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AN: I had a dream about meeting Mike and Bryan! Before I could say much to them I started sobbing though because I was just so overwhelmed, and since they couldn't calm me down that wrote me these notes and gave me an address to write to them. One of their notes said "From the crying I'd guess your a distressed Zutaran" Haha, they tease Zutarans even in my dreams.

35. Games

I love Katara, and in a totally friendly, sister like way for all you sick perverts. Honestly, Katara is so compassionate and caring and she is more of my family than my own parents are. Yeah, she can be uptight, but that just makes her so much more fun to mess with. But sometimes, she can be downright stupid.

Like this morning, she decided it was time for the two of us to have a talk. About Sokka. Yeah like that wasn't awkward at all. It began in the early morning as Twinkletoes and Sifu Hotman did some firebending drills. I don't see why they need to, because the war is over, but as long as its firebending and not Earthbending, then I could really care less. I was picking my toes, trying to not to puke as Sokka and Suki spent some "quality" time together. Really, I had once thought that the feeling them makeout was gross, but the two of them snuggling and rubbing their noses together and repeating how much they "wuv each other" was definitely a disgusting "sight". Ok, maybe I exaggerated a little… Sokka and Suki were really just talking about something. Kyoshi Island I think. But the point is, they were busy, Aang and Zuko were busy, which left Katara and I, not busy.

"Hey Toph." She said. Her heart was completely irregular, and I could tell she was nervous about something. That and the fact that her voice sounded completely off.

"Hello Sugar Queen." I answered completely cool lie that. Cause I'm awesome that way.

"Toph we need to talk… About Sokka." She almost whispered the last two words. If she expected me to react, she was severely disappointed.

"Ok."

"Well… I know you have a little… crush on Sokka," Katara starts out very nervously, fiddling with her hair… Funny, I thought she did that when talking with Twinkletoes. Hmm, maybe she's gonna proclaim her love for me? And she wants me to stop liking Sokka so that I can like her. And then we can mud wrestle and make out and act out every fanboys fantasy! Yeah, right.

"No I don't," I answered, very calmly.

"Oh, good then." She laughs and drops her hair. "Well now I-"

"I really like him. Like, a lot more than a crush." I answered, because if you can't be completely truthful with your one of your bestfriends, then you can you be completely truthful with?

After a whole ten minutes of spurting, Katara was finally able to talk again. "Well… are you sure? Because I know Sokka's your first crush, I'm sorry… First guy you really liked."

Wrong

His name was Keirou and he was only the best Earthbender and Xin Fu's academy… Well, best after me, which was still pretty good. He wasn't in my class, no one was, because I had to have a special class all by myself. But sometimes, Xin Fu would have to leave me alone for awhile, or sometimes the servant would be late in picking me up, and I would sit there, all alone and feel the other, normal, students outside. Keirou, besides being the best student, was funny and I would find myself laughing at the jokes not meant for me. One day, I told the servant to pick me up ten minutes late, and during those few minutes of freedom I marched over to him, about to declare my love.

"Hey Keirou," I squeaked. I was young and in love, so don't think anything of the squeaking. "You were really good today."

"Thanks kid," He said, not even looking at me as he rumbled my hair and then when to make out with some heiress who had waited for him. Ok, I'm an heiress too, but I don't walk around in tunics that barely cover anything and carry little baby koala bunnies and name them Snowflake.

And well, that was end the end of that.

I didn't go in to detail and tell her that, but I did glare at her.

"Ok, well maybe you've liked someone other than Sokka. But are you sure you… you know, like him like that?" Katara asked. "Because, well I'm sure you know he's dating Suki and I don't want you to-"

"Break up their perfect little dream romance?" I asked. I know she's on their side, I'm mean who isn't? They're so frickin "cute" and "perfect" together. o would like the little blind Earthbender over the beautiful warrior?

"No. I don't want you to get hurt."

"A little late for that."

Katara held her hands out, hovering somewhere between patting me on the back and putting and arm around me, finally she just patted my shoulder. "So, you know, maybe you think you like him because he's one of the first guys you met… that you were actually friends with."

Wrong again.

Their names were Chaman and Charan and they were the twin sons of one of the maids to my family's household. I was ambling through the gardens one day, avoiding my parents, when I stumbled upon them, yelling at each other and kicking around a ball. They were eight months older than I was and for two years we played together, playing this game they called "soccer" and pranking my countless nannies. Then my mother accused their mother of stealing a precious jewel and she, along with my only childhood friends, were sent away.

"If that were the case, then wouldn't I like Aang? Or Zuko? Because you know, I technically met Aang before, and I met Zuko pretty soon after that."

"Well.. I thought you liked Zuko too?"

I had thought the conversation had been funny before then, but I completely lost it at what Katara had just said. I laughed like a maniac, rolling around on the ground at the thought of me liking Sparky. "Me…. And Zuko?" I asked breathlessly as I picked myself off of the ground and sat on the boulder I had been occupying previously. "That's almost as bad as… Oh my God!" A new wave of laughter hit me and fell to the ground again.

"As what?" Katara cried.

"Dating… AANG!" I managed to squeeze out between laughs.

"What?" She screeched. "What's so wrong with dating Aang?" I only answered her with a snort and an abundance of tears. "Fine Toph! Well, if you can't take this seriously, then we have nothing to talk about!" And then she stormed off, leaving me to laugh myself into a fit.

AN: I wrote this shortly after the finale, when all the Sukkans were saying things like "Sokka was just Toph's first crush, and therefore she never really seriously liked him." And since we really don't know that much about Toph's past, I decided to write this... Though I think at some point Toph might of said she had no friends before or something... Oh well.