Modern AU High school
Bumi and Kya are twins and are both seniors.
Lin and Tenzin are sophomores.
Pema and her friends are juniors.
Wednesday
"Come on, you have to," Kya told Lin.
"I don't have to do anything."
"But you have the best house out of all of us and your mother's going out of town for the weekend."
Toph had a weekend getaway planned with her longtime partner, Sokka. Suyin was going to her grandparents, since Toph didn't trust her without adult supervision.
"You're boring," Toph told Lin. "You can stay at home."
They lived in the Bei Fong mansion, easily the most impressive mansion in the city. The Bei Fongs were really old money, and due to Lao, they just kept making more.
"The last thing I need are a bunch of punks trashing my house and getting me in trouble forever."
Bumi joined forces with his sister. "But you can lock down the different wings of your house. Just open one for the party and lock down everything else."
Lin frowned. She could easily lock away the north wing, which was her mother's quarter and the west wing, which was Suyin's. Lin lived in the east wing and the south wing was used for hosting events.
"The south wing only."
"And the pool?" Kya tried
"If you clean it afterwards."
"What about the hot tub?" Bumi questioned.
They had three hot tubs. Toph had an indoor one. There was another one outside, and the third one was in Lin's courtyard.
"Don't push it."
Bumi thought he could change her mind there. Once she sees his fabulous body, oh yeah!
"How many people can we invite?"
"Do we really need more than 20 people?"
"We can work with that," Kya told her.
"Are you nuts?" Bumi told her after Lin left. "We need like way more than that."
"She said do we really need more than 20 people. She didn't say we couldn't invite more than 20 people. Maybe not everyone will show up." Kya winked.
"Oh you are bad!"
"I'm just helping. Lin doesn't know these things."
Before they got to the guest list, they decided on what the party would actually require. "Booze, food, music …"
"Can we get a band?" Bumi questioned.
"Who would play on such short notice?"
"I bet Bolin's band would do it. They'd probably pay for free if we gave them good beer."
They found Bolin flirting with Opal.
"Hey Bo! Would your band be interested in a gig on Friday night?"
"YEAH!" He grinned. Opal will think I'm cool if I invite her to our concert.
"The Bei Fong mansion wants you!"
"We're so down!"
Mako and Korra of course wanted to invite their friends to see them play.
"I'm sure that's fine," Bolin told them.
Thursday
Kya was on the swim team so she invited them and their boyfriends. Bumi played football, which meant the football team, and the cheerleaders were invited.
Tenzin didn't think he needed to invite anyone. Lin was his girlfriend and his friends were the kind of people you had a study group with, not the kind of people who went to parties.
"Hey Tenzin," Pema said with a smile. She and her friends ran the fashion club, basically upper middle class spoiled brats who shopped in Nordstroms all weekend.
"Hey Pema!" Since when does she know who he is?
"I hear Lin's throwing a party for once."
"Yeah, I think it's probably my sister's doing."
Lin flipped when she realized everyone knew about the party, and Kya assured her that only pre-approved guests would come in and everyone was trying to get on it.
"I was wondering if you could get me and my friends on the guest list."
Pema only had three friends.
"I'm sure that's fine."
"You're the best Tez," she pecked his cheek before she left.
He went to tell his sister who glared at him.
"Why would you invite Pema?"
"She's nice."
"She and her nasty friends bullied Lin all through middle school. What makes you think Lin is okay with having Pema of all people in her house?"
Tenzin hadn't thought about that. "She hasn't done anything lately."
"Yeah, after they got suspended for two weeks for tying her up with duct tape and leaving her in the girls locker room all day."
Toph was so mad that she not only had each girl sent to juvie for the night, she also had her father call up each girl's father and threaten to make sure that none of their girls ever got into a decent college if they ever went so far as look at Lin the wrong way again. You don't screw with Lao Bei Fong and get away with it.
"Um, I'm sure it will be fine."
"Absolutely not! No way am I letting that prima donna or her brats anywhere near my home. Why would you think I'd invite them?"
Tenzin frowned. "Um, temporary insanity."
Toph warned Lin that Tenzin was an airhead, but Lin didn't listen.
Tenzin went to go tell Pema the news only to have the girl hug him. "I'm so excited for the party tomorrow."
He didn't have the heart to tell her. "See you there."
"Bye Tez!"
She looked at him flirtatiously before she went away. Pema was really cute. Tenzin was screwed.
Friday
Toph left while the girls were in school.
