I had liked her for a long time. That's all I knew. I'm not even sure when it started anymore, not a sudden realisation. More like a slow transition from friendship to... well... whatever the hell this is. I guess I hadn't noticed. In all the time I was so caught up in being THAT guy. The 'hungry' guy, the 'plan' guy, the guy supposed to be in love with Suki. Hell, one time, I'd even been the 'sarcasm and meat' guy. But right now, the reflection in the mirror? No. I hadn't expected to be him.
-A few months before-
Suki had come to visit, she had been living on Kioshi island for the past four months trying to help train some new recruits that had joined the warriors. I had travelled around with Toph for a while. Well it wasn't just us; Aang and Katara had come along too, but I had stayed as far as possible from the happy couple. Apparently the only thing worse than two people kissing in public, was when one of those two people just happens to be your little sister.
Toph had agreed with me wholeheartedly on the grossness count; kissing is twice as disgusting when you have to listen to it, a fact I discovered while having to share a tent with the two lovebirds. Since then me and Toph had camped out together, a gesture I had thought of as totally innocent, until I had truly thought about it. She was pretty, and over the past couple of years she had... well she'd made the transition from 'cute' to heart-stoppingly gorgeous, but I had only ever seen her as a friend and I had Suki and..I just couldn't afford to see her that way.
Too bad I did anyway.
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