This is my first fanfic and the fourth time I've rewritten the first chapter. I do not own avatar Enjoy!

Winter Storms Chapter 1

"Toph, just to let you know, that guy over there has been staring at you for quite some time,"

"I don't really care sugar queen, and why do I need to know that?"

"Well Toph I think it's time you get a boyfriend,"

"Noo, I don't need one and I don't want one. Remember the last two boyfriends I had, they didn't really turn out pleasant."

"I know but Suki set you up with those guys, maybe if you talk to this one you will be able to find out if he's a good person, and would know if he lies at any point."

Katara made a strong point, but I still remember the last two boyfriends I've had. They weren't really the sensitive boring type, but they weren't really that respectful either.

It's been two years after the war; we now live close to the Fire Nation palace. Zuko wasn't able to grant us a good house, so what we got instead was a diminutive house close to 62 years of age. The house was shared between: I, Katara, Sokka and Aang and it was always cramped.

If you're wondering why Suki set me up with two guys that I ended up throwing boulders at, this is what happened.

Six months ago Suki was visiting our house which made the place more cramped then ever. It wasn't paradise havening her home, yet I guess I got on her nerves a lot. So her resolution to end my annoyances was to set me up with a guy she knew, his name was Ohev, he was alright at the beginning… I guess. Until he saw that most of the time I'm covered in dirt.

However despite my dirty ways Ohev still told me that I was pretty and I knew he was lying; it actually hurt my feelings when he did it. But he then asked if I thought he was good looking, that's when I had to reveal to him I was blind… The relationship only lasted three days after that, his attitude towards me completely changed after he found out I was blind.

So I ended up throwing boulders at him when he insulted me. Then I got home asked Suki to come outside for a moment, she came outside towards me, down to the yard and I threw a boulder at her too.

But three months after my five day relationship with Ohev, Suki set me up with another guy. One week later I sent a boulder down his throat.

"I still don't want to talk to him sugar,"

"Oh come on Toph, this guy is cute, he is quite muscular and I remember you telling me a week ago that you like muscle in guys for their physical appearances."

I felt that my cheeks warm up when she said that. I do like muscle on men but that doesn't mean I instantly like them, the second guy Suki set me up with had some muscle but I still ended up sending rocks down his throat.

"That still doesn't mean he won't trash me on my blindness like everyone does"

"Come on Toph you're fourteen, not everyone thinks you're a defenseless little girl anymore"

I still wanted to hold my ground in this little argument with Katara however if this guy lies and is a jerk about my blindness it would be fun the shove rocks up his butt, so the next thing I said was…

"Ok Katara let's have it your way, which person is staring at me?"

"Ohh good stuff, I'm glad you're going to talk to him. He's sitting at the café beside the fountain, He is with another guy but he is the one with the coffee cup the other guy isn't drinking anything."

"Ok Katara I will go talk to him but if he's an asshole that means you need to do whatever I ask you to."

Katara then said with a sarcastic tone "Fine with me. What's the worse can Mellon lord can do?"

I stood up preparing myself to meet this person and before I walked to go to the café I turned back to Katara, "Mellon lord doesn't spare forgiveness." With saying that in a playful tone I turned my head around and started walking towards the café. As I was walking away I could feel Sokka's weight slowly heading toward Katara.

After maybe twenty seconds of walking I arrived at the café, scanned the area and I sat down beside the two people Katara described to me, Two young adults, one with a mug and one with nothing in his hands, however they didn't appear to be friends, they seemed to be ignoring each other.

I went to the worker at the café and asked in a commanding tone "Can I get a coffee here?"

"Of course lovely lady, it will take only a minute!" He walked inside the kitchen of the café. I won't lie; it felt good that someone called me a "lovely lady". However I had to see if this guy that has been staring at me would say the same thing.

I then greeted the older boy in a very high pitched welcoming tone, I said in the most awkward way anybody could possibly say,

"Hello!"

The boy turned his head at me; I could feel his smile form across his face. "Hi there, how it goes today?"

The words that came out of his mouth made me laugh so hard, his voice sounded incredibly deep; he spoke as if he just started learning how to talk.

He immediately seemed puzzled of me and asked "What is funny?" I started to laugh even more but I said, I controlled myself and tried to find out why he was talking this way.

"'How it goes?????' you mean 'How's it going'"

"Um yeah, I suppose"

"Well, why do you speak like you don't know how to talk?" That time I smiled and decided to give him a chance to get comfortable with me and explain himself.

"Well, like you say I start to learn English six years in the past,"

What he said confused me; the only thing in the world we spoke was English. So how could anyone not know how to speak it? If you didn't know how to speak English that basically meant that you can't talk at all! It came across my mind that he might be lying, or putting on an act, but judging by his heart beats, every word he said to me was true.

"That makes no sense; English is the only language in the world"

"Yes I know, but from where I come from, the language I grew up with was different"

"How could it be different? Again, English is the only thing we speak in the world."

"Well for me, we grew up with something different."

I could tell this guy was hiding something from me, I just knew it because of my experience with people and all.

"Okay so… where were you born?"

This guy didn't seem enthused about answering this question either, his gentle smile he put up for me at the beginning turned into an annoyed sign of frustration, so I didn't see any need in carrying on the subject.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell me, I-"He interrupted me and softly spoke

"No its okay, I not angry. The language we speak is French"

So many questions came to mind after he said that, the biggest one being 'Where the hell do people speak French?'

The server came with my coffee and put it down on the table then I gave him one silver piece and he walked off to other customers. This boy I was talking with wasn't a muscular person like Katara told me, I could sense that he was thin and tall but he was heavy on the stool he was sitting on so he probably was a little muscular. He was staring at me and spoke up again.

