"Example" = Flashback.
"Example" = Present
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First Day Of Academics
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It had been a normal day for Aang. After Aang got dressed and had breakfast he made their way to the bus stop. Aang wore his favorite brown ski cap with blue arrow which he only took off when he went to bed, an orange brownish shirt 'Living it up!' etched diagonally across it along with a blue jean pants and white sneakers.
It had been a week after the commotion Toph made at the park. Afterwards she had been acting normal as usual, which meant she caused a lot of stress whenever he went to visit her. But it was Toph and she wasn't acting weird so all was fine with the world.
Aang' jaw dropped, his eyes twitched, his body flinched at the sight which lay before him. He had not expected or prepared for the situation which he was in as soon as he boarded the bus. What? How could this be? Was this a sign? Is...the world going to end?
"Twinkle toes! Over here!"
Aang turned to a familiar voice when he got on the bus. He could only recognize it as Toph Bei Fong's rough but feminine voice. Aang felt his jaw drop lower reaching to ground for a minute. Toph's hair was up in its usual bun and her light jade green eyes matched the green blouse she wore along with the white undershirt, with long white pants and white sneakers striped with a bit green.
His brain functions stopped for a moment. Toph looked beautiful in every sense of the word. Her glowing porcelain skin, her petite but slender (slightly muscular) body and her bright smile was to die for. But he couldn't tell her. It was there that Aang realized that he had been standing in the same place for well over a minute. Trying not to angry the bus driver any more than he already did, he rushed over to Toph.
"Toph…what are you doing here?" Aang asked plopping down next to her.
"Going to school what does it look like?"
"But…but you're home schooled! And you hate going outside!" Aang couldn't help but raise his voice.
"Not so loud Twinkles, I don't think the people in China can hear you!"
"Sorry but I'm…surprised…shocked even!"
"Yeah, well you said school might have been fun, so I decided to come along to…see for myself, yeah." Toph looked away. Aang could tell that she wasn't telling him everything but he would talk about it later.
"But…what about your parents?" They wouldn't let her just wander off to school unattended.
"You see those kids in the back seat?" Aang turned and saw two older boys and a girl all reading various books. The two boys were dressed all in black; black shirts and pants while the girl wore a white blouse with a sky blue jacket along with an ivory skirt.
"Yeah, what about them?"
"They are my 'Personal guards – Junior edition'." Toph sighed.
"What the -? But they look about a year older than us!"
"That's what you get with my parents, top dollar for their daughter's safety."
"Let me guess, it was a condition?" Toph nodded. Aang figured it was like that. There was always a cache. But he was happy enough that he got to go to school with Toph. But there was one thing he wanted to discuss with her beforehand.
"Toph whatever you do, don't use your nicknames in school! Please!" Aang pleaded.
"And why not?"
"You could give me a bad rep with those names!"
"…what's your point?" Oh for the love of-
"Never mind," Aang sighed "But I have to say I'm surprised to see you're using the bus."
"What do you mean?"
"I'd expect you to be in a better mode of transportation. Is the limousine not good enough for you?"
"Shut up!" Toph quickly punched Aang in the arm "I'm new to this whole school thing, so I thought I'd make a normal appearance. I don't want to attract any unwanted attention."
"But a limousine is normal for you," Toph punched him again.
"I do not want to be a household name by the end of the day."
"It's good to dream Toph but with your last name I'll bet the entire school will be after you in a matter of minutes." Aang laughed nervously.
"That's why I have them," Toph pointed to her personal guards "If they come near me they won't know what hit them."
"If you get into trouble please don't drag me down with you," Aang feared for the rest of his and her school career.
Once the two got to the school, Toph had their first look at the High School. Rosebud High was a pretty famous high school around the city for its tough teacher's and daily activities. Despite all that it was a public school, and Toph had to beg her father for a week to send her there so she could be with her friends (mostly Aang). He gave in after a few hundred tries, on the promise that Toph would behave herself and study, yeah right she thought as she stomped through the front door.
The two had to maneuver through the sea of teens before they bumped into two teens they knew very well.
"Sugar Queen and Snozzles?"
"…wait what?" Sokka asked. He had a simple sapphire blue T- shirt with a large wave on the frontl on the front and plain blue jeans. .
"Well Katara is Sugar Queen since she is sweet that it's sickening and Sokka is Snozzles because-" Sokka rushed to Toph blocking her mouth with his hand "Whuza beeh deel?" (What's the big deal?)
"I don't want to know! Toph stick to our actual names when we're in school please!" Sokka relaxed his grip on Toph "You can abuse the name calling once we're out."
"Why should I? I'll call you whatever I want when I want nerd boy" Toph huffed.
"Yeah about that, we actually have like reputations here and I am not a nerd!"
