I know something was different about you two!" Sokka says, leaning off the wall, making his way towards us. "I guess I was looking at the physical traits…Aang growing hair, what was I thinking."
Aang stands up straight, recovering from being scared senseless. He drops his head in submission.
I, on the other hand, am fuming.
"And what were you doing spying on us?" I growl, putting myself between Aang and my brother. I point a finger in his face. "You have real nerve, Sokka!"
"Hey, I was curious." He says, putting his hands up to block his face from me. I punched him in the shoulder.
"There's a difference between curiosity and being a creep!" I yell, my face red hot from both anger and embarrassment.
"I'm allowed to be a creep! I'm your brother!" He yells back.
"That does not give you a free pass!" I growl.
"Well, maybe I wouldn't be so creepy if you weren't so…sketchy!" He says.
I gasp. "How am I being sketchy? I'm not the one hiding behind pillars in the middle of the night!"
"Good thing I did! You and Aang were about to do naughty things!" He says, throwing his hands in the air.
"Kissing isn't naughty Sokka!" I yell back, my hands on my hips defensively.
"Oh, you'd be surprised." He says.
"Guys…" I hear Aang say quietly behind me. I ignore it.
"Oh? So I suppose the only way you know how to kiss is naughty? How hypocritical!" I yell, inches away from Sokka's face.
"I'm allowed! I'm older than you!" He yells back.
"Uh…guys?" Aang says again, his voice a little louder than a whisper now.
"Ugh! By age! I'm mentally five years older than you! You act like a child!" I snap.
"Well, you are a child! Not to mention Aang is two years younger than you!" He yells.
"Don't you dare drag Aang into this! He's a hundred and twelve years old!" I say.
"Katara…Sokka…you might-." I turn around and glare at Aang. He instantly stops talking, his eyes shifting down both ends on the hallway nervously. I turn back towards Sokka.
"He was in an iceberg! That doesn't count!" He says, throwing his hands to his side.
"It counts a whole lot! I can kiss whoever I want, whenever I want!" I yell. "And you can hide behind every pillar for all I care!"
"You're darn right I will!" He says back.
"Shh… people might wake-." Aang says, only to, once again, be ignored.
"I feel sorry for you then!" I say, giving him a cold laugh.
"Why would you be sorry for me? I'm not the one getting their privacy invaded…" He says, crossing his arms.
"Because you'll have to see this every time!" I turn behind me and grab Aang by the arm, swinging him around. His eyes were wide, full of embarrassment, shock, and curiosity.
"Katara what are you-." He starts to say, only to be interrupted by me grabbing his collar, smashing our lips forcefully together.
"Ugh! Stop that! Stop that right now!" Sokka whines, pulling on my arm. I move my arm up and push Sokka away, swatting his face. My lips stay locked on Aang's, with him starting to pull out of shock, moving his lips rhythmically with mine. After a few seconds, we pull away, our eyes half-lidded and short of breath. Aang lets out a small whistle.
I turn towards Sokka, whose face seemed to take color of a green tomato.
"Gee Sokka, you don't look so good…why don't you go and hide behind one of your pillars!"
"Ugh!" He says, moving his hands to cover his eyes. "My eyes! They burn!"
"Oh, grow up!" I groan, taking Aang's hand in mine. Aang was grinning, his face extremely flushed.
Sokka stops making strange noises and calms down. He sighs. "Aang?"
I glare at Sokka, waiting for him to spit out insults. I swear, if he says anything rude to Aang I'll waterbend him to the moon and back.
I hear Aang gulp nervously. "Yeah, Sokka?"
Sokka's lips curl into a smile. "Good for you buddy."
Aang is quiet for a moment. I look at Sokka, confused.
"Uh…thanks Sokka." Aang says, a timid smile appearing on his face. "You really mean that?"
"Of course I do…I've known you liked my sister for a while now." He says, as a mater of fact.
Aang's mouth opens in disbelief. "What? When did you find out? How?"
"Yeah Sokka, how'd you manage to keep that one a secret?" I say, my hands on my hips.
"I'll have you know, I'm a great secret keeper..." He says, smiling smugly, pointing his finger upwards. "I've known since Aunt Wu's village."
"Yeah right Sokka, you're not that observant." I snort.
"I didn't have to be. Aang practically told me!" He says.
"No I didn't!" Aang says, "You thought I was talking about Meng! Also, aloof? Horrible advice."
"Who's Meng?" I say, crossing my arms. I tap my foot a little.
"Oh. Uh…the girl that worked with Aunt Wu." Aang says. I give him a blank stare, still not registering the name.
"You know…the girl with the hair like this." He says, extending his arms from the sides of his head.
"Oh! Meng! She was so sweet!" I say, remembering the small little girl with her outrageous pigtails.
Aang laughs nervously. "Yeah…she had some sort of crush on me. I was too occupied trying to impress you…or not try, because Sokka said being aloof is the best option."
