Confrontations at a Lake
Chapter Two – Another Encounter, and…Pie?!?
(A/N: I almost didn't finish this. It has been a very VERY hectic day, and I am EXTREMELY relieved that I finally finished this! If there are ANY problems with this chapter, such as grammer, spelling, punctuation, etc, I'm SO sorry! I'm a bit stressed out, and don't have enough time to reread this, and I have no one to beta read it. I hope Obi-Wan will...Anyway, to let ya'll know, I won't be able to update this story anytime soon, since I'm leaving for NY soon, and will be gone 5 days, thus Obi-Wan and I won't be able to rp. So, I hope ya'll can wait that long! As soon as I get back, we'll continue this story! Enjoy this chapter, and please excuse any problems with it.)
(Other Authors Note: I tried to fix it up a bit, just the spelling stuff. Sorry if I missed anything!)
Obi-Wan Kenobi walked into the lake, pulling his tunic off at the same time. He started swimming around, not expecting that one girl to come back anytime soon, especially after the verbal assault he had given her yesterday. He smiled slightly and continued to swim around lazily.
Padme smiled and laughed, leading her friends towards the lake, where she had been yesterday, with that…man. She frowned at the thought of him, praying that he wasn't there again, and shook her head, and forced herself to laugh on cue as her friend chattered on, ending a joke she had been telling.
Obi-Wan came up from underwater, treading water, and momentarily stood still as a faraway laugh reaches his ears. Meanwhile, Padme continued to lead her friends, and couldn't hold back a giggle as she saw Lilly, one of her friends, skip ahead, singing an old song that everyone in the village knew, extremely off tune. She breathed a sign of relief as Ana, her other friend, started singing, on-tune, this time, which Padme was grateful for, she hadn't thought her poor ears would've survived any longer. Obi-Wan stopped treading water once again as he saw a girl skipping towards the lake come into his view, and breathes a sign of relief as he sees it's not the one from yesterday, and smiles at the chance to annoy someone else, but his smile comes off his face as he sees two other girls following, one of them the girl from yesterday, Padme. He hates this feeling, not knowing what to do, and just..tries to act normal.
"Come on, Padme! Sing with us!" Ana said, smiling. Padme had yet to reach the lake, so she had no idea that Kenobi was there, and so, she nodded and started to sing as well. She felt slightly self-conscious, as she was singing solo, her friends just listening, but she chastised herself, she was fine, no one was out here but her friends, and as they got to the clearing, Lilly immediately started running to the lake, squealing like a little girl. Padme stopped singing abruptly at the sight of the man from yesterday, Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan smiled and whistled. "Pretty voice, love. Just one more thing for that man of yours to love." He smiled evily, knowing he'll enjoy this fight, three against one.
Padme stood there, forcing herself to breathe normally, while counting slowly to ten in her head, all the moment of yesterday flashing through her mind at a very fast speed. Ana looked at Padme, frowning slightly.
"You know him?" She asked, and then she smiled. "You lucky girl!"
Obi-Wan smiled extremely happily at Ana and looked at Padme.
"See, dearest, at least someone appreciates scoundrels."
Padme scowled. "I told you not to call me dearest!" She dared to venture forth and waded into the water, seeing that Lilly and Ana were off to one side, intrigued in their own conversation, for once, although she did notice that they kept looking over at Obi-Wan and smiling.
"You had no problem with me when I called you love. You prefer love over dearest then?" Obi-Wan said, jarring Padme out of her thoughts.
"I prefer neither, thank you very much. It would be lovely if you could, from now on, refrain from calling me anything like that, and if you do, don't underestimate me, I'm prepared to throw something else at you." She crossed her arms and watched him. Obi-Wan suddenly put his hands up, a look of mock afraidness on his face. "Ohh, no!" He begged mockingly." Please don't throw anything at me again, I nearly DIED last time."
"Pity that you didn't…" She said, rolling her eyes at his actions, and swam off , to the middle of the lake, trying to enjoy her time here.
"So…" Obi-Wan swam after her, totally leaving the others behind. "How'd mommy feel about that mean man at the lake who threw you into the water?" He smiled just a tad.
Padme scowled and spoke, sarcasm thick in her voice. "Ohh, let's see…she thought you were the nicest man she'd ever let her daughter meet…" Padme had said that, sarcasm in her voice, but a completely innocent expression on her face.
"Wow, I'M the best man you met? You haven't met many nice men, now have you.?"