"Let us forget about my French, it doesn't matter anyways, we should talk about something else"

He seemed desperate to change the subject but I was still curious about his French. So I didn't let him go easy.

"No you have to tell me where you live. You've been staring at me since I arrived here at the market so you owe me an explanation and-" He cut me off and interrupted,

"I have not been staring at you, I just got here five minute ago and you came sat beside me and started talking." I was confused when he said that because again, he didn't lie at all.

"My friend Katara told me that you have been staring me since I arrived at the market."

"It is not true and if you want to know more about the French language, I was born in a great nation that we call France, but France is not on this planet."

This was quite interesting many, MANY questions began to roll through my head, he wasn't lying to me at all, I could sense that he seemed irritated but I just wanted to know him better, he was very interesting. I had a lot of questions about France and his 'world' but I decided to drop it and ask something else. I guess it's kind of private for him.

"Okay then, sooooooo what's your name?" I asked in a awkward way,

"My name is Ethan Lemieux what's yours?"

"I'm Toph Bei Fong"

I was slightly giggling when I revealed my name. I don't know why or how but I got that smile back on his face and he began to think about something,

"Toph, do you want to learn how to say 'My name is Ethan' in French?"

Ethan's offer was strange, yet I was curious what the French language sounded like,

"Uh, Sure Ethan how would you say that in French?"

"Ok… in French we say 'Je m'appelle Ethan Lemieux. Did you catch any of that?"

I couldn't help but blush when he said that, it was sort of… cute… but I wasn't going to tell anyone, I still got a reputation to keep I've never admitted that anything was cute.

"No, I didn't catch a word other than Ethan, you said that so fast"

"Well Toph 'Je m'appelle' means 'my name is'… do you think you can say that?"

"Uhh let's see, 'ja mapel'???? That's wrong isn't it? I'm not going to try again."

I made Ethan laugh before he took a sip of his coffee and making him laugh pleased me in a way. He then looked up at me and asked, "Why do you stare in one spot a lot?"

This is the question that I really hate; I knew it was coming eventually so I then explained to Ethan how I felt about my blindness.

"Well since you asked… I'm blind, but that means I don't want your pity, I can still 'see', with my feet through earth bending, I use the vibrations to sort of 'map out the area' so I can actually sense people from far away distances because of their weight and the way they walk. Also, if you think I'm a defenseless little girl I will shove a rock down your throat if you say anything bad, don't think you can take me on, I could beat you or anyone up any day!"

I was fearful that his attitude towards me would change, but all he did after I said that was laugh; I couldn't tell if he was laughing AT me or at the rock part.

"Okay, it makes sense now, I'm not laughing at your blindness just at what you said about my throat, and you appear to be a violent girl…"

Those words made me giggle and relieved because those three words would probably be a perfect description of me, 'a violent girl' but he carried on after that.

"No Toph, I don't pity you, your body language makes you look like a very proud independent girl. You appear to have lot's of confidence and I would never think of you as a defenseless girl. When you first sat down I thought you were independent and have strong will."

I was very surprised what he said about me because he is the first person I have EVER met other than Iroh that recognized that I actually am independent, even Aang, Sokka and Katara thought of me as a defenseless little girl when they first met me until they saw me compete at the Earth Bending competition. Also, once again every word Ethan said was the truth, not telling me what I wanted to hear, he actually meant it. All I could say to him was,

"Well… thank you Ethan."

"Pas du problem!"

I giggled then asked him "What does that mean?"

"It means 'no problem'"

Again I won't lie, it was VERY cute when he spoke French, and I still won't tell Katara or anyone, I still need to keep my reputation of my rough exterior intact.

I later noticed I haven't taken a sip of my coffee and chugged it down my throat before it would get cold.

Ethan said in a nice tone "Easy on the coffee"

"I just don't want it to get cold Ethan, or else it tastes really bad."

"True," Ethan's head turned from me and looked at something on the wall, "Shit, it's almost four o'clock I got to go to work, nice talking to you Toph"

"Yeah…"

Ethan got up from the stool and said "Au revoir Toph" I assumed that meant good bye then he said something else,

"And thanks for… not laughing on my accent or English, it means a lot to me. You are the nicest person I've talked with this week."

I was somewhat surprised when he told me that, but I still wanted to thank HIM for something,

"Your welcome Ethan and thank you for what you said about my blindness, believe it or not, you are the second person that's recognized me that way"

Ethan looked a little surprised when I said that, "It's nothing Toph, that's my opinion of you, that's all"

"Well… thanks once again"

"No problem Toph, see you another time" Ethan walked quickly out of the market; I could tell he was in a rush to get to work.

I was still thinking about what he was saying. He said France is where he was born. He grew up with the French language and he lived on a different planet. I had no idea where this other planet is or even how he came to our world but I know one thing for sure… every word he told me was one-hundred percent the truth.

I stood up from my stool, turned around and started to walk back to Katara and Sokka. I am not intending to tell Katara that I actually enjoyed talking to Ethan; I can still get whatever I want from Katara if I said he was an asshole. As I was coming closer to Katara and Sokka I attracted both of their attentions.

I reached them and Katara immediately said.

"Toph… you are a real genius, I told you to sit with the other guy. You went and sat with the wrong guy and you ended up sitting with the fellow that talks weird, or sounds like he has no education…"

And it all made sense to me, how Ethan said he wasn't staring at me, but Katara said he was and they were both telling the truth. However I didn't like that she said that Ethan talked weird, I felt like exploding at her actually. I still didn't want to tell her I had fun talking with him.

To be continued…

Well that's chapter 1, this is the FOURTH time I've rewritten the first chapter, and criticize anything you didn't like. And I will get into Ethan's personality later on and explain the planet issues, don't worry it will all make sense later on… AU PROCHAIN FOIS!!!