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3. Truth or Dare

It was an awkward beginning to the night, but it was better than before. They all felt much more comfortable around each other now that they had gone through with Suki's idea of the apology game. It had been a really good idea and each of them felt it was the doorway to a new beginning; a fresh start. Azula was secretly eternally grateful that someone had thought of it.

But now what? No one seemed to know what to do now that they had cleared the air. They were still all sitting around the coffee table in a circle. Each of them gave each other uncomfortable, uncertain, sidelong glances. But no one spoke for ages.

"So…" Aang was the first to break the silence; as always, he was trying to make sure everyone was getting along. He would be forever grateful that Suki had come up with the apology game; just as Azula was. "What are we going to do first?" he asked, looking around at the other partiers hopefully. He hadn't really been to any teenager parties before and wasn't entirely sure what they were supposed to be doing. But he'd heard stories and sitting silently around a coffee table was not usually part of the routine.

Everyone shuffled in their places quietly – even Aang – and Sokka cleared his throat nervously. Katara and Azula had both turned a deep shade of red and Toph's blind eyes didn't shine with the confidence that they usually did. Zuko seemed to be slightly more isolated than usual and Ty Lee's childish eyes were wide with fear of a failed attempt of a party. Suki seemed to be giving off similar signals and Aang still wasn't sure what to do. Mai seemed to be the only one who wasn't any different and the rest of them guessed it was because this was the way she normally acted, even when they weren't in an uncomfortable situation.

After another minute, Ty Lee cleared her throat loudly, "I know what we can do! To start up the night, seeing as we're already in the circle, why don't we play truth or dare?!"

"Truth or dare?" Aang asked. He'd heard of the game but the rumors were nothing good.

"Yea… wait, you've played it before, right?" Toph cocked and eyebrow.

"Um… actually, no."

Toph's mouth fell slightly open, "He's telling the truth…"

"I've heard of it before!" Aang quickly added, hoping it wasn't too late to redeem himself of his shameful lack of experience, "I'm sure I'll pick it up really quickly!"

"It is pretty easy," Zuko started.

"Yea… all you've got to do is ask someone 'truth or dare', wait for them to answer and then, if they chose truth, ask a question, best off a personal one," Katara explained.

"And if they pick dare, dare them to do something really embarrassing or stupid!" Sokka told him.

"And at some point, everyone will ask you to do something as well!" Ty Lee concluded.

"Um…" Aang looked at all the expectant faces. "Alright. Let's play."

"Ok, how are we going to play? How are we going to choose who dares who?" Suki asked.

"I know," Mai spoke softly, "Azula, go and get that empty jewelry box you keep here. Ty Lee, write everyone's name of a piece of paper and cut the names out. Put the names in the box and then we'll go around the circle, pull a name out each and truth or dare the person we pick."

"Hey, that's a great idea!" Ty Lee smiled widely.

Azula and Ty Lee quickly went to do as Mai had instructed. They rejoined the circle again after a few minutes.

"Ok, everyone stick their hand in the box and pull out a name. Don't tell anyone who you've got until it's your turn to ask truth or dare," Ty Lee ordered.

"Ok, Ty Lee, it was your idea, so why don't you make the first move?" Katara suggested nervously, looking down at her piece of paper with a name on it.

"Ok, Azula, truth or dare?"

The girl gulped, "Um… truth."

Ty Lee thought for a moment, "When was the last time you cried and why?"

"Um…" Azula was a deep shade of red in the face, "the last time I cried would have been in rehab when I started to get a grip again. I cried because I'd realized what I monster I'd turned into by trying to kill you guys."

Ty Lee bit her lip; she hadn't meant to go that deep that quickly.

"Um… ok, next!" she called, popping the piece of paper with Azula's name back in the box.

Mai cleared her throat, "Sokka, truth or dare?"

Sokka sat up in slight shock, "Um… dare."

"Ok, sing the song 'I'm a Little Teapot' with actions."

Zuko and Katara snickered. Suki and Aang giggled. Azula and Ty Lee tried to refrain from a laughing fit, the later failing miserably and Toph smiled contently to herself.

