Summary: Spring. Today is the last first day of spring Ty Lee will spend with them in a long time.

A/N at the end.

It's not a promise but along the way it turned into an unspoken one.

Every first day of spring, she visits Mai and Zuko in that cramped department they own; their couch is 9 feet long, it barely fits but they will never get rid of it.

("It's the first thing we bought," Zuko says with a proud smirk adorning his face.

Ty Lee tilts her head to the side. "What about a bed?"

"He forgot." Mai peeps her head out of the grocery bags. "Where do you think we slept all this time?")

The first two years were merely coincidental; when Mai mentioned to her, the second day of spring of the second year, about her appearance from yesterday, she decided to make it a "tradition". She didn't premeditate it most years, she just suddenly remembered that there were two days until spring and decided to appear and annoy Mai for the sake of it; every now and then, when Mai's guard is down her aura suggests that she may even be wanting for her to stay a little bit longer.

By the fourth year, she knew her company was unwanted.

It wasn't because of her or him, she knew that.

But things weren't like they used to and even if it is okay that way, sometimes most people don't realize that.

("What happened to the vase I gave you?" Ty Lee asks; by the fifth year the apartment looks emptier and colder.

"He must have taken it when he left." Mai avoids his name, this is probably the first time she mentions his existence to her during all her stay.)

So, there she was, sixth year, sitting in the balcony, next to Zuko, facing Mai and that vase she gave her in her 13th birthday. Ty Lee doesn't smoke but she would if she could look as elegant as Mai and they way she held the cigarette between her fingers.

("Smoking isn't cool," Mai states as she steps on the butt of her cigarette, underneath the bleachers at school, ten years ago. "If it were, it would quit me the headaches, not give me more.")

Ty Lee loves the view. It's different to what she's accustomed to.

From here she can see all the city lights, bright; it's nighttime and people don't hurry anymore, at least not to a certain extent; she hears the taxis honk and the sound of dogs barking from the apartment underneath, in the street down to the left she hears a group of girls laughing.

If she could see love blossom again, this would be the most boring way, Mai would say, but this is Ty Lee's perception and sometimes the simple things that they don't see is what truly matter.

It's been a while since the three of them have gotten high together.

Zuko turns on the playlist that Sokka uses when they get high and urges everyone to listen to this song.

Meanwhile, Mai brings back old memories. Zuko doesn't cringe anymore when he hears Azula's name.

"And then I remember, we were walking down the street with Ty Lee and -it was so ridiculous- but we looked at Azula, and she was walking like the world was her runway, then we looked at each other because we were pretty sure she did a hair flip-"

Mai mimicked the hair flip and Zuko's entire face changed.

"That was so cool," He interrupted in surprise.

"What?" Mai raised her brow with a smirk.

"You literally did it to the beat of the music, when the cool part came."

"So?"

"So? Sokka and I can't do anything remotely similar even when we try to."

Mai scoffed. The smile wouldn't get off Zuko's face, he stared into the nightlife, he put his hand in her leg and she intertwined her fingers in his. Mai started talking about the time she almost burnt down the kitchen.

They didn't realize it but Ty Lee did.

("So..." Mai's voice reached through her cellphone, "When are you coming again?"

"I don't know," She did not lie. "Maybe never."

Mai sighed and she could hear the hint of humor in it. "See you next year.")

Ty Lee hung up.

Maybe she'll be coming sooner, winter doesn't seem like a bad idea.

A/N: Spring isn't always green grass and nature. This is so ridiculously indie/alternative it hurts, but it did happen, when you're high you can see love in the strangest forms. Also, the song is one by Duke Dumont, because of course they were listening to house music when getting high, it's up to anyone to figure out which song it is exactly.