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So, again, I'm hoping you think I put some drama into this chapter. Anyway, I'd like to thank my reviewers. Thanks a bunch!
Now, on with the story.
Wild Party Rampage
It was just after lunch, and Azula was fuming while she walked to class. Then she noticed the little dance committe coming her way. Oh joy, she thought.
"Hey Azula! What's up?" said Meng cheerily.
'That's none of your business," Azula said coldly.
Both Meng and Koko, who was standing next to Meng, didn't seem to catch the ice laced into Azula's tone of voice.
"You're coming to the dance tomorrow, right?" asked Koko excitedly.
"Look, if you're trying to get Aang to come, you'll have better luck with Toph. I'm not going," she said brushing past them.
"Why not?!" they asked in union.
Azula turned around sharply and walked a few steps toward them. They shrunk back a little.
"I wouldn't even considering going to your slut fest. I'd rather suck shit then go to anything your dance committee came up with. There is no way in hell that you'll ever get me to go to your pathetic dance," she said fiercely.
With that, Azula stormed off in the other direction, pushing past anyone that stood in her way, leaving Meng and Koko stunned.
(Skip to the end of the school day)
Aang was standing by his car, waiting for Toph to show up when Meng came bouncing up to him.
"Hi Aang!" she said cheerily.
"Hey Meng," he said.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Waiting for Toph," he said evenly.
Meng's smile instantly dropped from her face. "Why do you always do everything with her?" she asked disgusted.
"Because she's my best friend and she needs a ride," Aang explained to her.
"She seems to be more than a friend to you," Meng suggested sadly.
Aang laughed. "No, we're just great friends."
"Really? Because you treat her like you're in love with her," she said, trying to get information out of him.
"Well, I guess that starts to happen when you've been friends with someone your whole lives," he laughed. "So I do love her, but not romantically."
"So then you're open to date anyone?" she asked, her hopes getting up.
"Yup," he said.
"Then would you go out with me?" she asked.
Aang was stunned for a minute. He wasn't expecting that.
"Umm… sure. I guess…" Aang said.
"YEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!" Meng exclaimed. She hugged Aang excitedly.
"I'll she you later," she called as she ran off.
Aang watched his new girlfriend run off; bouncing with every step she took.
(Skip to later that day, after school)
Ty Lee was rummaging through Toph's closet; looking for something for Toph to wear to the club they were going to tonight.
"Why are you guys dragging me to a club? It's harder for me to 'see' there. I'm going to get killed at a club one day," said Toph.
"Because it'll be fun. And none of us will let you die. Especially Aang," Ty Lee said with a smirk.
"He better not. Or I'm going to kick his ass," Toph said confidently.
"Please Toph. He doesn't let anything bad happen to you. Sometimes I if you two will ever be more than friends," suggested Ty Lee.
"Yeah right! Me and Twinkle Toes? You've got to be kidding me," laughed Toph.
"Oh come on Toph. It's definitely possible. You two haven't gone a week of your lived without talking to each other. And you two do everything together," Ty Lee teased.
"Would you just quit it Sunshine? Besides, Aang has a girlfriend," Toph said bitterly, getting tired of the subject.
"SINCE WHEN!?!" Ty Lee exclaimed.
"Since today. Meng asked him out, and he said yes," Toph said.
Ty Lee made a face in disgust. "Why would he go out with her? I mean, she's just such a… B-Lister."
"I don't really kno…" Toph started.
"Actually, that's giving her an upgrade. She's more like a lowly C-Lister. And what's with her hair? I mean, god! It just sticks out to the side. You'd need cement to hold it down. And her…" Ty Lee rambled.
"Sunshine!" Toph interrupted.
Ty Lee shut up and looked at Toph.
"I don't know why he's going out with her, and honestly, I don't care. Unless she hurts him, then I'll destroy her into oblivion," Toph said with a smirk.
"I'll help you there. I can't stand her," Ty Lee added.
"Really? I hadn't noticed," Toph said sarcastically.
"Anyway, back to your outfit…" Ty Lee said, changing the subject.
Toph flopped down onto her bed and moaned.
Katara came home from school to see her brother sitting on the couch, waiting for her. He looked mad.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" Sokka boomed in her face.
"I'd tell you if I knew what you were talking about," she said to him, taken back.
"You hung out with those weird people at our school today! And now Jet hates me!" Sokka roared.
"Well, sorry if my friends aren't compatible with yours," she said sarcastically.
"I heard everything about what happened at lunch. You should have just gone with Jet. He was only trying to help. You shouldn't be hanging out with those people," Sokka scolded.
"Jet was not trying to help me, he was trying to control me," Katara argued back. "And 'those people' happen to be my friends and I'm hanging out with them tonight."
