Hey everyone, yikes it has been way too long since I have updated any of my stories and I apologize for that.
I just finished high school and have been looking for a job to pay for college so bare with me. Thank you all for reviewing my stories it means a lot to me.
Thank you Fangirling-Procrastinator for your review on the last chapter, I hope you like where I took this chapter. :)
School ended and Mai called her mother to inform her of the plans and hung up before her mother could rape her ear with the sex talk. it wasnt long till Jet walked up with his backpack and waited for Mai to finish getting what she needed.
"My "parental unit" says I have to be home by 9." Mai chuckled as she zipped up her backpack.
"No problem." Jet smiled at Mai hoping that she would lighten up a little bit for him.
"See you Monday Mai!" Her friends called to her as they left the building, Ty Lee bounced up to Zuko's locker and waited for him.
"Hey Jet, we should totally hang out more often." Ty Lee wasn't afraid to flirt in front of Mai, she should have been but she wasn't the brightest crayon in the room as far as Mai was concerned.
"Probably not." Jet turned and walked out with Mai, Zuko wasn't in sight anywhere which was already making Mai's night. She examined the black Mustang that Jet lead her to, obviously the guy wasn't broke by any means.
"Nice car." Mai slowly slipped into the passenger seat which cupped her body and hugged her closely, it was almost the perfect bed.
"Thanks." Jet smiled and closed the door and ran to the other side settling into the drivers seat and soon drove her to his house. He pulled up to a large house, it was possibly bigger than Mai's house.
Mai sat in the living room while Jet made dinner, the couch was plush and black along with most of the furniture. It shocked her that it was so dark for a living room but that was their choice, if she could she would repaint her whole house to match her dark color scheme. It wasn't long till Jet brought her dinner and sat with her on the couch.
"You have a lovely home. Not what I expected." Mai stated as she began to eat.
"its a little dark for my taste but it works and its growing on me." Jet looked around as he replied and also began eating.
Their dinner was short and their conversation wasn't very existent, they watched one if Jet's favorite movies which sadly happened to be Zuko's too. Mai knew how the movie would end and let her self sleep some waking herself up off and on so it looked like she was still somewhat interested. Soon it was time for her to go home, they stood and headed to his car.
"I had a nice time." Mai stated as they pulled up to her house.
"I did too." Jet gave her a smile as he got out, opened the door for her and walked her to the front door.
"See you Monday, Jet." Mai turned and unlocked her front door.
"See you then Mai..." Jet turned away but paused. "Hey Mai, are things going to be the same on Monday or is it going to go back to normal?"
"I assume it is going to return to normal... I am sorry." She sighed and walked into her house closing the door behind her. Jet soon left after, she felt like crap for treating him the way that she did but she wasn't ready to move on. Zuko still haunted her every thought and until he left there was no way she was going to be happy with someone else.
She crawled up the stairs and into her room and changed into her pjs which at the time was only a tank top and her underwear. She hadn't noticed that there was someone else in the room with her that watched her undress.
"You were out late." Mai jumped and wrapped the bankers around herself as fast as she could. Shouldn't believe what age was seeing. Zuko standing in her room.
"Get out! Pig!" Mai thought that her threats were good, until her throwing dagger went through Zuko and stuck in the walk behind him. Her illusions were getting worse, except this one was full form and was wondering where she had been.
"Mai you know I still love you and that I care about your well being. Please don't see Jet anymore he isn't good for you." The illusion walked over to her and say in the bed placing a hand on get leg and looked at her lovingly. Mai was about in tears at this point cause she couldn't believe how her night was ending and there had to be a reason besides her mind telling something she already knew, which was that it was going to take a long time to get over Zuko, if that ever was going to happen and she was loosing faith in that fast.
"Why can't you just leave me alone? Having you seen me suffer long enough?" Mai cried into her knees which were pressed firmly against her chest. The illusion left without an answer and Mai soon found herself asleep and dreaming of the guy who was shredding her, it wasn't by choice its just what her mind wanted to think about.
On Monday morning she woke and looked in the mirror to see that her eyes were blood shot and that they were swollen and puffy from crying that night. Honestly they looked like this almost every morning, and every morning she fixed her face with make up and eye drops and she looked flawless once again. She recalled one day that she was so late she didn't bother with her morning routine and went to school in her blood shot natural glory.
"Worst day of my life." She looked at the mirror again and shook her head, it was a very brutal day. She was picked on 10x harder than on normal days, she spent most of the day in the office hidden in the nurses room. Seemed like a safe place at the time, never was but it seemed like it should have been.
She didn't go to her locker that morning and went straight to gym, she didn't want to deal with all the shit that was down in her locker area anyway. Katara and Suki followed closely behind Mai as they were worried about her since they knew her routine so well, this change was bound to have something go wrong since she probably needed to put something in her locker.
"Are you okay Mai? You seem stressed." Suki tipped her head at Mai and lightly hugged her friend as Katara did the same creating a Mai sandwich.
"I can't be near him today at all, I will flip out and probably loose everything if I see him. All he did was stalk me all weekend in my head, even at Jet's house." Make voice hardly ever trembled or cracked but today it was taking all her might to not break as she held on to the little shield she put on today.
"Oh no, I am do sorry Mai. Sokka wasn't around this weekend anyway, you should have called." Suki said as the girls dressed out for gym.
"Then where the help was he all weekend?" Katara's voice sliced through the air. "Cause he sure as hell wasn't home either."
"Maybe he was with Zuko or Aang or Haru." Mai gave her famous blank look as they headed out.
"I don't know, Aang was with me this weekend." Katara said as Aang walked out of the boys locker room and into a conversation for some reason he was a part of.
"What are you guys talking about?" Aang butted in before the girls could walk any further.
"Do you know where Sokka was all weekend?" Suki asked.
"At Zuko's I believe, maybe Haru's. I don't know I didn't talk to him this weekend." Aang said as he wrapped his arms around Katara causing Mai to make slight vomit like noises.
"Oh Mai stop, go out with Jet again maybe you will feel better about relationships." Katara thought that was a simple enough solution when she had no real idea what Mai was going through.
"No thanks I don't need the Zuko torture to increase." Mai went and sat in her corner waiting to hear what they were suppose to do today.
The day went on with Mai not talking to anyone except Suki, but even that was on a rare occasion. Mai left and took her normal route home, her mind was on auto pilot as she drove even with Zuko talking to her in the passenger seat, on the hood of the car, and even in the rear view mirror. She had learned to slowly block him out, it was hard she had to admit but it was something that she had to do. She hadn't seen Zuko that much during school and she was thankful, but Ty Lee and Azula were extremely annoying and more than usual for them. They complained about Zuko and his new behavior and stupid stuff that only mattered to them, Mai didn't know why they wanted her to hear all that shit but that's what they did and apparently succeeded.