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Chapter 5

The Double Date

~Asami's POV~

Korra spent the night at my house and we made blueberry waffles for breakfast the next morning, which are my favorite. After breakfast, Korra had torn my closet apart looking for outfits for us to wear on our date. After finding nothing she felt was date enough worthy she told me we were going shopping. Korra usually has a tomboy attitude at school, but sometimes I would say she has a really girly girl side. I rolled my eyes but went along with it. I have so many clothes already, and we share each other's clothes all the time. I have plenty of cute things we could wear, so I figured it was just a ploy to get me out of the house.

I can't say I hate shopping, though. It's always fun when we go to the mall together. We always end up buying a lot, which isn't a problem since both our families have money. I know, that probably makes us sound like rich, spoiled rotten brats. I guess we could be, but we don't think we're better than everyone else or anything.

After trying on like a million outfits we finally decide on something date worthy. I find myself smiling and actually feeling okay. My head hurts a bit, and my neck and shoulder are itching again, but the hunger is mostly leaving me alone. I'm glad she dragged me to the mall; I needed something to take my mind off all the strange crap that seems to be happening to me.

We decided to grab some pretzels and cheese in the mall's food court. We both really like them. I'm still really hungry but I ignore the hunger. I find myself actually excited for tonight, the skating rink date doesn't sound so bad. Korra seems happier to see me smiling, which is good since I hate making her worry. We are like sisters, and I know that if I'm with her tonight will be fun.

~Korra's POV~

I was glad to see Asami smiling and laughing. A trip to the mall was exactly what she needed, we needed some girl time. After we finished eating we went in the bathroom to clean up. My hair was a total disaster from our clothes trying on.

"You know, I'm actually excited for our skating rink date. It might actually be fun." I heard Asami say.

"Great! I knew you'd feel more yourself after a shopping day. We totally needed it; it's been a while since we actually spent time at the mall."

When we headed back to the food court area I saw Tahno. He was staring right at us. I stopped and pulled Asami back the other way. I didn't want her to see him, it'd ruin her good mood and I didn't want her thinking about the 'vampire stuff'. After all, I had brought her to the mall to get her mind off it.

"Whoa! What's with the sudden turn around?"

I looked around quickly. We were passing by one of my favorite stores and I made up and excuse. "I forgot I wanted to look around in here and see if they had any cute shoes." Asami sighed and followed me. I ended up finding the perfect shoes to go with my date outfit. I mean I had some shoes that would work already, but I decided to buy them to go along with my 'excuse.' Well, a girl can never have too many shoes anyway.

I wondered why Tahno was here anyway. It didn't seem he was with anybody and the way he'd been staring made me uncomfortable. I was glad Asami hadn't seen him. Maybe he really did do something to Asami, he could be watching us. I shivered at that thought. Being watched by Tahno? Gross. He was really creepy, not to mention a real jerk. I could never figure out why some of the girls at school were all over him.

I was getting tired. We'd been walking around too much today. From the look of it, Asami was too and was looking bored. If Tahno was still around I sure didn't want to run into that creep either.

"Let's head to my house. We've had quite the shopping trip." I picked my bags up and we headed out to my car. I could have sworn I saw Tahno looking at us near a corner as we walked out of the mall.

~*~*~*~*~ Later ~*~*~*~*~

I did Asami's hair as we got ready to go meet the guys. I've always been a bit jealous of her raven locks. I texted Mako earlier and we decided we just would just meet up with him and Iroh and the skating rink. Tonight was going to be really fun, I just knew it. I put on my new shoes and I sighed mentally at the fact shoes didn't actually matter, since we'd just be wearing skates anyway. Asami had mentioned this to me earlier when I was buying them, but I shrugged it off and bought them anyway since they were cute.

We left at six-thirty since the skating rink was across town. I found myself a tiny bit nervous, Mako was really cute, and I didn't want to look dumb in front of him. I'm a pretty good skater, but even I have my fall downs. I giggled at the thought of us both falling down; though it wasn't likely it would actually happen. Asami looked at me.

"Why are you being all giggly? Thinking about Mako?" She teased me.

"What? He's cute. You know you're excited to see Iroh. I can tell you like him."

"Okay, maybe just a little bit." She said smiling a bit. I hope I've convinced her that everything will be fine. Sure she had weird run into with him, but everyone has awkward moments. I pulled into the skating rink parking lot. I looked in my rearview mirror and flipped my hair around a bit.

"Let's go have some fun!" I said as we climbed out my car.

~Asami's POV~

We walked into the skating rink and saw the guys sitting at a table. Korra waved and smiled like an excited little kid, though I could understand. She really did like Mako. We walked over to their table and sat down. It was an inside ice skating rink. It was a little cold but it was a lot better than being outside. I'd been here before plenty of times; it was a fun place to hang out. The skating floor was huge, and there wasn't a lot of people here like I remembered there being. I figured that was a good thing. I hadn't skated in a while. I hoped I wouldn't end up falling on the ice. That would be super embarrassing, and I was on a date so yeah, that would obviously make it worse.

"You girls ready to skate?" Mako asked.

"Yep. Let's go." The guys got up and Korra and I followed. They paid for our skates and we sat down to put them on. When we stepped on the ice I kinda stumbled a little but I didn't fall, luckily. Iroh had grabbed my arm just in case. He smiled down at me, he wasn't much taller but he still had a couple inches on me. I blushed a little.

