(A/N) Hahaha! I evil! I was busy working on other stuff that I forgot this story even existed until I read the story Two Lovers by Kataangfreak231! I was all like, "I need to update now or I'll lose viewers!" So here I am!
Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender and I think I'll stop doing the disclaimers from now on.
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Katara sighed. She had been out of school for 2 days now and the dance was tomorrow. She had been so excited up until now.
It was after school. She, Suki, Toph, Ty Lee and Mai were all headed down to the mall to pick out some dresses. The guys had all gotten tuxes the weekend before. Or, at least, that was what they had heard.
"I just can't wait!" Ty Lee exclaimed as she practically skipped along the sidewalk to the mall. "I asked Haru to go to the dance with me this afternoon and he said yes! I just want to look my best for him."
Mai had a light smirk on her face, but she instantly turned monotone when she realized that she was smirking. "I asked Zuko the day they announced the dance was going to happen. I just need a nice dress to make me look pretty."
"Well," Katara started with a blush, "I asked Aang."
She hadn't told anyone yet and she didn't want to up until now when the topic was brought up.
None of them were surprised at all that she had. The couple obviously had something special between them. Though, Katara didn't know that they had suspected she had asked him.
"I knew it was gonna happen sometime," Toph stated bluntly, looking at Katara with her milky green eyes. "I'm just glad you got to him before Meng or On Ji did. They keep hovering all over him like he's a sacred being. Meng even got the guts to ask him to the dance. She lucked out though when Aang talked to her for the first time and said that he was going with you. You should have seen her face!"
Everyone just stared at the blind girl.
"But Toph," Suki pointed out, "you're blind."
"From what Aang told me," said Toph with a laugh, "it was hilarious!"
Everyone just started laughing along with her.
"So, Toph," Suki continued, "did you ask anyone to the dance?"
"Nah," Toph waved her hand at the girl. "Toph rides solo. I ain't goin to the dance wit' anybody!"
Everyone just laughed at her use of slang. Although, Katara had heard worse. Like when Aang had praised her brother when he did something on his video game. He had said, and she quotes, "Flame-o hotmen!" She had laughed her guts out when he said that. Sokka just looked at him like he was crazy, but later shrugged it off and went to make himself a sandwich.
Even now, when they were talking about slang, she was laughing at his joke. But when she was laughing at herself, she never noticed that her group of friends had changed topic of what they were talking about. She instantly tuned herself in to the conversation when she realized this.
"… I heard it was pretty bad," Suki was saying. "Is he really hurt that dad?"
Mai lowered her head. "He has a scar on the side of his face now."
"How bad is the scar?" Ty Lee asked with genuine concern in her voice, scared for her friend.
"It covers his whole left side of his eye," Mai answered with a hint of sadness to her voice.
"Who are you guys talking about?" Katara asked them.
"Zuko," Suki answered her.
Zuko had been out for the whole time that Katara was out. Even that day he was out. She had suspected something had happened. Only now she was realizing that they were talking about it.
"So what happened? How did Zuko get the scar?" Katara questioned.
"He was in a terrible fire," Ty Lee replied for Mai. "His father 'accidentally' lit the house on fire while cooking. He had left the house and Zuko had just come home and was engulfed in flames when he opened the door. The flames go his left eye. The doctors said he would be ok. He's coming to the dance though. Mai's happy about that. Right Mai?"
"Yeah," Mai sighed, "he just won't be the same."
"It's ok Mai," Katara comforted her friend. "At least he still has all of us."
"I think he's staying with his uncle though until things become well between him and his father," Suki finished.
The group was enveloped in silence as they headed into the main entrance of the mall. They walked to the dress shop, picking out what they needed.
Mai finally decided on a red strapless dress that went to about the middle of her thighs. The red dress was covered in a black lace-like material to only give it a dark red tint to it.
Suki decided on a green silk spaghetti strap dress that went to about her knees. Then she picked out a white jacket that went down to the bottom of her ribcage. The jacket was shot sleeved and had a flower on the right side of it.
Toph picked out something a little more casual. It was a simple green dress that went just below her knees. The fabric was soft cotton and the sleeves were a green lace color that drooped at the end of her arms.
Ty Lee went with a pink spaghetti strap dress that had flower designs on the bottom of the dress. The end of the dress went to about her calves.
Katara, aside from the other girls who had picked out their dressed already, was having trouble finding a dress for her. There were just too many options to choose from. Should she go with a white dress, a navy blue dress, a sky blue dress, or just a plain blue dress? Maybe a sea green dress was good.
She opted to take a look at a dress that she thought was very pretty. The girls had picked it out for her when she couldn't find one to wear. She went into the changing room to try it on while the rest of the girls waited outside.
A few minutes later, when she slid out of the dressing room without the dress on, the girls all had questioning expressions on. Katara was just smiling.
"I'm going to get it," she said.
"How does it look on you?" Suki asked, still wondering how she looked in the pretty thing.
"It looks pretty good," Katara answered her simply.
The girls all left it at that, shrugging off the situation and going to the register to pay.
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Meanwhile, Zuko was at Sokka's house along with Aang who was invited over by Sokka so that they could arrange a pickup time.
"I was thinking 7," Zuko opted as he bit into his turkey sandwich.
"I like it," Sokka commented, stuffing the rest of his sandwich in his mouth. "What about you Aang?"
Aang looked up at the older boy, dropping the fork to his salad in the process.
"I think that's good," he said simply.
"Then it's settled," Sokka declared as he swallowed the rest of his sandwich. "Zuko, you'll pick everyone up at our house. When I say everyone, I mean Toph, Aang, Katara, Suki and me. I'm sure you'll have Mai with you?"
Zuko nodded as a simple reply.
"Then we're all set," Sokka got up as he said this and went to the fridge, getting out 3 cans of soda and handing them to the other boys.
Zuko and Aang nodded in agreement and opened their sodas, drinking them down as a reward for planning everything out in time for the dance.
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(A/N) I didn't describe Katara's outfit because I'm going to describe it in Aang's point of view when he first sees her wearing it. I already have the dress planned out. Mai's dress is an exact replica of the one that I saw in the store. I ended up getting a purple version of it. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I will probably update tomorrow! If not, then the day after that.
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