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And I'm going to go ahead and say this; I don't pick the Evanescence songs for the chapters. I just put my Kindle Fire on shuffle with all of my Evanescence songs and do that (Yes, I have all of the Evanescence songs on my Kindle). This chapter is called, Like You after one of my favorite Evanescence songs! But this song is also very sad, too. . . Last year I did a school report on Amy Lee (The lead singer of Evanescence) and I found out that this song is loosely based off of her two year sisters, Bonnie's, death. And Amy was only ten when it happened! Isn't that sad! Well, I'll go ahead and give you the chapter. Enjoy!
Chapter 3
Like You
Ahsoka POV
I didn't sleep very well last night. First, Lux comes back into my life. And that alone is a lot to take in. And second, my sisters show up and act like they never tried to kill me! I can deal with the Lux thing, but Marina and Lilo is just too much to deal with!
It was about six in the morning, but I wasn't going to get up. I felt sickly. I was tossing and turning around in my bed. I had kicked the sheets down at around midnight because for once, I was hot. It's usually somewhere below zero in the temple after dark so I was usually cold.
It was about seven when I rolled off the edge of the bed and decided to get up.
It took me about five minutes to realize that I had fallen asleep in my dress from last night. Oops.
I went to the refresher and slipped off the damp and muddy dress. I stepped into the shower and worked furiously at the mud on my skin. When I was clean I wrapped myself in a towel and put on my clean Jedi outfit. I picked up the dress and folded it. I noticed there was a small tear in the skirt. I decided not to tell Padmé that. I put it in a drawer and attached my lightsabers to my belt.
I left my quarters and went to the mess. I walked into the mess hall discretely and got my food. I noticed Barriss sitting at a small table in the corner looking at a data pad of some sort.
I walked over to her and sat down across from her. "Hey, Barriss." I said sheepishly.
"Hey, Ahsoka." She said without looking up from her data pad.
"What are you looking at?" I asked as I took a bite of some sort of oatmeal substance.
She held up the data pad and showed me the screen. She had been reading an article about a decision the Seperatist senate had made. "How do you have access to that information?" I asked. "It's almost impossible to get political information from the other side."
Barriss smirked. "Let's just say one of our spies owed me a favor."
A puzzled look crossed my face. "Okay. . ." I said, leaning back in my seat.
"Oh!" Barriss exclaimed, making me cough on my food. She showed no recognition of me, "My nose isn't broken!"
I was still coughing. "I kind of figured." I wheezed. I took a drink of water.
"Oh, sorry!" She said, noticing that I was choking.
"Whatever." I said. I took another drink of water.
We ate the rest of our food in silence. I couldn't really think of anything to talk about.
When I finished my food, I stood up. "Well, see you later." I told Barriss.
She waved goodbye to me before picking up her data pad again.
I walked back to my quarters. I looked out the window this time. It was pretty cloudy, and I could sense rain was coming. Wow, what is up with the weather lately?
As soon as the door slid shut to my quarters, my com-link went off. "Ahsoka, here." I answered in a clear voice.
"Hey, Ahsoka?" It was Padmé. "Why don't you come over, there's something I need to talk to you about."
"Um, okay." I said cautiously. "I'll be there in a minute."
Padmé hung up and I left my quarters. I walked to the hanger without running into any Jedi. Most of them were probably on patrol by now. I hopped onto a speeder and drove out into the open air.
It wasn't that crowded yet, and it wasn't raining yet either. I parked by Padmé's building and walked inside. I rode the turbo lift up to her floor and knocked on the door. When nobody answered, I walked in myself. "Padmé?" I called. There was no reply.
I walked further into the room. "Padmé?" I called again. Nothing.
I turned to leave when I heard a kind voice behind me. "Hey, Ahsoka." It was female, but it wasn't Padmé.
I turned around and saw Marina and Lilo. I could feel my face turning a darker shade of orange. They were both wearing jumpsuits. Lilo's was purple and Marina's was light blue. "What do you want?" I asked furiously.
"Ahsoka, we just want to explain." Lilo said. "You have to understand! We thought you were dead!" Lilo looked desperate.
"Please." Marina said. "We need to talk." She motioned for me to sit down.
I sighed. "Fine." I said firmly.
Marina and Lilo sat down on the couch and I sat down on a recliner chair. "Ahsoka," Marina began. "When Mom and Dad left with you and came back without you, we didn't really pay any mind to it. And when we were a respectable age, Mom and Dad said that you were in a terrible accident and that you had been killed."
Lilo took over. "We thought you had been dead for the past fourteen years. And finding out that you were never dead in the first place is amazing!" Lilo said. "We love you Ahsoka, you're our baby sister."
Before I had a chance to say, "I'm not a baby." Marina said:
"We came to the conclusion that the reason the tribe forced Mom and Dad to get rid of you, is because you possessed the Force and you were the runt of the tribe." She said.
