Her Secret

-Three-

The sun rays shone through the high windows of Iris's room, gently waking the girl up. When she checked the hour, she decided it would be a good idea to take a shower before breakfast and choose a good outfit to meet the Jedi. Iris walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower while she undressed, when the water had a perfect temperature she stepped in and relaxed. Shower time was the only time of the day when Iris could be completely alone with her thoughts, just think about her own troubles. When she finished, she wrapped herself in a towel and dried her hair. With her hair now dry and straightened she made two little braids and joined them together behind her head.

After looking at herself in the mirror, she entered her large walk-in dressing room and started to go through different options of clothing. Iris didn't want to wear anything extravagant, but neither did she want to look messy. Finally, she decided on a grayish blue dress, short-sleeved and knee-length. She liked it, along with the dress she chose a white sweater, because in the mornings and evenings on Naboo the temperature would drop, and it was easy to catch a cold.

Minutes had passed, and when Iris was finally ready, she opted to search for the informal dining room she saw yesterday when Padmé and Kira were guiding her to her quarters. At first, Iris was confident about finding it easily, but after many wrong turns, she finally realized she was lost. Luckily, a guard patrolled nearby, and he was able to direct her. When she entered she was stunned with the beauty of the room. The dining room was partially open to one of the terraces, with expensive chandeliers and furniture and in the middle a huge wooden table stood with the biggest amount of food anyone could ever imagine, fruit, cold and hot food...

Sitting at the table, there were Padmé and Kira. "Good morning, Iris, I hope you found your room comfortable." Said Padmé and gestured to Iris to sit in front of Kira and diagonally to her.

"I'm so terribly excited about the Jedi! Are they going to be good-looking and warm-hearted? Fantasized Kira, eating a fruit salad.

Iris wasn't really excited about the visitors, she couldn't keep her secret with that many people around, she wasn't a very outgoing girl. While the sisters talked, Iris put some fruit on her plate, and a toast with jam. She wasn't usually very hungry in the morning.

"Kira, don't say that, besides, the Jedi can't have relationships, it doesn't matter if they are good-looking or not, they're here to protect you". Padmé scolded Kira, while Iris smiled at the sisterly interaction. Iris, maybe for her loneliness, always wanted to have a little sister or brother, but the possibilities of that occurring were remote if not outright unimaginable.

"Come on Padmé, I'm only joking, but if I'm being honest, I wouldn't mind having some nice Jedi around." Joked Kira, while Iris silently laughed. "Hey, Iris, what do you think? Are you as boring as my sister, or inwardly do you pray to have some handsome Jedi protecting you?" Kira smirked, waiting for the girl's response.

"Well... I don't really know what to say. You know that my father won't even allow me to have a boyfriend." Iris answered in a sorrowful melancholic tone.

"If they are attractive, maybe we could have one for each of us. And your father doesn't need to know." Kira smirked again while looking at Iris.

"Stop it Kira, don't ruin our reputation with those comments, I won't be here, and the guards are going with me, but I will be in touch with both Jedi." Concluded Padmé standing up from her seat. "Besides, I have to leave pretty soon, so that means that the Jedi are probably landing now."

Then Iris and Kira stood up and followed Padmé to the royal room, awaiting the arrival of two Jedi. Padmé sat on the biggest throne, next to her there was a smaller throne where Kira sat. Iris decided to stand up next to Kira's throne and anxiously waited for her new and mysterious protectors.