I arrived the next day in class. My classmates were leaned against their desks chatting with their neighbor, or across the room to talk to their faraway friend. Most of the girls and a few boys were huddled around Sokka, who was explaining his basketball game, but what cheered me up the most was the fact that once I came into the room, Sokka's eyes wandered towards me. His sentence faded and he called out to me.
"Nice game yesterday, eh?" Sokka said. I beamed in joy that he noticed me at the baseball game the other evening, and I called back agreeing. Ty Lee stared and Azula spit out her gum angrily. Suki glanced back and forth at me and him, and Yue fixed her hair while looking at me out th corner of her eye. When I started toward Sokka, I had obviously overstepped the boundary line because Ty Lee rapidly pulled him close and started a monolog.
"I was at the baseball game too." She said rolling her eyes at me. She dramatically sighed. "You know that, don't you?" Sokka annoyingly swiped her hand away and made his way the crowd around him. He began to talk to me.
"Hey, uh… My dad is going on a business trip and I'm going to be stuck with Katara for the weekend so… I was figuring that I might invite a couple people over, so I was going to ask you—"
"Ask her what?" Azula furiously, surprising Sokka and making him flinch. She looked at us both and straightened out her face.
"Ask her what?" She said more delightly than the first time. Sokka felt that Azula was going to shoot daggers out any second, so he stopped and went to his seat.
Grrr. Azula. She smirked and went to her seat while I got my books for my classes. But I still thought about getting Sokka to continue his sentence. I needed a plan…