Sooooo... Long story. I meant to have this out like over a week ago, then my next goal was last Friday. But whatever. It's out now. Anyway... Thank you to
swara tamhankar for reviewing. I agree. That would be really fun and cool. There's a million fics on this sight good enough to be ones. Well sorry this chapter wasn't out sooner.
Disclaimer: I don't own star wars. However... If I did... (evil smile)
Over the remainder of the weekend, Katelyn began formulating ideas as to how the trio was on Earth. Anakin, saying that "When you're at school on Monday, we might need to go somewhere. How will we get there?" wheedled her into grudgingly teaching him to drive her car. They only almost died twice. Chloe showed Padme how to use the family phone, if necessary.
School came, and Chloe went, extremely nervous to leave her guests unsupervised, even though they were all adults, and older than her. After a nice brisk walk, she made it to school. First period was AP History. Drat. Over the weekend, with all that had happened, she had completely forgotten to study. Oops.
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Anakin, Obi Wan and Padme got up the next morning at 8:30, to find a note written by Chloe.
'Hey you guys! If you're reading this, then I'm already at school, and you are on your own. I would like to remind you that I can't bail you out of jail very easily, so pick your fights extremely carefully. Anakin, I'm looking at you. Remember what your aliases are. If you don't know that word, there's a dictionary on the bookcase, next to the TV. Please be careful!'
Obi Wan raised his eyebrows at Anakin, who immediately started protesting his innocence.
"Hey! I didn't do anything! I don't know why she said that!" He yelped quickly. Obi Wan sighed a long suffering sigh, and shrugged his shoulders as if to say I was just asking. When Anakin's stomach let out a loud grumble, Padme smiled and began walking towards the fridge.
"I take it you don't want Ramen this morning either?" Obi Wan asked. Padme chuckled as she shook her head.
"No." She poked her head into the refrigerator, looking for anything she might recognize. Opening a carton of eggs she figured she could do this. "How about some Nabooian eggs to start our day?" Anakin's head popped up at the mention of food. Whoever said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, was correct in this case.
She turned on the stove and cracked some eggs into the hot pan. Digging around the shelf for some spices, she found some that she recognized, although the names were different. Padme added all her ingredients, and cooked the scrambled eggs.
After eating all their breakfast, the trio went about their business, with Anakin soon growing bored. You could only meditate for so long! (Usually that was only about 5 minutes but still!) So, he proposed an idea.
"Let's take Chloe's car and go somewhere." He said. Obi Wan looked slightly hesitant, so he added, "I promise I'll stick to the speed limits, and stay on the roads. Chloe said that's very important here." Obi Wan gave his agreement, as did Padme and they all got in her car.
Anakin turned on the ignition and backed out of the driveway at a pace too fast for reverse. Padme gave him a stern look, and he sighed as he drove slower. Obi Wan spoke up from the back seat.
"We should go to that Library, I think she called it." Obi Wan said. Padme's face lit up enthusiastically.
"Yes! She said they have all sorts of books there! I'd be very interested to learn more about this planet." She exclaimed. Anakin sighed as he reluctantly turned at the intersection to where Chloe had shown him where the library was. When he pulled into the parking spot, Padme practically leapt from the car, so excited to be going in.
Entering the large building, a wave of cool air hit them. Padme immediately headed towards the shelves with very large, very informational texts on them. Obi Wan meandered around the multitudes of adult books, looking for something informational, but interesting. Anakin sulkily made his way to the young adult section, looking for something to pass the time.
His eye was caught by a book called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. He shrugged and picked it up before moving to a large bean bag next to Padme to read.
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Chloe was in 2nd period. It was art. As she traced her pencil on her paper, she thought. She probably got a B- on that test. About 25% of the questions made her go, "what?". She wondered how Anakin, Padme, and Obi Wan were doing. Looking down, she realized that her circle was now a really long oval.
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Thirty minutes later, Anakin didn't even look up when Padme got up to stretch. He was actually surprised that he was enjoying this book. This kid's parents were killed when he was a baby, and he was mistreated by his extended family. Those scenes made him angry, even though he understood that this was completely made up. Then some guy showed up and told him he was a wizard, and he went to this school for witches and wizards. Right now in the book, he just broke the rule about flying when the teacher was gone. He was trying to catch the sleemo Draco Malfoy. Anakin told Padme and Obi Wan his summary, to which they seemed mildly interested in.
"Oh, look. This country is run kind of like the Republic." Padme said, as she continued to read. "They have a senate, albeit it's smaller than ours. Their President seems sort of like the Chancellor's position." Obi Wan perked his head up.
"That's intriguing." He looked back down. "In this place called England, they still have a queen, although she doesn't appear to do much." She kept talking, but at that point Anakin had stopped listening.
After another hour or two, they decided to go get some food. Chloe had left some papers for them to get food with. Why they used little green papers, they didn't know. They saw a restaurant with good smells leaking out of it and stopped. The sign said Taco Time.
"Let's go there." Padme's voice was decisive, and both Obi Wan and Anakin shrugged as they followed her. Entering the store, they saw a large counter, where some people were lined up to talk to a worker. They joined the line and waited until it was their turn.
A bored looking lady looked at them through extremely long and obviously fake eyelashes.
"What's your order?" Her voice was extremely monotone, as if she'd been doing this all day. Obi Wan and Anakin exchanged nervous glances. Padme was already looking at a display board.
"I'll get a baritoe." She said, oblivious to her butchering of the word. She glanced at Obi Wan and Anakin, signaling them to order.
