A/N: Here is the long awaited chapter. Sorry it took so long. My finals aren't exactly over with, but I've been writing this over a week or so and I thought that I should just put it up now. Hope you all enjoy it!
Sokka woke up around noon. He felt refreshed until he remembered what had happened last night. He got up and put on a blue shirt and jeans. He went down stairs to get breakfast. Katara was sitting at the table eating cereal when Sokka sat across from her.
Katara looked down at her bowl. "Where were you last night? We called you down for dinner, and I even went to your door but it was locked."
Sokka paused for a second. "I was with my friend Teo."
"Then why was your door locked?"
Sokka wasn't sure how to respond. Just then, his phone rang. "Ah, gosh, I have to take this." Sokka said quickly and walked out of the room.
"Hello?"
"Hey, it's Suki. What time did you want to meet up?"
Sokka looked around. He really didn't want to have his conversation with Katara, so he responded: "Right now is fine."
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Sokka and Suki met up at the lake. They sat under their usual tree.
"So how did the guy stuff with Teo go?"
"It went okay."
There was a brief silence. Suki sat up and looked at Sokka. "We should do something."
"Like what?"
"We could go see a movie."
"I don't have any money on me."
"We could go to your house." Sokka shook his head.
"We could go to my house." Sokka shrugged.
Suki frowned. "Gosh Sokka, what's wrong? Do you want to do anything?"
"It's just," Sokka looked at Suki. He wanted to tell her but he couldn't. "I guess I didn't get enough sleep or something."
"Okay." Suki nodded and leaned closer into Sokka. Their lips met and Suki pulled apart and kissed him again. Sokka then pulled away and didn't meet her gaze.
"Sorry, I just-"
Suki looked hurt, scooted away and got up. "It's okay. I understand." And she walked away.
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Sokka felt horrible about what happened on Saturday. He didn't see or speak to Suki on Sunday. It wasn't that he was mad at her or anything; he just didn't get around to it.
On Monday morning, Sokka walked to Suki's house like he usually did. He wasn't sure if Suki would have forgiven him or not at this point. It would only help if he tried to do something.
Sokka rang the doorbell and Suki answered it. She smiled and let him in while she got her stuff ready. She didn't seem mad; maybe she had forgiven him. Suki came back down and yelled that she was leaving and they walked down the street. They were silent for most of the way there. Sokka decided to speak when the school was in view.
"Look, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry about what happened on Saturday. I guess I wasn't feeling well."
Suki looked at him. "It's okay, I should have backed off." They both smiled at each other before they started walking off again.
Right after school Sokka and Suki went back to Sokka's house. He introduced Suki to his grandmother quickly and then they went upstairs. As soon as they were in Sokka's room, they sprawled their stuff on the ground and hopped on Sokka's bed. Sokka leaned in and kissed her and she kissed back.
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Sokka and Suki had established a routine. Everyday they would walk back to Sokka's house and make out on his bed. Then they would do homework and Suki would go back home. The routine lasted for a few days until Sokka got an unexpected call Thursday afternoon. The phone vibrated in Sokka's pocket. He didn't want to answer it, but he had to. They broke apart long enough for Sokka to answer the phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey, its Jet."
Sokka was hoping that Suki couldn't hear who was on the phone. "Hi, what's up?"
"We need to meet up. One of your guys needs some more pot."
Sokka paused then stuttered, "W-why can't we do it an-another time?"
"Because this guy buys a lot of pot from us. But if you don't want to I could always let everyone know about your…"
"Okay," Sokka snapped, interrupting Jet's thought. "I'll be there in a minute."
Suki looked at Sokka curiously. "Who was it?"
"I-I umm, have to go…take care of some things."
"Like what?"
"I'm not sure, Teo wants to talk to me about something." Sokka used Teo for his cover a lot lately.
"Oh, okay."
"You can stay here, I won't be longer than an hour."
Suki grimaced. "It's okay, I guess I should go home and do my homework." She slung her backpack over her shoulder. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow?"
"Yeah, We'll walk to school tomorrow morning."
