A/N: Hi! Here's my first posted fanfic! And I imagine Sokka would handle this situation some what the same as I interpreted it.
Disclaimer: I'll own Avatar when I become normal.
"Would you like to go out tonight?" That's all he had to say. But instead a simple question turned into a ten minute conversation with a confused Kyoshi Warrior. Luckily, Sokka got the message across, and Suki agreed to meet him at a the Cups of Comfort for a cup of tea that night.
Walking back to the apartment, Sokka was giving himself a good scolding. "Stupid. Stupid. Stupid." The marketplace he was passing through was so loud and bustling with merchants and buyers, that no one would notice a yelling teenage boy. "Would you like to go out tonight?" It sounded like he was asking within earshot out on a date. Or a nearby peppy, pink clothed teen.
"Sure!" She answered. "Where? When?" She seemed to ignore the regretful look on Sokka's face.
"Uh…," Sokka started. How was he supposed to know one of Azula's minions were in Ba Sing Se? "Uh…"
"Is that a tea shop? I never hear of it."
"Ty Lee… Uh…," he started. Getting out of this would be tough. "Ty Lee. Uh. Well. Actually, I said: 'Would you like to eat out tonight?'" The words spat out of his mouth before he could swallow and digest them.
"Oh. What's the difference?" She questioned dumbly. "You haven't thought this out have you? How 'bout the Cups of Comfort tonight?"
"Uh… Actua--,"
"It's a date!" Ty Lee announced and skipped away leaving a dumb founded Sokka.
"Great, juuust great," he muttered, slapping himself on the forehead.
Back at the apartment, Sokka fixed his ponytail hair and slipped on a cleaner pair of clothes, also some sweet smelling liquid was slapped onto his neck and face. He wasn't particulary nervous; he only had two dates the same night, the same shop, one of which he hardly even knew! The other's reaction would decide the rest of his relationship with her! Pacing the floor of his room, sweat stains began to form on Sokka's once clean shirt.
"I can fix this. Yup. Sure can. Go to the Cups of Comfort and tell Ty Lee the truth. Then, have a nice cup of tea with Suki. Yup. Everything's gonna work out fine…" He assured himself.
Once a sweat free shirt was clinging to his body, Sokka sneaked out of his room. He was about to step out of the house, when a door slammed and he heard light footsteps. Please no Katara. Please. Just make a run—
"Where you goin'?"
Sokka jumped, the turned to see his captor. "Oh! Toph, it's just you. I thought Katara was home…" No doubt did Sokka have if his little sister found out about this situation, that she would lecture him on how girls should't be treated this way. Blah, blah, blah.
The blind girl walked up to him and sniffed. "Nope. She went to a marketplace with Twinkletoes." Her face seemed to cringe at a stench. " Gross, man-perfume. Got a hot date?"
He thought of a full proof excuse in seconds, but then realized it was no use in lying to Toph. "Two, actually. Don't tell Katara, okay?"
She stifled a snort. "I'll keep this secret to myself if you let me… observe your dates."
"What? No way!"
"Fine, but know that I know exactly where Sugar Queen and Baldy are and I might just run into them and my mouth might slip." Toph smirked like a tiger when cornering lunch.
"I hate you." And with that the duo made their through the late hours of the evening to the tea shop.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Toph waved off. " 'Course I'll need a cup of Momo Tea!"
Sokka wished, hoped, and prayed to the spirits for a full house at the Cups of Comfort. Unfortunetly for him, the spirits put Sokka on their "To Do List."
"Great, reeal great," he whined when many tea tables around the shop where empty. "Toph just go sit over there." He pointed to a vacant table in the corner, but when Toph didn't move a muscle he noticed his mistake. "At the empty table in the corner. And keep your big mouth shut."
"I still want that Momo Tea." Toph walked to the table, and plopped herself into a chair.
Sokka searched the shop for his dates. "It's not like we get paid to kick Fire Nation butt." And that's when pink girl strolled in. Seriously, it looked as if every pink piece of clothing the world had to offer was eating her skin. "Ty Lee!" he waved her to another empty table and pulled out a chair facing the wall. "Listen. Here's the--,"
"You look good in blue. But pink is much better for your tone of skin," Ty Lee took of a pink hat that she had been wearing, and pushed onto Sokka's skull.
He could imagine his reflection in a mirror from one that might be at a carnival. "Yeah. Thanks. But listen--,"
A make-up less Suki walked through the door and settled herself on the opposite side of the shop.
"I need to use the bathroom!" Sokka quickly stated and walked over to Suki.
"Sokka!" She greeted, then gave his an affectionate hug.
"Hey, Suki!" He plastered a scary-happy expression onto his face.
"What's with your face?"
Sokka quickly changed his expression to a "normal" one. "Nothing. Ahem… What tea would you like?"
"Leeche is my favorite."
"Alright! You got it! Be right back!" He ran off to explain things with Ty Lee.
Ty Lee questioned a heavily breathing Sokka, "Can I get some yummu Jasmine Tea?"
"Sure. Yep." He went over to the counter and told the waiter: "Leeche Tea there" he pointed to Pinky "And Jasmine there" pointing to the warrior. Sokka was so out of breath he didn't even notice his own mistake. "This is under control." He reassured himself as he walked back to Suki.
"The tea is on its way!" Sokka announced to her.
"Great!" She replied. "How's Aang?"
"Huh? Oh! He's fine. Doing some Avatar Spirit stuff most of the time."
With a sorrowful look on her face, Suki said, "Seems like he needs some time off. A vacation."
