Hey folks, this is a modern AU Kataang story. I really hope you like it. I have writen in one day so please don't be to harsh. Please review and tell me what I could make better. Of course you can also write what you like but pointing out the flaws would help me much more. If you want to and have time you could also check out 'Swords and Kingdoms' which is my Medieval AU Avatar TLA story.

Aang POV

„Aang?" I could hear someone say as my door was opened slowly behind me.

I was sitting in front of my desk, head in my hands and my elbows propped on the tabletop. I had my headphones on my ears, desperately trying to distract myself from the news my Uncle, Gyatso, had given me just a few minutes ago. It was all so frightening. I was sad, and angry but at the same time I also saw why it was a necessary sacrifice. After all, being here, in this house, would otherwise always remind me of them and I cannot go through this heartbreaking pain for my whole life. It would eat me up on the inside and I knew, all Gyatso tried to do was protect me from that. But I also didn't want to leave behind everything that I had here. My friends, my school, the house I grew up in for the majority of my still short life.

"Leave me alone" I replied. The confusion, anger and sadness clearly audible in my voice. I bit back a few sobs, tears silently flowing over my cheeks creating little puddles as they drop down from my face, landing on the nearest surface.

"Aang please turn around" Gyatso requested calm and reassuringly. Reluctantly I rotated my desk chair to look at him. Both mine and Gyatso's face were twisted from at the emotion crashing down on us, all at the same time. "I hope you know that all I am trying to do is, what is best for you" He said, stepping closer and resting his hand on my shoulder. "I know it is hard at first but you won't lose your friends completely. You still have all this new technology things that you can use to contact them and besides it's only an hour ride from here to our new town. I am sure they can come and visit at some weekends"

His words calmed me down a bit. He was right. We could still use Skype or Facebook to hold contact and one hour wasn't too far away. Was it?

"But" I choked back a sob "But what if one hour is too much." I asked "What if they never have time to come when I do. What if we grow apart." I sighed heavily trying to comfort the sadness in me. My gaze dropped to the ground as the tears started all over again. "I don't want to lose my friends Gyatso"

My uncle squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me "You won't" He said in his all-knowing wise man voice "I have seen how close you are. Bumi, Kuzon, On Ji and you have been best friends ever since you and your parents moved here 11 years ago. A bond this strong can't simply be destroyed by distance. Especially one this short." He released my shoulder and made his way towards the door of my room. He turned to me one more time "Also, you are and openminded, nice and funny young man Aang. I am sure you will find new friend at our new home." Then he stepped into the hallways, gently closing the door behind himself leaving me alone with my thought.

My mind trailed off to how it would be to go back to the town I lived in until the age of four. I surly must have changed a lot since I was last there. But even if not, I wouldn't be able to tell. I have hardly any memories left from that time. But why would I? I was far too young. But somehow, one incident on the day before we moved, was still burned into my mind so clearly. I could still remember every detail, even what I wore that day. And any time I remembered that moment, I made my stomach tingle and I had this weird feeling.

I got up from the chair and stripped down to my boxers to lay down in my bed. I closed my eyes and breathed a heavy sigh allowing the memories to wash over me.

"Please leave me alone" I heard a girlish shriek piercing the calm and warm midsummer afternoon in my neighborhood. It was definitely a voice I have never heard before. I was currently trying to go to the playground in the back of the small apartment building I lived in. The voice seemed to seemed to originate from exactly that direction.

"Ow, that hurts" I heard the person screaming and I picked up my pace and ran as fast as my small legs could go.

As I turned around the corner I could see a small girl at my age sitting in the sandbox crying desperately. He chocolate hair was covered in sand and so was her light blue dress. Her caramel face was covered in dark red spots. I looked slightly to the right of her to see who was giving the girl so much distress. On the other side of the sandbox sat the neighborhood bully Jet laughing at her with a shovel in his hand as he dug into the sand and throwing it at her.

I was too scared to do anything. I wanted to help the girl but Jet was a year older then me and far taller. Then Jet dropped the shovel looked towards something on the ground. He lips formed a malicious grin, the same one that he always put on when he had one of his planes to make someone's day the worst they ever had.