"Are you sure we should leave Lin alone?" Sokka questioned. "She's 16 and has a boyfriend."
Toph laughed. "Your nephew is the biggest dweeb I know. He won't get past first base."
"You have a point, but I will!"
Sokka grabbed their bags and they got into the town car. They were on their way to Bermuda.
Lao sent a limo to pick up Suyin after school. She was allowed to bring one friend with her, so she picked Kuvira.
"This is going to be so much fun," her friend told her.
"My grandfather can be dull, but he does have basically every television channel ever."
"Let's do it."
When Lin got home, she locked down every wing except for the south one. She also stowed away the valuables and locked wine cellar and the liquor closet. Her mother had the fanciest wines and whiskeys in the world. She wasn't going to let teenagers who were excited about Bud Light get their nasty paws on them
When Bumi and Kya came over they said, "Where's all your stuff?"
"I moved it so it didn't get broken or stolen."
"If you could do that, why were you so worried?" Bumi asked.
"Because I know you two."
The twins gave her innocent faces. They came with solo cups, chips and dip, and soda.
"Noatok's is bringing the beer at 7PM. The band is coming at 8PM to set up. We told people the party starts at 9PM and the pizza should get here at 10PM."
"Who's going to pay for it?" Lin questioned. They had maybe 100 people coming.
Bumi and Kya gave her begging faces.
"How am I supposed to explain that charge to my mother?"
"Aunt Toph won't care. She'll say, 'I didn't know you had that many friends!'" Bumi mimicked her voice.
"She does kind of sound like that… You two owe me."
"You're the best LINNY!" They hugged her.
They got the outdoor lighting on so that people could see that the pool was available and there was seating outside.
Tarrlok and his brother came with a keg of Guinness, which held 165 beers.
"How many people are coming to this party?" Noatak asked.
"A lot," Bumi told him. They might need more than one keg.
Lin rolled her eyes and gave Noatak money to go to the liquor store and get more beer.
When he got there, however, he saw that they had a liquor sale going, so he got 3 bottles of rum for $30 and 3 bottles of tequila for $50. The keg would have been $120 dollars, not including the deposit.
"This was a better deal. I got ice and mixers and it was only $115 and I didn't need to put down a $50 keg deposit."
Lin was skeptical. "What if they just chug the liquor straight? I don't want them puking all over my house."
"We'll make punch," Kya told her. "They can't drink it straight if we already mix it."
Noatak was off. He had a college party to attend.
Tarrlok was helping Kya make the punch. Normally, he came off a smarmy but, "You're not so bad when you're not hitting on a girl."
"Can I tell you a secret?"
"Sure?"
"I don't like girls."
"What?"
"My dad is well an alpha male, and I don't want him to know, so I flirt with girls so he's happy with me."
"But you just turn them off?"
"If I actually attracted them, I would feel bad when they realized I didn't like them, so I just do a bad job on purpose."
Kya never would have guessed that.
The Fire Ferrets showed up and got their equipment ready. Bolin was on drums, Mako on the electric guitar and Korra was their singing bassist.
Asami was their manager, aka she was the pretty girl who made sure they got paid.
No one told Noatak to get them any beer, so Lin parted with one bottle of gin and one bottle of tequila as their payment.
"Two bottles?" Bolin complained.
"This is good shit," Asami told him looking at the handle of Hendrick and the half handle of Riazul. "It's worth it."
Bolin nodded. It's not like they couldn't drink the other booze at the party to cap them off.
Lin was surprised when Bumi's friends came with beer, lots of it
"It would be rude to show up empty handed," Raiko told her when he carried in one of the 30 racks. They had plenty of alcohol. This was going to be a wild night.
Tenzin wasn't sure what to do. He should have gone to the party already, but he didn't want to be there, when Pema and Lin had their inevitable confrontation. He hid at home while his classmates got drunk and danced to the Fire Ferrets.
The pizza came at ten. They set up half of it inside and the other half on the deck.
"This party rocks," one of the football players drunkenly mumbled. They had greasy food, babes in bikinis, live music and plenty of booze. Lin had somehow become a cool kid.
Pema showed up at 11PM, only to hear, "you're not on the guest list."
"What?"
"I don't see you or your friends on it."
She frowned. "Where's Tenzin?"
The weasel was nowhere in sight.
Someone called him and when he showed up, he said, "I'm sorry, but Lin didn't want you to come."
"I understand," she said. She went straight home, waited about 30 minutes and then called the police reporting underage drinking on the premesis. "Let's see if Lin gets into college now."
