Expect the Unexpected Chapter 3: Wake Up, an avatar: last airbender fanfic

Don't worry! The boys come in soon! It takes time.

Summary – Everyone is at the sleepover celebrating Suki's birthday. So far, Kiana, Yue, Suki and Katara are doing a dance for the talent show. They are in high school and freshmen none the less. Will this be a good or bad high school experience?

Chapter 3: Wake up

I wake to the bright light of the morning. I open my eyes and look around. Everyone is still asleep. Wait a second… I look at Ty Lee and I see her eyes flutter open.

"Good morning Katara!" She waves at me from across the room and I wave back. I close my eyes again and put my head back onto my pillow. After about five minutes I grab my bright blue mini ipod from underneath my pillow and put an ear piece into my ear. Ugh… It's only 11. Motion City Soundtrack comes on and I change it to the song Everything is Alright. The music starts to play and I try to rest up some more.

About five minutes pass and I hear some more people get up. I don't bother. I feel like I have a hangover. Although don't really know what it feels like… I think this must be pretty close too it.

I open my eyes from the constant shaking of my shoulder. I grunt or growl or sigh or whatever the noise I made is called and I turn my head around to see who's shaking me. Suddenly I see Ty Lee all up in my face. I scream and jump back, hitting my head on the metal bar of Suki's bed.

"Ow! Jesus!" I look at the metal bar and then back at Ty Lee and start to laugh.

"Katara you're so stupid!"

"Meanie!" We both start to laugh as I hold my head trying to stop the pain.

"Don't dent my bed now Katara!" Suki says, her head still under her pillow. I laugh even harder and pull the covers off of her. She tries to grab it back but I just pull harder and signal Ty Lee to come help. Everyone wakes up from the sound of our laughing and Suki's screaming.

"Fine, I give up!" Suki throws up her hands. Ty Lee and I smile and drop the blanket. Before we know it, Suki grabs it again and covers herself. Ty Lee and I run over to either side of her bed and start to shake it. She grumbles and covers her head with her pillow.

"Alright! Alright! I'm up! I'm up!" She gets out of bed, hair all messed up. We all laugh and move onto the next person to wake up.

"YUE!!! Get up!!!!!" We shake her whole body and jump on her mattress.

"I'm up already!" She jumps up and starts to jump on the bed as well. We jump on to the rest of the beds waking everyone up. At the end, we are all exhausted, hair all messed up, morning breath in our mouths that is not to pleasant might I add.

"Well, I've got to get ready. I hate morning breath." I stick out my tongue, breath out and make a disgusted look.

"Trust me Katara, we don't find your morning breath very pleasant either!" Suki says. I laugh and roll my eyes. We all take turns in the bathroom. One by one everyone starts to look awake. We walk downstairs once we're done and walk into the kitchen.

"Mm! What smells so good?" Azula says.

"Pancakes smarty" Toph says. Azula rolls her eyes and laughs.

"I knew that." She said.

"Uhuh sure you did." Rachel says. We laugh again and find our seats at the table.

"You can move into the living room if you want and watch a movie Suki." Suki's mom placed the syrup onto the table and motioned for us to move into the living room.

"I was doing that mom."

"Okay, okay. I was just saying." Her mom put up her hands and walked to the sink to do the dishes.

"What movie are we going to watch?" I asked.

"Can you bring down your corpse bride movie?" Suki asked.

"Sure." I ran up the stairs and grabbed the movie from my bag. I walked back downstairs and put the movie into her DVD player. I grabbed my pancakes and sat down with everyone at the couch. The corpse bride started to play and everyone got comfortable.

The movie just ended. Everyone is finished with their pancakes and proceed to take their dishes and garbage to the kitchen. I grabbed my DVD and ran upstairs with everyone else. I find everyone on the floor with Suki digging through her closet.

"Where are they?" Suki throws random objects through the air.

"What are you looking for?" I asked.

"She's looking for karaoke CD's." Rachel said.

"Cool! I love karaoke! Not that I sing good… I'm just saying." I laughed.

"Found 'em!" Suki lifted them from her closet and plunged to a seat next to the little machine. We put in some songs and sang.

Suki belched out the lyrics.

"OH MY GOD!!!!! WOW! Just WOW! Suki! You're awesome!" She stopped singing and smiled.

