New Beginnings

Chapter 27: Arriving on Ilum

Maya POV

I woke up early this morning, opening my eyes and looking around my room before sitting up and running the sleep out of my eyes. The gathering is today! I'm going to get my crystal! I smiled to myself. I swiftly jumped out of bed and I got dressed. Once I was wearing my tunic I brushed my teeth, ran out of my room and went straight to Jay's. I'm was so excited and happy when I got to my friend's room the doors opened and I walked in to see a shirtless Jay.

My eyes widened and my mouth dropped. Oh. My. Gosh. I could feel my heart racing in my chest then Jay turned and looked at me.

"Maya? What are you doing here?" Before I could say anything I blushed looking Jay up and down and he then realised that he had no shirt on and he quickly put his shirt on I giggled a little. "Sorry about that." I smiled to myself.

"You don't need to apologise Jay." I replied.

"So what are you doing here?"

"Can't I come and see my boyfriend? By the way, you should have kept the shirt off, you looked  good without it." I said smiling, he returned the smile.

"Very funny Maya."

"I'm not joking Jay you looked good without a shirt on." He smirked at me. I walked closer to him and pushed some of his hair out of his eyes. "That's better." I kissed his cheek, taking his hand and walked over to the bed where we sat down. "You know we haven't talked much or been around each other since we have been together, Jay."

"You're right.... When do you want to tell Alexa, Rendal and Master Skywalker about us?" He asked, I paled. 

"Well you see.... I.... Uh.... I already told them I told them the day you asked me to be your girlfriend. I'm sorry Jay I just had to tell them, I couldn't keep it a secret!" He didn't reply, instead I just felt his lips touch mine and his hand moved to cup my cheek. I slowly put my hand on his shoulder. We soon parted for air.

"It's ok Maya."

"You're not mad Jay?" I asked surprised, he shook his head.

"No I'm not mad." I smiled and our lips touched again.  When we let go I smiled at him.

"Want to go get some breakfast?"  Jay asked.

"Sure."  I nodded, my boyfriend smiled and he kissed my cheek.  The two of us then got up, walked out of the room and went to the mess hall.

When we got there the place was noisy and crowded as usual, but we got our tray and waited in the line, which was long, by the time we had our food I was glad to sit down and I couldn't help smiling as we saw the others and went to sit with them.

"Hello you two."  They looked at us.

"Hi, can we sit with you?"  I asked, despite already knowing what the answer would be.

"Of course, sit down."  So we put our trays down on the table and plopped on the spare seats.

"How did the two of you sleep last night?"  Rendal asked.

"Good."  Jay and I said at the same time and we all laughed.

"How did you guys sleep?"  I asked.

"Pretty good."  Rendal, Alexa and Anakin said.

"Are you nervous about the gathering?"  Alexa asked.

"No not really."  Jay replied.

"I'm a little bit nervous."

'You'll be fine Maya."  I smiled as my master assured me.

'I saw the two of you walking here together."  Alexa said.  "You two are so cute together."  Jay laughed I started blushing and I tried to cover my face as I felt my cheeks started burning up.