Rey sighed happily as she started to walk back to her car after her final class of the year. Human Resources was a harder college major than she had ever expected. Although she was warned by her friend, Finn, who was a year ahead of her as a sophomore, she enjoyed every bit of learning something new within a new environment.
As she thought about Finn, she remembered the party that he and her roommate, Rose, promised to throw her as a celebration for surviving the year. She still couldn't believe that she had become such good friends with the pair over the past year. Making friends was never her strong suit because she never stayed at a foster home for more than half a year at a time to even make a friend.
Rey lost her train of thought about her constant vicissitudes during her early years when she received a text from Rose.
are u ready for what could possibly be the greatest moment of ur 19 years of life ?!
RT
Rey laughed after reading it and reached for her keys to unlock the old beater 1994 Mazda 626 car that she finally bought only last year to use at Takodana University. She opened the door and sat down to once again admire the car as she always did because it was hers. No one else's. Just hers. She proudly claimed this car as her own and named it "Maz" who was always dependable, no matter how old it was. The novelty of something only belonging to her was something that still hadn't worn off in the past year of living on her own. She assumed it was because she only ever had selfish foster parents that claimed every single item Rey had in her possession, yet didn't care enough to actually take care of her. The bitter thought put a damper on her mood almost immediately, but luckily Rose texted again to bring her out of her own loneliness as always.
u know, it's a known fact that I do throw the best parties that anyone could possibly go to
RT
Rey started the car and set off towards the Falcon Apartment Complex that she now called home. The drive was relatively long because she couldn't live close to the campus due to inflated apartment costs, and it totaled to about an hour if the traffic was good. As she pulled out onto the main road leading out of the campus, she texted Rose back.
I don't doubt it for a second. It'll just be the three of us, right? I want to keep this small, and you know I'm not a big party person. No big surprises either.
RJ
Rey Johnson, I swear that one day I will throw u the biggest party of all and make sure u like it to prove my party planning skills, but I kept it small just for tonight
RT
Good! Tonight I just want to hang out with you guys and not worry about school for the next three months.
RJ
ok... well with keeping it small, I still invited one other guy who I think u would get along with
RT
Rose! Will you and Finn stop trying to set me up with somebody! I'm not interested in dating right now
RJ
I KNOW, but he's still cute, and u are going to meet him tonight because he just started interning at the Resistance with me, and his schedule was open
RT
the only difference is he's interning up with the industrial engineers working on planes, rather than with the electrical engineers like me
RT
I make no promises to act anything more than tolerable towards him.
RJ
Rey, PLEASE ! he's a nice guy, just give him a chance !
RT
Fine, but only if he's truly as good as you make him out to be.
RJ
I knew u would change ur mind! I'm quite persuasive when I want to be, just ask Finn
RT
Rey shook her head and laughed as she had no intention of asking Finn because she just experienced first hand Rose getting what she wanted.
Rey glanced at the small clock on her dashboard and saw that it was 7:30. It had already been a half hour since she left the campus.
Her final class of the day on Fridays was at 6pm and always caused her to be the last one back at the apartment after school.
She picked up her phone again to respond to Rose with a witty remark, but was cut short by a 2019 black BMW i8 that rammed into the side of her much cheaper and older car. The last thing she saw was the flash of a red light glaring down at her as she realized this was her fault...
• • •
Kylo panicked.
His long week at work did nothing to ease the nerves that jumped into him when he crashed into the old car in front of him. He knew it was not his fault, and that only caused a flare of anger to travel up his spine at the inattentiveness of others.
There seemed to be no major injuries as he tested out each limb for any pain, but that was probably due to the expensive security features that his car possessed. His anger quickly resided and was replaced by nerves again as he realized that the car he crashed into was not as lucky. It happened to be far less protective than his.
He shoved open the dented car door and swiftly eyed the damage before he rushed over to the driver side of the cheap car that was turned on its side because of the impact of the accident.
The young woman that Kylo eyed through the shattered window was passed out cold with her head against the steering wheel. A strange feeling similar to butterflies passed through his stomach when he saw her face. It was quickly blamed on the same panic and nerves that occurred shortly after the initial crash. The butterflies flew around in his stomach once more as he reached for his phone to call 911 and realized that he feared for this woman's life.