Anakin Skywalker— the name everyone at Harvard knew; hot, popular, charming, flirty Anakin Skywalker, jock yet frustratingly intelligent as he was an engineering major, in the karate team— Jedi Knight, whatever the hell that meant, and just as stupidly attractive with those sterling cerulean eyes that were piercing, as if different ocean water was swept by whatever gods were out there, and mixed in a bottle to create a concoction of a beautiful color.

It didn’t help that he never noticed you; why would he when he had popular cheerleader, beautiful Padmè Amidala, studying law, just as intelligent as he was— god they would’ve been perfect for each other. They deserved each other, yet no matter how you tried to fray it. You couldn’t quite hate them, either of them really.

You wanted to, god, you had, it would’ve made everything so simple, so easy. Yet, the traitorous organ within your ribs had decided to fawn. To yearn for the man you knew you couldn’t have, one who hadn’t even known you existed despite you being there, in his classes, at the tennis games, at the karate tournament’s. Lingering, watching, blending into the shadows as if you’d never be visible at all, not really, not to him. Never to Anakin Skywalker.

You were like an abstract painting, beautiful to some but not quite understood by the ones who’d meant most, displayed in splatter across, almost forcibly shoved into his view, yet it would glide past you, towards Padme, the contemporary, the beautiful, yet more right for him.

Like now, as you sit at the bleachers, nothing was happening, if you ignored the football practice happening, it hadn’t been your idea, but, your best friend’s, to watch them practice while rather lately completing an assignment that was due next period. Risky.

“They look so hot,” She murmurs, her blue gaze only on the men running through the field. Your eyes lift from your computer screen, towards her first, and then towards the field. Your gaze insatiably landing on him. On Anakin. The way he laughed as he ran, catching the ball that Obi-wan Kenobi had thrown.