"Eh… I'm not that good… Anyone else want to pick another song?"

"Are you kidding me? You're so good!!" Ty Lee started jumping up and down squeeling fom excitement… Don't ask me…

"Whatever. Next song" We all sung. Kiana and Suki sang the loudest. Me and Ty Lee basically sang the quietest. I think Ty Lee is a really good singer. Yue didn't sing. She had a sore throat. I personally think she has a really good voice also… Everyone's voices are really good. Wow… That sucks. Now I feel worse. Oh well… It's fun and that's all that matters.

A couple hours had passed and we were still playing karaoke. We pratically did every one of Suki's 50 karaoke songs twice. My favorite part was when Toph started singing My Humps. I love sleepovers! I hear another ring of the doorbell. Ty Lee and I are now the last ones left. We both rode our bikes here. Our houses are two houses down from each other. Suki lives in our neighborhood so I come over to her house a lot.

"It seems so lonely without everyone! It's like the entire party has left!" Ty Lee exclaimed.

"Maybe because the entire party HAS left, Ty Lee."

"Oh right!" She laughed.

"Well we better go. I told Gran Gran I'd be home now and Sokka might get annoyed. He's going to work with Haru and said he would drop me off at the mall. You guys wanna come?"

"I can't. My mom is making me go to some party thing for my other cousin."

"Who?"

"My dad's side of the family."

"Oh okay. How about you, Suki?"

"Okay. I just got to ask my mom first." Suki runs to the stair balcony. "Mom!"

"Yeah honey?"

"Can I go to the mall with Katara? Sokka and Haru is taking us!"

"Alright! Just be home by seven okay?"

"Sure!" Suki and I smiled and jumped up and down. "Ty Lee! I wish you could come!"

"Yea! We could go make fun of the Abercrombie prices!" I said.

"I wish I could go too! I don't want to go to my other cousin's party!"

"That sucks so bad! What can you do? We can go next weekend or something."

"Yea that would be fun. Well, see ya Suki! We have to go now or Sokka's gonna flip."

"Okay Okay!" I grabbed my bags and made my way to the door. "Suki! Grab your purse."

"Oh right! I almost forgot!" She laughed. "My bad!" She grabbed her purse and walked out the door. "Bye mom!"

We took seats on our bikes and biked down the road.

Suki and I turn into my driveway, finally, and watch as Ty Lee keeps riding until she gets to her house. We wave and bring our bikes to my already opened garage. I have a small house, only one story. We see Sokka grabbing some soda from the extra freezer in the garage.

"Hey!" I waved and opened the door to go inside.

"Katara! Hurry up!" His head was still in the freezer looking for food.

"I'm going! Suki is coming too. You guys can take both of us right?"

"Suki?!" He lifted his head too quickly causing him to bang his head on the top of the freezer. He looked up while holding his hand up to his newly formed bruise.

"Yea, is there a problem?" I raised an eyebrow.

"No. I though it was just you going to the mall. Whenever you go with Suki you come back with loads of crap."

"It's not crap Sokka! And watch your language! It's called merchandise. Jeez."

"Well SORRY! I was just saying! Just don't buy too much. You're paying for it. Remember that."

"I know! Trust me! I have a load of money from birthday's and Christmas's. I have my money saved up unlike some people who waste it on junk!"

"Just go get ready. Haru is gonna be here any minute!"

"I'm going! I'm going!" Suki follows me into the house and into the basement where my room is. Both my room and Sokka's room is in the basement. I drop my bags from the sleepover on the floor and collapse on my bed. My room is pretty small. Only able to fit my bed, my nightstand, a small desk with a computer and a dresser and closet for my clothes and other junk. My walls are a pale blue with a ton of pictures. None of them are in frames, they are just pictures I take with my friends or postcards and other stuff. A picture of my family lies on my nightstand in a small blue frame. It's a black and white picture from a trip I went on. It was the last time we ever went on a trip together. My mom had died when I was nine and I hardly ever see my dad anymore since he got three jobs in the city in order to provide for me and Sokka. I really do miss how things were.

"Can you grab my purse? It's on the door handle."

"Cute! How come you never used this purse before?" She brings me my purse and I sit up.

"Sokka bought it for me last week for my birthday." That's right. My birthday was last week. It was a small party, just me, Suki, Ty Lee, Azula, and Yue, our small group out of the big group. Aang also came over for some cake. Aang is my next door neighbor. He's in seventh grade, only twelve.

