Introduction

The fourth out of five siblings, Sam was a true outsider. Her oldest brother and sister were twins at age 20. Anakin her second oldest brother, was going into college and was 18. She was 13 going on 14 and her youngest brother, Han, was ten. She was what you would call the 'middle child'.

She was a daughter to one of the toughest and roughest princesses around and the daughter of a skillfully unknown smuggler. You think she would be a rebel, but she is such a mixture of them equally that you would think you were talking to one of her parents.

She took the training of a Jedi very well for an 8th grader. Most ones of her age would be antsy and inpatient. She was calm and smart, but she did have a side when she wanted something she would work hard to get it. She was also the second generation of Jedi. For the older Jedi have been extinct, but never forgotten.

Sam Pad'me Organa Solo was her name, a cunning girl and very easily slipped from the crowd, like her father easily slipping away from trouble with a sleek dismissal. She lived on the planet Naboo. And was always taught to be careful and not use your senses, but her instinct.

But the only thing she ever really wanted was not a new space speeder with hyper jets or a massive 134-k gun or an intergalactic space pet. All she ever wanted was to meet and see her two, biological grandparents, alive.

Chapter One

It was a normal Wednesday morning; her brother Anakin was rushing to college and her youngest brother Han was just waking up. Yawning Han just got out of his mouth "Mom, what's for breakfast?"

"Toast and eggs." Leia said softly looking at her youngest child.

"Thanks Mom the food was good, got to go, bye." Anakin said and rushed out with a coffee cup in his hand.

Sam was drying her hair and humming. Combing and brushing, combing and brushing. Her hair was long and a dark brown with little touches of red in it.

" Hi, Mom where's Dad?" She hummed. "Did he leave already?"

"Yeah he left with your uncle." She smiled. " What did you need?"

" Oh just a ride to school, our bus is too crowded."

"I could give you one." Leia asked.

"Nah… I was going to ask uncle Luke a question, it doesn't matter."

"Ok, but if you a ride I can give you one." She stopped. "Oh. You need to eat if you want to ride the bus will be coming in ten minutes."

"Kay." She ate and ran off to get her books and left. "Bye Mom, bye Han."

At School

"Hey guys." Sam ran to her friends in the locker bank of her school.

"Hey Sam." Her friends Alex and Moxie answered.

They walk to the library and talk.

"So the new Jedi Academy is celebrating its 10th anniversary today." Alex said as she brushed her hair with her fingers.

Sam thought, "Shit, I forgot that was today." Her friends didn't know that she was a Jedi-in-training.

"What's Wrong Sam?" Moxie asked.

"Nothing, just forgot something, no big deal." She answered. "But it is a big deal, a HUGE deal." She thought

They walked to the library. Sam studies all the other students doing their homework, playing games, and listening to music. Her friends come here to hang out. It was in dead center of the school, so no one would be late for class, and it's not as crowded as their locker bank.

"Hey you guys!" it was another one of their friends, Mac.

"Hey Mac." Said Sam on a low note.

"Hey can I talk just to you for a moment." He points at Sam.

"My mom can't give me a ride to the ceremony tonight is it ok if I tag along with you?" He was the only other Jedi-in-training there in the school.

"I'll ask my mother, but she'll probably say yes, she helps anyone in time in need, even little things like this."

"What did he say?" asked Moxie.

" Oh, nothing," she answered.

Brrring… the bell rings. They all give goodbyes and rush to their classes.

In Class

"Get in your seats kids," as Mrs. Matthews entered their class. "You know if you aren't prepared for class it's a zero for the day." First hour was PFLS or Home Ec. Her classes were 50 minutes each and had passing time of five minutes. She had good classes but of all the seven hours first hour was the least fun. Watching all the 'Cool' kids make mediocre bags and pillows was not only miserable but the teacher was no high point either. Mrs. Matthews was about five foot seven and had bushy gray hair where her glasses were always sitting in it. She had her jokes, but was very strict, even for Sam's taste. "Be quiet kids, the announcements are on."

"Four more weeks with this class. I'm so glad that this is almost done with." The boy next to Sam said. His name was Nate, short, and had brown hair.

"Really?" she answered, "You've been counting?"

"Nate, Sam, be quiet or you'll have detention," screamed Mrs. Matthews. As the announcements had finished the teacher explained the schedule for the day. "I hope your finishing your bags and then we'll hopefully do some food labs next Wednesday."

As the class ended all the children cleaned up. Then the bell rang for the next class. "Be done by Wednesday, kids!" said the teacher as her voice drifted with the noise of the crowd.

Sam gets her books and rushes to her next class.

Fourth Hour

"We're watching another movie on rocks and minerals today kids, but first I want to ask about if anyone heard that the Jedi academy is having a 10th anniversary today," said Mr. Hendricks. He was Sam's science teacher she liked him he was I very enjoyable teacher, he was older, but had been only teaching for four years.

A few kids raised their hands, including Sam. "Good, just seeing if you keep up with the world." He answered. Mr. Hendricks often asked things like that, which made Sam like the class very much, she like teachers who were very in touch with their kids.

Lunch

"Gross, Salisbury steak, that's one thing I can't digest," That's all Sam said as the food was served. She sat down to her table. " So what's new guys?"

" Nothing much." Answered Chelsea.

" Oh! Except Sami Sorenson got ink all over her in science!" Screamed Sara. Sam laughed so hard she coughed up milk.

" Classic." Sam smirked.

" I know because Tiarra switched her pen with a broken one!" Chelsea screamed back. All the girls sat there laughing.

"That was great." Said Madison.

After the bell rings for the end of school

The girls all walk down to their buses and rides.

" Sam, call me," said Moxie.

" I can't, I have something with my family" Sam answered.

" What?"

" Oh, nothing just my uncle's birthday," she lied.

At home

Rushing into the house, "Damn It!" Sam sweared, her mother wasn't there after school. " What I am I going to wear!" the phone rings. "Hello?"

"Sam?" It was her mom.

" What?"

" I forgot to tell you about the ceremony this morning"

"I figured that out, oh could you give Mac a ride? His mom can't make it."

" Yeah, sure, whatever. But you need to find the old pictures of the reconstruction of the academy; they're on the counter, I think. Fax them to the number I'm calling you."

" Ok, here they are." She shoved them in the fax machine.

" Thanks Sam see you at five and I'm picking you up and Mac."

" Bye mom"

" Bye Sam"

Sam hangs the phone up. "Now all I have to do is to find clothes and call Mac."

End of Chapter One