Chapter 9: Suki and One Crazy Ex
"So where hiding behind a fake plant because?"
"Just shut up and stay where you are," I told Sokka as I looked through a pair of binoculars at the bank. I got the binoculars from some wilderness store not to far away from our little hiding spot.
"What do you think you'll see?"
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
"Can you just shut up while I look?"
He sighed from where he was sitting next to me. "Fine, but I don't know what it will accomplish."I ignored him and focused on what I was seeing.
There he is, just sitting in that big black chair like he's some big, time, hot shot as he tells his little friends what to do. 'What is he saying to them?' I started to wonder when I caught a glimpse of brown hair. I fixed my site on the person it belonged to. I gasped. It was Suki, next to her was Aang along with several others whom I did not know.
"What? Why'd you gasp?" Sokka asked, sounding worried.
"You're not gonna like the answer," I told him.
Now he really started to worry. "Why? What am I not gonna like? Tell me!" Sokka grabbed a hold of my shoulders and started to shake me, probably thinking it would make me talk.
"Okay, I'll tell you! Just stop shaking me."
"Sorry, you just got me really worried."
"As you should be," I said under my breath.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Okay," Sokka said suspiciously. "So why'd you gasp?"
I took a deep breath, trying to prepare myself for his reaction. "Jet, Mai, Ty Lee, and about ten or so others have taken over the mall."
Sokka let out a sigh of relief and let a small smile come upon his features. "Well that's not so bad, right?" When I didn't respond his face dropped to a worried frown. "Right?" he asked again.
"Sokka, they have guns and that's not even the worst of it."
"They have captives too, right?" Sokka asked in glum voice.
I nodded.
Sokka looked down at the ground. I put a hand on his shoulder, this action caused him to look back up at me. "Sokka they have Aang and..." I couldn't bring myself to say the rest of the sentence to him. It would probably break his heart, hearing about Suki being captive with Jet and his goons. Thinking that he could possibly never see her again if Jet decided to shoot her.
"A-and?" he prompted.
I looked away from him as I said her name, "Suki." I was met with silence. I turned my gaze back to him and saw him wide-eyed with shock.
"S-suki?" Sokka murmured. Then in a louder voice he asked,"How could this have happened?" He finally looked me in the eyes and put on a serious face that told me he meant business. "How do we save her?"
I smirked. "Exactly what I was thinking."
I was following Toph as we walked to who knows where when my new cell phone started to play it's ring tone (that I did not pick out).
'I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face '
I took the green cell phone out of my front pocket of my jeans and answered it before the ring tone could go on any farther. "Um, hello?" I said as Toph tried to hold back her laughter at the ring tone. I scowled at her.
"Feeling alive?" a girl's voice asked on the other end of the phone.
"What?" I asked in surprise.
"Being with Patrick, it makes you feel alive. Doesn't it?"
Then a light bulb blinked on inside my head. "Oh! Are you Patrick's ex-girlfriend?"
"Yes," the girl answered, sounding a bit agitated do to the fact that I said ex-girlfriend.
"Well, I'm not his girlfriend. Heck, I don't even know him."
"Do not lie to me girl! Your probably worshiping him right now!" the voice shouted at me.
"No, I'm not lying. My name is Katara and Patrick's mom took his phone away from him. She's now letting me use it," I told her.
"Oh! Then I'm sorry for snapping at you Katara. My names Meng by the way," she told me in a much nicer tone.
I smiled. "Well, it's nice to meet you Meng."
"It's nice to meet you too."
"So, what where you trying to call Patrick for?" I asked.
"Just to, um.. to see if h-he would take me back as his g-girlfriend," she said as she started to cry.
I frowned at this. "It's okay, Meng. You don't need to cry over him. I'm sure he just needs some time to be single. You know how guys are," I told her in a comforting voice.
"I-i know. It's just... he has the sexiest ears ever!"
Um... okay. That's a weird thing to call sexy. "Well... your just gonna have to wait for him to come to you."
She stopped crying and asked, "You think he will?"
"I know he will. Any guy would be lucky to have you as their girlfriend," I told her.
"Really?"
"Really."
"Thank you, Katara."
"No problem."
"So, your at the mall, correct? Head over to Hot Topic and tell the worker named On Ji that you are my new home-girl, she will hook you up."
"Sure. Wait! How did you know I was at the mall?"
"Um, lucky guess," she said. I could tell she was lying.
"No, you knew for a fact I was here. How did you know?"
"I put a tracking device in Patrick's phone. Don't you judge me," she told me, then hung up.
"Who was that?" Toph asked me.
"I think it was a crazy ex-girlfriend."
"Huh?" She looked at me, confused by what I told her.
"Nothing."
Almost all of Jet's goons just ran out of the bank to complete their team assignment. They where told to get the credit card codes from all the stores in the mall and write them down on their arms. From what I heard, they're gonna go to some island with all the codes and get tons of money from doing so.
Jet was staring at me from where he was sitting. I rolled my eyes at this. It had been going on for the past half hour, he barely took his eyes off of me. Most girls would feel flattered by this, but I just feel plan annoyed by it.
"Ring!" went the banks phone. Jet picked it up, his eyes never leaving my form.
"Hello?" he said into it. Someone on the other end said something, Jet smirked at what the person said and gestured for one of his friends to hand him a hand-held drill. He started drilling it into one of the file cabinets right next to him. "Hi, this is the leader of the Freedom Fighters. As you already know, you can't enter my mall and you won't unless you want to see some body bags coming out of here." He paused, letting the other person talk. Then he started to laugh. "Do you need any food or any water," he mocked to his friends. Into the phone he said,"We're in a mall, I'm pretty sure we could fine food and water in here. But since you're asking, I'd love a happy meal from McDonald's. Oh! Just remember to make sure the toy is the princess because I already have the prince." The person on the other end said something again. Jet answered,"Silence." Then he hung up the phone.
A.N.
Hey! Ruby of Raven here!
Sorry for not updating sooner. I've been busy.
Katara's ring tone was 'Baby Got Back! (I Like Big Butts and I Can Not Lie)' by Sir Mix A Lot.
I used a lot of and tweaked a lot of lines from the movie 'Paul Blart Mall Cop' in this chap and I don't own any of them, so ya can't sue me! I also don't own ATLA. So, ha!
