"So where did you two meet?" Ruwee Naberrie asked. Looking up from the delicious meal that they were tucking into, Anakin turned to Padmé and waited for her to answer.
"Um, well Aniver works in the senate too and we met through, well Chancellor Palpatine introduced us, we just became really good friends, we've known each other for years though," she said quickly, looking at her mother and sisters grinning faces she added, "just friends though!"
"When are you going to settle down Padmé?" Jobal asked her daughter. Anakin looked uncomfortable and asked to be excused from the table. Once he was outside he leant against the wall and sighed deeply. Padmé followed shortly after.
"Come on Ani, look, we'll tell them together, tonight after dinner, I promise." She told him. Anakin looked up at her.
"Can't it wait for tomorrow?"
"Listen a childhood friend is visiting tomorrow, I think it would be best if we told them before he came," she said.
"He?" He asked bewildered. Padmé nodded studying his face closely. He looked jealous. She grinned inwardly.
"Yes."
"Who is he?" he asked.
"His name is Laseo, he and I were friends in the junior senate programme," she told him. She knew he would blow up if she told him that he had asked her out. Not on one occasion either.
"Did you ever date?" he asked, looking very worried.
"No. And even if we did, I'm with you now right, and it wouldn't have mattered" she told him. She didn't really want to tell them that night either.
"Okay, Ani, we'll tell them tomorrow, perhaps they'll get to know you more and won't be so mad when we tell them. But tomorrow we are!"
"Yeah right, they're not going to be mad when they find out I don't really work for the senate. They've wanted you to get together with someone that you work with all your life. They're going to be furious, and to top it all off, you went and married a Jedi." He said smirking.
"Alright, alright I get your point but it can't hurt"