AN//: Thanks for your reviews so far and please don't hesitate to keep them coming cuz you have no idea how excited I get when I receive another one. And sorry for not updating, I have been really busy. I have been training full out for my karate grading and I have had a shitload of assignments on top of that.
Saturday morning came so quickly and Katara was in her bed once again looking forward to a good Saturday morning sleep in (who doesn't love that) when another wave of realization hit her. Waves of realization were becoming a recurring factor in Katara's life. She had a detention that she HAD to go to in 20 minutes. Katara was pretty shameless in turning up late for school but turning up late for school but Katara knew that if she was late for her detainment she would get detention after detention and they would mount up to the extent that Katara wil have NO social life on Saturdays. Therefore no time to scheme about how to win the bet.
Grudgingly Katara slid out of bed and followed the usual make-up process. Feeling depressed about going to detention she walked out to the kitchen to find her dad Hakoda reading the newspaper like a sad-man with no life. What was up with him lately? Mum died nine years ago and he was still moping around like a pathetic loser. Hakoda needed a girl in his life desperately!"Hey Katara, what have you got planned for today?" Asked Hakoda, in a sad attempt to start a conversation with Katara.
"Oh I'm just going out." Katara shrugged.
"Right, please Katara be back by midnight. No early morning kanoodling you and Suki seem to have been doing lately." Hakoda said seriously.
"Whatever dad But seriously you don't need to worry. I'm going to detention." Sokka's head shot up.
"Oh well I guess that means you can't go to the movies with Suki, Toph, Aang and I." Sokka said looking extremely torn up about it...not.
"I guess not." Katara responded, not caring that much.
Sokka stopped scoffing down cocopops and started listening intently. "Detention, looking like that!" Hakoda's eyes widened while examining Katara's short denim shorts and low cut singlet with converse all stars, and large diamond earrings in her ears with a silver chain hanging over her black siglet. Katara just shugged. "Katara, you have not been yourself lately. Since when did you get detentions?" Hakoda said. Katara sighed, Hakoda needed a woman badly! On the way out Katara drank the rest of Sokka's cocopops earning herself an annoyed 'hey' from Sokka.
Katara burst open the door with 'DETENTION ROOM' written in capitals, looking quite depressing. She walked towards the old lady wearing glasses with big saggy boobs. "I'm Katara, here for my detention." Katara said in a fake optimistic voice. Almost everyone in the room picked up the sarcasm in her words. "Right Katara, ten minutes late, if I'm not correct you are here for being rude to Miss Sullivan, being late to class on many different occasions and neglecting to complete your wirteouts, essay and homework. Am I right?" The old lady purred in an evil yet high-pitched voice. Jeez announce it to the class, why don't you? Katara thought maliciously. "Yes that's right." Katara replied.
"Don't be late again. Take a seat." The old lady instructed. Katara scanned the room for anyone who she knew. All she saw were fat guys, potheads with low-riding pants and girls who looked even sluttier than Katara herself. Just the usual people in detention. Then in the corner of her eye, Katara spotted Zuko sitting at the back looking out of place. He was just as hot as he had always been. His fire gold eyes diplaying his ill contempt at being cooped up in detention on a Saturday. Katara's heart lurched in excitement. She sat in an empty seat next to him and uttered a 'hi'
"Why hello Juliet. Such a rap sheet you got there." Zuko teased. Katara let out a giggle (oh my god, the girlish giggle...argh)
"Tell me about it." Katara said sarcastically, "so Romeo, why are you stuck in this forsaken place." Katara asked (I'm talking like Juliet...woops)
"Shouting match with my sister in the hallway. She was so pissed off with me for dumping Mai and I may have slipped a cuss at her." Zuko said.
"Oh you broke up with Mai?" Katara feigned surprise
"Yeah, she tried to steal $300 from me. How shallow is that. I thought I could trust her. Turns out she only dated me for my money." Zuko said, letting out all his feeling of frustration.
"Yea, that's pretty shallow." Katara agreed, forcing herself not to wear a guilty face when he told hera bout that.
"Mai is a fake and my sister is a complete bitch." Zuko said angrily.
"I couldn't agree more. Your sister and I haven't exactly had the best time ever." Katara said remembering the time she had burnt Katara's shoulder and then Katara retaliated by slicing her thigh open.
"Hey, quiet at the back. You are at detention so just finish your write outs. Detention isn't meant to be fun." The old lady hissed from her desk at the front of the room. Katara and Zuko stopped talking but not for long. "What happened between you and my sister?" asked Zuko, genuinely curious.
"Lots of shit." Katara whispered back.
"shit?" Zuko inquired
"She kinda burnt my back twice. I don't know why, she just doesn't seem to like me very much." Katara replied, leaving out the bit about her slicing Azula's leg and about the bet.
"She burnt you." Zuko said incredulously.
"Yeah" Katara replied
"Can I uh, can I see the burn after detention?" Zuko asked, still disbelieving that his sister would do such a thing at school. Katara gaped Zuko wanted to see me without a shirt on thought Katara excitedly.
"Um well, the thing is I would let you but I kinda healed it before it caused me too much pain." Katara said, mentally kicking herself for healing it.
"Wow, you're a waterbender. I've heard legends about waterbenders being able to heal but I've never thought they were true. I mean, me being a firebender means that I don't really get exposed to the opposite element but wow that's amazing!" Zuko rambled, clearly awe struck.
"Last warning, you two in the back better stop talking or else you will be doing litter duty after school on Monday." The old lady interrupted. Katara gave Zuko an amused expression and went back to writing the line 'I will behave appropriately at school' over and over again.
Just then, Zuko slipped Katara a note. It said 'R u busy after detention?" Katara quickly scribbled a 'I dunno, let me check' and then passed the note to Zuko. Katara flipped open her mobile and pretended to to check her schedule even though she knew she wasn't busy. She then wrote 'No' on the paper. Zuko replied, 'Do u wanna go the the movies? My shout'. Katara wrote back 'Yea, sounds cool'. Zuko gave Katara a nod in acknowledgement of receiving the message. Katara wrote faster and faster, trying to complete all the write outs since she was now desperate to leave.
AN//: There's another chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry if there's heaps of typos I just haven't edited it yet. Please Review!
