This is the first story in a series of short one-chapter stories. I hope you enjoy them and would be pleased to hear you're opinion on them!

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The Skywalkers

Episode 1

Soccer

Anakin was restless. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get to sleep. He tossed and turned over and over, but it was no use. The butterflies in his stomach eventually forced him to get out of bed.

He went to the larger of the two sitting areas and sat down. The penthouse apartment was deadly silent; all that Anakin could hear was his own heartbeat, which was gradually getting louder and faster. He new that he shouldn't be so nervous about one game of soccer, but it wasn't just any game of soccer; it was the semi-final in the Galactic Cup. But more importantly, it was his team verses Padme's team, Mos Espa Rangers vs. Theed City.

Back in the bedroom Padme had also awoken, she too couldn't sleep. She turned over to find Anakin gone and decided to go and find him.

Eventually Padme walked to the room where Anakin was, and without saying a word she sat down on the chair opposite him, giving him one of those threatening looks which made him shudder.

"What time is it?" Anakin asked, trying to avoid the soccer subject,

"Five thirty," Padme answered, still looking at Anakin coldly.

Padme wasn't usually the competitive type, but when it came to soccer it was a completely different matter.

"Just eight more hours till the game begins," she added after a slight pause.

"Oh, so there's another eight hours of us being nice to each other then?" Anakin asked. He new what Padme was like and hoped that she would keep cool till at least an hour before kick-off.

"Oh no my dear Ani, the battle begins now," and with that she marched into the bedroom to get changed.

Half an hour or so later, Padme emerged from the bedroom in the full strip; shirt, shorts, socks, scarf, EVERYTHING!

Anakin decided that he would go and get changed as well and made his way to the bedroom, giving Padme a look of pure disgust as he passed her, she simply stuck her tongue out at him.

Another ten minutes passed and finally Anakin walked out of the bedroom, fully kitted.

Padme looked him up and down whilst thinking of something to say to him, Anakin strutted proudly and sat down where he was before.

"You know, I hate the strip but you do look kinda cute in yellow," Padme chirped sarcastically, breaking the silence,

"Why thank you," Anakin chirped back, "and may I say that blue is definitely you're colour, but I'm not so sure about the green."

"Blue? I always thought I was more of a pink person!" Padme said, surprised,

"Well pink does look great on you, but I still prefer blue," Anakin answered,

"Oh," Padme yawned, finding the colourful conversation rather boring.

The couple sat in silence for the next half an hour or so, when suddenly a cheerful voice startled the husband and wife,

"Good morning! It's a beautiful day isn't it?" It was Sabe.

"Very, but its will be an even better day when Theed win!"

"No, no, no, no, it will be a better day when Mos Espa Rangers win, which of course they will!" Anakin announced,

"Er, no, Theed are going to win whether you like it or not!" Padme exclaimed slapping Anakin playfully on both cheeks,

"Come on Sabe, lets sing!" and together Padme and Sabe did the can-can through the apartment singing a song, which went like this:

"Blue and green are the colours, soccer is the game, we are Theed City and we're going to win today!"

The girls had almost gone all the way through the apartment, when a loud banging coming from downstairs stopped their mad chanting.

"KEEP THE NOISE DOWN UP THERE, IT'S SEVEN-THIRTY FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"

Padme and Sabe used all of their strength to stop them selves from giggling. Padme kneltdown andscreamed at the floor,

"SORRY MRS WILLIAMS!"

This sarcastic apology was too much for Sabe and she burst out into a fit of uncontrollable laughter, which started Padme off.

Anakin, who had barely moved from where he was sat down, decided to go and see what all the fuss was about. He walked into the other sitting area to find Padme and her handmaiden/best friend rolling on the floor, tears rolling down their red faces.

"I can't breath!" Padme screamed as she eventually managed to sit up, trying to catch her breath. Sabe finally stopped giggling and got up. Padme reached up to Anakin, who reluctantly helped to her feet.

"Women!" Anakin shouted, shaking his head, "I think I'm going to go to the temple for a few hours, it's safer there!"

"Okeday then my darling husband, goodbye!" Padme answered,

"Yes goodbye my lovely best friend's husband who supports a rubbish team!" Sabe screamed to Anakin, who was just walking out of the door. After hearing this comment Anakin spun around to face the girls, he was tempted to fire a comeback at them, but wisely choose not to. He instead just shook his head and turned around again to make his way out of the apartment block,

"Oh wow! What a comeback that was!" Padme screeched. The comment set Sabe off again, and Padme soon joined in. Once again the two women were on the floor, in a fit of loud giggling. By this time it was eight o'clock.

