Star Boys - A Skysolo Story

Chapter 6 - Do You Like Girls?

Authors Note: When Someone is speaking in a language other than Galactic Common, I put it in <>

Luke sat on the floor of a larger starship at the base. He was rewiring a few lights for a pilot who had no idea what she was doing. She had left the tools out on the floor and they now surrounded him, scattered across the smooth gray metal. Luke reached for a ratchet, but rather than his fingers meeting it on the floor it was handed to him. He turned to see who this mysterious helper was. An awkward looking Chewbacca stood behind him. He waved slightly.

"<Hey kid!>"

"Hey Chewie! Come to help?"

The Wookiee nodded. He moved his gangly limbs into a seated position by Luke and looked down at the man, awaiting further instruction. Luke looked around, trying to find something he could help with.

"Can you hold these wires out of the way while I mess with this panel?"

"<Sure!>" Chewbacca answered. He pulled the wires Luke was referring to out of the way and watched Luke work.

"<Listen kid,>" the Wookiee began. This was going to be an awkward conversation and Chewbacca dreaded every second of it.

"What's up?" Luke asked, looking up to meet eyes with the taller creature.

"<I was thinking it was about time you and I had a talk. You know, like man to man.>"

Luke set down the tools we was using and turned his body to face Chewbacca.

"Man to man, huh? Did something happen?"

Chewbacca looked at his hand, deep inside the panel. Meeting eyes with the man during this would only make it worse. He was a terrible liar and Luke knew it.

"<Nothing happened! I just figured you might want to talk to someone! Seeing as you me and Han are some of the only guys on base who aren't constantly coming and leaving for missions!>"

Luke nodded, now looking at the Wookiee's hand as well.

"Uh huh. Alright! What do you want to talk about?"

Chewbacca cringed. This would be the worst part.

"<U-um. Girls?>"

Luke looked at him, confused. He certainly wasn't expecting this. Chewbacca rarely talked about this kind of thing with anyone, let alone him.

"What...what about them?"

"<Do you like them?>"

Luke pondered this for a second. This wasn't something he had ever really considered. He valued many of the women on base as they were skilled pilots and mechanics. He would even go as far to call some of them friends. But did he like them?

"Like them how?"

"<...romantically? I don't know! Are you interested in anyone? Maybe a guy even?>" The Wookiee asked, stumbling over his words. He was almost positive that Luke was onto him. What would he do if he was called out? Would admitting to it be betraying the princess? She had, after all, demanded that their plans be kept absolutely secret. Luke hadn't said anything, so Chewbacca snuck a glance in his direction. The kid was blushing! Was this crazy plan actually working?

"H-how did you know?"

The Wookiee was awestruck. The princess was actually onto something. Then again, it would make sense for Luke to swing that way. After all, he hadn't ever really seemed interested in any of the women his friends introduced him to.

"<L-lucky guess? So who is it?>"

The young Skywalker met Chewbacca's eyes with a look of utter seriousness painted on his face.

"Chewie. If I tell you, you have to swear on your life that you won't tell anyone. At all."

"<I swear.>" Chewbacca answered, nodding eagerly.

"It's...it's someone you're close to." He said tentatively.

"<Just tell me!>" This was making Chewbacca feel like a teenager again. Sitting in the trees and discussing crushes with his friends.

"It's...Han."

Jackpot. If Luke liked Han, this meant that he would finally stop getting into trouble! Now he just had to convince one of them to confess.

"<Really?>" The Wookiee answered, feigning shock. "<I never would have guessed! You should tell him!>"

Luke shook his head.

"He would never go for a guy like me. And besides I'm way younger than him! He just thinks of me as the kid he picked up on Tatooine!"

Chewbacca wanted to laugh. Was Luke really that oblivious? By this point nearly everyone on the base had picked up on Han's affections for him. Still, if the kid wasn't going to confess he would have to convince Han to. It didn't make sense to keep pressing the issue with Luke.

"<That's too bad! Well I have to->"

"Chewie, he's so...marvelous. He carried me to my quarters the other day after getting rid of Tomax! Remember, you can't tell him this but I pretended to go to sleep because I didn't know what to do and he took me into my quarters and set me down on my bed! His chest was so warm, Chewie and I could feel his heart beating!" Luke was now up and walking around, as though he couldn't contain his excitement.

"<That's great! Now I->"

"And he called me by my first name! He never does that unless he's angry! He just calls me "kid" or "Skywalker" but this time was different! He said it like he really cared about me! And god! I thought I was going to die right there! It probably doesn't mean anything though..."

"<Probably not, but->" Chewbacca was now standing, ready to leave, when the kid cut him off a third time. He couldn't just walk away! That would be rude! But god be really didn't want to listen to this.

"And his eyes! Stars! His eyes Chewie! I don't know if you've noticed but they have this little white flecks in them and it looks like he had an entire galaxy behind his eyelids!"

"<Wow. Amazing.>" Chewbacca said, unenergeticaly. He now understood that no matter what he said, Luke was going to continue.

"And he's so smart! I know people around here think he's just some drunken idiot and he is sometimes but other times he says the most clever things! You know I think he only acts out when he's around people he's trying to impress!"

"<Like you?!>" Chewbacca wanted to scream, but didn't.

"And when he smiles, he has this funny crooked way of smiling and I swear my heart stops every time he does it!"

Chewbacca was going to be here a while.