your eyes • atwow

T W E N T Y

FINALLY AFTER quite sometime aiä had recovered, though there was still a lot going on in her head. All these questions.

Why did it randomly start up again? Yes it had been awhile since it occurred but to all three, at the same time? That had never happened before

Aiä was alone, sitting in her practice room. Far from anyone else, either way no one could enter unless allowed.

She felt frustrated, her thoughts were running through her head. One after another.

Then they went to a certain blue navi. Loak, she remembered the day that it was just them two, here in this room alone and laughing. The first time in a while that she had shown her real smile or laugh.

Though those thoughts drifted to his father's words. Sure Jake had apologized and Aiä had forgiven him him but she hadn't forgotten what he said to her, said about her.

Aiä promise to herself to keep a distance away from Loak, but she would be lying if she said that she didn't feel his lingering eyes on her.

She sighed, lifted herself up and walked out the room. As she had reached the bottom of the stairs she turned to her left and abruptly walked into one of the sullys, Kiri.

"Oh i am sorry, i didn't see you there, um can I help you with something?" Aiä said js a bit shocked

"Oh well I was wondering if I could talk to you about something?"

"Of course, why don't we talk in one of the huts."

Kiri simply nodded her head. As they made their way to an empty hut.

"What is it you wanted to tell me?"

"Well I was wondering if you knew anything about the spirit trees and Eywa?"

"Kiri, your father told me of what happened in Awa'tulu when you connected to the spirit tree. What is it you want to know?"

"Well-... how do I go back to a memory, or can I even do that?"

"What is the memory you wish to see?"

"It was of my mother, i never got to meet her, but I was able to see her in navi form, but also as a human. My memory is of her."

"If it is Eywa's will then she shall let you see that memory again. But if not then maybe there is a good reason behind it. Eywa shows us what we need to see, not always what we want."

Aiä and Kiri continued to talk, but eventually the conversation drifted away from their previous topic and into other things, like the clans, jewelry, dances, and boys.

Kiri was laughing at a joke Aiä had made, when she calmed down and asked aiä, "So are you and that Eleying guy together?"

"No, we are not. But I remember when me and him were little we made a promise to each other."

"What was it?"

"That if neither of us were mated by the time we are 23 then we should mate with each other. It's funny now that I think of it, i mean we're 17 now and neither of us are interested in mating with anyone."

Kiri and Aiä's conversation soon came to an end when there was someone calling for kiri.

"Kiri! Kiri! Kiri! Kir-"

Aiä and Kiri made their way out the hut to find the person yelling.

"What is it loak?" Kiri said with a sarcastic smile

"Oh there you are, mom is looking for you." His sentence slowly finished as he realized aiä was next to kiri.

"Fine, thank you aiä and i'll see you around!" She said before making her way to her family's home

It was just loak and aiä standing in silence.

"I must go, have a nice night loak."
Aiä said in a soft tone before walking away

All loak could think was "stupid,stupid why didn't i talk to her?"

He made a face of regret and silently groaned to himself.

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