Hey guys, this is a modern AU ATLA story. I don't want to spoil the plot but i will say that Long Feng, a character that we saw way to little of in the show in my opinion, is involved. The title makes more sense once the story progresses. There will also be some shiping in this so beware of that. The main ship should be obvious, it's the only ship where i can't stand even the thought of the characters being with someone else. It's Kataang for people who heaven't read 'Magic of the eyes' (cough shamless self advertising cough). The other ships will probably just be the canon ones (directly after the show and not the comics) but I do want to have someone for Toph so she doesn't have to be so lonely. And don't recommand Haru because in this one he is gay. Now enjoy and review.

Ages: Aang, Katara, Suki, Mai are 15; Sokka 16; Zuko 17 and Toph 14

"What's wrong?" Aang was sitting on his bed. He had his head in his hands. The nervousness was almost unbearable. He and his Dad, Gyatso, had just moved to a new town over the summer holidays and today was his first school day. His parents were divorced and he hadn't seen her since he was 7 years old.

"It's nothing really …. Just a little nervous" he murmured his voice was muffled by the palms of his hands. He looked at his dad and smiled weakly. The older man sat down next to him and placed a hand on Aang's shoulder.

"I know Middle school and freshman year have been hard for you" Gyatso pulled his son in a tight hug in an attempt to calm him down "But this is a new school, a new start, a new beginning. And if anyone tries to beat you up you just use the techniques I taught you" Aang pulled out of the hug and smiled. It wasn't his usual trademark goofy broad grin but it was definitely more than the weak attempt earlier "Now come on, breakfast is ready."

Aang nodded and got up to his feet and they left the room.

XxX

Knock. Knock. Knock.

"SOKKA, WAKE UP OR I'LL COME IN AND BEAT YOU AWAKE" She was furious. She hammered against the door for 5 minutes now and there was still no response. And again, no answer. Now she had enough.

Sokka immediately woke up as he heard his door slam against wall. He set up and puller his knees to his chest trying to protect himself from his sister wrath "I'm up, I'm up" he pleaded "calm down Katara"

"IF THIS HAPPENS ONE MORE TIME I WILL PUNCH YOU SO HARD IN THE BALLS, THEY WILL SHOOT OUT OF YOUR MOUTH"

"Ok, ok, I'm sorry" slowly got up as Katara started to walk back to the door.

"Get moving, breakfast is ready and we don't want to be late for the first school day." With that she left her brothers room leaving him to get dressed and ready for school.

Katara walked down the stair to see her father , Hakoda, sitting in his uniform eating some of the pancakes she made. "Good morning sweetie, those are some good pancakes" He smiled as he noticed her in the room "How did you sleep?"

"Thanks dad, I slept alright" she smiled back. She sat down in front of him and started to eat her pancakes herself when her brother came downstairs.

"Listen you two, I won't be coming home today, there is a lot of work at the station to be done" Hakoda announced leaving his kids frowning.

"No dad, we almost never see you anymore" Sokka said sadly.

"Yeah, it like you aren't even here ever since …" Katara trailed of not finishing her sentence but both her father and her brother knew what she was referring to.

"I know it's hard but there were some leads lately and the police needs it's chief." Hakoda explained and hugged both of his kids "I'm sorry. I wish I could spend more time with you" he released them and smiled weakly "Now, of to school you two" The nodded and grabbed their stuff.

XxX

"Thanks for the ride dad. Have a good day at work" Aang said as Aang slammed the car door shut and he sped off. Aang was standing right in front of the building. Students were already streaming in. Aang closed his eyes and took a deep breath and entered the school.

The hallway was filled to the brim students, what Aang assumed to be teachers and some freshman's moms. Aang looked at the piece of paper that came with the mail a few days back. It had just some directions and the room number for the principles office. Aang wasn't sure why they didn't just send him his schedule but he guessed that the principal just wanted to meet every new student personally.

He couldn't quite make anything out of the directions and decided to just ask someone. He looked around to find some people that looked likeable to him. His gaze landed on a group of two. A tall girl with light skin. She wore a green tank top with a big golden fan printed on it. Her hair was only about shoulder length and of an auburn color. The other one was a guy. He had dark brown hair and dark skin. He was even taller than the girl - about as tall as Aang, maybe even a bit taller - and pretty muscular - so he was probably in a sports team like basketball or rather football. His hair was in a short ponytail. From the looks of it they were probably boyfriend and girlfriend.

