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Chapter 5
After the party, mom and dad had corralled me into the kitchen with such somber expressions that I thought someone must have died. I had shifted in my seat.
"What, what is it?" I had asked, my eyes probing for a clue about the conversation.
"I told you that something had happened between Aang and us, right?" My dad had asked,
"Well, I pretty much guessed, too."
"Let me tell you what happened…" Mom said, jumping into the conversation.
They told me then. All of it. There was no truth stretching, no lies, no misplaced details…the complete tales of what happened…and more. When they were done, all I could do, all I could feel, was sadness.
"You were the Fire Prince?" I asked my father.
"Yes."
"And you never told me…why…?" I asked, controlling the thick anger that bubbled up inside me.
"We didn't want you to know, and we thought…we thought that we could put the past behind us sweetie." Mom said, looking sadly at my face.
I let loose my anger.
"LET GO OF THE PAST?? ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE? WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD GAIN FROM KEEPING ME IN THE DARK?? HOW CAN YOU LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME A LIE KNOWING THAT EVERYONE BUT ME KNOWS THE TRUTH??" I was sobbing by the end, and I couldn't take it, I needed a break. I barely noticed my mother's arms around me, and that she was steering me to a cushion. She set me down, and kneeled next to me, tears falling from her face too. Dad hovered uncertainly over us. Mom motioned him silently to sit a little while away. I went through the details in my mind. Mom, Aang, Uncle Sokka, and Toph had been trying to teach Aang all four elements, of course, until it came to Fire. Dad had been hunting Aang, until he came to his senses, taught Aang FireBending, and, er, when he fell in love with Mom. Poor Aang. I could easily tell why he was so bitter. It was his cover for sadness. Poor guy, he never had a chance.
"We just wanted to protect you…" Dad murmured.
"Too late."
Before they could stop me, I slipped out the door, and Bent the water from a vase into a wall in front of the door to slow them down. I saw my father running towards the door, yelling my name, looking heartbroken. Tears ran down the scarred side of his face. I stifled a sob of my own, and ran towards the beach. Mom didn't try to follow me.
When I saw Roku, I knew that he was the only one that didn't know, and the only one that was thoroughly stung by this too.
"When will this all be over?" He whispered, not seeing me. My heart went out to him, and I said,
"Maybe never."
He spun around, and I was transfixed by his green eyes. "But we have to keep trying, I guess." I finished. After some conversation, I told him the story. He looked as stung as I was at his parents' lies.
"How could they do that to us?" He asked, staring at the ground. I clenched my hands.
"I don't know. But they just CAN'T do this."
"Yeah, But, question is, what are WE going to do about it?"
His eyes flashed to my face and back so fast that I didn't know if I had imagined it. I sighed, and lay back on the rocks.
"I'm going to stay here for a bit, and then just pretend what happened with our parents never happened, like you're an ordinary friend."
"AM I an ordinary friend?"
I playfully slapped him.
"Of course you are silly. Of course, that only applies if you pretend it never happened too." He thought about it.
"Fine, I'll do it. For now, at least." I watched him EarthBend for a while, and showed him some of my tricks too. When it got late, I shivered, and headed home. I didn't relish talking to my parents.
