The fire war renaissance

Chapter 19: Union hearts

Sorry about the super lateness. This time blame this website. It wouldn't let me update anything, it kept on saying "Processing Error"…man, that was annoying. I hope this didn't make you guys think I had forgotten or something, I tired at least 30 times is the past three days, but it wouldn't let me.

Anyways, let the soap opera continue!

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Chapter Nineteen: Union Hearts

She left him after that. She didn't know how to react, what to say how to look. She just turned her back and left. She did, though, whisper she was sorry to him, but it was barely audible she didn't know if he had even heard her.

And that was three days ago.

Katara and Sokka were leaving the next day, saying they were refreshed and ready to take the escort over the South Pole with Appa. But Toph was too preoccupied with what had happen at the dinner to give much thought to anything else.

She woke up that morning and touched her fingers to her lips as she seemed to do every morning since the incident had happened. Her dreams had been plagued with Yuexi's soft lips on hers, and how, despite how terribly confused she was, she wanted her plaguing dreams to be real.

"I'm in the deepest trench on the earth!" Toph said to Katara when she asked what was wrong. Toph always slept in when there was nothing to do in the morning, but it was four hours till evening and she still hadn't budged.

"And that's supposed to explain why you're lounging around in your room for the past three days. You haven't run outside barefoot like you like to do." Katara explained, slightly annoyed and obviously worried. Toph groaned, sitting up from her bed and shaking the hair from her lashes.

"What if I told you that I was confused about my feelings for someone?"

"Oh my gosh Toph," Katara exclaimed. "Don't tell me you're still not over Sokka, he's dating Suk-"

"No, not Sokka," she gulped, "Yuexi."

"Yuexi?" Katara corked a brow. She had always noticed the longing look in his eyes towards Toph whenever he passed by her, but she didn't think Toph had noticed, she seemed relatively—and without being obvious—blind to the whole matter. But evidently, she thought wrong. "Did he tell you how he felt or something?"

"Oh, so everyone knew how he felt but me?"

"It wasn't engineering science Toph." Toph buried her face in her pillow.

"I can't believe this, I guess everyone could see how he felt and I couldn't." She groaned. "This is why blind people shouldn't love."

"That's completely not true, Toph, and you know it. Anyone can love." Toph didn't move and Katara sighed, moving to the side of her bed.

"I felt something from him, the way his heart rate and breathing changed only when I was around, and a weird heat the radiated from him, and whenever he was around me everything around me just seemed to change, I can't really explain it."

"So you did know?" Katara dared to ask.

"No…well, I guess I did, but I didn't know what it was. I guess I do now." Toph finally lifted her head, looking in Katara's general direction, a blank and all the more hopeless expression plastered on her face. "He kissed me." Katara's eyes widened. "Everything defiantly changed then, and I couldn't tell if my stomach hurt, or felt good." Now Katara smiled.