Through transparisteel

I’m so bored I’d love to eat my own leg.

Okay, this time, I had a real reason for being grounded.

After all, I did get into a fight with Vereg. Funny thing is, I’m not afraid of him anymore. I’m pretty sure I could eat two of him for breakfast.

It happened really fast too and I don’t remember much about it.

During PE, Kyle, Will and I were trying to play and Vereg came along. He said something, I can’t remember what now. All I know is that I felt as if a light had come on in my head and the next thing I knew, I was on the ground, beating the living crap out of him.

Suspension was not pronouced because Grandma spoke to the principal…

But boy… she gave me a talking to.

My parents are freaked out.
My grandmother is freaked out.
Uncle Pter is freaked out.

…
William is freaked out.

What have I done?

It’s alright for some people to go and do things but I can’t do anything without my entire family falling upon me like the plague. Am I supposed to sit out the rest of my life because it’s not safe?

So it was probably wrong of me to go and twist Maka’s mind to make her take her clothes off during assembly but how the hell did the parental units find out about it?

Grandma gave me so much grief over this it’s not funny.

But what was the need for grounding me for a month? It’s not like I’m not going to go to school or anything.

It’s been over a month since the Death Star was destroyed and we’d been without news. The Fleet reports are unreliable at best. No one knows anything for sure, although the Emperor and Darth Vader’s deaths are certain. He managed to call the garrison. They’re unable to return for some time, as his ship is extremely damaged but essentially, he is alive. Will is really relieved. I wouldn’t exactly say happy because I don’t think he is that happy.

Rumours have it that he’ll be docked in Corellia for well over a standard month getting his ship repaired, so there might be some time where Will is unavailable. I don’t know about all that though, because Dad doesn’t want me to have too much information.

Will has gone to see his father and he is distinctly unhappy. Can you imagine seeing your father almost die on the Galactic News? No, I can’t either.

…because I head-butted Maka Ele after practice. Her main claim to fame is being Vereg’s girlfriend, so I can see why she likes me so much. Not. She was with the rest of the pep squad, hanging around outside the boy locker room when I came out of the girl’s. I went straight to my school locker to get my books but she saw me. She came up to me and started picking fun at my clothing and the fact that she’s never seen me in a dress. Fancy her thinking she’s all that because her dad works as one of the Dictat’s assistant.
“I think you’re a freak, Lily” she said. “Why else would you be playing shockball? It’s unnatural.”
I tried not to reply. Then she yammered on a little more about shockball.
“So when are you and the blind freak leaving? I hear his father is dead, so he won’t be allowed to continue his education here. It would be a good idea if you did too.”
The next thing I heard was the crack of bone and felt a bit of pain in my head. I guess someone must have done something because the next thing I remember is Will locking my arms back and dragging me off her.
Coach came out of his office and we were both sent to the Infirmary. Then after that, the principal called me to his office and banged on about anger management and I told him where to go.

He suspended me right there and then. Will was waiting for me outside of the office when I came out. Maka was fine, standing in front of the school smoking, as usual. Because she felt she’d won, she pointed at me and laughed, whispering to her friends. For some reason, I felt extremely angry and clenched my fist. Maka started coughing and clawing at her throat. Distinctly enough, I heard Will yelling at me to stop but for some reason, no one else did.

On the way home, Will lectured me about my anger. I didn’t want to tell him why I’d hit Maka in the first place but it was just easier to tell him why rather than letting him bang on about it. He was angry at me but he said I should be more careful about my anger and that in Coruscant, it can be a tool used by those who want to take advantage of you.
I know all this. But I’m never going to be important enough that it matters.

I don’t know why but she won’t let me out of the house at the moment. She says it is too dangerous and there may be people looking for me. I wonder what could possibly scare even the wises of CorSec agents into not letting their kids out. I mean, apart from a Sith Lord coming after me, I don’t see what could possibly be so scary.

She gave me this bracelet to wear that she says will protect me. It’s quite pretty and it has a tiny little stone with a swirling cloud in it. I think it’s a holographic stone of some kind but I can’t find the activator.

Dad drove us back last night. I’m sad that the holidays are over. On the other hand, Uncle Pter has gone back to his ship because there is a great gathering at a planet called Endor.

He asked me to call him Uncle Pter because he said quickly that if things had gone right, he’d have been my uncle. I wonder what he meant. I have to ask Granma next time she’s in a really good mood.

