[Image001] by EPISODE II

Author:EPISODE II [II, EPISODE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-10T13:35:48+00:00

Back in the house, PadmŠ, Sola, and Jobal were working together to clear the dishes and the remaining food. PadmŠ noted the tension in her mother’s movements, and she knew that these latest events-the assassination attempts, the fights in the Senate over an issue that could well lead to war-were weighing heavily on her.

She looked to Sola, too, to see if she might find some clue as to how to help alleviate the tension, but all she found there was an obvious curiosity that set her off her balance more than had her mother’s concerned expression.

“Why haven’t you told us about him?” Sola asked with a sly grin.

“What’s there to talk about?” PadmŠ replied as casually as she could. “He’s just a boy.”

“A boy?” Sola repeated with a laugh. “Have you seen the way he looks at you?”

“Sola! Stop it!”

“It’s obvious he has feelings for you,” Sola went on. “Are you saying, little baby sister, that you haven’t noticed?”

“I’m not your baby sister, Sola,” PadmŠ said flatly, her tone turning to true consternation. “Anakin and I are friends. Our relationship is strictly professional.”

Sola grinned again.

“Mom, would you tell her to stop it?” PadmŠ burst out in embarrassed frustration.

Now Sola began laughing out loud. “Well, maybe you haven’t noticed the way he looks at you. I think you’re afraid to.”

“Cut it out!”

Jobal stepped between the two and gave Sola a stern look. Then she turned back to PadmŠ. “Sola’s just concerned, dear,” she said. But her words sounded to PadmŠ like condescension, as if her mother was still trying to protect a helpless little girl.

“Oh, Mom, you’re impossible,” she said with a sigh of surrender. “What I’m doing is important.”

“You’ve done your service, PadmŠ,” Jobal answered. “It’s time you had a life of your own. You’re missing so much!”

PadmŠ tilted her head back and closed her eyes, trying to accept the words in the spirit with which they were offered. For a moment, she regretted coming back here, to see the same old sights and hear the same old advice.

For just a moment, though. Truthfully, when she considered it all, PadmŠ had to admit she was glad to have people who loved her and cared about her so much.

She offered her mother an appeasing smile, and Jobal nodded and gently tapped PadmŠ’s arm. She turned to Sola next, and saw her sister still grinning. What did Sola see?

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