Sokka's mouth literally fell open.
"You're hanging out with them?! Tonight?! I forbid it!" Sokka screamed.
"You're not dad! You can't forbid me from anything!" Katara screamed back.
"No, but I can tell dad! DAD!!!!!" Sokka screamed.
"What, what is it?" asked Hakoda, running in.
"KatarawantstohangoutwithpeoplewhoIdon'tthinksheshouldhangoutwith!!"Sokka rambled out.
"Umm… run that by me again," said Hakoda.
Katara sighed. "He doesn't want me to hang out with my new friends tonight because he's mad that his new friend dumped him!"
"The only reason he dumped me was because you made him!"
"I didn't make him do anything!"
"Well, your new friends scared him off!"
"Yeah, only to protect me!"
Hakoda stared between his two kids as he listened to them argue. He finally had decided he had heard enough and decided to interfere.
"Okay, since I only got at the most half of that, I've come up with a solution," Hakoda said over their fighting.
Both kids immediately stopped arguing and turned towards their father.
"Okay, Katara, you can only go if Sokka goes with. Got it?" he said with authority.
"WHAT?!" both kids exclaimed. They couldn't believe it.
I can't believe Sokka has to follow me around!
I can't believe I have to follow Katara around AND hang out with her loser friends!
"There, it's settled. Katara, you should probably tell your friends Sokka is coming, just so they know," Hakoda suggested.
With her mouth still slightly hanging open, Katara nodded slowly and walked up to her room to call Ty Lee, leaving a dumbfounded Sokka to stand stupidly in the middle of the front room.
Ty Lee ran to answer her cell phone when she heard it ring.
"Hello?"
"Hey Ty Lee."
"Hey Katara! What's up? Why do you sound so sad?"
"Well, I can go to the club tonight, but my brother has to tag along," Katara said sullenly.
"Well… is he cute?" Ty Lee asked earnestly.
"Sunshine, you don't just ask someone if their brother is hot or not!" exclaimed Toph, who was next to Ty Lee, listening in.
"Give me the phone!" shouted Toph.
"Hey, Sugar Queen, it's Toph," she said when she yanked the phone from Ty Lee. "Sorry about Sunshine, she's boy crazy."
"No problem, I'm used to it," Karata said. "I'm just glad I was able to catch you two instead of Azula. I could hear her yelling in the hallway today, and I really didn't feel like talking to her now."
"Wow, you got a lot of guts for a new girl Sugar Queen. I like it," Toph said admirably.
"Ummm… thanks," Katara said warily.
"So yeah, we'll tell the rest about your brother. You need a ride?" asked Toph, feeling generous for now.
"That'd be great thanks," said Katara happily, knowing she wouldn't have to ride with just her brother.
"Okay, Twinkle Toes and I'll pick you up later," said Toph.
"What about Ty Lee?" asked Katara confused.
"She's only here to pick out my outfit, and then she's going with Sparky and Scarface. Sometimes I swear I'm her own living Barbie doll," Toph joked.
"Hey!" called Ty Lee from Toph's closet.
"I should go, I'll come by with Twinkle Toes later," said Toph.
"Wait, what about Mai?" asked Katara.
"She's being smart and not coming tonight," Toph said.
"Okay, I'll see you later."
"Yeah, bye."
It was about an hour and a half since Katara had last talked to Toph when her doorbell rang. She ran to answer it before one of the maids could.
"Hey guys!" she said cheerfully when she saw it was Aang and Toph at the door. "My brother will be down in a minute, he likes to take his time when he has to go anywhere with me."
"Kind of like this one," Aang said playfully as he punched Toph in the shoulder.
"Hey, I do not purposefully take more time than I should, I'm just not as speedy as you are, so I seem slower," Toph said, sticking her tongue out at Aang.
Katara smiled as she watched the two bicker and argue like brother and sister.
"What's so funny Sugar Queen?" asked Toph as Katara let out a low chuckle.
"Nothing, it's just that you two remind me of 'brother/sister' fights," she said.
"We get that a lot," said Aang with a smile plastered on his face.
"Yeah," said Toph lazily as she put her arm on Aang's shoulder. It amazed Katara that a boy and girl could be so close without feeling any kind of spark. "Sometimes I wonder if we were separated at birth."
Aang laughed out loud at that.
Just then, Sokka came down the stairs lazily and Toph dropped her hand from Aang's shoulder.
"Well, let's get this over with," said Sokka not trying to hide the fact that he didn't want to be there.
During the ride to the club, the car was in mute silence, expect the radio Toph had insisted they put on to ease the quietness.
"So…" Aang said, breaking the silence, "what kind of stuff did you do in Japan to hang out?"
