Sokka was expecting the restaurant to be more upscale than it was. It wasn't Dominoes or anything, but it was far from the suit and tie image he had of a top-notch steakhouse, not that he wore a suit or a tie.
There were a lot of families at the restaurant. Azula requested one of the smaller booths, which tended to only have couples.
"I prefer eating away from the children."
"As do I."
There were a list of beef and pork dishes that you could cook yourself. They would bring you a little charcoal grill and you could cook the meat to your own satisfaction. There were plenty of other dishes that you could order that would be made for you, but that wasn't as much fun.
"Did you want to get an individual dish or share one the larger ones?" Sokka asked her.
"The individual dishes are more fun because you can cook them yourself, but the pork belly is delicious."
"Pork Belly!" Sokka decided to get that and Azula got an individual dish. They would share them both.
"That's a lot for just two of you," the man cautioned.
"He's an athlete," which is all Azula needed to say.
The man nodded and took their menus.
"So how was your day?" Azula asked.
"It was pretty alright. I won when we played basketball today."
"Well you were playing Zuzu."
"And Haru."
"Aren't you a star?"
"Suki came with her sister. Haru likes her so I guess Suki will be the third wheel or whatever."
"Her high school sister got a college boyfriend and she's alone. I would be so mad."
"I think Ty Lee won out when it came to assets," Sokka snickered.
Azula frowned.
"Not that she holds a candle compared to you."
"She better not."
After pizza, the group of six was unsure of what to do.
"We could see if any good movies are playing. The theater is like three blocks from here," Ruon Jian suggested.
They headed over and there was a romcom with Jennifer Aniston, a sci-fi movie with Keanu Reeves, and a thriller with Leonardo Dicaprio and Christian Bale.
Ty Lee wanted to see the rom-com. Haru did not, but he might be able to get some alone time with her, since he knew none of the others would want to watch it.
"I'll take you," he said.
"Really?"
"Yep."
They went and got in line.
Suki frowned. "Should I supervise?"
"I'm sure he won't get past first base," Ruon Jian said.
Mai laughed. Zuko and Suki did not.
"What? His game sucks."
"My sister is not a game."
"It looks like she's winning. He just bought the tickets, and I bet he buys the popcorn."
"Whipped!" Mai said. Ruon Jian gave her a high five.
"I'm going to this romcom," Suki declared.
"Don't do it to yourself," Zuko told her. "It's Jennifer Aniston. You might be better off getting a root canal. Clearly the best choice is Time Traveler."
"Fuck no," Mai told him. "I am not watching one more bullshit Keanu Reeves movie. He can't express any emotion. I think he's a robot."
"He'd be better if he were a robot," Ruon Jian said.
"You want to see the Leonardo Dicaprio movie?" Zuko was stunned.
"He's actually a respectable actor," Ruon Jian argued. "Yeah he had his crappy movies in his twenties, but the Aviator, Gangs of New York, Inception."
"Martin Scorsese made a man out of him," Mai declared.
"Martin Scorsese could make a man out of a piece of gum."
"And there's Christian Bale," Mai added.
"I'd go gay for him," Ruon Jian admitted.
"Pitcher or Catcher."
"He'd probably be the pitcher."
Zuko rolled his eyes. Did he go with Mai's choice or did he hope Mai followed him? "I'm going to see Time Traveler."
He got a ticket.
Ruon Jian got two tickets for Deathstorm.
"Are you getting my ticket?" Mai questioned.
"No, I don't like it when people's elbows touch mine."
"Are you serious?"
"No."
"Asshole!"
Suki ended up getting a ticket for Time Traveler. "I hope Ty Lee doesn't get pregnant."
"She's not on the pill?" Zuko questioned. "You should take her to the clinic."
"She is, but who knows if she actually remembers to take it every day."
"Well there is that."
Sokka was in heaven when the food arrived. "So much meat!"
It came with lettuce wraps and rice too, but he just went for the meat. Azula made these cute little tacos out of the sides.
"You're so dainty when you eat," Sokka told her.
"And you eat like a caveman."
"Caveman Sokka hungry. He want eat!" He pounded his chest.
Azula shook her head. How did she fall for this idiot?
They made their way through the pork belly and the bulgogi. It was a lot of meat and a lot of fat. Azula ate a lot, but Sokka took the bulk of the workload. "So, did it meet you expectations?"
"This food is amazing," Sokka told her, and for a restaurant, it was cheap.
