Ty Lee watched as Sokka kissed Suki's cheek. She couldn't help but find the sight completely adorable. Their auras were so bright and beautiful, and it made her so happy to see her best friends so happy.
Their auras didn't remain bright, however. Slowly they began to fade. Ty Lee couldn't hear what they were saying, but she knew it wasn't good. She saw their expressions change, still smiling, but a bit more painful that before. Then, with one last kiss, they parted ways.
Once Suki was close enough, Ty Lee was right by her side. "How do you even handle it?" she asked bluntly.
"Handle what?" Suki asked, confused by Ty Lee's question.
"Always saying goodbye to him. I mean, you love him, right? So, shouldn't you stay by his side?"
Ty Lee couldn't help but notice how Suki's cheeks began to grow pink at the question. It made her smile.
"It isn't that simple." Suki explained. "We have to say goodbye. At least for the time being."
"But it totally ruins your aura. Even you have to notice that."
"I do," Suki chuckled, "but that doesn't matter. There's more important things to do. I love Sokka, and I know he loves me, but I don't think we can be truly happy together until this mess of a world we live in is… not so messy."
With tears in her eyes, Ty Lee stopped Suki in her tracks and pulled her into a hug. "Oh Suki! That is the sweetest most romantic thing I have ever heard!"
Luckily Ty Lee couldn't see how her comment made Suki blush even more. She didn't pull away though, she hugged Ty Lee back.
"It isn't that romantic." Suki said.
"It is though!" Ty Lee pulled away from the hug. "You two have the strongest relationship I've ever seen. No matter how long you're apart, no matter how long, you two always come back together and just start right back up again. Like you guys weren't even apart in the first place! How isn't that romantic?"
"We're just… warriors." Suki tried to explain, but whenever it came to relationship talk, she found herself stumbling over her own words.
"No. You two are totally soul mates."
Before Suki could answer, she heard Sokka call her from afar. She turned to face him, noticing how far ahead he had gotten. Any further and they would've been out of each other's sight.
"I love you, and I'll see you soon, okay?" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
Suki's aura grew brighter as she yelled back, "I love you too!"
Ty Lee just smiled brightly as she watched her friend. "See. Soul mates. I don't think any other couple in the world could handle saying goodbye as much as you two do."
"Well, that's the thing: we never say goodbye," Suki explained. "We always say, 'See you soon.'"