Sokka scratched his head, his face blushing redder than a tomato. "M-my story?" he squeaked.
Katara giggled and crossed her arms, her bright blue eyes shining with amusement. "So spill the beans already," she teased. "That is, if there are any beans to spill at all!"
"Of course there's beans to spill," he roared at her, his teeth becoming like fangs as he glowered in her direction. Sokka ran his hand over his short brown hair, tied in a pony tail, shaved off at the sides of his head. "I was just figuring that we should let you go first, so I can find the guy who decided to take advantage of you, and all."
"No one took advantage of me, you big clod," she snapped. She leaned backed and smiled, and I doubt any one would be taken in by your . . . 'charms'."
It nearly looked like he was about to cry, but the water warrior shook of the tears. "That's not very nice you know," he said. "I was just trying to be protective," he narrowed his eyes, "or had you forgotten how right I was about Jet?" His sister shot back, narrowing her eyes.
"Sokka," Aang warned, his tone harsh, but still remaining friendly.
"Don't tell me," he gasped, "No way, you kissed Jet! He was your first kiss? Katara, I warned you about him!"
"I kissed him, yes," she shot back, fiery temper exploding from every corner of her body. "As if it was any business of yours, but he wasn't my first kiss."
"You've kissed more than one guy!" Now Sokka's eyes were wide and looked bloodshot. He shot to his feet and hovered over his sister. "Do you see what I mean; girls like you just draw the guys all over the place, especially the bad boys."
"Girls like me . . . ?" she growled, starting to rise to her feet.
"You know, the innocent, sweet, small town girls, naïve and really not ready for any kind of serious relationship," the teenager said with a shrug. "I've seen it a thousand times, although I've never done anything like it myself."
"Well whoopee for you," she said sourly, giving him the evil eye. "For the record, I'm not so sweet or naïve as you think I am."
"That's because . . .," Sokka began to snap.
The wind around them picked up and knocked both of them to their butts, planting them firmly on the logs they were sitting on. Aang truly was hovering in the air, his body glowing with a thick white blue light, his eyes enveloped in the shine. "Enough," he roared. "If the two of you want to kill each other, fine, but then you can do it here, by yourselves. Appa and I will go to the North Pole without either of you!" The light shifted, and covered the flying bison, who looked scared at his human partner, and a little sad and disappointed at the two water teens.
"Aang, wait a minute?" Katara called, trying to rise to her feet.
"Why? So you can tease each other and goad each other into a fist fight? What good is that to the world?" His voice was still strong, deep as though he were speaking from a massive well, and echoing through the beach. The Avatar turned his gaze on the girl, his arrow tattoos on his hands and head glowing light blue as he looked at her.
Katara and Sokka looked at each other and sighed, bowing their heads. "Aang, we're sorry," the boy said. "We really didn't mean to make you so mad, it's just . . .," he stopped lowered his head, and frowned.
"Sokka's just worried about me," his sister said. "I know he means well, he can just be a little annoying."
"And what about you?" Sokka snapped. He yelped as an angry young Avatar glared in his direction and lowered his head. "Sorry."
The light around the twelve year old lifted, and slowly Aang descended to the ground. "Okay, fine, then let's try this again. Sokka will tell us about his first kiss, then Katara will talk about her first kiss," he looked at Sokka and narrowed his eyes, "and only her first kiss, and then we'll let this issue drop. Agreed?"
"Agreed," the two water teens said nodding their heads. The Avatar smiled and sat on his log motioning Sokka to continue.
The water warrior had seen a lot in his early life, the loss of his mother, his father going off to war, never to come back, leading the defenses of his village, dealing with his soldiers insistent need for constant potty breaks, the Fire Nation, and an obsessed prince trying to catch them all, a Fire Commander, later a General just as obsessed, disappearing into a forest for twenty four hours, and having to hold his bladder that long (he really needed a psychiatrist for that episode, after that Sokka couldn't ever look at an outhouse or a tree the same way ever again) and now this. And in all of this time, he had never been as scared as he was as he was now. No, that wasn't exactly true, there was a time before now when he was scared even worse, and he was about to share that with his little sister, who was apparently more experienced in this field than he was, and with a one hundred and twelve year old spiritual and world leader. Sokka could feel the sweat pour down his forehead and he swallowed.
"Okay, first off, do you remember when I told you that you had never met the girl I kissed?" he asked Katara, his voice breaking.
"So it was Gran-gran," she teased with a wide smile. She looked at Aang and shook her hands, "Sorry."
"It's all right Aang," Sokka chuckled. "It's just a brother-sister thing." He looked at her and back at the boy. "Well, the truth is, you kinda did meet her, you just never really got to know her name, or anything about her."
"Okay, go on," Katara said.
"Well, it happened a couple of months back . . .," he began.
Mwahahahahaha! When I'm an evil meanie, I really am an evil meanie! You all are going to have to wait for chapter five for the beginning of Sokka's story. Just to be nice, like Aang's it is a two part story, and to give you head's up, after him, I plan to start Katara's story with a three page beginning too! Anyway I should have chapter's five-seven updated sometime late November, or sometime in December (if you can't wait that long, feel free to read my other Avatar stories: A MidWinter's Romance, The Fire Hunt, and Flames of Hatred), at least that's my hope. You should all know why by now. If you don't go back and read chapter two, and you will. Now I have 23 reviews, but since that's for only chapter one, good lords it will be fun to see if you all are multi-reviewers and review each and every chapter. If not, I should still get a good chunk of reviews anyway. By the way, I'll ask again, any of you friend's of Kim's whose computers are now virus free? Love to hear from you if not! Kim said such nice things, it will be interesting to see what her friends say too! Well, this 30ty year old is rambling on a bit, so, I'll see you all soon! Bye Bye! Oh, and Aang/Katara fans, keep reading! Hehehe, maybe you Zuko/Katara fans should keep reading too! ;). Disappears laughing mischievously.
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