, endless plains of hot golden sand. The sun was bright and bleated down on us, the intense heat was a new thing for me, it had never been that hot on Alderan.

My mother had expected her father to still be on Tattooine, she hadn't seen him since she left for Alderan, her mother had died when she was young. Her father had died while she was away, leaving us with nowhere to go, we had no money since we spent what we have to get here. That's when my mother turned to her old family friend Owen Lars.

Owen took us in, we worked on his farm in exchange for food, clothing and shelter. We lived alongside his family, his wife Beru and nephew Luke.

Of all my memories of my arrival on Tattooine I remember Luke the most. We met when my mother and I arrived at the Lars farm. He was standing next to Beru, he was slightly taller than me with golden blonde hair, sun kissed skin and light blue eyes. He had ran forward and introduced himself as soon as he saw us, commenting on how light my hair was. At the time I had no idea that he would have such a huge impact on my life, but I did know that it was only the beginning.


We sat on top of the roof of the farmhouse watching the sunset. It was getting dark and we would be called in for dinner soon; watching the sunset had become a regular thing for us over the years.

We were now both twelve and had considerably changed since I had arrived on Tattooine. The obvious changes that came with age; we both grew taller, Luke always taller than me, my hair had grown longer and had become lighter, now it was almost white.

It was that night that Luke would make a promise to me that would affect both our lives and forever tie them together, more than they already were.

"When I'm older I'm leaving this planet and I'm taking you with me" he said

"But where would we go?" I asked "What would we do?"

"It doesn't matter, we'll have each other, we'll look after each other, I'll

always have your back Anya" he promised

"And I will always have yours" I replied