HI! Thanks to all who read the 2nd chapter... And hooray for two postings in one day!

MODERN TIMES! ( but will have lots of references to show)

Toph can see ( for now that is I may make something happen to make her blind)

Monk Gyasto is Aang's adoptive father ( because of all the stuff about him being a father to Aang)

Tanks to kthao65, smilelyBAM03, and avatar-girl , TAANG foever.x, and Momo the original for review chapters one and two...

Now that the boring stuff is over, let the fanfiction begins!

"Ring. Seriously just ring!" Aang was dying of boredom in fist hour science class, just minutes away from study hall. A loud knock hits the door making the teacher, who was jittery enough as it was, jumped at the sound. In walks principal Roku.

" Aang. Come with me you are immediately needed in my office." He said with the gleam in his eyes telling Aang that he wasn't in trouble, how could he? He hadn't done anything, really anything at school for the whole first month. He was quiet obedient and always had his homework done, a side effect of having not found any friends. Everybody else was too far away to see the look in his eyes, so like they always love to do whenever the principal collected children to take to his office, they do a group ""oooooOOOOOOOOHHHHHhhhhhhh" (A/N: they always do this at my school) some people wagging their finger disapprovingly others tsking, they were all joking, of course, the really didn't give a crap about the class geek, but it was still fun to mess with him. The teacher magically grew a spine for about a second and a half, long enough to shush the class before going back to his cowardly, jittery self. The principal walks out with Aang, going towards his office where a surprise lied for Aang.

** Plot Twist! **

They come to the door marked "Principal Roku's Office" and the man places his hand on the knob, about to twist the handle to open the door to his inner sanctum, but hesitates, and turns to the boy.

"Aang, before we go in there, I need to tell you why you are here. The Bei Fongs, one of the richest people in the state, if not this side of the country, are sitting in there with their daughter, Toph, who requested to come to this school. Her parents are skeptical; they don't think their daughter will be able to manage public school, but Toph insists, to soothe her parent's fears, can you please show her around, like the buddy system? I trust you the most out of anybody here, and besides Gyasto said you haven't made any friends since Katara and Sokka." He smiled jokingly.

"He told you? " Aang asked, in a limbo state between angry and completely calm.

"Uh, yes, we are good friends and was just sharing his worries and, so yeah. Please do me this huge favor, you'll gain a friend? Please?" HE looked quite desperate, as if ready to get on his knees and plead.

"Sure, what do I have to lose?" Aang shrugged, he was missing the end of science class, so he was happy.

"Thanks. Really, thank you." Roku said very quickly before opening the door. Aang followed the headmaster in and took a standing position at the left of his desk. Across from sat thee people, a man in his mid forties, a woman about the same age, and a girl with long black flowing hair. They were all dressed very stylishly, pretty much oozing high class. Roku cleared his throat twice before getting the people's attention.

"Mr. and Mrs. Bei Fong, it's an honor to have you and your daughter here today. I heard of your concerns about you daughter, and I have brought today, my best student, Aang. I've known him almost since birth and his is a bright young student who is quite kind and caring. He told me he'd volunteer to show your daughter around. If you would like to I can move Toph into all of Aang's classes, to make his job easier." Roku turns on his black laptop. He pull up the class selection and his cursor hovers over the add student button.

"Yes, thank you for hearing our concerns and find a solution for them. Aang seems like a strong young boy," Lao Bei Fong stands and walks over to Aang, "And if you ever try to make a move on my daughter, well let's just say you'll wish you hadn't." he chuckles darkly before making his laugh somewhat normal. "I was kidding about the last part, but no flirting, you hear?" he says and sits back down. Roku has Toph put in all of Aang's classes and after bidding their goodbyes, Poppy and Lao Bei Fong left to go on with their lives, leaving their daughter with Aang.

"Hi." She says quietly her bang obscuring her face.

"Alright, Toph, just follow Aang. He'll help you with everything."Roku smiles and sends them on their way, going back to his principally duties.

Once the door shuts, Toph takes off, nearly leaving Aang in the dust.

"Hey wai—don't talk to me." She cuts the boy off with a new sharper voice, unlike the quiet and shy one she had used earlier. "If you want to live past today, just don't talk to me, okay?" Toph walks towards the bathroom and motions for Aang to sit outside.

