CHAPTER NINETEEN

Rey was awakened by her phone buzzing the next morning. It was a text from Leia saying she was coming to watch Satine while Rey was in classes. Rey quickly got up and dressed so she'd be ready when she arrived.

"What are you doing up already? We don't have class for over an hour yet." Jessica murmured sleepily.

"Leia texted me to say she's coming over to watch Satine for me while I'm in class. I thought I'd get ready now, that way I'm ready when she gets here. You should get ready too."

"Alright." Jessica said with a yawn. "I'll get up." The friends then proceeded to get ready in silence. Luckily, they were ready by the time Leia arrived.

"You're sure you don't mind watching her? She can be a bit of a handful sometimes."

"She can't be any worse than Ben was at that age. Don't worry about it dear, we'll be just fine. If I do run into any problems I'll text you. You just worry about learning and leave the rest to me."

Rey gave her a hug. "Thank you for this." We still got about 20 minutes before class Jessica, do you want to stop by Finn and Poe's dorm so we can walk to class with them?"

At this, Jessica's face lit up. "Yes! I'd like to that! See you later Ms. Organa."

Leia laughed and waved at the girls as they headed off to start their day.

Rey knocked on the boy's dorm to ask them to walk with them to class. A sleepy Poe answered the door.

"Rey, Jessica, what brings you ladies over?"

"Me and Jessica were hoping you and Finn would accompany us to class this morning. Did we wake you up?"

"You woke me up Poe admitted. My alarm didn't go off. Finn's been up for awhile, finishing something for his computer class."

Finn came to see what all the commotion was. He smiled when he saw Jessica and Rey at the door.

"Good morning ladies. Looking for me?"

Jessica blushed. "I was" she admitted.

She then walked straight over to him and gave him a hello kiss. Finn kissed back pretty enthusiastically, maybe with to much enthusiasm as Poe had to whistle to get his attention.

"Alright lovebirds break it up. We get it." He turned to Rey. Will you be okay waiting with these two while I finish getting ready?"

Rey nodded. "Hurry up though. We're covering one of my favourite authors in English today and I want to be there on time."

Poe was super quick getting ready. Must have been from getting ready for football practices. The others had gone inside to sit down when Rey realized she dropped her phone outside. She was going to go look for it when someone spoke to her.

"I believe this is your phone?" Rey tensed realizing who had it. She turned around to see Kylo holding it out for her. She quickly took it from him. "Thanks" she said quietly.

"Your welcome. Cute screensaver by the way. You and Satine look cute there. I was wondering if I could see her today? I haven't seen her for a few days and I miss her."

Rey thought about saying no for a moment, he didn't deserve to see her after the stuff he'd pulled. She then changed her mind. She'd be the bigger person and say yes, regardless of what he'd done, he was still Satine's father.

"Fine. You can stop by my dorm after my other class this morning." She then went to her seat without another word.

"What was that about?" Phasma asked her once she sat down. "He wasn't bothering you was he? Or threatening you?"

"Nope. I've got everything under control." Class went by to quickly for Rey's liking. It seemed to end as quickly as it started.

"Before I let you go to your next classes I just wanted to remind you your projects are due in 2 days. Make sure you have everything ready to hand in or I will have to mark your project as incomplete. Have a good rest of the day."

"I'll see you guys later Rey told her friends, I've got to get to my bio class."

She was running to bio when someone called out her name. It was Kylo.

"Rey! Hold on a minute."

"What now? I thought you had a music class now, you know with Michelle?" She asked bitterly.

Kylo's face dropped at Rey's slight but he quickly composed himself.

"I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to go over our project one last time? I finished my stuff yesterday, I'm assuming your stuff is finished as well?"

"Of course I'm done my stuff. My major is very important to me. I'm surprised you finished your stuff, I thought you'd be to busy with Michelle or whoever your sleeping with these days."

Rey's words hurt him more than he could say but he forced himself not to let it show.

"My major is important to me to you know. I take my work very seriously. I think you'll be impressed with what I came up with."

Just then Rey's phone beeped. She looked down and saw that it was a text message from Leia.

"Come to your dorm asap. You'll want to see what's going on!"

"What's the matter?" Kylo asked seeing the look on Rey's face. "Is something wrong with Satine?"

"Come with me to my dorm and we can find out." Puzzled, Kylo followed Rey quickly to find out.

Leia looked up expectantly when Rey, and to her surprise Ben entered the dorm room.

"What is it?" Rey asked urgently. "What did we need to come see?"

Leia pointed at Satine. "Watch."

Kylo and Rey stood there puzzled as nothing happened for about 10 minutes. Kylo was about to suggest that he and Rey just head to class when it finally happened. Both Rey and Kylo watched in shock as their daughter took her first wobbly steps.

"Oh my god!" Rey squealed in delight. "Did you see that?! She took her first steps! Ben, stand over there so I can get it on my phone" Rey told him. Glad to be a part of it, Ben hurried to the spot Rey pointed to.

Satine made a happy little noise at seeing her daddy and walked over to him as fast as her little legs would carry her. Ben had tears in his eyes as he picked his little girl up and held her in his arms. Even Rey had tears in her eyes.

"I think that was worth your two's attention" Leia said as she looked at each of them.

"It was" Ben agreed. "It really was. I gotta go to my music class though. Can I come by after and we can talk about this more then?" He asked looking at Rey.

Still stunned from seeing her daughter walk, Rey managed to nod in agreement. Ben then gave Satine a kiss on the forehead before taking off for class.

Leia turned to her with a smile when he left. "Thank you for letting Ben be a part of that moment. It meant a lot to him I could tell. That's the most humble I've seen him in a long time. Promise me that you'll always let him be a part of Satine's life, no matter what idiotic stuff he may get into."

Rey nodded. Though a part of her felt like Leia wasn't telling her something. Maybe she should ask Ben when he came back? She then shook her head at that thought. Whatever it was could wait for another day. She didn't want to ruin the good mood of the day by getting into another fight with Ben.

She thanked Leia for watching Satine but told her she could watch her now since she decided she wasn't going to go to biology. It wasn't key to her major anyway and she was thinking about dropping it next term.

Once she promised Leia that she would call her if anything else happened she sat and played with Satine.

"What will you surprise us with next? I hope you say mama. It'd be funny to see the reaction on Kylo's face if you did that." Deciding that was her next goal for Satine, she got to practicing that with her. She was also kind of looking forward to Kylo coming by later. Maybe they could start working on repairing their friendship.

"Things might finally be looking up for mommy!"Rey told her daughter happily! She smiled and then continued playing with Satine.

To Be Continued...

A/N- I felt that a lighthearted chapter was needed for a change.

And how cute are Finn and Jessica! Maybe too cute for Poe's taste but who cares what he thinks lol.

Also I know it's unrealistic that Rey would miss a class because of Satine taking her first steps, but it's my fan fiction and I can do what I like with it.

Just to clarify, this does NOT mean Rey and Kylo are getting back together, Rey is still very hurt and angry by his actions and isn't ready to forgive him for that yet. They might develop a friendship though.

I'm toying with idea of Jessica setting her up on a blind date with someone, just to make things interesting. It might be fun to see how Kylo reacts to another man around his daughter. Let me know what you think of that idea.

Thanks once again to all my fabulous readers for your continued support of my story. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this one. Also, I'm open to any suggestions you might have, it keeps things interesting. Please comment anything you'd like to see below.

Take care and I'll see you all again soon with more! ❤️❤️💕💕😁😁