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Notes:  The characters are all in year 11 which is 15/16 years old and in year 11 you have GCSEs which are important exams which you choose the subjects for at the end of year 9. Year 7 is the first year of secondary school and is age 11/12. Prefects are people in year 11 who help the year 7s. I think that’s all you need to know about the British school system (or how it is for me). The PE hw they're doing is to write up and do a six week exercise program.

Chapter 1

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Ahsoka groaned as the incessant wail of her alarm rang through her room. She flailed her arm to the side of her bed, eventually hitting the clock at turning the alarm off – for now. She pulled her duvet back over her head and closed her eyes, attempting to summon the motivation to climb out of bed. She’d almost forgotten how awful it was getting up at this unholy hour. For a while she lay back in her bed, trying not to think about getting up or just having to do anything for the whole day. Just as she was starting to relax again the alarm began to scream again. She groaned, more loudly this time and shuffled around in her covers.

By the time she’d managed to untangle herself from the covers, her phone was already buzzing with notifications. She reached out towards where buzzing came from and pulled her phone from a box of various chargers, headphones and other random junk.

‘26 unread messages from Skyguy’

She wondered what could be so important this early in the morning. Her question was answered as soon as she opened the conversation.

‘snips

hey snips

are you awake?

padme isn’t answering my texts

she must be awake by now

snips

she’s still not answering

do you think she’s excited to see me again?’

It was Padme, of course it was. From what she’d heard Anakin had been obsessed with her since year 3 and when they’d started dating it had just got worse. When she wasn’t there she seemed to be the only thing he could talk about and when she was there it was almost impossible to pry his eyes away from her. Though it was exasperating for her sometimes, Ahsoka had to admit it was kind of cute. Padme clearly felt the same way as he did, even if she was far better at controlling herself. The conversation continued in the same fashion for the next 16 messages until the last two were finally something other than Padme.

‘are u walking today

usual time?’

She quickly replied, telling him that she was walking and she was sure Padme was just as excited as he was. She rolled her eyes at Anakin’s love for Padme. She couldn’t really mock it though; she’d always yearned for a relationship like theirs. Plus, she was almost as excited to see all her other friends, especially Riyo. The summer holiday had been so busy for them both that they’d barely got any time to see each other. At least it gave her some motivation to go to school rather than just lie in bed all day like she wanted.

Getting ready went fairly smoothly, except for the five-minute panic that she’d lost her favourite beads. Surprising even herself, she managed to get out of the door with four minutes to spare. Anakin’s house was a bit further down the road so she expected he wouldn’t be there for another few minutes at least. She glanced at her phone again. There was only one new message from Anakin, informing her that he’d just left and would be there in a couple of minutes. She considered texting Riyo but it seemed a bit pointless since they were going to see each other in less than half an hour. As she held her thumb over Riyo’s contact, she heard a loud shout from right behind her.

“Hey Snips! You were so engrossed in your phone that you didn’t notice me coming. Texting anyone special?” he teased. Ahsoka’s refusal to tell him who she had a crush on had always been a slightly sore spot with him.

“Actually I was just checking to see if you were still coming. You’re not getting anything out of me today Skyguy” she chuckled. It wasn’t that she didn’t trust Anakin to know who her crush was, just she felt that somehow, if she didn’t tell anyone, it would just go away. Although that hadn’t really worked out for her so far.

“Are we actually going to walk to school or are we going to stand here forever?” Anakin asked impatiently. Ahsoka snapped out of her haze.

“Jeez Skyguy. Are you really that desperate to see Padme?” The blush on Anakin’s check clearly told her the answer. She smirked and him and he looked back pouting like a small child, just like he always did when Ahsoka got the better of him.

“Come on let’s go” he stammered, still embarrassed. Ahsoka laughed and started walking. Anakin followed her, sneering.

“Com’on you know I was just teasing. Your relationship is super cute” she said, punching him lightly in the arm. This just made him even more embarrassed.

“Can we talk about something other than Padme?” he muttered bitterly. Ahsoka opened her mouth wide with exaggerated shock.

“That’s something I never thought I’d hear from your mouth” she said barely containing a laugh. Anakin glared at her. “Ok, ok I’ll stop now I promise!” She held her hands up in surrender. They walked in silence for the next few seconds before Anakin finally said something.

“Did you do the PE homework over the summer?” Ahsoka laughed. “I guess that means no then.”

“Yep.”

“I did the first two weeks then I got bored and gave up.”

“I didn’t even start it. Remind me again why we decided to take PE?” she sighed.

“We thought it would be fun. I don’t think we’ve ever been so wrong.”

“Well there was that one time in-“ Ahsoka began before she was cut short by Anakin’s hand over her mouth.

“We don’t talk about that” he said with so much anger in his voice that you would have thought it was far more serious than it actually was.

“Well that doesn’t matter. It was a stupid decision. Why would anyone write up ‘evaluations’ for exercise sessions? That just takes all the fun out of it!”

“The whole premise of a personal exercise program is ridiculous! There are so many rules and restrictions, can’t we just exercise for fun. I mean how am I meant to reach my potential if everything is so restricted!”

“Yea and apparently fighting with wooden swords doesn’t even count as a real sport. What has this world come to!” At this, both of them burst into laughter. Ahsoka and Anakin had a reputation for being unstoppable one they started ranting, much to the annoyance of Obi-Wan. Once they got started on something the only thing that could stop them was Padme and Riyo’s calm logic that could deconstruct any argument, or their own laughter. It seemed that this time they were defeated by their own laughter.

For the rest of the way there their conversation continued in a similar manner, talking quickly and jumping between topics in a way that only the two of them could understand. As they got closer to school the paths slowly became more filled with people heading into school for the first time after the summer. Anakin and Ahsoka liked to play a game the called ‘spot the year 7’ where they tried to guess which members of the crowd were new to the school. It was usually fairly obvious. Aside from the fact that they were shorter than everyone else, they had neat organised uniform where the older people looked like they had just woken up and pulled on their clothes half asleep – they probably had and they always had a sort of lost and confused look on their face.