After spending a few minutes just watching the crumpled bucket Ben deactivated his lightsaber. There was no danger, so I guess we were just jumpy because we were guarding a secret. One question remained, who had crushed the bucket?

"Ben?" I wondered out loud.

"Are you okay?" He turned around and stared at me.

"Yes," I answered confused.

"I don't know what happened," he looked away from me slowly.

"It was you, Ben, couldn't you tell?" I asked as I reached up and turned his face towards me.

"I," -he moved my hand away- "I couldn't."

"Yeah you could, and you did," I let my hand fall to my side.

"Fine it was me, like I said I can't control myself around you," he whispered harshly.

"Well what do you want me to do?" I rolled my eyes.

"Don't do that," He ordered.

"What?" I raised an eyebrow.

"Roll your annoying eyes at me." His brows furrowed, and his nose flared.

"Like this?" I rolled my eyes trying to hide my amusement.

"Yes, like that," he grumbled in frustration.

"Fine, you should go get another bucket of water, so we can finish," I suggested and walked back to my spot on the floor.

He left, and I began to scrub the floor once more. I couldn't understand why I had gotten so mad or why he got mad. Also, the buckets, he crushed them, one unintendedly. He didn't even know he had done it, that could have easily been me.

Eventually we finished scrubbing the floors and almost dragged ourselves to dinner. Tonight, all the students were having dinner with Master Luke and Ben's mom. Ben and I sat down in the only two open seats which were towards the back of the table.

I was so tiered that I just stared down at my plate, we had soup and bread for dinner tonight.

"How was scrubbing the floors instead of training?" Cassidious asked as he bit his bread, a smug smile on his face.

"It was fine," Ben answered. "How was training?" he asked politely.

"Well we found out that soon we will go back to piloting, Master Luke said we will be going up to General Leia's space ship to complete the training," He spoke excitedly.

"Really?" Ben asked shocked.

"Yes, isn't it exhilarating?" He smiled no longer being smug.

"I guess it is," Ben said staring over at his mom who was laughing with Master Luke.

"I don't feel good," I said pushing the soup away partially because I was overwhelmed thinking of Ben and I, and partly because I had never flown anything.

"Is there something we can do?" Asked Ben concerned.

"No, thank you, I think I'm just going to head to my room."

"Are you sure?" asked Cassidious, also concerned, unlike himself.

"Yes, thank you," I smiled and walked over to Master Luke.

"Chloe," Master Luke acknowledged me.

"Master Luke," -I bowed my head- "Ben and I finished the floors, May I skip dinner and retreat to my quarters?"

"You'll miss dessert," He warned me.

"I understand," I smiled amused he knew I loved dessert.

"I would really prefer if you eat something Chloe," he sighed looking over at Ben's mom.

"I'll take a piece of bread with me," I tried to compromise.

"Fine, sleep well young Padawan," he smiled.

I took a piece of bread and walked back the way I came. Ben was staring up at me while I walked by him, I thought of what he said earlier, how he hated me, and looked away.

I tossed the piece of bread off to the side once I was out side and headed over to my quarters. Once I was inside I removed my robes and walked in to the shower.

I was glad the day was over, scrubbing the temple floors with Ben while we were both kind of on edge with each other was more difficult that it sounded. I was slightly frightened by Ben's display of uncontrolled force use and his quick temper. Somehow it also made me want to be closer to him.

I jumped in my bed and closed my eyes trying to clear my mind, so sleep could come, it didn't.

What was Ben doing, did I do something wrong, did he really hate me? My mind refused slow down enough that I couldn't sleep. Then I remembered what Cassidious had said about piloting and how we would complete our training in space. I had been in space, but I had never flown anything, I didn't even know if I could. Why would Master Luke think this would be exciting if I couldn't even use a lightsaber correctly.

Maybe I should leave, I could stowaway on Princess Leia's ship and go to the furthest planet and just hide out. Then I wouldn't need to worry about Ben's feelings, the force, or Master Luke.

*knock, knock*

I looked over at the door feeling Ben's energy and rolling my eyes. I turned around in my bed and pulled the blanket over my shoulders. Deciding to get comfortable and fall asleep I bent my knees and folded my arms under my head. I would have to just deal with my dreams tonight whether they be good or bad.

Even though I had not acknowledged the knocking he came in anyway. He was careful not to make much noise as he set something down on my desk.

A loud sigh escaped him.

I kept my eyes close and attempted to breath evenly.

The bed shifted as he sat down behind me, his hand landed carefully in front of my waist as he leaned over.

"I'm sorry," he whispered sincerely.

I didn't respond for obvious reasons, in my head I imagined why he would be sorry.

"You hold me in such high regard, it scares me sometimes," he continued, confusing me further.

He scooted closer and leaned in further until his lips were touching my cheek. He stayed in that position while he inhaled deeply, it felt like he wouldn't be seeing me in a while.

His breath tickled my skin causing me to move my face a bit, I hoped he assumed I was moving in my sleep.

"I wont ever tell you this but the day I met you, I was going away for good, then I saw you walking around. You didn't know where to go so I ended up walking you all the way back to the temple, then you wanted food, and then clothes, by the time I was done showing you around it was night and I was exhausted so I stayed. The next day I was curious about you, so I attended training," he sounded like he wore a smile.

He didn't know that I just wanted to have someone around me, so I didn't look like a lonely weird girl to the others. Master Luke had already given me the grand tour as he liked to call it. I had never told Ben, but he was the first nice person I met here, he didn't treat me like I didn't belong.

"You're the reason I stayed and continued my training," -he moved a few braids off my cheek- "I wish I could make you understand what you mean to me."

With that he stood up and silently walked out, presumably back to his room.

After making sure he wasn't coming back, curiosity got the best of me and I sat up to see what he had left on my desk. Lighting a candle, I noticed it was a small plate with a piece of chocolate cake on it.

He had brought me dessert.

A/N:

Thank you for the warm comments! I just know you will like this one!