Yay chapter 1! R & R

Disclamier: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender if I did Kataang would have happened long time ago

Katara's POV (sorry for not mentioning that in the prologue lol)

9 months earlier

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I woke up to the annoying sound of my alarm clock and groaned but then I remembered what day it was today. Today I had to pack for my freshman year at Avatar University of bending the name is kind of misleading really since non benders also attend the university. And I know you might be asking why I am just starting college and I am 19? Well I decided that I didn't want to I just couldn't handle leaving Toph because ever since my mom died she was only real friend I had. My father, Hakoda hated this and kept telling about how in this time period it was important for me to go to college.

I think the crying breakdown I had explaining to him how I was still depressed about mom and that I needed Toph did the trick. I have been looking into this college for a long time and it seemed perfect for me. It didn't really have anything interesting for waterbending though since I already mastered it at 14. My brother, Sokka already goes to university and he loves it. Also, my friends Mai, Suki and Zuko go there. I laughed as I remembered when Zuko used to hate our group and we hated him and sister Azula but then he befriended us when he started to talk nicely to…no I can't think about him right now. I sighed and started packing and thinking about memories that didn't involve…him. But then I came across my old diary and read an entry from it.

August 5, 2003

Today was a good day after school Aang came to my house after school and it was fun until Sokka came and starting making fun of us but then mom came it and made him go to Zuko's house. Then before he left I kissed him on the cheek and he blushed. That means he likes me too right? Because I know that I like him. I always got really mad when he talked to that girl On Ji. I am one day going to tell him maybe next year when I turn 13 because then I will officially be a teenage girl. Oh no Sokka is coming so I have to stop writing.

I laughed when I read it but then I was angry because this entry happened to be about the person I really did not want or ever want to think about again. I needed to remember to burn this diary. I was putting it away and a picture flew out. The picture was of Aang and I, we were sleeping on the couch next to each other. In this picture Aang was 7 and I was 8 haha I remember the day perfectly.

Flashback

"Katara what's wrong?" Aang asked the young waterbender

"It's this stupid loose tooth it just won't come out and it bothers me so much because it's so loose" Katara wiggled the tooth to show him what she meant .

"Hmmm well I can pull it out for you and I promise it won't hurt" Aang replied

"I don't know…" she trailed off

"Awww come on don't you trust me?" he said with pleading eyes

"Okay fine but you promise it won't hurt even a little?"

He just nodded and asked her to open her mouth then he gently pulled the tooth out and it just popped out.

"Aang when are you going to try and pull the tooth out" Katara asked waiting for the pain to come.

"I already did" he said smiling as he showing her the tooth

"Oh...well thank you" Katara said as she hugged Aang

They went back to Katara's house so she could put the tooth under her bed for the tooth fairy. Then Aang and Katara sat on the couch talking about things that a 7 and 8 year old would talk about.

"You know you look weird without your front tooth?" Aang said

"What! Really? I must look really ugly now..."

"What no! I think you look really pretty, remember when I lost my front teeth at the same time?"

Katara blushed and then laughed at the memory. They were talking for hours and it was late and finally sleep overtook them and they feel asleep on the couch together.

"Isn't that just adorable" Katara's mom said the Sokka as she took out her camera and took a picture of their sleeping forms.

End flashback

I ripped the picture apart and threw it into the trash. I know you are probably asking why do you hate him? You had a crush on him before and he seems really nice and innocent and kind, hell even other girls liked him. Yes this is true but let me start my story from the begging.

Aang I have been best friends since forever our mothers were good friends. It was a great friendship that had so many great memories. I had a crush on him for a very long time he was just such a wonderful person but then he left.

Flashback

"Aang what are you doing here? I thought we were going to the pool at 3:00pm?" Katara asked

"Katara…I'm leaving my family is moving"

Katara looked into his eyes and saw that this was not a joke there wasn't any gleam in his usually cheerful eyes and his voice had no emotion in them. He just looked empty.

