chapter 3! Here it is! Thank you to all my reviewers! XD
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It was the next day at school, Katara walked with me to art and to our table. I felt weird lately though, every time I talked to Katara I stutter and whenever she looks at me or comments me on something, I blush, and whenever I look at her, I get butterflies in my stomach. I think I'm in love, but whenever I admit it to myself, I'll remind myself that she could never love someone like me, it would be to difficult for her. She'll probably end up with someone else, but I can't help this feeling, and I know Sokka and Toph know, Toph feels the vibrations I set off when Katara is around me, and she told Sokka, so they'll tease me about it, even when Katara is around. Toph would tell me Katara likes me too, but I think she's just telling me that so I would make a fool of myself.
Anyways...
We were at art and the teacher was telling us about a project we had to do. We had to team up with a buddy, then we had to make a sculpture of something, it could be anything, as long as it's two things that you could put together to make one.
"I got an idea! We can do it about my pets!" I said. "You have pets?" Katara asked. "Mm-hm, my cat Momo, and my dog, Appa." I answered. She nodded, "Okay, we can go to your house and draw the sketches of them today, we've been working on sketching anyways, it'll be better practice than just bringing a picture in." She said, I nodded. We discussed what we would do, she'd come home with me and we'd take the sketches, then Sokka would pick her up.
At lunch, Katara let Sokka know what we were doing and Sokka sighed. "Fine," he said, "Just don't try anything Aang!" I blushed.
"Sokka!" Katara yelled. Sokka and Toph just laughed.
At the end of the day, Katara waited for me outside, as we were walking to my house, we talked about things.
"So, I here there's gonna be a back to school dance next month." Katara said out of the blue.
"Yeah, I wonder why it's next month, shouldn't they do it this month?" I asked.
"I hear we're waiting for some new students, they want as much people as they can to come." Katara explained, I let out and 'ooooooooh' as we walked on when she asked me a question.
"You don't have to answer this if you don't want to, but, what's it like being in a wheelchair?"
"Well, it's okay I guess, I don't have to carry all my books around, and I don't have to take P.E.!" I said.
"Your so lucky! These coaches are really hard core! I feel like I'm gonna faint by the end of the class!" she said with an exasperated sigh. I laughed, "It's not all that good though, you've seen what people do to me." I said, she nodded and we turned to the corner on my block and she started to enter the apartment building.
"Where are you going?" I asked. "Isn't this where you live?" she asked, I mentally slapped myself, I had completely forgotten I told them this is where I live, when were I really live, is in the alley beside it. "Aw, crap." I said out loud. "What, did you forget your key?" she asked. "No- uh, I mean, yes, that's exactly it, I left my key at school how stupid of me, well maybe you can come tomarrow!" I said turning the way to here house. "Well, why don't we just go back to school and get it?" she asked. "Uh, they locked the doors." I answered. "There's afterschool programs today." she said. "Um..." was all I could say.
"What are you keeping from me Aang?" Katara asked giving me her hurt face. "Do you not have a home at all?"
"No, no, I do, it's just, not here." I said taking her to the alley toward the shack, I heard the barking of Appa and the meowing from Momo as they greated me home. "This is where I live." Katara gasped.
"This is where you live?" She asked. I nodded. "Aang this is aweful! Look at this place! And there's dumpsters that smell like dead cat!" She said.
"There are dead cats in there! I saved Momo before he died." I said as Momo came up to me and jumped in my lap and purred. Katara gave a disgusted face and looked back at me. "Couldn't you, live with Toph or something?" she asked.
"We tried but they don't want anyone else there, and they said they'd send me to an orphanage, we had to tell them it was a joke, I can't go to an orphanage!" I yelled.
"Then you can live with me and Sokka!" She said. "No Katara, your grandmother wouldn't like that I'm sure, she has Sokka and I'm sure that he's enough, she's lucky your there to help! I don't want to be a burden." I said.
"You won't be a burden, come on Aang, let's go back to my house, we'll ask Gran-Gran herself!" She said as she turned my wheelchair in her houses direction, I stopped it. "No Katara, I'll be fine, let's get the sketches over with and not talk about this anymore, I'll be fine on my own." I said.
Katara sighed as we walked into my house. We got our pad and paper ready and I sketched Momo while she sketched Appa, she was a better sketcher than me so it would be easier for her to draw Appa than it would be for me. When we finished, Katara walked wordlessly to the sidewalk by the apartment and waited for Sokka. When Sokka came, she jumped into the car and they drove off. She didn't even say goodbye to me.
Katara's P.O.V
I left him sitting there with a sad look on his face, I knew it hurt him to know I was mad at him, but I was thinking of a plan, a really good plan.
