A/N you're gonna be sad for Sokka :'( and thanks for reviewing! i need reviews so i know you guys are alive and reading the story! XD lie i said i hope your keepeing up SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH happens in this chapter! :D

Chapter 17: Sweet sixteen

It's been about 5 months since Mai and Azula's attack but it was still fresh in out minds, especially since they burned Sokka.

And the nurse was sort of wrong. Sokka can move his arm and pick things up but he can't feel pain in that arm. The nerves are completely dead…must be so strange to not feel pain…same with half his torso.

Little feeling there as well. And Sokka had me stop healing him. There really wasn't much more to heal. It was all scars now and nerve damage which couldn't be healed.

Any who my birthday was tomorrow! Yay! And since Zuko was amazing he was throwing me a party! Oh and another thing our 6 month anniversary was on my birthday which made it 10 times better.

Zuko healed up nicely too. He could move now, he still slightly grimaced when he did but I think he was ok.

Tonight I was going to get plenty of sleep.

I needed it, the fire lord's girlfriend was practically inviting the whole kingdom for this and people have been dieing to meet me apparently.

Plus Aang was going to be there and people wanted to meet him too, speaking of Aang, him and Toph have gotten pretty close. I mean he seems to like her 100 times more than he ever has.

I think he really likes her almost as much as he loved me.

It made me happy to see him happy. I still loved him but I wasn't IN love with him.

I mean he was my first love and I still cared deeply for him but I really did love Zuko. Heck I'd spend my life with him. I would be 16 tomorrow which= marrying age… no that's going way to fast.

but I still day dreamed of marrying Zuko as I peacefully fell asleep.

When I awoke, it was really early. Sunrise actually.

I sat up, looked out my giant room window, and rubbed my sleepy eyes.

I stretched and yawned and thought about how my day would be. Wonderful of course. I got up and went to wash up and brushed my hair. Hmm…I thought, How should I wear my hair today? and as soon as I thought I heard footsteps and a light knock on my door.

I imminently knew who it was. I ran to the door and saw the most amazing guy I've ever met.

"Morning sunshine," I said happily.

"Morning birthday girl," he bent down and kissed me on the cheek.

"Happy birthday," he said.

"Thanks," I replied. After I walked over to my closet and searched for something to wear. Zuko sat on my bed and had a puzzled look.

"Why are you finding things to wear when its so early? The party doesn't start for like 5 more hours."

"I don't know…I guess you can never be too prepared." I said

"Well why don't you come sit on the bed with me?" Zuko said, in an inviting voice. I dropped everything and walked over to the bed.

"Ok." He had a sexy grin on his face. I had one too.

I sat on the bed and we began kissing. I pushed him down on the bed. We made out for like 5 minutes until a knock on the door interrupted. Trust me, we ALWAYS get interrupted. Annoyed, I stalked over to the door.

I flung it open and was greeted from a big hug from Sokka. He also yelled, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISSY!" in my ear.

I really appreciated the happy birthday but I think I lost hearing in one ear. I laughed anyway and said, "Aw thanks Sokka." I beamed at him. You're 16 now!" he said excitedly. "Well you're 17!" I exclaimed.

"And I'm 18!" Zuko interrupted. I giggled, "a hot one too" I winked at Zuko.

"Hey! I thought I told you no lovey dovey around me!" Sokka teased. I lightly punched him on his left shoulder.

"Even now, when I have no feeling in my right arm, you STILL punch me in the left one! What's up with that?" Sokka joked. Zuko and I both laughed.

"Now both of you out! A girl needs her alone time to get ready for a big day!"

"Sure, sure." Sokka said walking out. Zuko gave me the look that says "do I have to?"

"You know I usually don't care if you're in the room when I'm changing but today's special. I want to surprise you." I explained.

"Ok, ok ,ok. I understand." he said. He was about to walk out but I yanked him back and kissed him tenderly.

"I expect a lot of those today," I winked. He smiled.

"Mmkay birthday girl!" he said walking out.

Now, I had to get ready for my big day.

After and hour or two of making myself perfect I presented myself to everyone.

I wore my hair in a basic pulled back look, letting my bangs hang on the side of my face.

For makeup, which I usually didn't wear, I had my light red eye shadow with red lipstick to look nice. And for clothes I had my red tank top thing tied in the corner and I frilly red and black skirt and my sandals for shoes.

Everyone else had something similar, by similar I mean they had nice clothes on not too dressy but not completely casual.

A little bit later Zuko came out.

I was stunned. He had most of his hair parted to the side and it was straight which looked so sexy.

And he had his V neck shirt on with fire nation style shorts. And then the weird pointy shoes every wears.

By now it was time for the party.

I whole idea was to present the birthday girl, me, greet people, eat food, party, have a good time.

Which is what happened. They announced the fire lord's girlfriend's birthday and Zuko and I walked out hand in hand.

And I may add that when they announced my age they said I was of marrying age. And after they said that everyone gazed at us and wondered how far we'd take this relationship.

Anyway we enjoyed the day. Greeted people, talked to a lot of them, had some food and enjoyed the day.

At twilight, Zuko and I walked to the small pond on the royal palaces property and cuddled, sitting under a tree, fed turtle ducks, and kissed each other.

And just when I thought things couldn't get anymore perfect it got more perfect.

We stood, gazing into each other's eyes. And then I was startled.

Zuko lowered himself to the point where he was on one knee. My heart raced and it beat faster when he reached for something. My eyes widened, Was he getting what I think he's getting?

"Katara, I love you so much…and I want to be able to love you…forever. Will you marry me?" He held up the most incredible betrothal necklace ever. It had 3 circles. One big one and two small ones.

The middle big one had a half of the water symbol(on the right) and half fire(on the left). Dividing them was a ying yang shape. Then the small circle on the left was water and the one on the right was fire.

I got misty eyed.

"Yes! Yes Zuko! I do! I do! I want to marry you!" he too, got misty eyed from happiness. I took the necklace and he stood up and I gave him a big hug. The kind where the person your hugging holds you up in the air.

He held me up for a second then pulled me down and passionately kissed me.

I have no idea of how long we kissed but this time we didn't get interrupted and we able to end at the time we wanted. The kiss felt like it lasted hours, I wonder if it did but I didn't care. Best. Kiss. Ever.

After, I took my mother's necklace, which I had on, and put on my real engagement one. Tears came back from happiness. I hugged him tightly.

"I love you so much, Zuko," I whispered.

"I love you too, Katara," he whispered back and kissed my head.

After, we walked back, arms linked together, to tell everyone our wonderful news.

A/N OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG O.M.F.G! CRAZY RIGHT? BUT WAIT BEFORE YOU START SAYING "ITS GOING TOO FAST!" WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT CHAPTER!