Padme rolled her eyes and stayed silent, and tried to get away from him as unnoticed as possible, knowing that she didn't have to explain herself to him.
"Well, how's your mother? I'd really like to meet this woman who thinks I'm nice." He continued to follow her, much to her aggrevation.
"I told you, I don't have a mother…" Padme wished he wasn't following her, she wasn't comfortable at the proximity they were at.
"What's with this...'don't have a mother' thing? You told me in the beginning that you had one, and now all the sudden you don't. Why would you lie about not having a mother?" He wanted to push her, he wanted to know, he was extremely interested, and was actually being nice for once.
"Because I can…"
"Yeah, but come on darling, if you lie to me about stuff like that, then I'll never know when I can trust you." It surprised him that he was actually still being nice. He smirked slightly, as he saw her turn to him, her eyebrow raised.
"What makes you think we'll continue knowing each other long enough, that you'll actually want to learn to trust me. "
"I don't know. We use the same lake, and neither of us are going to leave because of the other, I assume, since you seem very stubborn." He stated, and felt something stir in him as he actually saw a small, but sincere, (the most sincere he had seen while he had known her) smile on her face.
"As do you." She murmured. She continued to tread water, thinking. Finally she looked up at Obi-Wan and opened her mouth to speak. "Alright, I'll tell you."
Obi-Wan smiled and waiting patiently for her to begin.
"I don't have a mother…I did…but I don't anymore. She…died." Padme was surprised that she had actually managed to say that word, and forced herself to continue talking. "She died…two weeks ago." Padme finally allowed some emotion to seep into her voice, she hadn't cried for her mother, these past two weeks, not in public anyway, and she was finally coming out of shock. "When I get flustered like that, I find that I usually am still thinking that my mother is still alive…it's happened a couple of times before, and then when reality strikes, it's just…" She paused, searching for the right word.
"I can't explain it." She finished lamely, sadly.
Obi-Wan looked down.
"Oh..well, I'm…" It seemed to Padme, and to himself, that it was difficult to get the word out, "sorry…If I'd known I wouldn't have said anything about her.."
"It's fine if you're not really sorry about it, most people aren't.." Says that bitterly, and looks over at her friends, and calls them over, wishing to have some fun, after talking about her mother…she'd cry when she was alone in her bedroom, not here, not now.
"Well, just accept my apology, ok? I don't say that kind of crap very often, so don't get used to it." Obi-Wan saw her friends swimming over, and he leans towards her and whispers, "Ahh, time to annoying you again.."
"Great.." She whispers back, and a smile comes on cue, as her friends get over to them, and clearly Lilly was quite taken with Obi-Wan…
"HI!" Lilly said, smiling. "I don't believe we've meet. I'm Lilly Fontaise!"
"Morning. I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi." Obi-Wan found that he wasn't paying too much attention to her, instead he was focused on Padme. "Nice friends, princess."
Padme sighed, but surprisingly didn't argue about him calling her princess, all she did was smile sweetly, albeit a completely fake one, since she rarely ever felt like smiling anymore. "Thank you. And this…" She gestured to Ana," is Ana Ceant."
"Morning to you, too." He said, nodding to her.
Ana smiled and waved madly. "Hello!"
A pause soon became the four, and Ana was the first to break it.
"So…" She started, feeling slightly awkward since no one was talking. "Padme's never mentioned you before, how'd you two meet?" She was extremely interested in how they meet, and she smiled inside when she saw Obi-Wan was only focused on Padme the whole time.
"We met yesterday, and someone", Obi-Wan stared at Padme, "wasn't exactly thrilled to meet me. But," He shrugged, "that's what you get when you laugh at a guy like me." He smiled and winked at her with the eye that the other two couldn't see.
Padme resisted the urge to roll her eyes as both Ana and Lilly said 'Ooooooo' in unison, both of them staring at him. "It wasn't that exciting, all I did was throw my shoe…and maybe…a rock…" Padme said that last part slowly, as if trying to remember, although she knew all too well.
"Yes, you did throw a rock, which completely missed by the way.
"That's because you moved!" She paused. "I did NOT miss! I DO have a good aiming arm!"
Obi-Wan stared at her. "Ok, ok, don't get so defensive, beautiful. Yes, I did move, but I really didn't need to. I have to admit you got close though."
Padme smiled and felt proud of herself. She was jarred out of her thoughts as Ana said something.
