"Hey guys! Can you sit down for a minute? I need to tell you something important. When I'm done, feel free to ask questions. It's probably going to be kind of confusing for you guys," Korra said to Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo as she showed them to some seats. "This is so hard," Korra thought. "How do you explain something like this to a kid?"
"What is it Korra?" Jinora asked. She looked intrigued as ever. She always felt so interested in everything and wanted to know about everything going on around her. Korra knew she would be asking some questions as would Ikki.
"Well, you know how your mom just had a baby," she started with. She hoped she could continue it here pretty well without confusing them too much.
"Is Mommy having another baby?" Meelo asked loudly. He loved his new brother, but he didn't want another yet.
"No but someone is," she said. Telling these children was breaking Korra's heart. She felt like she was taking away a part of their innocence from them by having this baby. They had it set in their mind that when a couple is married they have baby and not a couple of teenagers who are nowhere close to marriage yet.
"Who is it? Do we know them? Are we going to meet the baby? When is the baby going to born? Are friends with Mommy and Daddy?" Ikki asked. She was full of so many questions that Korra couldn't bear to answer, but she knew that she had too.
"It's me. I'm having the baby…with Mako," Korra said without looking up. She had her eyes fixed on the ground so she couldn't she their eyes when they heard the news.
"Huh? But I thought only people who were married had babies? And aren't they usually older?" Jinora asked. Korra had hoped that maybe Jinora had read a book that talked about a teen pregnancy, but after hearing her questions, Korra knew that she had not.
"That's how it should be, but some teenagers, like me and Mako, have a baby and it doesn't always work out. Sometimes the couple doesn't stay together after the baby is born, sometimes they give the baby away for adoption, and sometimes they just don't have the supplies to raise the baby." By now Korra was crying. She was starting wonder if everything was going to work out. What was she going to do? Would she give the baby up for adoption, or if she did keep it, where would she go from there? She had all the questions spinning in her head, but she knew that no one knew exactly what would happen. Korra would just have to wait and see.
"Don't cry, Korra. Please," Meelo pleaded. Meelo never liked seeing Korra sad. He hated it. She was the Avatar and is supposed to be big, brave, and strong. Those beliefs went away whenever she was sad.
"It's getting late," Korra said. "You guys should, um, go to bed. Goodnight." Korra got up and headed back to room. She needed to be alone and think to herself. She hadn't had much time for that lately. She needed to start thinking about what she was going to do now that she had one more couple to tell before she told the rest of the world: her parents.
