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Chapter 14 (shy)

Aang woke up the next morning, feeling groggy, like something had happened that made him exhausted. He then remembered the sleeping girl, nuzzled next to him in his arms. He was in love with his best friend, and she loved him back. The future seemed they would get married and have two kids. He smiled to himself; all was right with the world.

Finally Toph stirred and her sightless eyes flickered open, "Morning, my beautiful earth angel" he said to her.

She smiled, "Hey." She said sleepily. The next thing Aang knew they were kissing passionately and when finally Toph pulled away, she smiled, "Just checking to make sure we really were in love."

"I think it's really hard for me to not love you after that." He grinned.

"Just wait, Twinkles." She said with a sly grin. They laughed and hugged. They seemed to have changed in the last few days, they hugged more like it was completely normal, Toph seemed more compassionate and loving than she used to (but her lovable rock hard stubbornness came in often), Aang even felt at peace for the first time in nearly four years.

They held each other for a while, Toph nuzzling her head against Aang's chest and his hand rubbing her shoulder. Finally after a while Aang asked, "So I have a question for you." Almost reluctantly, she parted from him and sat up facing him, he did the same.

"Yeah, but you got to promise that we get to cuddle again after this."

He chuckled and nodded, "Of course. I just wanted to ask, what did you ever want in a guy? Like what was your dream guy?"

She blushed and looked away, "I think my perfect guy is you."

He chuckled and said, "Seriously, I want to know, don't be shy."

"Promise you won't laugh?"

"I promise."

"Good," she said, somewhat satisfied, "Well when I was younger, I was read a kids story. There was a beautiful princess trapped in a tower by her mean father, she could never leave. One day a man walked by and noticed how sad she looked in the window, so he went to talk to her. Soon every night they met secretly, and he took her out in the gardens, and they fell in love. Finally one day, the man wanted to marry the princess, and marched up to her father and asked for her hand in marriage. The father was angry, but after a while he gave in and the women left her prison and married the man…"

"And they lived happily ever after." Aang finished, she nodded. "Well what does this have to do with the 'prefect man' then?"

"The story reminded me of how I was. I was trapped I my own home, never allowed to leave, and I always hoped that someday my handsome man would come along and save me from my home, and he did." He smiled.

"That's really sweet. Why didn't you want to tell me?" he asked.

"I don't know, I guess I was just shy you would think it was childish or something." She explained

"Well it wasn't, it was sweet and beautiful to hear that, I'm glad I rescued you Toph, I wouldn't have it any other way."

Before their hug came in she asked, "What was you're idea of a 'perfect girl'?"

"Huh, is that a trick question?" he asked mockingly. She laughed and shook her head. "Fine, well I guess it's hard to say, as a nomad, I never got to meet one person for a long time, I met girls, but I never liked any of them. I'm not even sure why I liked Katara, she was nothing compared to you. I guess deep down, you've always been the perfect girl."

"So does that mean you loved me from the start?" she asked.

He shrugged, "I'm not sure, I mean there were times I wish I could have just gotten one hug from you that wasn't because of a group hug, maybe even compliments, but then again, that wouldn't be you, it wouldn't be the Toph that deep down I fell in love with."

After a few more moments of silence, Aang asked, "So how come you would always hide your feelings, and try and act so tough all the time?"

"I guess because I didn't want anyone to think I was a wimp that would cry at everything that ever happened. So I hid it all under a rough exterior." She answered.

"Didn't that ever hurt?" he asked, concernedly.

"Sometimes, I can still remember the times I cried at night just to get it all out."

"Well I hope you know you can always share your feelings with me."

"I know Twinkles, thanks, for everything." They gave each other a small kiss, then she said, "Now let me make up for all those missed hugs and compliments…" a grin came across her face and he knew exactly what it meant…

Man! I Love her! He thought.

A/N Hmmm… this seemed a little out of place, what did you guys/girls think? It took me a while to think of something for the theme, so this was somewhat last minute. Also in other news, I will be skipping tomorrow's theme (if you know it, you will probably know why I can't think of anything) but I promise the last day (balance) will go out with a bang with the best ultra-uber-mega-giga-tera taang chapter I can muster!

A/N By the way… thanks for all the reviews! Sorry if I don't get a chance to reply, I barely have enough time to write the chapter!