Walking through the city streets

Is it by mistake or design?

I feel so alone on a Friday night

Can you make it feel like home if I tell you, you're mine?

It's like I told you, honey

-Born to Die by Lana Del Rey

After their first month together Luke finally reveals why he picked her.

He sits her down on his worn couch and explains how he knew her grandfather a long, long time ago.

"Your name is Rey Kenobi."

Rey wants to throw something at him. Did he think she was an idiot?

"Yes, I know my own name," she says bitingly instead.

She still doesn't trust this strange man who picked her from the orphanage and took her away from Unklar Plutt. Sure, the orphanage was a horrible place for a 12-year-old to be in, but Rey could survive anything. She didn't need to be saved. Deep inside she knew that she should be grateful to Luke Skywalker, but he took her away from the last place where her family could find her. And now she might be lost to her family forever.

She was so angry. Still is, that he adopted her and took her far away from that dusty desert town in California. Now she spends her days with him in a small, yet beautiful house near the California coast. She fights with Luke on every little thing possible, although it's hard to fight with someone who spends their mornings meditating.

But still, she refuses to be thankful to him. Not until he gives her a reason to.

Rey knows that any other orphan would be ecstatic, especially one as old as her. No one ever wants to adopt a scruffy child when there are cute blank babies in the world that they can mold into their own wants and ideals. No one wants an already grown and weary child. That's how Rey has always felt like. Not a child, but a tired, bitter adult. She never had the luxury of being a child.

"I didn't know who my parents were when I was your age, I was an orphan as well," Luke admits.

Rey feels some of her anger ebb away. Somehow she feels a little closer to him. He was like her. They were connected, if only in a tragic way.

"I was raised in many foster homes. Until I met a man named Ben Kenobi."

Rey sits frozen.

Does Luke know her parents?

She feels too scared to be hopeful. She doesn't want to ask. She almost doesn't want to know.

"Kenobi…" she whispers unable to stop herself.

Luke gives her a gentle smile, but his blue eyes look sad.

"Yes, Kenobi. Just like you. He was your grandfather. I met him-" Luke shakes his head, "No, actually he found me when I was a lost teenager looking for a place in this world. He taught me so much, he gave me a purpose. He knew my parents and told me all about them. The good and the ugly. I struggled with it, but I came out stronger. However, the best thing he did was tell me that I had a sister. A twin sister. We had been separated at birth. She was lucky and got adopted by a wealthy family. Once Obi-wan introduced me to her, I finally felt complete. I finally found a home. And I will forever be grateful to him for that."

Luke's eyes turned misty.

"He's gone now. And for the longest time, I had no idea of your existence. Your grandfather was old when I met him and he lived a life so long and full of secrets, that sometimes I still feel like I didn't know him at all. I wish he had told me that he had other family. I thought he was alone… but then a year ago I was cleaning out some things from the attic and I found some of his belongings. I found a letter he wrote to your father, his son, but he never sent it."

Rey sat there, enraptured. She always dreamed that one day she would find her family, but she couldn't believe it was actually happening.

"Where is he? Where's my father?" Rey asked. Her eyes big and hopeful and full of unshed tears. Feeling more like a child then she ever had before.

Luke looked away from her.

"After I found the letter I decided to do some research. I wanted to find Obi-Wan's son, and tell him of his father's passing. It took a lot of time and sources to find him but once I did…. Rey, I'm so sorry but your parents are no longer with us. They were in a car accident and passed away right after you were born."

Rey felt something break inside of her. She had always been an unwanted creature and she had accepted it, but knowing that her parents would never come back, that's what truly shattered her. She started crying. Crying so hard it became painful. She had never cried so much in her life before. Crying was for children. For the weak.

Luke reached out. His arms wrapped around her tiny frame, trying to hold her together. And she let him.

"I'm so sorry Rey. I just wanted you to know the truth. And the truth is that your family might be gone, but you will never be alone again. I'm here now. The moment I found out about you, I did everything I could to find you. To make sure you were safe, like your grandfather did for me."

Rey shook her head.

"You're wrong," she said through her tears, "I'll always be alone."

Luke held her tighter.

A week passes after Luke's revelation. Rey walks around like a ghost. She talks when spoken to, eats everything that Luke cooks for her, and spends whole days either in her bed or walking along the shores of Luke's beach house. Luke tries his hardest to make her feel at home. But Rey still doesn't know what that means. She doesn't seem to belong anywhere.

She stops arguing with him after the night he held her as her heart broke. But now her silence worries him. Rey wished that she could care. But knowing her parents are dead and she wasted her whole childhood on false hope makes her feel numb inside.

One night as they eat dinner Luke informs her that they will have some visitors soon. He tells her about his sister and Rey is envious at how excited he sounds.

"Leia is a very busy and important person. She's always somewhere trying to save the world one way or the other," Luke says sarcastically but his eyes hold so much warmth that it makes Rey's heart ache painfully.

She wonders if she will ever love someone that much. Or if anyone will ever love her.

"But she decided to take some time off from work so she could come down and see you. She can't wait to meet you. She loved your grandfather as well. Hell, she even named her son after him."

Something about hearing that makes Rey's heart a little lighter. Almost like part of her grandfather is still alive.

"How old is he?" Rey asks, her throat a little rough from not using it.

Luke looks at her in surprise. He wasn't used to the sound of her voice. Rey almost feels guilty for making him live with a ghost like her.

"Ben is 15 years old now," Luke remembers.

"I haven't seen him in a long time but from what I remember Ben can be….a bit of a handful. He used to have horrible tantrums when he was little, Leia says that he can still be a bit sensitive sometimes. Overly emotional. Honestly, he's probably just a normal bratty teenager." Luke says unsurely.

"Teenagers are the worst," Rey admits.

She tried her hardest to stay away from the older kids at the orphanage. They were dangerous and often cruel.

Rey hopes that Ben is different.

Lost but now I am found

I can see but once I was blind

I was so confused as a little child

Tried to take what I could get

Scared that I couldn't find

All the answers honey