Arvore means tree in Portugese or something close to that I decided its a gonna be a girls name so there XP. The stuff in italics is her thoughts. Have fun review and reply. Constructive critism is welcomed just don't go overboard I have feelings. Have fun reading XD -waves- toodles.
Árvore looked back into her vanity. Black eyes who the heck in the family had black eyes? The Beifong side of the family usually had deep brown or green. Skin as pale as paper, shining black irises, and hair. I look like I popped out of a dark fairy tale she thought angrily.
"Ready yet." Arvore's mothers stood in the doorway. Toph's eyes had a milking covering to them like the glazing on a doughnut. "Just putting on eyeliner mother," Arvore said brushing the dark liquid into her eyelashes. "Come on, Arvore, were going to be late. Besides what does it matter what you look like." "Mother you're blind."
Arvore mused with her long dark hair a little more. "Mommy where did I get my black eyes from?" "Huh." Toph turned around startled. "What do you mean?" "No one in the Beifong family has black eyes. What about my dad?"
"Ave." Toph sighed. "I don't even know what color is." Arvore rolled her eyes. "I know that. But didn't he ever tell you his eye color possibly."
"Well explaining color wasn't something we really talked about." "What did you two talk about?" Arvore pried.
"Stuff."
Arvore rolled her eyes so descriptive. Wait…
"Mother, was I the prosperity of a one night stand?" Her mother snorted. "Not quite."
"Well that's a relief. Knowing you at least knew each other," Arvore stood up straightening her flowing black gown. She knew she'd feel out of place among all the shades green. "Come on Arvore, were going to be later than we already are." Arvore followed her mother out of room. "Since when are you so acute on on-time-ness. Its only the Earth King's New Years Eve party." Arvore smirked as she strolled ahead of her mother into the main hall. A long table with centerpieces overflowing with yellow flowers was covered in food. Servants were rushing around, a band was playing and people were dancing.
Avatar Aang sat beside his wife Katara. Toph whispered in Arvore's ear, "She's pregnant, again, don't say anything I don't think she knows yet." She smiled at her mother's powers of perception. Aang's eyes were a glowing shade of gray. Gray was only a lighter shade of black maybe…he and her mother had know each other since they were twelve. But the way he held his wife hand; Arvore knew Aang would never betray her and shook the thought from her head.
"How's the little Avie doing!" Sokka swooped her into an enormous hug. "Uncle Sokka, you're crushing me." Although Sokka was of now blood relation to her she still called him uncle. "Oh, sorry." His goofy grin made her laugh. "So how's Suki." Sokka's smile deflated. "She's back at Kyoshi Island." "Oh…another rough patch." Sokka rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah."
"Who knows maybe you'll make it to the altar one day." Arvore smiled trying to sound reassuring. Sokka shrugged. He was tall and his eyes were blue. Not to mention his skin didn't look like paper.
He smiled again. No Sokka is not my father. But then again, Arvore watched him stroll comely over to the table and sit next to her mother. Leaning in close to join the conversation. Then again…. but then again no family resemblance…but then again I definitely didn't get my height from my mother. Arvore stood almost a head taller than her mother.
Arvore had an empty feeling in the pit of her stomach. Suddenly the party didn't seem nearly as inviting. She immediately backed away and started heading down the hallway. She meandered around the next corner.
Her fingers brushed against the smooth marble walls as she walked. "Something bothering you?" A familiar voice perked up. "Hmm, I guess." Arvore swished slowly around leaning against the wall for support. "Anything I can help with?" he asked. "No, Fire Lord Zuko, I don't think so." He is tall too, and he has black hair. But then so do most people… The Fire Lord's golden irises fell short though. "Try me," he answered.
Arvore sighed, "its just I've never met anyone else with black eyes. And I'd like to know where I got them from family wise." Zuko nodded, " I see you'd like to know who your father is."
"Well yes. I've never met him. I don't even know his name. Mom never talks about him." Zuko sighs looking up to the intricate carvings covering the ceiling. "I guess your old enough to know now. A few years after the war sometime after Sokka and Suki got engaged for the first time Toph left on a 'world tour'. She said she was tired of all the "fancy dancy formal stuff" wanted to off fighting; earth bending tournaments. Anyway a year later she shows pregnant with you." Zuko shrugged, " Toph refused to tell anybody anything about what happened."
"Sounds like my mother stubborn as a rock." "Yeah and to think she was only seventeen, personally that's a story I'd like to hear its not like Toph just going to let anyone get with her," Mai grabbed Zuko by the arm. "Come on. The band is starting to pick up." Mai smiled malevolently as she dragged him along. "Besides we won't be able to dance anymore in a couple of months if what Toph says is true." Twins.
"WHAT did Toph say?" Mai laughed out loud. "Come on Zuko." She said as she pulled a little harder on her husband's arm.
Arvore turned the other direction. The restrooms were down this way. She could use that as an excuse to get away from the party for at least awhile longer. The shadowy hallway came to a dead nicely lit end. Grand open windows with swaying curtains covered the left wall. Two doors with apposing signs were on the right a floor-to-ceiling mirror surrounded by a gold encrusted frame smoothed out between them.
Arvore pressed her fingers to the glass. I look like an ink painting. All black and white no color at all. Her irises glared in the candlelight. "The only piece of me I can't explain away. The one piece you gave me." She muttered under her breath.
"You know if you put on a little blush it would totally wake up your face!" Ty Lee commented perkily beside her.
"You think so." Arvore answered absently.
"Totally! A bright peachy shade would make the world of difference. The guys would go completely nuts over you." Arvore nodded in half-hearted agreement getting a boyfriend wasn't exactly on her "to do list".
"Speaking of guys," Ty Lee stated, " I've got one waiting for me back at the dance floor-So Toodle Lu!" Ty Lee sashayed back toward the main hall.
Hadn't Ty Lee been all over the world?
"Ty Lee wait!"
"Huh?"
"Have you ever met anyone else with black eyes?" Ty Lee tapped her chin thinking. "Yeah a woman from the northern Earth Kingdom. Met her in some seedy tavern. Her name was Jun and she rode around a sher-shu. Why?"
Arvore shrugged, " just wondering."
chapter 2 is already in the works. Review and reply -love Opaul. (yes I love my readers) XP