Chapter 5: Thank you for your Ear

We sat down with our ice-cream away from everyone else in the shop, which wasn't much of a crowd because it was late at night. I dug into my chocolate ice-cream as Asami took small bites savoring the ice-cream with every bite.

Once I finished my ice-cream a couple of minutes later I watched Asami as she eats hers patiently, smiling warmly at her every time she scrunched her nose and put her hand to her forehead when she got a brain freeze.

"Do you feel better?" I asked as she finished her ice-cream and pushed her bowl aside.

Asami nodded smiling gratefully at me, "I do thank you for taking me here."

"You welcome!" I beamed.

"I'm ready to talk," She stated and I nodded in acknowledgment, "Growing up Korra I've always been quite miserable, people usually assume that just because I was born into wealth that everything came easy to me and I was the happiest person that ever lived but that's wrong. Nothing has really never been happy and luxurious as people think it should be and if there was a slightest bit of happiness that ever came into my life it was always taken away from me. I was happy when my mom was alive but she was taken away from me soon after my childhood had started and now…." Asami trailed off her eyes starting to water again.

"It's ok Asami take your time." I said as I moved to the other side of the booth to sit next to her and wrapped my arm around her. "Here," I said handing her a napkin from the napkin dispenser on the table. I rubbed her shoulder, "I'm sorry about your mother, I can't imagine."

"It's ok she's been gone a long time but it doesn't help that I still miss her to death, and now my father is the only one that I have left and he treats me like I'm one of his employees instead of his own daughter is just so frustrating," Asami sighed wiping her tears with the napkin as I listened intently, "He doesn't believe in my dreams like I know my mother would if she were alive today, and he's forcing me to take over his company when he's gone, I'm supposed to go to Yeshiva for school next year to study business and engineering so I can take over the company when I graduate."

I frowned, "Don't do it. Follow your dreams, you want to spend your life doing something you love and not something that your hate so much that you dread it every time you wake up in the morning."

Asami sighed, "It's not that simple, when my dad told me that that was exactly what I wanted to do. I was going to disobey him and continue my education at Juilliard, but today when my dad called me he broke some news to me that I wasn't expecting to hear," Asami choked out as a tear fell down her cheek, "He told me he had Lymphoma."

I looked at Asami sorrowfully even though I don't know Asami's dad it's still sad to find out that your loved one is dying when they aren't even dead yet. "How did he find out?" I asked softly.

"He told me he had discovered 'rashes' all over his back one day and he went to the doctors to get it checked out and sure enough those 'rashes' wasn't even a rash….it was cancer."

"I'm sorry Asami."

"You know the irony about this whole situation is that breast cancer is what took my mother away from me." Asami said she became upset again. I continued to rub her shoulder as I listened, "So now I have to do this…for my dying father." She concluded looking up at me.

I nodded in understanding, "You're very loyal Asami and brave, you're willing to give up your dreams for your father." I looked at her attentively.

Asami sighed again, "Thank you Korra…I needed this." She smiled fondly at me.

"You're welcome Asami, we have to get our emotions out somehow. And you can talk to me anytime as long as you don't beat me up like last time." I joked to lighten the mood.

Asami chuckled softly, "I promise I won't."

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After the ice-cream Asami drove us to the dormitory and I walked with her to her room. "Goodnight Korra." Asami said as she stepped into her room.

"Goodnight Sami'" I said and I made my way down the hallway and toward my room.

*Buzz Buzz*

My phone went off, Opal was calling me I rolled my eyes and answered the phone, "Hey Opal."

"Hey Korra." Opal slurred out over the sound of the loud music in the background. "Can you come and get me?"

"Umm why can't you just come to the dormitory by yourself, you're a big girl Opal." I chuckled as I listened to my drunk friend.

"But Korrraaa I can barely function right now and plus Mako and Bolin are drunk too, you may have to come get all of us."

I groaned checking the time on my phone it was one in the morning, "Fine I'll get an Uber and head back over there to pick you guys up."

"Thank you Korrrraaa!" Opal said exaggerating my name again, "See you in a minute byyee-"

I hung up on her annoying ass and huffed as I pulled up Uber on my phone, "Drunks are the worst."

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Authors Note: Hope you enjoyed this chapter as well and thoughts are appreciated.