Soon, the bell rang, signaling the end of the period. Katara walked over to Mr. Deonardi's desk and sat in a hard chair, squirming about what her math teacher was going to say to her.
"Katara, have you not been paying attention in class again?" the teacher asked, twiddling his thumbs and looking at her straight in the eyes.
"No, I have been paying attention. I've just been getting really tired in the morning." Katara lied, hoping her teacher would believe her.
"Being tired is no excuse, Katara. I'll let you go this time, but if you do it again, I'll have to give you detention." He said cooly, looking at her with his ice blue eyes that reminded Katara of ice daggers.
"Oh, and by the way, can you show Aang around the school?" he asked. Katara shrugged.
"Sure." She walked out of the classroom, trying to catch sight of the new student. Finally she found him, being made fun of by some 8th graders. She couldn't believe what they were doing. They were pushing him back and forth, pointing at his hair and laughing.
"Dude, what's with his hair?! I mean, you could rub Charcoal in that thing and not see anything!" The boys all laughed. She marched right in front of Aang and looked at the 8th grader straight in the eyes. The boy had a toothpick in his mouth, and a baseball hat on sideways.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" The boys snickered.
"Yeah, and what is some puny 7th grade girl gonna do about it?" They all laughed,
"Ooh, I'm so scared!" Said the guy with the toothpick, holding his hands in his face and pretending to be scared. Anger bubbled up inside of Katara. Before she knew what she was doing, her fist went straight into the boys stomach.
"Ow! What the heck?!" The boy yelled.
"Stay away from him!" Katara yelled threateningly. Then, as the boys ran off, she turned to Aang, who looked impressed.
"Are you OK?" she asked.
Aang shrugged.
"I guess. Hey, can you show me around? I'm not really sure where to go..." He asked, looking at her with his dark grey eyes.
"Sure." She took the schedule in his hand and looked at what classes he had.
"That's weird...we have every class together." She said, surprised.
"Cool." Aang answered, just as surprised.
As they walked to 3rd period, Katara thought she might like the idea of having every class with Aang.