A Submission to Zai Week Day 5
Waterfall
The waterfall was easily fifty feet high, a wide thread of reflected sun as it crashed down on the water below. A fine mist rose from it and the air shimmered with a rainbow effect.
Mai sat silently for a few moments then asked,
"Isn't this the part where I'm supposed to sigh about how beautiful it is?"
"Yeah," Zuko agreed, "Then I say 'I know' while I'm staring at you."
"Right, and I either say 'I meant the waterfall' or blush demurely or something."
"Demurely?" Zuko snorted.
"I can be demure."
"I know you can."
"Don't patronize me."
"I would never."
She rolled her eyes at him.
Zuko chuckled as he said,
"It's beautiful."
Mai's eyes widened fractionally as she tried not to laugh. She cleared her throat before she turned to him and said,
"I know."
"I meant the waterfall," he snickered, completely failing on his pathetic attempt at demure.
She couldn't keep going after that. She broke out in one of her rare laughs. Zuko kept his quieter though it pained him, the better to hear hers that way.
a/n: 'Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.'