Explanation
Regulus p.o.v
The next morning we set the plan we cooked up last night in motion. Dobby wouldn’t be travelling with us as Lily explained the sky bison didn’t like to go below ground and Remus agreed he probably wouldn’t even fit in the tunnels. Dobby growled as he watched us enter the tunnel system at the far side of the island, where no firenation soldiers or ships were at the moment. Once Dobby saw us go inside, he stood up and flew up in the sky away from any prying eyes, so we could move discreetly and under the radar. It still amazed me how Lily and Dobby seemed to communicate, the sky bison always following her orders. I place a hand on her shoulder as I noticed she was a little on edge without her furry friend by her side. Lily gave me a thankful smile before she composed her self and followed the rest of the group further below ground. James lingered behind as he and I closed the line of our expedition. “We should talk.” James managed to be the first to speak up.
“probably.” I nod turning to him “Do you know how worried I was.” James looked at me puzzled not understanding what I meant, so I took a deep breath and explained “That last night in the swamp, you ran off without an explanation, I went looking for you for hours and I couldn’t find you. I feared for your well-being and eventually went to bed but I couldn’t sleep, my worries about you keeping me awake and the next morning you were laughing with my brother while you ignored me. “
“Reg, I” James his eyes widened as he listened to my explanation “I went on a walk with Emma, she had patrol duty and I tagged along. We probably missed each other while we were doing the rounds.”
“I see.” I bit my lip as relief flooded through me, knowing he hadn’t want to run away before confusion replaced the relief “Then why didn’t you talk to me? Why did you run off? Why did you avoid me the next the morning? I don’t understand James, please help me understand.”
“You hurt me.” James whispers as I noticed we slowed our step
“I hurt you?” I gulp, I never wanted to hurt anyone and definitely not James.
“You didn’t do it on purpose.” James quickly says “When I saw you and Evan about to kiss, it felt like the breath was knocked out of my lungs, I couldn’t breath then you looked up at me like I spooked you and I didn’t know what else to do than run.”
“Evan and Barty were trying to get a reaction out of you.” I whisper looking at my feet, I could feel James starring at me “They saw you coming and decided to tease us by daring me to kiss Evan.” I then looked up and stared in his eyes “I never kissed him, I don’t see any of them in a romantic light, it was just a stupid prank those two idiots decided to play on us. “
“You guys are just friends?” James asks a tiny bit of hope could be heard in his voice.
“Yes.” I agree “ They tried to get me to see that I’m more then just the avatar, That I am allowed to want more and act selfishly every now and them. they just have a weird way of showing that.”
“I don’t understand what that has to do with me?” James shakes his head still confused
“Because I like you and I am afraid to give into my feelings” I tell him feeling vulnerable before quickly diverting the attention back to him “Now tell me why seeing me with Evan hurt you and ended in you avoiding me.”
James rubbed the back of his head “I thought you liked him more than a friend, I was jealous since I like you too.”
I inhaled sharply “You like me.”
“Yes.” He breathed out taking my hand in his “I avoided you because I thought you were in love with someone else and I couldn’t put myself through more heartbreak.”
“James, there is no one else but you.” I place one of my hands on his cheek “it’s you I like.”
James smiled brightly “That is good to hear, I like you too. I am sorry for being an ass.”
“it’s fine, I am just glad we cleared this up before going into battle.” I tell him before pecking his lips, not knowing why I did that besides that it felt good and I wanted to kiss him.
“Let’s talk some more about what this is between us after we free Kyoshi.” James agreed even though he still looked dazed about what I just did.