After they finished breakfast, they split up. Katara had spotted a small lake outside in the palace garden. It was a little smallish but it was enough for two waterbenders to get a good day's practice. She decided to take Aang there and practice their waterbending.

Sokka decided to go back to their room and go over the scrolls he "borrowed" from the Wan Shi Tong's Library. He wanted to see if he could find something he had overlooked before that might be helpful to win the war. Even if he did, he was wasting his time. Long Feng, the leader of the Dai Li and the de facto leader of Ba Sing Se, threatened them that if they mentioned the war within the walls of the city, they'd be expelled from it. But that didn't keep his ambition from still wanting to figure out a way to end the war.

Since Toph didn't have anywhere she needed to be, she went back to their room with Sokka. Frankly, she didn't mind one bit. She was actually looking forward to spending that time with him.

"Ok, Aang. Today we're going to practice…" said Katara going through the stuff in her bag.

She was already in her swim suite and Aang had already taken his shirt off. Both their clothes and shoes were folded neatly in an average sized boulder near the lake.

"Oh no, It looks like I left the scrolls in the table when we went out for breakfast." She said turning her head to Aang.

"Its ok" said Aang getting out of the water. "I'll go get them!" he said cheerfully as he put on his shirt and boots once again. Then he hurried back to the Palace.

He crossed the Main Hall dodging and evading everyone who came his way. He was running at a very high speed. He wanted to get the scrolls and get back to Katara as soon as possible. He just loved training with her! She was so sweet and comprehensible with him. She never insulted him when he got it wrong and she always praised him when he did a good job. She was the greatest Sifu ever…

(Back with Sokka and Toph)

Sokka was writing some notes about some of the scrolls in small scraps of papers. He was sitting in the left couch with the scrolls and scraps on the middle table.

Toph was lying with her feet up on the right couch petting Momo. She had a careless expression on her face. She was obviously bored.

"Apparently, this map shows the inside of Ba-Sing-Se's inner wall…" commented Sokka breaking the silence.

"Well, that took you long enough to figure out…"said Toph not loosing her empty expression.

"Are you calling me stupid?" asked Sokka annoyed, looking up from his work to glare at her.

She sat up straight making Momo fly off her. "Very good, Sokka!" she said smiling slyly "You deserve a cookie for figuring that all on your own!" She finished widening her smile.

"Why do you love to bring me down!" he whined sitting up straight.

"Quit your whinnying you big baby." She said crossing her arms.

"Seriously, why!" he said waving his arms through the air vehemently as he stood up.

"Why are you making such a big deal of it?" she said getting exhilarated.

"Because you pick on ME the most!" he said getting angrier and louder.

(Back with Aang)

Aang was walking up the stairs to his room. He slowed down a bit and decided to take his time. It wasn't like Katara was going to kill him if he wasn't back there in 30 seconds.

As he climbed higher, he started to hear distant voices. They were awfully familiar. As he got closer they got louder and he started to recognize them. They were Sokka and Toph's. And by the sound of it, it didn't seem like a pretty scene.

When he got to the door, he opened it ever so slowly and carefully and peeked and eye through it. He would have thought that Toph had already notice his presence but it seemed that she was too involve in the argument to pay any attention to her surroundings.

"Just tell me! WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS WITH ME!" yelled Sokka pointing his finger at the earthbender.

"BECAUSE!" she yelled back narrowing her unseeing eyes at him.

"BECAUSE WHAT!" he said getting all up on her face.

She turned around and crossed her arms. "I can't believe I am wasting my time bickering with you!" she answered a little calmer, almost laughing at herself. "I don't need to explain myself to you!" she said heading back to her room.

"Don't walk out on me!" yelled Sokka grabbing her by the arm before she could get away.

She felt her anger taking over her once again. She got loose from his grip and scowled at him.

"I'm going to ask you one more time. WHY?" He said looking at her straight in her narrowed non-working eyes.

She turned her head away once more and crossed her arms.

"Why can't you just answer me!" he said getting really impatient.

Toph got tenser and tightened her eyes and fists while grinding her teeth. She was on the border of loosing it and that was something she did not want to happen…

"JUST ANSWER ME!" yelled Sokka turning her around and getting all up on her face.

Toph couldn't take it anymore. She was going to explode. If she got one more of those out of him, she wouldn't be able to hold it in anymore…

"WHY!" he shouted with every last bit of energy left in him.

Toph abruptly opened her eyes and tightened her fists almost making them crack. She faced him and blankly glared at him for a second or so.

"I LIKE YOU! THERE, I SAID IT! HAPPY NOW?" She yelled with all her might getting rid of a huge weight off her shoulders.

Aang, who was still behind the door, was left with an open mouth. He had just witnessed something really bizarre. Who would have thought? Toph liking Sokka? Actually, who would have thought Toph liking anyone…?

Sokka was twice as more surprised as Aang. He stood there, with his eyes wide open, paralyzed by the young girl's words…

A/N: Here's chapter 3! It's pretty much a "shocker chapter". It was so hard to keep Toph in character in this chapter! But I think I pretty much pulled it off. Please R' and R'! P.S. remember that more relationships will develop through out the story, including my all-time fav!