Author's Note: Hello, and welcome back. Thank you guys all so much for your kind words, I really do appreciate it. Special thanks to Virareve for the prompts- I have ideas for both of them already! If you have a prompt idea, even if it's just a word or emoticon, please let me know!

Also, I haven't put this it yet, so I'll do it now, but only once. Honestly, I think disclaimers are pointless because if I owned the show I would be making this happen, not writing FanFiction about it, but it's better safe then sorry.

Disclaimer: I don't own Legend of Korra or anything in here that references to Avatar: The Last Airbender or anything else you might recognize.

Warning! This chapter contains one-sided Jinora/Bolin. If you don't like that, please do not proceed.

Enjoy!

Air Bender Girl

Jinora can't help it.

She wishes she could, honestly, she does. It's not like it was her choice to have a crush on Korra's cute earthbending friend.

Honestly, if Jinora had her way, she would have had a crush on Mako. (She actually did, a little bit, but that was before she'd met Bolin.) Mako is good-looking, and quiet, like her (well, the quiet part… the good looking part she thinks is a maybe). But Mako is the type of crush she would silently squeal about and maybe gush to her diary or Ikki about.

But a crush on Mako would be the type of crush that fades after a while. The type she grows out of.

Her crush on Bolin isn't the type of crush she's ever had before. There are all the normal symptoms- she constantly thinks about him, she daydreams about, her heart beats too fast and too hard when he's near, and if he ever tried to watch her while she was airbending, than she's quite sure she would mess up and embarrass herself. Badly.

But there are also other things. She likes just being near him. Just standing near him makes her happy. Like, really happy. She always wants him to be happy too, which, with Bolin, is rarely a problem. But she thinks if he was ever sad, for whatever reason, she would do anything to make him happy again. But she doubts she'll ever get that change. Bolin is six years older than her, and besides that, he's a pro-bender. And maybe Jinora doesn't really follow the sport (she's only recently been allowed to listen to it on the radio, and that's just because of Korra), but she does know an awful lot about it, because she's read about it, and also because of that day, which she does not want to think about when she's daydreaming of Bolin. Because Bolin goes with things like happiness and love (because she honestly thinks this might be love), and that day goes with sadness and death and bad things that make her cry.

Like Bolin being unhappy.

Because even though she's only met him a few times, and he was happy every one of them, she thinks an unhappy Bolin would make her hurt. A lot. Because she really really truly does think this is love.

Because unlike any other crush Jinora has ever had (and she's had many, for a girl so young), she likes Bolin for more than looks and personality. She likes him because he makes her laugh, he makes her smile, and he makes her happy. (It doesn't hurt that he is rather good-looking.)

Jinora isn't stupid, though. She may be ten years old, but she's very smart. Smart enough to understand that Bolin will not like her back. Maybe he never will. And maybe, just maybe, sometime in the very distant future, Jinora won't like Bolin. Maybe she'll end up with someone else who is quite and bookish just like her. Maybe she won't end up with anyone at all. Jinora isn't really sure.

But for now, she thinks, Jinora is happy with the love she has.