The Really Unusual Day

MaiTy: MaixTy Lee

They sat together on the soft grass near the river. Mai lay with her eyes closed, propped against Ty Lee's stomach. Ty Lee dreamily played with the taller girl's hair.

Mai took a deep breath and smiled slightly.

"When was the first time we kissed?" she asked.

Ty Lee pursed her lips. "Do you mean kiss kissed, or just kissed?"

"Just kissed. It would be rather thoughtless of me to forget the first time we kiss kissed."

Ty Lee giggled.

"Oh! I remember," she said. "It was my first time in Omashu. Your bad day, remember?"

Mai turned to Ty Lee with a lopsided grin, "It became a really unusual day, thanks to you." She rolled back over when she recalled the story.

Omashu was the most bleak and appalling city in the world according to Mai. She spent hours at a time just wishing for something interesting to happen, never having any luck with her desire for action.

Until one day she did.

Her brother had been kidnapped; although Mai doubted the accuracy of this term considering the naturally curious personality of her baby brother. Her parents were furious, and rather depressed, but blamed a great deal of the tragedy on Mai. She was babysitting him at the time of his disappearance.

Then Azula arrived, all confident and foreboding, and offered Mai a chance to get out of the house, which she immediately took. She ignored the slight uncomfortable nausea she felt at the princess' proposal.

But with Azula came Ty Lee. Perhaps the only person Mai could muster up a smile for. The little acrobat flew to her side with a warm hug.

"Mai! I heard about your brother, do you think he's alright?"

Mai shrugged, "He's probably off making friends."

But nothing went well that day. Azula told Mai not to trade the crazy old king for her sibling and they flew into battle against a Waterbending girl and her brother. They were winning until the stupid Flying Bison knocked Mai and Ty Lee into a pile of wood.

They gathered themselves up, with an addition of bruises and cuts, and walked back to Mai's house. Azula was still chasing the bald boy.

"Ugh," said Mai. "What a terrible day."

Ty Lee stretched her arms, trying to loosen out her shoulder, "It wasn't too bad! At least we got to check out the competition."

"And lose to them. I didn't hit my target once," muttered Mai. "I hate this place."

Whirling around, Ty Lee faced Mai with a very serious expression.

"So you're having a really bad day?"

Mai, still flustered, said, "Absolutely horrendous."

Ty Lee stood on her tiptoes unexpectedly and kissed Mai on the bridge of her nose.

"What was that?"

She didn't answer, but kissed her again on the cheek. And again on the jaw. She placed little pecks all over Mai's face.

"What are you doing?" yelled Mai. But Ty Lee was too busy smiling and kissing to answer her.

Mai tried to avoid her friend, but soon found herself being chased by a silly laughing girl around the steps to her house. Ty Lee was positively beaming.

"You'd better stop that!" said Mai. She narrowly avoided a kiss to the head. Ty Lee snorted and continued laughing. It made Mai chuckle just a little bit.

Ty Lee challenged, "I bet you can't make me stop!"

The girl being chased stopped moving long enough to laugh out loud. As soon as Ty Lee dove in to get her nose, Mai pecked her lips with a quick kiss.

"I bet I just did," said Mai. The circus girl was still smiling, although her eyes were much wider. She grabbed Mai's wrist and pulled her inside.

"At least now your day isn't so terrible, right?" she asked. Mai smiled and nodded slightly, while Ty Lee congratulated herself on another mission accomplished.

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A/N: Is anyone else reminded of Elphie and Glinda with these two? I love them to death!