A-Amusement

***Based after Book 1***


It was a cloudy day in Republic City, a huge storm was coming in and Bolin was trying to get back to the Pro-Bending arena before it hit. He had just finished a date with one of his many fan girls. When he walked into the gym he was surprised to see Korra on the floor laughing and Mako sitting on the bench glaring at Korra with a blush covering his face. He had an angry yet embarrassed look on his flushed face.

"Would you stop laughing and get up?!" Mako yelled to his girlfriend.

"I-I can't! It was just too funny!" Korra said in between laughing fits.

Bolin was officially curious, "Okay, Soooooooooo why is Korra on the ground almost dying from laughter and you are sitting on the bench pouting?" He asked sitting next to his brother. "Obviously I missed something."

"It's nothing!" Mako snapped.

"Fine, I'll just ask Korra."

By now Korra was beginning to calm down and catch her breath.

"Korra, why are you laughing like a crazy person?"

She started to stand up and walked over to Bolin. "Ohhhhhh myyyyy spirits! That was fricken HILARIOUS! Bo, yous should have seen the look on his face!" She looked over at Mako and saw that his blush got deeper. She went into a fit of laughter again.

"Mako would you PLEASE tell me why your girlfriend is laughing?"

"It's because she is acting like a little..." He was cut off by Bolin,

"Bro, I know your new to the whole dating thing, but NEVER call your girlfriend anything that will end up making you sleep on the couch!"

Mako just rolled his eyes but kept his mouth shut.

After another 5 minuets of waiting for Korra to contain herself, because Mako wasn't talking, Bolin asked again. "Korra, why are you laughing?"

"Because Bolin! Your brother is afraid of ratbirds!" Bolin and Korra fell on the floor this time.

"Am not" Mako said defensively.

"Are too!" Korra said as she was helping Bolin off the floor. "You should have seen the look on your face when it landed on you!" Mako snorted and crossed his arms.

Flashback


Mako and Korra were sparring in the gym, they had kept the window open because with all the fire from their sparring match, the room was starting to get really hot and stuffy. They were going to close it soon because of the incoming weather. But they were to busy sparring to remember. Korra was giving him everything she had and he was matching her move for move. She would shoot a fireball at him, he would dodge it and shoot the same attack right back at her. She had the upper hand though, she was on the offensive side and he was on the defensive side. Mako was too busy trying to dodge another one of Korra's fire whips to realize that his least favorite animal, the ratbird, had flown in through the window. It sat down behind him, and when Mako tried to dodge an attack it hit the ratbird instead. The rodent/bird squawked loudly when it hit it. It started flying around and landed on Makos head, and got tangled there. He started to run around the room a look of pure terror in his eyes.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Get it off me, get it off me, get it off me!" He kept yelling in a high pitched scream. He was clawing at his hair trying to get the thing untangled. "This isn't working! Korrraaaa! Help me! Get this demon off of my head!"

Korra was just staring at him a surprised and amused look in her eyes. She walked over to him and untangled it from his hair. She took it over to the window and it flew away, she closed the window and turned around. She looked at Mako and fell to the ground laughing so hard her stomach hurt.


End of flashback

"It attacked me! How was I supposed to look? Happy?" Mako said looking at Korra angrily.

"Well, no. But still!"

"Whatever! Like you're not afraid of any thing!" He said sarcastically.

She shook her head.

"Oh please, don't tell me that the Avatar isn't afraid of anything!" He said.

"I'm not and for your infor..." She was cut off by a loud boom of thunder. She jumped and ran into Makos arms. Mako was surprised at this but by instinct, he rapped his arms around her for protection. She buried her head in his chest. He had a smug smile on his face.

"Not afraid of anything huh?" He said looking down at her. She looked up at him and untangled herself from his tight grasp.

"Psh, I was only joking!" Just then another crack of thunder sounded, even louder than the first. She jumped again and held onto him tightly. He returned the gesture by putting his arms on her waist and holding her tightly in response.

"Sureeee, 'joking.' She lifted her head up and punched him lightly. "It's alright Korra, everyone is afraid of something." He kissed her on the forehead and she rested her head back on his chest.

"But I'm the Avatar, people expect me to have no fears!" She started sobbing into his chest.

"Shhhh, Korra it's okay! Everything is fine, no one expects you to be perfect!" He said while stroking her hair.

Korra took in a shaky breath. "Thanks Mako, you always know how to cheer me up." She gave him a sincere smile which he returned.

"Soo, ummm yeah I will just umm leave... " Bolin said awkwardly walking out to go meet up with another fan girl.

"I love you." Mako murmured into Korras hair.

"I love you too."

*BOOM* (thunder) Korra jumped again.

Mako chuckled, come on scarty cat! Lets go up stairs." He then picked her up bridal style and led her to the apartment where he layed her down on his bed. "Goodnight Korra" He kissed her and then walked out of the room.


DONE