With disguise donned, Aang, his girlfriend and the rest of the 'team' assembled and marched forward to the ship which would take them home. Despite their exhaustion from previous days of walking and their earlier fights, they covered a good distance and arrived at the sleepy earth kingdom village of Sudra (roughly an 1/8 of the way to the coast) before night fall and checked into the local inn. It was a run down place; of course the whole village was pretty run down. To not attract attention, they only rented two rooms (one for the girls and one for Aang) and it was a vast improvement for all of them from their usual sleeping environment, even if Aang didn't remember his past environment.
In the girls room, Azula gave her 'friends' a sound lecture about their unacceptable behavior and left little to the imagination about what she would do if they pulled such a stunt again. Meekly they apologized and for a while, all was silent, but her friends were used to such temper tantrums and quickly the mood changed when Ty Lee asked about what Azula and Aang did while they were gone. Azula nearly blushed as she remembered the kiss. She coughed and then thought for a second.
"What do you think we did? The kid just talked and talked!" snapped Azula as she laid down in her bed (Mei and Ty Lee had to share a bed).
"Oh...I'm surprised. He seemed to really like you...or at least believe that he really liked you." said Mei.
"Yeah, from the way he was acting I surprised he didn't try to make out with you or something!" said Ty Lee.
"For his sake, it is better that he didn't" said Azula after a very brief second of silence.
"Well, we have him tricked into thinking he's in love with you...what now?" asked Mei.
"Indeed...I think tomorrow we'll have to teach him the ropes...that there's going to more to us then just running around playing dress up!" said Azula.
"What are you going to do?" asked Mei.
"We'll take over this run down town! And He'll be the one to do it! This will be a good test too...to see if he's truly on our side and not just playing around." said Azula.
"Take it over? I thought you didn't want to make a huge comotion? His friends are bound to see or hear if we do anything so dramatic as that!" said Ty Lee.
"I've changed my mind Ty Lee. There is no need to tip toe around this. If the Avatar is under my control, then he will do as I say. If not, then it is better we end this experiment right there and then and bring my daddy a corpse instead of a ticking time bomb." said Azula, "That's enough about that though. get some rest, we're getting up early tomorrow."
Ty Lee and Mei closed their eyes, wondering what destruction tomorrow would bring. Knowing Azula, she would not be satisfied with Aang's loyalty until the entire town was razed to the ground.
Meanwhile, Aang tossed and turned in his bed in the room next door. His head still hurt and memories of people he couldn't remember flooded back into his mind. Many memories came back, but Aang could not think of the context of the memories or how they could fit into the story Azula had told him about their past together.
'Was she really who she said she was?' thought Aang, 'Am I who she says I am?'
Aang had absolutely no recollection of any memories with Azula.
'Why would she lie' He thought, 'And why pretend to be my girlfriend'
Aang also thought about the kiss he planted on Azula. She didn't struggle or even seemed that surprised. And although the rest of her actions seemed troublesome, Aang thought the kissed proved she was sincere.
'This had to be the way things were', Aang thought, 'what other explanation could there be'
Aang eventually fell asleep with memories of the water tribe and earth bending girl popping up every once in a while...