Toph's Point of View
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Kiss, Kiss, Fall in Love
Chapter 4
Shopping
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I can't believe they put me in charge of getting groceries. Sure pick the blind girl, she'll definitely be able to differentiate between what brand of coffee or cereal you want. Maybe she can feel the difference in quality of cardboard that they package things in. Yes! That must be it!
When I mentioned this fact, the whole club smiled. I could just feel the light gleaming off their teeth, "Oh don't worry Toph, we've figured out exactly what we're going to do to solve that problem."
Reassuring.
"And what might this brilliant plan be?" I asked.
And here we ended up, Zuko, Aang, Katara, Sokka and myself all heading to the local supermarket to get food. Zuko was driving while Aang called shotgun, so Katara took one of the middle seats while Sokka and I were squished in the back, making lame jokes and just hanging. Haru, Jet and Teo had stayed behind, claiming they had homework or some other lame excuse. I was jealous, they could talk their way out of almost any situation while I get stuck with all the random tasks.
I don't know how I got to be such good friends with Sokka. He was a little girly when I first met him but after two weeks with me I've seen his 'manly' sarcastic side show more and more. I have to say, he's my best friend. And, even though I hate to admit it, I think I've got a crush on him, weird eh? Not like these first few weeks have exactly been 'normal'.
"Toph?" a finger pokes my nose, "You listening?"
"Wha-?" I ask, dazed by the interruption of my thoughts.
"We're here." Sokka says, grabbing my hand and opening the door of the club's minivan. My feet hit the tarmac and I stretch, then punch Sokka in the arm. I'm satisfied with the small grunt of pain that comes from him.
"Let's just get in and out please," I mutter to Sokka as Katara leads the way, Aang and Zuko trailing behind, already in deep conversation about the latest Jason Borne movie, "I can't stand supermarkets or malls for that matter."
"I'm with you there. Though I do love shopping." Sokka added as an afterthought.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that." He let out a small noise of indignation before the sweep of sliding doors silenced him.
The mall was huge, but we had only gone into the market, avoiding the main stores. We were in. A smell of produce, people and the deli is the first thing that attacks my nose. I wiggle it, as if that will get rid of the smells. Katara leads us over to the bread, following a very detailed list. Interesting how I was put in charge of food and Katara ended up making the list and taking charge.
"Katara can we get ice-cream?" Aang asks after barely shopping for five minutes. The group's morale is low. Zuko has grabbed a trashy magazine and flips through it occasionally stopping to look the best dressed and Britney's latest crisis.
Katara grabs a carton of eggs and not looking at Aang says, "Sure, you go get it." He runs off and she calls, "Don't forget, get vanillaand chocolate! You remember last time we didn't get chocolate? Jet had a spasm." But Aang was already around the corner.
"Hey Sokka…" I mutter so Katara can't hear, "Wanna ditch? There's a Starbucks around here I think."
"How would you know?" he murmurs, lowing his head so his lips were right beside my ear. I freeze for a moment as his breath whooshes into my ear.
"I don't, but anything's better than watching Katara shop."
"Point taken." He grabs his hand in mine; leading me towards the main mall, "Let's go."
When we were in public like this I was allowed a bit of freedom. By that I mean I didn't have to dress up as a boy. There wasn't much of a difference but at least I could wear a headband in my hair. The mall is almost empty, barely any holidays were coming up and it was the middle of the day, so it's understandable.
Sokka drags me all over the mall, showing me his favourite spots, shops and hidden secrets. At one point he almost dragged me into clothing store but I managed t talk him out of it. After a good half-an-hour of shopping we finally found the Starbucks. Not that we were looking too hard.
"Latte, please." I ask the server.
"The same." Sokka says, the girl told him the price and he hands over the money.
"So this day didn't suck too much." I admit as we start to wander back to the supermarket.
"Yeah," the silence between us was filled with the gentle hum of a giant water fountain in the middle of the mall. The water is splashing down the marble as we finished the drinks, sitting closer than normal, our shoulders touching, "Hey you know what'd be fun?"
"What?"
"Getting out pictures taken. You know in a photo booth."
"I don't take pictures." I answer automatically.
"Well you do now!" he says, grabbing my forearm and running to a photo booth. He pushes me inside and I hear the clink of coin being but into the slot. I'm in for it now.
Four moments captured forever. The flash goes off four times. Our faces imprinted on paper forever.
My imagination makes up each picture in my mind.
In the first Sokka and I are just laughing, our eyes squinting from the idea of having our pictures taken. We look like best friends just in the photo booth to have a fun time.
The second we have out model faces on. Eyebrows high and eye wide we look like idiots. Of course the picture is complete by our matching pouty lips. The whole photo screams 'Magnum'.
The next one is our 'serious' one. Our arms are wrapped around each other while we hold up peace signs on our free hands. Our cheeks are glued together and we share a smile.
The finale picture is my favourite. Sokka's lips gently pressed to my glowing cheeks. My mouth open in a small 'O' of surprise while Sokka's eyes are crinkled as he represses triumphant laughter.
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"Where were you!?" Katara shouts as we saunter over to the car, she's standing with her arms crossed, I can't feel the irritation radiating off her, "We were just about to leave."
My hand clenches around the pictures and I smile while saying, "Nowhere."
A/N
Mmmm fluff :D
Anybody actually know the reference of 'Magnum'?
