"You're late Tialya…Again" A large and rather irritated Besalisk stood across the counter in the in trading unit. Lamarr, Tialya's boss what a decent enough person, well decent enough to put up with Tialya's constant lateness, but as she could tell even his patients was wearing thin. He stepped forward from the counter giving her a look which demanded yet another explanation.

"Many apologies Lamarr, there had been a – "Tialya paused, choosing her words carefully; she couldn't exactly say she was nearly killed by a bounty hunter now could she?
"There was an accident in one of the passage ways. It took awhile for me to get around it." She dipped her head in an apologetic fashion, trying to look as sorry as possible.

Lamarr huffed. "This can't keep happening; you know I am trying to run a business here don't you?" He began to raise his voice, until he realized there were customers waiting outside, too keep up a respectable image he regained his composure. "Do you know how difficult it is to keep having to repeat the same excuse over and over to our customers? 'Sorry ma'am our cashier is late again' 'sorry sir we cannot open for another few minutes.' It is starting to give us a bad reputation around here, we're losing credits." Lamarr sighed "I will give you one more chance Tialya, learn to be more punctual or I will be forced to find another employee."

"Yes sir, I'm sorry I will learn to keep a better track of time. I won't let it happen again" Tialya was relieved she had another chance, but time keeping was not one of her strong points. She would constantly lose track of time, day dream or zone out; she had to learn to be more disciplined.
Lamarr turned to her as he walked into one of the back rooms. "I like you kid don't let me down."

Relieved and exhausted Tialya flopped over onto the counter, her forehead resting on her arms. "Thank the stars…" she thought. Not long after, customers had begun to enter the store and started to browse the items they had on offer.

A couple of hours had passed as she politely smiled to her customers selling them goods and making small talk as she scanned the items through, it was coming around to 12 standard and the store had quieted down. Tialya closed down the counter, removed her uniform and made her way to the back room.

"Lamarr I'm going to pick up something to eat, do you want anything?" Lamarr didn't look up from his papers, but he gave her the okay to leave the store. Nodding, Tialya made her way out from the store and into the cantina area, as she walked she was overwhelmed at how many officials and security officers were there. She even saw a group of Stormtroopers at a table. "They must be taking a brake too…"

Tialya felt slightly uncomfortable as she had to walk past that table with the chatting Stormtroopers, she felt as if she was going to be stopped for something, like the nervous feeling you get when walking past a security officer in one of the space ports. Keeping her head down, she tried to make herself as small and unnoticeable as possible, but her attempts were in vain as one of the Troopers got up and stood in her path.

Putting his arm onto the table across for her stopping any possible escape, he laughed "Hey there sweetie, you lookin' for somebody?" There was a slight annoying cockiness to his voice.
"Excuse me?" Tialya scowled at the frowning white helmet in front of her.
"I think she's alone" She heard another cocky voice laugh from behind her, she turned around as three more Stormtroopers circled around. "I think she's kinda cute, don't you?" One of them said as he moved his head in closer to hers. "Yeah, like a lost little cub" another continued.

Tialya tried to turn away but was stopped as the first Stormtrooper grabbed her arm tight. "Hey what the - ! Ouch! Let go!" She yelped as she tried to pull her arm away, but his grip only increased causing a substantial amount of pain. "Aww, don't you want to play?" The third trooper said as he twirled her hair around his finger.

"Don't touch me!" Tialya yelped as she pulled her head away, which only cause the trooper to pull out a few strands of her hair. Tears had begun to well up in her eyes, the pain in her arm was getting worse as the first Stormtrooper refused to let go, she was terrified, the cantina suddenly seemed so quiet and no one was even bothering to help her. She guessed they were just as frightened of the Stormtroopers as she was.

"Hey!" A voice called from behind the circle of Stormtroopers "what do you think you're doing? Get back to your posts!"

There was a chorus of curses and cuss words coming from the troopers. The one who had a hold of Tialya's arm had let go and led the others away, not wanting to get into any trouble with the commanding officers. Tialya's knees were trembling, she felt as if she could not hold her own weight as she suddenly collapsed into a head on the cantina floor; tears were now pouring from her eyes, she had never been so scared.

Suddenly one of the troopers turned around and faced Tialya slouched over on the floor. "We'll be back to 'play' later" and with that he pretended to blow a kiss from his helmet. Tialya felt her stomach knot and turn with fear as she heard him speak, she buried her head in her knees, and all she wanted to do was crawl away and hide for eternity.

"Are you alright?" She heard a voice call from behind her.
Tialya turned around, her eyes widened as she saw it was yet another Stormtrooper, but this one seemed slightly different, he didn't have that nasty feel about him and his voice was a lot softer than the others.

She tried to move away from him, Tialya couldn't be sure if she could trust him, she certainly didn't want anything like that to happen again, the Stormtroopers were definitely bad news. The trooper knelt down beside and put his arms out, fear rushed through Tialya's body as she thought "Oh great he's going to try get at me too!"

"Oh no wait, hey, I'm not going to hurt you, I just want to help" He spoke again, this time he had a genuine sound of concern in his voice. "Here, take my hand."
Before Tialya could tell her body 'no' she found herself taking the hand of this trooper, she didn't know why but he had a calm manner about him, she didn't feel to be in any danger so she chose to trust him.

"Okay, up you get." He said as he took her other hand and gently pulled her up. She was still little wobbly, to steady her he put a hand on her side, his sudden touch caused Tialya's face to heat up.
"T-thank you, I'm fine now. Really" Tialya stuttered moving away from his hand, she felt slightly disorientated. Trying to be harassed by four or more Stormtroopers to suddenly being helped by another was certainly odd. She really was having a very bizarre day.

"I wouldn't worry too much about those guys; they're just some hard heads who think the uniform allows them to do whatever they want. We're not all like that." The trooper shrugged. "But there's always one isn't there." Then he laughed "I'm Issac by the way." He put out his hand gesturing her to shake it. In which Tialya returned the gesture.

"I'm Tialya" She replied, a smile had now crept onto her face.