Author's note: This story is in present time, so all of the characters are able to do anything that we are today, but this story does not involve them having bending abilities, I'm sorry… THIS IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY!

Katara walked down the eighth grade hallway of her middle school with Ai and Toph, the books that would not fit in her backpack painfully digging their edges into her left arm. She shifted the books to the right side hoping to relieve some of the strain. Ai and Toph did the same with all the books they carried.

"So are we still on for the football game tonight? Katara, I hear that Abbot is exposed to be playing tonight…" Toph said in a teasing manner. Katara blushed a little and smiled while looking towards the ground, thinking about the cute freshman trombone player she had met once when Toph and she had walked around Toph's neighborhood.

"Yeah, I can't wait! It's going to be so much fun," squealed Ai, snapping Katara out of her thoughts about Abbot.

"Heck yeah it will! It's the first high school game of the year! Everyone will be there! It'll be perfect for boy hunting!" Katara said in a joking tone.

The girls laughed. They stood in the hallway for a minute longer to talk when the bell rang, signaling for the next period to start.

That afternoon the three girls went to Toph's house to get ready for the game together. They gathered into the cramped bathroom and applied the makeup and face paint to one another's faces that would be necessary to show their school spirit.

"Toph?" Ai yelled from one of the four rooms that were on the second floor.

"What Hoe?!" Toph yelled back.

"How many fish do you have?"

"Two! Why? What'd you do? Eat one?"

"You sure you only have two?" Ai's voice now sounded a little worried.

"Yes….!" Katara and Toph looked at each other with raised eyebrows of suspicion and began to head up the stairs, Toph leading the way.

Walking around the corner at the top of the stairs, they spotted Ai starring into Toph's fish tank in her john deer green room, her butt facing them.

"What?" Toph said to Ai, who hadn't moved anything but her arm, waving for them to enter the room and come over to her. When the two girls had made their way over to the tank and were looking through the clear glass, their eyes became larger. Inside the tank were tons of tiny grey and clear dots swimming around.



"Do you… happen to have a male and a female?" Katara managed to ask, breaking the silence of surprise.

"I don't know…. I just bought them because I liked their colors" Toph responded.

"Did you notice the eggs?" Ai asked.

"No."

"How could you NOT notice hundreds of fish eggs in a small tank like this?!" Ai half laughed, half snorted as she moved to look up at Toph.

" It's not like I care about the fish. I barely remember to feed them. They are only surviving because I'm too lazy to clean the algae off of the plastic plant." Toph retorted back.

"Oh." Ai turned to face the tank again.

"So what are you going to do now that you have hundreds of little fish clogging up your tank?" Katara asked.

At the moment one of the two adult fish that had originally inhabited the tank shot through the water. The startled girls watched as the blue fish did this again. After a couple of times of watching this, Ai walked away, leaving the other two in the room.

Three minutes later she returned.

"That's the dad." She said, pointing to the blue fish darting back and forth.

"How do you know?" Katara asked.

"Internet. Looked up fish babies. It said that if you have fish babies, then you might want to get them out of the tank that the parents are also in."

"Why?"

"The dad will eat them."

"Oh"

"Well ok, let's go!" Toph said, walking out of the room.

"WHAT?!" the other two girls looked after Toph with astonished faces.

"I don't need any extra fish, and the blue fish has been looking skinny anyway." And with that Toph was out of the room and going down the stairs.

Katara and Ai looked at each other and hen the tank. Ai shrugged and Katara followed her as she walked out of the room.



Toph's mother honked the car horn five minutes later and the girls raced to the car.

"So, Katara…" Ai said.

"Yes?"

"How's life?"

"Oh, you know the same ole." Katara responded rolling her eyes and giggling.

"Ai let me see that picture of your brother and his ugly self!" Toph exclaimed

Ai searched through her purse until she was able to find the picture, which was contained in her pink, leather wallet. She handed the picture of a dark headed boy with a scar in a football outfit to Toph, who playfully snatched it out of her hand. She grabbed a pen out of her own purse and began to write something on the back of the picture with much concentration and her tongue sticking out the side of her mouth. With the click of her pen, she handed the picture back to Ai. Katara and Ai leaned over to read the words "ASS WIPE" written across the back of the football picture.

" And who is this a picture of again?" Katara asked curiously.

" Oh, my Brother, Zuko. He and Toph aren't always on the best of terms… Haha." Ai answered back, handing the picture to Katara.

"Haha." Katara took the picture and studied it. "He's not that bad looking, actually he's quite hot!"

"EWWW!" both girls squealed.

By this time they pulled into the high school. Toph's mother dropped them off and left, laughing at the conversation that she had just heard in the backseat. After that Zuko wasn't mentioned between the girls for the next couple of weeks, but he still stuck in Katara's memory.

Ok so I know that this chapter was like sooo short, but I kind of just remembered this and decided to put it into an ALTA story. Plz leave me comments and reviews I want all the help I can get, but plz no flames… thanks everyone…