Unexpected Announcements

Padme sat at home shivering as she pulled her covers tighter around her. Earlier that morning it had been sunny, but at noon it had started raining furiously. The weather that had gone from good to bad matched her attitude. She sat annoyed, thinking about how the day before had turned from good to bad as well. Very bad. From the time they had arrived at Anakin's house he had turned into an infamous jerk. But of course his behavior had been solely directed at her, and of course none of their parents had noticed.

When they had arrived back home her mother had even gone, as far to say, "Anakin had been a very charming host." "Very charming my ass", she thought to herself. Her thoughts were interrupted as she heard her mothers voice calling her name.

"Padme!"

She didn't feel like leaving the warmth and security of her covers, but she did so anyway.

"Coming", she yelled back.

Slowly peeling back the covers, she got to her feet. She was instantly chilled to the bone, and grabbed a robe out of her closet. Walking down stairs, she could smell coffee, and the ever so sweet scent of shiori pie---her favorite. "Guess who I talked just talked to", her mother said.

"Oh no", Padme groaned inwardly. "Who?" she asked aloud, with mock anticipation.

Jobal frowned for a second at the tone of her daughter's voice, but quickly dismissed it.

"Shmi Skywalker". "She wants to arrange a second date, since yesterday went so well."

Padme smirked to herself. "Well" was far from the way yesterday had gone, and she knew it. Apparently her mother hadn't, or hadn't wanted to.

"Oh" was all she could reply. "When?" "About two weeks from now", her mother said hesitantly as if she was expecting Padme to notice something.

And then it clicked. Two weeks from now, that was her fifteenth birthday. She would be stuck with Anakin.

"So", her mother said expectantly, while gingerly slicing a piece of the pie.

She's trying to butter me up, Padme, thought disgustedly.

"Shmi and I were thinking about a nice picnic and a swim out on the lake." After hearing that one sentence Padme's whole attitude changed. Anakin could be as cocky as he wanted, but she knew he could never resist letting his guard down when she was wearing one of her little black bikinis. She still wanted to get rid of him, but it couldn't hurt to have a little bit of fun first. She smirked. This was about to get very interesting.

-x-

Anakin was sitting in his room watching a holo movie when he heard his mother talking on her com downstairs. Usually he was less than interested in his mother's conversations, but he had been waiting for a particular one. Sometime today his mother would receive a call from Mrs. Amidala saying that she was sorry, but she didn't think that Anakin was a good match for Padme.

"Anakin can you come down stairs for a second?"

"I'll be down in a second", he called back. As he walked down stairs he resisted the urge to smile. He wanted to look as upset as possible when his mother broke "the news".

"Anakin I have something to tell you."

"What's that mother?" he asked in his most sincere voice. "I just got off the phone with Mrs. Amidala". "She and I have both agreed that-Anakin bit the inside of his mouth so that he wouldn't smirk-you and Padme had some good chemistry yesterday, and we want to have the two of you get together again."

"We're going on a picnic by the lake, and a swim afterwards." What! Chemistry? Another meeting? A picnic? No, No, No. This was not what he had expected. He started to feel queasy and could only nod back at his mother. He had to get rid of Padme, and soon. Two words, he thought to himself with a smirk "game on". Or so he thought.

As always let me know what ya think. Sorry for neglecting the story for a while, but I had writer's block and a trillion things to do. I know this one's a little short, but it leads up to the next one which will be longer.