Anakin didn't return to Padme's apartment until one o'clock, just half an hour before kick-off. As he walked in, his face shrivelled in disgust. Padme and Sabe had been extremely busy, plastering the whole apartment with banners saying things such as: "Prepare to go down, Mos Espa!" & "Mos Espa Rangers will eat sand!".

Anakin angrily tore as many of the banners down as he could, before Padme, Sabe and now Dorme walked in,

"Hey, it took me ages to paint that!" Padme screamed, charging at Anakin and rather professionally rugby tackling him to the ground.

"My force woman! It's only a banner for forces sake!" Anakin yelped, as Padme proceeded to tug at his padawan braid,

"Arrrrrrrr! I'm going to tell Master Yoda that you used the forces name in vain!" Padme teased jokingly,

"No please don't he'd kill me! You can put you're stupid banners back up, just please don't tell Master Yoda what I said!"

"O.k.!" Padme said, rather surprised that Anakin took her threat literally, He's stupider than he looks my Ani is, she thought to herself as she, Sabe and Dorme set about putting the banners back up.

Anakin took advantage of the girls putting the banners up and instantly nabbed the best seat, right in front of the sixty-inch plasma screen. He also took charge of the remote and switched the television on.

Padme and her handmaidens had pinned the last banner back up and took theie places in front of the TV. The players were already on the pitch getting into position.

Anakin, being a gentleman, reached his hand out to shake with Padme. She merely looked down pathetically at Anakin's out stretched prosthetic arm and then looked up at Anakin, glaring at him straight in the eyes. Anakin glared back. You could almost smell the tension in the room building up with every passing second. The room was once again deadly silent, until Sabe and Dorme decided to start whistling the Good the Bad and the Ugly theme tune. Anakin and Padme continued to stare each other silently, looking at each other cockily. Almost as soon as Dorme and Sabe had stopped their whistling, the referee blew his. The match had begun.

"Yes!" Padme screamed, jumping out of her seat, as the first goal was booted into the net,

"One-nil!" Sabe tormented Anakin.

"Ha! One all! Soon to be two-one!" Anakin screamed as the Rangers equalised almost instantly! Eternal minutes passed but no one scored, it was the fortieth minute,

"Woooooooo! Yes! Come on! Two-nil!" Anakin screamed, looking at Padme with a sarcastic sorry look upon his face. Padme couldn't think of a verbal comment to say back to Anakin and instead stuck her finger up at him. Anakin looked shocked and froze; he couldn't believe the losers were rude enough to insult the winners in such a way. The half time whistle blew, making Anakin jump out of his shock and nearly fall off his chair. This made the girls laugh and point at Anakin who then went to get a beer out of the fridge, ignoring the laughter.

It was ten minutes in to the second half when the equaliser came, and then another for the blue and green team three minutes later. It was three-two and it stayed that way up until the ninetieth minute.

"Ha sorry LOOOSER!" Padme screamed,

"Shut up there is still three minutes extra time!" Anakin bellowed back, sitting on the edge of his seat waiting for another goal from the yellows. It never came and the full-time whistle blew. Anakin sat in silence as Padme and Sabe began to chant their song again, with a slight alteration to the words, and began to do the can-can. Dorme laughed and joined in.

"Blue and green are the colours and soccer is the game, we are Theed City and we won Rangers today!" was all that could be heard for several minutes, until Padme remembered something and stopped chanting. She walked over smugly to Anakin, who was still sat in complete silence in another trance of disbelief.

"Er, excuse me Anakin, you owe me ten republic credits." She said with an ear-to-ear grin spread across her face,

"Fine!" Anakin pouted, handing Padme a crispy note with a sigh, "By the way good luck in the final!" he said politely.

"Thank you very much Ani!" Padme said back, before planting a huge kiss on Anakin's lips and tucking the ten credit note neatly into her bra.

Everything was back to normal again, Padme and Anakin acted like husband and wife, and Sabe and Dorme calmed down and acted like handmaidens again, that is until Theed Palace face Mos Espa Rangers again, when it will start all over again.

THE END

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Jedi Beth x ;)