Sokka sighed and stood up, "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle and here is my spout," he put one hand on his hip and made a posh action with the other, sending everyone laughing, "when I get all steamed up then I shout, tip me over and pour me out," he bent over in a strange pouring motion and then sat down again, as red as a tomato.

"You're lucky my uncle isn't here!" Zuko scoffed.

Sokka gave him a dead arm and Katara, Suki and Azula laughed harder.

"Ok, Katara, truth or dare?" Azula smiled.

"Dare," she didn't even hesitate.

"Hmm… I dare you to go next door and ask to borrow a block of ice. Run back here and then run back and return it saying that you no longer need it!"

Everyone started laughing and Katara stood up, refusing to lose her dignity in this game.

As requested she walked proudly next door, her companions watching from a hidden position on the veranda as she knocked on the neighbour's front door. After a moment, the front light went on and a man answered the door.

"Can I help you?"

"Um… yes," Katara begged the blush to keep away from her face, "May I please borrow an ice block?"

"Um… ok… I guess… wait right here." He quickly stepped inside again and returned with a single small block of ice. It began melting as they passed it from his hands to hers and she strutted back to the beach house with it, trying not to laugh as the man watched her go.

By the time she got back inside and the others congratulated her on reaching the half way mark, the block of ice had already melted.

"How am I going to finish the dare off?" she asked.

"Go and get another block of ice from the freezer and take that back to him!" Suki giggled.

Katara did as she was told and retrieved a second block of ice from the freezer. Before it could melt, she made her way back over to the neighbour's house and knocked on the door.

"Oh… hello again. What can I do for you this time?" he asked suspiciously. When he looked down to see the ice block in her hands he raised an eyebrow.

"I was just going to return this! I no longer need it!" She thrust the block of ice back at the bewildered man and skipped back towards the beach house.

"Martha, I think there are some troublesome kids doing things next door!" he shouted over his shoulder to his wife as Katara left. She had to shove her fist in her mouth to stop herself from laughing.

As soon as she stepped back inside she burst out laughing along with everyone else.

"That was bloody hilarious!" Sokka shouted as he laughed. The rest of them couldn't speak through their laughter.

"Ok, ok, let's get back to the circle then," Suki sighed. They all sat back in the same order they had been in earlier.

"Ok, Aang's turn!"

"Toph, truth or dare?" he asked. He and Azula and Mai put their pieces of paper back in the box.

"Truth," she smiled. This came as a shock to everyone; they'd all expected her to be gutsy and take a dare.

"Ok… what is your favourite childhood memory? Is that the sort of question I'm supposed to ask?" he looked to the others for confirmation and they nodded.

"Um, my favourite childhood memory? That would have to be the time I knocked down that ugly marble statue my mother had and made it back to my room before anyone could realize I'd snuck out or it had been broken. The only suspect was the bitchy, stuck-up little girl who was crashing at our house for a few night and thought she was the princess and she ended up getting kicked out for it. I was sooo glad but so afraid that my mother would find out it was actually me."

"Hmm, interesting. Alright! Katara's turn!" Zuko declared.

"Alright, Mai, truth or dare?"

"Um… why not? Dare."

"Ok, I dare you to climb up on the roof and take your shirt off and drop it to the ground. Once you've done that, you must sing a funny little song or nursery rhyme of your choice!" she smirked.

Mai sighed as she stood up, blushing slightly but keeping her expression emotionless.

"Can someone come and help me up?" she asked as she stood on the veranda and looked up at the ceiling.

Zuko and Sokka came out and helped give her a boost up onto the roof.

"Ok, Mai, we're not watching but the rest of the world probably is! Shirt off and sing at the top of your lungs!" Katara encouraged.

Keeping from going nuts as best she could, Mai slipped her shirt off and dropped it to the ground, "One of you girl better be coming up here with my shirt when I'm done; I don't want to hope down without a shirt for the boys to see!"

"Sure you don't! I'm sure you don't mind if Zuzu is watching!" Azula snickered playfully, nudging her brother in the ribs.

