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Oh...my...god! How embarrassing! I just HAD to burge in on them! This is so humiliating! Katara thought angrily as she ran on home. She quickly slammed open her front door and stomped across the hall.

"Hey Katara! What's up?" Sokka inquired as Katara as she made her way up the stairs.

"Nothing." Katara mumbled and quickly ran upstairs and into her room and into her balcony as she exploded, out "God! I'm so stupid!"

Whenever Katara had some kind of problem she had to deal with or just wanted to be by herself...or wanted someone to talk to..., she would always go to her quiet breezy balcony. It was typically the place she always went to just think.

"Damn it! So humiliating!" she cried out in frustration.

"What is?" an all too familiar voice questioned from the balcony across from hers.

"...Zuko? That you?" Katara expected in a matter-of-fact voice.

"Duh." Zuko cocked his head up from his little hammock and smirked, "So what's this thing that's so humiliating that you had to keep yelling about it for the past 5 minutes?"

"You heard me?"

"Of course! I could recognize your voice a mile away!"

"Uh huh...anyway...I ran into Jet...and Ty Lee. Kissing. I just, like, completely walked in on them!"

"Again?"

"...yeah" she sighed.

"How did it happen this time?" Zuko asked.

"I saw my phone in the classroom and I ran inside. But then Jet and Ty Lee were there making out. So I kinda stared at them for a while without even knowing Then I just ran out." Katara roughly explained.

"I see. Well, at least it's better than how you literally ran into them last week." Zuko joked.

"I guess." Katara said. "So, where'd you park the van?" she questioned, desperately trying to change the topic.

"Near the fence, where all the other ones are." Zuko replied, his mouth itching to say the word 'duh'.

"Alright. Good. Last time, I parked the thing near the hill behind the building, and Joo Dee completely ignored me for, like, a week! She's always so moody!"

"Yeah, she is, kinda. Oh! I brought your stuff back." Zuko added and handed Katara her light blue backpack.

"Oh, thanks. I completely forgot." she expressed in relief and grabbed her bag.

"--Hey Katara! Get downstairs! It's time to eat! We're having stewed sea prunes!" Sokka yelled happily from downstairs.

"I'm coming!" Katara shouted back. "Bye Zuko! See you later."

"See you." he grinned and Katara headed downstairs for her dinner.

"Night Katara." he whispered, a small barely noticeable smile formed upon his face. He sulked back into his maroon colored room and walked toward his calendar hanging on his wall to see his schedule for tomorrow. "October 9th...Therapist Appointment." Sighing, Zuko made his way downstairs to make his and his sister's dinner.

"Hey, Azula! What do you wanna eat for din--" Zuko asked on his way down the numerous stairs when he saw another person with his sister. "--Oh, hi Mai. You're awfully early for your tutor session."

Zuko was Mai's tutor. Had been ever since last year. Every Thursday after dinner, Mai would come to Zuko's house and he would tutor her.

"Hi." Mai chirped in a small whisper and slightly looked as she lightly blushed.

Staring at Mai weirdly, Azula demanded, "I honestly could not care any less than I do now what you make. Just make sure it tastes magnificent and is worthy enough to be consumed by me."

"Tch. Conceited." Zuko muttered to himself. Mai snickered quietly.

"Excuse me? I should inform you that I for one, am most definitely NOT conceited." Azula declared from across the room.

"Okay okay. No need to yell! Geez!" Zuko, unknowingly, yelled.

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"Did you hear that?" Katara asked Sokka across the dinner table.

"Hm? Hear what?" Sokka asked with a mouth full of food.

"I think Zuko and Azula are fighting again."

"Again? They really need to stop fighting." Sokka said, swallowing down the last bit of food in his mouth.

"Yeah, I know..." Katara muttered.

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"God! So picky! What did I ever do in my past life that made me get such a horrible sister?!" Zuko yelled in his room after dinner.

Knock, knock

"Who is it?"

"Mai."

"Oh, right. Tutor time. Come on in." Zuko remembered and Mai quietly walked into the room and sat obliviously sat on his bed as Zuko sat at his desk.

"Alright, so what do you need help on today?" Zuko asked grabbing his load of textbooks on his shelf.

"Well, nothing really. I finished all my homework with Azula." Mai mumbled.

"Oh. Okay then. I guess you can go home then. Or hang with Azula or something." Zuko suggested and headed back for the door.

"--Uh, no, um, okay, I guess." Mai stuttered and left the room.

"Tch, weird girl." Zuko muttered under his lip and went back out to his balcony for some fresh air. He slid open the door and fashionably sulked outside and threw himself onto his hammock. He threw his arms behind his head and looked up into the night sky as millions of shining stars surrounded the bright glowing crescent moon.

"Isn't that beautiful?" a voice asked.

"Huh? Oh, hey Katara." Zuko greeted as he tilted his head to see Katara sitting on her couch looking at the sky as well. "I guess it is."

"So, were you and Azula fighting again?" Katara asked, just out of curiousity.

"Yeah. She kept complaining about how the food on her plate were touching. She's so damn picky."

"I feel your pain. Sokka was keep chatting on the phone during dinner. He's such a chatterbox."

"Let me guess, with Suki?" Zuko guessed.

"Yeah, they're so lucky though, to have such a healthy relationship, especially in high school..." Katara sighed. Ba Sing Se High were always so full of love triangles and such, and sometimes, it was so hard for anyone to handle...

"That's true. Well, it's getting a little dark. We should turn in." Zuko suggested and stood up from his hammock.

"Yeah. I'll see you tomorrow!" Katara said and stepped back into her room. "--Oh wait. You have that appointment thing tomorrow right?"

"Yup. I have to go see Dr. Wu first thing tomorrow morning." Zuko exclaimed. "Gah! I don't even know WHY I have a stupid appointment with her anyway! I don't have problems! I don't need therapy."

"Zuko! Calm down!" Katara said reaching out to him. "Look, your doctor obviously set up that appointment for a reason. A reason that he thinks that you might have some sort of problem or issue with. And you should respect that, and at least go see Dr. Wu."

"Yeah, but why should I respect that? It's not like this Dr. Wu person can fix any problem that my doctor thinks I might have."

"At least go see her. And who knows, she might be able to help you, whether you actually have a problem or not."

"Alright fine." Zuko mumbled. "G'night."

"Night." Katara sighed and went back to her room.

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"Hi Azula! What's up?" Ty Lee exclaimed happily on the phone.

"Why'd you call me this late at night? Don't you know that I need my beauty sleep?"

"Oh, sorry. I just needed to talk with someone."

"Go talk with Mai. I need my sleep!" Azula yelled and hung up the phone.

Back at her house, Ty Lee pouted and quickly dialed Mai's number on her phone and patiently waited for her to pick up.

"--Hello?" Mai's dull voice greeted.

"Hi Mai! It's Ty Lee."

"Oh. Hi. Why'd you call me?"

"I need to talk with somebody."

"Okay. About what?"

"You know that Katara girl? She's, like, best friends with Zuko?"

"Oh...yeah, I know her." Mai hesitated, with a cringing tone in her voice.

"Yeah. Well, that stupid girl walked right in on me and Jet at school today!" Ty Lee complained.

"I see." Mai simply said.

"Yeah...We need to do something about her..."

"Yeah..."

To Be Continued...

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I know, short and boring chapter...but not to worry! Next chapter will probably be more interesting...SPOILER: theres a dream in there