Mai POV

Mai woke up with a start from her dream. Well it was more like a memory. The day that Azula told Zuko about how much Mai liked him. She had thought that she could've been trusted. How could she have been so stupid. With a knock on her door, she was taken out of her memory. He mother walked in.

"What do you want?" Mai asked as she threw the blankets back over her head.

"That is no way to address your elder and it is time for you to wake up, Mai. Remember that you agreed to watch your little brother?"

"Whatever." She pulled the pillow over her head too.

"Excuse me?" Her mother pulled the blanket and the pillow off of her in one swift movement.

"I'm getting up."

"That's more like it."

Mai sat up in her bed and looked out her window. It was a gloomy day today. What a great way to start out a beautiful day. She gets to watch her little brother and do nothing for the rest of the day. Oh yeah, this is going to turn out to be perfect.


"Tom Tom!"

Mai got up and went over to where her little brother had gone. He was heading toward the edge of the balcony that they were sitting on.

"Why did they have to have you? Why couldn't I be an only child for all my life?"

Tom Tom looked up at her from her arms and for a second he was calm until he pulled on her hair. She was about ready to pull out one of her knives, but was interrupted by someone giggling in the background.

"Would you really be able to kill your little brother?"

"What do you want, Azula?" The rush of the memory that she was thinking about in the morning came back just like it does every time that Mai sees Azula.

"Oh nothing. Just wanted to drop on by and see what you were doing."

"Well, as you can clearly see, I'm not doing anything. Now what is the real reason that you wanted to come here?"

"I swear I came by just because. Only," she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a note that was folded, "what is this? I don't remember this being in here." She opened it and started to read it to Mai. " 'My dearest Mai, how long I have been waiting to say this to you. You are my whole world and I would be very honored if you would accompany me to Ember Island this weekend. Yours truly, Zuko' Now isn't that sweet!"

"Let me see that!" She grabbed it out of Azula's hand and read it over a million times thinking it wasn't true. "You're not just making this up are you?"

"Now, Mai, why would I do something like that to you? You're my friend." She ended it with an evil smile that Mai didn't trust. Azula turned to walk out of the room but turned on her heel as if to add something to that. "He told me to tell you that he wants to be in your garden at sunset so that one of the officers could pick you up."

"Umm… thanks, Azula." Mai was still confused beyond words could explain, but the happiness that she felt inside buried the confusion deep inside.