A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away

Chapter 18

Luna begin placing the large amount of books she had selected back on the shelves, fairly reluctant. Most of them were good ones that she had either already read and would like to buy, or had not read and wanted to. While her most of her prized possessions were mainly her Star Wars books, she only had a few selected ones that she actually owned. The two trilogies, The Force Awakens novel, three comics, two of which were centered around the main four rebels while the third was the first crossover between the rebels and Darth Vader comics; the Rogue One novel, The Book of Sith, The Jedi Path, and The Bounty Hunter's Guide. Luna had read many others, such as the Tarkin and Ahsoka novels and all the Darth Vader comics, but, as was a general rule, once she had read them, Luna didn't even think of buying them. Why buy a story you already know? Yes, there were movies that some of the books were based off of and vice versa, but books got you on a deeper connection with the characters than a movie sometimes could, and there were usually extra scenes in the books the movies didn't have.

Also, as for the new movies at least, Luna didn't own a copy of them. She had seen both The Force Awakens and Rogue One only once. In a cheap theater.

She didn't really care, she had seen them and they had been amazing, so even if she didn't see them again until she was in her twenties and could finally afford them and a DVD player, Luna would have memories of the movies, and the books to remind her. She'd live.

It was while she was doing this, that Luna suddenly got a bad feeling. Considering she now knew that the Force was real, Luna took the hint, trusting her gut and/or the Force, and hurried up, but not before looking around to see what may have caused it.

She was rewarded with a glimpse of Olivia, the dark skinned beauty that was one of the most popular girls at her school. Luna wasn't that worried about her, but Olivia's best friend, Elise, was something else.

Regardless, it meant trouble. Especially if the two girls were meeting up with their boyfriends, which considering they were at a bookstore and neither of them seemed like the reading type to Luna, was a fair guess.

Oh boy.

She hurried back to the table that Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé where sitting act, trying to act normal. If Luna was right, then Henderson and Ben could be here any minute.

Luna did not want to be around when they got there.

"I'm going to check out real quick, then we can leave, or you can go on ahead back to the hide out and I'll see you tomorrow," Luna said.

"You'll be fine?" Padmé asked.

"Yeah, don't worry about me."

"Well, let's go," Anakin said, standing, happy to get out of the store.

The three left before an nudge from Padmé reminded Anakin that he had to ask Luna about something. He managed to make a quick excuse before doubling back to the bookstore, hoping to catch her on the way out. Luna was still there, just finishing checking out.

Anakin decided to wait for her outside of the store.

***

Luna took the bag of books from the casher before heading towards the door, just as two boys walked in. Luna's stomach dropped.

She was out in the open and there was no nearby aisles, besides they had already seen her.

That left Henderson and Ben between her and the only escape route.

Luna took a deep breath and steeled herself before continuing forward. All she had to do was walk past them.

"Hey, look who it is," Henderson said to Ben, nodding to Luna as she walked by, putting out his foot to trip her at the last moment. Luna fell to the ground. The two boys laughed.