"No, not even Zuko."

"Just because you don't have any boobs!"

"Just sing a song already!" Katara shouted over them.

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!" she shouted over the rooftops of all the nearby houses and the nearby beach. She was grateful that she houses weren't positioned too close together, but when she saw the curtains of the house next door shuffle, she quickly jumped off the roof and landed clumsily and without a shirt in front of everyone, yelling, "I think the neighbour's saw me!" in a worried voice.

Everyone laughed at her and she went bright red as she collected her shirt and filed back inside with everyone else.

"Ok, Suki's turn!" Sokka jeered.

"Ty Lee, truth or dare?"

"I think I'll go truth for the first round!" Ty Lee smiled as Katara and Suki both put their pieces of paper back in the box.

"Ok, Ty Lee, when was the last time you wet the bed?" Suki smirked.

Ty Lee turned a bright shade of pink and put her head down, "Is it too late to change to dare?"

"Yes, you can't change after the question has been asked. So, tell us, when was the last time you wet the bed? And just for trying to back out of it, tell us the story that connects to it happening."

"Mmm… it was when I was eight. I hadn't wet the bed since I was four until then, but I had just watched a Freddy Kruger movie with some of my older sisters and their boyfriends. I hadn't meant to watch it with them and they hadn't meant to let me watch it. I used to sneak downstairs when I couldn't sleep and sit at the bottom of the staircase, peeking into the living room and watching whatever was on TV. I stayed there for a whole Freddy movie and ran upstairs as soon as it ended and they started to move around. I locked myself in my room and got in bed and tried to go to sleep, but I was so freaked out I just couldn't. When everyone went to bed it got worse. The house was so quiet and I could hear all of those little creaking sounds that happen at night and I started to get ideas in my head that it was Freddy Kruger in the house! Then I needed the toilet, but I was too scared to get out of the bed. So I decided I'd hold on until morning. But… one of my sister's, Jami, the one who always picked on me, she must have realized that I had watched the movie and she came up to my room just before sunrise and scared the sugar out of me! And I wet the bed because I was so shocked and I'd been holding on for hours," Ty Lee told her story, growing a deeper shad of pink with each second that passed until she was red.

There was silence in the room as everyone looked at each other but Ty Lee, who kept her eyes firmly on the ground in front of her.

"Ok… moving along. I think it's my go," Sokka smiled slightly.

Right then, Zuko crept up behind Ty Lee and put his hands over her eyes and mouth and whispered in her ear in a really creepy voice, "Freddy's coming for you!"

Ty Lee screamed and smacked him hard across the face. He jumped back and rubbed his cheek in pain.

"Ow, that hurt…"

"Never do that again!" Ty Lee screamed, tears in her eyes.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't resist!" Zuko gently put an arm around her and hugged her gently. She sobbed onto him for a moment before straightening up and sighing, getting over her horrible childhood memories.

"Ok, as I was saying," Sokka started again, "Zuko, truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Hmm…" Sokka thought for a moment, letting his eyes rest on every other person in the room for a second before leaning towards Zuko and signaling for him to come close enough to whisper.

He gave him a dare so no one could hear him and everyone watched as Zuko turned bright red.

"Are you crazy?! I'll be killed!"

"Just do it. Don't worry; I won't let anything happen to you!" Sokka grinned.

"I feel so reassured," Zuko sighed sarcastically.

With that, he cleared his throat and sat back in his place. After a moment of hesitation, he put an arm around Toph and pulled her up to him.

"How's it going, babe? Did anyone ever tell you how big your boobs are?"

"Oh my God!" Toph quickly sat up and punched Zuko hard in the jaw. He jumped as she did it and landed on top of Ty Lee, shaking in fright for his life.

"Sokka! Help!"

"Sokka! Did you seriously dare him to do that to me?!"

Everyone was laughing so hard except for Zuko, Sokka and Toph. Toph was fuming, Sokka was contemplating whether he should tell the truth or not and Zuko was terrified that Toph was going to pound him senseless no matter what Sokka said next.