Aang walked up to them tapped the boy on the shoulder to get his attention "Huh?" the boy turned around and looked at Aang "What's up? Do I know you?" Aang was a little sacred that the boy would get angry but he seemed calm, a little confused if anything but he didn't look like he would try to beat Aang up.

"Uh, no, uhm, I'm new and I am kind of lost." Aang answered a little nervously "Could you tell me where the principals office is?"

"Sure" the girl said "You just go downstairs one floor and the go down the hall to the 10th door on the right." She explained smiling and looking him up and down as if she was checking him out. It was a bit strange to but Aang nodded and smiled.

"Thanks, have a nice day" Aang said and turned around to go to the principals office.

XxX

"Hey Suki, Sokka" Katara waved when she came back from the bathroom to Suki's locker. Suki was smiling at her. Something about her look made Katara kind of suspicious and Sokka looked as if he had the same feeling.

"Hey Katara." Sokka and Suki walked over to here meeting her half way "So did you accept Jet's offer to go out with him?" Suki asked.

Katara cocked her eyebrows at her not really knowing how she came to that topic "No, why would I?" Katara asked "He's a Jerk and a bully" she explained "And you know that."

"Ok, because I think Sokka and I just met the perfect guy for you" Suki smiled broadly. She looked like she was already planning something. Something big. Something that could turn out to be either something really, really great, or really, really horrible.

Sokka just looked flabbergasted "We have only talked about 10 seconds to this guy and you already think about getting him together with my baby sister?"

"What guy. Guys, some context would be really nice" the bronze skinned girl looked frustrated. She pushed her hands to her hips.

"While you were on the toilet, some new guy walked up to us and asked us for direction to the principles office" Sokka explained his slightly annoyed sister.

"And if I know you in any way - which I think I do" Suki continued smiling "I think this guy is right what you need. You really are attracting a lot of jerks around here. I mean Jet, Hahn even Hide was totally into you before he more or less, rather more than less, forced On Ji into a relationship. But this guy seemed to be the complete opposite. He really seemed like a nice person. More of the shy sort though. You know, one of those guys who seem really weird when you first meet them but are actually really nice and funny when you get to know them better."

"Aha, ok. If you say so. Lets just go to class" Katara told her excited friend and they left Sokka who was leaving in the other direction to find his own class.

XxX

After a few minutes Aang was standing in front a door that had the room number on the piece of paper he had on it and silver magnetic letters that said Principal Pathik on them. Aang knocked at the door slightly hesitantly.

"Come in" came a kind sounding voice from behind the door. As Aang opened the door there was an old balding dark-skinned man with think glasses sitting on his nose reading some sort of paper. His face was happy, kind and healthy but his body looked sickly skinny. The man looked up from his paper as soon Aang shut the door. "Hello" he smiled at Aang "How can I help you."

"Uhm, my name is Aang Biao and I'm a new student here" Aang introduced himself nervously "I just wanted to get my schedule and whatever else I need"

"Ah, I see" The man nodded "Well then, welcome to Empedokles High. My name is Principle Pathik, but you can call me just Pathik." The man said. He pulled some sheets out of the drawers in his desk. He laid them down on the desk in front of Aang. "Here are your schedule and some forms for your dad to sign. You know, just the usual legal stuff" Pathik laughed a little bit "Your first period will be World History with Professor Zei. If you have questions you can always come to me or other students." Aang took the sheets and nodded.

He stood up and turned to the door, believing that the principal has finished "Before you go" The principal stopped Aang and he turned to the principal again "I would like to talk to your father tomorrow. Could you tell him to come in at 10 A.M.?"

"Ahm … sure" Aang nodded and then left the room.

XxX

"Why do you always do that" Katara asked Suki as they sat in their first period , world history. Their teacher was so absorbed by the history of the ancient cultures in the middle east they were currently talking about in class - something about Babylon, Persia, ancient Greeks and Jews, probably something about Alexander the great - that he didn't even notice that most of the class wasn't even really paying attention.

"Do what?" Suki wasn't really sure what her friend was referring too. She looked at Katara cocking an eyebrow.

