A night to remember

Chapter 4: getting ready.

This would be one of the only times everyone was allowed to dress up, and surprisingly everyone was allowed to come, if they wanted to. The Jedi council had said that it would be a great way to relieve the building stress that was brought up by the constant fighting in the war. Anakin was with Obi wan, Cody and Rex; they were buying some things for their dates, well, at least three out of the four of them were, Rex was still beating up on himself for not asking Ahsoka out, Even stuck up Cody had a date, and he remembered laughing, when he heard that Cody had asked Barriss, but Cody had come back with asking if his date was pretty, then gasped and answered his own question, "no cause you didn't have the balls to ask her out." And that had started a bit a fighting before Obi wan and Anakin walked into the room, stopping them, the two had made up, and were once again friends.

"Blue, it matches her eyes," Cody smiled as he got the corsage; the others had done the same getting flowers that matched their girl's eyes, or dresses.

Rex smiled to himself; it was a one of the best things about being a trooper that had never died out over the many years not needing them, discounts, and the occasional free things expressing their thanks. This was no different from the other times he had seen brothers who wanted to impress a special lady, they would get whatever they could afford, and sometimes if lucky, they got it as a gift, just to give it to their special lady, and sadly only to die the next day. Rex wondered around the flower shop till something caught his attention, it was a small corsage, made of one blue and one white rose, with little beads between them. It was beautiful, and it reminded him of Ahsoka.

"That's a nice choice sir; would you like me to make a fresh one for you?" Asked the florist behind the counter. Rex jumped, how was it possible for this woman to sneak up on him? Well he had to admit when he was thinking about Ahsoka he couldn't see anything in front of him, so this shouldn't be a surprise.

"Uh, yes ma'am, that would be nice," he smiled, and the woman smiled back and left to the back to make a fresh corsage for him.

Cody walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Who's that for brother? I thought you didn't ask Ahsoka."

"I didn't but I will," he said.

"Here you go sir, that will be twenty credits," she smiled brightly as she came back with the corsage in a clear plastic box.

"Oh, thank you," Rex smiled back as he handed her the money.

"Have a nice dance," she waved, as the men left the shop. A few minutes later another clone showed up, he had a bright smile on his face.

"Can I help you?" she asked.

"Yes, uh, would you go to the ball with me?" he asked with a deep blush.

She blushed as well, and smiled brightly. "Of course I will," and she swore she saw the man dance with glee.

Ahsoka felt a bit empty, like the time when she messed up, and her master was upset at her, but this was different it was a new kind of empty as she helped her friends dress up for the ball.

"Ahsoka, you know you don't have to help me, you could go and get ready yourself," Barriss said with a light smile.

"I told you that I wasn't going, I don't have anyone to go with," she replied with a weak smile.

"You should still go you never know what might happen."

Ahsoka zipped up the long flowing orange gown, which she had picked because of Cody's painted armor. Barriss wondered what Cody would look like in a tux and couldn't help but smile and blush.

"I would think your master would have been mad about you and Cody," Ahsoka smiled.

"She would have if she wasn't already going with Gree," Barriss smiled, and Ahsoka's jaw dropped.

"Really?"

"Yup, you would have never guessed right?" Barriss giggled.

It was good to be normal once in a while, to laugh and giggle about normal girl things, but then again this wasn't normal, oh no, not even close, but this was the closest thing to normal the padawans are going to get, and neither of them wanted to stop, nor could believe that master Unduli, who was a Jedi that was level headed, and knew the rules like it was the back of her hand, heck she was probably one of the only Jedi least likely to fall in love. Even Barriss didn't see that one coming and she had been with her master for a long time.

"I still think you should go," Barriss smiled weakly at her.

"I know but what other Jedi padawan is going to the ball?"

"Almost all, especially the loose ones, which is why I strongly suggest you go, even that weird girl who likes shiny objects is going."

"Kifanue?"

"That's the one,"

"She is a bit weird; do you know who asked her out?"

"Cody said that no one had, but that's only because she didn't want to go with anyone," Barriss shrugged her shoulders.

"See that's the difference, she chose to go with no one, I wanted to go with Rex," Ahsoka sighed.

"I know, well, I'll see you there Ahsoka," Barriss was certain that Ahsoka was going to go, and for a while Ahsoka thought that she might as well, but there was only one problem, she didn't have a dress, she told Padme to return her's because she wasn't going.

She looked down at her current clothes, a skirt and top, that was all; maybe she could find something else to wear. She searched through her bag and pulled out a short dress, of course she would wear it with pants, cause it was far too short for her to go with just her underwear on, she really liked it and it was going to be a surprise on her next birthday, sort of her present to Rex, and the rest of the men, they would still nag her about wearing armor, but at least this time they can't nag her about her boob top and skirt, which she had to admit she was outgrowing every day. A quick trip to the refresher and she slipped into her new battle outfit.

"Still has that new clothes smell to it, yeah this will work perfectly," she smiled then walked out of the room, out to the queen's palace, where the ball is being held.

A/N:

omg i'm so close to finishing this story, thank you everyone who has been reading i really appreciate the reviews and all ^w^