Zuko x reader

Chapter 8

My relationship with Zuko has improved so much over this past 3 weeks. Iroh says he's never seen him this happy after he got exiled, but that's if you count being happy with being less grumpy and less frowns. I feel like there is something else he is hiding but I'm not going to push it. I want to enjoy what I have, but I'm not sure exactly what we even are.
"-N)?"
Let's not get too complicated. I know there is a lot on the both of us, and I just need to be patient, but I mean I haven't exactly forgot about Mai either. I wonder if she has feelings for Zuko still?
"(Y/N)?"
Even if she does, she definitely still has a chance, these thoughts can't get in the way. I still have a mission, I wonder if I will ever find the Avatar?
"(Y/N)?!"
Maybe he could use a non-bender? No I'd probably be just a burden it's not like I can teach him fire bending, actually I can! Not literally but I did pick up those bending scrolls, I could teach him some moves?
"HELLO EARTH TO (Y/N)!"

"HUH?" I forgot I was in the middle of working! I get out of my thoughts and Zuko is calling me? I was about to answer when I got lost in my thoughts again. My thought process be going at the speed at light, like Lighting McQueen KACHOW. It is hard to pay attention to reality, life is boring an- He sighs frustratedly at me, I forgot he was talking to me again. Zuko looks at me with a dead expression and moves his head motioning towards a person with a cloak covering their face a bit. "He's been staring at you for a while." I look at the person through the corner of my eyes. Oh god no. The guy makes eye contact with me and starts to smirk, how I want to slap that smirk off his face. 'Now now (Y/N), no need to get all worked up.'

Maybe if I ignore him he will get the message and leave me alone. I sigh, that would be a miracle but it's Jet for gods sake he won't get the message. I make my way to another table, ignoring Jet and taking the customers orders before leaving to the kitchen but not without grabbing Zuko by his wrist hopefully we can go unnoticed by a certain someone. Zuko gets startled and yelps when I grabbed him and the broom falls out of his hand, I see Jet look over here immediately and I rush us to the kitchen, the door closing on it's own.

The mission definitely failed, and now I'm panicking. "Do you mind telling me what that was about?" I don't answer him but peek through the door to look at Jet, he notices and smirks at me again. I slam the door close with a disgusted face. I start to pace and I keep my back turned against Zuko, thinking about what to do. Zuko doesn't say anything, he is waiting for a explanation, "Don't you recognize him?" "Recognize who?" A voice says behind me, that's definitely not Zuko. I don't even turn around, not wanting to look at his face, "What do you want from me Jet?" I say with venom in my words.

Jet laughs, "Ouch, that hurt princess. You seem to have gotten more feisty since you left me." I scoff before turning around, I tell myself I will handle this calm-
"Ahh there is your beautiful face."

You know what I changed my mind. I walk up to Jet, looking (up/down) at that ugly rat face, "Listen here brat. I'm not your little princess you can fool around with, and I was never yours to begin with so don't come with this big shot attitude." I start to take steps to get closer to him, he slowly starts to step back and not backing down I still keep moving. "You can't just treat me like that and expect me to welcome you with my arms open. Are you crazy? I don't even know why I trusted you."

Jet's back finally hit the wall, he is now cornered by a very angry (Y/N). "I trusted you. I thought we were in this together but, you left me behind. You ditched me when I needed you the most.." my voice starts to raise in volume. "You turned your back on me because you didn't want to deal with me. You didn't want to deal with your problems and ran away. YOU RAN AWAY WHEN SOMEONE, WHEN I NEEDED YOU. I EVEN FORGAVE YOU, I OPENED UP TO YOU AND YOU JUST PUSHED ME OFF THE CLIFF AND DIDNT LOOK bAcK."

My voice cracked at the end, I was so close to crying again but I wasn't going to allow him to see how dependent I was on him, how much power he has over me. I inhale and exhale shakily ready to leave, but not before saying "so you better think again you if can come after me with that attitude unless you want something broken. We both know I'm not joking."

I turn away, starting to walk upstairs to get a break from this cruel world called life. "(Y/N) WAIT-". He grabs my wrist with so much force it's starting to bruise. "I came here to tell you that I love you. I'm so sorry I did that to you but I promise I'm better. I won't forget about you, I'll listen to you, my attention will only be kept on you, so please..."
I faced him again and laughed, "Aw the poor baby loves me. That's too bad because I don't care." I twist his arm off the deadly grip he had on my wrist. He cries out in pain, I just sigh and let his arm go. "Just leave me alone I'm sure  the southern tribe water bender will appreciate your attention more."

As I'm actually walking away this time, Jet goes to follow me, yelling and screaming my name, before Zuko stops him. Jet starts yelling incoherent things at Zuko, it just sounded like a bunch of curse words put together. I can't hear anything more, just the sound of my pounding heart in my ears. Instead of going to my room, I make my way towards Zuko's room, subconsciously hoping I get some comfort of just being in there. I flop down on his futon, my face hitting his pillow, no words are said. The room is painfully quiet expect for the soft sobbing noises muffled by the pillow.