It Takes Two to Tango
Written by 1JennyFan
Toph sighed. She was never good at dancing. Seeing all the other kids moving gracefully (or clumsily, but not caring) just made her feel worse about the fact.
At least Katara was able to share in her pain and misery. Too late. Now the Water Tribe girl was dancing with Aang. With everyone else staring at them in amazement. Of course. Figures.
He noticed her then. How she was lazily slumped over the table, slowly drinking her mango juice with a frown on her face. "Hey Toph, you wanna dance?"
She perked up, surprised, a bazillion declines running through her head at the same time.
Wait, so he expects me to dance right now?
I mean, I might have lived in a rich Earth Kingdom family, but come on! He expects me to know how to DANCE?!
For your information, I'm not little miss prissy-pants!
Hah, he's probably just humoring me. Making me feel like "part of the group".
Well, it's not working, and never will.
The only she could squeak out was a tiny "...yes?"
"Great! C'mon," he said, taking her hand and leading her away from the crowd surrounding his sister and the Avatar.
Great Toph, real great... she thought in disgust.
The boy stopped, noticing the look on the girl's face. "Hey, what's wrong?"
Badgermoles, he's going to think I'm an idiot.
"Uh... well here's the thing. I can't dance..."
"Sure you can! Just incorporate some of your earthbending-slice and you're good to go!"
"Shut up!" she loudly whispered, remembering they were in a Fire Nation cave. "Dancing is different!"
"How?" Sokka asked, confused.
"It's not graceful or fancy. Like, like..." she pointed to Aang and Katara "like that is!!" The earthbender wrinkled her nose in disapproval.
"Just try it," he said softly.
"Fine," she answered bitterly.
Sokka gently grasped her fragile but tough hand, and placed it on his shoulder, while draping his other arm around her waist.
That's when a horrid thought occurred to the new dancer.
"Wait a minute, won't the other kids be watching us?!"
"Nah, we'll move away from them. Besides, they're too focused on the lovebirds over there," Sokka said, glancing at Aang and Katara.
Once they were far away enough for Toph's liking, he continued. "Now, just move to the beat," he explained, demonstrating and taking Toph with him. "See? It's not that hard."
"Quit babying me."
"Sorry! I honestly didn't even notice I was doing that." The young warrior fell silent for the rest of the dance.
They could never finish it, though, since the school headmaster crashed the party and force them to leave.
However, they both secretly wished that they could finish the dance one day.
A/N: Wow, hiatus much? :P But my friend's birthday party's coming up, so I've got to finish these! I didn't really use the tango in this one, but I did include dancing! :) Also, if you couldn't tell, it takes place during "The Headband". I was fiddiling with dialouge in this one, so tell me how it worked out! Reviews are JOY.
1JennyFan
