Opal walked into Korra's room and shook her head at what she saw. Korra was sprawled out on her bed with her hanging off. She sighed as she let her eyes roam over the room. Her eyes landed on the pictures Korra had of her family and friends. There hasn't been one time that Korra hasn't had that goofy smile on her face. Opal wondered how her friend could always be so happy. When it seemed as if the world was against her.
"Korra get up!" Opal said shaking her. Korra groaned as she shuffled under her covers hiding. "Don't start with me! You promised you were going to go dress shopping with me for the Gala."
"Tomorrow dammit!" Korra grumbled.
"You were suppose to go with me last night but you had a job to do." Opal complained rolling her eyes. "Come on Korra! What if there's a chance that I meet my soulmate tonight. Don't you want me to look amazing so they don't runaway."
"Ugh fine!" Korra said popping up from her hiding place looking disgruntled. "I'm positive you could have found someone else to go with."
"Shut the fuck up! I remember someone making me go to the airport to pick up a handmade dress for them. And I don't recall complaining once. Isn't that right princess Korra?" Opal said bowing.
"I hate you." Korra said as Opal's laughter floated through the room as she slammed the door.
She flopped back on her bed. She had another dream of a snap snippet from her past life. She was on a hill top with a white wolf crying as the ground shook. She still couldn't remember her last life but what she got from the little scenes was that she obviously wasn't happy. Maybe it had something to do with the emptiness she felt. Even though she was happy she sometimes felt like a shell.
"Will you please hurry up." Korra groaned in her chair outside the dressing rooms. Naga whacked her with her tail. "Ow! Stop it Naga. I know your ready to go to."
"Shut up!" Opal growled out from behind one of the curtains. "I think this is the one."
She walked out in a floor length green dress that hugged her curves and cuffed her neck. The other two stared at her with their jaws open.
"How do I look?" She asked turning in a slow circle.
"B-beautiful." Korra stuttered.
"Thanks" Opal said before looking at herself in the mirror.
Korra came to stand behind before smiling softly at her friend. "Your going to get your soulmate and still a couple others." She said making them both laugh.
Asami was under the hood of her car bobbing her head to some music. When someone kicked her leg.
"Fucking hell." She said angrily sliding from under the car.
She came face to face with a smiling Kuriva. "The hell do you want." Asami asked pushing her face back.
"Hey! What's with the attitude when I brought you brunch." Kuvira fake pouted. She dangled the food in front of her face.
Asami snatched the bag and raised a eyebrow. "What do you want?" She asked suspicious.
"Oh nothing really. Me and Baatar want to come to the Gala." Kuvira said looking at her nails.
"What? Why?" Asami asked with a mouth full of strawberries.
"Because it's a Friday night and we don't have shit to do. Plus I haven't been able to dress nice in a while. I have this amazing black and green tux that I haven't gotten to wear yet." Kuvira said sitting across from her.
"Yeah right! I know for a fact that the both of you just want to go because of the princesses and princes that will be there." Asami said laughing making Kuvira smile.
"Hey you never know my soulmate could be a princess." Kuvira said stealing a strawberry.
"Yeah." Asami said sarcastically. "A princess who wants to be a soulmate to someone who have up their title. Sounds like a match made in heaven."
"Shut up and eat." Kuvira said annoyed as she kicked her foot.
"Bolin were back and we brought snacks!" Korra shouted as they came in the warehouse.
"He's taking a nap with Juicy and Pabu." Mako said from his spot on the couch.
"Why is he asleep and your not?" Opal asked referring to his long hours.
"He hasn't been to sleep yet. I went to check on him and he was glued to his screen." Mako said popping up and looking at them. "And as for me you know sometimes I can't sleep."
"Aww such a good big brother." Korra teased as she put down her bags.
"Fuck off you weirdo." Mako said sitting up. "Where have you two been?"
"Dress shopping for the Gala tonight." Opal said all smiles as she headed up stairs.
"I forgot that was tonight. Is our party still on for tomorrow?" He asked Korra as she sat down beside him.
"Hell yeah it is!" Korra conformed punching him in the shoulder.
"You think your dad is going to try to set you up with somebody again?" He asked rubbing his shoulder.
"I wouldn't be surprised." She said rolling her eyes. "Plus my cousins will be coming."
"Yeah, hey is your uncle still tripping on Densa for being into girl stuff?" He asked.
"Hell yes! It's crazy because he accepts him being gay. I wish he would just leave him alone already. And you know he's still on my case for being bi because I should only like one not both." She made a frustrated noise as she rubbed her temple.
"It's mostly because of who you are. Then you still haven't found your soulmate yet." He reminded her.
"Yeah i know but at least I'm not alone in that area. I'm surrounded by soulmateless people except for Lin." She teased poking him in the side.
