A/N: Well, I'm sorry that this chapter took so long. I had a lot of stuff to do over the past two weeks. On September 6th, I'll be returning back to school. I'll be in the eight grade and it'll be my last year. So that means a LOT of studying, tests, and homework; updates may be a bit slow but I hope not a month slow.

I need the readers of this fan fiction to please read the following message. There will be a few things that you should be aware of while reading the continuing installments of this production. As you can see at the bottom, there is a stanza from Mariah Carey's "Say Something"; in all of the following chapters, there will be a stanza from a song reflecting on the chapter. Call it a brief synopsis, if you will. I'll tell you what the song's meaning in the chapter is, of course. At times the song may just be random with NO point to the chapter. The stanza from "Say Something" is an example.

Another thing is that you will see a few characters (meaning text) like this "xXxXx" during the course of this chapter. Those characters are like a separation in the same scene. Like you're flipping back and forth in the same scene but from different points of view. The ruler lines are a separation in time or time gap.

A reference will be in the chapter about a place called "Kings Plaza". Kings Plaza is one of the malls here in Brooklyn, and it really is BORING. There will be another reference about a store called "b l u e". "b l u e" is not a real store. It exists in the movie Odd Girl Out, which this fan fic is partially based on.

So let me stop my rant and finish up with a disclaimer and review responses.

Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar: The Last Airbender, Odd Girl Out nor its characters. Soujahn belongs to me © R.N. Cherubin. Steal her and I'll slap the crap outta you. -calms down-

Review Responses:

GetsumeixMitsukai: I don't blame you for not reading "OMG I got suckorz into the AvatarVerse" fan fics. Sometimes they're just so horrible to read and I intend to change that.

ArcherofDarkness and Callie: The main character's name (for now) Soujahn was just a name I made up. Stacey's name was in the movie Odd Girl Out and I just couldn't bare to tear it away from the fan fic.

Dragon of the Fall: This story actually held your attention for ten seconds; I've never heard that one before.

Teh Panda: Hello Panda! I finally got this chapter up! Enjoy and do what you do.

"If it's worth your while
Say something, say something
If it's worth your while
Say something good to me."

Say Something by Mariah Carey

All That She Wants

Chapter 2

"First Strike"

"So, are you sure your parents are cool with this?" Soujahn asked Nikki quietly in front of the girls' bathroom, with a look of excitement on her face. It was a Wednesday and it was 12:24 P.M., almost time for lunch. Stacey was inside the bathroom and they took this time to plan Stacey's 17th birthday.

"They insist; they know Stacey and I are tight," Nikki assured Soujahn.

"And you threw her birthday part last year. Now, I may be able to rent Club 1-5." Nikki explained.

"But I may need you to invite Tony." Nikki said.

"You know, since you guys are so close..." The two continued to discuss their birthday plans for Stacey.

The hinges of the girls' bathroom door squeaked as the door was slightly opened.

"Shh..." Soujahn said abruptly, cutting off their chat.

"Here she comes." The two immediately closed their mouths and looked at the olive green bathroom door. The door opened wider and the scent of vanilla and Clorox® soon spread around where Nikki and Soujahn were. Nikki wrinkled her nose in disgust of the horrible smell. A young woman came out holding soft fabric covered textbooks. She stared down at the ground, avoiding the stares of Nikki and Soujahn which she could feel.

She walked between the two of them awkwardly. Quickly after the girl left, Soujahn and Nikki both giggled quietly.

"That was awkward." Soujahn said.

"Anyways..." Nikki started changing the conversation.

"So you'll ask Tony?" Nikki asked.

"Yeah, definitely." Soujahn reassured her.

"Okay. Good."

Stacey came out of the bathroom, running her fingers through her thin brown hair. The two of them immediately closed their mouths again.

Stacey had noticed that the two of them were conversing about something. 'But what?' She thought.

"What you guys talking about?" She asked curiously, hoping to the the 'poop' on their conversation.

"Oh nothing. Just about the new Johnny Depp movie." Nikki said with smoothness in her voice.

"Ugh..." Stacey exasperated.

"Come on. He's WAY over." She said.

