I'm completely sorry for making you wait FOUR years for this chapter! Life just got away with me and I didn't have time to write, plus I was lazy. I hope to be able to finish this story, unlike my other ones. As I'm not 15 anymore, I can't write Jen/Andrina as a 15 year old. We are fast-forwarding to four years later, making Jen and Anakin both 19 (my age). Perfect and exact age for the beginning of Episode II! Also, its not that long of a chapter...sorry...again!

This is a chapter where Jen/Andrina is getting you up to speed.

Chapter 5: Four Years Later

Jen POV

It's been 4 years since Mace showed up outside my bedroom door. Since then, Anakin and I have become the best of friends and I've become acquainted with my ancestry. My parent's names were Kurt Rennet and Arista Haas. My father was a Jedi Knight. Mace and my father had been friends since they were younglings and continued to be until my father left the Order to be with my mom. She was a handmaiden to the Queen of Alderaan. They met while the Queen was visiting Coruscant and then met again when my father was sent to Alderaan on a mission. They tried to have a secret relationship but my father just couldn't do it. Instead of leaving my mom, he respectfully left the Jedi Order. Two years later, they had me and they couldn't have been happier. When I was 6 months old, my parents took a well-deserved vacation to the Lake Country on Naboo. During a pit stop on Tatooine, Tuskan Raiders shot them down. They died instantly, leaving me an orphan. Soliel Lightgrazer, my mother's best friend, thought it best to send me "far, far away" from their dangerous galaxy. Without anyone's knowledge, even Mace, I was put up for adoption on Earth and adopted quickly by the Donohue's. That's why he came to get me when I was 15, he hadn't known where I was and had been looking for me.

Since I was much too old to start training, the Council put me in the Halls of Healing to learn from the MedCorps and now I have an internship at the Galactic City Medical Center. It's lucky for me that the Medical Corps has a transport system back and forth. My internship is almost over and soon I'll be a full-fledged Healer at GCMC. I live in the Temple but I don't really participate in any of the "Jedi" activities, it makes me sad and I don't really fit in. I think I'm the first non-Jedi to live there. As soon as I get the job at the medical center, I'm telling Mace that I want to move out of the Temple. I'm trained in hand-to-hand combat (which has been fabulous and really gotten me in shape) and I also have pretty good aim with a blaster, so I can protect myself.

There's a ceremony for all of the "graduating" healers, with a ball afterwards. Anakin hopes to be becoming a Knight then too. Many ambassadors, senators and dignitaries will be there, along with the Chancellor. I don't know what Anakin sees in him. I firmly agree with Master Kenobi that politicians should not be trusted. That brings me to the fact that a certain little tart showed up yesterday. Padmé Naberrie, oops! I mean "Her Excellency, Senator Amidala of Naboo". She's not that great. I mean her, "Oh! Please don't protect me from the assassins!" is getting a little old. Since meeting her with Anakin and Master Kenobi, she has decided that I'm the one to try and befriend. Lucky me. Anakin acted like a lovesick puppy when he saw her. It was ridiculous. I mean seriously, you haven't seen the woman in like 10 years and the last time you saw her, it wasn't even for that long. But you've spent almost every second with me for the last three years, what's wrong with you?

Speaking of Anakin, he's become anxious lately, just itching to show the council what he can do. I keep telling him to be patient, but it's no use. I always had a crush on Anakin in the movies. Well, my small crush followed me to Coruscant and has only grown since getting to know him and being his best friend. I know that nothing could ever happen between us but I'll always hope. Since, I'm not a Jedi but a Healer, I can have attachments and relationships and now Anakin looks exactly like he did in Episode II…it is so tempting.

Have I changed in 3 years? I think so. My red hair has grown significantly and is almost always in a long braid down to the small of my back and I wear my bangs pinned up in a small poof (I remember all the girls doing poofs like that at school on Earth…I went to high school in New Jersey, explains a lot). I still have my freckles and my green eyes. But I'm sure you're wondering what happened to this being a story about the heavy girl getting the guy? I didn't try to lose the weight; it just kinda fell off in the 4 years I've been here. From the move to Coruscant, to the physical training and the stress of becoming a healer, I lost almost 60 lbs. I am healthier than ever. I filled out nicely, not skinny but nowhere near what I used to look like. Let's just say that my body is looking good enough to wear a crop top, not that I do often, or ever.

