Chapter 10: Love Confessions
After everyone finished their slices of pizza, our band was left with nothing to occupy our time with. So, we sat or laid in silence on my living room floor trying to think of something to say or do.
"I got it!" Came Toph's loud shout as she sat up abruptly from laying on her back and staring up at the ceiling. Everyone looked at her, wondering what she had in mind.
"What do you got?" Aang asked, excitement dancing in his always lively gray eyes as he too sat up abruptly next to her.
"I know a game that we should play, but..." she trailed off with a wicked smirk on her face.
"But what?" Haru questioned from where he lay on his side on the cream colored carpet not to far away.
The small girl's smirk grew wider. "But your not gonna like it and I'm gonna enjoy watching some of you suffer," she said in a evil voice. I looked over, worriedly, at Zuko who was sitting with his back leaning against the brown couch across from where I sat with my back leaning against the other sofa. He gave me a worried look in return. We had no idea what Toph's game was and something inside of me told me that I wasn't going to like it.
Sokka gulped. He was sitting next to Zuko in a similar sitting position with his back also against the couch. "Um... what's the game?" My brother dared to ask her.
"Truth. Or. Dare," she said, pausing in between each word for dramatic effect.
Mai rolled her eyes. She was the only one sitting on the couch and she sat on the same sofa Zuko was leaning against with her legs curled to the side of her. "Do we have to play that stupid game?" the goth girl asked in her usual dull tone.
Toph looked at her. "Of course we do Daggers! That is, unless you want to face my wrath." You do not want to mess with Toph and get her angry. She once took down the quarterback of our high school football team who was more than twice her small size because he called her weak. The poor guy went to the hospital with a black eye, a broken nose, and two broken rips. That's a good enough reason to do what she says.
Haru spoke up, "So who wants to go first?" He had a sheepish grin on his face, no doubt scared of the threat made by the girl clad in green.
"Woah, hold up there Mustache, I haven't stated the rules yet," she told him.
"There's rules?" Zuko asked, raising a dark eyebrow.
"Yes Sparky, and you all have to follow them." We all let out a groan as the little devil's eyes filled with more amusement. "The only two rules I have is that everything that happens here is not to leave this room and if you do not complete a truth or dare then you'll have to give Zuko's sister a hug." We all shuddered at the thought. "Deal?" she asked us. We nodded, each of us knowing that we were about to be tortured. "Good, let the games begin... Now! I choose..." Everyone seemed to be scared to hear the name she was about to say. Who knows what she could come up with for a truth or a dare? Sokka was twiddling his thumbs, Haru was sweating, Aang was looking around nervously, Mai had her eyes closed as she awaited to hear the name, Zuko was looking down at his lap, and I was looking around at everyone trying not to think about what could happen if she called my name. Finally after what seemed like a century but was actually barely one minute, Toph said the name, "Mai." Mai's eyes widened in horror. "Truth or dare?"
Mai gulped. "Um, truth."
Toph smirked, "I knew it." Mai's eyes widened even more. I guess she thought she would be safe picking a truth. "Are you still in love with Sparky? And if so, tell us what you love about him in detail." My eyes widened at that. Toph's gaze connected with mine for a moment and in that moment I saw what she was doing, she was trying to get me jealous and angry for some reason. Mai, on the other hand, went pale (if that was even possible), and started to deny that she was still in love with Zuko. Toph, how ever, butted in saying, "Don't try to lie to me Daggers, I know you still have the hots for him." Zuko blushed at her words.
Mai glared at Toph as her face turned red. "Fine! I"m still in love with him! There you happy! I've never truly gotten over him even though I never show it." Zuko's eyes widened at this outburst.
Toph smirked, probably thinking to herself that it was a job well done because I was getting a little angry at Mai's confession, but of course she wouldn't let it stop there. "Now, how 'bout you tell us what you love about him? And don't forget, it has to be in detail," the short girl told the goth. Mai growled. "Now, now, if you don't complete it you'll have to hug Auzla."
