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It wasn't a thing, actually. For it was a man.

Padme wasn't the only one who got surprised. The man looked more than taken aback when he got to see her face.

"Who is it, Obi Wan?"

A low and husky male voice heard out of nowhere. The young man in front of her, who turned out to be the owner of the name, had finally overcome his previous shock, and finally answered, "A female, Master!"

Female? Master? She looked down to the other hand that wasn't holding her back too tightly (the other one was still on her shoulder). He held a long weapon with blue light gleaming from it. A lightsaber! So he was the Jedi.

"Bring her here!"

The master commanded once more. And very harshly, she was pushed forward to the source of the voice by that Jedi boy. She hated him right away.

The surprise had not been stopped, apparently. When she finally met the voice's owner, she saw that he wasn't alone. There it was, her handmaids surrounding… her. Or, what looked to be like her. Sabe!

"She is one of the handmaidens, Qui Gon Jin."

The man Sabe was addressing seemed to believe her at once, but the younger Jedi looked at her suspiciously. And more suspiciously when she spontaneously dropped her jaw, wider than the 'Queen' dropped hers, as the reaction of the Master's intention to leave her father at the Viceroy's custody and urged his 14-year-old daughter to be the ambassador of Naboo before the Senate.

There was nothing else could be done. So, disguised as a handmaiden, the princess got in to the ship taking her to Coruscant, under the guidance of a Jedi Master and his irritating Padawan.

So, that was how she first met Obi Wan. And therefore, that was the first time she ever loved a man other than her father. Of course, at that time she didn't know that her abhorrence turned out was a mere denial that she was actually just had had her first love. She hardly knew her own feelings until she and the two Jedi went into the battle against the Trade Federation themselves after she successfully beseeched for The Gungans' assistance and therefore, revealed her true identity.

She didn't see it coming; a droid emerged in front of her and, lucky enough, she had the chance to yield and its laser weapon only scratched her arm. She fell to the ground and the droid was about to finish its task when Obi Wan jumped into her view and smashed the droid into pieces.

"You all right, Princess?" And then she knew.

Come to think of it, that was the first and only time he was there for her. And so she thought. And that brought her thoughts to the love afterwards.

She first met Anakin in his home planet, Tatooine. It was in the desert planet they had to land and get the hyperdrive they needed for their broken ship. At that time he was still a 9-year-old boy. After Qui Gon's death, Obi Wan took the place of the Master of the new Padawan. She realized, even from the very beginning, Ani had a strong certain feeling to her. He even called her his "Angel." She realized that Qui Gon knew this, too, and Obi Wan also. And the fact that the latter was aware of the truth made her cheeks blush for a reason at that time yet unknown.

It was 10 years before she could lay her eyes to the sight of the two of them again. It was during her errand, in which she had to fly to Coruscant to pay a visit as the newly crowned Queen of Naboo, for the old king had passed away.

King Padua died before he could accomplish his duty to serve the planet as its king for the second round. That means that people of Naboo needed someone to lead them for another 2 years before they could elect for the new ruler. Chancellor Palpatine pushed Padme to finish her father's job before the senior ministers, whom he suspected, was behind The Separatist movement, could steal the title. As a princess, she had once stood in front of the Senate to plead for their help to free her planet from the Trade Federation's blockade. And now, as a queen, she, once again, begged their help for assistance in defending her title from the ever-assaulting ministers.

Nobody knew how she hurt. No one understood. She never felt so alone.

When a handmaiden, disguised as the Queen, was killed, the Chancellor was more than quite sure that The Separatist assisted by the ministers were somewhere near the plot. When the Queen rejected his offer of two Jedi Knights' protection, it needed merely a name to change her thought: Obi Wan.

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"This is the first time you smile since your father died."

"What?"

The commenter, Sabe, was addressing her young queen, who, as if out of her conscience, was smiling to herself in front of the mirror in her bedroom. Sabe's remark startled her and she finally noticed her own reflection. She always hated the make-up and dresses she had to wear as a member of the royal family. When she was a princess, she could always drop it off and nobody cared; she was only a princess. But she was now a queen.

Her contemplation, again, made her upset. Luckily, Sabe interrupted her and the smile brightened her face once more.

"You're smiling because you're about to meet him!"

"No," she replied feebly, "no, he's just a… 14-year-old princess's crush."

Sabe let out a sneer to show her disbelieve in the Queen's words. True enough, Padme then started, "Do you think he still remembers me?"

"Why, of course he does!" answered Sabe.

Her answer made both of them giggled. Sabe was right; this was the first time she ever smiled since her father's gone.

"Obi!" Jar-Jar's shriek was heard from the bedroom. Sabe instantly helped the queen to get up from the chair to greet the Jedi. And there he was, standing in front of the entrance door. The sight of him made her want to give out a screech. She wanted to run to him and put her arms around his neck and tell him that she has never been this happy since she became a queen. She wanted to call out his name.

But the Jedi Master had outdone her. He walked fast towards and kneeled in front of her, and by doing so, extinguishing her hope. And as if that wasn't enough, whilst ignoring her faint crying, ("No, please don't!") he greeted her with a "Your Highness." All she could only reply was "Master Kenobi."

When he finally got up, he gave her a weak smile and, to ruin her more, he exclaimed loudly, "Congratulation!" As he slowly glided away from her, he revealed a young man behind: Anakin. She welcomed the Padawan with her artificial smile; half wishing he would do the same as his Master. Yet Anakin, not only he kept rising, but also he stared at her with a look, which somehow asked her, "Why?"

She couldn't stand the look, for the look bore too much truth in it. So, pretending to feel, abruptly, exhausted, she excused herself and returned to her bedroom.