"Explain your grades then." Toph mocked, as Sokka shot her a glare.
He had excellent grades despite being an idiot at times…most of the time, ok all of the time. What he lacked for in common sense he made up for in intelligence.
"Well then, names aside, are you excited about your first day?" Katara asked. Katara's shapely yet slender body was covered with a sleeveless baby blue blouse with a cute black ribbon that stuck out in the front which hung over the medium length onyx skirt that she wore.
"Not too sure about that." Toph shook her "If people start to recognize me there are going to be a few problems."
"What do you mean?"
"My guards will hurt them." Katara regretted asking.
"That reminds me, Toph what class are you going to be in?" Aang was curious.
"Yours, of course."
"Oh god…"
"It won't be that bad Twinkles. At most a few people might get hurt for even wanting to touch me." Toph crossed her arms and huffed the bangs out of her face. She hated the thought of hormonal teens who wanted to crowd over her because she was of the Bei Fong family. She was only here to see what school was like. At least, that's what she kept telling herself.
"I worry about you sometimes…" Sokka shook his head slowly.
"At least you aren't in the same class as her…" Aang said dejectedly.
"Good luck with that little buddy," No sooner had Sokka said that the bell rang "Well I hope you guys don't hate it here, it's too late for me though."
"Toph please don't hurt anyone."
"Can't make any promises twinkles."
"Let's try to make this the best day ever, ok?" Aang shouted proudly.
"This is the worst first day ever…" Aang whispered meekly.
"What did you say punk?" The bully hauled Aang higher against the locker.
"Look, I don't want any trouble so just let me go and we can act like this never happened."
"Why should I let you go? You're my meal ticket for the rest of the school year," the bully spat in his face.
"Now give me all your money and I won't beat you into pieces," Aang just sighed, he had been having a horrible day today and this wasn't really making it any better.
"Hey! Get away from him!" A rough girlish voice rang through the hallway.
"What?" The bully glared at Toph who wasn't the tiniest bit afraid.
"You heard me ugly! Drop the nerd and no one gets hurt."
"What can you do? You're just a girl!"
"What was that?"
"Um dude, just don't make it any worse…just let me go and you can avoid going to the hospital…" Aang tried to warn him but to no avail.
"What? You're afraid of her too? You're letting a girl fight for you?" The bully threw Aang to the ground harshly. He walked up to Toph and scanned her body.
"You know, you're actually pretty cute ditch, the nerd and hang out with me."
"First you hit my friend now you want to hit on me?"
Just then, Toph's personal guards surrounded the boy. "No guys, this one is on me." Toph cracked her knuckles with a large grin plastered across her face.
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"I tried to warn you…" Aang sighed looking over the remains of what use to be the bully. The boy hugged his knees as he rocked back and forth on the ground.
"And you!" Toph pointed her finger at Aang "Why didn't you waste him?"
"Toph you know I don't like to fight besides, I'm exhausted from today. I'm too tired to care."
"Dude you were willing to become his bitch because you had a bad day?" Toph looked up to Aang, he looked exhausted and worn out. That almost never happens. "What the hell happened?"
"Toph you were the cause of it all." Aang's eyes searched outside "The bus is here." Toph grabbed Aang's shirt and pulled him away from the bus onto the sidewalk.
"Toph?"
"We're walking home today."
"Again? But Toph the school is too far! Walking would taking hours!"
"Perfect, right?" Aang shook his head "So what happened again?"
"Where do I start? First of all, your introduction to the class made everyone feel lost."
"My name is Toph, stay away from me." Toph hadn't even looked at the class. She kept staring out the window.
"Um, Miss Bei-" The teacher tried to interject but Toph held her hand up.
"Don't say my last name. Let's pretend like it doesn't exist and there will be no problems, got it?"
"What? I couldn't tell them my last name and I always make my intentions clear from the beginning."
"You didn't have to say it like that!"
After that, their English teacher sent her to her seat...with was unfortunately right next to Aang's. During Class she'd occasionally bug him about what the teacher was saying but that was fine. She was new here and they were probably teaching a topic she didn't understand.
"Ok, so what else went wrong?"
"The Math teacher?"
When the Math's teacher came in that's when Aang could feel the trouble coming.
"Ok would anyone like to solve this equation?" The teachers eyes scanned the classroom. No one seemed to want to answer the question.
"Ok, Miss Bei Fong would you like to answer?"
Crap, Aang thought. When he turned to Toph, she couldn't be angrier.
"What seriously?"A boy from the back asked.
"That's the Bei Fong family's daughter?"Following him was a girl in the front.
"She's beautiful. Like a doll."A girl said as she dreamily looked at Toph. Wait, a girl?
Soon enough the class erupted in fit of chatter and gossip.
"I wonder what she's doing here."
"I expected her to be taller and with longer hair."