"You….threw…a rock at him..??.." She asked, an eyebrow raised in surprise, looking between the two. She hit Lilly on the arm when she started to laugh, her snorting-kind-of-laugh, which was horribly annoying, glaring at her. "Shut up! I want to hear what she has to say."
"Ye-es, I threw a rock at him. It's not as bad as him throwing me in the lake, for laughing at him! Talk about rude!" Padme started to swim away, for some unknown reason, even to herself, but it was a small enough lake, that she could still here them talking to her, if she kept on going. She smiled as she heard Lilly still laughing her snorting laugh, as she swam away.
"Well, I told you who I was. You should've expected that kind of rude behavior from me" Obi-Wan said, matter-of-factly.
"Just because you have that kind of 'occupation'", Padme couldn't help but snort at that word. "Doesn't mean you necessarily have to act that way, specially towards a girl!" Padme said that last word defiantly, as if it was a sacred word.
"Girl…thought you were a woman, not that it matters to me. I'm not sexist like the rest of the world is nowadays, and it probably always will be."
Padme was slightly surprised that he had actually thought of her as a woman, but didn't show it, she had learned long ago to hid any emotion, unless under certain circumstances… "Well, I'm glad to hear that." She swam towards land and laid down on the rocks/sand, letting the sun set on her.
"So, did she really throw a rock AND her shoe at you? My, you must really be somethin' in order for her to resort to that!" Ana laughed.
Obi-Wan smiled. "Yes, she did. I made her quite mad." He watched her as she laid down on the sand, and decided to follow her example. He swam to land and walked up the beach and laid down next to her.
"Well, princess, if you don't have a mother, where's your father? And if you don't have one of those, you're gonna be marrying some asshole here pretty darn soon." He smiled and couldn't wait to aggravate her again.
"I don't have a father." Padme said simply. "And noooo, I WILL NOT be marrying some asshole very soon! Marriage is the farthest thing from my mind! Why do you keep bring that up?!"
"Cause, dearest, I just want to warn you to take a halfway good man to be your lucky husband, that's all. But then again, your personality will be so irritating, they'll just leave.." He smiled slightly. Padme hit him on the chest and glared at him.
"Yeah, what about YOUR personality? On second thought, it seems my friends have taken a real liking to you…" She smiled as she saw her friends swim over, and knew they would immediately surround Kenobi. He shrugged and paid no attention to the blow she had given him. "What can I say, women love me, but girls like you hate me." He put his arm around her shoulders. "Don't you, beautiful?"
She scowled and removed his arm and scooted away from him.
"Why don't you just go on and leave me in peace, and go fawn all over Ana and Lilly. I'm sure they'd love it." She smiled inside as her friends laughed at that, and saw they came around Kenobi, stroking his forearms, and cooing. Obi-Wan put one arm around Lilly and looked over at Padme, then leaned in quite close to her ear and whispered, "Alright, if you insist love, but don't get too jealous, I only got eyes for you."
Padme blinked and smiled.
"Ahh, have your fun with them, they'll keep you busy for sure. And oh…," She leaned into him, looking at him defiantly. "I wouldn't get jealous over you in a million years."
"Ohh, I'm HURT." Obi-Wan mocked hurt. "You'll come around eventually, when you want to run away from your sucky husband and have nowhere else to go except for with me…" He leaned away from her, and started talking to Lilly and Ana.
Padme sighed went back into the water, swimming around lazily, just thinking.
"So, you two lived here all your life?" Obi-Wan talked to her friends, but was watching her closely.
"Oh yes, my family has lived in this part of the country for AGES! Until my rebellious uncle decided to get out of this 'hell-hole' as he put it…and so, he's…far away. I've never seen him through, only from stories my Mum has said bout him." Ana said, matter-of-factly.
"Sounds like one of my type, though this place isn't a hell hole, it's quite nice." Obi-Wan said, his eyes still on Padme.
"Yes, yes I'm guessin' you're right, anyway…Lilly here, just moved here, really! We became real quicky friends, sine she only lives two houses down from mine, and then I just introduced her to Padme awhile ago!" Ana continued to ramble about her family, and said, "I'm not too fond of here either, to think of it, I want to explore!"
"Why not, it's really nice and peaceful around here." Obi-Wan said, intrigued as to why she would want to leave. Instead of Ana speaking, Lilly decided to say something.
"I heard Padme say one day that she wanted to explore as well! And I agree with you Obi-Wan, it's nice here. I just don't get why they fancy exploring, when they're perfectly fine here!" She exclaimed, her face full of excitement.
