Aaaand I'm back with two more! Enjoy!

The Kid Next Door

The song that played over the stereo system of the speeder-bus moaned with all the overblown melodrama of a lovelorn teenage girl; unsurprising, considering that it was written for that demographic. The lovelorn teenage girl who sat across the aisle listened to it with rapture, murmuring the words sorrowfully as her eyes went far away and her fingers wrapped themselves in her dark brown hair. Jinx was definitely not a lovelorn teenage girl, and so he scowled at the intercom system and tried to block the song out.

.:She is the prom queen, I'm in the marching band:.

He did not empathize with the pathetic crooner's ballad, not one bit. The lyrics indicated that she was jealous of a girl she thought was better than her, who captured the attention of the singer's boyfriend more than she ever could. He had no girlfriend, and thus, he had no reason to be jealous of anybody who might attract her attention.

.:She is a cheerleader, I'm sitting in the stands:.

Captain Rex certainly was not a cheerleader, and nor was Jinx "on the bench" in this war. And Rex and Ahsoka were just friends, anyway. Just like she and Jinx were just friends, which rendered this whole inner argument moot. So there really was no reason for this song to make any sense in his life what-so-kriffing-ever.

.:I get a little bit, she gets a little more:.

Ahsoka looked at Captain Rex like an equal. They looked after each other in battle, in more than just the soldier-commander-this-is-our-duty kind of way. When they hit the battlefield, they moved and thought in tandem in a way that most troopers and their commanders could not replicate, or even sometimes understand. She certainly had never had to drag him away from his own self-pity and get him to fight for what they both believed in.

.:She's Miss America:.

Captain Rex was famous throughout the GAR as someone who could be counted on, the man who didn't give up.

.:And I'm just the girl next door:.

Jinx was just a beaten-down kid she met on a moon one day, a boy who hadn't been able to save himself or any of his friends and had eventually stopped trying to do so.

What did he have that he could possibly offer to someone like Ahsoka?

That thought was ugly and twisted and wrong and it had no business being in his mind. So he slapped it away, smacking himself right upside the head to clear it out. His lekku stung, and a couple of the other passengers stared at him, but he didn't care. He was a Jedi. He was done with jealousy, self-pity, and doubting himself, regardless of Ahsoka, Rex, and whatever relationship they had.

Patience, he said to himself, remembering the advice of his master. If it's meant to happen, it will happen. No sense forcing the issue.

And no sense in listening to stupid, untrue teenage girl love songs.

The song is Saving Jane's "Girl Next Door," a song which I personally have no problem with. Jinx is editorializing because he's not very happy with me for making him listen to it.