Mai sighed and told us reluctantly, "I-I love his soft black hair and the way it hangs in front of his eyes perfectly without him even trying, I love the way he tries his hardest to please me, I love how sensitive he can be, and I love the way he would always kiss me-" I was about ready to kill her if she went into detail about their kisses! I looked over at Zuko who was staring in shock at her with his head turned back to look at her. "- and how it always seemed to be passionate just like everything else he does, and I love his body-" Oh Good Lord! "- especially his six pack,-" He has a six pack! How does she know that? What else does she know about his body? Did they have sex? I'm gonna rip her head off! I was balling the carpet, as well as I could, into my hands as I tried to restrain myself. If looks could kill, I would imagine she would have burst in to flames and died already.
Apparently, Toph saw my glare and decided I had had enough. "Okay Daggers, I think we got it." Mai barely nodded as she looked down at her lap, thoroughly embarrassed. The rest of the gaang was silent. We had never heard her talk so much. Zuko was still in shock and facing us again, his pale cheeks where tinted with the red of a blush that still remained. The rest of them probably felt sorry for the two, but I just felt mad and, dare I say it, jealous. Then I thought of the song he sang to her and Jet when he auditioned for the band, "Is it still me that makes you sweat?
Am I who you think about in bed?
When the lights are dim and your hands are shaking as you're sliding off your dress?
Then think of what you did
And how I hope to God he was worth it.
When the lights are dim and your heart is racing as your fingers touch his skin.
I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me"
Oh, God! They did do it! Oh My God! She could have described his whole body to us in detail if Toph hadn't stopped her! What was Toph thinking! I'm going to kill her and Mai! I don't want to even think about how many times he had it with her or with any other girl he's dated. To say that I was steaming mad would have been an understatement, a huge one at that. "Yo Daggers, asked someone!" Came Toph's voice, taking me out of my thoughts.
Mai's head snapped up. "Oh, right." She looked around the group until her eyes settled on someone and narrowed. "Haru, truth or dare?"
Haru's eyes widened. "What! Why me? Why not Zuko?"
"Hey! Don't you dare try to turn this on me," Zuko told him, glaring.
"Yeah, besides I'm doing it for payback because of what happened the other day," Mai said. Yes, we all remember the 'smiling argument' that went down.
Haru glared at her. "Fine, I'm not scared. I pick dare, so give me your best shot Goth Girl." Oh, he was asking for it.
Mai only smiled a small, evil smile. "Very well then, I dare you to... Hhhmmm let's see..." She trailed off as she tried to think of something, or pretended to. Then she snapped her fingers. "I got it, I dare you to dress up like a girl, in make up and everything-" Haru gasped as the rest of us tried to stifle our laughter. "- and flirt with every guy you see for the rest of the night." That did it. I couldn't stop myself from laughing anymore and neither could anyone else besides Haru.
"N-no! I-I can't! I won't!" he shouted out in protest.
"Oh, but you can and you will unless you want to hug Azula and risk being killed for doing so," she told him.
I got up from where I was sitting and held my hand out to Haru's sitting form. "Come on, I'll help you get all dolled up for us," I managed to say with out laughing. Haru only glared at me, but reluctantly took my hand and got to his feet.
I walked Haru down the last flight of stairs and into the living room after I had gotten him all nice and pretty. Once we entered it only took one look at Haru to get everyone laughing and even crying from laughing so hard. I made Haru dress up in a pink dress that had spaghetti straps, the bright pink dress ended at his knees, and that was it. The dress was pretty plain but obviously really girly and it didn't help much that I put bright pink lipstick and other makeup on him. Oh! I also put his hair up into a ponytail and curled his long bangs that frame his face.
"I'll right, I'll right! I get it! I look like a girl! Can we all stop laughing now?" Haru was blushing a lot which just added to all the blush I put on his face.
Mai managed to stop laughing and tell him, "Haru, aren't you forgetting something? There's three guys in the room that you can see." This just brought on another roar of laughter.
Haru blushed even harder and sat down next to Aang. "M-my what a handsome guy you are. Do you work out?" Haru asked him. Aang blushed but laughed as much as everyone else, that is, except for Haru of course. Haru looked at Sokka and asked him, "Did you know that when you stuff your face with meat it really turns me on?" That was so hilariously untrue that everyone, even Haru, laughed. Then he turned to Zuko and said, "I'd love to see your six pack. If only you were a werewolf too." Zuko and Haru both blushed when Haru brought up the six back thing, but they ended up laughing at the werewolf part.
"See Haru, the dare wasn't that bad," Aang told him.
