L is for Laughter
"You know something?" Korra asks through a mouthful of food, pointing her chopsticks at the young firebender sitting across from her.
"That you need to stop talking with your mouth full?" Mako smirks, lifting his own set of chopsticks to his mouth and taking a bite of his meal.
"No," she replies just after swallowing her food, knitting her brows together. She lays her chopsticks beside her plate and begins to speak. "I've never seen you laugh before."
"Yeah you have!" Mako retorts through his own mouthful of food, to which Korra allows a smirk of her own to tug at her lips at the irony.
"I'm pretty sure I haven't."
"Yes you have! Plenty of times!"
"Name one."
Mako's quick remarks come to a halt quickly at Korra's demand. He begins to move his chopsticks about in his hand as he racks his mind for an instance that he had actually laughed. When he believes he has found one, his face lights up and a winning grin spreads across his face.
"The other day," he folds his arms across his arms as if in triumph, "Bolin was here and he made a joke."
Korra stares at the young man in confusion. "You're kidding me, right?" she raises an eyebrow in question. "That wasn't a laugh, you idiot. That was forced so you didn't make him feel bad!"
"It was not forced!" he shoots back, smile turning in to a frown, quickly. "It was a genuine laugh!"
The way Mako's shoulders have slumped and his lips have moved in to a pout — something she often did and has rarely seen from him — makes it nearly impossible for her to stifle the giggle she felt coming on. Ignoring the urge as best as she can, she somehow manages to speak. "That was the fakest laugh I have ever heard! You have never given an actual laugh for the entire time I've known you."
"It wasn't fake..." Mako mumbles, turning his attention back on his long forgotten plate of dinner. "Can we just forget about it before our food gets cold?"
"Whatever you say, Cool Guy," she replies, taking her chopsticks in her hand and picking up a bite of food. "But I will get you to laugh one of these days."
Mako groans.
Sorry this is so short. I managed to update today! Just later than normal. My surgery went fine, but my mouth is in pain, as to be expected. Thank you all for your patience, as well as for reading! I really appreciate it! Please review!