I looked down; I could now hear light raindrops against the windows. Marina and Lilo weren't apart of it? I was hated just because I was smaller than everybody else?
"Ahsoka?" Lilo asked. "Are you okay?"
"Um," I said. "Yeah, I guess so. . ."
"So, Ahsoka?" Marina asked.
"Yeah, Marina?" I replied.
"What are you doing on Coruscant?" Marina asked.
I chuckled. "I live here, Marina." I held out my lightsabers. "I'm a Jedi."
Lilo's jaw dropped and Marina just looked shocked. "How did you become a Jedi?" Marina asked.
"After Mom and Dad left me in the woods, a Jedi Master Plo Koon found me and brought me to the temple where I belonged." I said.
I let that sink in. "Wow, I never knew my baby sister was a Jedi!" Lilo squealed. "That is so cool!"
"Now I have some questions for you." I said. "Lilo, we were all born on Shili, how are you the senator of Kiros?"
"Well, when I was ten, I went to go live with our Grandparents on Kiros." Lilo said. "I wasn't very happy with our senator then, so I made a promise to myself that I would one day be the senator of Kiros."
"Oh." I said. This was kind of a lot for me to take in. The rain was getting harder outside.
"And Ahsoka, there's something else you need to know." Marina said; her expression turned sad.
I looked up, "Yeah?"
"You should know, that Mom and Dad never meant to have a third child, and Mom did a lot of drinking while she was pregnant with you and that ever since you were born Mom and Dad have been embarrassed to call you their daughter." Marina said with a grim face.
I knew she wasn't lying or trying to make me feel bad, I could sense it. Here I was, being told that my parents never wanted me and that I was a mistake.
I felt tears behind my eyes. I stood up, "Um, excuse me. I have to go."
"Ahsoka. . ." Marina said.
I just walked into the turbo lift and rode back down to the ground floor.
I realized what time it was, and I decided to just go straight to Dexter's Diner. I got on the speeder and drove to Dexter's Diner. I was getting wet, but I didn't really care. I was hurt; I never knew that I was a mistake.
I parked in front of Dexter's Diner. I brushed the raindrops off of my montrals and walked inside. I immediately saw Lux sitting at a booth. He waved to me and I smiled at him. I went over and sat across from him. "Hey." He greeted looking down.
"Um, hey." I said. Awkward. . . I started fiddling nervously with my fingers.
"Are you okay?" Lux asked. He leaned forward, studying me. "You look upset."
"Oh, uh. . ." I stuttered. "I'm, I'm fine."
Lux stood up and came to my side of the booth. He put an arm around my shoulder, "Ahsoka, you can tell me." He looked me dead on. I think I was melting inside. "I'm here for you."
I sighed. "I was just talking to my sisters, and I found out something I never knew before."
Lux pulled me closer to him. My breath hitched. "What is it?"
I looked down with a sad look in my eyes. "I always knew that my parents never wanted me because I was different, but I never knew that I was a mistake. . ."
Lux hugged me. "You're not a mistake." He said.
"Yes I am, my parents never meant to have a third child." I said.
Lux pulled back. "Ahsoka, I don't care if your parents never meant to have you. The point is that they did have you. And I'm glad they did, if you weren't here, I would probably be dead by now."
I smiled weakly. "Thank you, Lux." We hugged again.
We never ordered food; we just sat there talking to each other. He told me about what he had been doing ever since he left in the escape pod and I told him about what I've been doing as a Jedi.
We eventually left and stood in the parking lot. It was still raining, but I didn't care. Lux didn't seem to care either. His hair was getting wet and it was getting plastered to his forehead. I giggled. "What's so funny?" Lux asked.
"Your hair." I said between giggles.
Lux reached up to touch his forehead, "Oh. That's why you're laughing."
I realized what he said. I was laughing. I immediately stopped laughing and put a hand over my mouth. Damn it! I hate my laugh! And I just had to laugh in front of Lux! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
"Ahsoka, there's nothing wrong with your laugh." Lux said with a kind smile. He put his hand on my cheek and I swear my heart stopped beating.
I removed my hand from my mouth. "There is everything wrong with my laugh. I hardly laugh in the first place, so I never usually think about it."
Lux took both my hands in his. "You should laugh more often. You have a beautiful laugh that can brighten anyone's day."
I felt my montrals darken. "Thank you, Lux. That means a lot to me."
I looked into his eyes, they were so beautiful. They were the perfect combination of green, blue and gray. It was like the most skilled artist in the galaxy had crafted his eyes out of the stars. He was looking into my eyes, too. I wonder what he's thinking.
Lux POV
It's so hard to be around Ahsoka. She's just so, beautiful. She has everything: beauty, strength, bravery, skill, talent, ferocity, kindness, and her eyes are mesmerizing.
