A night to remember

Chapter 3: small preparations

It was only a day away from the ball, everyone was busy, and at this time, everyone was there, Anakin took over for Ahsoka on protecting the senator, and everyone else was helping putting up decorations. So this left Ahsoka alone, to her fantasies. She reached for her datapad, and when she couldn't find it, she panicked, that pad had everything in it, how could she be so stupid as to lose it? she ran down to her room and started throwing things out of her backpack, she hadn't noticed that Rex came in and was standing behind her. He cleared his throat and watched as she jumped.

"Rex! Don't sneak up on me!" she screamed pulling him down to her eye level. "have you seen my…"

Rex held the datapad in his hand waving it with a sly smile on his face, if he took the helmet off she would have seen it. "I..forgot to give it back," he smiled.

"Oh, that's where it went," she smiled and took it back and threw it into her bag. "ugh Rex, can you believe that I had to go dress shopping?" she asked pulling him down onto another bed that she believed she would be sharing sometime soon.

Rex smiled, "it's alright kid, and it couldn't have been that bad."

Ahsoka groaned and threw herself on her bed. "But I mean, it's like she was expecting me to go!"

"And you're not, Ahsoka?"

She paused in her rant, blushing a bit, "I would be the odd one out, I have no one to go with, no one asked me," she sighed, yeas she was giving off little hints that she wanted him to ask her to the ball, sure it was a little childish to do so, she could have just let it out. Right Ahsoka, what am I supposed to say, "Hey Rexter guesses what? I love you!" no not going to happen, it'll ruin our friendship, wouldn't it?

"don't worry Ahsoka, I'm sure you'll find someone to go to the ball with you, besides, you should go even if you don't have a date…" he didn't really finish what he was planning on saying and instead stood up and smiled warmly at her. "I should get going, I'll see you later commander," he said, saluted, and then left the room.

Ahsoka looked at the closed door and rolled her eyes, how can a man as smart as Rex not see the clues that were as loud as a bell; she wanted him to ask her to the dance! Guess it doesn't matter now, she thought falling back into the bed.

Rex hadn't really left the door after it closed, he face palmed himself. I could have asked her right then, she set it up so perfectly! Di'kut! He noticed that there was another pair of footsteps coming over from where he was, and he pulled his bucket over his head and made his way away before the person coming could call him. It turned out to be Barriss and she did feel Rex in the force but felt that it would be better if she just stayed out of his way; she was far too excited to be bothered with small chat. She opened the door and walked in.

"What's wrong Ahsoka?" she asked noticing her friend's depression.

"Oh, hey Barriss, its nothing," she sighed rolling herself into a sitting position.

"Come on Ahsoka, we both know that's a lie, I don't need the force to see that," Barriss sighed folding her arms across her chest.

"Well…if I told you, you would just tell me that I was being silly," Ahsoka announced sitting up and staring into her friends eyes.

"Tell me anyways, I promise I won't say anything bad, or laugh, or give you a lecture."

Ahsoka raised a tattooed eyebrow and sighed, "Fine, but you promise right?"

"Of course Ahsoka," she said with a smile and sat down in front of her on the other bunk.

"well," she took a deep breath, "I went dress shopping with the senator, and she made it seem like I was really going to this ball, but then I realized that I don't have anyone to go with, so I left the biggest hit when Rex came to give me back my datapad, but he was so dense, he didn't even get it that I wanted him to ask me!" she let the words run out of her mouth almost in a scream, she threw her head back onto the pillow, then rolled over screaming into the pillow.

"Men are dense by nature, sometimes they just don't have the courage to ask out the person they like."

"But he has more courage in his pinky then most men have in their whole body!" Ahsoka huffed.'

"Well, we are Jedi," Barriss sighed. "I guess this would be a bad time to tell you that I have a dance partner for the ball."

"Really? Who?" Ahsoka's attitude changed drastically from depressed to curious and excited.

Barriss blushed a little. "Well, Commander Cody asked me to be his dance partner," she smiled turning her head away a little.

"A dance partner?"

"Yeah, well, that's what he said, he seemed very nervous when asking, he even had to restart his sentence, it was very cute."

"Lucky," Ahsoka puffed then fell back on her bed.

"Get some sleep Ahsoka, tomorrow will be a big day for all of us, and you are going to that ball."