He had a blank look on his face.
"Zuko?" I knew it! He wouldn't want it! I'm so stupid! Why did I tell him? I got up quickly and was about to run away. Then Zuko took my hand extremely gently.
"Kya, wait." He sat me down very gently in the sand. "Are you okay? Is the baby?"
I nodded. "How long have you known?" He asked.
"Since you went to the Boiling Rock…"
"Oh my god…" He ran his finger through his hair in a frustrated manner. He was mad at me! I knew it! God, I'm a horrible fiancé! Tears started brimming in my eyes. Zuko noticed; he wiped the tear from my eye. "Kya, don't cry. I just…I-Why didn't you tell me?"
"I didn't want you to worry about me…us."
"And this is your solution?" He looked at me like I was crazy. "When we're planning on telling me?"
"I don't know…Just now, I guess." He sighed. I started crying more.
"Kya, I'm over-joyed, but you should have told me! What if my father attacked? What if you got hurt? What if you made it out alive but you over stressed the baby?" I just can't win here.
"Zuko, I'm so sorry. I wanted to tell you. Really, But if I did you'd be focusing on me and the baby, and you need to be focusing on winning this war so our child could grow up in a better place." Zuko sighed again. "But you are happy right?" I asked giving him a hopeful grin, He rolled his eyes, and let out a small grin.
"Of course I am. We should get going, the play is almost over." He got up first but before I could even move Zuko had his hands around my waist. He gently lifted me to my feet. Before I could start walking, he wrapped one arm around my waist; his other hand was on my arm supporting me. I looked up at him and gave him a skeptical look.
"I can walk Zuko." I said slapping his hand away; I laughed a little as he sighed.
The next morning I was in the kitchen with Katara who was getting some drinks for Aang and Zuko, who were practicing outside.
"So, Katara… I told Zuko." She almost dropped the watermelon.
"Thank god Kya!" She came over and gave me a hug. "I thought I was going to have to tell him." We both laughed.
We took the drinks outside. "Who wants a nice cold glass of watermelon juice?" Katara asked.
"Oh! Me! ME! ME!" Aang went running toward us, but Zuko grabbed him by his collar.
"Your training isn't over!"
"Oh c'mon Zuko, take a break." Suki said.
"Fine." He let Aang go and he ran to Katara. "If you want to lounge around like a bunch of lazy snail-slugs all day, go head!"
"Okay," I said walking up to him. "Let's do something crazy! Let's run the perimeter of the island, or bare back a Komodo Rhino!" Zuko looked at me very frustrated then sat me back down on the stairs. He then ran off in the other direction.
"Maybe Zuko's right. Sitting around the house has made us pretty lazy. I have a solution though! Beach Party!" That really wasn't a bad idea.
I went into the house, then into my room. I was about to de-robe but as soon as I saw my stomach I immediately ran to the mirror. I looked at my stomach from a profile view. It wasn't like…protruding or anything, but it defiantly looked like I gained some weight. When did this happen? It was like overnight. I looked at my stomach in amazement. This is really happening. I finally came back into reality. I put my robes back on and walked outside. I wasn't going to go out in a bathing suit. I already have Katara and Zuko on my back, so I am not risking the others finding out.
I walked outside to see Aang and Toph sand bending, Katara surfing on some ice, Suki lounging in the sun and Sokka making something… A dead lion turtle?
I walked over to him and stared in amazement. "Sokka, what the hell is that?" Toph and Aang came up behind me.
"Can't you see? It's Suki!" It took a couple seconds but we all started laughing hysterically.
"Suki, we will all understand if you break up with him." Toph said laughing.
"I think it's sweet." Suki says, Sokka runs over to her kissing her on the cheek.
"But it doesn't even look like- AHHH!" The sand sculpture exploded, sand going everywhere. We all ran back, I protectively put a hand on my stomach.
Zuko came down shooting fire at Aang. What the hell is he doing? Aang ran down the beach.
"Zuko what are you doing?" Aang asked dodging the fire.
"Teaching you a lesson!" Aang airbended his way up back to the house, with Zuko closely behind him.
Katara came back to shore. "What's going on?"
"Zuko ruined my sculpture of Suki! Oh, and he's attacking Aang."
We all ran up the hill to try and catch Zuko. When we got up to the house Zuko was as falling from a giant hole in the wall while Aang was just standing there.
"What's wrong with you? You could have hurt Aang!" Katara yelled. I went over to help him up.
"What's wrong with me? What wrong with all of you? How can you all just sit around and have beach parties when Sozin's comet is only three days away?" Nobody said anything…Zuko did have a point. The comet that was going to make the Fire Nation the most powerful nation in the world was only three days away. "Why are you all looking at me funny?"
"Zuko, I've been planning to fight the Fire lord after it came." Aang explained.
"After? Aang if you wait there won't be a world left to save."
"What do you mean?"
Zuko inhaled deeply. "Before the invasion I went to a war meeting. That's when they informed me they were planning on attacking the Earth Kingdom during the comet. They're just going to burn it to the ground."
"I always knew the Fire Lord was a bad guy, but this is just evil." Sokka commented.
"This can't be happening." I said.
"What am I going to do?" Aang looked at all of us for help. What could we possibly say?
"I don't know but whatever you do, you don't have to do it alone." Katara said putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, if we fight the Fire Lord together we have a chance." Toph said.
"Fighting the Fire Lord is going to be the hardest thing we have ever done together, but I wouldn't want to do it any other way, together." Aang said smiling at us.
"Well with that said…Let's start training." Sokka said pulling out a watermelon. Over time I have learned it's better not to ask…
