A/N: I know, it's been such a long time and I haven't updated in a year or so. But this, has got to be my favourite story I've written. And I had to come back to it.

Mai liked hugs. Surprising right? She knew she didn't look like the huggy type but ever since she and Aang had started going out, she had been liking them a lot more. She breathed in the scent of his clothes and clung to him tightly.

"Uh... Mai? So do you want to go?"

She didn't answer. She started to rate the best hugs she had gotten in her whole life. Ty Lee's hugs should come into the top ten but Aang's hugs were coming first no doubt.

"Mai? Can you hear me?"

"Shut up, you're ruining my moment" she muttered. Now back to that list, it was hard to rate all of Aang's hugs, they've hugged quite a few times even though they had been dating for around a month.

"Mai... we were talking about something important?" he said. Mai frowned, squeezed enough to make it hurt, took another deep breath and let go.

Aang smiled trying to cover the pain of his bruised rib cage.

"What is it?" she asked gruffly.

"I said 'Do you want to come to the South Pole with me?'" Aang repeated.

He had interrupted her hugging time for this?

"And why would I want to do that?" she asked.

"Cause I have to go and I'll be gone for a month or so and I was hoping you'd miss me and want to come along" he explained cheerfully.

Mai didn't smile, instead she put her hands on his shoulders.

"As your girlfriend I'm hoping you understand this" she started. Aang nodded ready for anything even if it meant being lonely and separated for a month- hell he could be ready for that.

"I want to see if you- Can you actually picture me in the snow?" she asked him.

Aang started to shake his head but then thought about it a bit more, trying to see if he could picture her in an eskimo suit.

"I spent 100 years in an iceberg I'm sure you can spend a month in snow" he said calmly smiling. Aang being a lot more mature annoyed Mai a bit when it came to arguements.

She pouted a bit more not liking the idea of being cold for a whole month.

"You'll have to go without hugs for a whole month" he taunted.

Mai glared at him.

"You wouldn't dare" she said.

"Oh I think I probably could" he challenged.

Mai started to actually think about it. A whole month without a hug from Aang. A whole month without Aang. And they had just gone through an almost break-up and finally had gotten through the oddities (like Aang habit of drinking onion and banana juice).

"I need to go Mai, it's my role as the Avatar- but I really want you to come with me. I honestly do. Please come with me" he said taking her hands in his.

"I liked it when you were still kiddish. It's hard to win arguments now"

"I promise that you won't get to cold"

"You better give me pretty damn good hugs" she warned him and to show she was not joking she took out a knife from her sleeve.

Aang smiled, slightly threatened by instead hugged her with a swift kiss on the cheek.

"Don't worry we'll travel on Appa" he said.

"Great more flying. But what am I supposed to do there?"

"We can go penguin sledding" he told her.

She gave him a quizzical look.

"Forget that idea then" he said and gave her a kiss.

"I'll see you tomorrow then" he said and turned to leave. She caught him by the shoulder.

"I only got a hug for 50 seconds, what happened to three minute minimum hugs?"

Aang smiled and turned to her again. Mai sure was a challenging girlfriend but hey she was worth it.

A/N: I give a triple somersault from the moon landing on earth in a bow to all of you who have waited so long.

I give you my sincere apologies as well.

Well, this is a longer explanation. I got a huge writers block, got a broken heart about a year back and I sort of left everything and didn't come back to it.

But about two months ago something started nagging me. I thought of Mai and how unique he character was and I wanted to write about it. Insanity is also my favourite story as I love Mai and Aang together so much.

So I came back and wrote another chapter and yes I promise sooner updates.

This was more of a fluff piece as I haven't written in sooooo long.

Please continue reading! I beg you! I promise not to be bad again and follow this to the end!

Your deeply sorry and humbled author Ephesians5.19