"When I was a kid, Uncle Iroh used to take Zuko and me out for lunch at a place like this."
"Where is your uncle?"
"He lives on the east coast. He moved out there to live near his son after he got married. He wanted to be close to the grandchildren."
Iroh had wanted to take Azula and Zuko with him. Ozai had never been much of a parent, often hiring nannies and nurses to deal with them instead, but he wouldn't give them up. When Iroh learned why, he was sick to his stomach.
Zuko had been his punching bag, and he had used his own daughter like a concubine. Ozai considered himself a king amongst men, like no one could ever stop him. Azula did, finally, with everclear and a lighter.
With scars covering 60% of his body, he looks like the monster that he is on the inside. He was too messed up for a maximum-security prison. Instead, he's in a special ward of a medium security prison, only two and a half years into a 20 year sentence.
'That makes sense. Do you see him a lot?"
"Zuko and I went to him for Christmas. He invited me to stay with him during the summer."
"Are you going?"
"I don't know. It sounds nice and I'd be pampered, but I'd be away from you."
They got the check and left.
"Where to now?" Sokka asked as they left the restaurant.
"Want to play a game Zuko and I would play as kids?"
"Yeah sure. What do I have to do?"
"How well can you walk backwards?"
Haru and Ty Lee only watched the first twenty minutes of the movie. They spent the rest of it making out. They were in the back, so they weren't blocking anyone's view, but Ty Lee kept moaning as Haru got his hand under her shirt, and that annoyed some of the patrons, particularly the 50 year old women who were still looking for love.
"Shut up back there!" One of them yelled.
Haru just flipped her the bird and flipped Ty Lee over, taking the lead as he started sucking on her neck.
Eventually, the woman got the manager and they got kicked out of the movie. They got a refund since they didn't actually break any posted rules, but they still had to leave the premises for the night.
"The others won't be out for at least an hour," Ty Lee told him as they got to his car.
"We could go back to your place or mine."
"Suki would kill me if I just went to your house."
"Then how about I drop you off and then forget something and have to come inside."
Ty Lee grinned. "Let's go."
Suki and Zuko watch sci fi movies for the fight scenes and in the modern era, Keanu Reeves was king. No one could kill 100 bad guys in five minutes and look as cool as he did.
They were on the edge of their seats. Keanu's character had just gone back to the time his father was murdered and killed the murderer. They all hoped this would be the end, but there was too much time in the movie. This would have to cause a new conundrum.
And 15 minutes later, a little girl is an orphan because her mother was supposed to receive Keanu's father's lung, but she didn't. Now he has to go back again and try to stop her from getting lung cancer.
"This is so good," Suki told Zuko.
"I know, Mai's missing out."
It wasn't until the opening credits started that they realized Christopher Nolan wrote the script. This was like the holy trinity for them.
"I watch Memento at least once a month," he admitted to Mai.
"I swear Nolan's in my top three directors of this time."
"Who else is there?"
"Scorcese and Miyazaki."
"Oh, I have his complete collection."
"Which one?"
"Both of them."
They turned their attention back to the movie. Leonardo Dicaprio was a bookie taking bets for horse races. Christian Bale hires him to help him with a scam. Unfortunately, the mob does not approve of their extracurricular activity.
It was only 20 minutes into the movie when the first car bomb went off. Unfortunately, Dicaprio had let his neighbor borrow the car. She and her daughter were killed on the spot and now the police are very interested in Dicaprio's life as is the neighbor's husband who wants revenge. Shit just got real.
Ruon Jian and Mai were too into the movie to pay attention to each other. They liked movies that were riveting. So much so that you could ignore the person next to you and it was customary. Zuko and Suki both liked lighter stories, which is why Mai never really liked what Zuko picked out. He watched movies and shows he could talk during. Mai didn't want to watch it if it couldn't keep her complete attention.
Azula had snuck Sokka into the movie theater by walking backwards through the exit as a crowd came out. Somehow they got away with it and they decided to sneak into the sci-fi movie.
"Sci-fi movies are the best for sex," Azula told him.
"Why?"
"The movies are loud and the audience is usually talking through them anyway, so they don't notice you in the back."
Sokka loved how thoughtful she was about this.
They got seats in the back corner and started to make out. They could have just gone to her room to fuck, but there was something fun about breaking all the rules just because.
"We should hurry up. There's only 20 minutes left,' Azula told him.
"How can you tell?"
