Ok, so this takes place in the beginning setting of Book 3. I HIGHLY recommend listening to the song. "Young and Beautiful", while or before reading this. It's the theme and inspiration for this fanfiction. It's really beautiful. Thanks guys. Enjoy! -MakorraFangirl123 (dA) makorraforeveafangirl (tumblr)

"I'll always love you Korra."

"And I'll always love you."

The very words still haunted his dreams at night. The taste and softness of her lips is barely a memory anymore. He can still picture the tear running down her cheek as he toughed his forehead to hers. It was no lie/ He would always love her. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. Decade after decade. Century after century. You get the idea. The reason why he knew they didn't work at the time, was because of everything that was going on around them. All the change had been coming through, but not all of it was good. She didn't have that same glow in her blue eyes. She didn't have that soft pink blush in her cheeks. He hadn't heard her laugh even once since they came back from the South Pole. Not a day had gone by that he hadn't thought about her. Whether it was her face, her hair, her voice, it was a new quality everyday. How long had it been? A month? Months? And yet he found a new wonderful and beautiful thing about her everyday. He wanted to spend time with her, but Korra either didn't want to, or didn't have the time to. Now at this point, his job was only a distraction. And even that couldn't get his mind off of her. It was the very place he broke her heart, yet another time. The first being that he denied having feelings for her. The second yelling at her after their first kiss. Third time's the charm seemed to mock him now whenever he thought of it. Beifong had noticed the change in him. She thought a nice little vacation might do the trick for him. But little did he know, that a little vacation, was going to turn into a catastrophe.

Korra had decided to travel to the earth kingdom to learn more about the center of the element. Sure she had mastered it, but she wanted to be more deeply connected to it. She had invited Bolin and Asami to tag along with her personally. but she just couldn't confront the firebender. Even having the memory returned to her, so did the pain.

"Well, I guess if we're both putting our jobs first, maybe there's no room for our relationship!"

Each time it repeated in her mind, she felt like someone had bent lightning right into her heart. It didn't matter even of she had matured, it still hurt her. Everyday.

"Korra? Are you alright?", a voice asked. She turned to see the yellow robes of her airbending master.

"Huh? OH yeah, I'm fine. I just feel a little nervous. You know, flying sickness."

"Um, ok. Where are your friends?"

"Uh..Asami's grabbing her bag, and Bolin's playing with Meelo and Ikki."

"Well, there's two of them. What about Mako?"

"Mako? Um...I-"

"I invited him to come along. He said he needed a vacation, so I thought it could soothe him. When he heard you were going, he seemed to be a bit more intrigued."

Intrigued? Is that good? Is it bad? She didn't get the chance to ask the airbender. Before she could get her thoughts together, she saw him walking toward the temple. probably to grab Asami and Bolin.

The thought still kept replaying her head. She assumed it was a good thing that he was intrigued because he had agreed to come anyway. He had offered many times for them to hang out, but she said she didn't want only because she was afraid she would fall back into desire, and go running back to him. She knew they couldn't be together right now, but that still didn't mean she couldn't see the tall firebender. Whenever she finally got the courage to ask him herself, she was pulled into something or somewhere else that she cared nothing for. She hated it when the amber glow left his eyes when she had to say no to him. But now, she had to- no. She wanted see him. She wanted to talk to him. She wanted to spend time with him. She wanted to explain everything and how she wasn't pushing him away because she wanted to. And as if by reading her mind, she could her the pitter patter of feet, coming up the hill. She knew whose foot steps those were. With out even thinking. the young avatar ran from the sky bison, all the way down the hill, to the boy with the red scarf. Before she could think, she found herself flying into his arms as tears began to roll down her face.

"Uh...hi?"

"...hi.", she said as she backed away from him.

END OF CHAPTER 1