"Whatever Stacey." Nikki said as she rolled her eyes.

"So I was watching "Chappelle's Show" last night," Nikki started to say as the trio was on the long line for lunch. They dragged their trays along the metal counters as they walked up the line.

"And in one of the skits," Nikki started to laugh.

"He dressed up like a crack addict with white frosted lips..." While Nikki tried to explain the skit to Soujahn and Stacey, who weren't really interested in listening as Nikki couldn't control her laughter.

As they walked down the line, small portions of very strange looking food were dumped into a section on their trays. "Eww..." Stacey said as she looked at a slob of what appeared to be meat on her tray.

"What the hell is this?" She made a face in disgust; the trio were now going to their usual table.

"I don't know." Soujahn replied.

"It looks like..." She paused and her eyes rose to the ceiling looking for a possible answer.

"Uhmm... ground meat, I think." She finally answered.

"Why don't you try it?" Nikki asked Stacey.

"And get poisoned, maybe? No, thank you." She rejected.

"Soujahn, why don't you try it?" Stacey quickly asked her.

"Ha-ha... funny." Soujahn replied sarcastically. She took up her white plastic spork that was sitting in a small cup of slightly frozen fruit cocktail. She stuck it in the 'mystery meat' and pulled it out; the repulsive brown color, added with the form it was in, made it look like feces.

'What the hell?' Soujahn thought referring to the repulsive, yet disgusting, color.

She slowly put the spork into her mouth; chewing it slowing to grasp the taste of it.

"Hmm... not bad." She said with her mouth still full of the 'mystery meat'.

"Can I have the rest?" Soujahn asked; her mouth still full.

"No, I'll just toss it out." Stacey pulled the tray away from Soujahn's reach.

"I wouldn't want to ruin your dancer physique." Stacey said in suave tone pointing to Soujahn's lean, thin body.

"Yeah, you don't." Nikki said sarcastically. Soujahn just shrugged her shoulders and the three of them continued to walk over to their table.

They reached their table only to find a young black woman sitting down, chewing on a piece of whole wheat bread from a sandwich. The sandwich looked like it had been mauled by rats. The bite marks looked so unusual and disgusting, like a rat went through it.

"I thought the dork squad convened by the compost pile." Nikki said to the teen sitting at the table. She just looked up at Nikki with her dark brown eyes. She was still chewing the piece of bread.

"Excuse me hobbit. This table is ours." Nikki said. The young woman just looked down at her food, flicking a piece of the ham that stuck out between the two slices of bread.

Stacey set her tray on the beige- colored lunch table. "Look, don't take this the wrong way- but this table is invitation- only."

She continued to flick the piece of ham.

"Well clearly, it's seems to me that she's a mute with really bad shoes." Stacey spat at her.

The girl just looked at her food and got up from the table; her backpack slung over her shoulder and her lunch tray in her hands.

The trio went and sat down at their invitation- only table. The girl looked at Soujahn with a yellow paper in her hand.

"My club soccer team is recruiting new players. Word on the field is that you're a good player. But the truth- I'd think you'd be great." She said in a Southern accent.

"Tell me what you think." She left the paper by Soujahn's tray and walked away. Soujahn looked at the paper staring at the black- printed soccer ball that took up a quarter of the flier.

"Eww... you're actually thinking about joining that club business?" Nikki asked with distaste in her mouth.

Soujahn snapped out of her day dream. "Oh! No! Eww... I mean- what was she thinking?" She crumpled up the yellow paper in her hand and dropped it on her lap.

"But the truth- I'd think you'd be great..." Stacey said with a fake, yet horrible, Southern accent imitating the young woman.

Soujahn and Nikki laughed at Stacey's horrible accent.

"Well class," The English Literature teacher, Ms. Roisham, spoke to the class. The students looked so... bored. One boy continuously dropped his head in sleepiness; stopping it before it hit the hard, wooden desk. Some of the students in the back had their cellular phones out, sending and receiving text messages.

"Time is almost up and soon it will be time to hand it your English papers in a few weeks for all you..." She set her ugly, tortoise glasses down a bit to look at her class.