He knocked her hand away huffing "Shut up! there's still a chance we could all end up like Tenzin."
"What about me?" Tenzin asked making them jump.
"Nothing! Nothing!" Korra said making wild gestures with her hands. "Just that we hope to be like you one day. You really pull off the beard and tattoos look." She said with awkward laughter.
Mako groaned putting his face in his hands. "How's your mom doing?"
Tenzin stared at them for what seemed like an enternty to korra before sighing and plopping down in a armrest. "She's" He said looking up at the ceiling for answer. "She's the same."
Korra and Mako glanced at each other before they made a noise of understandment. They sat in silence a whole minute before Opal yelled for Korra the get upstairs so they could get ready. Korra rolled her eyes as she got up. She squeezed Tenzins shoulder as she walked by.
"Thanks." He said closing his eyes and relaxing into the armrest.
Mako got up as well and stretched "I heading up to baldly."
"Watch it." Tenzin grumbled. "This bald guy can kick your ass."
Mako laughed lightly "I look forward to it as always."
Tenzin huffed a laugh as he opened his eyes. The entcounter he had with the boy from the hospital fresh on his mind.
"Meelo."
Tenzin hummed softly as he blew out the smoke from I his cigarette. He turned looking away from the small amount of snow falling from the sky. He spared a small glance to a boy sitting on the steps but nothing more. Instead he turned his eyes to the small amount of people in the hospitals waiting area. He liked showing up at night it meant less people. He spent his time from siting with his mother, wondering around, and the smoke area. He was going to put out the cigarrette and head back in. When a woman caught his eye. He couldn't really make her out but she was holding a teddy bear by it's arms. She looked like she was looking for someone before she just gave up and sat down. She looked distraught as she put the bear in it's own chair. She fixed it up right smoothing its fur and straightening its bowtie before standing up. She stood in front of it without saying anything before nodding and then turning and leaving. Tenzin watched her disappear then put out his cigarette.
"You know it's not good to make your mother worry like that brat." He said looking at the boy annoyed.
"How'd you know?" The boy asked amused looking up through the snow flakes.
Tenzin huffed annoyed. "For starters it's like two in the morning, the way your mother was acting I'm guessing it's not your first rodeo, and your hiding out in the smoke area. Whats wrong with you aren't you scared of getting cancer from second hand smoke."
The boy hummed. "Is she still there?" He asked still not looking at Tenzin.
"No she left." Tenzin asked warily.
"No I'm not." The boy said after a while. "And I'm out here because it's a better place."
"What?" Tenzin asked confused.
"I can't be afraid to get what I already have." The child said taking off his beanie to rub his bald head. "And i think sitting outside in the livelyness of the night instead of my room is nice."
Tenzin just stared not sure what to say. "Don't worry about it. You didn't know and I didn't make a move to say it. Besides you're the first person to talk to me in awhile. Everyone's usually wrapped up in their own problems to notice anything strange like a boy sitting in a smoking area hiding out from his mom." The boy said holding out his hand for a snowflake to fall land on it.
"If she doesn't see me then she deosn't cry and waste away in here. If she goes home and eats, showers, takes care of herself then she remembers she has a life to. That should be lived but everyday she somehow finds her way back into this godforsaken place. So yes i hide from her. The sick child she had that stole her life, her happiness. I don't need anyone telling me other wise when I've seen the happiness drain from her eyes. When they told her I can die at any time." Tenzin gasped as the boy turned the saddest smile he had ever seen on him.
"How is that fair to me? To her? My life will be taken from me when I've never had one and now I'm taking her's." He shifted his eyes back to the sky.
"I don't get to choose when I go but i'm hoping i can pick the place." Tenzin watched a bird fly away instead of continuing to looking at the child. "I've seen you before." The boy said matter of factly.
"I've watched you followed you even. You are strange you walk around like your looking for for something but you come to visit your say she's been in a coma for three years." Tenzin flitched at that. "But she's not."
Tenzin whipped his head to the boy only to step back from the blue eyes that stared back at him. "I can see it."
Tenzin finally felt the spirit energy emitting from him. "Her spirits trapped inside the spirit world." When Tenzin didn't say anything the boy frowned. "I thought for sure you were a spirit bonder and Anng's son."
Tenzin snapped out of his stupor and in a second he was on top of the boy pressing him into the steps with a gun to his head. Blue eyes mirrored each other. "What do you want?" He grounded out pressing harder.
The boy's laughter that echoed through the small outdoor area shook him. He frowned pulling the gun back. The boy laughed as tears rolled down his face. Spirits gathered around them as Tenzin sat up. The boy reached out his hand. Brown eyes reflecting the watery smile he had.
"Meelo."
"Tenzin."