"Ladies, ladies, calm it down!" Azula and Suki hushed them at the same time.

"Hey! I'm not a girl!" Sokka and Zuko cried at the same time and everyone started laughing harder, even Toph and the two boys who had spoken.

"Ok, ok," Suki laughed, "Toph's turn to truth or dare someone."

"Suki, that's you I'll be asking the question. Truth or dare?"

"Um… truth."

"Have you ever cheated on a guy?"

"Um… only if you count that time that I was five and my boy would not let me break up with him and I secretly started going out with another guy. The other guy knew my situation and promised not to tell anyone, but the other guy found out anyways and dumped me. I was relieved, but I think he was really pissed off at me."

"Ok, my turn. Aang, truth or dare?" Zuko asked as the people who hadn't returned their pieces of paper to the box did so.

"Um… dare… I think."

"You can't change it now!" Azula shouted out.

"Ok, Aang, I dared you to… um… go and put a pair of Azula's underwear on. Make sure you take your own off! Keep in mind you have to show us the corner of them and Azula has to confirm that they're hers."

Aang gulped heavily and looked at Azula, blushing.

"Zuko, you do realize that all of my underwear are…" all eyes were on her and she knew it, but she had to make sure her brother knew what he was about to put Aang through. Swallowing her pride, she finished her sentence, "g-strings?"

There was a moment of silence before everyone started laughing harshly. Azula and Aang laughed with them, but they were both red with mortification.

"Yes… that was kinda why I was daring him to do it," Zuko smirked cruelly.

"Um… Azula… where is your room?" Aang asked, blushing.

Azula didn't answer straight away, "It's next to where Zuko's is. You know where Zuko's is. The underwear is in the middle draw next to the bed."

Aang gulped as he stood up and walked out of the room. He walked down a corridor to where he knew Zuko's room was and entered the room next to it, begging himself not to back out of this. He didn't want to look like a complete baby in front of all of his friends.

There was a set of three draws next to the bed and, shutting the door as he entered the room, he went over to them and opened the middle one. Sure enough, it was full of g-string underwear. They were all frilly and kinky and he was sure that they would be very revealing. They were all black, red, and hot pink; no calm colours. This only made him feel worse about it.

But Aang would not back out of it that easily. He picked up one of the black ones, deciding that it would be the best decision. With that, he dropped his pants and took off his own underwear, replacing them with Azula's. Gulping down the hard lump in his throat, he put his pants back on and walked out of the room, throwing his underwear into the room he would be sleeping in as he walked past.

He entered the living room again and everyone who was sitting around the coffee table looked up at him.

It felt really awkward wearing these things. And to know that everyone around you knew you were wearing them too was really unsettling. Now, what he was fearing most; proving that he was wearing them.

"Alright, pull them out the side to show us. Azula, you be the judge; are they yours?" Zuko asked.

Aang slowly and bashfully pulled the corner of the g-string underwear above the waistline of his pants so that everyone could see them. His companions started laughing hysterically and Azula was blushing madly.

"Yeap… they're mine…" she confirmed.

"Kinky, Azula, very kinky," Mai nudged her slyly.

"Alright Aang, I think you can go and take them off now," Katara spoke from behind her hand which was hiding her smile.

He nodded and quickly left the room to go and change back to his underwear.

"Make sure you put my underwear in my washing basket and not back in the draw!" Azula called after him.

Zuko was laughing just as hard as everyone else once the young boy left the room and Azula hit his arm hard, "Next time, make him wear your own underwear!"

When Aang returned the group decided that one round of truth or dare was quite enough. It was now nine-thirty and most of the time had been spent laughing.

This had been a great start to the party to get them all in the mood, even if it caused all of the embarrassment.

What did you think? Sorry, I'm not exactly the greatest 'Truth or Dare' magician. But I hope you liked it anyway. Next chapter 'Raise Your voice! SingStar Time!'. I'm completely making up which songs they're going to sing on SingStar, so they probably won't be on any REAL SingStar games... but I'm sure you'll be familiar with some of the songs. Hope I made you laugh and I hope I make you laugh some more next time.

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