Chapter Six

Anakin Skywalker stood on the balcony looking upon the shimmering lake. It was so beautiful; it hurt his eyes to look at it. It was almost as beautiful as Padmé, ALMOST. He sighed. He still couldn't believe that she betrayed him. Well, deep…DEEP DEEP down somewhere in his heart he knew that she never actually was his in the first place, after all, when they first met she could have already had a crush on Obi-Wan. But he didn't want to admit that yet…he didn't think he was ever ready to admit it. Anakin didn't bother to blink; he didn't want to blink, because whenever he did, or whenever he shut his eyes he only saw…over and over and over again the image of Padmé kissing his Master. It was forever burned in his mind. Gods, he couldn't stand this. Anakin turned sharply when he heard Padmé's laughter and Obi-Wan's voice across the lodge. So, they were coming back from their little walk. I wonder what -- no, Gods, no, don't think about it. He shut his eyes and opened them again. There they were, standing in front of the lake, oblivious to anything else except each other. IT MADE HIM SICK. He felt like throwing up, but no, that would be a sign of weakness, and he wasn't supposed to have any weaknesses, except for his love for Padmé. Anakin sighed, he didn't know whether to burst their bubble and let them know he was here or to just leave them alone. He didn't have to, for just after that thought Padmé turned towards the lodge and saw him. Instead of acting distant and shocked to see him instead she ran up to the balcony and grabbed his arm. She smiled at him. Oh how his heart swelled at that beautiful smile.
"Come on Ani! I'm going for a swim, though I don't know if Obi-Wan is going to or not," she turned to Obi-Wan and stuck her tongue out at him, and he just laughed. "Want to come with?" she asked with her beautiful eyes shining. But before he could even answer she had already pulled him along with her and now they were both standing beside Obi-Wan.
"Come on! It should be fun!" she exclaimed, giggling with glee. "Well, first I have to go change, of course." She winked and walked back into the lodge. So, Anakin was finally left alone with Obi-Wan. He turned to Obi-Wan but his Master was just staring at the lake. Anakin cleared his throat.
"So, Master, how was your walk." He couldn't believe he dared to ask that question.
"It was fun," Obi-Wan answered absently.
So, that was all that was said between them until Padmé came back. She was dressed in a one piece light blue swimming suit. When she had been unpacking her bags she had been surprised to see that it was in there, certainly she hadn't packed that in there. SABÉ! You scoundrel, you knew all along didn't you.
Of course Padmé was glad that Sabé had packed it for her. Sabé knew her so well. Padmé came to stand next to the Jedi and looked at the water eagerly.
"Well, I'm going for a swim, it's just too bad, you don't know what you're missing!" she called behind her shoulder as she walked into the lake. She laughed and dove under for a few seconds. Padmé let the water skim through her fingers, how she loved water. It soothed her body so. She dove under again and thought she saw something shiny. She surfaced and turned to where the Jedi had been but was shocked to find that neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan were there anymore. Maybe they're actually going to swim with me. This should be fun. She mused smiling. Once again she dove under and grabbed the shiny 'thing'. Padmé surfaced and looked at the shiny 'thing' in her hand. It was a turquoise rock, a small one at that. It was so beautiful though. When she turned it any which way in the sun it changed colors. This rock reminded her of Obi-Wan's eyes. The rock was so small that it would fit on a ring. Padmé smiled and laid it on her towel for safe keeping. Obi-Wan and Anakin soon returned, Obi-Wan getting in the lake first and splashing Padmé twice, with her laughing and not being able to see and not being able to splash him back. Anakin, of course was a bit hesitant because of the sand. He didn't want to touch it. Anakin finally got in the lake, which seemed a very long time to Padmé. Finally when he got in she splashed him right on. Anakin sputtered and glared at Padmé "Oh give me a break! I just had a horrible experience with sand again!" he yelled while splashing her back. "I didn't want to touch it"
Padmé laughed and swam far away from them, so not to get hit by the water. She watched as Obi-Wan and Anakin fought. First Anakin had splashed Obi-Wan and then Obi-Wan had growled and swam over to Anakin and dunked his head in the water. Padmé laughed when Anakin came back up, sputtering and getting water out of his eyes. He suddenly turned to Padmé and smiled devilishly. "Oh, so, you think this is funny, eh Padmé? Well, ya better watch out for yourself!" he cried while swimming closer and closer to her. Padmé squealed and swam farther away, but Anakin, being swift and agile in the water quickly caught up with her and grabbed her, tickling her. Padmé kicked under the water and tried to take a hold of his arms under the water but she couldn't stop laughing.
"No! Anaaakiin! That, that tickles! ARGH!" she yelled while she decided just to splash him with a wave of water, which stopped him and he had to let go of her. She swam behind Obi-Wan and clutched his shoulders.
"Oh, my brave knight! PROTECT ME!" she cried in a high falsetto. She giggled and squealed as Anakin came swimming towards her and Obi-Wan. The latter turned his head and smiled.
"No worries, my lady, I shall protect you with everything in me." he said chuckling and facing Anakin. Anakin quickly swam up to Obi-Wan and tried to pass around him to Padmé but Obi-Wan blocked him off by splashing him and dunking his head under. Anakin grabbed Obi-Wan's arms and shoved him backwards. Padmé laughed and dove and swam under to the end of the lake that was near the house. She surfaced and sat on the beach watching them.
"RETREAT!" she cried and laughed when they looked at her with surprised expressions. They hadn't noticed her leave from behind Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan chuckled and swam up to Padmé and sat next to her.
"YES! Retreat!" he cried while raising an arm up, pointing at Anakin and laughing. Anakin smirked and swam up to them but didn't sit on the sand. He just stood off the bottom of the lake. Padmé smiled at Anakin and patted the sand next to her.
"Come on! Sit by me!" she said teasingly. Anakin wrinkled up his nose and shook his head.
"Uh, no thanks Padmé…I'm fine where I am, thank you very much." he said smiling at her. Obi-Wan laughed and whispered something in Padmé's ear, in which she laughed, looked at Anakin and burst into some more laughter. Anakin had this cute puzzled look on his face and he was just staring at them.
"WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING ABOUT! I know it's about me! Come on! Please tell me!" he demanded, fluttering his legs and arms in the water to make ripples. Anakin's eyes narrowed when he looked at Padmé. She giggled.
"I'm sorry! It was just too funny, I…" she looked at Obi-Wan, "Should I tell him"
Obi-Wan smirked and nodded. "Sure," he responded quickly, a little too quickly for Anakin's taste.
"It was…well, I -- I…it was…" Padmé could barely talk by now because she was laughing so hard. Anakin grunted and rolled his eyes.
"FINE! Don't tell me then."
Padmé stopped laughing and looked at him.
"Ok," she said cheerfully, smiling innocently at him.