'Blah, blah, blah.' Soujahn thought. She kept fidgeting in her seat. No matter how much she moved, she could never be able to get herself comfortable on the hard seat. Which made it really hard to pay attention.

Ms. Roisham heard a bit of shuffling going on in the class. Her 'bat radar' pinpointed it to be around the middle section of seats before her. Her vision soon spotted Soujahn shifting in her chair continuously; hence the noise.

"Is there a problem, Miss Synder?" The teacher asked. The whole class soon snapped out of their idleness and looked at Soujahn. She stopped her shifting and looked up at the teacher.

"Uhm... No Ms. Roisham." She said quietly, her voice quivered a bit. Suddenly her phone started to vibrate. She discretely slipped her hand inside a pocket on her demin miniskirt; she pulled out a thin, magenta Motorola RAZR that was vibrating continuously.

She gripped the cellular phone to her chest tightly so that the vibrations couldn't be heard by her neighbor, or worse, Ms. Roisham. The front of the small screen read: New Message.

Soujahn opened the phone; the screen and the flat keypad lit up. The screen's wallpaper showed a picture of a young Golden Retriever in a field of green grass. The phone continued to vibrate until a small message appeared at the bottom of the screen.

"New Message from Stacey." It read. Soujahn pressed the option "READ" using the right soft key on the keypad.

The message read:

"Hey pay attention next time! Just kidding. Wanna go shopping on Saturday with Nikki and me? We're going to that new clothing store that just opened up at the mall. -Stacey."

Soujahn opened up a new message. In the message she wrote: "Alright."

Soujahn sat down outside in front of the school doors on a brick wall that stood to be about two feet. The short wall was between two columns made out of bricks.

Unfortunately for her, the brick wall that she sat on chaffed her upper thighs a bit; the miniskirt she wore kept rising up.

She reached into her purple and gray backpack and pulled out a yellow paper ball. She placed it on her lap and carefully opened it.

The giant soccer ball was creased as some of the other character's on the paper. On it read:

Think You Got What It Takes To Be A Soccer Player?

Then Come Join Edward J. Milton's Soccer Club!

For more information, please contact Emily Hallings at the Student Office.

"Soujahn!" A voice called from behind. She turned around quickly to see who it was. It was Tony.

"Hey..." He said.

"Hey." She responded.

"I saw you guys practice on Friday. You rocked." Tony complimented her.

She chuckled a bit, "Thanks."

"Yeah. It was kind of like that Beckham movie- "Bend It Like Beckham." He said.

Soujahn began to laugh. "You saw that?" She asked.

"Yeah. Yeah." He said with a smile.

"It's just a chicky movie, that's all." She chuckled.

Tony's smile started to go away, "No... I think it was good."

Soujahn saw his smile fade away. "Oh... I think that's good." She chuckled again.

xXxXxXxXxXx

Nikki and Stacey opened the heavy doors to the outside. When Stacey walked further away from the door post and turned her head, what she saw made her stop dead in her tracks. Nikki followed to see what happened. Soujahn was seen and heard laughing and Tony was right by her side.

"Look who thinks she's all that." Nikki said with a smirk. Five or six girls came outside also; they were also apart of Stacey's clan. Stacey just stood there with this look of betrayal in her eyes and her face. Soujahn's laugh echoed in her mind. It became the worst sound ever to be produced in Stacey's mind.

xXxXxXxXxXx

"I saw that movie, like, five times." Tony admitted to Soujahn.

"Are you serious!" She laughed a bit loud.

xXxXxXxXxXx

She snapped into reality but still looked at Soujahn and Tony. "No big deal." She lied.

"Come on, let's go." Stacey said but still stayed where she was standing, possibly to watch more of Soujahn and Tony.

xXxXxXxXxXx

Tony joined in the laughter, "Yeah but I had to go with my little sister, you know, so the guys wouldn't talk smack."

"Oh okay, I'll keep quiet." She said. A honk was heard from a beige GMC Denali SUV.

"Oh. That's my mom. Gotta go." Tony said before he jumped over the short wall.

"Okay..."Suddenly she had the feeling that she was forgetting something; something important. The word 'birthday' flashed in her mind.

