All right, here it is, the next exciting chapter to Hit List. I've decided to add review responses before the chapters; I've done it for other stories, so I'll do it for this one too.

REVIEW RESPONSES: To JaggednJaded: yeah, because you're only slightly biased on that subject… To Redd: Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it; she's just not Jaina without the Solo wit. To Chimpo: Yes, Jaina was addicted to drugs. She's definitely, completely lost, and yes, Jag is totally wrong in his assumptions about her. To SWaddict1986: No problem. Yes, it's definitely a good thing she got help. And, yeah, having that many heroes for relatives has to suck. To G-Anakin13: thank you. To GavinDarklighter: Yeah, this definitely isn't a story for Zekk-lovers. I'm glad you understand Jaina, and the reason why she and Zekk are still friends will come in time.

Chapter 3: Friends

Jaina stepped onto the harbor dock and collected her bags. She looked around for the tall golden haired butler that had been in her family's employ for God knows how long. There wasn't a single blonde haired, tall man that looked like Theodore. Her mother surely would have sent the anal retentive, whiny man to collect her, unless of course, her mother had forgotten entirely that she was due to come home that day, which Jaina knew was a distinct possibility.

"Jaya! Hey, Jaya!" Jaina looked over to where the call was coming from. Her two brothers were jumping up and down and waiving their arms like total idiots trying to get her attention. Tenel Ka and Lowie also stood there anxiously awaiting her arrival.

Jaina managed to smile slightly and ran over to greet her longtime best friends. Jacen immediately picked her up and swung her around. He set her down and held her tightly.

"Welcome home, Jaya, welcome home," he whispered fiercely in her ear. Jaina hugged her twin back, trying not to cry at his concerned tone. She was close enough with her twin to know how happy he was that she was okay.

"Hey, the rest of us want a chance to hug Jaya too," Anakin mockingly complained, effectively lightening the mood.

Jaina and Jacen stepped away from each other, and Anakin jumped in, eager to hug his older sister. They embraced for a moment, before Tenel Ka took Anakin's place. Last to hug her, Lowie engulfed her petite frame and whispered in her ear, "I'm not letting you out of my sight for a second."

Jaina laughed for the first time in months. Had it been anyone else, she would have been put out, accusing them of not trusting her or being overbearing, but she knew that Lowie had always concerned himself with Jaina's wellbeing and held himself responsible for her safety.

Jaina smiled at all of her friends and let them lead her to where they had parked Jacen's speed boat, but she couldn't help but notice that one of the "usual group" was missing. She should have expected it; the last time the two spoke was hardly good circumstances, but a small part of Jaina hoped that her old, close friend would be there. Over the summer, she had written a letter in hopes of trying to explain what had happened; it was not enough, she knew, but it should have at least been enough to warrant a proper greeting or a chance to further explain.

When they arrived at the Presidential Palace, a huge mansion that Jaina's family had called home for the better part of her life, Jaina excused herself to her room claiming tiredness.

Jaina sat down on her bed, and rather than lying down, she took out the notebook she had written in on the boat.

"Notebook Thing,

"I think that name might actually be growing on me… scary thought. What's just as scary is that I'm actually writing in you again.

"I'm home again. It's so weird to be in my own bedroom which obviously hasn't been touched except to be cleaned since I left. My friends picked me up at the docks. Not all of them, just my closest. The "core", the "usual group", that's what we've always been called.

"Jacen was there and he acted like what happened the last time I saw him hadn't actually happened, that the last time he saw me wasn't when he found me high and cutting myself so deep I could have killed myself. I hadn't expected him to want anything to do with me after what I did. I hadn't expected anyone to want to be around me after what I did.

"Tenel Ka was there too. Tenel Ka cume ta Djo and I have been best friends since we met when we were five years old. Can you believe that? Well, of course you can't, you're an inanimate object, but that's not the point. The future Queen Mother of Hapes and my darling brother started dating last year and by what I've heard and seen – yuck – they're still together.

"My little brother Anakin and Tahiri are now dating according to what Ani told me on our way home. 'About time,' is all I have to say. Ani and I have never been really close. He's my baby brother and he's been following Jacen and I around since he could crawl, but it seems since I've been gone he and my friends have really gotten close. Wonderful.

"Louis 'Lowie' Bacca was the last of my best friends to greet me. Lowie is my 'uncle' Charles 'Chewie' Bacca's nephew. We met when we were one year olds and have remained inseparable since.

"It's weird, just writing about them. I don't need the explanation, obviously, but actually writing it is like 'wow'. I've known TK for twelve frikking years and Lowie for sixteen. The rest of my friends I met in grade school, even my other (and former, it seems) best friend. God, I hate that I can't even bring myself to write the name, but it hurts. We were friends for so long and I don't even know what happened, which is totally my fault after all, but still, I wish…

"My mother is calling for me to come down, wow, and she's actually home for dinner. Miracles do happen. Dad is out of town with Chewie and Lando, so that means no buffer between me and mom; great, just what I need, a fight between us the night I get home.

"I guess I'll write later,

"Solo out."