How does it feel

How does it feel 4

"I kissed her." Asami says under her breath.

She drives home taking deep breaths through her nose as she focuses on the road. "I kissed Korra." She blinks rapidly and swallows hard. "I... actually kissed her."

Twenty minutes later she sits in front of her apartment with her eyes closed unable to get the thought from her mind, breathing deeply. After a few minutes she gets out of her car and makes her way up the stairs and into her apartment.

She closes the door and leans her back against it, with her head down and her eyes closed as she chews on her lips trying not to panic. She takes slow deep breathes then pushes off the door. Fear, anger, and confusion grip her as she contemplates what she had just done.

She'd kissed Korra that was all there was to it. Part of her wanted to make an excuse that her hormone induced dream had prompted the overture, but she knew in her heart that it was more than that. She just wasn't ready to say it yet.

"Why did I kiss her? So stupid! UH! She doesn't even know she kissed me! What's wrong me! Why would she even be interested me? We're both women!" Sighing. "I'm supposed to be her friend...." She silently admonishes herself with lidded eyes as she remembers the softness of the avatar's lips against hers.

Asami had always been so in control of her actions that she couldn't understand how she let herself go like that. "It was just a stupid dream!" She says as she raises her voice allowing a few tears to fall. She shakes her head.

But she did understand. It was because it was Korra. The year she'd spent with the beautiful caramel skinned waterbender had slowly but surely gotten her attention. She was a business woman after all, it was normal that she be attracted to power and the avatar was the pinnacle of power. It was really only a matter of time whether she realized it or not. There was an invisible pull between the two of them that had been developing since they first encountered one another.

Asami had developed feelings for Korra and it scared her, mostly because she believed there was no way they could be reciprocated. How can you have a relationship with someone and they not even know about it. She didn't want to think about how immature she was acting. Just because Korra said her name a few times in her dreams didn't mean that the avatar felt anything other than friendship toward her.

This was quite the dilemma for Asami. She was 20 years old and up to this point she had never been attracted to a woman before, not sexually anyway. The green eyed beauty knew she wasn't lar because she was still attracted to men but if her dreams were any indication Korra was definitely the exception.

So Asami did what she could to clear her head. She showers, changes clothes, and heads off to the office.

Korra was on cloud nine after her session with Katara. The two most awesome members of the southern water tribe sit down to enjoy a late lunch.

"Come on Gran Gran, I'm serious. What do I do?" She asks almost pleading with her mentor. Korra had shared with her what happened yesterday and this morning.

"Well the first thing you need to do is apologize to Lin and your other friends." The old waterbender says as she sips her tea.

"Uhhhhh, not this again. Gran Gran, if it weren't for that last treatment you gave me...."

Katara sips her tea. "Korra, no matter how much you try and deny it, those are your true feelings. You were angry, but you shouldn't take it out on the people who care about you. Cutting off your emotions won't heal what you've been through. It only breeds more anger."

"It's high time you stop suppressing your feelings." Katara says cupping the young avatar's cheek to get some eye contact. "I know sometimes it hurts to hope; it hurts even more to care. But you can't stop caring."