"Oh, Tony!" She called to him as he walked to the car. He turned around with a huge smile on his face.

"Yeah?"

"I forgot to tell you that you are invited to Stacey's birthday party." She said.

"Are you coming?" He asked.

'I hope you are.' He thought.

"Yes." She said.

"Well, then. I guess I'll come too." He said flirtatiously. Who knew guys could flirt!

He went inside of the huge SUV and went off.

'What did he by, 'I guess I'll come too.' Soujahn thought. Oh how naïve the young can be!

She turned around to see Stacey and the gang turning around to leave. She snapped back to reality and jump off the wall. She slung her backpack over her shoulder quickly.

"Stacey, Nikki!" She called to their attention. Everyone in the group heard but decided not to pay any mind.

"You guys!" She finally caught up with them, putting her hand roughly on Stacey's shoulder which made Stacey lean back a bit.

"What happened? Didn't you guys hear me calling you?" She asked.

"Oh no. Sorry sweetie." Stacey said in one of her usual fake voices before she put her arm over Soujahn's shoulders. She pushed past Nikki while she walking with Soujahn. Nikki just stared at the ground; a smirk still on her face.

The trio walked into the Kings Plaza mall; many people were bustling in and out of stores, carrying bags on their arms.

There were many groups of people conversing near the kiosks that were placed in the huge walkways of the mall. Kings Plaza Mall (or formerly known as Alexander Plaza Mall) was just like your regular mall with stores, a Lowes Cineplex Megaplex, and a McDonald's that's always crowded. But there was only one thing wrong with it; Kings Plaza is SO boring! The only way you would be able to have at least an ounce of fun was to bring a group of friends. Feh...

The trio walked to a store, or boutique if you want to get fancy, where outside was velvet red ropes; the kind that would be found at those 'red carpet' events. Above the door post for the entrance was an awning that stuck out about one foot. Atop the awning stood blue lowercase letters that spelled out (just guess) b l u e; the letters were about a few inches apart. Right next to the ropes was a fashionably dressed woman with a clip board in her hand.

'A female bouncer?' Soujahn thought. As they went to the red ropes, the woman stood in front of them.

"Nikki Rodriguez." Nikki gave the 'female bouncer' a card. The woman looked it over and unlinked one of the ropes so that Nikki could go inside of the boutique.

The woman now looked at Stacey. "Stacey Larson plus one." She said referring to Soujahn who just looked at the woman with a little bit of fear in her eyes. Although the woman was well dressed (possibly she may have gotten her clothing from b l u e, as a promotion for the clothing shop for shoppers in the mall) she was a bit... big. The woman unlinked one of the ropes again to let Stacey and Soujahn inside.

When they stepped inside, the boutique was small but had a variety of clothing on the steel rod racks. Signs were perched atop of the racks. They read: 30- 50 percent off! Soujahn saw the signs and went off to look at a pair of demin jeans. Stacey and Nikki went over to look the colorful tops that were on a rack.

"Forget anything in Gurlstyle; every dork and her mother will be wearing them." Stacey said as she and Nikki sifted through the clothing. Nikki paid no attention what Stacey said; the only thing that she was thinking about was Soujahn and Tony.

'How can she think about clothes when she should be thinking about that slut, Soujahn?' Nikki thought.

'Time to add fire to fuel.' Nikki thought with a small grin on her face.

"Did you see the way SuSu flirted with Tony; she was all over him. Doesn't she know that he's yours?" She said with a mischievous grin.

Stacey looked up from the rack of clothes and looked over to Soujahn, who was pushing jeans to a side of the rack, one by one.

She shrugged her shoulders, "Whatever. He's not mine yet." She replied coolly. Stacey went over to a shelf to eye the many colorful and varied styles of purses. Nikki looked at Soujahn with a smirk on her face.

xXxXxXxXxXx

Soujahn took a pair of jeans off the rack and held it up for inspection. She laid it against her legs, looking at it from this view. But there was something else to check; the price tag. She looked at the tag and almost choked on her saliva, looking at the outrageous price: 150 dollars.

