The date for the ceremonial presentation of the doctorate certificate was known. Padmé was allowed to attend, it was a public event, she just had to get the guest ticket.
The whole ceremony was very solemn, Anakin was one of over a hundred doctoral graduate at the university this year. When it was his turn and the blue and yellow ribbon was placed over his shoulder, Padmé could hardly breathe, she cried. He smiled, his robe and doctoral hat suited him fabulously, he looked so good...and if she hadn't already been in love with him, she would have lost her heart by now.
There was a small concert to accompany the celebrations. Anakin sat next to her and she held his hand the whole time.
"I'm so proud of you. You did it, my genius." She whispered.
"I love you. We're going to celebrate tonight, you and I."
"You only think about...one thing."
"I only think about you."
"OK. , how are we going to celebrate?"
"Shall I really tell you?"
"Yes, you have your gown on."
He took her hand and kissed the palm. "I'll tell you in the car."
...and he really wanted to, but they had to go home. Nothing was as easy as it used to be. That time they lived intensely together, for almost four years. Now they had children and everything revolved around them, their needs came first. Padmé and Anakin were parents, and this obligation was a given for them.
So they drove to Padmé's parents to pick up the children and headed home. It was already time for the twins to go to bed. They were bathed and dressed for the night, Anakin sang a lullaby as always that his mother had sung to him when he was a little boy. Luke and Leia obviously liked the song because they fell asleep right away.
"So Padmé, we want to celebrate...you and I. I promised, you remember?"
"Let's see if you can do better now."
"What do you think?"
"You were already very good at it as a doctoral student, Dr. Skywalker should be even better." She winked.
"I'll try my best to confirm that summa cum laude is justified."
She took a shower, lay down on the bed, he followed and sat down next to her. She felt his kisses all over her body, so warm and tender. Slowly he turned her onto stomach and spread her legs with his own knees. He rubbed his hardness against her crotch and pressed lightly against her entrance.
"Do you want us to try something new?"
"What?"
He lowered himself onto his forearms and whispered in her ear. "Just stay relaxed, don't tense up, just let me do it."
He continued to rub himself against her and when his tip touched her anus, she tensed up.
"Stay relaxed, I'll do it slowly. If it hurts, I'll stop."
She nodded and did what he said, she wanted to try it too. He applied the lubricant and slowly inserted a finger to stretch her. Then he pushed the tip forward very slowly and it slid in. The stretch was unusual and not particularly pleasant, he was big. When half of his length was inside her, he asked quietly:
"Can I keep going, can I move?"
"Yes, but not quickly."
He slowly pushed his entire length inside her and made a few careful movements. "Is that OK?"
"No, it's uncomfortable, nearly painful."
He pulled out, stood up and went to the bathroom to clean himself. Back in the room, he walked over to the bed and moved his hand up and down his hardness, which was beginning to soften. "We'll do the trick. Come on, lie on your side."
He remained lying on his side behind her and lifted her right leg with his hand. Lacking friction on her sensitive spot, she tried to stimulate herself with her finger.
"Don't touch, Padmé, it's mine."
He slid his right arm under her thigh so that it lay on his forearm and reached the spot that needed to be stimulated with his fingers.
"Good?"
"Yes, just like that, don't stop...I'm close."
"So fast?"
"You feel so good...you're doing it well, Anakin...oh God..."
He increased the pace and felt her orgasm coming. After a few uncontrolled movements, he reached his own high point . "Padmééé..."
…and then his face fell into her hair, which covered her neck and back. "I love you more than anything."
"I love you too...it was wonderful."
"Yes, but I wanted to try something new. Too pity you didn't like it."
"It was extremely uncomfortable...uh, have you done that before...with your previous partners?"
"Padmé!"
"What? Are you uncomfortable talking about it?"
"Sort of..."
"Not with me, tell me about it...how did the other women react or feel?"
"Well, it was always consensual...and they enjoyed it. I assume they've had experience with it."
"Uh...and you...have you, I mean...I don't know how to ask."
"You mean, have I ever played the passive part during sex?"
"Uh, yes."
"I have too..."
"With other men?!"
"No, a woman can do that as well, it was kind of pleasant."
"WOW, anal orgasm?"
"When the prostate and penis are stimulated at the same time, the sensation of orgasm is intensified."
"I knew, I didn't know much...just normal things we do."
"...but they're overwhelming and we're sticking with it...uh, another round?"
"Me on top?"
She started kissing him, caressing him, preparing him for the next round and in the end it was perfect.
After such a short night, they would like to sleep longer, but Luke and Leia were merciless. Get up, dress the twins, feed them, keep them busy.