"Vactaion from being the all mighty Avatar. What a sight that would be," Sokka replied spitefully. "Besides, Aang's at a marketplace with Katara right now." He looked over Suki's shoulder at Ty Lee who was fixing her pink ensamble.
"Really?" Her face with no signs of Kyoshi make up, lit up and changed to a happy one. "Well that's good."
Sokka turned to her with a puzzled expression. "What do you mean by--," He saw out of the corner of his eye Ty Lee getting up from her chair and scanning the shop for a certain teenager. "Hold on a sec!"
As he made his way across the small tea shop he grabbed Ty Lee and smushed her back into the chair. "Where're you going? The tea's here!" Sokka realized what a big mistake he had just made by not letting Ty Lee leave.
The waiter came up to their table and poured a piping hot liquid from a large tea pot into small 'cups of comfort.' "Enjoy!" He said departing with a slight bow.
Sokka took a sip from his cup, and sighed with relief. Thank the spirits for tea.
"This isn't my yummy Jasmine Tea! It's yucky Leeche Juice!" Ty Lee complained after drowning down the whole cup of tea and then hacking up storm.
"Oops! Sorry. I can fix that!"
He got up and walked to the counter and ordered Jasmine Tea for Ty Lee. Why am I doing this? He wondered. Just tell her to leave and go on with my complicated life!
His eyes wondered over to a lonely Toph in the corner. "Where is my Momo Tea!?" She asked without words pouring out like tea from her mouth.
Sokka ignored his friend, but did shoot a horrifing I'm-going-to-kill-you-if-your-big-mouth-opens glare that he knew Toph couldn't see.
As, Sokka was about to notify Ty Lee, he saw that the same waiter that poured the Leeche Tea was emitting Jasmine Tea into two tea cups. Dashing over to Suki, he thought up a quick-witted excuse.
He sat down in his chair and swallowed the Jasmine Tea. "Excuse me, waiter." Sokka waved for the waiter to come back. "I mistakenly asked for Jasmine Tea, and my friend absolutely loves Leeche. Would you mind fixing this? Thanks."
"Just right now, your voice sounded just like Katara's. Coated with sugar," Suki commented when the waiter stormed off muttering about some guy with two dates and too many cups of tea.
Sokka cringed with guilt. Oh how his conscience began to scold him. You should've told Pinky the deal, and then maybe you wouldn't be in this situation! "I know, I know!" He thought out loud.
"Excuse me?" Suki gave an inquiring look to Sokka.
"What?" Sokka came rushing back to his dates. "Oh. I know. Sometimes I like to mimic Katara and her sweet voice. Heh, heh, heh…"
"Oh. Well, you had better not pretend to be her, while she's around." Suki warned wagging a finger. "You probably know what would happen."
Another pang of guilt shot Sokka. "Katara would proably shout at me, then clear her throat and began an annoying, but nessacery lecture on how that treating girls--. I mean mimicking her is rude and my act sounded nothing like her."
"Sooka? Sooka?" He heard the familiar voice of Ty Lee ringing in his ears. Sokka looked at Pinky. "Shoot," he cursed to himself. "I'm going to see what's taking that tea so long!" And quick as a cheetah-bird, Sokka was up and out of his chair when the tea that was taking so long appeared on the table.
"Sokka! The tea's right here!" Suki said to him.
He turned back to his real date and managed to 'smoothly' trip over a loose floorboard. Sokka heard Suki and Ty Lee coming towards him. Also, a mocking laugh coming from a corner of the shop.
"Sooka? Are you okay? Do you need a pink bandage? I've got--." Ty Lee started. "What's she doing here?" Referring to a stunned Suki.
"Sokka what are you doing with a Fire Nation girl?" the Kyoshi warrior asked not taking a stupid excuse.
He was now sitting on the creaking floor and rubbing his aching face. Sokka looked up to see Ty Lee and Suki battling each other with a staring contest.
"Fanny."
"Tramp-oline.."
Sokka quickly stood up between the girls before any weapons or fast acting fingers were brought into play. "Maybe I should explain…"
"Yeah, and while you're at it, orded my dang Momo Tea!"
All three of the teenagers, plus some entertained tea-lovers, glared at Toph who was up and out of her lonely corner.
"Toph! Stay out of this!" Sokka ordered.
"Why is Toph here?" Suki asked suspisously.
"She's not on a date with you too is she?" The once rivaling girls agreed with each other.
"Toph and me? No way!" Sokka explained. "She just wanted some Appa Tea. Honest!"
"Momo Tea!" the blind girl correct. She earned herself another horrifying scowl.
"Well, until you have a believable excuse, I'm outta here!" Suki sauntered out of the shop with a huff of discontent.
"Yeah! And until you add some pink into your wardrobe you can say 'buh-bye' to me!" Furious, Ty Lee skipped off leaving separated from an 'awwww-ing' Cups of Comfort.
"At least, you didn't leave me Toph," Sokka sadly sighed. He was about to sling his arma round the little girl when he looked down to where Toph's head might be, but wasn't. Toph?"
"Until, you get me my own cup of comfort, consided yourself girl-less." Toph strolled out of the shop and in the direction of their apartment.
The waiter that had been fed up with him, appeared on Sokka's side flicking a tear off his face. "Better luck next time, buddy."
Immediantly, Sokka sent him and everyone else in the shop a death glare and walked outside and into the emptying streets.
He let out a depressing sigh and glared at the full moon that was shining beautifully tonight. "Such a pretty moon for a wrong turning, tea drinking, and hopeless night."
A/N: So how was it? I know I need to work on… well everything, but I worked real hard and I think I deserve some reviews. Please, please with yummy tea on top review.