"I move around from place to place a lot…sometime I'd just like to settle somewhere…" Obi-Wan was staring at Padme, and not even realizing it then.
Suddenly Lilly squealed. "It would be heave for me if I could settle with you Obi-Wan!" She yelled, and held onto his arm, smiling up at him. "Although, I doubt you even fancy me, we're not stupid you know, we can see you only have eyes for Padme, so there, our dreams are crushed!" She said animatedly, although she didn't look sad one bit, but she still fancied him, no matter what, well, who wouldn't?!
"Well, no I don't fancy her, I just want to make sure she doesn't drown. And I'm looking for a chance to sneak up on her and pull her underwater, just to annoy her. You're nice and all, the both of you, but I just don't fancy anyone.."
"Pffft, Padme's a wonderful swimmer! Can't you just take your eyes off her for one second!" Ana exclaimed, smiling sweetly, "And I highly doubt what you say. You OBVIOSLY fancy her!"
Obi-Wan finally tore his eyes off of Padme and looked at Ana. "I don't fancy her! And even if I did, I'd have no chance with her anyway. I'll probably stay single forever."
"What makes you think you have no chance with her!?" Ana exclaimed, puzzled.
Obi-Wan shrugged.
"She loathes me," He answered simply. "She probably has at least 10 secret admirers, and I'm a thief, definitely not her type."
"Padme does have quiet a lot of admirers, but she pays them no mind at all! All she does is shrugs and bids them away! It's quite funny to watch really." Lilly said, laughing.
"Well, what about you two, you must be getting ready to marry also.."
"Pfft what for! We have no need for marriage. All that does is tie you down, and then what! You can't do anything you want to do!" Lilly said, trying to get her point across to him.
"Jeez, independent women around here, huh? Most women can't wait to marry, settle down, have a family…"
"Well, yes, of course we'd love to have a family, Just…not now." There was a pause. "Is anyone else hungry? I suddenly got extremely famished! Pie!" Lilly yelled, filling the silence.
Obi-Wan laughed. "Pie? Where are you going to get a pie?!"
"Why, we'll make one of course! Come on Ana, you hungry?" At Ana's nod, Lilly smiled and pulled her off Obi-Wan and dragged her around the lake. "Come on Padme! You hungry!"
"For what!" Padme yelled, stopping swimming to look at them.
"PIE!" He yelled to her, at the same time as Lilly yelled pie.
"Come on Padme, are you coming?!" She yelled, still dragging Ana.
"Of course!" Padme swam towards shore. "How could I resist pie! I am hungry after all, I have had a workout!" She smiled.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow, I guess…" Obi-Wan started to back away, kind of awkwardly.
Padme flinched as she suddenly felt Lilly pinch her in the arm, and looked over at her as Lilly looked pointedly at Obi-Wan, then back at her, glaring. Padme swallowed, this was hard to get out…she cleared her throat.
"Um…Obi-Wan..would you care…to come with us?"
Obi-Wan smiled as he saw Lilly pinch Padme. "Well, Lilly, I'd like to, but I don't really think your parents would approve of me, now would they?"
"Oh hun, you've got it all wrong! We're not going to my house, we're going to Padme's!" Lilly smiled. "And no one lives there but her, and I'm sure SHE won't mind…" Lilly winked at her, waiting for her response.
Padme smiled stiffly, and secretly wished to beat her friend with a wooden spoon.
"No…it's….fine…"
"Well, I don't think Padme'd much enjoy mea round her any longer than I have to be, I'll just go…" Obi-Wan started walking backwards a bit, still facing them.
Padme started to think about him in her house, and she got uneasy…she didn't want him to know where she lived, and yet…she didn't want to be rude or anything…
"I have to water my horse anyway, I'll just see you three around." He winked at Padme and smiled. "Specially you, darling."
"You sure you don't want to come?" Padme asked.
"Well, I do like pie, but you don't want me around, now do you, beautiful?" He walked into the trees, and came out holding a beautiful black horse with a thin white line running down between it's eyes. "Plus, I don't know what I'd do with him." He patted his horse's neck.
"Wow." Padme stood there in shock. "What's his name?..." She walked forward slowly, longing to feel it's mane. "He's a beautiful horse."
Obi-Wan smiled. "His name's Comet. I didn't pick it, but it's the only thing he'd come to. You can come closer, he's not going to hurt you."