" Who is this girl? The shy, lonely girl in the office or the one in the bathroom?" Aang contemplates silently waiting for her to emerge. After ten minutes she comes out, transformed almost like a butterfly coming from its cocoon. Instead of the bland yet expensive looking sundress, she was wearing a green two toned Henley shirt, dark wash jeans, and comfy green and yellow tennis shoes. Her hair was now up in a ponytail with part of it hanging diagonally across her face obscuring her left eye, and as a finishing touch a vintage pair of green headphones. (which weren't plugged into anything...)

"Pick your jaw up off the floor, lover boy. We need to get going." She tsked mockingly, for the fact that she had no idea where to go at all.

"I'm no lover boy!" he sits up, starting to regret saying yes to this. ( A/N: already? He's already annoyed by her already?)

"Remember what I said? Not one word, lover boy." She said following him like a bounty hunter following a convict. He was grumbling silently, trying to make it to study hall fast enough, trying to lose her. His attempt to lose the girl was completely in vain, she was just as fast he is, but her footsteps clomped along the hall unlike his almost silent feet. They made it to room 206, his study hall. They walk in, give the teacher their notes and go and sit at the computer bank.

"Now before you go all postal on me, let me explain, I'm not the shy, helpless girl you first met. My parents are over protective, I know it's out of love, but if they knew what I did half the time, they probably wouldn't be let out of their sight." She laughed dryly, and began typing out curse words into Cleverbot's talk box.

"Okay, now can I ask you something, why are they so protective?" He said turning off her computer, getting her attention back.

"What the hell was that for?" She punched his arm, and he knew that spot was going to be black and blue pretty soon.

"I was about to ask the same thing. Now why are your parents so protective?" he said, rubbing his arm in pain.

"None of your beeswax, lover boy." She turned away from him and rummaged through her brown messenger bag, pulling out the newest pearpod in green. She plugged it into her head phones, and let the world drift away, especially the boy next to her.

"Wow... a new record... twenty minutes at a new school and I'm already annoyed... Stupid Aang..." Toph drifted from thought to though in an almost dreamlike trance, her body not shifting the slightest, hermind racing, music always did this to her. She was quite upset to be broken out of her "state" by Aang signaling the end of study hall. "Joy... more torture with lover boy... Someone just kill me..."

**Yay Toph! Finally!**

Toph's POV

I follow lover boy down the hall to a classroom on the longest hallway ever. All the students' eyes are literally popping out of their head when they saw me with loverboy, I'm guessing he wasn't much of a ladies' man, an I'm quite pretty if I do say so myself, but like that matters. I'm finally away from the high class snobs who think I belong in an asylum for being unladylike ( which a lot of people did think) I didn't give a shit, and now I'm here. It's nice. We go into the room where a cranky old Asian man makes us sit next to each other in the first row.

"Today, class we welcome Toph Bei Fong to our class. Please make her feel welcome." He says in a slightly icy voice. The class erupts in excited chatter.

"Your Toph Bei Fong? Of the Bei Fongs?" A girl with a bubbly smile and sparkly eyes looks at me with awe.

"Yeah."

"Wow, I think heaven lost an angel as of today, because you are just too beautiful." A jock behind me tries to be fresh.

"Whoa, buddy, first I ain't no angel and second I'm wayyyyy out of your league." Toph smiled evilly turned around

"Ms. Bei Fong, we do not speak to each other in my classroom." Mr. Pakku goes to the board and pulls down a map, a fairly old looking one.

"He stated it!"

"Ms. Bei Fong! I do not suggest you get yourself sent to the principal's office on the first day!" his voice cut though the noises like a whip cutting though the air. The room was silent for a minute before the idle chatter started up again.

"Sorry, he's sexist. Stay quiet and you'll live." Aang whispers quietly to me, making me shiver, for what reason I don't know.

"Alright today, class we are going to do a project on the ancient world we had been studding for the past month. Your partners are the people sitting next to you. Get started." He goes to his computer an begins to type rapidly.

"Okay, loverboy, so what's the ancient world? My old school was actually just about to start this lesson, go figure." I turn to find my partner looking over this huge book and all this papers and news clippings.

"Yo, earth to Aang..." I finally punch him on the arm to get his attention. The look on his face said he'd nearly crapped his pants; ah I love scaredy cats...

"What, Toph? And next time can you not scare me to death?" he says going back to his stuff.

"What is the ancient world?"

