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As Ty Lee was walking towards Azula’s room, she felt anxiety eating away at her usually very charismatic attitude. The weirdest part was that she had no idea why she was feeling this way, she had known Azula for years! It wasn’t like she was going to meet a boy on the beach away from the prying eyes of everyone around her! Ty Lee just sighed and tried keeping her thoughts at bay by staring at all the portraits that lined the walls. Her eyes lingered on the one that used to be Ozai. Zuko and Azula had chosen to keep it up, but only after they destroyed it. He was also crossed out of the family portrait, only Azula, Zuko, and Ursa on it. At one point, she had admired Ursa, she later grew out of that when she saw how Ursa favored Zuko. To her small mind, she couldn’t believe how anyone could choose Zuko over Azula.
She still couldn’t quite believe it. She also kind of thought that Azula could have been a better Fire Lord than him, a fleeting thought as she passed Zuko’s portrait. She was glad that Azula didn’t have the responsibility however, as Azula would have less time to spend with Ty Lee. Ty Lee enjoyed their time together.
Mai often complained about how Zuko could never spend time with her because of his duties.
Once she finally arrived in front of Azula’s door, the anxiety returned, hitting her by ten fold. The last time she saw her was earlier that day, when Ty Lee had watched Azula train.
Ty Lee had always found some kind of sick pleasure in watching Azula train. Well maybe not always, it had started when they were fourteen. She would always watch Azula train with some intensity she could not explain.
Watching the way sweat would run down her abdomen on particularly hot days, where Azula would take off her shirt. Or the ways the muscles in her arms would flex with any kind of movement, the way her chest rose and fell when she was out of breath, Azula’s back muscles flexing as she did literally anything.
Ty Lee tried shaking the thoughts from her head as she knocked on Azula’s door.