Lost Memories- Prologue
"It hasn't gotten easier like the doctors promised," Mai shouted as she threw her head into her shaking hands. She clenched her fists trying to gain control of her emotions. Mai grabbed her ice cold knives off the mahogany side table and stared at them thoughtfully. Discontented with the past memories that filled her thoughts, Mai hurled her steel knives fiercely towards the hospital report that she had pinned up on the wall. The papers tore and fell gracefully to the ground swaying back and forth in the air.
Mai tried so hard to be strong so she wouldn't worried her friends. But she was starting to break. Mai collapsed limply on the royal, red bed and tears as hot as fire came swelling from her eyes.
"Why? Why don't I ever get to be happy?" The words got stuck in her throat because she found the thought to be so selfish. She couldn't believe that question had emerged in her mind with the state Zuko was in. "Don't be selfish, at least it wasn't you" Mai whispered. Now that, she thought, sounded awful.
With a great sigh, Mai sat herself upright and grabbed tissues off of the bed.
"Empty already?" Mai thought to herself. She stood up and slumped out of the room and into the powder room so she could clean herself up. Mai wiped the tears off her face and splashed fresh water across her porcelain skin.
"I need to look presentable and positive" Mai mumbled to herself as she gazed at the portrait of her and Zuko that she hadn't gone a place without for the past month.
"For Zuko."