Anakin prepared all the documents for the application for the advertised position at NASA in Pasadena. This was a position that placed high demands on the applicant. No problem for Anakin. They are looking for:
- Robotics Technologist II
The standard tasks of these projects include modeling and simulation development, technical analysis, development, testing and implementation of vehicle dynamics models, software development and proposals for future planetary mission activities.
The candidate will support one or more technology development or flight projects. These projects include research systems for NASA and non-NASA sponsors as well as NASA missions to space.
etc., etc...
….everything Anakin could do and wanted to do in the future.
Immediately after he had sent the documents off, he called Mr. Watto to ask if he had any work for him, about two or three weeks. Watto told him to come right away.
"Where have you been all this time? I've had endless work here and you haven't called."
"I had to prepare for the defense of my doctoral thesis."
"Doctoral thesis with the thesis, how do I make a little mess."
"Thank you for your appreciation, Mr. Watto, but it was much more serious."
"All joking aside, Anakin, if I had known that you... well, over the years, were a student and doctoral candidate..."
"...you wouldn't have given me the job in the first place, would you?"
"I would have. You were always the best, I would have paid you better, but you were the best paid of all anyway. So why do you need a job if you have a PhD?"
"I applied to NASA and hope to get the job, but that won't be for another three or four weeks. I want to work until then, I don't want to be a burden to my fiancée."
"Aaa, that little French girl, right?"
"A quarter French."
"I'm sure she'd rather have you at home in bed."
Anakin laughed. "Possibly, but we have two children now that need to be looked after."
"When did you manage that?"
"Two at once."
"Congratulations. Good, then you can start getting your hands dirty… without gloves."
So Anakin stayed with Watto, on call two days a week.
After two weeks he was invited to the interview at JPL in Pasadena. Yes, he was already well known there, he had been there a few times as a PhD student. He had gotten the job, and was even able to negotiate a salary of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year, with the salary transferred once, on the last day of the month, and all the benefits that JPL offered. He would start work on the first working day of July. He was already looking forward to it.
"We're going shopping," Padmé said firmly. "You can't go to work in torn jeans and a T-shirt. You need something decent."
"Padmé, I have a few nice things."
"Yes, but it's not enough and you need something new. We're going, no arguments."
"You're behaving like an emperor."
"I don't subtly influence you, you know where you stand with me."
"Yes, my lady."
The day was free and they spent it in downtown L.A. The next day Anakin started with Watto, promising him four weeks, so until he starts in Pasadena.
The days when he wasn't working at Watto, Anakin spent with his family. The twins were his only happiness, as was his beautiful Padmé, whom he intended to marry soon. They often went to the coast, laying on the sand of Santa Monica State Beach while the babies were with their parents. The better idea was always to go to Grand-Mére with the twins, make themselves comfortable on the loungers and reminisce while Grand-Mére was busy with her great-grandchildren.
"Do you remember the flowerpot in the pool?"
"You threw it in, just to see me again as soon as possible."
"And you deliberately put on those skimpy swimming trunks just to irritate me and you deliberately splashed me."
"Luckily I was in the pool when you were standing there so wet ..."
"I would have liked to have seen that." She laughed and looked at his groin. "Grand-Máre would have kicked me out."
"Ooooh...I don't think so. She planned this with us from the first day you started working for her as a pool boy...from the very beginning and now she's sitting there contentedly playing with her great-grandchildren."
The stupid thing about these trips was that they were half a world trip. Always complicated with the twins.
They sometimes stayed overnight at Grand-Mére's. In Padmé's room, in her bed, they snuggled up together and made love...quietly, while Luke and Leia slept in the room next door. Sometimes, after making love, she would get up and go to the window.
"It was from here that I saw you for the first time and I had a thousand butterflies in my stomach. You looked so beautiful...I wanted to touch your bare upper body and imagined what it would be like to have sex with you. Pretty daring...wasn't it...and then I said to myself, he's just a pool boy and I'm a lawyer...and then Grand-Máre set my head straight on that. When I met you downstairs in the kitchen, I drowned in your blue eyes, I was lost."
"And when I saw you, I knew immediately that love at first sight is not a fairytale."
"Is that another declaration of love?"
"I love you, Padmé, and I know we were made for each other. If there is any truth in the fact that we will be reborn, I am sure, we will find each other again."
They enjoyed such moments, because there will be fewer and fewer of them, especially when Anakin starts working.
That day would soon come, but first Anakin wanted to say goodbye to Mr. Watto, hopefully forever. Despite everything he had endured, Anakin was grateful that Watto gave him that job to earn the money that kept him going through the summer months for years.
Best regards from Germany