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Aang's dorm room.
7:40 PM.
"I still don't see what the big deal is."
"You don't...really?"
"No i don't," Sokka said with a exicted smile plastered on his face. "now get ready your date is in 20 minutes."
"WHAT! Sokka you can't just barge in here saying i have a date with some girl i've never met!"
"I can and i just did, and now it's 19 minutes."
"Jesus christ!"
'I guess i'm going on a date!' Aang thought as he quickly ran to put on something more appropriate than orange boxers and a ember island players t-shirt with kechup stains on it.
As he tore thourgh his closet, sokka who was now sipping the last of his drink, calmly walked in Aang's room and sat at the side of his bed.
"I think you should wear green tonight." He said nonchalantly as places his now empty drink on Aang's nightstand.
"Why are you just springing this on me?" The nervous collage senior said as get's into his plain blue jeans.
"Two reasons my friend," Sokka sprang from the bed, now holding two fingers in his best friends face. "One, you wouldn't have agreed to the date if didn't. And two, you haven't done anything fun since..."
"My breakup."
"I was going to say total devastating heartbreak that left you depressed for months, but yeah let's go with that."
Aang only stared at him with slight annoyance on his face as sokka walked passed him and started going thourgh Aang's wardrobe as well. But he new that sokka was right, ever since his breakup with his girlfriend of two years Aang had been devastated. Hell, even before sokka came barging in his dorm, Aang was just eating two crackers with some kechup in between them while re-watching old episodes of the a-team, so even he knew that it may be time to bounce back. But still...
"It's just...19 minutes?"
"Now it's 16."
"Can you at least tell me who this girl is? Whats her name? Whats she like? What college does she go to? Has she ever been arrested? has she ever been marri..."
Aang was inturupted when sokka slapped him across the face.
Blinking and rubbing his cheek with his hand, Aang took a deep breath. "Thank you" He said quietly.
Sokka took a breath himself and placed his hands on Aang's shoulders.
"Aang you used to be the most adventurous person i'd ever known, every dare you would take, every random guy you passed on the street who was wearing a t-shirt of your favorite band you become friends with. For god's sake, you conviced us to go travel the world together! That was the best summer of my life! Don't tell suki that." Sokka quickly added. "And ever since you got here you've barely left your dorm for anything that's not classes or hanging out with me! You know what i want for you tonight? I want you to forget the past 6 months, meet this girl and be adventurous! I know it's been hard, trust me i've been there. but tonight, just tonight, anything can happen!"
Aang did not try to hind the shock from his face, not only was he toched by sokka's words, he was also surprisied that there was not one joke in his monologue.
"Yeah, okay i will." Aang smiled for the first time in what felt like ages.
"Great, now put this on," sokka handed him a normal green t-shirt. "your date is in 14 minutes."
"Oh my god!"
Aang quickly ran to brush his teeth, come his short black hair and put on his favorite orange and blue jacket.
"Goodbye sokka, thanks for everything." Aang gave him a quick smile and sprinted out of the door.
Sokka then laughed to himself, walked over to Aang's couch, sat down and began counting down.
3...2...1.
Aang then burst thourgh the door he just left.
"Um, sokka what's her name, what does she look like and were i'm i meeting her?"
Sokka gave a small chuckle. "Her name is toph, she's a little shorter than you with black hair, and your meeting at the jasmine dragon."
"Alright, then..." Aang was in the middle of thanking his best friend when he noticed something he didn't before. 'Somehow' he thought.
"Aang why are you looking at me like that?"
"Why are you wearing a tux?"
'Damm, i was hoping he wouldn't notice' Sokka thought as he loosened his bowtie.
"Oh, no reason." Sokka eyes shifted side from side.
"Why would..."
"11 minutes."
And with that, Aang was out of the door again.
Toph's appartment.
7:30 pm.
"Suki," Toph pinched the bridge of her nose, hanging her head low. "if you're telling the truth i'm going to punch you in the neck."
Suki's bright smile only diminished slightly when she realized that her friend probably wasn't joking.
"I'm not," The brown haired girl got ready to dodge any punch's toph might throw her way. "and it's in 30 minutes."
Toph stood there and looked her friend in the eyes. I guess i should have seen this comeing. She thought, releasing a breath she didn't know she was holding. Suki was known as 'the town machmaker', in fact, three of the couples she had set up had already gotten married and two are engaged. Toph had to admitte that the girl was talented, the couples she had met did seem really good together. But suki setting HER up with someone? Not gonna happen...
"Not gonna happen." She repeted out loud.
"Toph i know you haven't seen anyone sense..."
"For the last time," Toph sharply interrupted. "We weren't dating. We we're freinds and we're still freinds, we just haven't talked in a little while."
"My point is that you're young toph! And you can't spend your youth alone! Besides...i think this guy is prefect for you."
Toph scoffed. "I doubt that, tell me one reason i would like this guy."
Suki gave her a confident smile, she knew exactly how to answer that question. "Well..."
7:51 pm.
"Did you get him to go?" Suki asked her boyfriend over the phone in a more worried tone than normal, she really wanted everthing to go according to plan.
"Yeah he just left, what about toph?"
"She left 10 minutes age." She sighed in relief.
"Good...Suki? You sure this is a good idea? From what little you've told me about her it doesn't sound like they have a lot in common."
"Trust me sokka, they have enough in common." Suki's bright smile returned. "Besides, what could go wrong?"
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"Did you really just say that?"
