New Beginnings

Chapter 8

Alexa POV

"You're pretty good with a lightsaber, Maya."  I smiled at her as we finished sparing, noticing that she blushed ever so slightly.

"Thanks."

"You're welcome."  I replied.

"So.... What do we do now?"  She asked. I shrugged and looked to Rendal.

"Any ideas?"

"Well we do have a bit of time to kill...."  He turned and whispered in my ear.  "What do you say we go to the ice creamery?"  He suggested, I gasped softly and grinned.  Nodding my head I then turned to look at our young friend.

"Yes! Come on Maya, we know just the thing to really make the afternoon great!"

So we lead her out of the Temple to our favourite ice cream parlour, we are serious regulars there, in fact we are so well known that everyone in there knows our names and what our favourite flavours are! Actually I went there a lot during the two months that Rendal was away on Kamino as I missed him and we've spent some great moments there together.

"Wow!"  Maya grinned as we walked through the door and the chilled air washed over us. We watched as the girl went to look at all the flavours and as we did I felt my hand subconsciously slip into Rendal's this place really was great.

"So Maya, what's your favourite flavour?"  Rendal asked, then just then I saw her shoulders slump slightly and her eyes slowly wandered down to the floor.

"I've.... Never had ice cream before."

I glanced at Rendal and we go stared in shock, how had she never had ice cream before?!

"Well today we are going to remedy that."  I assured her before going up to the counter, where a human girl by the name of Clara smiled at me.

"Hi Alexa, it's nice to see that Rendal's back."

"Thanks."  He nodded to her.

"Now what is it going to be today? Let me guess, one boysenberry ripple, one caramel swirl and.... Is she with you?"  She glanced at Maya, I nodded.

"Yep."

"So then what do you want, sweetie?"  She asked.

"Um.... C-Could I have rainbow? Uh.... Please?"  Maya replied nervously.

"Of course you can."

So she gave us the ice creams then we went and sat down in our favourite seats before trying to make small talk with Maya and watching her face light up as she discovered just how delicious ice cream is.

"Oh my gosh! I love this!"  She tried to keep from squealing as she liked her rainbow flavoured ice cream.

"I knew you would."  Rendal replied smiling at the successfulness of his idea to come here.

"Right."  I rolled my eyes jokingly and laughed as he did it back at me, however I soon stopped as I realised that Maya was staring at us.

"So.... What's the story with you two?"  She asked.

"Story?"  I replied unsure as I realised where this was going.

"Well yeah, it's obvious you two are close.... I'm just wondering how close."

"We're friends."  I nodded.

"Best friends."  Rendal corrected me.

"And....?"  She pressed on.