"So, Katara, was sketching with Aang fffuuuuunnnnn!?!?!? " Sokka asked tauntingly. "Sokka, did you know Aang doesn't really live in that apartment building?" I asked him.
"What? What are you talking about Katara?" He asked.
"Aang doesn't live there! He lives by himself in some run-down shack between the buildings, where gross dumpsters are and it's absolutly filthy!" I said.
"That musn't be good for his health." Sokka said. "Sokka!" I yelled. "What!?!" he answered.
"Don't you get it? Aang needs a new home, he can't stay there by himself, Toph's parents turned him down already and were gonna send him to an orphanage, they had to tell them they were joking! He needs to come live with us!" I said. "You know, that won't be that bad, I need another guy at the house anyways, we'll need to talk to this to gran though." He said. "I know," I replied, "I think she'll let him though."
"Yeah, me too." Sokka said.
When they got home, they explained to gran the situation. "Oh goodie! We'll finally have something to fill up that empty room!" Gran-Gran said, agreeing with the idea. "There's just one problem gran, he doesn't want to be a 'burden'," I said using air quotations,"We need to make him feel welcome!" Gran-Gran nodded. So we decided, that during school, Gran would get all his stuff and take it to their place, with the help of some movers, then we'll offer Aang a ride home, but we'll 'run out of gas' on the way. Then Sokka would 'leave his wallet' at school, so we'd have to walk back to school to get his wallet, giving gran enough time to get a welcoming party ready. Finally, they'd walk back to the gas station, get gas into the car, and go back to our place, claiming we need to stop there to get something and thus, his welcoming party will begin.
I could stop here, but I just want to keep going!
It was they next day at school, and it went by normally, we also got to start on our sculptures, Aang was unusually quiet though, he must have still thought I was mad at him, after school, before the plan started, I talked to him.
"Aang, you know I'm not mad at you, right?" I said. "You have every right to be, I disrespected your kindness to me, I deserve it." He said.
"Well I'm not, and even if you were a big jerk to me, do you need a ride home?" I asked.
"That's be nice." he said as we got to Sokka's car. Operation 'Aang move-in' was a go!
once again, I could stop here, but I seriously wanted to continue!
We got into the car and 'waited' for Sokka (A/N I know these ' ' are getting annoying, but I'm only doing it so you know it's part of their plan.) Sokka came in 'angry' and started to drive to Aang's house when Sokka 'noticed' something. "Oh man, we're about to run out of gas! We need to pull in to this gas station." Sokka said. He got to the pump and looked for his wallet. (I really wanted to stop these ' ' things, they're getting on my nerves too) "Oh crap! I left my wallet at school! God, I am gonna have to walk over there and get it, I'll be back in like 20 minutes, you guys do something." Sokka said walking off. Aang remand quiet, as I tried to start conversations every once in a while. But Aang would just stop them.
-20 minutes later-
Sokka finally came back angrily and finally got the gas he needed. Aang sat there just staring out the window. Finally, Aang noticed we didn't turn on his street.
"Where are we going?" he asked. "I need to get something." Sokka said. Aang just nodded, still confused.
Aang's P.O.V
I knew something was up, I couldn't tell what it was yet, but I knew it was something. As we pulled into the drive-way, they insisted I come in, as it was already hot enough, and we had tto sit in the car for 20 minutes, so they were sure I was hot. So they got inside and I rolled in behind them looking down, but when I looked up, I saw a huge banner that said 'Welcome home Aang!'
"W-wha?" was all I could say, there was food everywhere, and Appa and Momo where there too! "Aang, your living with us now!" Katara said. "Huh?" was all I could say, I was stunned. "We took the stuff from your 'home' today, brought it here, and brought it into the empty room we had." Katara explained.
"I know you probabaly think your gonna be a burden," their grandmother said, "But I assure you, we were planning on another one a couple of years ago, before their parents died in a car accident. We've always kept a room, for a place for their spirits to stay, until another was to come and live with us, for their spirits, will still be with us." I was shocked.
"I-I I don't believe it, I mean-" I started. "Aang would you be quiet, and celebrate with us?" Katara interrupted. Katara pulled out egg custard tarts, I told her they were my favorite a couple days ago, nows she's using them against me.
"Katara how could you! You know I love those! Now your using them against me for evil!?!" I asked. She laughed. "Here Aang, have one." She gave one to me.
"Darn weaknesses..." I said as I took a bite out of the deliciousness of an egg custard tart. "Well then Aang, welcome home." Sokka said.
"Home..." was all I could say, I finally have a family now, though they didn't officially adopt me, I was simply living there until I found another place to stay, but calling it home, was good enough for me.
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