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Okay, here's the awaited chapter 23 of Palace Couple! Sorry for not updating and all, but hey, at least I did it.
Palace Couple
She opened the two doors, just to find someone unexpected waiting for her.
W-what? What's he doing here?! Jin thought as she walked forward him with her suitcases. But as she walked closes to him, she finally noticed the awkward look on his face. The same face that she had on.
"Zuko?!" Jin asked.
"Jin? What are you doing here?" Zuko asked back.
"Me? Wat about you? I'm here because of the performing contest thing, remember?" Jin said.
"Well, I'm here for a peace treaty." Zuko replied bored, but still confuseed.
"What peace treaty?" Jin suddenly asked.
"You know, the peace treaty between Ba Sing Se and the Fire Nation. They finally settled heir differences, and decided to get some peace treaty going."
"That's nice. Anyway, um, I gotta get going, But, uh, nice seeing you again." And with that, Jin quickly grabbed her heavy bags and scurried off over to the nearest taxi and drove off.
Zuko just kind of stared as the taxi went away until Mr. Iroh interrupted him from his daze.
"Uh, Prince Zuko?" Mr. Iroh started reading from the schedule in his hand. "We must get going as well. We have a meeting with the Earth King in an hour."
Zuko followed the bodyguards who led him to his limo. Without any complaints, he entered the main hotel after getting dropped off.
RING
Zuko, who's boredom was painfully visible, walked over to the phone, when his own cell phone started to ring as well. He glanced at the caller ID on both phones, and he realized he was stuck.
One phone was her majesty back at the Royal Palace. And the other, Jin. Might as well answer mom;s call first. Zuko thought and picked up the hotel phone.
"Hello?" Zuko asked, even though he knew it was his mom.
"Hello, Prince Zuko, are you doing okay? How's Ba Sing Se so far? I here Ba Sing Se has a spectacular view." Ursa suddenly asked.
"Um, yeah, i guess it's all right."
"Good. Good. Did you meet with the Earth King yet?"
"Um, I'm about to in about half an hour."
"All right, well, make you dear old mommy and nation proud by signing the ptreaty." Ursa chuckled and hung up. Zuko soon hung up after.
He now decided to see if Jin had left him some sort of voice message on his cell.
ONE VOICE MESSAGE
Zuko read the small screen and listened to Jin's message.
"Hey Zuko! It's me, Jin. I just wanted to see how you're doing so far. Um, my contest starts in about two hours. So, if you wanna stop by after the treaty and watch, feel free to do that. Bye!" Jin's voice said enthusiastically.
Just as Zuko was about to call Jin back, Mr. Iroh, once again, interrupted him.
"It is time to meet the Earth King."
"ugh, all right, let's just get this thing over with." Zuko headed out of the hotel and entered the limo once more, as Mr. Iroh was explaining things about the "highly respected" Earth King.
"--and remember, try to compliment his pet...bear." Mr. Iroh told him.
The Earth King has a pet bear? Must be one lonely king." Zuko asked, muttering the last part.
"Well, yes, he has a pet bear named...Bosco. Just try to compliment...Bosco."
Zuko looked out the window as they finally arrived at the Earth Kings' Palace.
One hour later...
"Now that wasn't so hard, was it Prince Zuko?"Mr. Iroh chuckled.
"Yeah, whatever, but if that stupid bear of his comes near me again, I'm breaking the treaty." Zuko threatened dusting off the saliva that Bosco just had to give him when he licked Zuko back at the Palace.
"All right, well, Prince Zuko. If you would excuse me Prince Zuko, I have some tea business to take care of myself." Mr. Iroh exited the hotel room, leaving Zuko by himself.
"I don't even wanna know."
Zuko checked his phone once again to see if Jin had sent him anymore voice messages. And seeing as she did, he snuck out of the hotel room and quickly drove over to the Ba Sing Se performing arts studio, where they held the contest that Jin was a part of.
He quickly checked the time and saw that he was already fifteen minutes late. He silently entered the Multi Purpose Room and found himself lost in a crowd of people. Luckily, he managed find his way out of the crowd and sat himself down at the last row, so that no one would spot him as the Crown Prince of the Fire Nation.
"Next up, Jin from the Fire Nation." the intercom lady announced. Soon, all the noise in the large room quickly died down as Jin appeared on the stage.
"For my performance, I will be doing a traditional dance or the Earth Kingdom." Jin announced. A few seconds had passed when, out of nowhere, some traditional music came blaring out. Jin quickly spun and twirled across the stage receiving several gasps and cheers from the audience. Zuko just sat there in the back watching, trying to be as silent as he could be. Jin jumped across the stage and finished off with a perfect twirl in the air. The audience cheered at the short performance and some even stood up and cheered. Jin bowed politely and disappeared backstage.
As soon as she was no longer visible from the audience, Zuko quickly made his way out and tried to find Jin.
"Hey Katara, how you doing?" Aang asked suddenly appearing behind the girl. Katara was sitting in the garden feeding the cute little turtle ducks that came to her. It was a peaceful spot. Perhaps one of the most peacul spots in the Palace.
"Oh, hey Aang. I'm just feeding the turtle ducks. They're so cute." Katara replied feeding one of the baby turtle ducks some bread.
"Are you feeling lonely now that Zuko is off in Ba Sing Se?" Aang asked sitting down next to her.
Katara looked at Aang blankly and replied, "Well, no not really. I mean I have no one to argue with, so it gets kinda boring. But its not so lonely that I'm desperate or anything."
"Oh, well, yeah same here." Aang said feeding some of the turtle ducks himself. "Must be weird getting married to Zuko because of an arranged marriage."
"You bet. It's really weird considering how many times I ran into him at school and stuff. Especially the break up he had."
"Break up?"
"Yeah, you didn't know? He proposed to his girlfriend, Jin, but then she turned him down." Katara explained carelessly.
"He proposed before he married you?" Aang asked suspiciously.
To be continued...
Well, there you go, folks! I know this would be usually short for most people, but it's actually the longest I've ever written. 4 pages on MW!
-zkjanie