Jealousy #2

Toph

Uuggghhh. The way his stupid heart beat when she was around sickened me. I hated it. I hated how he gawked at her all the time. I HATED HER!! She had the perfect hair, apparently from his point of view, she always was gentle and she was just like a mother! I hated it!!!! W e were all sitting around the fire while Katara sat eating her food silently. I put my plate down and l;ay back on the ground roughly and sighed.

"What's your problem?" Sokka asked.

"Yeah, Toph are you ok?" My heart skipped a beat at his airy voice.

"Yes Sokka, yes Aang, I'm fine" I said angrily.

"Toph, why are you so angry at Aang?" Katara asked me. I looked in her direction and scowled.

"I didn't think you were that dense, Katara. I thought maybe you'd have a clue, but obviously your too stupid to figure it out!"

"Is it time?" Aang asked Katara

"time for what?" I burst out.

"Girl stuff, you know what we mean" Katara said gently, despite what I had just said to her.

"NO!" I said sitting up. "What the hell?"

"I just thought, you know, you being angry at Aang and me all the time..." And it clicked. Just like that, she understood.

"You, you like Aang?" I inhaled and walked away, making an earth tent. I wanted to strangle that bitch. She understood, yet she just had to tell everyone!

"Toph, Toph please just let me talk to you" I banged my fist on the ground causing Katara to be pushed back gently by a wall of Earth.

"Let me try" I heard Aang say. I knew he was going to come right in; he could do that now I had taught him. I braced myself. He was coming. What was I to do? He would only reflect anything I would do to him. he knew everything.

"Hi" The door was pulled into the ground and Aang ducked his head in, then he was sitting right behind me. He shut the tent and pulled me back by my shoulders so his head was next to mine.

"I'm sorry. Sometimes things can get so awkward and sad in life, you don't know what to do. You're being toph, and that means being stubborn, I don't mind, just don't get angry at us. Don't blame the people that you love" He whispered in my ear.

"I don't love"

"We both know you do, and so do I"

"Yeah, you love the ice queen"

"Not really..." I pushed his hands off of my shoulders and turned to face him.

"Aang. I love someone who not only isn't interested in me, and has a girlfriend, but I have to live with him!"

"Why are you telling me this?"

"Because I love you" I closed my eyes and tears started to fall. "Sugar queen told you only a second ago!"

"Toph-"

"I know, you gonna say: I don't like you that way, I love Katara" I interrupted bitterly.

"No, stop putting words in my mouth. I was going to say, that I never thought you would like any of us. Let alone me, being too feminine for you. And I was also going to say that that is the most nice thing you've ever said to me, not the best thing anyone has ever said to me. And thank you"

"Hasn't sugar queen said that to you?"

"No, she likes Zuko"

"I want you to come back out and eat your dinner. Ignore Katara ignore us all if you want to, just please come out and eat."

"Ok. But before I go, Aang, one more thing"

"Yeah?"

"Can I have a hug? It's just that I don't want anyone to see you hugging me out there, just in here"

"Ok" He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my head. My heart stopped for a second and I just cuddled into him.

"Thank you Aang" Tears spilled over my lids and we walked out of my tent. I took my position and glared at Katara for a second. He was mine now, hopefully...