She turned around to go to the dressing rooms which were about a few steps away; Nikki and Stacey came out with leopard print miniskirts and black tops. They twisted and turned like fashion models to show Soujahn their clothes.

"Jungles Babes! I love it!" Soujahn exclaimed. Nikki looked at the pair of jeans that were in Soujahn's hand.

"That's all you're trying on?" Nikki asked, mostly acted, surprised.

Soujahn looked at the clothing still in her hand, "You know; my closet's so full right now." Soujahn lied.

Want to know the truth? Soujahn couldn't afford these jeans. It's not like she wasn't poor. She and her mom already shopped at Macy's, and that was expensive. It's just the amount of clothing that Stacey or Nikki had that were from stores like b l u e; Soujahn could afford some of them.

"Come on; you gotta try more on than that." Stacey said to Soujahn, pointing at the clothing in her hand.

"No, no. It's okay." She tried to tell Stacey but Stacey disapproved. She took Soujahn's free hand and pulled her over to a rack with an assortment of clothes.

"Pretty in pink," Stacey said pulling out a pink tank top.

"And dare to be bare, darling." She said with a sauve accent. She pushed those two items and more in Soujahn's hands. Soujahn rolled her eyes playfully and went of to try on the clothes.

Soujahn came out of the dressing room with the jeans she picked out and a green off- shoulder top with jungle print.

"Ooo... Very cute." Stacey complimented Soujahn. Soujahn smoothed the shirt with her hand selfconsciously.

"Yeah, but the jeans are about 150 dollars. On sale." She said sadly.

Nikki turned around from the mirror she was admiring herself in. She was trying on another outfit from the boutique, "What do you except? They're the new ultra low riders." She adjusted the cap on her head and turned back to gaze at herself in the mirror.

"But it's still so much." Soujahn whined.

'Don't whine about it then if you can't afford it.' Stacey thought. It was clear that she was getting annoyed with Soujahn's whining.

"Well, if you don't want them, let me have it." She coolly. She brushed past Soujahn to go into the dressing rooms.

At the cashier, Stacey placed all the clothes that the trio picked out. The woman came across a pair of low rider jeans and a green off- shoulder top with jungle print.

"Oh bag those separately; they're a gift." Stacey said to the cashier.

Soujahn looked at her with disbelief in her face, "Are you serious!" She asked bewildered.

"Yeah. I told you they looked cute."

"That'll be $648.43, please." The cashier said to Stacey. Soujahn looked Stacey in shock.

"Thank you, Daddy." Stacey said as she pulled out a gold credit card from her purse and gave it to the cashier.

Stacey, Nikki, and Soujahn walked out of the store; Soujahn, Nikki, and Stacey walked out with a bag that said b l u e in blue letters.

"Oh shoot!" Stacey exclaimed. Her hand went to the back of her shirt and pulled out a folded shirt.

"I forgot to pay for this." She said with a sheepish grin on her face. She shoot a quick look over to Nikki, who flashed a quick grin.

"I'd put in my purse for you, Stacey, but mines is just as small as yours." Nikki said, referring to the hand sized purse in her hand. Nikki and Stacey both looked at Soujahn and her big messenger bag on her shoulder.

She caught their looks and became a bit startled, "Guys, I don't know about this."

"Come on Soujahn. There's no security tag on it." Stacey told her assuringly but she still wasn't convinced.

Nikki looked at the both of them. "I'd do it for you." She said to Stacey, playing the old 'best friend card'. Soujahn took the shirt from Stacey and pushed it into her bag.

"Come on, let's go." Nikki said as her and Stacey already began to walk away. Soujahn followed behind them, but not too close.

Nikki leaned into Stacey's ear, "Good job, but I thought you said that thing with her and Tony was 'no big deal'."

Stacey turned to her with a grin on her face, "Can't I lie?" The two of them laughed; Nikki stole a quick look behind at Soujahn, whose expression was one of guilt and sadness. Nikki just giggled; a plot started to form in her mind.

Ya'll know the drill. Review and leave constructive criticism if needed. Remember, no flames and well written and well thought out reviews also! Thank you! This chapter was about 16 pages and 3540 words, at least on Writer, minus the author's notes.

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Rose- Nelie