Chapter 25

Nomi gathered her bags and set them down on the landing ramp. It felt strange being here again. The last she was here had been for her mother's funeral. Now she was back for her father's.

Nomica bent down to reach for her bags when a familiar voice spoke. "I'll take those if you don't mind."

Nomi was full of shock at the person standing before her. "Javon? Javon Dathe? What are you doing here?"

"I heard about what happened. I figured you'd be coming here for the funeral. You haven't contacted me in almost four months, I was worried."

"Why didn't you just ask my aunt what happened?"

"I did. She said you ran away. I was scared I'd never see you again." At the last comment he looked in her eyes. She could see he was telling the truth.

"I moved into the city." She didn't have the heart to tell him.

"I thought we were going to do that together."

"Well, something came up." She looked down at her boots as she walked. Gavin who was walking behind them let out a cough.

Nomi turned to glare hard at him. Gavin just smiled back, "Nomica let me take your things and that way you two can catch up."

"Thank you Gavin." Jovan handed him the bags. "So what have you been up to in the city?"

Don't tell him about Luke. "Not too much. I made some friends."

"That's good. You'll need to give me your new address so I can come see you. I've missed you."

"I've missed you too." You missed him? You had forgotten about him for four months! Your engaged remember! "So what have you been up to?"

"Mostly work. I'm trying to save up money, because… well you know."

A smile came to her face, "yeah. How's that going?" The smile quickly faded.

"I've already reached my goal."

"Really!"

"You sound surprised."

"I thought you would've stopped saving once I left."

"Nomica, I knew you'd be back."

They walked in silence to the speeder that was to take them to her former house. He put her luggage in and helped her in. He got inside and they took off. The ride was quiet. Neither of them said anything.

Nomi was too wrapped up in her own thoughts. What are you doing? Tell him to get his own speeder. Tell him he can forget about saving up for the ring. You have one already. I wish Luke would've come with me.

They pulled up the little hut in the sand. There were about six other speeders parked outside. Nomi left her things in the speeder for now and ran inside.

When the door slid open she saw her brothers and their families sitting inside. She saw her aunts and uncles. She saw her cousins. Then she saw him running at her. Little Ramey ran and jumped at her, throwing his arms around her neck.

The ten year-old held on to her for dear life. She slowly peeled him back so she could look at him. He had grown so much since she had seen him last. He had visited her and her aunt on Corusant a couple of years back. She could tell the boy had been crying. The thought of the pain he was feeling made Nomi start to cry. She pulled the boy back into an embrace.

"What's going to happen to me now?" He cried into her ear.

Nomi pulled him back and wiped away her tears first, then his. "You're going to come and live with me."

"You can't take him to Corusant." Decame was standing right in front of the two.

"And why not?"

"That's no place for him, hell it's really no place for you."

"It's fine. That's where my life is."

Decame pulled Nomica off the floor by her arm. He dragged her into the kitchenette. "You begged dad not to send you to Corusant. When you found out you were pregnant you fought with him telling him that was no place to raise a kid. You begged him to let you go to Naboo. But he didn't.

"Now you have the perfect reason to get to leave Corusant and now you don't want to go. All because of some guy. OH, and by the way Javon is here. Where is that fiancé of yours?"

"Decame, shut your mouth!" Nomi reached up and slapped him. "You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I'm going to go put my things up." Nomi pushed by her brother and continued walking. She wished the doors here could slam.

She was sitting on the bed when there was a knock at the door. She thought it would be Ramey but it wasn't. She opened the door to see Javon standing there.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Nomi walked back over to the bed and sat crossed legged.

He came and sat beside her. He is too close. Nomi slid over a bit. "I think its great you're taking in Ramey like this."

"I wanted him to be somewhere that I knew was safe."

"Are you taking him back to Corusant?" Jovan said in a bit of a surprised tone.

"That's twice I've gotten that today, and yes I am."

"Okay."

"What?"

"I just don't think that's the best place for him. After all this he needs things to calm down."

"You're right. But I don't know where to go. And I'm not moving back here."

"No one said stay here. You said when the time came, we'd move to Naboo. Maybe the time is now."

Tell him! "But I don't know anyone there."

"You'd know me."

Tell him! You're only making it worse. Tell him! She just smiled and kept quiet.