Beginning Again

Chapter 1

Hello!  Yes I know that some of you have been waiting for this with baited breath and heh given the amount of time it has taken me to publish it...  Well I'm hoping that you haven't turned blue haha XD

Anyway this is the first chapter of Beginning Again and I hope that you all enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

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Alexa POV

"Alexa!"

I laughed as I heard Rendal call my name from far behind me.  I knew he thought I was crazy for trying this and to be honest he's not far wrong!  Grinning, I looked back over my shoulder at my friend and winked at him though he likely couldn't see it.

"Try and catch me!"  I yelled back to him.

Earlier Rendal had challenged me to try and fly a speeder little did he know that as soon as he said it I became determined to do it right away, so I went to the hangar and 'borrowed' one.  This was the first time I'd flown one through the crowded skylanes of Coruscant, but surely it couldn't be that hard.

"Hey!"

Oops.

I grinned sheepishly as someone else shouted at me for nearly crashing into them.  "Sorry!"  I hadn't meant to do that.  It looked like this might be a little harder than I thought, but just because something was tricky didn't mean I was going to quit.  After all it had never stopped me before, right?

The skylanes were always chaotic, but when driving through them for the first time they seemed impossible to navigate.  Speeders were flying every which way and here I was, not knowing anything about how to fly this thing except how to turn it on and how to steer it.  I couldn't even manage to steer it everywhere as I moved it erratically through the city.

I wondered what Rendal was thinking about all of this when I suddenly had to make a sharp turn an object came hurtling toward me.  I managed to avoid it, but when I looked back to where it was flying off to I saw it was some kind of droid.  I rolled my eyes.

You'd think a droid would be more careful...  But then again it could have been programmed to be reckless.  Heh, that sounds like something I would do.

I smirked at the thought of that and was reminded that sometimes it didn't matter how the droid was programmed, sometimes they took on their own personalities.  Like my little friend R2-D2.  Now he was a special droid.  He had more spunk than many of the padawans and more personality than a lot of the Jedi Master's I had seen around the Jedi Temple.  It was funny to watch the astromech droid, especially when he was with Anakin.  Those two got on like a house on fire, everyone knew it, and it seemed that R2 and I got along almost as well.

A lot had happened since I first met Anakin here on Coruscant.  I had become a padawan, made friends, gone on missions and fought in battles.  Even after all of that Rendal, Jenifire, Lorryn and I were still making our own fun some way or another.  So I couldn't exactly say that life has been boring, and at the moment it was only getting more exciting as I raced through the sky in the speeder.

"Whoo hoo!"  I whooped as I soared.  It was moments like this when I almost wished I had hair so that I could feel the wind rushing through it.  Still it was exhilarating and my heart pumped adrenaline through my body, making my already fine tuned senses even sharper as I flew upwards into the bright sky.  It was so freeing, even when I was constantly having to duck and dive as other speeders raced around me.  It was the best feeling.