WTF is going on FanFiction? They won't let me update! I'm sorry for the wait. And my space bar has something crunching under it so until that gets checked out, please excuse any words bunched together. Okay so I just smashed down on my space bar. What ever it was, its fixed. So ignore that last tid bit. And I know I promised a name change, but I had to cheat to update my stories and can't get to the namec change page. So it stays Taangy for now.

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Aang groaned again just as Sokka laughed. He wasn't good at video games like his older friend.

"This game cheats!" Aang protested. Sokka laughed again. "It's only cheating if you get caught."

Zombie remains were splattered all over the abandoned factory. "Watch my back in here, Aang," Sokka said as his avatar stealthily crept into another room.

"I don't even know how to use the gun! Seriously Sokka, can we play something else?" Aang asked, setting down the controller. He sighed and sat back on the couch. Sokka paused the game and sat back with him.

"What's going on, buddy?" he asked.

Aang shrugged. "Nothing really. Just...thinking about stuff."

"What kind of stuff?"

"I don't know...just stuff stuff." Aang said. Sokka smirked. "And this stuff would have nothing to do with you making out with Katara at Yue's party, would it?"

Aang blushed. " We did not make out! It was barely a second long!"

Sokka laughed. "Yeah, I'm just messing wwith you. So, what's really been going on in that head of yours?"

Aang sighed again. "I...haven't exactly told Onji...about the kiss yet. I mean, I was going to...but I just never got around to it. I just feel bad lying to her about it."

Sokka rubbed the stubble on his chin. "Hmmm," he began. "It seems like you need a therapy-"

"No!" Aang said standing up. "No more therapy sessions with you. Last time we almost got the neighbor's dog hit by a car."

"Well, there were no pillows around for you to scream into! How was I supposed to know he was gonna freak out and run into the street?"

"We could have gotten sued!" Aang yelled.

"But at least the car sounded cool," Sokka said. "I mean the car was like SCREEEECH! and the lady was like FLUFFY!"

"Sokka, I don't think you can help me with this one. I mean, there's just some things I can go to you for advice about...but other things...not so much," Aang said.

Sokka stood and placed a hand on Aang's shooulder. "Aang," he said. "As your older, wiser, and better looking friend," Aang rolled his eyes but Sokka continued. "I want you to know that you can come to me for anything and everything. Seriously. Anything at all. Unless you get arrested, then you're on your own."

"Thanks, Sokka."

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"So," Katara said, sitting down in the foodcourt at the mall. "How's it been?"

Toph slurpped her soda loudly. "Don't you guys need to get back to school or something? Spring break is almost over."

Suki rolled her eyes. "Classic Toph. That's why we missed you."

"So, what's been going on with you and Zuko?" Suki asked. Toph tuned out the two other girls as they gabbed about their boyfriends. Her mother made her go to the mall- again. Toph used the quiet time in her head to think. Naturally, her thoughts drifted to Aang. She could picture him smiling at her, as usual. She'd have to break her feelings for him soon before she had another meltdown.

She had already confessed her feelings to her mother, she didn't need Onji or any other people knowing either. Toph no longer harbored any bad feelings towards Onji. In fact, she almost liked her. Almost. "What can I say; the girl can hang," Toph had told Aang once. She remembered how happy Aang was to hear her say it. She'd do anything to make Aang happy, even if it meant putting up with his girlfriend.

"Toph? You okay? You're spacing out," Katara said wabing her hand in front of Toph's face. Toph pushed her hand away. "Yeah, I'm good. Just a little tired, I guess."

"Well, let's get going. Toph, have you found a prom dress yet?" Suki asked.

Toph shook her head. "My mom was making me look at a couple websites. She'd die if I bought something 'off the rack."

"Leave it to Poppy to make a big deal out of prom," Katara said, hooking her arm through Toph's. Suki looped her arm on Toph's other side.

"Poppy?" Toph asked. "You guys are on a first name basis with my mother? The most disturbed woman alive?"

"She's not that bad Toph," Suki replied. "She's just looking out for you. You are her only daughter, you know."

Toph rolled her eyes. She understood her mother's concern, but that didn't mean the woman didn't drive her insane. "She threw away all my clothes and bought me this slutty crap! I mean, look at me! I look like..."

"Like a girl who cares about her image?" Katara asked.

"Or," Suki added, "like someone with high self esteem?"

"I was going to say like you guys, but that works too," Toph said. She let the two older girls chatter while her mind drifted back to Aang. It felt like she was floating through the mall, until a flash of black made her trip and fall to her hands and knees.

"Watch where you're going, children. Don't want to hurt the munchkins," Azula said, stepping around them.

"Watch where you're going, crazy," Toph shot back. "Don't want to end up back in Shutter Island, do you Baby Doll?"

