Author´s note:

YAY! I am really happy where this story is going! I just love it you know. Remember that this chapter will take place of the day of the party. Anyway, I hope you all like it and review!

Enjoy!

Chapter 4- Parties and Ankles

7th period was over, and now Po and Tigress were walking together to their houses.

"So where do you want to meet at the party?" Tigress asked.

"Mmmm, I don´t know, what about by the food stand" Po answered her. Tigress chuckled.

"Oh, well, here is my house, I will see you later Ti" Po said, but his dad came out to greet him, he hugged Po, but then saw Tigress behind him, he immediately let go of him and said.

"Po, you didn´t told me you had a girlfriend!" He said, walking over to Tigress, who was blushing.

"Dad! She is not my girlfriend!" Po yelled, covering his face in embarrassment.

But his dad wasn´t paying attention to him, he was with Tigress.

"Hi, I´m Mr. Ping, I am Po´s dad!"

"Hi, nice meeting you. I´m Tigress" She said politely.

"Sorry, but my dad is waiting for me, so I have to go." She said, trying to excuse herself.

"Oh yeah sure, nice meeting you!" Mr. Ping said

"Ok, nice meeting you too" She turned to Po "I will see you later!" then she ran off to get in time to her house.

"She seems really nice, she is a keeper Po!" Mr. Ping said.

"DAD!" Po walked inside, fearing that he will be able to find another way to embarrass him.

With Tigress…..

She was panting as she was climbing the stairs that led to her house. She was slightly blushing because of what happened earlier. She was thinking of how it would be like if she was actually his girlfriend.

It wouldn´t be that bad if I´m his girlfriend. It wouldn´t be bad at all, it would be actually really nice. He is really sweet, and funny, and he always know what to say to make me smile.

She then got to the top, but forgot there was a door, so she ran into it and stumbled to the floor.

"Owww" She said patting her head. She wished her dad would come outside to greet her, just like Mr. Ping did, but of course, he wouldn´t. She took out her keys which were in her pocket, and then opened the door. Her house was big, but it was also empty, no one was there. Once in a while, the Training Hall, also known as the gym, had people over for training, that´s how she met Viper, Crane, Monkey, and Mantis. And on her free time, she trained alone, or that's what she was used to before Po came. Now she spent her time outside with Po, doing different kind of things, however, none of them had actually went to visit each other´s houses.

She went inside and onto her room. She put her back-pack down. She saw her clock. 5:12. she had a little less than 2 hours. She decided to maybe change her clothes, and try to do a hair-do. She has watch people done it, but she had never actually been able to. And she didn´t have a mom to teach her, so.

She went with a simple thing, a ponytail. She went over to a little desk she had, she opened one drawer, and she took a couple of hairbands out and set them at the desk. She took a mirror out and put it in the desk as well. She took her cell-phone out and search for an image of a pony tail. She brushed her hair until it was so smooth. She then took a hairband and put it in her hand, she brushed her hair back and up, she then started putting it in a pony-tail. She looked herself in the mirror, and… she failed miserably. She tried and tried until she finally did it, and it only took about 75 tries. When she finally accomplish it, she was so happy. But then her celebratory mood calm down when she realized she still had to change her clothes and it would probably mess up her hair. She frowned then stomped to her closet. She opened it and saw a long sleeve shirt she had but never actually wore. It was red with a blue dragon on the middle, and the sleeves were dark blue, like the dragon. (I am not just making up this shirt, I actually have one like that). She put it on carefully and changed her jeans. She looked herself in the mirror and was glad that her hair didn´t mess up. She checked the time at it was now 6:50. Tigress went out of her room and just in case leaved a note in her door saying that she was going to a party.

She hurried down the stairs, and almost tripped.

Man, one of these days someone is going to twist their ankle here.

She went walking to the school and then it started to rain really gently, but she didn´t wanted to get wet so she started running to the school. When she got there, it was really crowed, lots of people were over at the dance floor and some of them were just walking around, she went tried to search for Po, trying to remember where he was going to be. The FOOD! She hurried to the food stand, and indeed, Po was standing there with a cookie in his mouth and another one in his hand.

"Hello" She said.

"Oh, Hi Ti" He said, swallowing his cookie. But when he saw Tigress, on a pony tail, he was staring at her. She looked really pretty. No that she wasn´t pretty, but she never put her hair up. But this time she did, and she looked good.

"Umm, Earth to Po" She said, waving her hand in front of his face.

"Sorry" said Po, still looking at her, this hairstyle really bought out her pretty eyes. And this was all being noticed by Po.

"Wow. I put my hair up, and you didn´t recognize me" Tigress said in a sarcastic tone.

"I did recognize you, after all, you are the only girl with a red stripe on her hair" he said now teasingly smiling at her. They both were smiling.

"Hey want to dance" Po asked, as the music started playing.

"Sure, but I'm not a good dancer." Said Tigress as Po grabbed her hand and lead her to the dance floor.

They both started to dance. She had to admit, Po was a really good dancer, he really had rhythm and he had good dance moves. She was just jumping up and down and shaking her body that was until her body finally consumed the music and she let go. She was dancing as if that was her last day. Po, who was staring at her,went closer to her and whispered to her ear "And you said you weren´t a good dancer" then smiled. Tigress chuckled and blushed.

They were dancing for hours. Tigress couldn´t feel her feet, and Po was so tired that he couldn´t walk. They both were in a corner drinking some fruit punch. They were enjoying themselves. Then they heard that they were going to play the last song of the night, Po and Tigress looked at each other with a smiled on their faces, Po took her hand and they both ran to the dance floor again. Po was still holding her hand, and Tigress didn´t mind at all. Po started twirling her around, she was laughing at this. Po let of her hand and both of them started dancing to their own beat. The song ended and everyone broke to an applause.

