Title: Above The Indifference
Day/Theme: #7 All things out of season
Series: Avatar
Character/Pairing: Azula, Mai
Rating:PG

Summary: Mai finally finds something, or rather someone, worth caring about.

At the start of Mai's school years, she actually felt a tinge of excitement. This was probably because she was a child, a child yearning for live and more specifically a child yearning for something to invest herself in that would not grow tiresome until she could not care less about them. With this sentiment in mind, she left her tiresome family, her tiresome servants and her tiresome mansion.

She had yet to learn that this feeling the exact definition of what she felt was not 'tiresome', rather 'boredom', and who knew that boredom would follow her all the way to the all girls academy.

It turned out that the others were the exact opposite of her. Instead of having nothing to care about, they cared about too many things. In the summer they not only cared about the hot weather and the blazing sun, they also cared about swimsuits and ice-creams of different flavours and the exotic cool beverages of different lands. In the winter they not only cared about the cold and the snow contrasting heavily with the lands of the fire nation, they also cared about mittens and gloves and stripping animals of their fur to make cloaks to keep them warm.

With the seasons, they cared about different things. Mai initially attempted to keep up with them, but the pace was too fast though each season spanned months and sure enough, she was overcame with déjà vu—again, she was too tired to care, and did not bother continuing to care.

Ironically,it was in the midst of not caring in which she made a friend. She was taught that you were supposed to care for your friends, no matter how tiresome they became, and of course Mai's first decision was to not bother herself with friends.

"I am the Fire Princess, you know," The other girl informed her rather haughtily.

"I don't care," Mai shortly said and was about to walk away, when the girl blocked her path. Mai sighed, now she was being tiresome.

"Whatever, if you don't care about that, I don't too," The girl said. "I just want someone to be on the lookout while I poke the big boys peeping at our big sisters. If they scream and our sifus find them, see if I care. So, are you with me?"

Mai thought for a moment, then nodded and walked beside her.

To this day, Mai was secretly proud that unlike the rest, she found someone to care about through all the seasons—Azula, for the reason that she did not.