"Penultimate fight scene is coming up. Once you've seen one of these with Zuzu, you've seen them all!"
He pushed her underwear out of the way and got inside of her. She bit her lip to keep from groaning loudly.
He covered her mouth with his, kissing her roughly as he began to pound away at her. Zuko and Suki didn't notice, but another guy did and he took a video on his phone. You couldn't see their faces, but their actions were apparent.
"Fucking at the movies," the guy posted to twitter.
It was taken down for violating the TOS, but it would make its way to reddit first. How long will it be before Zuko or Suki find it?
Haru and Ty Lee were in Suki's room.
"I'm not sleeping with you tonight," Ty Lee said. He'd have to work for it. "But, we can have a little fun."
"It's all up to you." He grinned as he pulled her on top of him. They started making out.
When Suki and Zuko came out of the theater, she was looking for her sister. "Where is she?"
"Maybe the movie is still going."
"It was 20 minutes shorter than ours."
"Oh. Call her?"
She dialed her sister's number, interrupting their make out session.
"Where are you?" Suki asked.
"Haru dropped me off. I'm at your house."
"Oh okay. See you soon." She hung up. "Haru already took her home."
"Oh. I can take you home if you want."
"What about Mai?"
My girlfriend, shit. "Um Ruon Jian drove her here."
"You should at least ask."
Ruon Jian and Mai had gotten out of their movie ten minutes before and they were still talking about how good it was. When Mai's phone rang, she answered. "Hello."
"Hey where are you?"
"On the benches outside the front of the theater."
Zuko walked over to them. "Can Ruon Jian take you home?" Suki doesn't have a ride.
Mai wondered why Ruon Jian couldn't just take Suki home, but Ruon Jian said, "Sure. It's on my way anyway."
"Great." Zuko left without another word.
Mai scowled at him.
Azula and Sokka went to her place after the movie. "How about we take a shower and then sleep?"
"Sounds good."
They went into the shower. A line formed while they were in there. A lot of girls brought their boyfriends over today.
"Hurry up!" one girl yelled.
"Wait, did you just say, suck Sokka while I'm in here. Okay!"
Azula took even longer.
Sokka laughed the whole time. "I love your bitchiness."
"Good!"
They left and dried off in her room. Sokka had never been in here before. They were supposed to have supervision if a male was over. It was a generic beige, but there was some nice art on the walls, and Azula had some flowers in a vase.
Sokka didn't have any pjs so Azula gave him some boxers that she normally slept in. She wore a t-shirt to bed instead.
On the way to Suki's house, Zuko asked her what she was doing next weekend.
"I haven't thought that far ahead."
"Maybe we could hang out again."
"Like in a group." She didn't want to find herself in dangerous territory.
"Yeah." Not exactly what I had in mind, but okay.
They got to her door and Zuko was headed for his car when he heard, "OH HARU!"
"Oh shit!"
Suki ran upstairs and started banging on the door.
Ty Lee panted as she finished her orgasm. Haru pulled his fingers out of her and said, "I gotta run."
He climbed out Suki's window and ran to his car. By the time she realized what he had done, he sped away.
Zuko was trying not to laugh.
Ty Lee finally opened the door.
"Did you fuck him?"
"NO! I'm not going to fuck a guy after the first date. I'll at least wait until the third date."
Suki didn't lose her virginity until college. Ty Lee wasn't operating on the same timeline.
When Haru got home, he took a deep breath. "Just made it out with my life."
On the way to her house, Mai asked where Ruon Jian lived. When he told her, she said, "that's on the other side of town."
"I know."
"Why did you tell Zuko I was on the way?"
"Because I'd rather drive you home than Suki."
"And why's that?"
"Because I don't want to do this with Suki," he said as he pulled into her driveway.
"Do what?"
He kissed her for an answer. She sighed into the kiss before pulling back.
"I have a boyfriend."
"You should dump him. Think about it Mai. You have nothing in common with him. Even Tom Tom can tell he's boring."
Tom Tom had never warmed up to Zuko. "I don't know."
"Think about it."
She got out of the car, briefly touching her lips before going inside.
Sokka couldn't sleep last night. He wanted to draw and looked in Azula's drawer for a pen. It was there where he found her paperwork from her shrink. He shouldn't read it. It's private, but she never actually tells him anything other than she hates her therapy. He's her boyfriend. He should know what's going on in her life. That's what couple's share, isn't it? He opened the file and started to read.
