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The following day Toph avoided Sokka at all costs.

When she felt him walking her way, she'd go the other direction just to evade the awkwardness of the situation. Toph had never been more humiliated in her life. As well as that, she was angry. With him and herself. She had done the most daring thing she had ever done and come out broken hearted. She was sure it would work she had thrown herself at him and he rejected her. How could he? She thought maybe, just maybe he had felt the same way about her. But clearly she had been wrong. He didn't love her. He didn't care about her at all. And now she wasn't sure she could ever look him in the eye again.

By late afternoon it had all become to frustrating to handle. Toph just couldn't stand constantly being on alert for Sokka's footsteps. It was driving her insane.

So to get away from it all, she decided to wander around the city.

Only once had Toph felt so many people around her and that was when she shortly resided in Ba Sing Se. it seemed that the Fire Nation Capitol was just as busy.

It was icredibly annoying trying to navigate her way through the large crowds of people. constantly bumping shoulder with people and having her feet treded on, Toph decided to make her way back to the palace. What was there to do here anyway?

Then as she turned around she hit something front on and fell towards the ground. There was a loud thumping around her like pebbles falling to the ground. Then just as quickly as she fell, she was heaved up again by a hand.

"you'd want to be careful where you fall here. A few too many people to stand on you I think." Said a voice infront of her. He sounded young. Around the same age as Sokka. The man lead her off to the side away from the crowd.

"Hi, I'm Jin by the way."
Toph scrunched her face, "I didn't need you're help thank you. Or the knock over thankyou."

"Sorry, well you were the one walking into oncoming traffic. I think I should at least get a 'thank you'."

Toph snorted, "you were the one who made me fall down. I don't think so." She was getting annoyed now. "And why did you bother helping me up anyway?" normally she would have just walked away from this kind of situation, however today she was sad and angry.

"Well because I didn't want to see a pretty young woman get trampled obviously." He smiled at her. Toph felt herself blush at being called pretty. Only once had she been called pretty and that was by Katara.

"And, well, I noticed that you're blind." At that comment Toph's blush disappeared only to be replaced by the redness of rage.

Not wanting to cause a fight however, Toph simply turned to leave muttering to herself.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you." The man called after her.

Toph simply called back "okay." And continued walking. Then she kicked something with her foot. She bent down to pick it up. It was round and firm in most places but soft in others. She then realised that it was an apple. There were dozens around her. That must have been what she heard when she fell.

"Did I make you drop these?" she asked the man walking back towards him.

"Uh yeah actually."

"I'm sorry. I'll pay for them if you want?" she said feeling guilty now.

"What? Oh no it's fine. Really." He must have seen the remorseful look on Tophs face because he continued. "if it makes you feel any better, they weren't mine."

"Not really. I still cost someone a meal." She said.

"No its really okay. I was just delivering them my ship to export them."

Toph pulled a puzzled face. "Export them?"

"Yeah, I was going to take them to the Earth Kingdom and sell them. That's what I do."

"Oh" Toph said. "Now I feel really bad."

"No its okay really. I have plenty of other stuff to sell. Really its no big deal."

Toph still didn't feel better about the whole thing and it must have shown on her face,

"I'll tell you what, if I ever run into you again, hopefully not quite as literally as this time, you can repay me with a favour or something? Deal?"

Toph smiled. "Yeah ok. Well I guess I'd better be going."

"I never did catch your name." Jin said to her.

"Its Toph." She replied. She could feel him smile back at her.

"Pretty name for a pretty girl." Toph felt the blush creep back onto her cheeks.

"well bye." She said wanting to leave so he didn't see her red face.

"Bye."

Toph kept track of his footsteps as the two departed until she felt him get jumbled up in the crowd.

I know there wasn't much Tokka in this chapter but believe me, this chapter is VERY important. and if i get enough reviews i might just post the next chapter really soon. i'm really excited about it. it is definitely the most eventful and much longer than the previous.

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