Katara was about to answer when Sokka cut her off. "Well, it was definitely better than whatever we're doing now," he said.
Aang and Toph, thanks to growing up with Azula, were able to catch the ice laced into his voice. It was obvious to them that Sokka was mad about what had happened at lunch. Toph shot Aang a blind glance, indicating that she heard the ice too.
They drove the rest of the way in silence, hoping to avoid any more conflict.
When Azula entered the club, the first thing she did was walk to the bar. She didn't care if she was underage, she knew full well the bar would serve her anyway because she was… her.
Ty Lee ignored the fact that the first thing Azula did was go to the bar, and so did Mai and Zuko. They all had done their share of drinking, just not an enormous amount in public; usually it was in the house, where if they got too drunk, they would be able to be controlled.
When Katara arrived with Aang and Toph, Zuko couldn't take his eyes off of her. In his eyes, she was so good looking; he wondered why every guy wasn't fawning over her.
He walked up to her, determined to get her before any other guy got the chance.
"Hey there," he said as evenly as he could.
"Hey," Katara said back.
"Would you like to dance?" he asked, trying not to show his nervousness and keep his cool.
"With you? Well, I don't know," she said jokingly. He caught on to her joking, and laughed.
"What, you can't even dance with someone who helped you out earlier the same day?"
"Well, when you put it like that…"
She grabbed his hand and led him onto the dance floor, leaving Aang, Toph, and Sokka.
They danced wildly to the music, banging their heads up and down. Katara was really getting into the music. Even though normally Zuko didn't really get into it at all, but she seemed to rub off on him, because he was actually getting into the music. He could tell then how well they would get along.
After Katara left them, it was Aang, Toph, and Sokka standing around when Ty Lee came bouncing up to them.
"Hey there," she said to all of them, but she was looking at Sokka.
"Hey Ty Lee," said Aang.
"Hiya Aang!" she said happily.
Ty Lee looked at Aang with a look that said 'who's your cute friend?'
Aang silently laughed. "Ty Lee, this is Sokka, Katara's brother."
Ty Lee's face lit up. "Hi there Sokka, you're cute!"
"Uhh… thanks," Sokka said uneasily.
"You want to head over to the bar?" she asked.
"Umm… I'm not twenty-one, and you don't look like it either," he said, wondering what kind of people he had just gotten himself into.
"Please, in Hollywood, you don't need to be twenty-one to drink, well, not if you're famous, like me. So if you're with me, you don't have to be twenty-one," she explained.
Sokka thought about this for a minute. "Okay," he said at last.
They walked away, and now it was just Aang and Toph standing there.
"Great, now I'm stuck with just you Twinkle Toes," she said jokingly.
Aang was about to respond when a guy with long brown hair came over to them.
"Hello there Miss," he said to Toph, completely ignoring that Aang even existed. "Would you like to dance with me?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"Sure," said Toph, taking his hand. "See ya Twinkle Toes!" she called out behind her.
Aang sighed and began to walk around, seeing what there was to do.
It was just after midnight, and Azula was drunk off her ass. Right now, she was grinding with some complete stranger who was totally interested in her. And why wouldn't he be? she thought to herself.
After the song was done, she decided to blow the joint. She was bored, she wanted some real action. She stumbled a bit as she walked out of the club. It took her awhile to find her car, but she finally found it and got in.
"Hmmm… where should I go?" she said out loud to herself. "I guess I'll just drive around till something happens."
She was driving around for a while and she thought she was doing pretty well, considering she was drunk. Though in reality, she almost caused three accidents.
All of a sudden, she rammed into something. She flew forward but was stopped by the seatbelt.
"What the hell?!" she screamed. Then she heard a tapping on her car window. She lower it. "What the hell to you want bastard?" she asked.
"Miss, you just rammed into a police car," the cop said evenly.
"Yeah, so what?" she said, now really annoyed.
The cop froze as he could smell her breath. She had been drinking.
"Would you by any chance be drunk?" he asked.
"Possibly, what of it?"
"I'm afraid you're going to have to come with me Miss."
"Why?"
"You're under arrest for drinking and driving."
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
Ozai answered his phone when he heard it ring.
"What?" he asked.
"Hey Daddy," said Azula on the other end. "I'm in jail."
A/N- Well, what did you think? I really tried to put in drama, but I kind of started getting writer's block for end of the chapter. Thankfully, I know where I'm going with this story, or I'd be in deep water. And I know this is supposed to be a Taang story, and trust me, it will be, but it has to go through these other (crappy, no offense) pairings to work out for my story plot. So don't worry, Taang WILL happen. And I'm also sorry if the words are smushed with each other. I can't figure out what happened. If I can fix it, I'll re-post the chapter.