Haru glared at the little baldy. "Oh yeah? Truth or Dare?"
"Truth."
"Shocker," Zuko said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. Aang just glared at him.
"Okay Aang. Who do you like like?" Haru asked him.
Aang blushed and scratched the back of his neck. "W-well, I use to like K-katara -," My brothers eyes almost popped out of his head. "-but now I-I...", he trailed off.
"But now you like who Aang?" Sokka questioned him, looking relieved. I rolled my eyes at that. He can be way to protective sometimes.
Aang mumbled something that no one could possibly make out.
"What? We can't hear you Twinkletoes," Toph told him.
He took a deep breath, probably to calm himself, and said her name, "Toph." Her eyes widened, as did everybody's.
"Y-you what?" she asked in disbelief from where she was sitting next to him.
"I-I really like you Toph and over the last couple of weeks I've realized that," he confessed.
"Really? You mean it Twinkletoes?"
"Yeah, of course I mean it, Toph."
She nodded with a smile on her face. "Good, because I really like you too, Aang."
He smiled and asked her, "Truth or dare?"
Toph smiled devilishly. "Dare."
His smile widened. "I dare you to kiss me."
"With pleasure." Then she pulled him into a kiss.
Sokka looked shocked by this. "Wow. I did not see that coming." Whack! "OW! Katara!"
"Your such an idiot Sokka," I told him as I rolled my eyes. I received a glare in return.
Finally, Aang and Toph broke there kiss, breathing heavy. "Wow," they both said.
"Ugh! Finally, now we can get on with the stupid game?" Mai asked, annoyed by them.
Toph smirked. "Oh, that's right." She then looked directly at me as her smirk widened. "Katara, truth or dare?" I had to pause and think about this.
'If I choose truth, then she would no doubt have me say who I'm in love with. If I choose dare, then she won't be able to make me spill it. Wait. Then she'll make me do something embarrassing like Mai did to Haru. Well, if it keeps her from making me spill then I'll take it. Dare it is then,' I decided.
"Dare," I told her.
She looked a bit surprised that it wasn't truth, but that surprise slowly turned into an evil grin. "Ha! I had a dare planned for you, but I thought you'd choose truth instead. Oh well, the dare will be much more entertaining." Oh God! What have I done? "Katara, I dare you to... sing a song-" I let out a sigh of relief. "- about the person your in love with."
My eyes widened. "What!" I screamed.
"Yep, and you can't back out. Now let's go down stairs and play some music!" She headed down stairs along with the rest of the gaang, all except for one.
"Katara," came his husky voice that I've grown to love.
I turned around to face him. "Yeah?" I couldn't help the blush that crept onto my face as I looked into his golden eyes.
"Don't be scared Katara. I know you can do it," he told me with a small smile that was meant to be reassuring. I just nodded, totally lost in his eyes. The absence of those eyes is what snapped me out of it and made me realize that he had already gone down stairs with the rest of them.
Down stairs, I found everyone waiting for me. "A 'bout time Sweetness," Toph said from where she was by the drum set, ready to play.
"Um, sorry," I told her. Then I remembered the song I wrote. "Oh, and Toph?"
"Yeah, Sugerqueen?" she asked, smirking.
"I need Zuko to play the drums." They all looked at me as if I was crazy, except for Zuko of course.
"This Hot-Shot play's the drums?" Haru asked as he pointed to Zuko.
"Yeah, and he already knows the drum part of the song."
Zuko looked at me. "I do?"
I nodded. "You do," I said with a smile as I remembered how we sounded playing the drums and guitar together. I turned to the rest of them. "The rest of you need to be told your part."
After I told everyone else there part, that's when I started to have some more doubts. 'What if he doesn't like me that way? What if he hates me after I sing it? It could ruin our whole friendship!'
"Yo! Sugarqueen! Are you gonna sing or not?" Toph shouted at me from where she now sat on the couch, ready to watch everything go down. I must have zoned out.
I grabbed the mic and told her, "Ya, I'm gonna sing." I turned to face the band. "Let's start playing guys."
So, they started playing and I stayed facing them because the song was about Zuko, but no one knew about that except for Toph.
