Robbed

The Past

3 days afterward: Lin's POV
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I laid at the usual spot where my body had been molded to sitting, against the metal grills and wall. My stomach grumbled slightly but I was too lazy to move so I just continued sitting there allowing my lunch to rot slowly as more flies began to feast upon the meal, buzzing and flying aimlessly above. These past 3 days had been silent and empty most of the time except for the occasional calls, for me to ingest my horrible lunch. I would usually be open up to a meal, especially at this hour but life was just never the same anymore. I lost my job, I let my mother and all my officers down and I just made the most idiotic decision to give up everything for a man that never loved me, as much as I loved him. He had a wife and airbending children. What more could he ask for? He fulfilled his father's dream and he had all he needed in this world. The truth being...I wanted to be a part of it but I can't be and will never be. I sighed, it was just another boring day. It was not as if Tenzin would suddenly come back to bail me out of here, he was busy keeping his family safe in the Southern Water tribe where Katara was. I looked across the grills only to see emptiness and a small glimmer of sunshine from the sunroof.

My heart yearned for someone to be here, anyone would do, I felt my mind slipping after what I realised was almost 40 years of pain. Ah...why did I even hold it for that long? Did it really matter anymore? He's moved on. My eyes fogged and just like the past 2 days, I let another tear slip out of my eye. There was no one here and there was no use holding my sadness in any longer; I mean, who even cared about me anyway? I was only ever an ugly metal bending Beifong. I carried nothing that my mother had and I just killed the whole Beifong legacy. Su? She's probably dead or poor or dead poor, who knew? She was a dumbass bitch who only knew how to have 'fun' anyway. I closed my eyes as my memory of that one night began to fill my mind again...

21 years ago: Lin's POV
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I was sitting alone in Jintao Mayhem at 5 pm, just when work ended. My heart feeling heavier than usual and it was nothing new, it has been like that for 2 years now to the point that I would be an annual customer coming during every anniversary on the 5th of May. The very day he gave me that necklace which I still wore on my neck, except for work hours, except for today, I had it nicely kept in the sweatpants under my uniform. "4 soju bottles for you Ms Beifong. You can always call for another if need be." The sound of that annoying waiter snapped me out of my fantasies. I knew I was getting hard drunk tonight, like every year after that breakup but to begin safely on the way to alcohol universe, 4 bottles of hard liquor would do as a starter. Like my mother, if there was anything else besides our job we were good at, it would be drinking. What I learnt about soju? It was a hard chug drink that you didn't stop for more than 5 minutes after finishing each bottle, you had to keep it coming unlike wine or else, prepare to feel sick af. I metal bent the bottle cap open with the flick of my finger and popped it flew, it signified the time I get drunk and I forget everything.

I knew I had bad drinking habits like my mother and Katara would not stop nagging about it to me, but it was difficult to tell someone and cry about how much I missed him. I mean...it's just easier to drink it off. No one could stop you and it was better to embarrass yourself without a clear head than when your mind was utterly clear right? How stupid can you be to let yourself cry in front of someone you know, knowing full well that you're doing it? I chugged whilst thinking to myself. Soon, half were gone...another half to go or maybe more. Before I opened the next bottle, I tucked under my uniform in search of that necklace and soon it was out of the pocket. The emerald green and smooth jade centre ,with the Beifong symbol carved in, had the right rim glistening as the hanging lights in the shop from across my seat cast down upon it. The gold and thin chain reflected some of the light off which gave the gold a slight glow along the top. As I continued staring at it, memories of how he used to run his fingers through my thick and (often) tangled hair gently while looking at me with his dreamy eyes. His arm softly wrapped around my waist as we would stare out into the sunset from Air Temple Island, at that very same stone bench next to that bonsai tree. That place had the best view, with nothing in the way of us as we watched the sun set. The small ray of rose gold shined on my side of my face. Ugh...why was I thinking about him? That was long ago...you've broken for 2 years, foolish bitch why would you do that? As I snapped out of my trance, I chugged the last half of soju down as I began to feel slightly sick....4th bottle gone.