...where do I even begin?
I was broken. Thirteen and banished and exiled and sent on a wild goose chase, everything I knew and loved taken from me. I'd rather have died. "I must capture the Avatar and restore my honor," I kept saying, but I was blind and stupid, I didn't realize how true those words were but I kept missing the point.
Then I found you, and something inside me changed without my knowing.
I always knew I needed you, but I never realized how much, in what way. Destiny can be a funny thing, Uncle says. Funny or not, I'm glad I finally chose my own destiny, chose you over my father.
My life had no purpose until you came along, even if I didn't know what that purpose was. You were my honor, my hope, my light, my...dare I say it, my hero. And now that we're on the same side, now that I've realized the truth...Aang, I wish I could tell you all these things, but it's so sappy and I'm afraid you'd laugh. Or maybe you wouldn't but the others might if they overheard.
You asked me once if we could have been friends. You saved my life at the North Pole when you could have left me to die. You forgave me after all the pain I caused you.
We're from two different worlds, our stories couldn't be more different. But somehow we're more alike than different, Aang, we've both suffered and struggled and grown up and learned hard lessons. Our two different paths led us to each other.
I stand here with you, watching the sun rise, and it moves me in a way I've never known.
I love you, Aang. So much I can't even begin to comprehend how one person could mean this much to me and I don't care. I don't even care that I'm repeating myself, or how sappy and stupid this all sounds.
I love you.
I need you.
You're everything.