"Um, guys quiet down before you get Toph angrier." Aang tried to quell the class' chatter but he only made it worse.
"You know her, Aang?"
"Well, yeah but-"
"Oh, so you know her huh?"
"What?"
"Quick to speak on her behalf, like a knight! How romantic!" The same girl, who had apparently taken a liking to Toph started squeeing.
"Are you two dating or something?" Aang didn't know who said that but he wish he didn't.
"WOULD YOU ALL JUST SHUT UP?"
Toph exploded leaving everyone speechless, even the teacher.
"It's not my fault! They wouldn't shut up!" Toph defended. They were making some weird assumptions. Me and Twinkles dating? Hah.
"After all that attention I finally realized how hungry I was..." After that, the teacher gave them each a ten minute scolding on disturbing the class during lessons.
Why was I included? I didn't do anything!
"Well at least you had lunch."
"Did you see me at lunch?" Aang closed his eyes tightly trying to release his pent up stress.
"You weren't there? I didn't really notice," Toph shrugged.
Sokka and Katara were about to leave the school when they noticed Aang and Toph walking down the street. Katara was about to shout out to them but Sokka grabbed her shoulder and dragged her onto the bus.
"Let's leave those two alone."
"Um, why?" Katara asked raising an eyebrow.
"Don't you remember lunch? Toph almost went nuts when she didn't see Aang. She made her guards interrogate half the student body looking for him. Especially the jocks, on the thought that they might have stuffed him into a locker."
"True…"
"So I say leave them be."
"Well because of your little outburst, when you left for lunch the kids cornered me and interrogated me! Most of the kids in my classes are mean! None of them asked nicely. I swore someone actually held something up to my throat. I don't think I can be friends with half of them anymore."
"Aang! You knew such a hot chick and you didn't tell us?"By now, most of the male populous was at Aang's throat for answers. And that one girl...Aang would have to warn Toph.
"That's cold man!"
"She is just a friend now get off me!" Aang struggled to get out of his large friends grip. The held both his hands and lifted him into the air. He needed to work out more.
"By the looks of it, your use to defending her! Why would that be?"
"So? I jump to everyone defense!"
"True."The boy nodded.
"But you two were exchanging notes and messages in class!"
"That was only because she didn't know what the teacher was talking about!"
"Come on Aang, we know you two are dating!"
"Ugh…" Aang couldn't talk to these ignorant idiots. They weren't listening to him so what was the point?
"Let's see, what else…Oh! Mrs. Chau issued the whole class a ten page assignment due next week. And finally a bully tried to beat me up."
"Well at least I helped with the last one," Toph grinned "Wait…Mrs. Chau sounds familiar…"
"Toph it was Science class! You were there!"
"So that's what she was going on about! I wasn't really paying attention…so can I count on your help on the project?" Toph smiled brightly.
"You mean you play game while I do all the work?"
"Exactly."
Aang sighed. It was only the first day and he could have already seen his future. His dim future of doing all of Toph's assignments for her. Though it may have come as a surprise, when it came to certain things Toph was as lazy as anyone could get. Aang had been so lost in thought he hadn't noticed that they were almost to the park already. Toph took the familiar shortcut that cut through the park.
"You're lucky we had to choose partners."It was only when Aang came to the small hill did he notice. He slid down with Toph close behind him.
"I don't need luck in school," As he expected, Toph almost slip and fell again but Aang grabbed her hand "Besides I have an Asian nerd with me at all times to help me when I need it."
"You make it sound like I'm your slave or something," Aang grinned pulling her up as the two continued their walk.
"Maybe I should start calling you that way."
"Right..." Aang wondered if Toph had realized that she had become dependent on him. He would wait until the day she would realize to see the surprise on her face, but for now "So how was your day?"
"It's not really different from home schooling really. Annoy a few teachers here, laze around the classroom, annoy a few people there and beat up a bully to save a nerd."
"Thanks about that by the way." Aang thanked her as he took a break on the same park bench.
"No problem Twinkle Toes, but seriously next time if you don't take him down I'll take you both down." Toph punched his arm before plopping down next to him.
"I'll remember that, and I didn't mean that. I mean thanks for the walk."
"It's just a walk."
"It's not every day the prestigious Toph Bei Fong is nice."
"Don't get use to it," Toph shoved him.
Until the late afternoon the two sat there. They occasionally talked about the weather and how much fun everyone had been having but their conversations were shallow and ended quickly. The talks they had were short but Toph had cheered Aang up in her own way and that's all he really needed.
"Hey Aang?"
"Yeah?"
"Super Smash Bros. Brawl at my place?" Toph offered a small smile appeared on her face.
"You know it." Aang grinned brightly, before he dashed off "Race ya!"
"Hey! Damn your long legs!" Toph called out as she followed Aang.