"Dinner's ready!" called Mom from downstairs.
"Wait! Two more minutes!" I called, frantically trying to hear, as the commercials finally ended.
"Stop watching that stupid show, and get down there when your mom said so!" Hana shouted at me, still chatting.
"Shut the hell up! Can't you see I'm trying to watch this! And, why are you telling me to go downstairs when your face is buried in the monitor!"
"Because I can. That show's for kids anyway."
"No it isn't. Even Dad watched it once." I said, trying desperately to hear. " Now, please shut up for three more minutes!"
"Dad watched it because you were hogging the TV downstairs and he had no choice because it was your birthday!"
"Shut up!"
"Dinner's getting cold!" I heard my mom shout.
"Coming!" I said, now completely irritated by not being able to understand anything from the show.
"Turn the TV off and go!" Hana said, grabbing the remote on the floor after turning off the computer.
"No, you…" I said, lunging for the remote, and landing on my stomach, stretched across the floor, right next to it.
Hana kicked me aside and turned off the TV, just as I sat up.
"Oh my God!" I said, getting up. "What's your problem? Have you even tried watching it… just once?"
"No, and I don't intend to."
"God!" Right then, I could have strangled her, if had had know that no one would strangle me in return.
"You're obsessed! It's like you're living in that fake world! Everyday, you and your retarded friends play make-believe and pretend you're lending!"
" It's BENDING! And, yes, I am obsessed, but it's not bad, and my friends aren't retarded. I would give anything to be able to Waterbend!"
"Fine then! Go ahead! I'm going to dinner!"
"Well I am too!" I said, heading to the bathroom to wash my hands.
Every single time I went to the bathroom I would try to bend the water from the sink. I would arch my fingers, and point the tips to the running water, and pretend I could move the water around. I really could give anything to bend. Little did I know then, that on that night, the exchange would begin, but it would cost more than I would have every bargained for.
"Stupid Hana! Now I have no clue how the episode ends!" I said, turning on the water. "If that bitch would just leave me along, then I could actually live my life!"
By now I was shouting so loud, even the people from downstairs could hear me. "I don't give a shit if anyone can hear me! I want to be heard! I want the world to know what a bitch Hana is!" I screamed, adjusting the temperature of the water. "If you would just live my life," I said, nearing my hands to the water. "Then you would see what…" I couldn't finish my sentence, because right then and there, something happened, of which I could only dream of. The running water formed a sphere, just inside my two hands. The sphere floated there, about one centimeter from each of my hands, and got bigger and bigger, with more water flowing onto it. The sink below was empty, with no water in it at all. I stood there, mouth open, ready to finish my sentence. By the time I decided to do something, the sphere would be the size of the sink. Right then, it was about the size of my head. I suddenly decided to move my hands, and the first action I did was to point my hands downwards, towards the sink. Now, the sphere was no longer floating happily in my hands, but was half in the sink and half on the floor.
"Crap!" I cried, trying to avoid the huge puddle I had just made. I was still trying to figure out what I had just done. Had the water just gone crazy, or had I? Had my anger triggered Waterbending? That was the last thing on my mind at that point, as I tried to clean up the mess, which was now flowing below the bathroom door, into the hallway outside.
"Nami! Do you want me to come up there are drag you down to dinner?" My mom shouted from downstairs.
"Just a second!" I said, mopping up the water.
Wow, I almost forgot to introduce myself! Well, anyway, there's nothing interesting in me trying to cover what I had just done, or what the sink had just done, so I'll start by telling you my name, which you might have just guessed. Yeah, my name's Nami. You may think it is rather fitting, seeing what just happened. Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe it was fait. Hey, wait, I'm giving the story away. Well, maybe you already figured it out, or not. It doesn't really matter anyway. So, continuing my introduction of myself: I'm 14, female (if you didn't already figure that out.), bored to death, living off Friday nights and chatting, not too popular at school, and a big-sister-hater. I may sound like a baby, but I do get good grades, and I'm a black belt in karate. Actually, I wish I was a black belt in karate, I'm a purple. Our house has two stories, and the inhabitants include me, Mom, Dad, and lastly and leastly Hana.
Now that I'm done mopping and you're done learning who I am, we can get back to more exciting issues.
So now you can imagine how hyper and scared at the same time I was. I mopped that dump up in about 67 seconds, and headed to dinner, even though my hands never touched soap that night, probably because I was too freaked to go near the sink again.
I'll take another paragraph and explain something you must know about me. I was desperate to have powers. Any power, but as I said before, controlling water would be a gift from God himself. I must say that it hurt really bad trying to Waterbend and not being able to, especially after watching Avatar and seeing how cool it would be. When I saw that sphere, I really couldn't think. I didn't associate it with Avatar, except after it flooded my bathroom. All I thought was something like, "What the hell is this?" followed by, " Is this for real?" or the always handy, " Am I dreaming?" Well to answer my questions: A sphere of floating water, yes, and no. As I ran downstairs I felt a sudden urge to go back and see if this was all true. Even now, after about four years after that incident, I still think back to that evening and think to myself, "It was all a very bad dream."