Chapter 2

Katara blushed inwardly as she felt Aang's hand on hers it was not the first time that they ever held hands or that there hands embraced like that but it was the first time that it had happened with a romantic embrace to it. Aang on the other hand was jumping for joy at that moment and did not want the moment to end. She had finally told him how she felt and that it wasn't his insecurities about the matter that had all his nerves finally released it was the fact that she did tell him in words and emotions.

As they walked down in the orchard behind Irohs tea shop and were a good distance away from the building itself that Aang breathed with a little more freedom and could talk to her without everyone listening.

"Katara did you mean what you said back there on the porch?" Aang asked with the slightest hesitation.

She just gazed at him before she awnsered him. How had she denied herself this pleasure for so long his well toned body the handsome tattoos that covered his body. The contrast was delightful to take in the blue tattoos over his creamy skin as she was thinking all of this Aang was holding his breath.

She relized he had asked her a question "sorry Aang I was thinking of you and when we first meet"

He just smiled recalling the same memory as she continued " your not the same little boy that we found in the iceburg you have matured you have grown to be a man the man that I relized I loved with my life."

Aang just stood there with a dumb founded look on his face at first and than his award winning smile spread across his face and he leaned in and this time he kissed her and smiled when she started to kiss him back. She flung her arms around his neck to make sure that he didn't move than when they broke away so that she could breath she looked up at him and smiled. Her eyes the blue orbs of hers that he could get lost in were sparkiling with emotions that she had kept from him.

She smiled up at him and then got serious for a moment

" Aang, im sorry I have loved you but didn't want to face it just yet we could have had so much more time as a couple and been happy"

"Katara I wouldn't change anything at all not the way that you are cautious about things that have to do with the people that you love or the ferisnes that you show when one of them are in danger that is who you are and that is who I love from the tips of your toes to the tip of your nose" he said as he kissed her nose.

She was deep in thought when he said these things because she was thinking of him and what she wouldn't do to keep him with her they had lost so much time with putting him in the back of her mind and she knew that it kept him on edge about it and she was sorry.

" so where do we go from here?" she said as she gazed at him