A/N: More at the end of the story, but I thought I'd say a few words to start off. If you ship Kataang, don't get too comfortable. While the first lot of chapters are Kataang, it won't last. On the flip side, if you don't ship Kataang, don't skip the Kataang chapters. They are crucial just as well as everything is. The story is a lot more central to Aang than it is to his exterior relationships, but the Kataang and the other later ships are important too. More at the end...

Aang walked into his first period class.

Aang is 16 years old. He spends a lot of time playing soccer, running track, and other sporty stuff. He is a junior this year in high school. His first period class is an art class that he takes every year.

Taking a seat, he looked around and sighed when he saw his friend Katara come in and sit beside him.

Aang and Katara had spent a lot of the summer together and had added greatly to their friendship that had been developing over the last few years. They did things like eat at the local Italian restaurant, kick a ball around at the local park, and enroll in summer stained glass classes together.

"Gosh, I'm so excited to use some of the stuff we learned from over the summer," said Aang.

"I know," Katara replied.

Their teacher, Roku, soon entered the room. He was getting really old for his job and soon he'd probably be retiring. At least, that was the general consensus around the classroom.

Moving on through the day, Aang and Katara met up with Sokka at lunch.

Aang and Sokka had met playing soccer and subsequently, Aang was introduced to his twin sister Katara at some game or practice or something. Sokka was always kind of suspicious about the two. He thought they were spending too much time together and enjoying each other's company a little too much to be just friends.

"So, this cafeteria food? Not doing it for me," Sokka complained.

"But Sokka, you just don't like it because there is no meat."

"Hey, that is a perfectly decent reason not to like it."

"But Sokka," Aang tried to reason, "The cafeteria always has something with meat."

"Yeah, but today it was smothered with nasty corn and potatoes."

Katara simply laid her head on the desk and waited for the day to end. Neither she nor Aang had anything to look forward to that year since they were only juniors. All they had to look forward to was for summer to come again.

After school, Katara waited for Aang and Sokka after soccer practice. She was used to them being away at practice, but now she had to get used to the wait after school. Looking around, she only saw a few stray freshmen that were waiting for late-working parents. Other than that, it was just the couples that were too distracted by each other to realize they didn't have to be at school.

She accidentally let her eyes linger too long and one of the couples caught her staring.

"Enjoying the show?" asked Haru. Katara had known Haru from elementary school, but she never really cared for him.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about something."

"You mean that artsy-fartsy soccer player you hang out with all the time?"

Katara was aghast. "How dare you insult Aang like that!"

"Aang? I was talking about your brother. Oh, I see...you got something going for the twerp don't you?"

"No I don't!" Katara defended herself.

"Ok, we'll see..." Haru said, grabbing his girlfriend Jin and walking out to his car.

Katara slumped back down and waited for soccer practice to finally be over.

Suddenly, she heard her phone vibrate in her purse. Taking it out, she read the following text:

"Sorry about that.

~Jin"

Katara sighed in relief. Jin had always been one of her friends. She was kind of upset when she started dating Haru, but her random texts reassured her that everything was mostly solid between them.

How much of a jerk was Haru though? First he insulted her for hanging out with Aang all the time and then...

"Oh wait, he was talking about Sokka that time wasn't he? Hmm, do I really hang out with Aang that mu-"

Her phone vibrated again. She shot a glance and saw that it was from Aang:

"Done. Ready to go to La Casa.

~Aang-y"

Katara rolled her eyes at his signature. Some stupid freshman Koko in his 3rd period class grabbed his phone and changed it because she thought he was cute.

Catching up to the guys, Katara told Aang, "You really need to change your signature."

"Why's that?"

"Because stupid girls like Koko will just keep getting more and more annoying unless you nip it in the bud."

Aang and Sokka stared at each other.

"You don't even know Koko," said Sokka, "How do you know she's stupid or annoying like that? Maybe she just really likes Aang in a normal, non-obsessive way."

"Trust me Sokka, that's the only way freshman love comes, abnormal, and crazy-obsessive. Especially if it's an older guy they think they actually have a shot at."

"OK Katara. Since you're so concerned for my well-being, I'll change it."

At home that night, Katara was about to go to bed but she couldn't stop thinking about everything that happened after school. Why was she so defensive about how much she hung out with Aang? And why couldn't she stop thinking about him?

She grabbed her phone checking for last-minute texts before bed. Before she closed her phone she received one more from Aang:

"Nighty-night.

~AWWWWWWWWWWWW...AANGY-KINS!!"

Katara giggled and shut her phone as she rolled over into sleep.

A/N: I hope you guys enjoyed. Hopefully, you get a sense for my writing style. Again, I really hope I don't lose readers to the shipping. You might be surprised who shows up. Hopefully, you've already noticed gaping holes in the character list and trust me, they will be filled...eventually.

I should also say this. There are certain situations and relationships that stem from my real life experiences. I won't be specific, but I will say that Aang's relationship with one character in particular would seem like a carbon copy to those who know me in real life. I'm not doing this to glorify my own life, I'm simply testing out different methods of writing fiction to see how interesting my own personal experiences and trials can make a fictional story.

Unfortunately, there won't be too much focus on shipping outside of Aang. I already have in mind to ship Sukka, but that is a long while coming. As for other popular ships like Zutara, I just don't know. Truthfully, I'm not even sure where Zuko or the rest of the FN gang will fit at this point.

Oh, and since certain situations stem from real life, I have to start the story in August of 2007 (my junior year) so I can fully relay the Aang and Toph relationship which is really the bulk of this entire story.

Any other important information will be forthcoming in future chapters.