Shopping for Excuses

"Sokka, what are you doing?"

"Hmm?" Sokka turned around, a bit of meat hanging out his mouth, to see Aang looking completely bewildered.

"Sokka, you do know that Katara is going to block you from coming to markets if you just buy pointless, expensive food, don't you?

Sokka swallowed exaggeratedly. "I don't know what you're talking about. I was- er."

"You were what? Aang raised an eyebrow.

"Erm… sampling the… local… cheap food?"

Aang sighed. "Well, don't come running to me when she starts shouting at you for wasting all our money. And you should probably try coming up with more imaginative excuses."

Sokka looked outraged.

"I come up with loads of good excuses, I'll have you know!"

"Er, Sokka, that not really something you should be boast-"

But Sokka was already leaping around, getting ready to tell a long winded, more dramatic that it should be, and self-absorbed story.

"What about that time when you had been captured by those random savages in the forest? Remember? And then I-" Sokka jumped up on a box in an apparently dramatic pose- "I told them that you were not one of our group, and that therefore they should not eat Katara or me! And the completely bought it!"

"Oh yeah." Aang said, scratching his arrow. "I remember that. You know, it wouldn't have been very nice of you to leave me behind with them if they had been savages. It was a good thing they were actually our friends who we'd been camping with for the night."

Sokka looked mildly put-out, but composed himself almost immediately.

"Exactly! I would never put you in a dangerous position, young Airbender!" Sokka continued his leaping around, and swung an arm around Aang's shoulders.

"SOKKA!"

"AHHH!"

Sokka leapt behind Aang, who had also been startled by the shout. He then saw Katara striding towards them.

"Sokka, what are you doing down here? I sent you to go buy food!"

"Oh, he already bought some!" Aang said, happily. Sokka kicked him and stuffed the small bag of deliciously fried turtle-chicken wings behind his back. But resistance was futile. Katara grabbed the bag.

"We need proper food, Sokka! Not overpriced local delicacies!" She stepped forward slightly, fuming, as Aang and Sokka backed away.

"That's it, Sokka- you are never being in control of the money again!"

"B-but I'm the leader of this quest-"

"EVER!"

End