{LOCKED TO TY LEE}

[bentflame]

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I need to talk to you. You were being very... odd the last time we spoke.

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Then what exactly do you regret? What makes you want to drop me now?

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

...You want the truth?

Okay.

...I'm not regretting what we did. It's just...it's just...I really can't see myself attatched to anyone for long periods of time. I can't hold a boyfriend more than a few months. I stay for a while, I break up and leave, then I come back. It's just...me.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... But I'm not a boyfriend, Ty Lee, and you never saw fit to leave forever before. Why now?

It seems ironic that you'd be the one not to believe in real love, actually. You're just so irritatingly cheerful and constantly upbeat, one would think that the idea of love would be... appealing to you. I, on the other hand, do believe in it- I just manipulate it to my advantage, the way I did with Mai and Zuko. I've never really had any use for it for myself- it's just seems so messy, and annoying, and pointless. Only with you, it... really wasn't. That was sort of an exception, I suppose.

But I hate exceptions. Especially this kind, now.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

...It just got so...confusing. Leaving just looked wasier.

I believe in love, Azula, just not the one true love bit. That's just so...I don't know.


...I'm sorry.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... I don't want confusion. I hate confusion. For the most part, I didn't think it was that confusing.

What's the difference between true love and regular love? Is one better than the other? I don't... there are different kinds?

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

...I guess I didn't know how you...felt about when you admitted things that made you uncomfortable until I had to...


...Regular love exists and true love doesn't. True love is that stuff that all the fairy tales talk about.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Those things were weak. I shouldn't have admitted them; shouldn't have felt them.
... You were right to discourage me in that regard.

... I still don't understand what the difference is. 'True' indicates 'real'; therefore, by saying that true love doesn't exist, are you saying that real love doesn't exist?

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

... I see.

I'm not the one who named it. Geeze. I believe in love. I don't believe in my "one true love" who doesn't know me yet but is going to come riding on a pure white ostrich-horse with a long flowing cape blowing in the wind. That's the difference.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Well, it's true. Even you said so.

... So you believe that a person can have more than one "love". Is that it?

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's what I believe.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I still don't see why that makes you think that you have to leave. If you believe that you can love more than one person, then you can have both me and your boyfriend.

... And besides, I had always thought that those were different types of love. "Boyfriend love" and "friend love", I mean.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

...Azula, that's not what I mean.

....I don't think what we have is just "friend love" anymore, Azula.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Then what do you mean? You're certainly not saying "it's over" to him.

... You've been my friend since we were six. I don't see why you've suddenly decided that you don't want to be friends anymore.

OOC: ... Because the meaning behind Ty Lee's second comment TOTALLY flew right over her head.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

Well...I probably would be if I knew where he was.

... That's not what I meant. We've had "friend love" since we were six. We can still have that but it's changed. Because kissing and...embracing does not fall under "friend love" anymore.

((Azula is made of social fail. It's kinda like how when Azula starts using big words and concepts Ty Lee gets confused easily.))

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

So, fine. You're deserting him, too, and running off to find someone better. That still doesn't make it any less... hm.

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Ah. Well. I don't...

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You realize you're talking about this in the present tense. You probably shouldn't, considering you're "leaving forever".

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

...Azula.

I never said I was leaving forever. Want to know who said that first? You did.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

You said "we're through"; "we're finished"; etcetera. I don't know what else that would indicate.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

That I was breaking off our arrangement for a while.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Finished" and "over" tend to indicate just that- forever.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

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Yeah.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

So you didn't mean just "a while".

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

I did! But maybe I put it wrong...

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

"Forever" and "a while" are two very different things, Ty Lee.

[hotpinkaura.livejournal.com]

I know, Azula...

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... My point is that you can't say things that indicate then you're leaving forever, and then turn around and say that it's only for a while. It doesn't make any sense.