Zuko sang the only part I told him to sing, but he still has no idea what the other lyrics are yet :
'Rock Mafia, Rock Mafia'
Then I started singing:
'Preacher man walked into the club and he said he said
"Hey girl, can't you walk and not stray?"
Father I'm torn and I'm selling my soul to the
Rhythm, the beat and the bass cuz I can't
Confess my rock and roll ways
I started walking towards Zuko as he just stared at me, silently asking me, 'What are you doing?' I just smiled at him as I sang the next part.
Cuz I'm so possessed with the music
The music he plays
Realization seemed to dawn on him as he slowly smiled.
I can't stop my feet from dancin' to the sound of his drum
I started dancing, slowly, closer to Zuko. Making sure I moved my feet to the rhythm he was playing.
Oh no, I fell in love with my rock god
He had a full blown smile on his face now and I was right in front of the drum set. I began to sway my hips as I sang the next part about him.
I can't keep my hips from swayin' to his sweet melody
You see I fell in love my rock- rock god
Preacher man took my hand and looked in my eyes
He said "Hey girl, can't you live your life right?"
"Father things aren't always so black and white
Don't cast the first stone 'cuz I'm not alone"
And its not like I'm hurtin' anyone (whoo)
That line probably wasn't true. If Mai was still in love with Zuko then it probably was hurting her, but I was to busy singing and dance to dwell on that thought for to long.
But I can't confess my rock, my rock and roll ways
I started to repeat the dance moves I did before as I sang the chorus again.
I can't stop my feet from dancin' to the sound of his drum
Oh no, I fell in love with a rock god
I can't keep my hips from swayin' to his sweet melody
You see I fell in love my rock- rock god
I can't stop my feet from dancin' to the sound of his drum
Oh no,
This time I shook my head as I sang 'Oh no'. Then I started to stare into his eyes as I sing and dance the the next part.
I fell in love with my rock god
I can't keep my hips from swayin' to his sweet melody
You see I fell in love my rock- rock god
I stopped dancing and kept staring into his eyes.
No I wouldn't change a thing even if I could
'Cuz I chose a path and I'm not looking back
And I'm sorry if I left the angels crying
Over me
I smiled and started dancing again.
I can't stop my feet from dancin' to the sound of his drum
Oh no, I fell in love with my rock god
I can't keep my hips from swayin' to his sweet melody
You see I fell in love my rock- rock god
I pointed to my rock god as I sang 'rock- rock god', that got another big smile on his face.
Preacher man, preacher man,
Preacher man, preacher man, forgive me for I don't know what I do
Preacher man, preacher man, preacher man why don't you understand?
Preacher man, preacher man
Cuz I'm gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
(Have you never felt this way? Have you never ever ever, felt this way?)
Yeah, I'm gone
Gone (I'm so sorry sorry)
Gone, Oh no
With my rock, rock god!'
Some one started clapping but I didn't notice, I was still to busy staring into Zuko's fiery, golden eyes filled with so much unspoken passion.
"Zuko!" Came Mai's loud cry. We both turned to look at her. She was crying, mascara running down her face. "Z-zuko, how c-could you?"
"What?" he asked her. "What's wrong?"
She glared at him, then at me. "You know what's wrong! You're obviously in love with that- that Witch!"
He glared at her. "So what if I am?"
"Zuko," she started pleading. "I love you! You can't be in love with her! You're suppose to be in love with me!"
"Mai," Zuko sighed. "We had something, but you cheated on me and I've had enough of the off-again on-again relationship. I'm sorry."
Mai looked enraged by his words. "Fine! Who needs you or this stupid band! I quit!" she yelled and stormed up the stairs and out of the basement. We all stayed silent and after a few moments we heard the front door slam shut as Mai left.
Aang was the first to break the silence. "What now?" he asked.
"Yeah, we don't have a key boardist any more," Sokka said.
"Guys! Let's just finish up the game. We can find a new key boardist tomorrow. Until then, Mustache can play the part when ever we need it," Toph said.
"What! But we'll have no sound effects and stuff!" he protested.
"Who cares! Just do it when we need you!" Toph yelled at him.
"Hey, now that Mai's gone, can I get out of this dress and stop flirting with guys?" he asked her.
Toph glared at him and he shrunk away from her. "No!" Then she turned to me. "Sweetness, it's your turn. Ask someone."
