"Watch out. Hot substance coming through!" Korra called as she tried to carry the bowl of rice to the table without bumping into someone.
"Hey 'Sami. Give me a hand with these." Mako stated from where he was trying to carry a tray of glasses though he looked ready to fall.
Rolling my eyes at him I took the tray and put it on the counter.
"Take two at a time Mako." I retorted, smirking though he just rolled his eyes.
"Oh yeah, is there anything you are allergic to food wise?" Korra questioned from where she rushed back into the kitchen to grab a handful of napkins.
"No. Who sets where?" I replied, causing her to sigh and run a hand through her hair.
"Tenzin and Pema sit beside each other on that side followed by Jinora and Ikki. Meelo sits by Pema because the girls and he can't get along." She replied just as Naga started barking.
"It's just Tenzin girl!" Korra yelled toward the sound of the barking before looking over at me.
"I warn you before the kids pile in here that Meelo and Ikki can be a bit….energetic." she muttered, shuddering as if remembering something awful that happened.
"I think I can handle it." I replied, earning a skeptical look.
"If you say so." She retorted, turning to move the salad onto the table.
"Can someone go out back and get the kids?" Pema called.
"I'll go." Korra replied before disappearing out the backdoor.
I couldn't help but to laugh when she came back in because the little boy from earlier was seated on her shoulders, using her pigtails like reins.
"Who's the pretty lady?" he asked, pointing to me and I was had to look down at the table to keep from blushing.
"That's my friend Asami." Korra answered before adding "Try not to gross her out too bad tonight."
Korra sent me an apologetic look as Ikki came over to me.
"Hi! I'm Ikki. Nice to meet you!" she stated before adding "Didn't you use to date Mako? Did you know that…?"
She didn't get to finish that sentence because Korra air bent a napkin into her face.
"Zip it and go wash up motor mouth." Korra ordered, blushing violently while Mako and Bolin tried to hide their laughter.
"What's so funny?" I asked, seriously feeling out of the loop.
"It's nothing." Korra replied, all too quickly for my tastes.
I knew it…she's like everyone else.
"She just wanted to be your friend for a long time." Jinora stated from the doorway, glaring over at Ikki who had just came into the room.
"Honestly I was afraid to approach you….I thought you would be one of those snobby, arrogant girls like Tahno fan girls." Korra replied, blushing and glancing down
"I may or may not have said that I didn't want to be friends with a prissy, beautiful rich girl." She added after a few minutes, rubbing the back of her neck.
"So you lead me on this whole time? Acting like you wanted to be my friend?" I demanded, watching as her eyes grew wide.
"Sprits no! Asami…I know what being used feels like. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy." She replied, looking almost completely lost.
"Korra's not like that Asami. She honestly was afraid that you'd hate her over that whole….mess….a few months ago and that she wouldn't be good enough." He stated.
"How about you two talk about this before we have dinner?" a male voice stated gingerly from the doorway, causing Korra to blush harder.
"Tenzin…how much did you hear?" she stammered, earning a sigh.
"Enough to be reminded that you've went to Kya for too much advice." He retorted, leaving the room.
Korra sighed at that and motioned me toward the side door of the temple.
She led me to the temple steps before stopping.
"I kind of didn't want you to know that I thought you was….well a bad person. I don't know if that was because at the time you were dating Mako or what. But I was wrong. You're not stuck up or whatever." She began, not meeting my eyes.
"I'm sorry too," I managed to say after a few minutes of silence.
"Every other time I was invited to something by anyone it was because they wanted something. I shouldn't have assumed that you'd be the same way." I added, earning a small smile.
"Hey….It's understandable. So are we still friends?" she retorted, her signature grin coming back as she spoke.
"Yeah, we're still friends. Now let's go back inside before they think that we've killed each other." I replied.
Dinner with Councilman Tenzin's family proved eventful and I finally understood what Kuvira meant by something being wrong with Meelo.
But what surprised me the most was how Korra interacted with the kids. This Korra seemed different than the one that I knew from school.
For one this side of Korra seemed more relaxed, even patient with the kids even when Ikki was talking a mile a minute or when Meelo randomly air bent a clunk of rice into her face.
However suddenly the warm environment reminded me of my own family, or at least how it use to have been years before. Before my dad couldn't stand being in the same room with me.
"Are you okay?" Bolin asked, calling my attention back to the present.
"Yeah. I'm fine."