Hello all!!! This is a continuation of the previous chapter from the point of view of Katara.

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"It's not like I can't see him staring, he's being way too obvious about it." my best friend Yue says to me. We're in the cafeteria right now, I'm studying for an upcoming test while she is fawning over all the boys.

She does that hand wave where she doesn't just move her hand but it also wiggles her fingers. When I look up to see who she waved at, I look back down in my book in utter disgust.

"If he likes me, why doesn't he just come up and ask me out, I wouldn't be opposed to it."

Because he's not looking at you, he's looking at me, is what I want to say, but I keep my mouth shut because I know she won't understand. Yue and I are both Blues but she really doesn't seem to understand what that means. I obviously understood, we don't associate ourselves with the other gangs, least of all the Reds.

That hasn't stopped her from flirting with every boy we come across. I look up again and I see her blowing kisses to him. I sigh exasperatedly, sometimes I don't remember why we're even friends.

I try to focus on the book in front of me but every time I try to start reading the words again, they just start to jumble. I start focusing so hard on that I'm getting lost in my own thoughts. Everytime I bring myself back, I realize that I'm bringing myself back from thinking about him. I allow myself a peek, a quick glance at him. I lift my head up ever so slyly, it was completely unnoticeable unless you were looking for it.

I look across the lunchroom and there he is. His red shirt with the white collar. His sleeves that have been pushed up just the tiniest bit so that they stop mid-forearm. His eyes gleam with yellowish gold glow that is so piercing, I can see it all the way from over here.

I catch myself staring, mentally berating myself for being so foolish. There is no possible way that we could be together, we are too different, there is too much bad history between our families. My parents made sure I understand that me and Sokka can never be friends with either him or Azula and I'm sure he's been told the same things. He's never tried to pursue anything but mutual avoidance with me. But I can't help it, there's something about him, something that's not quite attraction or infatuation even.

I look back up at him to sneak another glance but he's staring right at me. Right into my soul, his piercing eyes don't have the same hardness to them though. He doesn't look like he's looking down on me or regarding me with disgust. This is different. If I didn't know better, I would say his eyes look soft.

Yue tries to wave and get his attention. I see his eyes shift over to her for a moment and then back to me. When he waves, I know without a shadow of a doubt that he's waving not just to be friendly, but he's acknowledging that we are the same.

We both have been forced to hate someone that we don't know, someone that we would like to know. So when I wave back, its not mocking or condescending, its acknowledgement that though we may never be friends or lovers, we are just the same. Maybe that's what it is about him. I can feel the sadness, the rage. We see the world the same way.

So I know that I'm not crazy when I see Sokka smile every time Azula walks in to the room.

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Still not a fan of Zutara but whatever. I am a fan of Sokkla so if anyone knows any good stories, PM me.

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