I don't own Clone Wars.

It's been almost a year and everyone is nervous about the final field exam. I've gone over the field practice test over and over with my squad mates and we're doing good so far. Royce and his squad are doing pretty good to. But since Royce and I weren't raised in the clone life style, we have to take a written test before taking the field exam with our squads. If we fail, then we'll have to repeat the year of training.

Life in the academy isn't too bad, but you have to shower within five minutes and being a girl that's hardly enough time for me. Especially when you have really long hair, so half the time I come out with suds still in my hair when the shower turns off by a timer. And that there is the occasional peeping tom, which I send packing every time.

But right now I'm sitting on my bunk studying for the written test tomorrow with Royce. He hasn't changed much, except that he has grown to love tearing droids apart; the dude is becoming more like me all the time.

We've been studying all morning and that would be four hours straight. I lay my note filled holo mec down and rub my temples. "I feel like my brain is gonna explode." I groan.

"I hear that, but we need to know this stuff for tomorrow." Royce points out.

"I think you're ready for it." Fri says in his bunk above mine. He's part of my squad and he's a really friendly guy. He became one of my best friends in the academy right from the beginning.

"You guys are just nervous." Reggie says in the bunk next to Royce. He's in Royce's squad. "If it makes you feel any better we'll quiz ya." We handed our notes to him and the pre quiz began.

(I don't know much about that kind of stuff so I'm gonna skip right through that)

Reggie hands us back our holo mecs. "You're ready."

"You sure? We missed a couple questions." Royce says nervously.

"Royce, you and Lilly know more of this stuff than the rest of us. You two are gonna pass tomorrow and we'll see you at field exam day."

"He is right Royce." I said. "We went through twelve years of school and having things embedded in our brain. It's a habit for us to have everything embedded into it."

"Yeah, but-" Royce began before I cut him off.

"No buts! Now if ya'll will excuse me, I'm gonna go to sleep in this file cabinet." That's what I call these bunks, when they close it feels like I'm sleeping in a file cabinet. I press the button from the inside panel to close my bunk and doze off to sleep.

Some time later

I feel my bunk slide open and I squint at the bright lights of the academy.

"What part of sleep don't you guys understand?" I groan.

"Is that anyway to greet two friends coming for a visit?" I know that bad humor anywhere, I thought as I rub the sleep out of my eyes.

"Rex! Cody!" I shout giving each a hug, thrilled to see the two crazies. "What are you guys doing here?"

"We're over looking the upcoming field exams." Rex says. "Hope you pass and join us in the battle fields."

"That's if Royce and I pass the written exam first."

Cody tugs on my braid. "Don't worry, you will."

"Everybody keeps saying that, well, except for Bric."

"Bric is a jerk like always. Don't let him get to ya."

I blush light pink, I've always had a little crush on Cody but I never thought I would actually meet him.

"Come on. Lets get some lunch." Rex says climbing down the ladder. Cody and I follow him down to the floor and go to the mess hall. We have the same thing everyday, the clumpy gray stuff. When I first laid eyes on it I thought it was mashed up ration bars or bad glue, either way it's edible.

"Have ya'll ever heard of variety?" I ask as we sat down.

"Tell that to the kaminoans." I grumble as I ate the tasteless gunk.

"So how's Royce doing?" Cody asks.

"He's doing pretty good. Getting along with his squad pretty well to." I said eating the last bite of my lunch.

"That's good to hear, what squads are you two in?" Rex asks.

"Royce is in the turbo squad and I'm in the mec squad."

We continue talking, catching up on things, for almost the whole day. Thank goodness I have no classes that day.

"I'll be back in a couple minutes, I have to take care of something." Rex says walking off towards the bathrooms. Leaving Me and Cody in an awkward silence.

"So, h-how are you liking the soldier life so far?" Cody asks. Why is he nervous? I'm the one with a freaking crush on him!, I thought.

"I'm still a cadet Cody, I'm not a soldier yet." I said.

"I know, but I'm just wondering."

I grin up at him. "It's actually pretty cool so far."

"I hope it remains that way, unless your mind is filled with grief before then."

"Well, so far Royce was able to pervert my mind." Cody freezes in his tracks. "He told me about it ya nasty." Cody relaxes after hearing that.

"Lilly, I know this sounds awkward, but did you have...a boyfriend back home?"

My eyes narrow at him. "No, never had a boyfriend and no I'm not interested in Royce that way."

"Well, I was wondering if you would like to go out some time. Maybe dinner or just a walk?"

My hormones kick into gear. "Are you asking me out on a date?" Please say yes please say yes PUH-LEASE say yes, I thought.

"Seems that way." Cody laughs nervously. "Sooo..."

I can't stop the smile forming on my face. "Sure. When and where?"

"After the field exams, I'll meet you at your barracks."

"Ok."

"So what did I miss?" Rex asks coming back from the bathroom.

"Nothing much." Cody says lazily. He grins at me and I blush.

When it came close to curfew, I had to get to my barracks before Bric can catch me out of my bunk past curfew. He's been trying to create excuses to punish me so I would have a hard time here. But when it comes to push to shove, I shove harder every time.

I'm running down the halls towards the barracks with only three minutes left to get there. I push my legs faster to get to my bunk, I skid to a stop at the ladder and clamber up to my bunk. Fri is motioning me to hurry up. I make it just as the curfew bell rang. Fri gives me a thumbs up before our bunks retract into the wall for the night. But I couldn't sleep, I'm too excited about my date with Cody in a couple days. But I soon go to sleep not long before the wake up call sounds off.

"UH! Can I murder the bugler?" I groan.

"As much as many of us would love that, no." Zealot says climbing down to the floor.

"C'mon Lilly, we have that test in an hour!" Royce reminds me.

"Oh right." I get out of bed and walk down to the room where we're taking our written test. I can tell Royce is nervous because he's shaking. I don't blame him, I'm a nervous wreck right now. We enter the room and a droid comes up to us.

"Take a seat please." the droid instructs us. After we sat down the droid puts the test in front of us along with pencils to write with. "You may begin when ready."

Royce and I open our tests and start beginning to answer the questions.

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