I look at her and smile.
"There are a lot of people that fight for Amon right now. While most of them aren't that skilled, some are.
Take Master Wu and the angels, for example, they have real skill and with enough gear, they can cause some serious damage. Amon will fail in his attempt and will prove that he's a fraud.
This will shatter any resistance that the Equalists might have. They won't have any way to go. At this moment I will swoop in and take all those elite fighters and make an organization of my own."
"And what would this brave, new organization do?"
"It would protect and keep the order in Republic City. It's going to be something like the Dai Li but done right. It's not going to be under any official government, at the start being run by people with the same ideals. It will only work for the people and not for any government or single person, be it the Avatar or otherwise."
"It's a nice dream to have."
We finish eating and I take Nya to work. After I drop her off I go to meet with Mako and Bolin. Mako told me they found a sponsor for the championship and told me to come and meet them. I meet them at a restaurant that we usually go to celebrate their wins.
Mako presents me with Asami his new girlfriend. We shake hands and talk about ourselves to get aquatinted.
"For how long do you know Mako?"
"For a few years now. I still remember the day I meet them. It was quite an unusual day for me. I think it was the first time I went to the Central Library. I was about six or eight, I'm not exactly sure. Here I was making my way downtown when I see those two. For some reason, I stop and look at them. They seem sad, lost, alone. I'm not usually an emotional person but I stopped and had lunch with them, we talked, we laughed and in the end, we became friends... And I think that's about it. Something just clicked and here we are now."
"That's a very sweet story... wait you were going to the library when you were eight?!"
"Haha, Yes, I was and still am a pretty weird person. I loved going to the library when I was young. I loved to read about everything from works of literature to books about engineering."
"When I was young I didn't like reading at all. But recently I started to enjoy it very much. Can you recommend me some book?"
I talked with her some more and I got to say that I was pleasantly surprised to know that Asami wasn't at all like how I imagined her to be. In the anime, at least at the beginning, she was the pretty girl archetype, her character wasn't that fleshed out, she was there more or less for eye candy.
In reality, she was a strong independent woman that knew what she wanted. She is a smart and breathtakingly beautiful scientist, the anime really didn't do her justice. She knew a lot about engineering and literature, I had the time of my life talking with her about science, my new and old projects, poems, and anything really. She has the most interesting point of view. The more I talked with her the more I started to question myself about how Mako managed to score such a girl.
I don't want to say anything bad about him but, he's not a social butterfly, and neither si he the most cheerful or sensible person. I really don't understand what she sees in him, well they don't say love is blind for no reason.
We had a fun time then I went back to the workshop. After I talked with Asami I got some inspiration for new designs to improve my combat suit so I started with some prototypes.
In the following weeks, I didn't do anything special. I barely got to train with Korra since she didn't have time. I spend the week working on my new designs at the commission I got that week. I spend most of my free time doing physical training with Mako and Bolin. I got to see more of Asami and I got to say, I started to like this girl more and more. I even proposed to Mako to go on a double date with them. Although Mako wasn't that happy about the idea Asami loved it since she wanted to meet Nya.
When I asked why she was so excited to see her she told me that I talk about her all the time. I asked the others as well since I wasn't that sure that was right. Yes, I love her and I like to talk about her, but that's it, I don't think I talk all that much about her. When everybody in the room told me that I talk about her every time we see each other it made me question my sanity a little.
The boys complained about this, but Asami told me that she thought it was sweet, to care for a person so much and to not even realize how much you truly love her. I, on the other hand, found it sad, to not realize how important somebody is to you, to not realize how much you truly love that person. This made me think back to Naomi and how much I loved and cared for her.
A single tear fell from my right eye, nobody saw my teardrop, but for a second a deep sorrow overtook me.
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