"What but you can't?" Katara said heartbroken

The two just stood there in a hug letting the tears silently roll down their faces for what seemed like forever.

End flashback

So then that summer he left but we still emailed each other almost every and we would still make sure to call we even wrote letters to each other for the fun of it. We even made a pact that on the first day of classes at Avatar University of Bending we would meet by the flagpole but I doubt he even cares or remembers that. Then one day everything just stopped not a single email anything and I waited a few months being worried sick I send him a frantic message telling him that if he didn't respond then I would go looking for him and I got a reply from his grandfather, Gyatso that he was fine.

I was so angry at that moment I mean how could he do this to me? He knows how much of an impact he had on me so why does he all the sudden have to stop caring. About 2 weeks later my mother had gotten murdered. I remember just being depressed for a long time having to grow up quickly. Screaming that this could not be happening, flunking out of school it was all just horrible because I was really close to my mother I mean what kind of monster would kill such a nice and innocent women? I remember crying so much that I thought my body couldn't product that many tears.

I wasn't only crying for her but for the fact that Aang had to stop contacting me because I know that he is the only one that could ever make me feel better. I felt so hallow and so alone. But then one day I went a day without crying and I haven't cried even since that day. Then I met Toph in my freshman year of high school and I wasn't as depressed anymore I actual made more friends like Suki and Mai.

I wasn't so hallow anymore and this was why I couldn't go to college that year not without Toph. So there you have it the reason why I hate Aang. I couldn't wait to go to college to start off in a fresh new place.

"Kataraaaa when are you going to make breakfast I am hungry!" I heard Sokka yelled from down stairs.

I sighed couldn't he make his own food once it a while? How does he live without me in college?

"Coming!" I yelled as I stopped packing and made my way down the stairs. In a few weeks my new life would begin.

Aang's POV

Today was a good day the sky was blue without a cloud in the sky. I was currently driving trying to get to Avatar University of bending since I would be starting my freshmen year there. I was happy that I could finally go to school as a normal kid and don't have to worry about being the Avatar. I remember when my parents first told me that I was the Avatar. They had to tell me before I was 16 because a person named Sozin was trying to start a war. I had to stop him at the early age of 12. It's funny because nobody except a few people in the world even know what happened or was about to happen.

I sighed being the Avatar was a great honor but it ruined my life. I had to leave my best friend Katara to go and begin my training as Avatar. I hated that I had to leave and I fought so much so I wouldn't have to go but eventually I had to. After I left we contacted each other so often I still feel kind of bad because I had to lie and tell her how school and my fake life was it wasn't like I could say in a letter "By the way I am the Avatar and I am about to go into a giant battle that I could get killed in and if I do will end the world".

Guru Pathik, who helped me master the Avatar, began telling me that I had to stop contacting Katara and that I was too attached to her. He took all my communications away. I would still always sneak in the middle of the night to send her a message but then all the sudden she just stopped. As weeks went by still nothing and I got really worried and send her a message telling her to please respond because I was so worried. Her father replied to me saying that she was fine and well.

I was astounded I mean did she just not care anymore? Did I do something wrong? About a month later I found out that Sozin killed my family. My whole family from my parents to my uncles and cousins, every single member that was a part of my family in any way. I was the last of my family the only person that I had left that was close was Guru Pathik.

I was so devastated, words could not describe how I felt what kind of monster could do this to my whole family? I think Sozin was just trying to break me but that didn't work it just made me train harder…it made me stronger. It was times like this when I really wished that I had Katara. I knew that even in this situation she could cheer me up at least a little bit. I smiled sadly as I pulled up at the University. Time for a fresh new life.

Yay this chapter took a while it wasn'st as fun as future chapters which are basically already written in my head :D ~Reviews encourage me to write faster~ I hope there aren't any major mistakes in this chapter because I am sleepy lol