"I'll get those nachos." Anakin hurried to say, already hungry. Obi Wan studied the board. Stroking his beard, he decided.
"The hard shelled Taco for me." He unintentionally said it correctly. The worker clicked a button on her screen.
"So that's a burrito, nachos, and a hard shelled taco?" She asked with no inflection. Padme was in senator mode, and answered cooly.
"Yes that will be all. Thank you." She handed the woman the money, and was given back a few. The lady looked at them one more time.
"Can I get a name for this order?" Anakin stepped forward to answer her.
"A-" He winced at Obi Wan's reprimand through their still functional training bond. "Adam." After refusing to pick a name, Chloe had lost her temper and assigned that one. Anakin didn't really like it.
They found an open booth and settled into it. After about 10 minutes, the name Adam was called, and they got their food. They started to eat, and were surprised by how much they liked it.
"This is good." Anakin said through a mouthful. Obi Wan nodded his head in agreement. It was good. They ate the rest of their meal and got up. Walking out of the restaurant, Anakin asked, "So, where to now?" Both Obi Wan and Padme shrugged, so he decided to drive around and see what this place had.
A few minutes later, they were stuck in some traffic. Then came the problem. There was a whole confusing turn about, in order to turn off the road. Anakin wasn't sure how to navigate it. Pulling a sharp left, he made it, but realized it was the wrong exit. He got back into the loop, stress showing on his face.
"What if we called Chloe? She told us to if we needed help." Padme suggested. Obi Wan nodded.
"I believe that would be wise." He agreed. Padme got out Chloe's family phone and clicked on Chloe's number. The phone rang on their end and they waited, while Anakin continued driving.
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Chloe sat in science, absently twirling her pencil, as she fought to not yawn. Ms. Bradler was a boring teacher, but what she lacked in intrigue, she made up for in meanness. She was single handedly the nastiest teacher in the school. She made every student in her class put their phone in her phone pockets, and heaven forbid if anyone's phone beeped.
She looked at her phone, in pocket 5. It was buzzing. She could tell from the tell tale shaking of the case. She spared a glance at Ms. Bradler. She hadn't noticed. Chloe willed her phone to stop, but it seemed fate was not on her side. Her phone started beeping, with her ringtone. Not very loudly, but still there and noticeably.
Ms. Bradler's hawk eyes swept the room before landing on Chloe's phone in the pocket. She narrowed her eyes in malicious pleasure.
"Miss Davis, it seems that someone's trying to contact you. In class." Chloe paled. There weren't very many people that would want to contact her right now. "Let's answer it, shall we?"
Chloe breathed in and out, trying to hide her nervousness. Ms. Bradler's fingers swiped across the answer option. She clicked speaker phone.
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After a minute of ringing, Chloe answered her phone. She didn't speak immediately, so Padme did.
"Um, Chloe?" She asked, mentally slapping herself. Who else would it be? Obi Wan leaned towards the phone.
"We're in a...bit of a situation here." He said calmly. Anakin turned the car at the last moment, and the screech was probably still audible through the call.
"Yep. A situation would fit this." He said, eyes fixed on the road. They waited for Chloe's reply.
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Ms. Bradler glared at Chloe, before smiling sweetly at her phone.
"Oh dear. That sounds extremely trying. However, Chloe here needs to focus on school. Thank you for your time." Her skinny finger clicked the red call button. She put the phone back where it belonged and continued her lesson as if there hadn't been any interruption.
Chloe was extremely nervous. What could she do for them? She was stuck in a class with Ms. Bradler for five more minutes!
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"That wasn't what I expected." Obi Wan remarked. Padme stared at the phone. It certainly wasn't. Anakin just kept driving.
"Well, what do we do now?" Padme voiced the question in everyone's mind. Obi Wan shrugged.
"Try to get out of this whirlpool, I suppose." He said. Anakin got out of it fairly easily, but on the wrong road. Now they didn't know how to get back to Chloe's house. He pulled into a parking spot and they settled down to wait.
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Chloe practically ran out of class with her phone. Stepping into a corner of the hall, she called Padme back. Her phone barely rang at all before it was answered. Chloe immediately spoke.
"What happened?! Are you guys all right?" She was about to keep going, but was interrupted by Padme.
"We're fine. We just got caught in some traffic. Now we got out, but we're kind of lost." Chloe breathed a sigh of relief. It was a lot better than she had thought.
"Where are you?" She asked. Maybe she could direct them to her house in the ten minutes before her next class started. Padme hesitated for a moment while looking around.
"We're right next to a building called Sam's Club. I don't know how helpful that is." Chloe knew where they were. There was only one Sam's Club near her house.
"Okay. Once you drive forward from the store you'll see a turn. Turn left." She proceeded to explain how to get back to her house, and when the bell rang, they assured her that they could find their way back from where they were.
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Anakin pulled into Chloe's driveway, and breathed a sigh of relief. Obi Wan looked like he wasn't feeling too good. Padme opened her door and stepped out of Chloe's car, glad to be out.
"I don't like driving any more than I like flying." Obi Wan stated, feeling queasy. Anakin smirked.
"Come on Obi Wan. Even you have to admit it was kind of fun." He teased. Obi Wan glared. At least they weren't being driven around by Anakin anymore. It was a small consolation. Now all they had to do was wait for Chloe to get home.
A/N Thanks for reading, if you got this far. If not, at least you tried. I'll hopefully get the next chapter out in the next week and a half. Please review! :)