There’s less than a week left and one of Dad’s guys came over with this new swoop he built. It’s cool incarnate. He promised he’s show me how to fly it tomorrow.

I’ve been having nightmares since last week and one last message Granma had. Once she’d gotten it, she locked herself in her room for two hours and cried. I could feel her in my head, it was painful but I didn’t want to go up and tell her because I was afraid she’d get mad at me.

Wow, I haven’t really had any time to write here in a long while. Too much fun and too many things to do. I rebuilt my comm system and reprogrammed it with some extra functions. Too bad Mom and Dad won’t let me have more pocket money. I could really build a killer system.

Another two weeks and school starts again. Will and I had a smashing time. I can’t believe he’s only been here less than a year. My parents took us and Grandma up to Shipwright Point, although Granma and Dad sometimes left to go back to Coronet. The house is really small compared to the one in Coronet and Will and I shared a room, although we didn’t spend too much time in there.

Will’s dad, Pter Wigefield, came to Corellia for a week’s leave. He’s actually really cool and he knows all those great stories! He even told us stories from before the Empire when he and Dad were in University. That sounded like a really great time. I think he’s really sad about someone who he knew from that time. He started saying something about a girl he knew called Drea but Granma had this look on her face that made him shut up. Will spent a lot of time with his dad and I didn’t get to see a lot of him then.

My parents had a big barbeque and invited all the neighbours of Point. But I don’t think the other kids like me or Will very much. His dad was a hit and so was Dad. All the women were charmed. I don’t think Mom was charmed by that, though.
I heard Keria Valdis tell her friends that Will was freaky and that I was just plain ugly. Meera Tharen said that I was quite nice but Keria shushed her and told her that if she were friends with me, she’d probably end up ugly. I felt it like pushing Keria in the lake and then she just fell in the lake. It was so strange!

The other families were there for the holidays as well and we spent a little time with kids our age, although it seems that they’re just too childish for me now, specially the girls. I had a lot more fun exploring places with Will. He has this really great sense for finding things. We found crystal shards and even a small blue-horned crab, which are really difficult to find normally.
I didn’t know he could swim but he does it really well. His blindness doesn’t affect it and he says he can feel things better in the water, because there are many live things in the water.

It’s true that there are many more things in the water. If you listen really close, you can hear the fish and all that telling you what’s in the water and if it tastes good. One of those purple fish actually said it was the best water because it tasted of summer. I wouldn’t know what a fish finds tasty, I’m not a fish but sea water is not that great to drink.

We even started a new thing called surfing. Basically, it’s trying to stand up on a board and staying up no matter how big the wave is and trying to ride the wave. It was pretty cool but I don’t think Will likes it. I do, though. It’s very easy once you get a hang of it and I have pretty good balance so it felt easy. I heard Coren Starchaser talk about it a lot at practice near the end of the year. I can see why he likes it, though.
It would be really cool if I could continue to do this. There just isn’t anything holding me back when I’m surfing and it feels as good as I imagine flying to be.

Granma has been really worried recently and recieving many messages from her friends off-planet. Every time she gets one, she call us back into the house for the entire day, then leaves for Coronet. It’s as if she was afraid something will happen to us. Last night, she called me to her room and told me that I mustn’t use my hunches in public and must never tell people that I see things they don’t or hear things that happen far away. I guess she’s afraid people will start to think I’m a Jedi or something.
I don’t want to end up in Kessel or worse, in Darth Vader’s ship.
She said I was old enough to know that there have been many great Jedi in our family but that this was something she didn’t want people to know because the Empire frowns on this and it could be dangerous if people even start to think I could be a Jedi one day.

She was also explaining me something about William and his blindness. I didn’t get anything but apparently, he’s something called a mirror looker, who knows what that means, since he can’t see. Granma Ellia said that he could see despite having no eyes because he is strong in the Force. That’s what I like about my granma, she knows things that other people don’t.
So anyways, she told me that he can actually see, using that Force, which kinda explains that he can everything I can and even find things I can’t see.

Actually, this is really cool because if the Empire ended one day, Will and I could be Jedi Knights! But Grandma says this can’t happen because I don’t have the Force and my hunches are just because I’m a really smart 12 year old. I wish though.