Why does she have to be so cute? Why did she have to be a Jedi? Ugh, it sucked.
I was staring into her eyes. The rain was pouring down all around us. It took all of my willpower not to kiss her right there. I thought about how romantic that would be.
Ahsoka broke me out of my trance. "Um, I should probably get back to the temple before Anakin misses me." She said, fingering her lekku.
"Yeah, that's probably a good idea." I said. I was a little upset; I had wanted to spend some more time with Ahsoka.
Ahsoka smiled at me. She walked over to her speeder and took off. I just stood there, watching her go. I wanted her, badly.
I walked to my own speeder and started it up. I drove off in the direction of my apartment. It was funny, when I was a little kid I went around saying that I was going to fall in love with a beautiful princess and marry her. I never thought that I would fall in love with a Jedi. I never thought that I would fall in love with Ahsoka, my princess.
Ahsoka POV
When I got to the temple, the rain was coming down hard as ever and I was soaking wet.
I walked around the hanger until I stopped dripping water onto the ground, then I walked into the temple. I passed Masters Sinube and Secura. "Ah, Ahsoka." Master Sinube said. "Have you lost either one of your lightsabers recently?" He asked jokingly.
I smiled, "No, not recently."
He smiled. "Very good, young one." He said before continuing down the hall.
Aayla and I just bowed to each other respectfully before going our separate ways.
I walked to my quarters and sat down on the floor and tried to meditate.
I was interrupted, however, by Anakin.
I opened my eyes but didn't get up. "What is it, Master?" I asked, for fear something had happened.
"You have a visitor." He looked just as surprised as I was. He turned to reveal Marina. I know that it wasn't her fault I was a mistake, but I didn't really feel like talking to her or Lilo.
"Thank you, Master Jedi." She said politely to Anakin.
Anakin just bowed and left.
"Hi, Marina." I said, forcing myself to sound like I wasn't upset.
"Hey, Ahsoka." She said sitting down next to me. "You left before I could tell you this earlier."
I shifted sitting positions. "Tell me what?"
She sighed and looked down. "Ahsoka, only Padmé and Lilo know about this. You can not tell anyone!"
"I promise." I said stretching my arms.
"Ahsoka, I'm pregnant." She said this calmly.
My eyes widened, my jaw dropped, and I shot up on m feet. "What?! How the hell can you be pregnant!?"
"Ahsoka, please be quiet!" Marina hissed.
"I'm sorry." I said, even though I didn't really mean it. "It's just that I meet my two sisters for the first time in fourteen years, they tell me that I was a mistake, and I find out one of them is pregnant!?"
"I know," Marina sighed. "I know this is big on you, but a lot has happened in the last fourteen years." She stopped. "Or in my case, in the past eight-and-a-half months. . ."
I cooled my head and sat back down. "How can you be pregnant? You don't look pregnant."
She sighed. "I've been wearing clothes to hide it."
I stared at her stomach. This has to be a prank. . .
"Oh, yeah? If you really are pregnant, than who's the father?" I asked with my arms crossed.
"I don't know!" Marina confessed before bursting into tears.
I moved over next to her and rubbed her back. "Its okay, Marina." I said, trying to sound comforting.
She breathed heavily. "No! It's not okay!" She sobbed. "About nine months ago, a bill I had worked so hard to push through failed. I was so upset about it that I went to the underworld and had a few drinks too many. I got drunk and met some male Togruta. The next morning I woke up in an empty hotel room and a week after that I found out that I was pregnant." She stopped crying, but I could tell she was still very upset.
"Oh, my God. . ." I said this quietly so she couldn't hear me. "How far along are you?"
She wiped her eyes. "About eight months and three weeks. The babies due any day after next week."
"Is it a boy or a girl?" I asked.
"I don't know." She said. "I wouldn't let them tell me."
"Oh. . ." I said. "Can I tell one person?" I asked hopefully.
Marina wiped her nose. "Depends, who is it?"
I began to finger my lekku. "Well, um. Do you remember that boy who was with me at the ball?"
"Yeah, I do." Marina said. "Padmé said his name was Lux, right?"
I nodded. "That's him. Can I tell him?"
She studied my face, I tried to appear subtle. "Ahsoka, do you have a crush on him?" She said with a mischievous smile.
"No!" I said a little quickly.
She raised the white markings above her eyes. "Okay fine, but it's just an innocent little crush!" I confessed.
"Sure it is, Ahsoka." She said, unconvinced. "Sure, you can tell him. But you have to make him swear not to tell anybody else!" She said.
I drew and X over my heart. "Cross my heart."
A relieved look flooded Marina's face. "Thank you, Ahsoka." She reached out and gave me a hug. I was hesitant, but I hugged her back.
"You're welcome, Marina." I said.
And that was chapter three! I hope you liked it! Now, please please please please please please please please please please please please please review!