"Oooowwww!" Aang said as he awoke the next morning. Those excercises he had got from offline had really done him in for the worst aches and pains. It'll all be worth it. Just wait till Katara gets sees me. he thought. He crossed the hall and went into the bathroom to get ready.

He glanced at himself in the mirror. Aang sighed. He knew the workout wouldn't work over night, but he did expect to see just a little difference. His arms were long, and lanky, as were his legs. He stared at his disheveled ear length hair. Time for a haircut. he thought. "Aang, hurry! Youre going to be late!" his grandfather, Gyatso, called from downstairs. "Coming!" Aang yelled. But he could barely move from his sore muscles. He knew it would be a long day.

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Katara sat down in her Spanish IV honors class and began to prepare for the lesson. Suki walked in the room and took the seat next to her. "So what did Zuko say last night?" she gushed. "Hmmm," Katara said. "Nope. I'm not telling." She said with a smile. "Aww, please? I've been waiting all night just to find out. Come on Katara, give me some details. Please." Suki said. "Okay, well, he wants me to eat lunch with him today, because he said he had to ask me something important."

"Are you serious?" Suki asked. "Do you think he'll ask you to the spring dance?"

"I hope so. We talked for hours last night. Until like…three A.M. It was wild," Katara replied. She saw Zuko enter the room. When he caught her gaze he smiled. She giggled. "Buenas Dias, clase. Saquen la tarea." The teacher, Mr. Yu instructed. The class took out their homework and passed it in. Katara turned slightly in her seat to see Zuko staring at her. She winked at him. She knew that she could get used to staying up late.

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"Class, please pass in your book reports on Julius Caeser and then open your textbooks to page 195. We will begin reading a new story." said the english teacher, Mr. Pakku. Toph sunk low in her seat. "Let me guess," Aang said turning around in his seat. Toph sat behind him.

"You forgot do do your book report," he mused. "I swear it was due next week," Toph said. She crossed her arms and laid her head down on her desk. "Don't worry," Aang said. "I've got you covered," he said taking a second folder out of his book bag and holding a paper with Toph's name on it. "You're the best twinkle toes." She said.

"We will now be reading Oedipus. Who can tell me what this story is about?" Mr. Pakku asked. "Anyone?" he asked again. Aang raised his hand. "Its about a man who goes looking for his real parents and comes across a town guarded by a sphinx who kills one person every day if you don't answer the riddle. And if you try to answer it, but get it wrong, the sphinx will eat you," Aang said.

"Very good Aang. Now then, I want you all to try and answer the sphinx's riddle for homework. Here we go: What walks on four in the morning, two at noon, and three at night? I want the answers by tomorrow. You will also have to write down all your guesses, and explain why you chose them," Mr. Pakku said.

"How the hell are we supposed to figure that one out?" Toph asked.

"Miss Bei Fong, watch your language. This is a learning enviornment and should be treated as such." Mr. Pakku snapped.

"Whatever, Frank," she said putting her head back down. "How would you like to go to the office?" the teacher yelled. "Okay, I'm sorry," Toph said trying to hold back a smile. She couldn't help but to mess with Frank-ahem- Mr. Pakku. It was just too easy to get him angry. She leaned back in her chair and waited for the class to end.

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"So you've never been to the harbor before?" Zuko asked. He sat across from Katara at an empty lunch table. They had sat there all through lunch and during free period, which was almost over. "Nope. I keep wanting to go, but I can never find the time. I think I went once when I was a kid," Katara said.

"I don't understand how you can live in this state your entire life, and you've never been downtown." He said in mock horror. She laughed again. "You've never been to a baseball game?" he asked.

"Nope," she replied.

"Football?" he asked.

"I prefer to cheer for football."

"Go Kyoshi's." he said sarcastically. How am I supposed to ask her out if I don't even know where she likes to go. Zuko thought.

"No, never. I don't think I've ever been outside of the county," she confessed. "So how about the 90210? Whats it like over there on the west coast?" Katara asked. "Have you ever been to Sea World?"

"Yeah, when I was a kid. It wasn't all that fun. Azula kept crying because the dolphins splashed her so we had to go home early," he said. "Where is Azula? I havent seen her since….." Katara trailed off. She didn't want to bring up the topic.

"Since her nervous break down?" Zuko finished. Katara stared down at the table. "Sorry," she said quietly. "I didn't mean to-"

"Its okay. I don't mind. She switched to a private school. More stuck up people there, I guess. She said she was tired of 'slumming it with the peasants'," he said with a smile that made the butterflies in Katara's stomach flutter.

"We're going to be late," she said standing. "Of course you have to get to class ontime," Zuko joked. "You have a spotless reputation to uphold," he said joining her as they walked out of the cafeteria. She laughed again. Zuko liked it when she laughed.

But one stand-in, not paid enough cheerleader with heavy black eyeliner was not smiling as she watched her ex-boyfriend and his new crush walk together out of the cafeteria. Angry, she turned and marched off to her next class, but she bumped into someone who was walking around the corner and didn't see her.

"Watch where your going you-" Mai broke off in mid sentence as her eyes locked into some deep brown ones. She had seen this boy before, but hadnt paid him mich attention, for she had always been with Zuko. Something about his handsome face made her look away and blush everytime she caught glimpse of him lately.

"Sorry," Teo said picking their books up from the floor. "Didn't see you there." He said handing her books back to her. He continued to walk past her as she stared a him, angry, confused, and embarrassed.

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"One more time!" TyLee shouted from the top of the pyramid. She was in a full lib trying not to wobble while Suki and Katara held her up. She looked down again. "And this time, try to catch me!" she said. "Yeah, Mai." Suki muttered.

"Oh, be quiet. Todays my last day. I'm only here because TyLee paid me and wouldn't shutup." She said. "And besides, is that other Jin girl cured from her eating disorder yet? Wasn't she like, anorexic because you guys called her fat and she got all depressed-AAAHHH!"

Mai, TyLee, Katara and Suki all fell to the ground on top of the other four who were spotting. "Oohhh, that's gonna leave a mark," Katara said trying to stand up and talk over Sokka who was rolling on the ground in laughter as he watched his girlfriend practice.

"Alright, all in favor for a new diet, say I!" one cheerleader said. The majority of the squad raised their hands. "No!" TyLee said. "I'm sorry. I should have made you guys more ready to catch me. We can't go on a diet. We all know what happened to Jin,"TyLee said.

"And besides, we're so close to competition, and I don't want any one doing anything unhealthy." She continued as the girls tried to pick themselves off the ground. "How about we call it a day guys," she said. "We start a new workout tomorrow!" she said trying to sound cheerful as the squad limped towards the locker rooms.

Mai didn't feel like dealing with 12 angry girls as she got dressed, so she grabbed her bag and stormed out of the building. Stupid cheerleading, stupid did I even say yes to that? Oh yeah. She bribed me. I'd rather be burning alive than take one more step in that gym. I mean, I'm not even happy and perky like the rest of those little bitches.

"I didn't know you were the cheerleading type," a voice called from behind her as she walked towards her car. She turned slowly, she knew that voice. It had apologized to her earlier that day for knocking her down in the hallway. She turned to face Teo.