I smiled and looked at Zuko who was now standing next to me. "Truth or Dare, Zuko?"
He smirked. "Dare."
"I dare you to sing a song to the person you're in love with."
Sokka gagged. "Oh barf!" I glared at him. "What?"
"Nothing, just play what Zuko tells you to. I'm sitting out to watch," I told him.
Zuko smirked. "Who said you'll be sitting?"
Zuko got done telling everyone what to play in ten minutes. Aang was going to be playing the guitar instead of Zuko or Me while I was just sitting out.
Haru put the key board by his sound equipment so he could do the sound effects if needed.
"Are you guys gonna play now?" I asked, getting impatient from where I sat on the couch that Toph sat one minutes ago.
Zuko only smiled. "All things good come to those who wait."
"I don't want to wait," I told him.
"Well you're in luck because now were ready to play." Then he gave everybody the thumbs up and the band started playing and what instruments the band didn't have where added in as sound effects or sounds Haru could make by pressing a special button on his key board.
Zuko sang while he looked me in the eyes with the most sincere look on his face I had ever seen:
'When the moon fell in love with the sun
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Zuko started to walk towards me, slowly, as to not get here to fast.
When the sun found the moon
She was drinking tea in a garden
Under the green umbrella trees
In the middle of summer
The first time we met was in the middle of summer about three years ago. I was drinking some of his Uncle's tea as I sat in a garden in the park under a tree. I don't know what kind of tree it was, it's been so long since that day. All I do remember is some of our conversation, what he looked like, and that there was a beautiful sunset that turned the sky gold, just like his eyes.
When the moon found the sun
He looked like he was barely hanging on
But her eyes saved his life
In the middle of summer (summer)
When I found him stumbling into the garden he looked like he had just been in a fight. He was all cut up, he was limping, and looked to be in some serious pain. So, I used what I knew about taking care of sick and injured people and helped him. He had a fractured wrist and a broken ankle and was bruised or cut up just about everywhere else.
In the middle of summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer (summer)
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer, summer, summer, summer
All was golden when the day met the night
Zuko sat down next to me on the couch.
So he said, "Would it be all right
If we just sat and talked for a little while
If in exchange for your time
I give you this smile?"
Zuko gave me a big smile and I remembered when I first saw him smile. It was after I helped him with his injuries. He'd said, "Thanks."
I'd said to him, "You're welcome. So, how did this happened?" He wouldn't tell me, so instead he tried to change the topic. I don't remember what the topic was just like I don't remember what kind of tree I was sitting under, but what ever it was, it kept us talking until the golden sky turning into a dark one.
So she said, "That's okay
As long as you can make a promise
Not to break my little heart
Or leave me all alone in the summer."
Before we both went our separate ways though, he gave me a big smile and told me, "I had fun spending time with you. Care to do it again sometime?"
I replied, "Sure. Just promise not leave me all alone in this garden all summer. I like to have company." He nodded with that smile still on his face and limped out of sight. That was the day I met my moon and he apparently met his sun.
Well he was just hanging around
Then he fell in love
And he didn't know how
But he couldn't get out
Just hanging around
Then he fell in love
Zuko scooted closer to me as he sang that part then and as he sang the next part he stood up and pulled me up off the couch, that's when we started dancing around the basement like it was a ballroom.
In the middle of summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer
Zuko spun me around and I twirled away from him, then he twirled me back into his warm embrace. We danced like this for the rest of the song and while he sang the ending:
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer, summer, summer, summer
When the moon fell in love with the sun
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer, summer, summer, summer
In the middle of summer,summer,summer, summer
the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer
the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer
In the middle of..'
I was caught in his warm arms when the song ended. I had just twirled into them when he'd stopped singing. We were both panting do to how much energy we put into the dance.
Everyone and everything seemed to disappear in that instant. I wasn't really aware of someone clapping again and Sokka yelling at me and Zuko. All that I saw, heard, smelt, and touched seemed to be Zuko.
He was staring into my eyes as I was his when he leaned in and captured my lips with his. Now I was tasting him too.
A.N.
Hey! Ruby of Raven here!
Here's a super long chapter for you guys! Hope it makes up for not updating for so long.
The songs were:
'Rock God,' by Selena Gomez
'When the Day Met the Night,' by Panic At the Disco!