He reached down and picked that something that he had looked at up. I squinted my eyes together in order to see it better. I gasped as I saw what held in his hand. It was a very long earthworm that must have crawled out of its hiding spot underground. I held it up in front of his face smiling evilly at it. The girl started to scream hysterically as Jet came closer to her face with the worm and tried to feed it to her.

Without thinking I sprinted towards them, faster than I thought possible, and pushed Jet to the ground. Jet looked up at me, the anger evident in the look of his face. He jumped up and tried to push me down but I turned to the side and let him fall over my foot. He made contact with the ground face first. Angry and embarrassed he got up and walked away, his fist clenched so hard, that his knuckles turned white.

Once he was out of sight I released the breath I didn't realize I was holding and turned my attention to the girl. She was still sobbing and trying to catch her breath but she had stopped crying. I came closer to her "Are you ok?" I asked smiling. She clumsily wiped away the rest of the tears on her face and nodded.

She lifted her head and looked at me with her eyes, still puffy and red. But there was something about those eyes that made me lose myself in them as she stared at me with those deep sapphire blue orbs. It took me a few second to stop staring. I started to blink rapidly and I could feel the temperature in my face rising. Remembering that I had to introduce myself I stretched my hand out and smiled at her "I'm Aang".

She returned the smile and shook my hand "I'm Katara" she replied "Thanks for helping me. That guy was a real meanie" Her smile turned into a frown as she said that.

"Yes, Jet is a meanie. Mommy says I should always stay away from him" I replied smiling.

"Sweetie, would you please come in. Dinner is ready" we heard a woman shout after a few hours of playing in the sand, pushing each other on the swing or playing hide and go seek. The time had flown by faster than I could comprehend and it was already 5pm. I have never had as much fun as that day.

"That's my mommy" Katara told me after she got of the swing "I have to go now, do you want to come to me tomorrow and play?" she looked hopeful at me which made it even harder for me.

"Sorry but, my daddy got a new job and we are moving tomorrow" I said frowning. In a split second the smile on her face turned into a frown. Her eyes where filled with disappointment. In the few hours we knew each other we had already become really good friends and the fact that we only had this one day with each other made us both sad.

"Oh" she replied, a small tear appearing in the corner of her eye. "So ... goodbye then" she hugged me tight. When we parted again she gave me a kiss on the cheek and ran inside.

It was always a strange feeling remembering back to this day. Every other experience was only in pieces present in my mind but this event always plays through my head like a movie, every moment of it as clear in front of my inner eye as the day it happened. And the most detailed was the feeling that I got when I looked into her eyes. I had know idea what the feeling meant and it left me confused and it still confuses me. It was a warm and pleasant feeling that for a few moments robbed me of all my senses.

I turned to the window on the other side of my room and started at the clouds. "I wonder if she still lives there" I asked myself as I remembered that we were going to move into the exact same apartment building where I lived all those years ago. I took a more comfortable position and closed my eyes went to sleep, even though it was probably way to early.

Katara POV:

"Katara, sweetie, is something wrong?" The sound of her voice brought me out of my trance.

"Huh?" I looked up from my dinner plate to see my mom and dad watching me "Oh, hehe, no everything is alright" I replied. I didn't want them to worry about something that I didn't even know what it was. In the last month or so, one specific memory has started to come up in my head again and now it forced itself into my brain at every chance it got.

"Are you sure? You haven't even eaten a bite. If you want to talk about it, I could come into your room after dinner" My mom offered but I declined by shaking my head.

"No, it's just that I'm not hungry right now" I said as I stood up from the table "I will go to my room"

I sat down on the side of my bed, letting my mind drift off into the memories once more. This boy always popped up in my mind. More specific, his big stormy grey eyes that every time I remembered them, brought this strange warm and pleasant feeling in my stomach and let my face flush in a dark crimson tone. 'How he will be doing right now' I ask myself 'Has he changed?'. I remember how nice and sweet he was on that day and how brave he saved me from … Jet. 'Does he have a girlfriend?' I blushed at this though, not knowing where it had come from.

In a deep sigh I laid down on my bed and closed my eyes. The boys laughing was ringing in my ear as sleep slowly but surely took over.

I hope you liked this first chapter of the story. Reviews would be nice.