A/N YAY! longer chpaters! ^-^ this one is over 2,000 words so you BETTER like this better! :( it took me forever to type! also, i'm posting a new story its called, "A new kid at school and is rated M for some um...later chapters . . but its all Zutara and pretty god dang sweet so read this, review, read thew other one, review :)) thankss
Chapter 20: Wedding plans
Today was going to be a busy day.
Zuko and I got up really early to make wedding plans with the royal wedding planer. We were going to have the perfect wedding.
I day dreamed about it as I got dressed in my casual wear. But this time I wasn't dressing in red fire nation clothes, I'd be dressing in blue themed clothes-to show off my betrothal necklace.
I wore a blue tank top with white lace around the arm holes and my neck with a blue skirt that went to the floor with a long opening on the right side of it showing off my tan legs. Along the opening and the bottom was the same white lace material which really brought out the ocean blue color the whole outfit was.
I checked myself out then looked at my mangled hair.
"Oh gosh," I said grabbing a brush.
"What is it?" Zuko asked, putting on his normal fiery red outfit-the V neck shirt with deep red shorts-,with concern.
"My hair…is…so…tangled!" I stopped in between words because I was pulling the brush through more knots in it.
When I finally managed it and put it in a half bun letting my curls run freely down my back, let out a content sigh.
"That's better," I said checking myself out in the mirror
. Zuko came behind me and put his arms around my neck and his chin on my head, "You look beautiful," he said, kissing the top of my head. I blushed, "You look amazing," I said, turning around to kiss him on the lips.
He pulled away after about 20 seconds of kissing, "We need to go, we have an appointment at 9:30 and if we're let, they'll be pissed."
"Aw ok," I said, as we walked out of the room, hand in hand.
When we got the wedding planners office, a middle aged looking woman-in those prissy glasses that had the chains from each side connecting to wear like a necklace or wear as glasses-with short black, graying, hair, smacking the gum she was chewing very loudly looked up at us with a skeptical look, "Who are you and do you have an appointment?"
"I'm Zuko and this is my fiancée, Katara," he gestured towards me, "And we have an appointment at 9:30 is Midori." He said. The woman eyed the two of us then turned to her notebook next to her looked at some papers then turned to us, "Have a seat please," She said, pointing to the few chairs across the room.
When we sat down the woman got up and walked to a door in the middle of the west wall. She cracked the door open, "Midori, your 9:30 appointment is here,"
"Send them in," Midori said. She had a high pitched voice that sounded girly and small but adult at the same time, it was hard to explain.
The secretary woman gestured to go in so we got up and did.
When we walked into the room, there were two chairs facing a desk with a larger chair that was turned away from us. We sat in the two chairs, still holding each others hands, and looked nervously at the chair facing away from us.
I was about to say something when the chair suddenly swung around and a petite, short, black haired woman with Asian brown eyes turned to us with a grin on her face.
"Zuko! It's so good to see you!" She said with a heavy Asian accent while excitedly shaking his hand, "The last time I saw you was when you were 12; you grew so much!" Her smile grew wider and that's when I realized she was wearing hot pink lipstick.
I also realized that she must not have known about Zuko's scar. He got it when he was 13...but how did she know him if she was a wedding planner?
"Zuko," I whispered, "How do you know her?"
"She doesn't just plan weddings, she plans parties too but we stopped going to her when…well my mom…" He trailed off.
"Oh I know I feel awful about your mother! I'm sorry," she said, her voice deep with compassion and concern. I liked this girl.
"But lets not talk about sad times your obviously here to plan a wedding and…" She shook my hand, "This must be your fiancée?" Zuko nodded, "She's very pretty Zuko!" I blushed a little, "Thank you," it was nice to see someone with excitement about us getting married.
"So where and when do you want the wedding?" "Um, well, we haven't talked about that stuff really…" Zuko said, embarrassed.
"Oh well that's ok! We'll discuss right now!"
"Ok, Katara, where do you want it?" Zuko said turning and smiley to me. I thought about it for a moment, "Um well I thought we could have it in a wide room, with rows and rows of seats with a red carpet right down the middle, with dyed blue rose petals and red rose petals scattered all around the middle isle.
And chandeliers would hanging from the high ceilings illuminating the whole room and everyone would be there, family, friends and our theme colors would be red and blue for water and fire." I was off in my dream world but saying it out loud as well, "Oh! And each row of seats (on the outside) would have a water and fire nation insignias." I looked at Zuko and Midori. They were both mesmerized, "Wow…she's deep," Midori giggled.
Zuko finally snapped back to reality, "Wow I absolutely love it!" Zuko exclaimed.
"Its perfect! That's our wedding plan right there, oh I love your ideas Katara!" He gave me a loving kiss but we were interrupted back Midori pulling us apart, "Alright, I want to see you kissing at the wedding but not here yet!" She joked as she wrote down our wedding plan.
