Learning

Chapter 30: New Year... Again

Here we are! Yay! The final chapter! Yippee! I hope that you have all enjoyed this story, took me just over a month to finish it. I think that's pretty good. Thank you to all my readers who have also voted and commented as well as read it every update. I hope you and all the readers in the future have enjoyed this. We're about a third of the way to 300 reads, yay! But for now though it is time... To conclude the story!

Ahsoka Tano woke up to the annoying bleeping of her alarm. "Noooo. No! It can't be over! Summer! Come back!" Ahsoka groaned as she swung her legs over her bed. "Mum! I'm not going to school today! Not now, not ever! I've already learnt everything I need to!" She started to angrily pull out her uniform from her draws as her adoptive mum, Padme Skywalker, appeared at the door whilst shaking her head.

Padme passed Ahsoka her jumper, skirt and blazer from the floor. "I know sweetie but you still need your GCSES to help you get into college or university. No amount of intelligence without proof will help you. However your report from last year was a big improvement from the year before." She winced as Ahsoka's head shot up out of her jumper at alarming speed.

"I know it was! I worked hard for that report and barely got rewarded for it! My grades last year alone should be taken into consideration at my exams. I panic! However it is not actually until the spring and summer that I actually take my GCSES." Ahsoka grabbed her blazer and shrugged it over her shoulders before skipping down the stairs.

Padme followed her with a smile. "Your grades are fine, I agree. However there is more to this year than the last." She poured a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk for Ahsoka while her husband, Anakin Skywalker, stumbled downstairs with his top on backwards.

Ahsoka took her breakfast with a sigh. "I know, my last year of school. Woo! That's something to celebrate. You know, with prom and finishing exams." She started to eat her cereal while Padme helped Anakin put his shirt on properly.

He sat down beside her with a grin. "Ahsoka's right Padme, she can start to revise later in the year. Around December, January time. I did and I got excellent scores on my GCSES." Anakin seemed to think that he had won this case and grabbed himself a bowl of porridge.

Padme frowned. "I see, and are your excellent grades why Obi-wan had to fake your scores when you applied to teaching school?" She asked it simply as she sat down but Anakin's eyes went wide as Ahsoka looked eager for more information.

"We don't talk about that." He mumbled to Padme who laughed.

After they had eaten their breakfast, Padme hurried them out the door. She also fretted that they would be late despite Anakin's constant reassurance that they would get to school on time. Ahsoka stayed quiet when he said that, electing to ignore the times when they had been late and Obi-wan had scolded them for it. However it wasn't their fault if the traffic was bad.

"Okay, okay, we are leaving now Padme. Goodbye, we love you." Anakin called back to his wife as they left the house.

"Bye!" Ahsoka called back as the door closed. "She's going to find out one day Skyguy." She told him with a grin.

Anakin shook his head. "Hush Snips, just because you're one of the oldest in the school doesn't mean that you get to tell me what to do. Now, are you cycling or being driven?" Ahsoka often varied between her mode of transport day to day.

She thought for a moment. "Driven." Then they both climbed in the car and drove away to Temple Academy.

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Anakin drove his car to the staff parking lot with twenty minutes until he was due in Tutor. His friend Obi-wan Kenobi stood waiting for him, looking irritated and impatient. "You know Anakin, for your first day on the school year, coming in by the skin of your teeth seems to be a recurring pattern. Is there a reason you are running a bit behind?" He folded his arms as Anakin patted him on the back, Ahsoka following happily behind them.

"Come now Obi-wan, we're fine. Right on time, early even. Right Snips?" Anakin asked her with a grin.

She nodded. "Right." Ahsoka then saw her best friend Barriss Offee and boyfriend Lux Bonteri arrive and went over to see them. "See you in a minute!" She called back to her dad before they went off with their friends.

Anakin smiled at her. "See? Ahsoka doesn't mind, however you will never tell Padme about this! You sound a lot like her actually." They walked to Charlie Block where Anakin webt inside C5. It had been his Tutor room last year and he was pleased to still be a Tutor to this group. He'd enjoyed watching all of them flourish and learn, not just Ahsoka, although she was a highlight.

Obi-wan grinned at him, shaking his head. "I'll never understand how you can go through life the way you do. It would terrify me to see things the way you do." He turned to leave as Anakin laughed behind him.

"You love me really!" He shouted at Obi-wan as he left.

Obi-wan sighed on the other side of the door. "That is what will be the death of me." He grumbled to no one but himself before walking away.

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Ahsoka caught up to her best friend Barriss Offee. They'd known each other since primary school and complimented each other's personalities well. She was quite quiet, shy and reserved whereas Ahsoka was loud, energetic and outgoing. Both were friendly and clever though. "I refuse to accept that the summer is over. I can't go back to school! It's so boring and long and tiring and-"

Barriss laughed. "I get it Ahsoka! Calm down! This new year will be great: Year Eleven! The year of our GCSES! Besides, you still have Anakin for a Tutor  this year. I'm sure that will be nice. Relax." She stepped to the side as Lux came in for a hug with his girlfriend.

"I missed you 'Soka." He murmured softly to her, dotting her face in kisses.

Ahsoka laughed. "You saw me two days ago! But I missed you too." She returned the kiss with a smile as the trio walked towards the centre of the school. Their classmates swarmed around them in a loud buzz that drowned out the majority of their thoughts. After a summer of not really seeing the people they weren't the closest with and the joy yet fear of being in Year Eleven, Ahsoka's year were going to be a big crazy to begin with. She felt extremely sorry for their teachers and Anakin.

After a while, the bell started to ring for Tutor and everyone rushed to be on time. Ahsoka sighed as an idea suddenly occured to her. "This is our last first day of Temple Academy." Barriss and Lux stopped around her, looking thoughtful.

"Yeah, you're right. That's weird." Barriss nodded beside her. "I guess everyday from now on will be our last here." She walked slightly away from them and towards her own Tutor room.

Lux and Ahsoka walked side by side, holding hands with each other. "I feel bad that my second first day here is also my last. I don't think in two years I'll know this place that well." He lamented to her as they stood at the door. "This is where we first met." Lux smiled at the doorway while Ahsoka glanced at him.

Nudging him with a grin, she kissed his cheek. "I'll still be here to guide you." Then they went inside and into their rooms.

Anakin was stood at the front of the room, trying to get the others to settle down and failing miserably. He wasn't that upset by their defiance however and eventually gave up with a laugh. Eventually the final bell rang out and the group settled down on their own. "Well," Anakin began. "I'm glad you all got that excitement out of your system." Everyone laughed as chatter started up again. "Hey, hey, settle down. I'm not finished! Like last year you will be given free reign today. All I have to say is to enjoy this year, it will be your last." As Anakin sat down, Cal laughed while the others started to talk.

"Sounds ominous Sir!" Everyone laughed while Kanan clapped him on the back.

"Don't worry Cal, this year is going to be great!" Ahsoka grinned at the echo of the last year statement. Glancing at Anakin, she smiled at her dad and wholeheartedly agreed with her friends.

I hope you enjoyed this finale, yippee! I used a lot of the structure of the first chapter on this one so that may be why it looks slightly familiar to you at the beginning. The one-shot will be up on the 23rd. Until then though adiós.