Chapter 14: Explanations

Everyone silently in the kitchen, Tenzin broke the silence, "Someone explain." He looked around the room looking the two teenagers in the eyes. "I'm sorry." Mako replied, he knew he had hurt Korra and what Asami said was far from the truth, he kissed Korra and he was idiot for taking this long to realize how much he wanted the Avatar's unconditional love.

"Korra do you have anything to say?" Tenzin stared the girl who was quietly sitting in between Iroh and Bolin. She sat in silence, the seconds passed by, and then she spoke,

"Yes. I have a lot to say actually. You...You have no right to do this to me anymore!" She directed her gaze at Mako who was now sitting with his eyes wide, "I left because of you! I was so in love with you that it hurt! Everyday I trained to become better, and everyday I only thought of you!" she continued now feeling the heavy stares of everyone in the room, but she was not done yet, "Do you know how much I cried because of you?! Do you know how much pain it cause me! How dare you!" her eyes were now starting to fill with tears, "those few weeks when I believed that you loved me kept me going, when I thought I couldn't handle all of the training, I thought of you, and then remembered what I was fighting for. But after I got your letter I gave up Mako...this game that you've been playing with my heart is just pointless. I am the Avatar. Not your toy that you play with when you get bored with Asami."

She finished and the silence in the room remained. Everyone looked at Mako waiting for his reply.

"Korra...I..." was all he could manage to say. He could think of nothing else except all the times that he had hurt her. All the memories flooded back, how cruel he was to her, how he never paid attention to her feelings, it all came at once and he finally understood how much he had put her through.

Korra could take no more, and she stormed out, Iroh stood up to follow her but Tenzin warned him to let her cool off on her own.

"You bastard." Iroh hissed through barred teeth, smoke started to rise from his palms. Mako knew he deserved whatever Iroh was about to do to him. "How could you do that to her...she told me about that idiot that broke her heart in Republic City, and it was you!" Iroh became more agitated and more smoke rose from his palms.

"Iroh, calm down," Pema begged the firebender who was about to set fire to their dining room.

"Mako please explain yourself." Pema said, being the only level-headed person in the room. Mako cleared his throat trying to make sense of everything.

"Before she left for Republic City, I told her I loved her, after that I never heard from her, she never wrote me...and she came back here ignoring me..." he admitted his voice a quiver. All the emotions that occurred put Mako in a haze, nothing made sense to him anymore, he finally understood that Korra was his world, without her, he felt alone. What he felt for her was nothing compared to what he felt for Asami, his mind then raced to Asami, why had she done this to Korra? When Korra left Republic City they had both agreed that they needed a clean break from each other, Asami was fine with their mutual decision, but what caused her to jump Korra like that? He was pulled out of his thinking state and remembered something Korra has said.

"Wait...," Mako said out loud and everyone, even Iroh looked at him, "I never wrote Korra a letter."

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