Love is Blind

Too truly to love someone you must see past their outside. I can do that. All my life I have been treated like I was inferior, weak, and helpless, but he didn't. He accepted me for who I was flaws and all. He taught me that what others think really doesn't matter as long as I love myself. He…brought me out of a dark place; he saved me from a life of sorrow.

When I first saw him, he was nothing more than a boy who annoyed me to no end. He was Twinkle Toes and that was it. He was my student and I was his teacher. I taught him everything I knew and he gave it back to me tenfold. I felt his strength when he had to face Combustion Man, or when he fought the Azula on the day of the invasion. I felt his anger when he lost Appa or when he thought he had failed to find the Fire Lord on the Day of Black Sun. I felt his compassion when he led those refugees through the Serpents Pass, or when he threw that ridiculous dance party for those Fire Nation kids so that they would know what freedom felt like. That was before I truly saw what he was.

People know those stories but they don't know about the little things like I do. Like how he goes to random towns and plants orchards for them so they can eat. Or saving a spider trapped in its own web. Or that occasional hug that he will give to me that warms me up inside because I know more than anyone that he truly means it. I know when people are lying and I know when they are telling the truth, but I also know when someone loves somebody else and I see the way he looks at her. He loves her to no end and would give the world to see her happy. When I'm around them I tease and I act tough but secretly I'm dying inside. To feel him with someone else makes me remember why he will never notice me or what I have to give.

He can never know and I have accepted that. I know him better than anyone because I can see what no one else can see. I can see his heart. I can see all the love, the guilt, the pain, the doubt, the joy, the happiness. I can truly see him and he is beautiful. I will never see his handsome face but I can take heart in the fact that I truly know him and that I truly love him.