PLEASE READ - I feel I need to apologize to you. Someone informed me that my grammar has been off. And some of you have been confused by what I was trying to say in the story. I'm so sorry. When I proof read my story, because I know what it is supposed to say, my mind skips over it. There is no way I am going to have my mom proof read it. I will be more careful.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING BUT THIS STORY . . . SO BACK OFF
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Katara didn't answer him. She didn't have an answer. So what was she supposed to say? That she-she . . . what? Wasn't she just trying to figure this out? Katara let out a long breath. She looked at the floor. Zuko didn't try to persuade her, he just waited patiently. Katara decided she wasn't going to answer. She was just going to let him guess. That wouldn't embarrass her any.
A few minutes later Zuko interrupted the silence. "Katara, would you please answer me?"
Katara was surprised he said please. She looked to her right and stared at the wall. "Go away,"
"Not until I get an answer,"
"What do you want me to say?" she glared at him.
"I don't care what you say."
"Is that so, Zuko?" she cocked an eyebrow while his furrowed.
"Yes . . ."
"OK," she said it with mock enthusiasm. "You, Prince Zuko, are the most self-centered, ignorant, and evil man I know…how's that?" Katara smirked, and leaned against the wall while folding her arms over her chest.
Zuko's anger flared. He wanted to shout but, instead, he clenched his teeth together and held in his anger. "That may be true, Katara. To you, anyway. But the thing is, you haven't met many people in the Fire Nation. You don't know evil the way I do." They stared at each other than Katara looked down.
While Katara concentrated on the floor, Zuko noticed she had tied her hair into a rather ugly knot. He wondered why she did that. Katara wiped the back of her hand across her forehead unconsciously. Zuko noticed she was sweaty. He didn't think it was hot in here. It was a little humid sure, but not that humid.
"Your right, Zuko," she didn't look up. "You are not the worse person I have ever met. I have met an evil man from the Fire Nation. I don't know his name, though it doesn't really matter. That man killed my innocent mother when I was a child."
"I didn't know that." Zuko shook his head.
"And then you," she nearly shouted, "You take away the one thing I have left from my mother, and attempt to manipulate me with it! Yet you don't think that is bad?"
"I never-
"You never?" Katara shouted in disbelief, "My necklace you moron!" She gestured to the blue necklace around her neck.
The relief Zuko felt made it impossible to speak, and it was quite surprising. So she wasn't engaged. It was simply a hand-me-down.
"Do you have anything to say?"
"I gave it back." He pointed out.
"Oh, let's all bow down to Zuko! He returned something that wasn't his to take."
"I'm sorry I did that."
"Good, but I don't forgive you."
Zuko stood. "And I'm sorry you feel that way." Katara rolled her eyes.
Zuko opened the door and left, slamming the door behind him.
Katara and Zuko both let out a scream of frustration.
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Zuko lay on his bed. A faint breeze came in through the window. The night sky didn't show the moon or a single star. Zuko sighed; he didn't think he would get too much sleep tonight. He rolled onto his side and gazed at the Fire Nation flag, but he didn't see it. He saw Katara's angry glare. It had kept him up the past two nighst and now it haunted him a third night. He needed his sleep!
So Zuko thought about fights he has had in the past with Katara. He studied her flaws and his. Zuko thought of the fact that, every time, she outdid him in the end. He would have the upper hand but she would take it from him.
Zuko smiled. She always out did him. Yet it didn't make him mad in away. He admired her.
Zuko frowned. That was a very bad thought to have. He shouldn't admire a water bender. Let alone his enemy.
However, He did.
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I hope that makes up for my mistakes. Please review, ill update faster if you do.
-Kayleigh
