Chapter 2

Author's note: First of, thanks to all the followers and reviewers, didn't expect to get any after writing one chapter but apparently I did, so thank you very much!
Note that this chapter is set 1 year before the events that occurred in chapter 1. I decided I want to make my way back to chapter 1 in a couple of chapters by telling what happened before, so now it will contain less action and emotion and more talking. I'll exponentially work towards more action and emotion, it seemed interesting and something different from other stories, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Enjoy!

Recap: I waited a couple seconds, but nothing happened. I gave up and if it weren't bad enough already, I started feeling dizzy again.

As I touched my wound again I knew why I was feeling dizzy, I had lost a huge amount of blood and the wound was still bleeding.

Before I could regain my strength to start walking again I felt like the world was being swept away from under my feet. I fell down and everything went black…

*1 year ago*

"Shining bright like a diamond. We're beautiful like diamonds in the -" I slammed my fist against my alarm clock. The music abruptly stopped.

God, how I hated that song, it could get stuck in your head so easily and would be so hard to get it out.

I slowly moved my head up.

07:00 AM, Monday.

"Fuck." I sighted. My voice still sounded a bit squeaky from sleeping.

As I sluggishly got up, I did manage to smile a little bit. Today I had been together with Noatak for exactly one week.

I confessed my love for him rather quickly last week as I just blurted out something in the lines of: "I really really like you and I want to be with you."

I wished it had been a little more romantic. But at least we were together that's all that mattered right? He did seem to be rather cold about it as he just stood there and said "Ok, sure." And then kissed me.
Hey, don't blame me, I'm a 19 year old girl, what kind of girl doesn't like a little bit of romance in her life?

But enough of that. As I shrugged and tried to focus my thoughts on something else, I could hear Naga barking downstairs.

"Hold on girl, I'll be right there!" I shouted.

I was answered by some more barking of my best friend.

I quickly put on my usual clothes. I took a look in the mirror that was on the other side of my bedroom.

Blue.

Almost everything I owned was blue, my clothes, my room, my dresser.
Hell, even Naga had a blue ribbon around her neck with a water symbol engraved in it.
Can you guess what my favorite color is?

Unfortunately it was also the color that reminded me of my parents.

I could feel the pit in my stomach starting to swell up again. It baffled me that your body could react physically to something that you are thinking about. The mind is a strange thing.

"I miss you guys…" I silently whispered to myself.

I shook myself out of it. I couldn't be depressed, not anymore, I've been struggling with depressions ever since they died. I was 11. Car crash. Nothing fancy, something strait out of a book or movie. I mentally slapped myself for thinking that, nothing fancy, I was surprised that I could even think about it like that. It made me realize how de-emotionalized I had become over the years.

That was another thing, being depressed had taken its toll on me, a side effect of depression I had been told by my psychiatrist. It was called derealization disorder, it implies that you overthink almost everything that enters your mind and makes you feel disconnected from yourself and the world around you, you feel spaced out. It's so weird to explain, I don't think you can even understand it without having it.

Luckily the last few years it faded away and I felt better and better to a point where I could be genuinely happy.

"Enough with contemplating my life." I thought as I headed down the stairs that led to my living room and kitchen where Naga was locked up in her blue cage. "Blue." I thought again, I smiled at the fact that I was able to think of so many things by just seeing a color, it was silly.

After opening the cage, Naga came out running and jumped on me with so much force that I fell over. She was so happy to see me that she started to lick my face, I giggled. It amazed me that such a little white dog could hold so much energy and love.

I'm never really hungry in the morning but I quickly made a sandwich for myself and threw Naga a little cookie.

"Here you go, girl."

As I saw Naga eating her cookie and running back to the living room I started thinking about how my day would look like.

I softly smiled as I would be going to Noatak's house after school to surprise him. I figured I should probably make it up to him since we kind of had a fight the night before.

Last night when he was over, we started kissing and one thing led to another. I told him I wasn't ready to have sex since we only had been together for a week and I could see the disappointment in his eyes.

Distracted by my own thoughts, I didn't notice a car pulling over in front of my house.
I jumped when I heard the car honking.

"Oh shit, that must be Asami!"

I grabbed my bag and stepped outside, sure enough it was Asami that had been waiting for me. Smiling I got into my best friend's car.

"Hello, sexy lady!" she greeted me as usual.

"Oh please Asami, stop your flirting, you know you can never get me. Besides I have a boyfriend now." I answered all cocky, going along with her joke.

"You know you're are the only one for me, babe." She replied in her manliest voice.

We both burst out laughing.

"So how is it going with your boyfriend?"

I told her what happened the night before. As my story was almost finished we arrived at school.

