Two Girls Looking At Movie Stars Photo
It was after lights out in the girls section of the initiates wing of the Jedi Temple. Roommates Kayla Bix and Jysella Horn are having trouble getting to sleep.
"Do you ever think what would happen if you and Ben broke up?" asked Kayla, seriously.
Jysella huffed in the darkness, responding: "No, why would I think about that?"
"I don't know," Kayla replied, uncertainly. "I guess because I sometimes wonder what would happen if I didn't have Lens."
"There's a difference, you know," Jysella said, to turning to face the other girl in the bed opposite her. "Breaking up with him is something I've never considered. But, yeah, I worry about him being hurt, or Force forbid, killed. I don't dwell on it, but I'd be lying if I said it never crossed my mind."
"You're right, of course," Kayla replied. "About the difference. I guess my original question is something bouncing around in my head. I love Lens, but he makes me so mad sometimes.
Kayla finally turned on her side and looked at Jysella. "Know what I mean?"
"Boyfriends do that," Jysella answered, knowingly. "It's the 'boy' part of them. But, with Lens, I can see how it would be an uphill battle."
"I wonder if the two of you will ever get along," Kayla said, not fully expecting an answer.
"We get along just fine as long as long as he doesn't get in my way."
Kayla fell silent. After a moment, she reached over to the bedside table and activated a holo of Lens. He was smiling in his dashing, corny, confident way.
Her reverie was broken by Jysella's matter of fact tone. "No mooning over boys in this room; especially, boys who've been behaving badly."
"I know," Kayla sighed. "But I don't want to stay mad at him."
Jysella swung her legs around, placing her feet on the floor. Activating the lamp, which drowned out Lens holo, she said: "We have to get out here. I can't have my strong, independent roomy reduced to sappy platitudes and longing stares at blue light. I know you, Kayla. This isn't you. I know you love Lens, despite the benefit of my wisdom, but this...
Jysella gestured toward her friend.
"Has got to stop."
Kayla frowned. "I see that crazed look in your eyes. It never ends well.
The dark haired initiate furrowed her eyebrows and was momentarily frozen in time.
"What?" Kayla asked noticing her friend's paralysis.
Jysella shook her head as if to cast off an unwelcome thought. "Ben says that to Lens."
Kayla smiled; her mood lightened by her friend's discomfort.
"Perhaps the two of you have more in common that you think?" Kayla said.
"I'll try not to," Jysella retorted.
"What?"
"Think about it."