Day 2 Eyes
It was the first thing that had drawn him to her, he thought with a wry grin. Her eyes were so eerie, so odd, yet they drew you in like a deep pool that you wanted to see the bottom of, but never could. They were also so full of emotion, which seemed so odd since they never focused, but she also kept herself guarded. It had taken him a while to learn to read those eyes, but once he knew what to look for, he could read her as well as she read him. But she had kept herself guarded the most when he asked her to marry him, and for the first time in five years, he wasn't able to read her eyes.
She had merely walked up to him with guarded eyes and an un-namable expression on her face and placed a hand on his scar. "Not yet," she had whispered and then kissed him once before leaving.
He went through several emotions after she left; rage, anger, hurt, freedom, and last of all, longing. He wondered when she would come back, if at all. If she had left because he had asked, or if she loved someone else. It was a year before he heard from her again and he was at his desk, rubbing this thumb over a piece of jade she had found for him that was the same color as those wonderful, mysterious eyes when she came into his office. His eyes found hers, and he was shocked at what he saw. Those milky green eyes he had fallen for were no longer there. Instead, they were bright as emeralds and darted everywhere, but always returned to him. She walked up to him as he sat, staring at her and reached out her hands, laying it on his scar and face as she had always done, seeing him without her eyes. But this time, it seemed as if she saw him with her eyes as well.
"What happened?" he asked as she stared into his eyes.
Toph merely smiled. "I went to the North Pole, to the oasis. I wanted to see your eyes before I accepted. Is the offer still good?"
He was stunned, but slowly a smile started to appear on his face and he set the piece of jade down and stood, cupping her face as he stared back into her eyes that he could still read so well. She was happy, and yet sad and was longing for him as he was for her.
"Yes, but you didn't have to do that. I loved you the way you were."
"And I love you the way you are," Toph said, her eyes boring into his. "I had to do this, or else I thought I would never know what it was like to look into the eyes of a man and see love staring back."
"Do you?" he asked,
She closed her eyes and when she opened them, he saw a flicker of milky green before they became bright green again. "Yes," she replied before she kissed him.