Toph sat quietly in the library at her school a lone and occasionally stirred in her seat. It was Lunch but Toph managed to slip away from Katara and the rest of the group. She was doing her homework, all without patience. She had no idea how to finish her problems and her math class would start once Lunch would end. She impatiently tapped her pencil on the table and scratched her head. The world around her was unbeknown of her distraught and useless attempts to solve the equations. Even herself was unaware of the other goings on around her. Her mind was completely set and her eyes stationed on her paperwork. Zuko came in the library as it wasn't uncommon for him to show his face there. The library was known to be a place for Loners, lovers who wanted to stay away from too much chatter outside, people who plainly just wanted to read(who others would label as Nerds and Geeks), and few times people who tried to finish their homework. Most students, if they hadn't finished their homework, would simply go ask a friend of theirs and copy the work during a boring lecture or something of the sort. Zuko, known by everyone as a Loner, was well familiar with the Library and the different spots different people liked to be. Some Nerds/Geeks tended to shy away from Lovers as they felt bad for themselves that no one would crash away from the stereotypes to ask them out on a date. Other Nerds/Geeks didn't mind because they would usually be lost in the world their books contained. Some lovers sat next to tables other lovers would, but specific lovers felt awkward over it. So, they would seat themselves over between two tables either next to Nerds/Geeks who wouldn't mind them or vacant ones.

Zuko walked over by a shelf and examined the books sitting(or lying, some student were sloppy, no matter the stereotype, and wouldn't care enough to set them back correctly) on the shelf. Looking out through the rectangle hole the books would leave where one could see through, Zuko spotted Toph sitting a lone and with her eyes fiercely fixed on paper. He walked to her and sat himself down. Toph's eyes immediately shot up at Zuko the moment he sat down. Her tense body relaxed slightly. "What?" She snapped. Her lips felt weird. It almost felt as if she hadn't talked for the longest time.

"What are you doing?" Zuko asked quietly.

"My homework," she answered bluntly. She stared straight at him and never once glanced down at her homework. "What?" Zuko became shifty. Her eye's made him feel uncomfortable. For a moment he tried to fight back and stare back at her. He never noticed how profusely jade green her eyes were. He drew back and stared at her homework. He noticed all of the cross-outs she had made.

"Do you need help?" He asked for the sake of her to stop staring at him. She finally broke her stare and looked down at her homework as well. Toph then looked back up at him.

"Are you offering to help me?" She asked in shock.

"Why not?"

"Well, I don't know," Toph rolled her eyes "; I always thought you hated me after that episode at the park. But what was I thinking?"

"Apparently not enough that you can't finish your homework."

"Why are you here?" She asked curiously. It was an innocent question, no harm intended, yet it cast the most curious tone that Zuko had to wonder why she was so hesitant.

"Am I not supposed to be here?" He asked, as he knew no other way to answer the question without another question to counter her on.

"Don't avoid the question," she apparently didn't like to beat around the bush. Finally, he caved in and answered honestly.

"I'm not sure," he admitted.

Toph stared at him awkwardly once again as he looked down back to the table. She always knew his eyes were golden, but never really wanted to take the time to study them. Now she was just so struck by the beauty that she couldn't help but stare. It wasn't an exact gold. She couldn't put her finger on it. Was it simply golden yellow? No... maybe golden poppy colored. She thought to herself that she really ought to pay more attention to colors. Either way, his eyes drove her insane. Why were they so golden? She had seen Azula's eyes but they weren't so filled with color as Zuko's that if felt so different. Toph even caught flickers of dim green and brown. To put it plainly: she was mesmerized.

"You did this problem wrong-completely."

"What?" She snapped out of her state and stuttered. He repeated himself and she looked down at what he was pointing at. He was pointing at the very first problem. Great, Toph thought to herself, I can't even get the first question right. AT ALL.

"You confused the equation they showed us last week to the one yesterday."

"You're in my math class?" Toph asked. Zuko sighed but went on.

"Yes, I am."

"Oh..." Toph looked at the problems again.

Zuko proceeded to explain to her how to work the problem out into a correct solution with interruptions from Toph here and there who tried to clear the questions in her head. They spent the rest of their Lunch solving math equations with no other socialization made. That is, until the bell rang.

Zuko looked at Toph as she shot up from her chair and rummaged around with her things and stuffed them all into her flat backpack. He slowly rose himself from his chair and put his own flat backpack back on; he had removed his backpack while they were working. He wasn't sure or not whether they were both supposed to walk their own ways to the same class or risk walking together. It seemed as if that was the last thing on Toph's mind. "Come on, we're going to be late!" She announced and grabbed Zuko's arm as she strode toward their math class. Zuko thought it was understandable that she was freaking out. The class was only across the other side of the giant school.

Once Toph thought that they would surely make it in time to class after quickly walking, she let go of his arm. They walked in silence. "Where do you sit?" The question had stirred in her mind after he declared he was in her class.

"In the middle row and 5th column." He answered.

"Oh. You sit in front of me. Well not directly in front, but why have I not seen you before?"

"Where do you sit then?"

"Last row, 3rd column. It's the best seat in the dark." He looked over at her suspiciously.

"Why?"

"You don't have to pay attention. You can make paper boats and throw it at people and the teacher will hardly notice!"

"I guess so."

"You guess so?" Toph nudged him on the arm. "You know so. I fall asleep so many times I lost count."

"I can see that."

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The two had made it in time to their class and took their seat's while watching each other. Once the teacher flicked the light switch off to start doing problems on his projector, Toph made herself comfortable and soon enough was fast asleep. Zuko looked over at her in the dark and chuckled. Too bad she couldn't stay awake for 2 more minutes to listen what the lesson was even about.