"Wow! It must have cost him a fortune!"

"Yeah, he saved up I guess. I couldn't believe he did it myself, though he always does try to give me the best he can."

"Your brother really is something isn't he?" I raised my eyebrows.

"Ooo! Do you like him or something?"

"What?" She threw a pillow at my head. "No way! He's your brother! I'm just saying is all."

"Defensive huh? That must mean you like him. I have 'espn' remember?" We both laughed.

"I wouldn't be talking, Ms. I don't like Jet!"

"I don't! And for your information I only said that because he's available, not because I like him."

"Whatever! Just grab your stuff before Sokka comes to drag us out."

"You'd like that wouldn't you? You'd be able to touch his 'muscles'!" I pretended to have a dreamy face and put my hands up to my cheeks. We laughed and met up with Sokka and Haru in the driveway. Sokka got his drivers license credit thing. It means he can only drive from work or from the school and back home. (A/N I don't think this is really it, but in order for this story to work, Sokka needs to drive.) He got the license last month on his 16th birthday. I hope he doesn't get us into a car accident.

We listened to the radio and rooftops by lost prophets came on.

"Oh my god! I LOVE this song!!!" I screamed.

"I do too!" Suki screamed.

"Me three." Said Haru.

"Me most!" Said Sokka.

When our time is up
When our lives are done
Will we say we've had our fun

Will we make a mark this time
Will we always say we tried

Standing on the rooftops
Everybody scream your heart out
Standing on the rooftops
Everybody scream your heart out
Standing on the rooftops
Everybody scream your heart out
This is all we got now
Everybody Scream your

All the love I've met
I have no regrets
If it all ends now, I'm set
Will we make a mark this time
will we always say we tried

Standing on the rooftops
(Wait until the bombs drop)
This is all we got now
(Scream until your heart stops)
Never gonna regret
(Watching every sunset)
We'll Listen to your heartbeat
(All the love that we found)

Scream your heart out x4

I love that song! It's awesome! A couple more songs come on that we don't really like and we make our way to the parking lot. Sokka parks the farthest away from the mall as possible.

"You like to torture me don't you?" I roll my eyes.

"HEY! I don't want my car to get messed up! I just bought it!"

"Well, you don't have to go all psychopathic on me!"

"It's my car I can do whatever I want!"

"Whatever." I sigh and start to walk ahead with Suki to the entrance. Haru and Sokka go through another entrance. They both work in Hot Topic. Sokka is into punk, rock, and classic rock music. I like it too, but he doesn't really like me listening to it. It's more of his 'thing'. I really don't mind. I watch fuse on TV so I am still able to listen to music. I just don't let it show too much.

We make our way to Aero and look at some clothes.

"Oo! Look at that guy! He's so cute!" Suki points to a guy across the store. He was completely oblivious to us and had his back turned so we couldn't see him.

"You know what we should do? We should go up to him and say 'Hey do you want to go out with me?' and then he would say 'You serious?' and we would say 'No! I hate you!'. Then, we can give him the finger!" We both started cracking up laughing.

"We should so do that!" Suki nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah right! If he doesn't punch us in the faces then he'll make sure to give us a restraining order!" We both started laughing. The guy turned around.

"Oh my god! It's Jet! Imagine if we actually did that?" We both looked at each other and cracked up laughing once again. Jet started walking over to us.

"Hey Katara, I was wondering if you wanted to go out with me." He casually put his hand on one of the clothes racks and leaned over right above my head.

"Are you serious?" I raised my eyebrows.

"No! I hate you!" My mouth widened in shock. Suki and I started cracking up laughing and Jet showed a smile.

"Isn't it time for you to give me the finger?" I asked.

"No. I like you too much for that." I laughed and rolled my eyes. "But seriously… You wanna go out sometime?"

"Okay, now I know you're just kidding. Quit while you're at it." He laughed.

"No I'm not kidding. You wanna go grab a bite to eat. I don't do this often but if it's with you then I'd like to every time of the day. So you wanna go out?" I laughed.

"Nice pick-up line! Has it ever worked before?"

"I don't know. You tell me."

"I guess it's worth a shot." I smiled and looked at Suki who was now standing on the side her mouth hanging open.