We parked next to the car that had been driving in front of us the entire time. Unfortunately we both opened our doors at the same time causing them to hit each other.

"Shit, shit, shit, I'm so sorry!" I cursed.

"Oh it's nothing really, it was all my f-" as I looked in the eyes of the guy, he stopped talking. I immediately recognized him.

"Mako?!" I said surprised.

"Korra?!" He answered, equally surprised.

We both started laughing.

"How long has it been?" he said still not believing I stood in front of him.

"Too long, since middle school?" I replied, my broad smile not leaving my face.

"Yeah, I think so. How have you been?" He asked as he pulled me in for a hug which I gladly excepted.

"Oh, you know, doing fine. You?"

"Never been better, you remember my brother, right?" he asked as he slowly let go of our embrace.

I looked over to the guy that was standing on the other side of the car, grinning at me.

"Bo?" I asked still astonished by seeing them here.

"Oh hey Korra!" he answered as happy as always.

"I can't believe I ran into you guys like that, what are the odds? What are you guys doing here?" I said.

"We just got transferred actually, care to show us around?" Mako said.

"Sure thing, oh and by the way, this is my best friend Asami." I said while pointing at my friend who just got out of the car. "Asami, this is Mako and Bolin, the craziest brothers you'll probably ever meet." I couldn't contain my giggle, it was just so good to see them again.

"Can't argue with that." Bo answered proudly, that grin never leaving his face.

After a lot of talking and catching up we showed them around school and got their schedules. Funny how us four almost had every class together.

School went by pretty fast. I felt like my bond with Mako and Bolin was growing back to where we left of all those years ago, as best friends.

When the final bell rang I sprinted outside where I was awaited by Asami.

"Where would you like to go, my lady?" She asked, pretending to be my chauffeur.

"Could you drop me of at Noatak's? I still need to make it up to him."

"Sure thing, madam." She replied.

"Oh stop it." I said smiling I gave her a friendly punch on the shoulder before getting into her car.

Asami POV

Korra was my best friend but I just couldn't help but think she had made a mistake by being in a relationship with Noatak. I just didn't like the guy, he seemed so cold and heartless. I just didn't want to see my best friend's heart get broken but as long as Korra is happy, I'm happy for her too.

She couldn't seem to wait to go to Noatak's place to make it up to him. I still thought it was a bit weird though. When your girlfriend doesn't want to have sex yet you're supposed to respect that as her boyfriend so there's really no need for Korra to make it up to him right?"

I guess Korra just really loves him and doesn't want to lose him, ever since she got out of her depression she had become very attached to the people around her. She realized she couldn't be happy without the love of other human beings because during the depression, which is also the time that I met Korra, she was very distant and cold. I don't blame her for that of course, Korra is one of the strongest woman I know.

As I dropped her off with a quick goodbye, I could only hope that this guy turned out to be better than expected because I just wasn't convinced yet he was the one for Korra. For now, I would support my best friend for as much as I could.

Korra POV

I knocked on the door while making sure I looked good in the little glass pane of the door. After waiting a while I knocked a second time but still no answer.

I tried opening the door myself and luckily that worked, the door was unlocked. While closing the door behind me I quickly checked the living room on the right and the kitchen on the left to see if Noatak was there. He wasn't.

I noticed some music playing. I took a second to listen to where the music was coming from.
"He must be upstairs, listening to his music." I thought.

As I made my way up the stairs I noticed some photos of my boyfriend and his parents. They were one of the most friendly people I've ever met but for some reason Noatak didn't like them. I met them once and I could remember Noatak being extremely rude to them.

Finally upstairs, I stopped for a moment taking a deep breath before opening the door to his bedroom.

"Hey Noatak," I said while opening the door. ", your door was unlocked so I let myself in and –"

There he was.

My boyfriend.

In bed.

Kissing with another girl.

Naked.

I snapped.

And that is chapter 2, ladies & gents!

Hope you enjoyed, this took a while to write.
I know this may seem like a totally different story all of the sudden, but I had to set the story before the events of chapter 1 otherwise it wouldn't make a lot of sense. If you didn't like this chapter and want it to be more like chapter 1 don't worry. Just give me some time to expand the story and give you some more information that way I'll have more possibilities to make this story better.

I also wanted to tough on the subject of derealization which is mentioned in this chapter, it is a real condition which I suffer from too. I don't like to use the word suffer because it's nothing compared to people who have cancer or other diseases. So don't worry, it's nothing special really and it most certainly isn't deadly, it's just annoying.

Also, I wanted to asked you guys how my writing is. I'm really curious about how other people percieve my writing. Did I describe certain events to elaborate or the opposite? Let me know if you'd like!

Stay tuned for chapter 3 and have an awesome day!

~ ThreeToOne