Chapter 6

"Damn!" Gracelin said as they finished pushing the speeder into the yard.

"So, I'm guessing you do this on a regular basis." Jaina mused.

"It's not funny. I'm tired of this!" she said gesturing to the speeder. "Tomorrow, I'm going to work on it. Every time Greyton and Ramey try it backfires."

"So they tend to do more harm than good?"

"Pretty much." Gracelin wiped the sweat from her brow.

"Come on let's go inside and get cleaned up." The two walked into the house. "Your friend, Kristea, seemed really nice."

"She is; you'll just have to excuse her. She wasn't trying to blow us off. She's just worried about her band getting their music disk finished before her party."

"She has a band?"

"Yeah, she's the lead and then there are some of her other friends in it." Gracelin opened the door to her room.

"Are you in it?"

"Well, sort of. I write a lot of her lyrics and sometime, and that means very rarely, I sing with them."

"I guess I don't picture you as a band girl."

"I'm really not, the lyrics is all I do. But my mom doesn't know; I'm not sure what she'd think."

"It's not like you're its leader or anything and its not like it's an all guys band."

Gracelin chuckled, "You don't know my mother the way I do. You go ahead and use the fresher. I'll use my mom's."

They parted ways and Gracelin went down stairs. It was still a little while before they would be eating dinner. Everyone would be resting and in their rooms.

Gracelin went to cross the common room to get to Nomi and Greyton's room.

"Wow, what happened to you?"

Oh, great! "My speeder blew a fuse. We had to push it back."

Jacen began to laugh. He couldn't help it though, the thought of Gracelin and Jaina trying to push a speeder.

"I'm glad you find this funny." Gracelin said sarcastically.

"I really do." Jacen replied.

"You really do what?" Luke asked as he entered the room.

"I find it funny that Jaina and Gracelin had to push that speeder home."

"You know you are such a… such a…"

"What? What am I?" Jacen asked.

"You're stuck up!"

Luke could see that Jacen was pushing he buttons. Somehow Luke felt Jacen knew what he had done.

"You're a… a…"

"May I offer scruffy looking nerf herder?" Luke said with a grin across his face. This conversation sounds vaguely familiar.

"Thank you, Luke!" Gracelin said before stomping out of the room.

Jaina came in to see Gracelin leaving, her uncle with a silly grin on his face and Jacen looking more confused than ever.

Jacen got up, "thanks, Uncle Luke." He then left the room to ready himself for dinner.

"What was that all about?" Jaina asked from her Uncle's side.

"Nothing, just Jacen is your father's son." Luke replied and walked away.

Huh? Jaina was completely confused. I'll ask Gracelin later.

Neither Jacen nor Gracelin said anything to each other at dinner. Gracelin would look up at him and then stab her meat with her fork. He would look at her and roll his eyes.

During dessert they did say a little bit to each other:

"Ouch, Jacen you kicked me." Gracelin said.

Jacen hadn't meant to. Why did they sit us across from each other? "It was an accident! Ever heard of them? Oh wait, of course you have just look at the speeder outside."

Luke looked down the table at the outburst. "Hey, stop acting like children."

Nomi cut in, "both of you," glaring at her daughter.

"Act like the young adults you are." Luke said before returning to the conversation him and Greyton had been having.

Gracelin just grunted and excused herself from the table.

Ramey chuckled, "you did it now Solo. She has got the temper of a bantha. And it's all aimed at you."

"So how long do you think she'll hold the grudge?"

"The grudge? More time than you have here. Her temper will cool down by this time tomorrow, probably." Ramey laughed again.

Mara turned to Nomi, "she must get that temper from her father."

Nomi looked down at her food, no longer feeling hungry; "no, I don't know where she gets it."

A/N: sorry about the short chapter! ill try to make up for it soon. Just rememeber, R&R! thanks. :)