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Fireworks
Far above her in the sky the fireworks fizzed up into the air and popped one by one with little if any linger from silence between them, each and every sound erupting in her ears. They burst into sizzzzles and ssshhhhs, catching the attention of the crowd who let out a muted encore of oohs and ahhs in awe.
For her first time 'viewing' fireworks, she had to admit that she was impressed. She hadn't even considered something like them possible before. (Well, going by what she had been told they looked like, they seemed like some absurd experiment by a particular Water Tribe boy.) But the Fire Nation boy had insisted on 'showing' them to her.
She rested her head against his shoulder absently, feeling more drowsy than lively from the atmosphere, and closed her eyes while she listened to their beautifully bizarre sounds.
He'd had a feeling she would enjoy them, even if not for the same reasons he did. They'd always been something he could look forward to as a child. He watched as the dimly sparkling trails exploded with rainbows of colour; reds sprouting to the left on a backdrop of black, green's dotting the sky with twinkles of life like close-up stars, and remains of glittering silver covering the darkness. They spread through the entire vastness of the night with too much to look at before more fireworks followed the first, second, fifth, tenth rounds.
He leaned in close to the Earthbender girl. There was a reason he had brought her to see the show, after all there was a running theme of proposals during the yearly spectacle. He wasn't thinking along quite as large lines as that but he intended to use the opportunity well nonetheless.
"Hey," he whispered in her ear, head close to hers. He waited for the quite mm? of acknowledgement before continuing. "I love you."
She felt a small eruption of feeling in her stomach, almost but not quite like butterflies.
Perhaps fireworks didn't just exist in the sky.
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