Suki smiled a little and she leaned in and kissed Sokka's cheek. "See you then."
After Suki left, Sokka quickly changed his clothes to all black. He walked downstairs cautiously, not wanting to draw attention to himself. His grandmother was the only one downstairs, and Sokka was able to easily maneuver to the door without his grandmother catching him. When he got outside, Sokka walked quickly to Longshot's house.
The alley near Longshot's house was skinny but secluded. Plus it was right near the street corner. When Sokka got there, Jet was standing there with Longshot and his other friend Smellerbee. Jet smirked at Sokka when he came into the alleyway. They waited a couple minutes until a sleek black car came past the alley and stopped a couple of feet away at the corner. Jet looked around to see if anyone was around and urged Sokka to walk with him to the passenger side of the car. The car's window slid down and revealed a large guy with a black hood on. He turned to face the two and smirked.
"Do you have another batch for me?"
Jet nodded and nudged Sokka. Sokka pulled out a bag and slapped it into the mysterious guy's stretched out hand. The guy looked at it and smiled.
"Thanks. I go through this stuff quickly. Next time I might need a bigger batch."
Sokka nodded as the guy reached into his pocket, pulled out 35 dollars, and gave it to Sokka. Then the window rolled up and the car drove away.
Jet smiled. "Nicely done." He put his hand out.
Sokka looked confused. "I get part of that money, give me 10." Sokka pulled out the bills and gave them to Jet.
"Thanks, I'll get some more packets. Tomorrow I'll give you some."
Sokka nodded then he turned around and walked the way he came. That wasn't as bad as he thought it would have been.
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For the next couple of weeks, Sokka did more and more of the drug deals. Not only were they on Fridays, but they were also on random days of the week. The guy that Sokka was giving the drugs to was asking for more constantly and in bigger portions. I bet he's already addicted to it. Sokka thought.
Suki didn't understand why Sokka had to run off so often. They never did anything on Fridays like most couples did, according to Ty Lee. He always had some excuse. They saw each other sometimes on Saturdays, but Sokka wasn't the way he used to be. On Saturdays, he was stiff and didn't respond to what Suki would say. On top of that, sometimes on the weekdays when they would be at either his or her house, Sokka would have to leave sometimes also. At first, Suki really did believe that he had stuff to do. He had friends of course, but they seemed to ask a lot from him. Eventually Suki felt like she was being blown off.
On a warm Saturday afternoon, Suki walked over to Ty Lee's house. Sokka had said he had to do something, yet again, but Suki was frustrated this time. It bothered her how much time they didn't spend together.
"Hey, what's up?" Ty Lee answered the door and Suki walked in. She didn't reply as she walked up the stairs in the direction of Ty Lee's room, and Ty Lee followed.
"You don't seem happy. What happened?" Ty Lee tried again. Suki sighed as she laid on Ty Lee's bed and started to talk about what was bothering her.
"It's just that Sokka always makes up these stupid excuses. Already on Fridays we don't hang out, but now it's only sometimes during the week. He always gets some phone call and has to rush. It's always 'Teo wants me to do something for him'."
Ty Lee nodded as she listened to Suki continue to talk. "I mean, Aang doesn't do this to Toph. They spend an abnormal amount of time together. Why is he doing this to me? Maybe he's not interested in me anymore."
"What makes you say that?"
"Whenever I kiss him, sometimes he just doesn't want to. It's weird."
Ty Lee nodded taking this information in. "Maybe you need to keep him interested."
Suki sat up for a moment. "What do you mean?"
"Like, I don't know, take it to the 'next level'. Maybe he's getting bored of just kissing."
Suki frowned. "But we've only been dating for two months. It seems to soon."
Ty Lee shrugged. "I don't know, it's just a suggestion."
Soon enough, Toph is over Ty Lee's house discussing Suki's problem. Suki felt like she needed a second opinion, so she called Toph. She's been in a relationship for what seems like forever. She would know what she's talking about.
Toph listened to Ty Lee retell the conversation. Toph nodded her head and started to respond.