Padme walked forward the rest of the steps, and touched his forehead, seeing her friends coming close. "Comet…it fits…" She smiled slightly, looking up at Obi-Wan quickly, then looking back down towards the horse, moving to the horse's side, running her hands along Comet's body. "Beautiful…" she murmured.
"Yeah, he's one of the best. The white mark on his head looks like a comet, so I guess that's why they named him that..he's really quite smart for a horse, too, here watch this." Obi-Wan leaned close to the horses ear. "You can go get a drink you know.." He whispered. Comet twitched his ears and looked over at Obi-Wan, who nodded, then goes over to the lake and starts to drink the water.
Padme smiled, and saw her friends doing the same. "Wow, that's fantastic!" Her friends murmured their agreement. "Well, girls, off we go?" She turned to them, smiling. "I can smell the pie already!" She said, laughingly.
Obi-Wan smiled. "Have fun, love. Maybe see you tomorrow…ohh wait!" He walked over to Comet and whispered something in his ear. Comet nayed, then took one last drink, and walked over to PAdme, looking all beautiful and all, and then he lifted up his lips and squirted the water through his teeth at her, and whinnies in amusement, along with Obi-Wan's laughter. Padme shrieked and stood there in shock, sputtering, dripping wet, but it was no different from when she was in the water.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" She yelled, but didn't sound as angry as she should have been. Maybe she was getting used to this…She glared at her friends as they continued to laugh their heads off.
"Well, I thought that it'd be the only time Comet could ever show you that trick of his!" He was still laughing, though not as hard.
Padme once again felt like throwing something at him, but she didn't have anything, so all she did was just stood there and sighed.
"Well, now you've had your fun. I guess we're gonna go now, girls, yeah?
Obi-Wan's laughter died slowly. "See you later, then, piegirls! Comet, come on, we have to go meet the others." Comet turned around and trotted over to Obi-Wan, who mounted up. Padme smile ruefully and waved nonchalantly towards Obi-Wan.
"Adieu, secousse." She smiled as her friends laughed at that, and they linked arms, and walked home. Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow at them, but decided not to worry about it, and rides towards his clothing he left on the beach, and leans down, scooping them up off the ground, as Comet ran on.
Finally, after what seemed forever, the girls made it home, and they had all changed back into their clothes, and were chatting about nothing, as Padme started to make the pie, getting the flour bag out. She smiled as her friends walked out of the kitchen, to give her space no doubt, and into the living-room, she hummed as she became comfortable in her kitchen, and a pang went through her as she remembered her mother working in this kitchen…she sighed, and decided to think about something happier.
Obi-Wan crept up to the house, and opened the backdoor to the kitchen quietly, not making a sound, and slowly creeping up behind her, waiting till she had the flour bag open, and he waited. Padme, who was oblivious to Obi-Wan anywhere near her, continued to hum, and picked up the flour bag, grunting as se lifted it onto the counter.
Obi-Wan smirked, and crept up right behind her and put his mouth right behind her ear, and whispered, "Boo."
Padme screamed and jumped, knocking the flour bag to the floor, it dumping all over her dress and on the floor. "Oh! Mon Dieu!" She cried, turning around to see him. "YOU!!!" Padme scowled and immediately started searching for her spoon…
Obi-Wan smiled,
"Hey! It was just a joke! I didn't expect you to kick the flour EVERYWHERE. What are you looking for anyway?" He was puzzled by her searching, and almost didn't want to know…
"YOU JERK! This is not what you call a JOKE! This is not funny! That was the last bag of flour I had! I barely have enough money as it is! How am I supposed to buy another bag!" Padme continued rambling, and was surprisingly almost near tears.
"Hey, hey! Just calm down! I thought you'd be at least a BIT happy to see me…just don't worry about the stupid flour, I'll get you another bag." Obi-Wan lightly touched her shoulder, that being a kind of form of comfort…he guessed.
"I'm sorry….I just have so much to worry about, since my mother…died…" Padme tried to calm down, and put one hand on her forehead, finding his touch a slight comfort. "…I'm sorry, I am glad to see you could make it, but now it looks…wait, I think there's still enough flour to make a pie…"
"Told you, you needed someone to help you…pick one of your admirers. I'll go get the flour now, if you want.
"I don't NEED anyone's help! I'd be just fine, if you weren't so…" Padme waved her hands around, searching for a word…"Oh I don't know! You're too many words to say!"
"Annoying? Pathetic? Arrogant? Insulting? Rude? Prying? Yeah, I know, but that's the way I like it." He headed for the door. "I'll go get your lovely flour."
