Sokka panicked, he didn't want to wake Ty Lee, but he didn't want to lay on the ground with her sprawled across him for much longer. He debated waking her up, mean while everyone back at Mai's was going crazy looking for them.
"Did you find them?" Zuko asked Katara.
"No Mai did you?" Katara asked Mai.
"Uh huh. Let's start checking around outside." Mai suggested.
"Mai I can't go outside. The fire nation will recognize me." Zuko explained.
"Right, Katara are you coming?" Mai asked.
"Yeah. I'll be right there." Katara ran to her room and pulled her hair up in a fire nation style. She made sure she was appropriate to go outside with a governors daughter. Once she was 'appropriate' she ran outside with Mai to find them.
-x-
Ty Lee had just started to wake up. She stretched her arms out lazily and hit Sokka in the face.
"Ow!" He shouted. Ty Lee looked down, alarmed to see Sokka's arms around her and their legs entangled on the ground. Ty Lee became very nervous, seeing as she was cuddling with Sokka, the boy she almost kissed last night, her cheeks became very red. She looked away from him and mumbled a "Sorry." before leaning up. Sokka followed and they both stood up.
They were both very sore from sleeping on the ground. Sokka stretched his arms behind his back to crack it and Ty Lee started to do Yoga to loosen up her muscles.
Sokka looked out and saw the last bit of Moon set into the horizon. Ty Lee looked to where Sokka was looking and knew what he was thinking.
"Water benders rise with the Moon, Fire benders rise with the Sun." Ty Lee stated. Sokka didn't take his eyes off the setting moon but instead said,
"I'm sorry about last night."
"It's alright we both forgot to go back to Mai's." Ty Lee shrugged figuring he was talking about their positions waking up.
"No I mean I'm sorry about the almost k-kiss." Sokka mumbled.
"Oh. That." Ty Lee mumbled. She stood up and faced Sokka. She pulled her hair out of her face and huffed.
"Let's just forget it ever happened?" Ty Lee suggested. Sokka half smiled and told her,
"Fine with me." They started walking back to Mai's house only to be trampled by Katara and Mai who were hugging them, and yelling at them at the same time.
"Where were you all night?" Katara finally asked.
"Uh we uh we were just... uh...." Sokka stuttered.
"We um went to the place like with the thing?" Ty Lee tried. Katara and Mai looked at each other. Katara looked back to Sokka, and raised her brow.
"Is there something going on between you guys?" Mai asked. Ty Lee and Sokka looked at each other with wide eyes as shades of pink and red started covering their faces.
"No! Psh! Me and him! Ew!" Ty Lee laughed nervously.
"Yeah like I'd date a circus freak!" Sokka howled, too loud.
"Ok Sokka that's enough." Ty Lee smacked him, hard.
"Ow god you gotta stop doing that." Sokka told her, which earned him another smack. All three girls laughed. Katara and Mai turned back towards Mai's house, very suspicious of Ty Lee and Sokka.
When the four teens got back to the house, the smell of Tea overwhelmed them. Katara walked into the kitchen and saw Zuko making tea. She walked over to him and put a hand on his shoulder and took a whiff of the tea.
"Smells amazing." She told him and kissed him. He turned towards her and grabbed her waist.
"Would you like a taste?" Zuko asked.
"Of the tea or you?" Katara giggled.
"What do you want?" Zuko asked. Katara smacked him playfully and gave him another kiss. The kiss became very deep and both lost track of time and they were oblivious to their surroundings. Katara moved her hand down Zuko's back, sending a shiver up and down his spine. Her hand landed on the stove, and she yelled.
"Ah!!! I burned my hand!" Katara cried. Sokka came rushing into the kitchen and saw Katara's red and blotchy hand. He water bended water from the sink, and brought it around Katara's hand. The cool water felt good, and Sokka began to heal it. It took Sokka all of five seconds to heal her hand completely. Katara looked at her hand amazed.
"How did you do that?" She asked.
"It's a healing technique. You used to be able to do it too." Sokka explained. Katara nodded her head and turned back to Zuko, who started brewing the Tea again. He turned his head towards her and smirked. She stuck her tongue out at him, and left the kitchen. Katara heard a knock on the door and went to open it.
"Katara!!! It's so good to see you! We have all been worried sick about you!" A medium height girl with short brown hair embraced Katara.
"Uh ok?" Katara backed away. She didn't recognize her.
"Sokka!" Katara yelled into the house. Sokka came running, his eyes widened when he saw the girl standing in front of him.
"What are you doing here? I thought me and Zuko told Aang not to say anything!" Sokka spat.
"I had to force him to tell me where you had gone." The girl told him.
"Plus I missed you. And I-I thought that maybe you missed me. By the way your hair looks really good down." The girl continued. Sokka reached up and noticed his hair was not in it's usual pony tail. He blushed, and stepped outside, shutting the door behind him.
"You shouldn't have come here Suki."