The cruiser slowly receded towards the horizon, the waves reflecting the sun making it harder and harder to make out the metal hull. The ocean spray dampened Asami's hair and they were already beginning to frizz at the tips, but she paid no attention to it. It's been twenty minutes since Korra left and already Asami regretted not forcing Korra to take her. Bolin was sitting next to her on the dock, his legs dangling back and forth, and Pabu chattered while perched on his shoulder. The two of them sat in silence and Asami appreciated it more than Bolin was probably aware of. The silence didn't really last, however, and soon he began telling her about what he planned to write to Korra later tonight, and how he'll send her a letter at least four times a week until she comes back because he's well off now that he's famous and postage is no longer a big issue for him. Asami couldn't help but smile when Bolin moved from topic to topic excitedly and soon enough his actor-voice came out, and by the time the ship was completely out of sight Asami was smiling and laughing at his jokes, and at one point Bolin got so engrossed in his tales that he accidentally flung Pabu into the water below.

After Nuktuk performed a daring rescue of the ferret, and sat back down alongside Asami in his drenched clothes, while Pabu decided to rest in her lap instead of Bolin's, Asami's mind drifted off again to the girl that was sailing further and further from her every moment. Bolin sighed deeply, drummed his fingers on the pier, and turned to her with a thoughtful look on his face.

"Yes, Bo?" Asami turned her attention to him and smiled expectantly.

"Well I was wondering about something. How come you asked to go with Korra? I mean like, I get why, but also it's only a few weeks right? And you have your business, and last time you were in the South you were always cold."

Asami didn't expect anyone to read into her interaction with Korra, let alone Bolin, the boy who thought he was dating Ginger during his mover star days, and then couldn't tell if Opal liked him or not when she blatantly flirted with him. Was she really that obvious in her affections? She thought for a moment before answering him, looking for a good way to answer his question without giving him more reason to speculate.

"Well, Korra is my best friend, and I really care about her." She petted Pabu absentmindedly as she answered him.

"No, no, I know that. What confused me was how you're so willing to just leave."

"I can work from anywhere really, it's not that big of a deal."

"Okay, I guess." Bolin quieted down for a minute and seemed to be thinking over what Asami just told him. He leaned back on his arms and looked at the sky with furrowed brows, and then turned back to her. "But like, Mako didn't offer to go, and he loves Korra."

A pang of jealousy shot through Asami at the mention of the officer's feelings, but she swallowed it down. Korra liked her, not their ex, and that was that so there was no point in being hung up on that.

"Mako really cares about his career, and he can't really be RCPD if he's not here can he?"

"But we've been gone for months searching for airbenders, and the chief was fine with it."

"I don't know Bolin. Maybe he just didn't think to ask her."

"Maybe." He twiddled his thumbs for a while and spoke up once again. "But wait. If Korra let you take care of her for the past three weeks, and you were basically the only person other than her mom that she really spoke to, then why didn't she just let you come. You made her feel better, shouldn't she want you there?"

Asami ran a hand through her hair, and sighed deeply. "I don't know Bo. Can we not talk about this?"

"Okay… Did you know that she asked about you a lot?" His voice lightened up and he was back to his cheery self.

"What? When?"

"After the equalist thing. Like when you got really busy with your company. I know you had your hands full and couldn't hang out with us all the time, but she would always say how she wished you could join us."

"Really?"

"Yeah, in the beginning whenever we got together she would always ask me why you didn't come, and whether I forgot to invite you or something." He grew quieter again. "After a while she stopped asking though."

"I'm sorry, I didn't really have time with Future Industries in such a bad state."

"I know. And the others knew too by the way. We weren't mad or anything, so don't worry. But when you agreed to go to the glacier spirits festival she was really happy, and you weren't even good friends then!" Asami cringed as he happily reminded her of a time when the awkwardness between her and Korra was so palpable that people who never even met them before could tell it was there.

"Yeah, I was really glad to have come, even though everything got really crappy really quickly."

"We were glad you came too! It was so much fun playing all the games, and remember when you did that strength-test thing where you dropped the mallet and the thingy hit the bell? I couldn't even get it to do that and then you just calmly walked up and just hit it and ding ding ding! Mako was so impressed that he forgot to be weird around you for like five whole minutes! Remember that?"

Asami chuckled at the memory and nodded happily.

"So what are you gonna do while Korra's gone?" He asked her.

"As much work as I can to catch up with everything I guess. Raiko sent over a contract and requested that I fix up the city infrastructure, and that's really keeping everyone busy."

"You already started on that?"

"Yeah, I got his request a little after we left for the Earth Kingdom. The plans are already coming together and it should take only a couple years to get it all done. There's a lot of collaborating going on right now and my delegates pass the best designs they get up to me for approval."

"That's so weird. I mean you're basically rebuilding the whole city!" Bolin said excitedly.

"Well not all of it."

"What are you starting on first?"

Asami looked around suspiciously and leaned in close to Bolin. "Can you keep a secret?"

He nodded hastily and listened intently. "Okay, well I just got permission to rename the park in Korra's name, and I commissioned a statue of her last Wednesday. It should be completed in a few weeks." Asami grinned as Bolin stared at her incredulously.

"You're making a giant Korra?! For Korra?! Here in the city?!"

"It's great, right? I just really hope she likes it."

"Of course she'll like it. She likes anything you do."

Asami looked out to the horizon, in the direction where Korra was sailing away and smiled. Of course Bo would know that, Korra told him personal things all the time. He knew her better than most and she trusted him so much.

"That's weird," He told her pointedly.

"What's weird Bo?"

"You look like what Mako said I look like when I think about my Opal."

Asami's eyes went wide and her pulse quickened. There was no way Bolin figured it all out was there?

"Asami?" he said, dragging her name out. "Do you like her?" he squeaked.

"Of course I like her! She's my best friend!" she said defensively.

"Oh…my…spirits." His jaw hung open and he stared at Asami like she suddenly began airbending or something. "You like her! Like 'like' like her! Wait, do you love her? You love her!" His grin grew so big that she feared his skin would split.

Asami tensed and was about to begin telling how wrong he was, but it actually felt good for someone to know. She felt like a weight dropped off her shoulders. This was one of her only friends and he looked so very happy for her that she found her defense crumble and nodded.

"Opal called it but I was all like 'no Asami isn't into Korra like that' but you so are!"

"Opal knows?"

"Mhmm, she told me that she figured it out back in Zaofu but I had no idea she was right. Wow, this is awesome. You guys should so date. Especially since Korra likes you back."

"How did you figure out that she likes me?" she asked him with a surprised smile, relaxing once again and stroking Pabu's head.

"Are you kidding me? The girl stares at you only all the time. I've never seen anyone check anyone out so much as she did you."

Asami laughed at that. "I think some of that is my fault. I sorta made sure she had something to stare at."

"Wait so you knew she liked you? Why aren't you two together then?"

Asami sat quietly for a few moments, sighing deeply. "There's no time for that right now. And she's really hurt and I'm not giving her yet another thing to worry about."

"That's really considerate Asami." He told her quietly and hugged her with one hand, drawing her into his side and accidentally getting Asami's clothes soaked.

"Thank's Bo." Asami laughed as she felt the coolness from his clothes seep into her own.

"No problem. Hey can we go back in? I'm sort of really wet and cold."

"Well so am I thanks to you you jerk."

He chuckled as they stood up and made their way towards the dormitories, keeping up a light banter the whole way. As Asami walked with him she felt that maybe Korra's absence wouldn't be as hard to cope with as she thought, after all it would only be a few weeks.