Yello Everyone! Hope your having a great April Fool's Day! Here is the next chapter of New.
Bounty hunters, crystal, blood. Caitlin shot up from her bed. She was breathing heavily. "Caitlin! Are you okay? I heard you thrashing around," said Anakin, coming into the room. "Yeah, I'm okay," she answered. "What happened?" he asked, concerned. "Well, I think I had a vision," she whispered. She looked over to the large window in her room. The sight of the traffic soothed her. When she turned back around, Anakin was gone. She lay down in bed again and drifted off to sleep.
Caitlin awoke to the sound of nothing in particular; she was still in the room and the traffic rushing by made a bit of noise. She looked on the table and she found a note. It read:
Dear Caitlin,
Ahsoka and I have gone down to the Council room for
A meeting, we didn't want to wake you.
There is some fruit on the table if you'd like.
Sincerely,
Anakin
It had been almost a month since Caitlin and her friends came here. She hasn't been able to get in contact with the others. She was starting to worry. She put on her usual everyday attire and walked to the training room. There were only a few more days until she and her master would go to Tatooine to find her lightsaber crystal. She was both excited and scared. Although she had Anakin by her side, it would be scary. Caitlin picked up a training saber and ignited it. She turned on the remote and started her training earlier than usual.
After an hour of training, Caitlin was exhausted and went to the mess hall to eat. There she sat at her usual table at the far end, where no one really went. When she was alone, she would go there if she was with her master, she'd be somewhere talking. She looked down at the food. She ripped off a piece of meat and put it into her mouth. She looked up and a group of younglings/padawans were staring at her.
When she was finished eating, she bought a jawa juice smoothie for her master. It was his favourite flavour anyway. While walking out of the hall one of the padawans from before got up and 'crashed' into Caitlin, causing her to spill it all over her body. Caitlin pulled out a napkin and cleaned up the mess on the floor. She put everything away and went back to her shared quarters.
When she got into the quarters, she was still a bit wet, the dips of her hair were damp, and the juice started getting really sticky. She didn't want her master to see her like this, so she sped off to the refresher. She walked out in a pair of shorts and a tank top. She was on the verge of tears. She was always the weird girl. She wasn't very pretty, she needed glasses, she wasn't supermodel skinny, but she was herself. She opened the journal that her master had given her and wrote in it. She wrote each entry twice. One is Basic and one in the alphabet she knew very well. This is what she wrote:
Dear Journal/Diary,
I thought coming here would stop those people from bullying me. I was wrong.
I have to make sure I'm extra careful around them. I haven't done anything to them. Yet.
Hopefully I'll make the right choice.
~Caitlin
She put the journal under her pillow and just sat on the bed. She heard her master come in. "Hey master!" Caitlin called, trying to sound happy. He looked at her. "Did anything happen while I was gone?" he asked. She shook her head. "Oh, okay," he said, shaking off the thought.
Yet again, Caitlin was left to eat on her own. Her master and Ahsoka were sent to Geonosis for a week, so their trip for Caitlin's lightsaber crystal was cancelled. Sitting at the far table she could hear some of the padawans giggling over something. 'Mostly about me!' Caitlin thought. She decided to walk through the temple. Bad idea. As she was walking one of the padawans ran to about 3 meters away from her and yelled, "Hey! How are you a Jedi? You're too fat!" Tears were starting to form in her eyes. She silently ran away. She sat in the Room of a Thousand Fountains and sobbed uncontrollably.
The teasing got worse over the week. Some even had commented on her start in puberty. At the end of the week the worst thing happened. A padawan snuck into her quarters and stole her journal. There was personal stuff in there that no one should know. She needed it back, and she knew exactly who had it. She approached the boy calmly. "Damien, can I have my journal back?" she asked politely. "Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about," he said coolly. "Then what is that?" she said, pointing to her journal on top of all of his study books. "That's my notebook. I need to study," he said. "No, it's my journal and I want it back now," Caitlin said, angrily. "Fine, I'll give it back. As soon as you admit that you're some alien freak!" he said. "What?" Caitlin screeched. She grabbed the book from the pile of books. "I'll be taking this," she said. "Don't worry. I don't need it anymore. Everything inside of that book has already been told to every padawan in the temple," Damien said, with a smile. Tears forming, Caitlin ran away. All the padawans yelled, "Alien freak!" as she ran past them.
Her master was coming in an hour and she needed to prepare. She heard a knocking at the door and she hesitantly opened it. She was surprised at who it was. It was none other than her master and Ahsoka. "You're back! I thought you were coming in another hour," Caitlin said. "Well, the transport came early," said Anakin, putting down his bag. Just before the door closed a paper airplane flew into the quarters, and landed at Anakin's feet. Curiously, he picked it up and opened it. His eyes widened at what he saw. It was a crudely drawn picture of an alien, which had the word 'Freak' at the bottom. "Caitlin, do you know the reason for this?" he asked. She was hesitant. She finally gave in and told them all that happened during the week. "Why didn't you tell me?" Anakin asked. "Because I was scared," Caitlin said, now on the verge of crying. "I assure you that this will end now," he said. He got up and walked to the Council room. He reported the situations. The padawans were called in to receive punishment.
Reveiwer Answers:
Vinny jace: :) I love all your reviews and I hope you keep doing so. You are supremely awesome!
Wow. Bullying :P Happens to a lot. It even happened to the author! Bullying is wrong and I will never support it!
