Second Chapter :

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"Dad can you believe it? Padmé Naberrie is going to teach me how to ice skate. That's going to be so awesome! I'm so excited I don't think I can sleep." Leia shrieked snuggling into her white comforter.

"Well Miss Skywalker, you have to sleep. If I'm not mistaken you have a test tomorrow." He kissed the top of her head and turned the light off, turning in the doorway he saw his little princess was already asleep. His smile rivaled that of the sun.

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"Hey mom can I come watch you skate?" Luke asked stuffing his mouth full of takeout.

"Smaller bites Luke, yeah I guess you can come tomorrow." She smiled putting an arm around her son, they liked to stay out and walk the sidewalks of town while eating some form of food before going back to their house on the other side of the small village.

"Cool. So, you liked that Skywalker dude huh?" He gently dug his elbow into Padme's ribs. She laughed and didn't acknowledge the question. Luke sighed.

"Well I liked him and I want to leave to go to school in Theed next year and I don't want you to be alone." Luke looked up (although another month or so he would be looking down) at his mother.

"Luke, I don't want you to worry about me okay?" She kissed his blonde shaggy hair.

"Mom, I do worry about you. Ever since dad left, why haven't you dated?"

"There aren't a lot of decent people around, once they find out that I'm a single mother and a high school drop out then they turn away."

"You finished high school, and college."

"Yes but I went back to high school a year after you were born and there were rumors, my reputation was completely ruined and the only thing Palo ever had to do with me was when he'd pass me in the hallway."

"You make it sound like I ruined your life." Luke mumbled. Padmé gave a long tired sigh, she knew that if she said those things, just like the five thousand times she said them before, he would take it like that.

"Having you made me the happiest woman in the galaxy! As far as I'm concerned we don't need anyone else, not even when you leave to go to school in Theed." She hugged him closer to her side, brushed the hair out of his face and kissed his forehead.

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Padmé woke to the sound of water running in the bathroom across the hall and the phone ringing. Mumbling something about dry cleaning she flung her feet onto the cold hardwood floor, completely missing the fluffy white rug.

She fished around on her dresser for the phone.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Padmé?" Not mistaking the voice of Anakin Skywalker she had to cover the phone in order for him not to hear the dreamy sigh she let out.

"Yes? What can I do for you?"

"Um well Leia made me promise that I'd call you, she wanted to know when you'd be able to meet her at the ice skating rink." Anakin replied biting his lip.

"Oh, well I was heading out there today, I need to get my blades sharpened so she can tag along with me and I'll take her to the rink." She smiled opening her blinds and looking out onto the crystal dripped field. Turning her attention back to her conversation and away from the snow she heard Luke shuffle into the bedroom and lean against the door frame.

"Great, um would it be too much trouble to ask you to come by my shop today? That's where Leia will be." He scratched the back of his head and looked around the empty house.

"Oh that's no problem, is it the repair shop on the corner of 5th and 6th?" She asked throwing Luke his backpack that he had left in there when he had asked Padmé for some help with English.

"Yep, that's the one. I guess we'll see you then?"

"Yeah, I'll be there around two thirty; I need to drop Luke off at his aunt's house after I get Leia though."

After clearing up the last few details she threw the phone on the bed and quirked and eyebrow looking at her son.

"You know it's kind of comforting and disturbing knowing that my mom has a crush." Padmé popped his backside and shooed him out of her room so she could dress, after all she was seeing her "crush" today.

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The repair shop that Anakin owned was a bit unorganized but functioned. Leia checked her wrist watch one more time it read one fifty six. She was dying with anticipation, was Padmé really serious about teaching her how to skate or did she really not want to?

"You're one hundred percent positive that she's coming?" Leia asked directing her attention to her father.

"Yes Leia, she's coming. She said two thirty; it's just coming up on two 'o' clock now. Chill out grease monkey." He teased.

"If anyone is worthy of the title 'grease monkey' it's you." She was right, he had emerged from the back garage, where he was working on a speeder, shirtless, and covered in grease.

"Please wash up before she gets here." Anakin consented muttering something Leia didn't catch under his breath as he walked to the bathroom to wash his hands, face, and chest off.

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Hope you enjoyed it... more to come very soon.