"Alright. How about Sunday? We can go watch a movie and walk over to Papa John's afterward."

"Okay. I'll meet you there say six thirty?"

"No way! I'm not letting you catch a ride with someone else now. I'll pick you up at your house. Where do you live?"

"38 Sokki Avenue"

"Okay. I'll pick you up tomorrow. See ya Katara." He strolled out of the store. Suki and I still had our mouths open our eyes wider than they've ever been.

"Oh my god Katara! Flirtatious are we?"

"Excuse me! I was just doing what I always see in movies."

"Yeah, Yeah… I can't believe Jet asked you out!"

"I know! Oh my god I think I'm gonna have a heart attack!" I pretended to faint and put my hand to my forehead.

"A little dramatic for someone who doesn't like him." Suki crossed her arms and raised her eyebrows.

"I'm just in shock is all! I've never been asked out before! Except in fourth grade, but that doesn't count because the boy was delirious."

"Mhm… Whatever. We should go celebrate! Let's go tell your brother."

"Are you kidding me? I'm waiting till the last minute! He doesn't want to see me go on dates. Trust me!"

"He'll be fine. It takes, what, only four days to recover from a minor heart attack?" We both started laughing.

"Let's just go get some ice cream. Then we'll go shopping some more. What other stores do you want to go to?"

"Hollister, American Eagle, FYE, Radio Shack, the Apple store, and… Anywhere else that has a sale." She numbers them off with her fingers.

We go to Carvel and buy some ice cream. I buy the caramel smoothie and she buys some cookie dough ice cream in a cone. We walk throughout the mall going from store to store. By the end I bought three new shirts, a new CD and a mini ipod sock for my ipod. We walk over to Hot Topic to tell Sokka that we're done. His shift is from 3-6 on Saturdays so afterward he usually takes me to go eat dinner or something. Haru sometimes tags along if his mom lets him.

"Hey Sokka, we're ready to go." We look over the counter at him trying to put some tags on the merchandise. He looks up.

"What time is it?"

"It's…" I look at my phone. "… 10 to 6."

"Oh okay. Look around a little while until my shift is over and we can go get something to eat. Suki you can come. Haru is coming too."

"Sure. I'll come along." Suki says.

"Where is Haru?" I ask.

"He's in the back getting some stuff to put on the shelves."

"Okay." I walk to the back section where the t-shirts are with Suki. Most have skulls on them and band names. I search for a Motion City Soundtrack t-shirt and find the one I want. It's blue with the name across the front and some designs. I pick the right size and walk back over to Sokka. "Hey! Can you ring this up for me?" Sokka stands up, looks at the other bags in my hands and then raises his eyebrows.

"Another shirt?" He eye balls me but still rings it up. "You just got stuff for your birthday."

"…Including money, which is why I'm treating myself. I don't do this often." He raised his eyebrows again. "Not really often at least. And I've been working a lot more hours than usual!"

"Whatever. I still think you shouldn't spend so much."

"I know what I'm doing Sokka. C'mon just ring my stuff up so we can go." I feel Haru's presence behind me, roll my eyes, and pity laugh.

"Haru, I know you're behind me." He laughs and leans against the counter.

"What? Can you feel my presence or something?" Him and Suki laugh.

"Sure why not? You do it too often anyway." Haru is also a really good friend of mine. He's Sokka's best friend so I tend to see a lot of him. He's also in a band with Sokka. They're called the 'Welcome to Reality'. Don't ask about the name, I have no idea how they came up with it. They're not half bad. They just need a singer. So far they have Sokka on drums, Haru on bass guitar, and a kid named Lee on lead guitar. I'm friends with all of Sokka's friends and Sokka's friends with my friend's so basically we're a combined group of two groups… or something like that.

"C'mon Sokka! It's already 6:02. You can stop." Haru leaned over the counter.

"Okay. Coming!" We all leave and go out for dinner.

We arrive at Chili's and take our seats. I get my usual, shrimp alfredo. Sokka gets his usual, steak fajita. We also share a triple play. We finish our food, surprisingly with no food fights, and we get into the car and drive everyone home.

I finish showering, putting my new stuff away, and brushing up and collapse on my bed. I can't stop thinking about tomorrow. It's so weird. I don't know. Indescribable? I'm not sure really. I just don't know what tomorrow will bring…