Padme stood there. "Thank you." She said that sincerely, despite all he had done to her, she still liked him, a bit…
She watched as he walked out of the door, and sighed and looked down at the flour on the floor sadly, and picked up the ends of her dress, and walked through the house to her room, knowing she was probably dragging flour everywhere. She changed quickly, wiping her face to get and hair to get the flour out. She walked back into the kitchen, and got on her hands and knees, getting ready to clean it up.
Obi-Wan walked in the backdoor again, carrying a heavy bag of flour on his shoulder, and knocks, so he won't scare her again. He took a peek in real quick and couldn't resist but take a look at her ass, before she got up. Padme looked up from the floor and sighed, and walked to the door, and opened it even more.
"Thank you for knocking, and for getting the flour."
"You're welcome for both." He lays the large bag of flour on the countertop. "Well? Any pie?" A slightly hungry look passes across his face.
Padme smiled.
"Of course, but not yet, and you can't stay in here."
Obi-Wan look surprised. "Why can't I?"
Padme moved around him, and started pushing him out of the kitchen, and into the living room. "Now shoo, and go have a fun conversation with Ana and Lilly. And you can't stay in there, because I need space."
"But…" He tried to protest but continues to be pushed out until he's outside the kitchen doorway.
"Now, you stay and be a good boy, oui?" Padme smirked. "And IF you try to come in there, before the pies done, be prepared for something being thrown at you again…maybe something sharp this time…"
"Ok, sharp, bad. I don't think I can stand another sharp object in me.." Obi-Wan turned around to see Ana and Lilly staring at him. "Um, hello again.."
Ana smiled and patted the seat next to her. "Come on Obi-Wan! Sit with us for awhile!"
He shrugged. "Well, I don't want to be stabbed by Padme so, why not?" He walked over and sat down next to Ana, who laughed.
"Who would want to be stabbed by Padme. Trust me, she's threatened me once. It wasn't pretty." Ana smiled. "So, I heard that you scared the living daylight out of her in the kitchen an hour ago. Was that really wise? Good thing she didn't find her wooden spoon…" Ana quickly took something out of behind her, and smirked. "I wonder why she couldn't find it…" She rolled her eyes and hid it behind her again.
Lilly couldn't help but laugh.
"I told you that was a god thing do to, Ana! And my, Obi-Wan, I AM surprised you're not injured in some way by Padme. Pretty tough, eh? But no, seriously, Padme isn't all as bad as we 'supposedly' make her out to be. She's really quite nice, and she's just going through a rough time, with her parents being dead and all. Good thing she's old enough to live on her own."
"Thanks for hiding the spoon, though I don't see why I should fear a spoon…and I know about her parents. At least she can take care of herself now. If she were any younger, she'd probably have to live with relatives."
"But dear, she doesn't have any relatives." Lilly says that sadly. "She only has us." Ana nodded slowly, in agreement.
"NO relatives? Wow, at least I have an uncle. Well, hope you two take god care of her then, she probably needs it, but doesn't want to show it."
"Yes, she's a very stubborn girl." Ana stated, Lilly nodding in agreement.
A strange awkward silence thickened between the group, and was gladly broken, when Padme stuck her head through the door, smiling.
"Pie's done!" She exclaimed.
"Ahh, pie. I love pie. I haven't had pie in years!" Obi-Wan stood up and went to the kitchen doorway. "Is it safe to enter?"
Padme smiled and beckoned them in. "Yes, now it is."
The three migrated into the kitchen, each saying their own appreciations, as they sniffed the air, full of apples. Padme smiled and cut the pie evenly, each getting their own piece. A comfortable silence ensued, as they ate, once or twice commenting Padme on how good it was. It was getting dark, and the girls insisted, much to Padme's sadness, that they had to head home. They hugged, each knowing they'd see each other real soon.
Padme was left standing in the doorway, and turned as she saw Obi-Wan put his plate in the sink.
"Well, love, I'm off to make my living. See you and your cute friends at the lake tomorrow?" He asked, hoping her answer would be yes.
He breathed a sigh of relief as he saw her smile and nod.
"Yes, of course. Although, I'm not sure if I'll make it at the lake, got things to do in town, and all." She said.
Obi-Wan nodded and smiled at her once again.
"Well, bye, love. See ya soon." He waved to her shortly as he walked out, and mounted Comet. He smiled at her, and spurred Comet into a trot, riding off into the darkness. Padme smiled to herself and closed the door, thinking of all that had happened.
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