Author's Note: Hey everybody! Who saw yesterday's episode? (Well, probably everyone, but…) And who thought the intro was totally pathetic? Anyway, in honor of episode 3 finally coming out, I give you chapter 4 of Air Bender Girl! (Also, just for the record, I did get the ripped and crushed but never cracked thing from Bones.)

Enjoy!

Air Bender Girl

Jinora is sad.

Not just normal sad, but really really sad.

Bolin has a girlfriend. And now Jinora thinks her heart has been cracked in two.

Except hearts are muscles and they don't crack. They can be ripped or crushed, but never cracked.

And so Jinora thinks that her heart has been ripped and crushed and metaphorically cracked.

And thus, Jinora is sad.

And when one sad thing happens, Jinora has a tendency to dwell on all sad things. Like how even here, in the capitol of this empire for unity, there are people like the Equalists. People who think they're better than everyone else. (Except the whole point of the Equalists is saying that benders think they're better the non-benders, which isn't true at all.)

And while it's true that most of the political leaders of Republic City are benders, that's just because they happen to be good political leaders. Her father, for example, is the son of the previous avatar. The one who saved the world. The one who was the last airbender, ever, until Tenzin came along. So yes, he's going to be a political leader. So what if he happens to be an airbender? Uncle Bumi could have had just as much political power as Tenzin, but Uncle Bumi didn't want it. He always said that politics were too boring for him. But he was still a very influential man.

And then there's that day, and Jinora dwells on that too for a while, but she hates dwelling on that day, and so she quickly moves on.

And for a little while, Jinora is sad about things like world hunger, and poor people, and children who live on the streets.

Like Bolin. (And Mako, but Mako wasn't her majorly major crush who currently had a girlfriend.)

Actually, Jinora had only recently found out that Bolin and Mako had grown up on the streets. And it had been quite by accident it had happened.

But that was a different story for a different day. And so Jinora tries not to dwell on that either.

Except now she's thinking of Bolin again, and her heart hurts. Because he has a girlfriend and even if he didn't he would never even consider liking her, because he's sixteen and she's ten.

And she's pretty sure a lot of people would think Bolin was pretty weird if he dated a ten-year-old, even if she was probably a lot smarter than most of his girlfriends put together, which of course reminds her that yes, Boling has a girlfriend at the moment.

And it hurts.