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"I'm fine kiri it's alright" She once again said. "Hey, I'm just worried." She rolled her eyes and laughed. "Why'd you go alone anyway? I was free." she inquired.
"I felt like It was better alone, plus no you weren't free, you were with rotxo; I saw you guys" Maelie quipped. "Don't get any ideas" "I'm not" She lied, yes she was getting ideas but she knew better.
She cupped her bruise, it had gotten covered in herbs and sealed off with a leaf. "Do you think that going to work?" Kiri asked. "Do not doubt." I laughed. "I'm used to Norm's stitches and stuff." She confessed. "I do not understand you forest na'vi." She stated before chuckling and looking away.
#afternoon
Neteyam was sitting down my the mangrove's big roots crushing a few herbs and spices for supper as he was told to do so by his mother. Maelie walked over to him coming from her lone in the hammocks not far away from him.
"Hey," She stammered. "Maelie" He stated like he was announcing it. He stood up before maelie pushing him slightly down again. "Is your bruise alright?" He wonders sitting back down. "It feels alright." She assured.
"Thank you, neteyam"
"For what?" He asked.
"Slapping me, so many times." She joked.
"I had to, my father taught me to not let someone sleep when they had gotten a concussion." He stated. "I practiced-well-not really practice when it was actually happening, to lo'ak. What about you?" He laughed and at the memory, maelie laughed too, for a moment.
"Aonung and Rotxo were the ones who stepped up as a man and took care of me growing up, they were young, and dumb, but they meant well. My uncle tried his best but he was too caught up on being Olo'eyktan, I can't blame him. I was just his nephew." As she heard those words coming out of her mouth, this time, she didn't regret it.
"What do you mean "as a man"?; it's not that I am trying to offend you or anything-" Maelie cut him off by placing a hand on his shoulder. "It's alright. It's better to tell you now. Yes it's what you are assuming." She confessed and looked over to the ocean, it wasn't long from eclipse and the sea was once again as mesmerizing as it was the first time they talked to each other, alone. The waves were the only sound that dared to interrupt this conversation.
"Is this why you're scared?" He asked softly. "I suppose. I never felt this kind of emotion since years, I take it. And I'm scared that when I do, I'll have to go through the same pain when they leave. I want to try neteyam, I really do. But what if you also-"
"I won't do it." He sternly stated.
"Do what?" "Leave."
"How are you so sure?" She asked her eyebrows raising.
"I am willing to try to be with you because I was certain, Maelie. So why would I ever want to leave? If you ever feel like I'm drifting away, knock some sense into me-because I promise I'll come back loving you even more than I did the last time I saw you... if that's even possible," he declared with conviction.
"When was the last time?"
"The first time."
"Then let's try." She let out.
"It took you long enough, fishlips." He relieved.
That was the moment the both of them accepted their feelings for one another genuinely, and actually acknowledged it. Not just saying that they did.
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A = writing this and realizing i need a neteyam in my life for fucks sake iste
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