It's kinda like Aang's diary. Only it's just thoughts. I think. I dunno. Make of it what you will.
Disclaimer: If I owned Avatar, Aang would have told Katara he liked her by now...
Staring…
Staring at something you want doesn't necessarily do anything to make it yours. In my case, it's a girl. In fact, it's my best friend, Katara, a Waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe.
Ever since my century-closed eyes found hers that sunny winter morning, I was smitten. Her icy ocean eyes captured my heart.
After I got to know her a little better, I was even more in love with her. She was unlike anyone I've ever met before.
She was also the first girl I've ever really gotten to know. Yeah, sure, I'd seen plenty of women down at the market when I went with Gyatso a couple of times, but I never really talked with one like I talk when I'm with her.
When we're together, I feel completely free, like I can tell her anything and everything that's on my mind. Okay, maybe not everything. I still haven't admitted to her that I really like her.
Gods, I don't know if I'll ever be able to do that… I mean, yeah, sure, I tried to tell her at Aunt Woo's village, but apparently she didn't hear me over the loud crowds.
(sigh) Besides, knowing Katara, even if I did tell her again how I felt, she'd probably bring up all of these excuses why we couldn't be together like:
You're the Avatar, I can't distract you from your job; You need to focus on learning the rest of the elements before summer ends; We're too young, blah, blah, blah.
It's not fair. I never asked to be the Avatar. I don't want to be, anyway. Frankly, if you ask my opinion, being the Avatar stinks. You can never really have fun or do what you want because:
1. You have to take your job seriously. Being the world's last hope for any kind of peace doesn't allow any room for goofing off, but I can't help it. I'm only twelve, for gods' sake!
2. You (or just me in this case) need to be extra mature to make up for the lack of physical maturity and age. That's not too fair, either. It's not my fault I was frozen in an iceberg for one hundred years just after I turned twelve. Okay, maybe just a little. But heck, I was scared. What would you do if someone told you that you were the next Avatar?
3. And we can't forget that every hero has to have that obsessive "must-capture-the-Avatar" stalker. For you, it's probably just some creep. For me, it's just some creep that just happens to be the Prince of the Fire Nation. What luck.
Okay, now back to Katara. Besides being the most beautiful creature in the universe, (to me at least) she's the bestest friend a guy could ask for.
Whenever I'm feeling down about my whole destiny/Avatar job, she notices; even when I try to hide it.
Somehow, in the end, she always manages to make the burden seem a little bit lighter, a little less tough to carry. (Sometimes I wonder how she does it…)
Gods… how else can I describe such great beauty? Awesome? No. That would be a bit of an understatement. She's not awesome, she's perfect.
I just hope that maybe, just maybe, one day she'll think of me as more than just her best friend; but for now, I think I'll just settle for staring.
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