I had work today at the Medical Center but now Anakin and I are going to grab dinner with my friends Dia and Varq, who are also healers-in-training. Dia is Twi'lek with aqua skin. I've never met anyone as graceful and beautiful as she is. Dia knows about my feelings towards Anakin, she is my best girlfriend. Varq is so funny. He is the epitome of tall, dark and handsome. Varq has tanned skin, cropped black hair and soulful chocolate eyes. If I wasn't in love with Anakin and Varq wasn't in love with Dia, maybe we would have been good together but fate isn't that kind.

Currently, I am sprinting down the halls towards Anakin's quarters. I take a quick right and smash into someone, hard. I fall forward onto the person, praying it's not Masters Koon or Mundi. Slowly, I look up at the person I accidentally attacked, I sigh in relief and just lay my head back down on their chest. Lying just underneath me is Anakin Skywalker.

"Hey Jandi, uhh, nice to see you too?" Anakin says to me with a small laugh.

"I'm sorry Nick, I was coming to get you so we can meet Dia and Varq for dinner," I say with a small pout. "Did I hurt you?"

He laughs it off as we get up, "It would take much more than that to hurt me." He's so cocky sometimes, but that's part of his charm.

"Shut up and by the way your breath smells like Eopie," I tease him with a smirk. I push off his chest and get up.

"Ha. Ha. I just finished brushing my teeth in the fresher," he said as he gets up off the floor. "Plus, Eopies are from Tatooine, so you've never even seen one, let alone smelled one." He seems very pleased with the fact that he got me on that one.

"Shut up Anakin," I said grumpily. I grab his hand and drag him down the hall to meet Dia and Varq. All the while, Anakin is laughing as we go.

From the Temple halls, I could see sun was once again setting over the bustling, city-planet that is Coruscant. The Temple is probably the most beautiful thing I've seen since being here and that includes my trip to beautiful Alderaan to meet my maternal grandparents, Rigg and Arabella Haas. At the behest of Mace, Senator Organa was more than willing to help me get to know my birthplace and old home planet, since I am half Alderaanian. Alderaan really is a breathtaking planet, but nothing can compare to the statuesque beauty and architecture of the Jedi Temple. Sure, I'll miss living here but I don't belong here and it's time for me to move on.

"Jandi? Jen? Andrina Arabella Rennet!" Anakin's shout woke me out of my thoughts. He had grabbed my shoulder and turned me towards him.

"Yeah?" I finally answer, blinking the daydreams out of my eyes.

"What's wrong with you? You're spacing out more than normal," After four years, it still surprises me that no one can read me quite like Anakin.

Thinking about how to phrase it, "I've been thinking…"

"About?" Anakin asks patiently with a small smile.

"I think…I'm going to move out of the Temple after I finish my internship and become a Healer." I did it like a band-aid…quick but it still hurts. I wait with baited breath, afraid of his reaction.

After a couple seconds he looks me in the eyes and asks, "Have you spoken to Master Windu about this yet?" I sigh, Obi-Wan's practicality is rubbing off on him, but definitely not enough.

"No, I don't know how to break it to him. Are you mad?" I needed to ask.

"Why would I be mad? We can't expect you to live here forever, you're not a Jedi." Anakin, as always says it with a thousand-watt smile, reassuring me that I don't have anything to fear from him. I lean into him and his arm comes around my shoulders as we continue to make our way to dinner.

"Anakin?" I ask innocently.

"Yeah?" he says with a small chuckle.

"You're my best friend." I say softly looking up from his shoulder.

"You too Jandi, you too," he says looking back at me with a soft smile which he transforms into another thousand-watt smile and says jokingly, "So…where're we gonna live? I hear the upper levels are quite nice this time of year."