Here is chapter 12! Again it is slow moving, but I promise it will get better! I would like to thank everyone that's been reviewing, and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving:)
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"WHAT! Ya'll are a COUPLE!" Sokka yelled at the top of his lungs.

He couldn't believe his little sister liked Sparky. This must be a cruel, twisted joke they were playing.

"Yes we are" Katara said proudly.

"Well good for you!" Suki said as she ran to give Katara a hug.

"Congratulations Sparky" Toph said punching Zuko in the arm.

"Umm… thanks Toph" he said while rubbing his arm where she punched him. There was going to be a bruise.

"WHAT? Why are you guys congratulating them?" Sokka said in an annoyed voice.

"Because it's good news" Katara said in a blunt voice.

"No its not" Aang mumbled so low no one could hear it.

He was the one who liked Katara first. She was the one who found him in the iceberg. She's the one that brought him back to life. She was supposed to love him, not Zuko. When did Katara even start to like Zuko? He thought that they were just friends, but apparently they were more than friends for a long time. Aang thought back to the morning that he saw Katara come out of Zuko's room, and it made him cringe.

Aang's thoughts were interrupted by Sokka.

"Well I guess I can't stop you two. Just don't be all kissy, kissy around me" Sokka blurted out.

Katara ran into her brothers arms. "Thank you for accepting this Sokka" she said with a wide smile.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah" he said as his sister let go of him to go eat his breakfast.

Zuko came up behind Katara and wrapped his arms around her waist. He put his mouth right next to her ear and whispered, "I love you."

She turned her face and kissed him on his cheek, and whispered, "I love you too."

Aang saw this and had to get away from all of this. He started out the door and someone put their hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Katara was standing behind him.

"Aang, are you ok?" she ask.

"NO! I'm not ok. The girl I love has fallen for someone else!" he yelled in her face.

"Aang, I'm sorry. I-"

"Katara don't even try to explain anything to me." He turned and started out the door again when a firmer hand grabbed his shoulder. He turned and saw Zuko.

"What do you want Zuko?"

"I'm sorry that you love Katara and that she doesn't love you back like that, but I will not have you being crude to her." He said in a strong voice.

Aang looked around to see Katara but she wasn't there.

"Where did she go?" he asked puzzled.

"She went running to her room crying from what you said." Zuko said grimacing. He felt like he would slap Aang, but he knew that would only upset Katara more.

"I didn't mean to upset her," Aang said in a small voice, "I was just mad, and I took my anger out on her."

"Well you need to learn to keep your mouth shut." Sokka said coming down the stairs. "Now she won't come out of her room. Good going Aang."

Aang was about to head for the stairs when Zuko pushed him back. "I'm sure you're the last person she wants to talk to." And with that he ran up the stairs.

When Zuko got to Katara's door he saw Suki and Toph trying to get her to open the door for them. They gave him the, "Maybe you could try" look and started down the stairs.

"Katara, it's me, Zuko. Will you please open the door for me?"

He heard a couple of footsteps and the door swung open revealing Katara with puffy red eyes and tears just pouring down her face. Zuko quickly picked her up in a hug, and shut the door with his foot.

As he moved her to the bed she sobbed into his shoulder saying, "Zuk-ko… I… didn't want-t… to hurt… him-m."

"Shhhh… I know, I know" he said to her soothingly.

"I didn't even know, I just thought it was a little crush, and that he would get over it. I didn't know he loved me." She said wiping the tears from her face.

"It's going to be ok Katara. He'll just have to get over it."

"No it's not ok Zuko. He hates me."

"He doesn't hate you Katara. If there is anyone he should hate, it should be me." He said in a small voice.

"Why should he hate you?"

"Oh, well I don't know. Maybe the fact that I took the girl he loved from him, or the fact that I yelled at him for making you cry."

"ZUKO! How could you do that? He had a right to yell at me!" she yelled. "I broke his heart." She finished in a whisper.

"Katara, you didn't intentionally break his heart. He had feelings for you that you didn't have for him, it happens to everyone. Don't blame yourself. He'll get over it."

"How do you know?" she asked.

"I just do." He said matter of factly.

"Ok," She said wiping away her tears. "He'll get over it" she murmured to herself.

"Do you want to go back down stairs?" he asked hesitantly.

"Sure"

As Katara got up off the bed, Zuko grabbed her hands, looked into her eyes, and whispered "I love you."

"I love you too" she said with a smile.

When they went back down stairs Aang was nowhere to be seen. Zuko assumed that he must have needed time alone after his little outburst.

"Are you ok Katara?" Sokka asked as they walked into the kitchen.

"Yeah, I'm ok" she said in a non reassuring voice. "Where's Aang?"

"He took off on his glider after Zuko got in his face" Toph said from the corner of the kitchen.

"Zuko, you shouldn't have done that. I can take care of myself."

"I couldn't just stand there and watch him hurt you like that! I promised that I would never hurt you, and just standing there watching Aang yell at you like that, I was hurting you." He said gritting his teeth.

"Zuko, it's ok. I'm ok." She said trying to calm him. She had never seen Zuko this mad before. She didn't like to see him like this.

Zuko didn't even care that everyone was in the room, he acted on impulse. He picked her up, and kissed her. This kiss was more passionate than any of their other kisses. Katara felt as if she was on fire. It was like his kiss was melting her to him. Then he slowly pulled back to see Katara blush. He loved the way the color looked on her.

"EWWWWWW! Get off my sister!" Sokka yelled.

"Shhhh" Suki said from beside him. "Let them have their moment."

Katara didn't even hear her brother's loud outburst. She stood on her tippy-toes and kissed Zuko again. Kissing him felt like they were the only people in the world and that they had forever to be like this, but when they broke apart they had to face the real world. She wanted to stay like this forever, but they couldn't.

When they finally broke apart, Katara looked into Zuko's eyes. They looked like they did the night that he had walked her to her room after talking all night. His eyes looked as if they were set ablaze. Another outburst from Sokka snapped them out of this moment.

"Could you guys take this somewhere else? I can feel my food coming up."

"Do you want to go for a walk on the beach?" Zuko asked with a crooked smile.

"Sounds great" Katara said returning the smile.

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