Azula cut her eyes at Toph. "You better watch yourself. Accidents happen," she purred in her bone chilling voice.

"Is that what the doctor said when you were born? Not that this isn't fun, but Blondie, Rocket and I were just leaving," Toph said, brushing off her jeans and turning away from a fuming Azula. Ty Lee appeared then and dragged her friend away. "It's okay, Azula. Everything is fine. Just breathe..."

"What is her problem?" Suki asked. "I mean, she is the most disturbed person I've ever seen."

Toph shook her head. "You gotta learn how to handle the crazy ones." Toph remembered that day vividly. She was a freshman. After Azula humiliated yet another person in front of the cafeteria, her friends decided enough was enough. Mai and Ty Lee stood and confronted Azula about her antics. It became a screaming match, and pretty soon, the entire room was quiet.

When Mai and Ty Lee tried to leave, Azula attacked Mai while screaming "You can't leave me! You need me!" Ty Lee intervined along with several administrators trying to hold Azula down. She fought, crying and screaming on the floor. It was rumored that she was taken to a mental hospital for the remainder of the year, then transferred to a private school.

Toph shook her head out of her memory when Katara spoke up. "Azula had really bad abandonment issues when her parents got a divorce. Her mom moved out of the state and they only see her a couple times a year. Mai and Ty Lee were all she had to hold on to since her dad was always working."

"How do you know?" Suki asked.

"Zuko told me. Don't tell anyone, though. They're trying really really hard to be a family again," Katara said. TYhe three girls walked in silence until Suki asked, "Hey, what was the whole Baby Doll, Rocket, Blondie thing?"

Toph shrugged. "Katara's Blondie. You're Rocket."

Katara stroked her wavy hair with her free hand. "I'm not blond."

Toph rolled her eyes. "That's the joke, genius."

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"I spy..."

"Seriously, Twinkle Toes. Stop."

"With my little eye..."

"Aang, I swear to God..."

"Something..."

"The next thing will be my fist if you don't shut the hell up."

"Green!"

Toph groaned. "My shirt, my shoe laces, my walls, my bed spread. Now can you shut up and focus please?"

Aang sighed and picked up the controller. "I played this game with Sokka and I still don't get it."

"Me niether. Just shoot people until something happens," Toph said. She was deep into the game, yelling at the screen as if that would improve anything.

"I saw Azula today," she said. Aang raised an eyebrow. "They let her out of the looney bin?"

Toph laughed. "She probably escaped. The girl has issues."

Aang nodded in agreement. He sat back on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. HHe started mumbling to himself.

"What are you singing?" Toph asked. "The Toy Story theme song. It brings back so many memories. You've got a friend in me..." Aang said.

Toph sighed. "That song is so-"

"My mother took me to see it. She sung that song to me the whole way home. I remember her singing it when she tucked me in that night."

Toph was quiet. Aang hardly talked about his parents. She didn't think any of their friends or even Onji knew the small amount of information Aang had ever told anyone. Toph let Aang carry out the tune. She felt awful for what she thought about the song before. She felt relaxed at his voice. She had never noticed the sound before.

"Aang, I didn't know you could sing," she said. Aang blushed, thankful Toph wasn't looking. He was enjoying the silence for once. The serenity of their little moment in her bedroom...with the door closed. Aang inhaled her scent on the bedspread. For now, he was truly happy. Until his phone rang.

Toph snatched it before he did. "It's Onji," she said, tossing it to him. Aang stared at the screen for a moment, then put the phone in his pocket. "I'll call her later," he said.

"Toph, I have to tell you something," he said, looking down. He was preparing for her to scream at him, throw something, or light him on fire. He didn't know how to break it to her that he went to a party without her, out of hope that Katara would see him as more than a friend.

"What?" she said, hardly paying attention. She twisted the controller and yelled again. "Come on damn it! Shoot his ass!" she slammed the remote on the floor and screamed. Aang gulped. "Maybe the batteries are dying," he suggested. If she got this mad at a game, he didn't want to know how mad she got from being lied to.

"Maybe. That's probably why he just stands there and dies half the time," she said, sliding open her bed side table and ripping out a pack of batteries. "What did you have to tell me?"

"Uh..." Aang stammered. even though he towered over Toph, she was still intimidating. "Your eyes."

Toph stared at him with confusion. "What?"

"That's what was green. Your eyes."

Toph couldn't have been happier.

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A little birdie mentioned a party chapter...how'd you guess? It's in our midst. Don't worry darlings. Soon, very soon. I was re reading my old chapters and I noticed I never explained Azula's breakdown. Plus, will a matriarch return? Find out next time! I don't own the awesomeness that is Avatar. But, oh, if I could...Also, Shutter Island was the best movie ever! And Baby Doll, Blondie, Rocket, Sweet Pea, and Amber were characters from Sucker punch, also about an insane asylum.