The officers came to the Bei Fong residence.
Since they lived in a gated community, the guard posted at the gate called the Bei Fong's house phone to report the problem.
SHIT! "I'll come outside to talk to the police."
She ran to find her friends.
"BUMI! KYA! TENZIN!"
They ran to her.
"What's wrong?"
"Someone called the cops. We're fucked."
Tenzin ran outside and jumped the gate. He was not getting arrested for this.
"That little bitch!"
"Forget him," Kya told her. "Bumi, get your friends and hide all the booze in the basement. Lin, give him your keys so he can lock it somewhere. We'll go out and stall."
She handed over her keys, and the girls raced outside.
Bumi whistled for his friends. "We need everyone to hide until the cops go away. Drunk people follow Raiko. Sober people, help me get this booze put away!"
Lin was unsure what to say. She was sober but she was terrified. "What if I get arrested? What if I …"
"Say nothing," Kya told her. She had dealt with the cops a few times.
"Officers," Kya started, "How may we help you today?"
"We got a report of underage drinking on the premisis."
"It must be some kind of mistake. We do have guests over, but we've only been serving juice and pizza."
"We need to investigate ma'am."
"Do you have a warrant?"
"We have probable cause ma'am."
"Based on the supposed word of an anonymous caller, I don't think so. Was the caller a guest, a neighbor, do you even know?"
Kya aced her civil rights class!
The officers discussed the matter amongst themselves. Who was this, Clarrence Darrow Jr?
"We can observe from the street. If we see evidence of alcohol, we're going in."
Kya frowned. "Follow me officers."
She hoped she bought her brother enough time.
When they got to the house, they saw cars lining up near the house and empty boxes of beer.
"Those are my mother's," Lin claimed.
The officers went inside and were surprised to see a band playing while 30 kids were dancing. They checked the cups in people's hand but it was just water.
"Hello officers, would you like a tour?" Bumi offered.
He showed them around the wing and outside, but there was no alcohol anywhere.
"Who would call the police on you?"
"We did turn away some girls who showed up here drunk, so they might have wanted revenge. Pema has been known to be a problem. She's a bit of a bully."
When the police went to her house to see if she had falsely reported, they found her and her friends sloshed. They all got tickets for drinking underage.
"BUT they were serving booze! I saw it," Pema insisted.
"We saw nothing, and you're lucky you aren't getting arrested for abusing police services."
Lin 1, Pema 0.
The guests came back out and the party went on. "That was kind of fun," Izumi said about hiding from the cops.
"I still can't believe Tenzin left you like that," Kya told her friend.
"We are so over!" It was his fault Pema showed up and to leave her like that, no way!
Tenzin tried to explain the next day, but she told him that they were through.
When Toph came back on Sunday, she inspected the house. "Everything is clean and in its proper place. Did Lin really not do anything, how boring?"
It wasn't until Monday, when the police told Toph about the call to her house that she learned Lin threw the party.
After school, Toph wanted to have a word. "I had a chat with the police today. You threw a party, and you didn't even get alcohol. How lame!"
"Well, we did get alcohol, but we had to hide it when the cops showed up."
"You tricked the police?"
"Well it was mostly Bumi and Kya who tricked them, but yeah."
"I'm so proud. My baby is finally cool!"
"Does that mean I'm not in trouble?"
Toph inspected the liquor closet.
"Why am I missing a bottle of gin and a bottle of tequila?"
"I needed it to pay the band."
"You had a band! Tell me about this party."
Lin told her about the pizza and the pool party and hiding from the police and all of the booze.
"And Pema tried to crash it?"
"She did, but we didn't let her in so she called the cops."
"Why did she show up?"
"Tenzin told her she could come, and when I said no, he didn't man up and tell her. He also ditched me when the cops came."
"That airhead."
"I dumped him."
"So what about Bumi?"
"Wht about him?"
"I may have terrible vision, but I could see you blushing each time you mentioned him."
"He's cute okay, and he's nice, and he kept me from getting arrested."
"So ask him out?"
"What if he says no?"
"That's it, you're grounded, until you ask him out."
"MOM!"
"No exceptions. I will not raise a wimpy Bei Fong!"
Lin didn't get the courage to ask him out until Thursday.
"I would love to go out with you, but I'm grounded."
"What?"
"Mom and Dad caught Tenzin drunk on Friday night, so he snitched on me and Kya. We're both grounded for two weeks."
Bumi kissed her. "Will that due until I'm ungrounded?"
"It will."