Padme was walking down the hallway and reading one of the bills that the Senate would be voting on for the following morning.
“ Padme!” someone called out Padme’s name.
“ Um . . . hello, Maria. How are you doing today?” Padme turned to the young girl, who came up to her.
“ I'm doing great today. Thank you for letting me follow you around. How are you doing? Oh, mom was wondering if you are stilling coming for dinner tonight?” the young girl asked.
“ Yes, I'm still coming to dinner tonight, so you can go and call her and let her know that I'm still going to be there. Oh, hello, Senator Byfield. How are you doing, this afternoon?” Padme saw her neighboring Senator.
“ Hello, Senator Padme. It very nice to see you. I'm sorry that I didn’t get to see you this morning, while the Senate was in session. I was busy trying to get some other things done, before we had to be back in session again this afternoon, after lunch. Hello, Maria. It is so good to see that there are still young people, who what to be part of our government.” the old man said.
“ Hello, Senator Byfield. Yes, I am very interested in the way the government works. Well, I better go and make that call to my mother, before we have to head back into session.” the young girl said, before taking off down the hallway to the public area, so she could use the public com-links.
“ Well, I better get going. Mrs. Byfield really doesn’t like it, if am late for lunch.” the older man smiled at Padme, before walking down the hallway to where the air shuttles were located.
Padme nodded and continued down the hallway, until she passed the turbo-lifts. It was when she was two doors down from the lifts, when she heard that dreadful sound.
“ Senator Padme.” the man’s voice called out from behind her.
“ Um . . . Lord Vader.” Padme answered, hoping her voice didn’t sound to shaky, when she turned around to face the Dark Lord.
“ I was hoping to ask you something, before you had to return to the Senate chamber this afternoon.” Darth Vader followed Padme down the hallway, when she began to head down the hallway to her office.
“ Um . . . ok.” was all she could say.
“ I was wondering if you could join me for dinner tonight?” he asked.
“ I see. Well, I'm sorry to tell you that I have to decline your invite to dinner, because I already have plans for dinner tonight.” Padme stopped at her office door and opened it.
“ I see. Well, then, how about lunch?” he followed her into the room. Jeanie looked up from her typing, when her boss and the dark menacing Sith Lord came into the room.
“ Well, like dinner, I already have plans. Maybe some other time.” Padme smiled at the Darth Vader, as there was a knock on the door. A young man stepped into the office.
“ Hey, Padme, are you ready? Oh, sorry. I didn’t know that you had a visitor.” the younger man stopped at a dead stop, when he saw Darth Vader standing in the middle of the waiting room.
“ Oh, hey, Jon. Just give me a couple of minutes. Now, if you will excuse me Lord Vader, but I do have a lunch date.” Padme turned and headed straight into her office and just left Vader standing there in the middle of the room, with Jon and Jeanie watching him.
Darth Vader turned and strode out of the office, leaving everyone shaking, because they could feel the Dark Lord’s anger ,all because he couldn’t get a date with the young Senator.
“ Hey, do you know that you just pissed off Darth Vader? You know what happens, if you don’t do what he commands.” Jon stepped over Padme and giving her a hug.
“ Yes. Well, he just has to understand that I'm not interested.” Padme retuned Jon’s hug, before going to her desk and sitting down, so that way, she could put her stuff into the desk drawer and locking them up.
“ What does he want from you anyway, Padme?” Jon asked, as they walked back into the waiting room and saw Maria waiting for them.
“ I don’t know. Well, lets head downstairs and get something to eat.” Padme shrugged her shoulders, before the three of them head out of the office and went down stairs to get something to eat.
After a very long day of bickering with the other Senators, and then followed by having dinner with family members, Padme finally made it home. Walking though the living room, Padme went into her bedroom got undressed, and put on her nightgown, before going over to her vanity table and sitting down. Grabbing the brush on the table, she lifted it to her hair and began brushing it. Once she ran the brush through it fifty times, she put the brush down, and went over to the bed and climbed into the huge bed. She closed her eyes and began drifting off into a sound sleep.