"You know what I'm talking about" Suki just shook her head "I'm mean, that you are always trying to set me up with guys" Katara said kind of annoyed "First Haru, then this one guy who foams out of his mouth whenever he sees me, which is really creepy, and even Zuko. Why would you even try setting me up with Zuko. We wouldn't even remotely work together, we would just argue all the time and also, he is my cousin for christs sake. And now you try to get me together with some guy you yourself haven't even talked about for more than 10 seconds"

"Ok, I'm sorry, Haru I thought because he is cute and I didn't know he is gay, foamy was more of a joke, and for Zuko, I don't exactly know what was going on with me there, I must have been drunk and i didn't know he was your cousin, but the fact is that you really need a boyfriend. I just though the new guy could be a good idea because you don't have any form of history with him and you can just establish this thing from the beginning. It was just a suggestion. I don't force you to actually start dating this guy" her friend defended herself.

"Ok, I forgive you" Katara huffed "But you really need to stop this because it's starting to get annoying. If I feel the need for a boyfriend, I am perfectly capable to find one for myself"

"I don't know about that" Suki thought about her own situation last year "I did think so too before I met Sokka and now I can't even imagine what life for me would be without him."

"A life with way more sleep for me" Katara interrupted her friend with a smirk causing Sukis face to become as red as a tomatoe.

"Anyway" Suki continued "Just try and talk to this guy and see what happens. He looked like he was a Sophomore too so we might have some classes together with him. If you do and he turns out to be a real jerk I'll shut my mouth about you getting a boyfriend for ever, deal"

Katara groaned in annoyance "Deal"

XxX

Aang left Pathik's office and looked at his schedule. The room for World History was 167 so he was already on the correct floor. All he had to do is the right door. He started to walk down the hall when someone turned him around forcefully. There was a guy standing in front of him now. He had dirty looking light brown hair and a smug smile on his face and he was slightly taller than Aang "Hey, new kid" the guy said in his raspy voice "I'm here to teach you a little bit about the hierarchy in this school. If you ever standing in the way of me and my Gang, there will be punishment". Aang's arms and legs were suddenly grabbed from some people from behind "And you you'll get some foreshadowing of what's going to happen if you try to piss us off"

Aang was lifted and stuffed in one of the large lockers and the door of it was closed so that he couldn't open it from the inside anymore. He banged against the door and screamed but this area of the school was pretty secluded and it was in the middle of the first period already so there was no chance of anybody hearing him.

XxX

Katara just came out of the library. School was already over for an hour but she decided to look at some of the new books the school got over the holidays. She had told her brother that she would take a later bus and told him to go ahead and he went with Suki to watch a movie.

She walked down the hall towards the exit when she heard some strange noise coming from the hallway that went off a different direction, away from the exit.

She stopped to cut the noise of her footsteps off to hear better and indeed, there was a noise coming from the hall. It didn't sound threatening. More like something breathing sharply. She concentrated more to figure out what the noise was. It seemed that someone was sobbing.

Concerned she turned to the hallway following her ears as she came to a stop in front of a locker. The sobs seemed to originate from the inside.

She noticed how the locker was closed. There was a piece of metal pulled though the hole where students usually put there locks on so who ever was sobbing couldn't get out. It just reeked after something Jet had done. She pulled the little metal peace out and opened the door.

Inside was a boy her age, probably a sophomore too, who she had never seen. He was skinny but not to much and had dark brown, almost black, hair. He looked up at her, with stormy grey eyes. The only thing that didn't let her fall into a trance by looking at his eyes, was the fact, that they were puffy and red. He had obviously been crying after being in there. But even still he was kind of cute.

"How long have you been in there" Katara asked after she helped the boy up. She noticed that he was a lot taller than her, probably about Sokka's height. The top of her head barely came to his chin.

"Since the first period" the boy answered calming down a little bit now that he was freed from his prison. The tears have already stopped and his breath, though still a bit shaky, started to even out. "What's the time?"

"It's about 4 P.M, so you have been in there the whole day"

The boys eyes widened and he gasped "Oh god, I have to get home fast. Dad must be so worried right now"

"Yeah, you should do that" Katara agreed "But why haven't I seen you around before are you new here?" The kid nodded "Ah, ok, so what's your name?"

"I'm Aang" he answered "What's yours?"

"My name's Katara, nice to meet you" she pulled a piece of paper and a pen out of her bag and wrote something on them "Here, my phone number. If you need some help getting around just let me know" She smiled reassuringly at Aang. He smiled back a little and then then they went home.