It had been a hot day, the dry warm wind blew through the buildings on the Republic City High School campus creating wind tunnels causing the blue and yellow school banners bearing the schools logo to shake wildly. Korra watched them as she stared out the classroom window until the sensation of someone poking her in the arm broke her out of her daydream. She turned to see her best friend Bolin looking at her, a built brown haired guy giving her a look whilst pointing towards the front of the class with his other hand. She followed his finger only to see her teacher Mrs. Pema looking right at her.

"Well Korra?" she asked arching her brow.

Korra shifted her eyes back to Bolin hoping he'd offer some kind of inkling as to what they had been talking about. Before he could open his mouth to say anything she heard the sound of Mrs Pema's chair sliding out from under her desk making way for her pregnant belly as she stood. Korra straightened her posture, looked down at her desk and fiddled with her books flipping through the pages in an attempt to make it look like she was paying attention as her teacher walked towards her. A hand came into her view and stopped the pages from turning, it was Mrs. Pema's.

"89 Korra, we're on page 89…" she turned the pages for her, "now read the last paragraph aloud."

It's not that the book they were reading that semester was boring, but Korra just didn't have the patience to sit and read for extended periods of time, even if it was about awesome battles between a boy with a scar and a noseless wizard. She just couldn't focus. Just as she was halfway through the paragraph a loud shriek stopped her and caused the whole class to look up to find Mrs. Pema leaning against her desk and a puddle of liquid on the floor around her feet.

The baby's coming - Korra thought to herself, "the baby is coming!" yelling it out loud now as she made her way to her teacher.

"Oh my god!" Boring yelled out as he frantically got up from his seat knocking his stuff off his desk and his chair over as he did. He ran to the open door of the classroom and stuck his head into the hallway, "we need help in here!" notifying the entire building at the top of his lungs.

"The intercom Bo, use the intercom" korra snapped as she tried to help Mrs Pema any way she could.

"Oh right," he sprinted back to the black box on the far the wall and pressed the red button. A woman came on, "This is secretary Zhu-Li, what can I help you with room 433?"

"There's a baby! Well not a baby, but there's gonna be a baby, soon probably, well I don't know how soon but-"

"Bolin!" Korra interrupted.

"I mean Mrs Pema's water broke!" he finally got out.

"Principal Tenzin is on his way" Zhu-Li replied, "stay calm everyone."

Moments later a tall slender bald man rushed through the door panting as he got to the hunched over woman.

"Honey are you all right? It's going to be fine, everything is alright, Zhu-Li has already called the ambulance and they are on their way" he reassured his wife as he placed his hand on her back rubbing it in an attempt to comfort her.

Korra brought a chair over for Mrs Pema urging her to sit down but she wanted none of it, she stood gritting her teeth letting out a slight scream as another contraction came over her.

"Make way everyone" a voice came out from behind the crowd of gathered students. A short, older, white haired woman in blue scrubs appeared, it was nurse Katara. She made her way over to the pregnant woman and put a hand on her stomach and managed to get her to sit in the chair that Korra had brought.

"Don't worry dear, you're doing fine, your husband is here and soon you will have a healthy new child to add to your family" the nurse said encouraging Mrs Pema who returned her words with a nod of understanding as she inhaled and exhaled deeply.

Moments later the the sirens from the ambulance could be heard as it weaved its way through campus to the main building. The emergency medical technicians made their way inside with a stretcher. One man checked the pregnant woman's vital signs while the other got ready to get her onto the stretcher. It wasn't long before everything was set and they rolled Mrs Pema out the door with Principal Tenzin following behind, the students rushed to the window and waved as they all got into the ambulance and left for the hospital.

Just as the ambulance rolled out of sight the school bell went off to bring class to an end. Nurse Katara said goodbye to the students as they all walked out of the class towards their lockers to leave after an exciting afternoon to say the least.

Zhu-Li was often the last to leave the school, today proved no different. After she finished up cleaning her desk, she had one last task left for the day: to find a replacement teacher for Mrs Pema. It was late in the day and very short notice but she figured she'd give a few names a try before leaving for the day. She pulled a blue binder from one of her drawers and started flipping through the pages. She called three of their regular substitute teachers without success. Ok one more - she thought to her herself, she moved her finger down the list of names and stopped when one caught her eye. This was a new substitute they had never called before but their qualifications went above and beyond the school's requirements. She picked up the phone and dialled.

"Hello. This is Zhu-Li, secretary of Republic City High School…I know its short notice but we need a substitute starting tomorrow for an undetermined period of time…yes…for a maternity leave…excellent! you start second period tomorrow…of course…thank you Miss Sato."