Day 7: Free Day

Genres: Humor/Romance

Rating: T

Setting: No war, Ba Sing Se University AU


Free Day

Three knocks startled Zuko from his nighttime ritual. Sleepy and annoyed, the pajama-clad boy opened his dorm room door to find a foxy blue-eyed boy, someone he recognized. Suddenly, his fatigue seemed to fade away.

"Hiya, neighbor," the boy greeted. "Hey, I remember you! From orientation."

"Hi…"

"I'm Sokka. I live next door." He nudged his head to the right.

"Zuko here."

"Nice to meet you, Zuko! Mind if I come in for a bit? I…" Sokka began to chuckle nervously. "I kinda got kicked out of my room."

"Um, okay…" Zuko moved out of the way, allowing the boy with the wolf-tail inside. "W-Whatchya do? To get kicked out I mean."

"Oh, nothing. My roommate, Jet, sexiled me. He's a total jerk."

"Sexiled? Oh. Got it." He snickered. "But it's only the first week of classes!"

"Yeah… he moves fast."

"Guess so."

"You're lucky you have a single." Sokka walked around his room, eyeing all his belongings. "Whoa, is that a tsungi horn?!"

Zuko's cheeks flushed with embarrassment. "Yeah…"

"Cool. I've always wanted to learn to play an instrument." He crossed to the back wall, staring at a decorative blue spirit mask mounted at eye level with two dual swords hanging above it. "You have a lot of stuff! You must be royalty or something."

He smiled. "Actually, I am – "

"Hey, d'ya have any poetry?" he asked, perusing the firebender's bookshelf. "I love poetry."

"Y-Yeah. That book to your left. One more over – no, not that one!"

Sokka pulled a thin book from the shelf.

"Uhhh, that's my sister's…"

"You have a sister? Me too! She's really annoying. She'll probably be joining us next year when she turns eighteen."

"My sister's already a student here, even though she just turned seventeen. She's 'gifted', 'a true prodigy'," Zuko groaned.

"Sounds like you two really get along," he laughed, finally looking down at the book in his hands. "Love Amongst the Dragons? Oh! I've heard of this play. Wanna act it out?" Sokka kicked off his shoes and hopped onto the yellow-eyed boy's bed.

"Ummm…" Although he wasn't exactly in the mood for acting, he wasn't about to say no to the cute boy on his bed. "Sure."

He made room for his new friend and lay down on his stomach. "Come here." He flattened out the first page of the script.

Zuko lay down next to him.

He cleared his throat and began theatrically delivering the lines. The boys made it roughly through an eighth of the play when Sokka broke character.

"Look, I need to be honest here…" The wolf-tailed boy kept his eyes affixed to the script. "I kinda had an ulterior motive for inviting myself into your room."

"Y-You did?!" he choked.

"Yeah, I… I saw you at orientation and thought you were cute," he laughed, his cheeks reddening.

"I… I didn't know you were, uh…"

"Gay?" Sokka offered.

"Yeah," he chuckled.

"I'm pan actually. What about you?"

"I'm… honestly not so sure. I had a girlfriend once. That was okay. She kinda bored me sometimes. But I've never… done anything with a guy before…"

"Do you want to?"

Zuko brought his panicked gaze up to the boy's deep blue eyes. Timidly, he nodded.

Sokka closed the script and smiled before slowly leaning in and kissing the firebender softly on the lips.

He closed his eyes and leaned into it, deepening the kiss. Feeling the electricity between them, he reached his hand into Sokka's hair, gently pulling out the band tying it up. He threw it to the floor.

It didn't take long before the blue-eyed teenager found himself on top of his neighbor, earning a rewarding groan upon the transition.

But just as things really started getting heated, the boys were interrupted by some animalistic moaning coming from the other side of the wall.

Sokka picked up his head. "That's Jet for ya. Didn't realize his date would be so loud."

"Wait a second…" Zuko listened for a bit. His eyes filled with dread. "His date… did you meet her?"

"Very briefly. Can't even remember her name… why?"

"What did she look like?"

"Ummm, kinda short, long black hair, yellow eyes kinda like yours, red lips. Pretty hot but in a mean kind of way – "

"Ugh." He threw his head back on the pillow. "That's my sister. Azula."

"Yeah! That's her name!" Sokka laughed. "Well, guess that kinda puts a damper on things for tonight…"

"You think?"

"Hey, then I have another idea!" He hopped off the bed and walked over to the tsungi horn. "I think this is the perfect time for me to learn how to play. You can… sing."

"I can't sing." Zuko smirked, knowing their musical escapades would ruin his sister's night of lovemaking.

"Perfect."