Day 1: Family
I just discovered today that I missed out on Zutara Week a couple weeks ago, so I wanted to make up my contributions now! This is the first, and I'll be posting the rest over the next week in my usual late-for-everything fashion. Happy belated Zutara Week, ya'll!
Oh and also I've never done entries for Zutara Week before so take it easy on me, okay? Unless, of course, I've made a grammatical error, in which case, call that sucker out like you're calling out sick from work.
I like Avatar but I never have time for it anymore... Not that I haven't seen every episode, because I have but I never really have time for TV anymore... Except this morning. This morning I watched an episode of Psych. Oh, and I don't own a thing, either. Which is sad, really.
"Alright, who wants to get hitched tonight?"
One of the young men following a step behind her smirked at her choice of words and the other shot his hand up instantly in the air. "I dibs not marrying Katara!" he called.
The young woman in question cocked an eyebrow back at him.
"What?" He shrugged. "Sorry but you took up the whole bed last night. I had no room."
Toph grinned expectantly.
The boy next to her noticed and leaned in to whisper, "I don't think he meant it that way." But he was smiling too. He and Toph had a similar sense of humor, and Katara could be touchy when it came to her size or appearance. He couldn't help but laugh sometimes when the boys talked themselves onto Katara's bad side, which wasn't hard to do.
The harmless comment hadn't slipped by unnoticed. "Fine then, get your beard out. You're sleep on the floor tonight," the woman said in a snappy tone.
"What?" Her brother looked at her, confused. "My wha-? Oh, but why?"
"I think we're going to have to be staying here a few nights and we need to save money." She glanced over her shoulder at him. "Unless of course you want to kick your lovely daughter or son out of bed."
Sokka looked back at the two teens in question, who were trailing behind now, deep in conversation. "That's not fair, you know I wouldn't..."
"Okay," she cut him off, preoccupied with her own thoughts of playing pretend. "So you're they're Uncle, wait no, you're they're father. I'll be their Aunt, your sister, obviously, and then Zuko will be my..."
She turned to look at him as she said his name and as she did, her glance fell on a sign on the large door they were passing.
"Oh," she remarked, and stopped abruptly, causing her brother to nearly crash into her and his comrade her to bump up against her, catching himself.
His lips brushed against her ear as she was half-turned toward him and he murmured a quick "sorry" before taking half a step back.
Katara heard Toph add a quiet "and they say I'm the blind one" with a smile before she explained herself:
"This is it, we're here."
"Great, I'm pooped" said Aang.
"We'll get the rooms in a second," Zuko said. "This is your Dad for the next few days, by the way." He nodded at Sokka who was putting the finishing touches on the beard he carried for such an occasion.
Sokka gave the beard an experimental wiggle before Zuko stepped inside holding Katara's hand.
Awful? Less than awful? Tell me the truth and please let me know what you think, it means so much to me. Please R&R!
Also a quick shoutout to those who thought I'd quit: I haven't. I've just been feeling like no one wants to read it anyway, so why write it, and then I get distracted, and then blah blah blah, you know the drill. Irregardless, I didn't quit and so long as there is someone reading it, I won't. 3