She had elegant writing. I loved it and she even drew little pictures of the room. She was a good artist too. When she was down she pulled out another paper, "Ok, since your theme colors are red and blue, you need a red and blue themed dress and tux.
So Katara, what should your dress look like?" I was thinking for a spilt second then I remembered that dream I had about six months ago with the wedding dream I had with that blue and red rose dress…, "I got it! A white strapless dress!
And at the knees it would frill out into a light purple see-through fabric,"
The purple fabric wasn't a part of my dress but I wanted that any way, "And up the side of my right leg would be fiery looking red roses and blue frozen looking roses…Fire and Ice," I said turning to Zuko and looking into to his eyes.
We stayed like that until Midori let out a phew type of sigh. She held up the paper with my dress design. It was perfect!, "That matches my description perfectly! I love it oh I could hug you Midori!"
"You know, hugs are always free from me!" I got up and excitedly hugged her, "Oh thank you so much!" we sat down and calmed down a bit.
"Ok now that-" I cut her off," Oh sorry for interrupting but I also want white gloves that go to my elbows with a red strip down the middle on my right and blue strip down the middle on my left. Please and thank you,"
"Love it!" Zuko and Midori said at the same time. I blushed a little. As Zuko kissed me on the cheek.
"Ok then, now that we have your dress, Zuko what about a tux?" Midori asked, turning to Zuko.
"Um well just a simple tux, black jaket and pants and shoes, white button up to go under and for blue and red…at black tie with a blue strip across on the top part and a red strip down the middle of the main part." He explained everything, making gestures as to where they'd go. Midori drew the designs for his tux, which had been way easier than my long description, and looked up at us.
"Ok we've got everything except for wedding reception."
"That should be in the ball room at the palace," Zuko said. He turned to me to make sure I approved.
"Perfect," I said with a smile.
"Alrighty then we're all set, we'll make plans for food and decorations and things along the way." Midori said.
"Sounds good to me," Zuko said getting up as Midori did, grabbing her papers. Just then Zuko extended his hand to me, "Shall we?"
"We shall," I said taking his hand. We stood up and strolled out of the room and before leaving thee office, the secretary woman eyed us again. She didn't seem to happy that we were planning a wedding. Oh well, it was our life; we didn't even know her.
When we got outside, I was lost in day dreams of our wedding till Zuko snapped me back to reality, "Want to go out for lunch?" He said caringly and sweetly.
"Defiantly, I'm starved…where to?"
"Um…I don't know…what's around here?"
"Uh…I think there's a ramen shop in town and I sure could go for ramen." My stomach growled, I could totally eat ramen right now. Zuko chuckled, "I' the fire lord and don't even know what restaurants are here…some fire lord I am." I pushed his arm playfully, "Stop, you an amazing fire lord." I smiled at him as we made our way to town.
We walked down the middle of the street filled with merchants and tourists and craftsmen. The streets mostly teemed with tourists from earth and fire nations. Now that the war was over, people from the earth nation could come here with out harm though some fire nation citizens didn't like that but Zuko had it under control.
When we reached the ramen shop, few people were there, must not have been popular…but now that the fire lord was here maybe people would show up…
We ordered our ramen and sat there, holding hands under the table. We sat in silence on high stools at the counter, turned to face each other, getting lost in each other's eyes. We stayed like that until someone tapped on Zuko's shoulder.
A short girl stood behind him. She was smiling with bright red lips and short, blonde curls and she was wearing a pinkish red belly shirt and a red and pink mini skirt. She said, "Zuko? FIRE LORD Zuko?"
"Uh…yeah…?" Zuko said, confused on why this girl ruined my moment.
"Uh…hi!" Zuko turned to me and gave me a confused look like, "Why the heck is she here? Do we know her?" I just shrugged my shoulders and made and "I don't know" sound.
"Hi?"
"Whacha doing?" She asked innocently, still smiling and slightly blushing.
"Um…having lunch with my fiancée." He gestured towards me.
"Oh ok then…bye!" She ran off. Zuko turned to me still confused, "Um…that was…weird."
"Uh…yeah," I agreed. We turned back to the counter as the man serving us put two bowls of ramen on the table. We dug into our food. We were SO hungry, we hadn't eaten breakfast…
After we finished Zuko paid the man and we left the shop and walked back to the palace.
After we got back we told everyone of our perfect wedding plan. Everyone, even Sokka, seemed excited…well everyone except Aang. I sighed on the inside. Seriously? Wasn't he dating Toph? Ugh I thought to myself as we got up to go into my room to make more plans but as Zuko walked ahead, Aang pulled me aside, "Katara, I need to talk to you."
A/N Oh snap cliffhanger BWUAHAHAHAHAHAH! :D what will Aang want? find out laterrr! XD R&R