"Have you ever heard of this guy?" Aang whispered to Toph as Suki explained the very simple game to Jet and Mai (Toph didn't understand why they were even taking time to explain it when they could be getting straight to the action).

"He's my ex…" Katara muttered, rubbing her arm, after Toph shrugged.

Aang couldn't hold back the jealousy in his voice as he repeated, "Your ex?"

"Yeah, I have this thing for older guys I guess. He's graduating this year," Katara laughed. She didn't notice Aang's new demeanor towards the intimidating-looking boy.

"Like Zuko…" Aang heard Toph say. He responded by flicking her wrist. Katara made no reaction to her comment.

Zuko raised his hand in an attempt to get everyone's attention, but the action made Aang skeptical on the teenager's drink count of the night. "I'm just letting everyone know… I'm not kissing a guy."

"I'd rather not either," Aang admitted meekly after realizing that would be one of the first dares if he didn't say something.

"What?" Sokka cried out. "You guys don't get the more the love- the merrier!"

"Sokka, I don't think-" Aang tried.

"Yeah, I'm not against mixing it up a little," Jet agreed, tilting his head to the side and grinning. It was a move that would normally make Suki (and other normal teenage girls) swoon, but Suki was too upset at the direction the conversation took to notice.

"That's not the point of the game, guys," Suki said in exasperation, letting out a sigh. "We just try to make each other admit our darkest secrets or do embarrassing things."

Zuko nodded fervently. "Like kissing other dudes. I'm not going to do it." He crossed his arms.

"I'm just going to start it before everyone here either starts fighting or crying," Toph said in reference to Sokka and Suki respectively. The freshman grabbed the bottle and spun. It eventually landed on owner of the house they were sitting in. "Alright, Sparky, truth or dare?"

"Truth," he said before she could even finish the question. It seemed he wasn't taking the chance that he might have to lock lips with another guy.

"Why the hell did you decide to throw a raging party and not invite me?" She added, "or Aang?" after said person nudged her in the ribs.

Zuko rolled his eyes and leaned back against the wall. "Azula made it a 'rager.' I just wanted to hang out with a couple of my friends. I don't even know where Lee went now." His face scrunched up to show off his irritation.

Toph nodded in satisfaction and rolled the bottle closer to Zuko. The game went on like that for a while. Most people picked truths, but Sokka insisted on picking dare every time. Jet had made the most interesting dare where Sokka had ended up in his underwear by the end of it. However, Suki's dare that Jet kiss Katara was second to it. Aang had to look away.

Overall, Toph and Aang were left alone by the game and probably because everyone else looked at them as younger than they even really were.

That is until Toph decided taking a dare from a drunken Sokka was a good idea. (She never thought it was a good idea, she countered later. She just thought it would be interesting to see what he would come up with).

Sokka giggled and clapped his hands as he came up with a "brilliant" dare. "How 'bout yooouu," he slurred, "and your new boooyyyfriend show us just how in love you are with each other with a kiss?"

His request immediately made both fifteen-year-olds turn beet-red, Jet laugh, and Suki shout "WOO!" while throwing her hands in the air, mumbling something about things getting sexier in here.

Toph could have sworn Sokka was really daring her from the way he was staring her down. That he knew their relationship wasn't real... And if Sokka knew that their relationship wasn't real than he would have nothing to be jealous of. That was the only reason she really kept the act up, for the slim chance she could still attract his attention back to her.

And she wasn't about to back down now. Not now- not ever would Toph Bei Fong back down from a fight.

Aang, on the other hand, was feeling fluttering in his stomach at the thought of kissing his best friend. His first thought was that he would mess it up in front of everyone, but he told himself quickly he didn't want Katara to think it was that serious.

"Toph and I haven't actually even kissed yet, so I would rather not-"

Aang's nervous babbling was cut short by Toph's determination.

This was never what Aang's pictured his real first kiss to be like (considering it wasn't like the two hadn't kissed when they were young children experimenting). Recently, he had imagined it being after Katara's ardent speech that she never realized how much she needed Aang in her life and that she wouldn't be able to live without him. Then, he would respond to her by taking her in a passionate embrace and finally kissing his dream girl.

However, this was not what he had imagined and it was certainly different from the fleeting pecks from years before. Truthfully, he forgot that this was the girl he had met when they had just gotten out of diapers and was instead overcome with a warm feeling inside of him that he wasn't quite sure what it was. It seemed, over the years, movies and instinct had given her a better idea of what a real kiss was like. He was only brought back to Earth when the others (AKA Sokka and Suki) began to cheer, so Toph threw herself off of him just as quickly as she latched herself on him. Aang was left in a daze for a moment.

"Aww, they're really in love," Sokka said with hearts in his eyes, squealing in excitement.

That was when Toph realized Sokka wasn't testing her. He was just drunk and wanted to see some other teenagers make out. It probably wouldn't even be long before he started to make out with his own girlfriend. Her fast-beating heart began to ache again, for what she wasn't sure anymore, but it was a sensation that she didn't want to feel at that moment. And, as usual, she would do whatever she could to make it go away before she had to deal with it.

The game continued on as normal for another 20 minutes before Sokka got distracted and left with Suki following him. Mai and Zuko used that opportunity to escape and talk somewhere else, so all that was left was Jet, Katara, Toph, and Aang.

Toph still wasn't over the second hit of heartbreak and had managed to keep her composure long enough, but her hands were shaking now. So she hit Aang's shoulder and left to go drink anywhere she could find alcohol. Aang didn't even think about where she might have gone.

"Hey, Aang?" Katara surprised him. "Can I talk to you about something?"


Oof, I'm having a hard time writing right now, but I think I improved this chapter significantly from what it was before (not that any of you know what it was like before, but it was lacking a lot of detail) and I'm prouder of it. I wish I had the inspiration to write my other stories right now, but I'm not feeling it. I think I can get my groove back soon (hopefully!).

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