"Ty Lee could be right. I'm not sure why he keeps on bailing on you, but you could try doing something different. But it doesn't have to be drastic."
"Yeah," Ty Lee piped in. "You don't have to sleep with him."
Suki mulled over her potential solutions. It was worth a try, right?
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Suki decided to do this idea next Saturday. She had gathered up her courage and figured out what she was exactly going to do. She invited Sokka over her house. She said that it was important and Sokka replied by saying he would be there.
When Sokka got there, he was led up to Suki's room. Both him and Sokka sat on her bed and Sokka started off the conversation.
"So, what did you need to tell me about?"
"We haven't been spending a lot of time together." Suki said quietly.
"I'm sorry about that." Sokka replied truthfully, "Maybe I can make it up to you."
Suki leaned in closer to Sokka and replied, "That'll work." She then kissed him.
She kissed precautiously for a couple of minutes. Usually he wasn't in the mood and would pull away, but this time he kissed her back. It was working!
Suki kept kissing him, moving her head, and wrapping her arms around his neck. He hadn't broken apart yet. This was good. Slowly Suki shifted backwards landing on her bed, pulling Sokka with her. They kept kissing, breaking apart occasionally and moving back in again. Sokka was on top of Suki so she had a hard time shifting on of her hands behind her back. Sokka had his hands placed awkwardly on her upper back, and when she unhooked her bra strap, he immediately knew. He broke apart from her and sat back up, upset.
"I-is something wrong?" Suki stuttered. She didn't expect Sokka to respond like that,
"What were you doing?"
"I was…," Suki blushed. "I was trying to take things to the next level."
Sokka looked confused. "Why?"
"Ty Lee said that you were losing interest…between us."
"Why would she say that?"
Suki's brows furrowed. "Because you never spend time with me. You get a phone call and rush off. I don't see you again until the next morning. What's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong."
Suki started to raise her voice. "Then why is it that when ever we're together, you always have to leave for something else. On Saturdays when I see you, you don't want to kiss me at all, and on Friday nights we never do anything together."
"I thought that if we did something different, then you would be more interested in me." Suki continued.
"But I do still like you!"
"You have a hard time showing it." Suki frowned then continued, "Tell me why you always leave, and maybe I'll rethink this."
Sokka paused. "I-I, it's ummm…"
Suki looked unhappy. She got off the bed and straightened out her clothes. "Fine. I guess I'll walk you out."
They walked down the stairs and Suki held the door open as Sokka walked out.
Sokka tried to explain, "I'm sorry it's just-"
Suki didn't meet his eyes. "Whatever, I understand." And with that, she slammed the door in Sokka's face.
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Sokka laid in bed for the rest of Saturday and up to Sunday morning. He had thought a lot about what happened. He wasn't very happy about it. Suki was obviously furious with him not being able to talk to her about what was going on. But he couldn't. It was too complicated. Now, on the day he needed her most, she was mad at him. Sunday was the anniversary of Sokka's mom's death. He would always just mope around the whole day and feel depressed, but today he was more depressed because of the thing with Suki. He was so depressed that ideas started going though his head. He didn't want to be sad anymore, so subconsciously he went through his stuff looking for something in particular. He pulled out a small packet and a sheet of paper. He slowly measured the stuff out and rolled it up. He pulled out a lighter that was in his black sweatshirt pocket and lit up the joint.
"Here goes nothing." Sokka said quietly and inhaled the joint.
He instantly felt happy and light-headed. He smiled; all of the stress went away as he put the joint up to his mouth and inhaled again.
Okay, just so you know, I have no idea what Suki was ultimately planning so you can imagine it any way you'd like. I guess this is also sort of a cliff hanger- sorry about that. I'd like to thank H2P2 for the help on the drugs and stuff because I am not really knowledgeable about that. Also just so you all know, my last chapter I mentioned something about a guy overdosing, I was not talking about overdosing on marijuana. I know that can't happen, but I do know that you can get addicted to marijuana, you increase doses or something like that. I know some things but not all of the works. Okay so that's it. I hope you all liked it and REVIEWS WOULD BE APPRECIATED!!!
