This next entry is dedicated to a friend of mine... she knows who she is. I just hopeone day she'll get to read this, wherever she may be...
Entry 14
Uncle Owen went off on a trip to Mos Eisley today. He said he had to pick up some supplies for the new vaporators that are going up next season. He took Aunt Beru with him and that new construction droid, Ayespee seven o'eight, to memory wiping facilities in Tosche station. He told me to watch over the farm. This is the first time I've ever been left alone here. I'll finally get to prove to him that I am old enough to go off to the academy.
Everything seemed like it was going perfect today. Then Jeng came by. He wanted to talk. I knew something was wrong when he came all the way out here to talk. Normally, we'd see each other on occasion at Tosche Station and swap stories... Today was different. He looked sad, but he also looked excited when I first saw him. So we came inside and had some vegetables and some blue milk that Aunt Beru left for me to ration.
He told me the news - his older brother, Jaxx, was killed while in service for the Imperial navy. Apparently a group of rebels on a wayward planet across the galaxy had tried to stop the Empire. Jaxx's squadron was the first to respond. Jaxx never reported back to the base... all was assumed that his life was lost. His Imperial officer sent Jeng's family a holovid about what had happened and how his life was not given in vain. Jeng almost broke into tears telling me what happened... I felt his pain. It was almost like I could feel it radiating from him... but then he looked at me and told me something. Something that was so full of rage and anger... he told me he had enlisted in the Imperial Academy and was accepted. He told me he was going to seek revenge on the rebels who killed his brother...
He told me about the academy and how it was going to work. He even told me that when I'm ready to go, he'd put in a good word for me. Jeng's one of the best pilots around here.. the only other one that can keep up with Biggs and myself in Beggar's canyon or the rest of the Jundland wastes. And now he's gone too. He left me some credits he'd been saving up. He told me that they were for me to send in an application to the academy when I was ready. He sighed and took off for his landspeeder...
I have a feeling that I'll never see him again. He's going off to fight a war that I can't... not until Uncle Owen lets me go off this wretched planet. As he left, I ran up the stairs to the outside of the farm. The suns were setting and his speeder was long gone, leaving dust trails everywhere. Jeng was gone... someone else that's leaving my life. I only hope that everything works out... I hope he finds out who killed his brother. I just don't know if revenge is the right path to follow. I guess I'll just sit here and stare at the suns for a while... I'll miss you, Jeng. At least you got off this planet...