Everyone started to head to the exits. Tigress and Po were waiting for the exits to clear, because none of them wanted to get pushed or shoved or anything like that. After waiting for a couple of minutes it finally cleared and they started walking towards their houses. Po and Tigress were walking together, enjoying each other´s company.

They were both chatting about stuff. They both laughed at each other´s jokes. Tigress was walking, but she didn´t noticed that there was a small rock on the way, so she tripped. Po hurried to her side,

"Are you ok?" he said. He tried to help her stand up, but when he did, she complained.

"Po, Don´t!" She then sighed. She touched her ankle and started analyzing it as if she were a doctor. Then she looked up to him.

"Sorry, Anyway, It seems that I twisted my ankle" She took out a bandage from her pocket and took off her shoe and sock carefully. Then started to wrap it around it. The put her sock over it.

"Ok, now. Po could you help me stand up now?" she asked. Po took her hand and help her stand up gently.

"Well, this couldn´t get worse" Tigress said sarcastically. Then it started to rain. Po just laughed at this. He took out his jacket and put it over Tigress. Then he took her by the legs and carried her bride-style.

"Po, what do you think you are doing!?" Tigress asked, covering him and herself in his jacket as if it were an umbrella.

"Tigress, your house is a long way from here, I can´t let you walk all the way there, with a twisted ankle". He said in a serious yet caring tone.

"Po, I know what to do, and I can take care of myself. I was trained for this kind of stuff." She said, still not wanting Po to carry her, not because she actually didn´t want to, but because it would be unfair.

"Tigress, you can keep arguing, but I´m not letting you walk" He said, still walking. Tigress sighed.

"Fine" She put her arm around Po´s neck to hang on tightly. Tigress rested her head into his chest, Po smiled at this gesture.

"Thanks" Tigress whispered to his ear.

"Welcome" Po said back. He kept walking and saw the stairs that Tigress used to talk about. He sighed, but kept walking.

"Po, I can get up by myself, it´s ok" Tigress said, its one thing for him to carry her but is another thing to actually have him climb a bunch of stairs just because of her ankle.

"No, Tigress. You can twist your ankle even more" Po said.

He started to climb up. In a matter of minutes they have reached the top. Tigress tilted forward just enough to knock on the door.

Her dad open the door. He was old man, he wasn´t too tall, but not too short, and he had a beard, and he was holding a wooden staff. He looked at his daughter, and the man who was holding her. He seemed a little bit upset. Po was a little afraid of him.

"Care to explain and introduce".

"Well, I´m Tigress" she said, trying to lighten up the mood. But she just got a glare from her dad.

"And that´s Po" She said, shyly. This really impressed Po, Tigress maybe didn´t talk a lot, but she did speak up and she was never timid or shy of her actions, and in front of her dad, she was.

Po managed to form a little smile.

"He is my dad, his name is Shifu" Tigress whispered to his ear.

"Now an explanation" Shifu asked.

"Well, we were heading back from the party I told you I was going to, and I tripped, and I twisted my ankle and then it started raining and I insisted on walking by myself, but Po offered to carry me all the way here." Tigress answered.

Shifu looked at Po, side to side, bottom to top, and then asked only for him to answer.

"Why?"

"Well, I couldn´t just leave her there on the rain, with a twisted ankle, far away from her house, and she is my friend, and she deserves better than that, so I did what I thought would be right" Po said sincerely.

Shifu smiled a little seeing that this young man actually cared about his daughter, and seeing that his intentions were completely pure and honest.

"You can come in and leave her by her room, you can stay for a while too, or until the rain clams down a little" He said as he was heading inside "Just leave the door open". Po and Tigress blushed at this comment.

Po went inside, he entered the house and was completely amazed by how big it was.

"Wow, umm, were exactly is your room?" Po asked her.

"Oh, is at the end of that hallway and the left" Tigress replied.

Po stated walking towards her room. When he came into her room, he was beyond shocked, there was a canvas in her room. There were some paint bottles. And in the walls, there were some blobs of paint, which seemed to decorate it. It was awesome. Her room seemed like an art room, it was colorful, but that too much.

"Awesome" Po said. He let her down softly in her bed.

"Thanks" Tigress said.

"Could you open that drawer and pass me a roll of bandages please?" Tigress asked Po, who was still admiring her room.

"Sure", he opened the drawer and saw lots of rolls of bandages, "Does this happens to you often, or something like that?" Po asked passing her the bandage. Tigress was putting a certain type of lotion in her foot, and then she started wrapping it around more professionally.

"Well, I train, and that is part of training" She said.

"Hold on, what sport are you talking about?" Po said.

"Kung Fu" She said, now being able to stand up.

"Awesome!" Po yelled.

"Do you want me to show you?" Tigress offered with a smile.

"Sure! But what about your foot?"

"Its ok, I can show you some punches" Tigress replied.

Then they both headed to the training Hall, Tigress happy to have company with her, and Po excited to have Tigress show him some of her moves.

Ok, that´s it for chapter 4! This is the longest chapter so far. I hope you all really like it. I´m going to start the next chapter when Po and Tigress are at school, so yeah. I will put some details of what happened during that time when Tigress shows Po some of her moves, but nothing romantic happened. Anyway, I hope you liked it and review!

-peace out!

PS: I saw this quote, and I related so much with Tigress,

"Best way to not get your heart broken,

Is pretend you don´t have one."

-Charlie Sheen

Yeah, I just had to say it. Oh and I will be updating soon, real soon.