"Oh, that's what you need to know? Basically the ancient world is this myth that long ago, the world was split into four nations, fire, water, earth, and air. It is said that there were gifted people who could bend the elements. They were quite advanced, especially the fire nation, they had machinery like air balloons tanks and other contraptions. The fire nation used the weapons to start a hundred year war, One scroll they found in the south pole depicts a person who could bend all four elements and stop the fire nation, the Avatar, he was like the messiah of the human world." He said in almost one breath.

"So this avatar dude, was he like kung- fu action Jesus?" I say idly, losing interest in this fast.

"I guess and they could also be female avatars but it wasn't as frequent as male ones."

"So do you have any ideas on what to do?"

"I have one, we can try to depict where the nations were and if it was possible for them to bend their elements there. That or we can do a poster on the customs of each nation."

"You do that."I say and begin to put my music on again.

"What do you mean? It's our project! You have to half the work!" He throws his arms in the air, looking crazy.

"Yeah, I'm more of a idea person, not so much of a working kind." I say and turned the music up louder, it was Thee Days Grace's song "Riot" which had a lot of screaming in it, perfect...

"No? Really? I thought you were a really good at independent work!" He says sarcastically and shoves the whole mess of papers and books into his back pack and pulls out a book.

"Wow, for such a bright boy, I thought you might notice." I sneer.

"Oh, excuse me your highness, looks like I've disgraced you! What am I ever to do? You know you said you weren't the high class girl I met but you're not, you're worse, a high class snob with an IQ of 4 and no manners!" he whispers angrily back.

He was this close to being dead. I had to sit on my hands to keep them from strangling the kid. The bell rung a few seconds later and I shot out like a torpedo to the lunch room and sit at the only empty table. I'm chilling on the outside but on the inside fuming and really ready to cry. Yeah I'm just having a great first day, I become some dork's shadow get called a snob and I'm ready cry, way to keep the cool, Toph.

I take my mind off Aang by playing my loudest music at the loudest my ears can handle. I'm so into it I don't hear him that jock fro earlier sit down next to me. He takes the head phones off my ears and pushes the hair in my face behind my ear. Now normally He'd be writhing in pain by now but I play along. He stands my up and we stare eye to eye.

"Well hello again." He says trying to be all seductive and crap.

"Hi, quick question, do you like kickball?" I ask sweetly.

"Yeah, why- ooohhhh." The guy dropped like a rock. I grab my head phones and walk out and pretend the whole lunch room did not see me kick that jerk in the balls. And of course trouble must just love me, because low and behold I walk into loverboy. I turn away from him and walk down some unknown hallway, and I hear him calling after me. I just walk faster. I finally hit a dead end andI'm forced to let him catch up to me.

"What? Here to make more snob jokes?"

"Toph, I just ... I have no control over what I say when I'm really ticked. I really didn't mean any of that at all." He says sliding down next to me on the floor I stand up and walk away. I don't hear him coming until I feel his boney grasp over my hand.

"Hey, Twinkle toes, trying to give me a heart attack?" I jerk my hand away from his and keep on going.

"Twinkle toes? What happened to lover boy?" he asks coming up beside me.

"Lover boy was just too manly." I mutter and finally stop and turn to face him.

"Look I'm sorry I got all pissed but what you said was exactly the reason I all the private schools in the state! No matter how prestigious the school or no matter how laid back, I was always the rich snob who needed an attitude adjustment. I thought public school wouldn't care too much about whom I was but I was wrong."I finish quietly holding back tears, I was never this open to anyone and I had just met this weirdo. And crying in front of him would mean I'll need to transfer again. Shit, why must this be so hard?

"Um, is there any way we can you know start over?" He asks, holding out his hand for me to shake.

"Why the hell not." I spit on my palm and slap it against his.

** Yeah...**

Well, did I get her character right? I was really nervous it wasn't right but I'll let the readers decide ( please tell me what you think!)

Hope the long chapter tides you over for a day or two.. or four I have to update other stories too...

I still have the poll up! And I I'm only goanna keep it up till chapter 8 instead of ten.. so cast you vote if you want bending in the 21st century or not!

This is now the longest thing I've ever posted whaoooo!

Oh and besides Taang are there any pairings you wish to see? Zutata? Sukka? Maiko? Any others? Tell me if you do!

May the elements be with you,

PFB out!

( One last thing... was I too harsh on Toph when Aang yelled at her? I felt like I needed to gfet the point across but I may have been too harsh...)