Well, not really. I’m 12 today.
Mom and Dad took me to a nice restaurant in Coronet. It overlooks the entire city and the panoramic view is ace. I got a bunch of stuffies, which I love, love, love and a pretty bracelet.

Will came by in the afternoon and gave me a small watch that has a compass and gives the dates and times on 5 major planets, including Corellia. It’s way cool.

At last! Three whole months of sun, sea and doing nothing but what we want! Yeah!
Will’s dad sent him a message to say that he couldn’t come to collect him, did he mind staying with us for the summer. No siree!

The down note being that my parents want me to take remedial classes that I don’t need because my grades weren’t all that great near the end of the year…

The rest of the team is going back home, since most of the students are from outside of Coronet. The only notable exception, Coach said, was that Coren kid I was in detention this summer with. He got some remedial classes. That was actually funny.

I’m bored out of my brains. I repeat, I am bored out of my cranium.
Forgot to brink one of my cards with a book to read and for once, there was nothing to be done around school. Figures that after yesterday’s wonderful CorSec presentation, there were no clean-up to be done. The summer holidays are nearly there anyways, so I guess that’s my last hour of detention.

So here I am, waiting for detention to end and writing on my datapad. All I had was the piloting manual for the shuttle Dad uses for work so I read that for a while. It was boring, even if there are nice little animations.

Ooh, the door is opening…

Nah, wrong alert. I thought they might actually let me off early but no, it was just to chuck CorSec posterboy in. Apparently, he went and climbed to the principal’s office window and threw a stink pellet at him.
So he has an hour of detention.

Yes, an hour. How unfair is that? I get two hours for a question and he gets away with throwing stink bombs.

Him: So you’re the girl who got detention for that stupid question?
Me: And you’re the boy who can’t shut up about CorSec. My question wasn’t stupid.
Him: Yes it was. My dad says that CorSec is the fairest Security force in all the Core.
Me: So they say.
Him: I would know.
Me: I would too.
Him: My dad’s a district captain.
Me: My grandad used to be Coronet’s DC. My dad didn’t get far past agent.
Him: *frown* I can’t believe your granddad was Coronet DC. What’s his name?
Me: Kieran Ardellian.
Him: No, really?
Me: No, not really. I’m actually Darth Vader’s closet assistant’s daughter.
Him: Can I meet him?
Me: Who, Darth Vader?
Him: No, your granddad.

Me: No.

Him: Please? I always wanted to meet him! He’s a legend.
Me: I don’t think so.
Him: Why not? Come on, it’ll be cool.
Me: He’s dead, so I don’t think so.

That shut him up for a while. Unforunatly, not long enough.

Him: So what was he like?
Me: He was a kind man.
Him: I heard he worked a lot with Jedi.
Me: You need your ears checked.
Him: You ever seen one?
Me: No Jedi worked with CorSec after the Clone Wars. That was before I was born.

He didn’t say anything. I wonder if he knows something about the Jedi. I love reading about them but Mom is worried that I might get into trouble if I’m seen checking out those books. Granma tells me stories of the Jedi all the time.

Me: So you’re in the bolo team?
Him: Yeah, I made the team this year.
Me: Nice. I made the shockball team.
Him: Shockball? You’re a girl.
Me: So?
Him: I dunno. Seems weird.
We kept talking about the team and stuff, then he said that he still couldn’t believe they’d let a girl on the shockball team. After that I sort of refused to talk to him anymore for a while.

Him: Come on, say something.
Me: Something.
Him: Like your name?
Me: Lily.
Him: Nice name.
Me: If you’re to one day propagate your genes, you need a better pick-up line.
Him: Propa-wha?
Me: Forget it.
Him: So want to be in CorSec one day?
Me: No.
Him: Why? Your entire family almost was in CorSec.
Me: I want to be a fighter pilot.
Him: You’re a girl.
Me: So?
Him: No girls in the Empire.
Me: Good. I’ll be the first one.
Him: I still think you’d be good in CorSec. Me, I want to be in CorSec.
Me: Really? I thought you wanted to be a singer.

He was the one sulking this time. Silly boys can’t take a joke. The principal came to liberate us soon after that.

Him: I’ll see you around.
Me: Don’t hold your breath, though.

Then Will came by to walk home with me and we left.

That kid’s weird. And he really talks about CorSec too much. But I think he’s sharp. Probably will be a good pilot and in CorSec.