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Chapter 15/16 Excerpt: 

Rey gets the call a month later, and her heart drops out of her chest. Leia’s voice sounded a world away against the rush in her ears, and she nearly collapsed onto the floor with the weight of it all.

“How are things going with you and Ben?” Leia had asked, and Rey didn’t know how to respond, she just scrunched her brow and listened as static filled the dead air between them. “He told me not to call, to give you two time to settle back into things, but oh, it’s been a whole month and I couldn’t wait any longer.”

It was the second half that did it, that struck her right through her middle. When she could finally find the strength to speak, her voice was still weak and shaky as she clutched her phone to her ear, “he’s out?”

“Oh honey,” Leia’s voice was suddenly sad on the other end of the line, all of the bubbling excitement drained out in an instant, “did he not tell you?”

Her voice reminded Rey too much of what it had been like when she was found by social-services for the first time. It was so similar that it was almost as if she was there again, legs swinging in a too-tall chair, looking across a big desk at a lady with a teary-looking smile. Oh honey, she had said, how long have you been alone?

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Chapter 12 Excerpt: 

            She took one silent step forward almost without thinking. His presence a magnet drawing her in. Rey never got to see him like this, not really. There was something exceedingly soft about Ben in his sleep—his dark hair haloing his face in messy waves, his features relaxed, his body loose. It reminded her of how he looked at her sometimes, when he didn’t think she was looking. It reminded her of how he took her hand the night before, pressing his lips into the skin there as if he was cut out of the pages of Pride and Prejudice.

             Rey took another quiet step, and another, until she was standing right above him. He seemed undisturbed, his chest rising and falling steadily. Maybe that’s what encouraged her to reach forward with her left hand, to barely graze the mark on his face that promised her the world. When all of this began, she hadn’t even been able to hope that he might love her one day—but now, here, standing above him—

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Chapter 9 Excerpt: 

“Wow that’s, I’m sorry,” Rey whispered, her fingers twitched on the table in front of her, as if she was itching to reach out and take his own hand into hers, “and thanks. Obviously talking to him is going to be hard for you. So I appreciate it, you helping me like this.”

Ben wanted to tell her a lot of things then. How she seemed like the only person who ever really saw him. How he would do anything if it would make her smile. How a part of him thought he might legitimately kill a man if it meant keeping her safe. But these things scared him more than just about anything. He couldn’t tell her what she meant to him without saying too much. Instead he just said, “anything.” The word fell from his mouth a weighty thing, and it settled into the crevasses of silence between them. Ben hoped Rey knew what he meant, everything he tried to say in a single word.

“It’s going to be okay, you know?” Rey said then, and Ben turned to her curiously, tilting his head.

“Shouldn’t I be the one telling you that?” He asked, the confusion written in his voice.

“I know. It’s just, it doesn’t seem like anyone’s ever said that for you,” Rey admitted softly. Her fingers inched across the table towards his, and he didn’t pull away when they met his own.

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Chapter 8 Excerpt:

Time started to slide by after that first night. Communication on the Snoke-Palpatine front was relatively quiet, and Ben allowed himself to relax into the strange—almost friendship—he and Rey had developed. Ben called it a friendship, but he knew, when he looked up at her from his desk, it wasn’t friendship that was churning low in his stomach. It wasn’t friendship that had pulled him down to kiss her forehead. And it certainly wasn’t friendship that had him smiling, actually smiling when she said hi to him in the hall. He felt like a lovesick child when she looked at him. He wanted to hate himself more for it, but something in her eyes made him feel a little lighter, as if the world wasn’t about to open up and swallow him whole.

He started allowing himself to say her name in class, started calling on her when she raised her hand. She started staying after to lean over his desk and ask about his day. Students started to whisper things in the hall, but he didn’t mind. A couple of months went by like that, and life was easier than it had been in a long time. It wasn’t perfect, but it was…nice. Until it all went to shit.

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In leu of a chapter update today, have a poorly drawn hand sketch of what might happen. I'm sorry, I have fallen into a pit of despair. I will try to update soon!!!

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For any of you wondering, I will make it my unyielding goal to finish Maybe We’re From the Same Star by the end of the month. I know it has been forever since I’ve updated, but life has been crazy and summer is finally here. So the last two chapters will be my present to all of you. 

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If you’re waiting on a chapter update for Maybe We’re From the Same Star, it’s happening, it’s coming. I am so so so so so so sorry. But I am going home for Thanksgiving Break pretty soon, and will have two free months to finish up this story like it deserves. So thank you all for waiting so patiently, it will (hopefully) be worth it really soon.