"All right, students" Mr. Iroh shouted. We opened our textbooks and went to a blank page in our notebooks.
"Hmm… The principal gave me these papers to do, so…" Mr. Iroh murmured to himself.
"…I'll give you a test!" Mr. Iroh said. We all groaned. Mr. Iroh got annoyed and calmed us down.
"Okay okay! Just read pages thirty through forty and do the review at the end." Mr. Iroh said. Some of us complained and others started to read. I wrote on a folded up piece of paper and passed it to Sokka. He read it and I began reading. He whispered my name and passed it back. I started to turn around when I realized that Yue knew what we were doing. Oh well. What would she do? I'd just stop if she would tell the teacher. With that, I smiled to myself and looked at the note. Hi I had written and Sokka had written the same. I didn't want to be weird and put You know what you were beginning to say earlier? You know, until Azula that jerk interrupted? What were you saying? He would've either forgotten or reminded what Azula would do to me if she knew I replied positively. What page are you on? I wrote. I folded up the note and passed it back to Sokka. Suddenly, Yue caught it instead and ripped it up. She sneered at my surprised expression, smoothed out her hair, and continued reading. Sokka noticed none of this. I wrote another note.
"Yes Toph?" Mr. Iroh said, noticing my raised hand.
"May I sharpen my pencil?"
"Yes." He replied and kept doodling on the papers. I got up and went to the back of the room to the pencil sharpener, dropping my note on Sokka's desk on the way. Yue observed this and commented as I passed.
"Stay away from Sokka, shorty" She whispered.
"Oh, are you jealous he likes me?"
"He doesn't like you, he likes me."
"Really? I didn't know Sokka was into wimps" I replied as she gasped. After sharpening my pencil, I sat back down and read the note on my desk. 35. You? I glanced at the bottom of the page and sighed, realizing all this time I was day dreaming rather than reading.
34. I lied. I guess you'll be lonely having to baby-sit Katara this weekend. I slid the note across the floor out of Yue's reach. As Sokka read it, I noticed he smiled and then wrote back. Just when I was getting happy, Yue called out to Mr. Iroh.
"Mr. Iroh, Toph is passing notes!" She said, ceasing to mention Sokka's name.
"Toph, come here." He said. I stood up and glared back at her. Stay away she mouthed.
"Toph," Mr. Iroh said. I stared at the tea drawings on the papers.
"I don't want to lecture you about notes because it would be a waste of breath. And I don't really care if you pass notes. Just don't do it in front of Yue or I'll be whined to all day long. Got it?" Iroh said lazily. I nodded my head and tried to hold in my laughter. Even our teacher thinks Yue complains a lot! Talk about a whiner. When I sat back down I pick up the note on the floor. Yes! Now I can actually tell Sokka that I want to come over his house this weekend. I looked at the note and my smile faded. Over what Sokka had said were lots of dark scribbles and in permanent pen. Under it was Yue's signature. I am not going to see you at Sokka's house this weekend, got it? She wrote. Yue was going to come too? And probably Azula too. Speaking of Azula, I still needed to think of that revenge. And now Yue's on the list too.