"Are you coming Lianna?" Rey asked looking enthusiastically at her sister and at the same time placing her hands on her growing belly. The younger Skywalker was almost sixth months pregnant now and Lianna had never seen her more happy in her entire life. Her little sister seemed to glow with some kind of light that filled any space she was. However, the oldest Skywalker could not say the same for herself.

"No, Little Star. This time I will not go with you. I'm not feeling well. I think that I will just lay low for today." She answered smiling at her sister who furrowed her brow.

"Do you want me to stay with you? We can watch some movies and talk about guys like we always did back in the day." Rey suggested patting her sisters back. Lianna smiled looking deep in her sisters blue eyes. She never seemed to get used at how her sister had grown into a kind and selfless woman. Despite the almost six years of age difference, sometimes Rey seemed so much older and wiser than Lianna ever felt. Maybe it was because the younger seemed quite into meditation and that kind of stuff while the older had chosen to give in to her feelings. Lianna was too much like her grandfather – too intense, the feelings running deep into her veins.

"No, no, no. You will not stay at home because of me." Lianna stated playfully, drawing a smile of her little sister. "I will be fine on my own. Go have a little fun with your husband and the others." But Rey didn't seemed entirely convinced by this.

"Are you sure? Because I really miss our conversations. It wouldn't be a problem staying with you. Really!" And Lianna didn't doubted this for a second – that her sister wouldn't mind staying with her instead of going out with her friends – but she needed some time alone to set her mind at peace. If that was even possible.

"Yes, I'm sure. I'll be fine on my own. Go have some fun. We can have an afternoon to our own later this week." This seemed to put Rey at ease and she smiled shyly at her sister.

"Promise?" Lianna smiled. It was something the two of them used to do since they were little. And until now, she hadn't had to break a single promise she made to her Little Star.

"Promise." Rey kissed her sister's cheek and turned on her hills closing the door behind her. When Lianna was sure that nobody was coming, she propped her elbows on her knees, putting her head in her hands and looking down. It was like being in a bot in the middle of the ocean. The nausea so strong that she didn't knew how she managed to fool her family at breakfast.

"How far are you?" The sound startled Lianna who sat up straight looking at the last person she would expect to come talk to her – her aunt Leia. She stood there almost in front of the older Skywalker, leaning on the balcony.

"What?" Lianna furrowed her brow, her brain not quite understanding what the woman was asking.

"The morning sickness, dizziness, headache… You don't need to lie to me, Lianna. How far are you?" Lianna's blood turned cold into her veins, her eyes widening in shock. She thought that nobody had noticed because their house was a mess now that everybody was living together – her father, sister, her aunt and uncle, her cousins... But of course that she had forgot who her aunt was – Senator Organa, the most skilled leader and strategist of the New Republic. Taking a deep breath, the young woman answered her aunt's question with another question.

"Am I that obvious?" Looking at her niece Leia could recognize something that she had felt when she discovered her own pregnancy. Fear. The senator smiled.

"No, you aren't dear. But I used to be like this when I was expecting the boys. Didn't needed much more to put the pieces together." Lianna nodded taking another deep breath suddenly becoming quite interested in observing the cracks in the ground.

"I'm not sure. I just solved the puzzle myself. Didn't had the guts to go see a doctor yet." And there are the fear again, creeping into her spine and making any decision difficult.

"It's Kylo's, isn't it?" It was a rhetorical question, Leia thought to herself. She knew her sons better than the palm of her own hand and she just knew that the child that her niece was expecting was Kylo's. It hasn't gone unnoticed for her the way her eldest son looked at the young woman in front of her. Or the other way around. The stolen touches when they thought that anyone was looking. The passion that seemed to burn in their eyes and that made the senator remember a younger version of herself and Han.

"Yes." Lianna answered looking directly into her aunts eyes. The two of them became silent for what seemed like an eternity, just staring at each other.

"He doesn't know, does he?"

"No." It was all the information that Leia needed. Lianna didn't need to explain any further because Leia knew that her relationship with Kylo was never easy. The two of them were too intense, too passionate and too alike one another.

Leia saw her sons and her nieces growing up together and it was more than evident to her that even knowing that her tree boys loved Lianna very much, this feeling was very different for each one of them.

Ben, the youngest, always had a strong connection with Lianna. At some point they mistook that connection for something more than just friendship just to realize that they worked better as friends than as lovers. Matt, the middle child, always treated the girl as a little sister. Leia knew that he was the one Lianna relayed on the most and this was saying something because the girl used to carry the height of the world in her shoulders.

And then there was Kylo. Her eldest son always had a problem dealing with what he felt for his cousin. Until today, he fought against his feeling for her but it never fooled his mother. Leia knew better. She knew that they were each other first love and that this love hasn't died despite all the difficulties. But the two lovers were too headstrong to admit what they felt so deep in their hearts. Maybe now, with a fruit of their love on it's way, they could figure things out.

"And I would be very happy to let it that way for now. I know you don't like me and all but…"

"Where did you get that from?" The younger woman couldn't hide the shock at hearing the question.

"You always avoided me. And although I was always around because of the boys you wouldn't look at me or even talk to me if it was not really necessary. I just… thought that you didn't liked me. Because of grandfather and all."

"Oh, darling. I'm so sorry that I made you feel like that." Lianna could recognize the concern in Leia's face when the older woman sat besides her taking her hands between her own. "It's not something I'm very proud of but… I avoided you because you reassemble your grandfather so much. And myself. Sometimes I would look at you and see my younger self and how much both of us took after my father. I'm so sorry if I made you felt like I didn't love you like you deserved." The silence feeler the room again. Both of them just taking in each other like they're seeing each other for the first time. "Of course that I will keep your secret. But you know that, eventually, you'll have to face the truth, right?"

"Yeah, I know."