"It's been a while since I ice skated. I gotta get used to it again."

"I haven't either, here's hoping I don't fall myself." He laughed.

I found myself smiling. I didn't feel so nervous about falling in front of him anymore. Korra and Mako had gone ahead and were talking ahead of us. I wondered how they were so comfortable around each other already. I could have sworn she told me she just met him. I shrugged mentally, Korra was always like that. She wasn't nervous around guys or anybody really. I sometimes wish I had her level of relaxed socializing.

"It seems we kinda got pulled into the double date thing. I couldn't let Korra down; she really likes your friend."

"You saying you'd rather not be here with me?" He said, sounding a little hurt, I think I sensed some sarcasm in his statement though.

"No, no! That's not what I meant at all. I just said it because they didn't really give us much of a choice. I'm glad to be here though. Ice skating is fun." I smiled.

We did a couple laps around the floor, catching up with Korra and Mako every once in a while. I'd stumbled a little bit as well and Iroh reached out to keep me upright each time. He joked around with me about the stumbling, and I laughed with him. He even lost his footing once and almost took us both down. We ended up talking a lot. I was having a much greater time with Iroh then I thought I would. Korra was right, worrying about my awkward moment with Iroh before was a waste of thought. He was a really great guy. I don't think I would have minded if he did ask about it anymore.

After a bit, a man started to talk over the intercom announcing a skating game would be starting soon for anyone who wished to play. Korra and Mako skated up next to us and I asked our group if they'd like to participate. Everyone agreed it would be fun and we decided to sit down for a little break. The skating game thing was an old tradition thing the place did ever since I was a kid. It was usually like a race or another weird game and don't even know who would have thought up. Anyway, it was a fun thing they did here that I guess was kinda unique.

Today they were hosting one I remembered as my favorite. I couldn't remember what exactly they called it but it had to do with this huge dice they rolled on the ground. The announcer guy had us skate around the rink till the music playing stopped. We then had to pick a number that was painted on the walls in six different places counting 1 to 6. I guess it's kinda like 'musical skating' like musical chairs or something. Anyway when the music stops they roll the giant dice and whichever number the dice lands on everybody under that number is disqualified. The game continues after that till there is only one number left with participating players under it. The last couple people left usually get a free prize from their concession stand such as a drink or snack.

I suppose it sounds kinda kiddy, but we all played anyway. It ended up being a lot of fun since we all got pretty far in the game. Each of us each picked the right numbers to not get disqualified for two rounds, then Mako got eliminated, me next, then Iroh and Korra. It didn't really matter that none of ended up winning, we still all enjoyed it.

After the game was over we all sat down and talked. I was really glad Korra had set up our double date yesterday. Everything was going great and was beginning to wonder why I had worried about it at all. Iroh got up to get us each a smoothie from the concession stand.

I looked out on the skate floor and a saw girl fall down. Somehow she'd ended up hurting her leg with one of her skates. The smell of her blood hit me like a rock. My head pounded and I cried out in pain. Korra looked over to me and asked what was wrong. "Out there, that girl." I murmured to her quietly. I saw Korra look out on the floor and see what I meant. I heard Mako ask me if I was okay and I said yeah.

I stood up from the table and the scent of blood washed over me stronger. I bit my lip and held my breath. No. I thought. After a few moments I ran to the bathroom, hardly suppressing my urge to run out on the skate floor where the girl was. It didn't help she was now making her way toward me since the little doorway off the floor was near our table. I heard Korra get up after me saying she'd be right back to the guys.

Luckily the bathroom was empty and I rushed into one of the stalls and locked it. I cried out again. My head was screaming and the smell of blood was still strong. I didn't know if I could stand it. I sat down started to cry, I wanted to go out there onto the skate floor and…I couldn't even think it. I heard Korra come in the bathroom.

"Asami? You okay?"

"No." I sobbed. "I need to get out of here. I don't know what I could end up doing." It had been really hard for me to turn and run to the bathroom, the urge was stronger this time. The smell of blood was driving me up the wall. It was making my head hurt worse than I had ever felt. I couldn't think of anything but wanting it. I think the only thing that stopped me from running out onto the skate floor was all the people around me.

"Alright, I'll tell the guys we need to go. You can wait for me outside…if it will help? Here's my keys, you can wait in the car." She slid them under the stall door.

"Okay." I managed to say and grabbed some toilet paper and wiped my eyes and nose. I picked her keys off the floor and walked out of there as fast as possible. We'd already changed our shoes after the skating game. I held my breath as I walked out of the building, trying not to breathe and trying not to get another whiff of the smell of blood that was driving me out of my mind. It worked till I got outside.

I ran to Korra's car and unlocked the door. I climbed in and shut the door. I put my feet on the seat and wrapped my arms around my legs and buried my face in my lap. I started to cry again. I wished that whatever was happening to me would stop, but I knew deep inside that it wouldn't.

I heard someone talking outside my window. I peeked up over my knees and saw the girl who had tripped on the skating floor. Her leg wasn't bleeding anymore but I could still smell the blood on her pants. It flooded through my door and before I knew it I was opening the car door and practically leaping out.

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