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Well, here's chapter 4…

Palace Couple

"Hey girl! We need to talk…now!" he said.

"(gasp) Uh, um…" she said back. Wow, was she scared or what. She tried to walk away, but she was just stopped by a bunch of some of his stupid bodyguards.

Zuko smirked, "Like I said, we need to talk."

"Ugh, fine! What do ya want?"

"You were the one eavesdropping on me earlier to day, right? Wait, why am I even asking? It's obviously you, since you have that pouch from before." He said.

"…"

"Anyway, who the heck do you think you are?! I personally can get you in jail for eavesdropping on the Crown Prince." He lied, though in reality, he wasn't really able to do that. He didn't have enough power yet. But he succeeded in scaring her because she was so scared that she completely broke down and told the truth.

"I'm sorry! Okay? But I swear I didn't tell anyone!" she confessed. Just as Zuko was about to reply, Mr. Iroh came up to them.

"Uh, Prince Zuko, we really should be going right now…" Mr. Iroh shyly said.

"Fine. But if you dare even to think about telling anyone about the conversation I had, you don't even know how much your going to regret it." And with that, he left. Once again, making Katara mad and she stomped her way home. Little did each of them know, from around a corner, reporters and photographers were recording what they said and taking pictures, starting the scandalous rumor between the famous Prince Zuko and the nobody-knows-her Katara.

One hour later in the Royal Palace, Aang had finally arrived from his long vacation in Florida where he learned the art of fire (firebending).

"Hey everyone, I'm back! And I finally got through the art of fire!" Aang had a great time in Florida, but he absolutely missed his home in the Palace. Right then, Zuko entered the room, not knowing that Aang was back. Until now. For he and Aang didn't really have a good friendship between them.

Another hour later in the meeting room, Zuko walked in and sat in front of his father, King Ozai.

"You called to see me?" Zuko asked, his voice filled with boredom.

"Yes, I did. Have you picked out your bride yet?" his Majesty asked.

"Well…"

"Apparently you didn't. That's good."

"How is that good?'

"Because we already chose a bride for you." He said.

"You did?'

"Yes, and as it turns out, she goes to your school!" he said with enthusiasm, which as actually pretty rare, considering his reputation of being mean and harsh.

"(gasp) She does?"

"Hey, here's a picture of her, if you want to see who it is. And, she is actually pretty cute-looking too." He said and walked away, leaving only Zuko and the picture in the lonely room. Zuko carefully picked up the picture from the table, hoping it would be Jin. But when he looked at it, he almost screamed. Almost. Instead, his eyes widened, his jaws fell to the floor, and his face covered in shock.

It was someone whom he had least expected.

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"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Katara hollered. "Why of all people do I have to get married?! And to that retarded prince of jerks?! I mean, come on, this is totally unfair!"

"Well, I'm sorry if you don't want to, honey, but you still have to. This promise was made by your great-great-great-great-great grandfather and the King of that time! It's sacred!" Hakoda said.

"But, but, still! It's not fair!"

"Besides Katara, I already told the King you would do it."

"You what?!?! Dad!! How could you?!" she whined.

"Oh come one, Katara. Just marry the guy. I mean, what can possibly go wrong?" Sokka entered the room.

To be continued…

Yay!! Sokka finally came in! I was starting to wonder if he would ever come in. Then again, he does have the second biggest relationship with someone in this story. But that'll be a secret. Anyway, did u like it? Did u hate it? Don't know?

R'n'R

-zkjanie