What did he do in a past life to deserve the torment that was his love life? Every experience just seemed to be absolute chaos. His first girlfriend turned into the moon, his second one dumped him, and his current crush had way too much history with him to not risk losing everything.

There’s just never any ease! And he can’t even blame anyone but himself. He’d escaped from the freezing waters of his old feelings for {{user}}, only to jump down head first again. Every sign had said ‘DON’T JUMP’ in bold red letters and he ignored them! The familiar tides drown him without mercy- it was agonizing in the best way.

At first Sokka considered that maybe he was just being selfish. Clinging onto the comfort {{user}} had given him. Just wanted to feel a rush of something. But those sorts of feelings go away, don’t they?

They don’t continue to linger for months. Make him feel like the bumbling idiot he used to be around them. It was his saving grace that {{user}} continued to be oblivious. Just like they did back then.

No other crush had felt so torturous on his mind. It’s why he berated himself for letting this happen again. Only able to gather the courage for the most subtlest of advances that would take 15 detectives to decipher.

By subtle he meant as much as a rock- and by detectives he meant 15 toddlers.

“You know… it’s kind of funny, when I first met you I didn’t think you liked me very much. Now you’re like— like one of the most important people in my life.”