Obi-Wan stood by the window, sipping coffee, he was rather comfortable. The sun was sinking low, it was sunset. It was so beautiful, such beautiful colors of pink, orange, purple. Now I'm not saying, I'm definatly not saying that Obi-Wan likes those colors, it was just pretty for a sunset, that's all. He sighed happily and set his cup of coffee on the window sill and walked into the kitchen. Obi-Wan walked in to see that Anakin and Padmé were both standing there, sipping coffee also and were talking. Both Padmé and Anakin looked at him and smiled and said in unison.
"Hey, Obi-Wan"
After they got over the initial shock of them saying that in unison they looked at each other and burst into laughter. Obi-Wan chuckled and sat down at the table. After they had gotten done swimming the three had taken their showers and had just wanted to relax, even more. So, here they were, talking together (finally! Gosh! lol) and sipping coffee. Padmé sighed and put her cup of coffee down on the counter. She turned to the window and gasped. That sunset was so beautiful! Suddenly she turned to the counter and grabbed for her cup of coffee but…it moved! It literally moved, without anyone touching it. Padmé frowned and reached for it again and it moved even further from her hand. She sighed in exasperation but smiled at the two Jedi sweetly yet there was a deadly glint in her eyes.
"So, which one of you is doing this?" she asked gently yet there was a hidden threat in her voice.
Both Obi-Wan's and Anakin's facial expression didn't move, they were so bland. Padmé's hand flew up in the air and she sighed. She tried grabbing the cup again but this time it moved and it floated in the air just in front of her face. Padmé quickly scanned the Jedi's faces and saw that Anakin was trying to hide a grin. Padmé quickly smacked his arm, in which he yelped and the cup dropped right into her hand. She smiled at Anakin's downcast look.
"Thank you!" she said while practically skipping outside and climbing a hill. Obi-Wan looked at Anakin, Anakin looked at Obi-Wan. The padawan smiled and punched his Master's arm. "Well, see ya later!" he said laughingly while jogging up to Padmé to follow her. Obi-Wan snorted and ran out too, he stopped…BLAST! Where'd they go? Obi-Wan narrowed his eyes and concentrated. He smirked, this was going to scare the heck out of Padmé. Oh well…Obi-Wan chuckled.
Padmé was walking up the hill with Anakin when she stopped. She turned to him with a puzzled expression.
"Did you say something, Ani"
Anakin looked back and forth…………"Ummmmmmmm, noooooo." he answered slowly. Padmé shrugged and kept on walking.
"Padmé! I know you can hear me! Where are you"
Padmé froze and turned around in circles, searching.
"OBI-WAN!" she blurted out. "He's talking to me in my head"
"Come now, Padmé. You're not that freaked out that you can't answer me?" by now Obi-Wan was walking in the direction in which he could sense that they went. Hehe, he was having fun.
Anakin smirked.
"He is? Haha" he said tauntingly.
Padmé chuckled and aimed for his head, but he ducked. "Oh shut it"
Anakin stuck his tongue out. "NO! I don't wanna!" he said in a girly voice. (ahem, which I don't think is too unnatural for him, eh obi-wan? Lol!) He hesitated, but poked Padmé in the side and yelped and ran as she started chasing him through the meadow on the hill. The sunset illuminated their bodies as black shadows running and laughing and just having fun, like old friends. Until Padmé pounced on Anakin and started tickling him. Anakin laughed and finally grabbed a hold of Padmé and turned her until she was on the bottom and Anakin was laying in top of her. And that's when Obi-Wan came into view and saw them.

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