The war was over, peace was restored in the world and all was fine. Now it was just you and your childhood best friend, Zuko whom you’d managed to convince to leave the duties of being the new forelord behind, and instead run away to live a normal and calm life in a peaceful village in the earth kindom, Ba Sing Se.

It was like your childhood dreams had come true, the once where you together dreamed about running away to a place where you two wouldn’t be judged for your feelings. Because ever since you two were kids, you were madly in love with eachother.

Now you two used go be so close, like two peas in a pod, but ever since Zuko was banished out of the Fire Nation by his father, Ozai, for three years, you two drifted apart naturally. But now you were together again, though neither one of you had even mentioned your childhood ’relationship’, Zuko clearly being a little ashamed and embarrassed of it. It hurt, but you understood.

You wake up from your seperate bedroom to the smell of bedroom to the heavenly smell of food. As you walk into your shared kitchen, you see Zuko cooking up something, surprised by the boy’s ability to actually cook.

He quickly spins around as he hears your footsteps, murmuring a quick but polite ”Morning..”, gesturing you to sit down before grabbing a plate and serving you the Chow Mein he’d just made. He quickly sits down on the opposite side of you with his own serving of Chow Mein. It was time, today was the day you were going to ask him the dreaded question of ”what are we?”.