Chapter 10: Long break
Aang decided that we should take a break for a week or two. At first we all thought it was a joke, we have barely ever had breaks that lasted more then a few days (war shapes people. But after we found out he was serious we understood what he meant. We have been going around the globe getting kids for like three month now. A break was completely in the question. We all decided that two weeks off would be good for all of us and then we could return to the over all picture.
I don't want to bore you to death about my days off. All I did was hang out with the gang, water bend, play fight and spend a lot of time with Zuko (although we didn't spend the night together again).
Although it was nice to have time off I was happy to get back on the mission. The morning that we were supposed to leave something rather odd happened to me (although I didn't think it was odd at first). I woke p and sat up on my bed, that's when a wave of nausea washed over me. I quickly got up and went to the open window and to my disappointment I saw my last nights dinner again. I put some clothes on and went out of my room. I still felt kind of nauseous, but it was better then before.
My first theory was that I was sick. However I didn't have a fever or anything. No one else was awake yet. I sat down on a rock and took a sip of water. The nausea slowly faded and I felt sleepy again. I couldn't get sick now. Today was the day we had to leave. I know what you're probably thinking, "Why in the world do you all have to go together when you get a few kids from some other nation". Well I don't really know. Probably because we're used to being together and one person couldn't handle taking care of five or six kids. Today's destination was the Southern water tribe with a stop at Kioshy Island.
Slowly the recreation area filled with the people I wanted to see. Sokka, check, Aang, check, Toph, check, Toph and Aang making out, big check, Zuko, no check.
"Where's Zuko," I asked the rest of the group. Everyone (except for Toph) looked around.
"Haven't seen him yet this morning," Sokka said looking up at me. I got up and started for Zuko's room. I knocked on his door.
"Come in," Zuko's voice came from inside. I stepped into his room. He was lying on his bed in his clothes.
"Hey," I said walking toward him and sitting on his back.
"Hey," He said sleepily sitting up a little.
"You okay," I asked my voice a little shaky.
"Yeah, just don't feel like flying today," he said looking over at me. I stomach did a flip.
"Me too. It's a weird world," I glanced over at him one more time. He got up and took me by the arm.
"Lets go," he said softly and I couldn't help but smile. We walked outside and Sokka quickly did a head count (don't ask me why). I said my final goodbye to Ria and we were off heading to a place that once was my home. The nausea had drifted away and now the only thing I felt was Zuko's arms around me.
The next few hours were mostly quiet because Sokka is silent when he's nerves. We haven't seen our dad in like three months and for some weird reason Sokka was extremely nerves about seeing our dad again. I was still a bit freaked out about my dream.