I give Sokka a sad look.
"What? It was great advice! I mean it obviously worked!" Sokka says, pointing between Aang and me.
"It was terrible advice…" Aang mumbles, obviously remembering how silly he acted. I chuckle a little to myself.
"Well, I thought it was cute." I say, pecking him on the cheek.
"Yuck! None of that!" Sokka says, sticking out his tongue. I twitch my eyes angrily.
"Give it a rest Sokka!" I yell into his face. Sokka slowly backs up, cowering a little from my outburst. I smooth out my hair in achievement.
"So…how did you figure out my feelings for Katara anyway…I still think you thought I was talking about Meng." Aang says, giving Sokka an inquisitive look.
"Well, that's partially true. But I even teased you about liking Katara." Sokka says, letting out a little chuckle.
"When did you do that? I would have obviously noticed." I say.
"No offense Katara, but you were about as oblivious as a rock." He says back to me.
"Sokka, that analogy doesn't even make sense!" I growl.
Sokka waves me off, looking back towards Aang. "A necklace Aang, could you be anymore obvious?" I look down, realizing the signs started so early…maybe I was oblivious. Well, at least in the beginning.
"Katara, I made you a necklace, you know, because you lost your other one! Oh thanks, Aang, it's beautiful, I am never going to take it off! Aw shucks Katara, only for you. You are so cute, just like Momo!" Sokka mimics, replying the past for us. Or, poorly replaying it, that is.
"I don't sound like that…" Aang murmurs, not pleased by the way Sokka used a high-pitched tone for Aang when he mimicked him.
"I didn't compare Aang to Momo!" I say, in my defense.
"Actually Katara…you kind of did…" Aang says, giving me a half-smile. Wow. I was really oblivious.
"Oh…wow. I'm sorry. That was kind of a jerk move." I whisper, biting my cheek.
Aang grabs my hand. "It's okay! I think you made up for it." I return the gesture with a smile, squeezing his hand.
"Smoochie, smoochie, someone's in love!" Sokka says, forming kissy lips. "Does that ring a bell?"
I stare at Sokka in confusion, not sure what to make of what he just said. I turn to Aang, and notice a slight blush forming on his cheeks. I sigh.
"Sokka, stop teasing him!" I scold.
"You know that'll never happen Katara. I'll tease you both for as long as I want to!" Sokka says, giving a sure nod. I hear Aang sigh next to me.
"Alright, well, I'm tired and I'm going to say goodnight to Aang, so you can leave now." I grump, pushing Sokka down the hall. He shrugs out of my grasp.
"Oh no you don't! Aang already got his goodnight kiss!" Sokka grabs Aang by the arm and drags him down the hall with him. "Say goodnight Katara!"
"I'm not finished with him yet! Bring him back here! Sokka!" I say, stomping my foot.
"You've finished enough, trust me, I saw you finishing pretty vividly." Sokka echoes, nearly at the end of the hall now.
"Goodnight Katara! See you tomorrow morning!" Aang says, barely audible now.
I growl and stomp into my room, slamming the door behind me. I angrily slip out of my dress, revealing only my undergarments. I throw myself into my bed and throw the covers over my face, finally letting the wave of embarrassment from Sokka catching Aang and I wash over me. I lay like that for a while when a soft knock comes from my door. I groan a little and sluggishly get out of bed.
"Sokka, I swear, if you're here to scold me some more I'll-."
I open the door and I am instantly met with a soft kiss. My eyes shoot wide open, only to close again realizing the familiar lips on my own. Our lips move together, sweet but lingering. He teases me slightly by letting his tongue touch the bottom of my lip, and when I open my mouth for him to explore, he doesn't move his tongue from its original teasing spot. I feel myself pout into the kiss and he chuckles slightly.
We pull away, my head spinning.
"Goodnight." Aang says, his eyes darting over me excitedly. I look down and realize I was pretty revealed, being only in my undergarments. I blush and tuck a piece of hair behind my ear nervously. Aang leans up and kisses me gently on the cheek, and with that, he leaves, bounding down the hallway towards his room.
I'm not sure exactly how long I stood under my doorway for.
I just want to thank everyone for the reviews, author & story favoring/alerts. I really love it that all of you are enjoying this story so much. I am actually writing a book of my own on my spare time, but I wanted to test out my writing style with none other than writing a story about my favorite couple and my favorite show. Also, a new Legend of Korra is today and I am pretty much dying inside to see Korra talk to Aang! Wish you all a happy Korra Saturday, and please review and keep reading! I'll try to post as much as I can. If I ever take too long, please feel free to message me! And if any of you are interested in reading some snippets of my own book I am currently attempting to work on, I'll be happy to send you some promos of it! I need all the criticizing I can get! Thanks again! Your responses to my story is really making my boring summer go a little faster! :)