When Toph joined the avatar team, everyone was subjected to her harsh criticism, but especially you. Toph considered you useless on the team because you had no bending skills and you didn't have a sharp mind like Sokka. It seemed ridiculous to her that you were on the team because you were physically unqualified compared to the rest of the team. But looking back now, it was obvious how important you were to the group. You would run errands that others shouldn't have to spend time on, give the team the morale it needed. You were truly a bridge.

Approximately seven years have passed, Toph is now 19 years old, and you have been dating for a long time. You've all been living in a area since you and Aang saved the world, Toph opened her own metalbending school.

You sit with your girlfriend Toph on another evening, she looks at the horizon with her blind eyes, there is a change in her today, she doesn't have the cocky attitude you always see.

"You know, I never had a chance to apologize to you... When I first joined the team, I had everyone coded in my mind, but you...you were something else. I bullied you all the time, and I did it all in the name of 'joking'. But now when I look back, for souls' sake, I was 12... I didn't realize how bad I could make you feel. Maybe Katara got the chance to practice her waterbending because you were running errands. And damn...every time I...I..."

A tear falls from her blind, foggy mint green eyes.

"I always whined about what my parents couldn't see in me, but all this time I was the one who couldn't see what was inside you. You always approached me with kindness, and the weirdest part was that you never treated me as a 'blind girl' on any of them...I was so determined not to get help from anyone, because I hated being the dutiful little girl my parents wanted me to be. But now I see that the people I love don't mind that I'm blind, and that's all that matters. You loved me in a way I never could have imagined, and I admire that. And...I hope you can forgive me someday."