Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Avatar, not even the characters

- (gasp!)

- I know. Sad isn't it?

(P.S. Toph can see! YAY!!)

Read on…

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Aang

I ran at the speed of lightning back to my house where I had some very angry guests waiting.

"Did you get it?" said one of the voices that attacked me as soon as I had closed the door. "How'd it go?" Jory asked eagerly.

"The camera was shocking me all the way home. I think it short-circuited. Sorry, but that's gonna cost you like 200 dollars."

"Whatever! But did you get the footage you promised me?"

"One: I never promised; you threatened. Two: everything got deleted from the video camera in my shirt pocket. Three: I told you that'd I'd need an umbrella."

Jory, the captain of the football team at our school, had wanted to get some revenge on Toph because she refused him a date. I couldn't help but to think what a sore loser this guy was. But when he cornered me at my locker with all his other steroid buddies I was back to being cowardly Aang. They threatened to stuff me in my locker for the rest of the year unless I helped them get some footage of Toph doing something (what that something was, I will never know).

I was glad that they were both too stupid to know that I was lying to them. I had never even wanted to do this in the first place. After the past week of following Toph around, I got sort of tired of it. She never did anything interesting and was always by herself. Suddenly, I was glad I lived in a run-down house with rickety windows; that way, no one knew that behind the paint peeling walls I held the latest technology.

A friend of my "dad's" got me started in technology when he first showed me his home-made blender. The blender was a disaster; it had actually caught on fire while we were making a smoothie. But it opened my mind to all the possibilities. Jory, being the know-it-all-on-the-school population, had decided to use me for his own selfish purposes.

In truth, I deleted the footage. After what Toph had pulled (and I'm not talking about my pant loops) I just realized that I couldn't do that to her, even if she was teasing me. No matter how pathetic I know I sounded, I couldn't help but wish that she'd do it again. Seriously, how much more pathetic can you get?

On some level, I could understand why Jory was obsessed with getting revenge. He was the coolest guy in school and he had gotten rejected by the most beautiful girl ever to live in a hundred years. What guy wouldn't want to start on some ego repairing after that kind of rejection?

"So you don't have the footage?"

"Look, I tried to salvage it but when it short circuited it fried the recordings."

He threw the sizzling camera against my wall. "Dammit! Now how am I supposed to get revenge on her?!" he yelled to his companions.

Why doesn't he just try embarrassing her himself and catch it on tape to show to everybody?

He pointed a meaty finger at me. "Good point nerd. Good point. Just for that idea, I think I'll stop stuffing you inside your locker. Thanks man," he patted me roughly on the back and I winced.

Did I say that out loud? Nice going, Aang! I screamed in my head.

I was praying with all my heart and soul that they would keep their big mouths shut and not reveal to anyone who gave them the idea in the first place. Especially, Toph. I really wanted her to like me. As a boyfriend: I wish; as a friend: I'll take what I can get. But if she found out about this…might as well start working on my funeral now.

They left my house and I couldn't help but feel a little guilty at what I had just caused. All I knew was: school was going to be hell on Monday.

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A/N:

Stupid jocks! Can't they just leave Toph alone?

Oh dear, why did Aang have to give them that idea?

What will happen next? Oh, I know. I know!! (Gosh, that was such a bad joke).

Don't worry, I'll try to update soon. Promise! Sorry for the short chapter, I'll try to make the next one longer.

Love: Lola of the Peaches

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